The weekly soliphone., 1917-03-15
THE NEW CONSTITUTION.


 Another election is facing Arkansas It is, and it is not, political election Politics. essentially relates to the science of government; the word has reference to the management of state affairs In broad definite sense, it does not take into account the ambitions of men who seek to enroll their in public places that he who may read, that he who listens may hear---the praying of an aSs
 The art of regulating the politics or policy of gov enment takes into account broader view of acts and actions than the qualification of mans vanity or the satisfaction of individual desire to command mo- torety We all familiar with the ignorant, the lettered, the uniformed citizen from Urbanvle or Rr ratoWn who biennialy mounts the goodsbox and the stump in order to give wind notice of his undying devo ion to the Stars and Stripes and his willingness to die martyrs death the double for the pleas e of proving possession of inherent loyalty to the party of Thomas Jefferson, Persimmon Johnson and others who constituted the army of celebrities en- gagged in the cultivation of fig trees the other side of Jordan. We have been persuaded only too ofen that the bursting of lung cells echo of statesmanship that ignorance is bliss and that folly to be wse that perseverance in purely physical is blueprint of good intentions insofar as the ultimate consumer may be affected and that thghbrawn is as essential in de- Lucrative bodies brain-gray Some of realize that la lot of lies have been told, while some of the rest of the crowd which votes still rub their eyes Van Winkle-lke ;--and the enlightened among us laugh sigh and express the hope that within another
  Morpheus ,take good hot bath and enter the ring with plan for knocking hell out of the crooks and pounding information into others who command battaons in the army of the Neer Do Wells.
 The citizen whose years have been spent in splttngl rails and digging ginseng and drowning rats with tobac juice may be absolutely honest individual he may be necessary integral in the chain of progressbu he| wouldn't know the difference between aconsttuon and constipation.
 The merchant whose time has been devoted to thel art of measuring four cent calico, fitting evening" gowns upon exposed female shoulders may realize that the constitution is to be rewritten but he couldn't phrase obituary acceptable to sef-respecting jackass
 The naroW-gauge editor, who knows not and knows not that he knows not would be of more service in al constitutional convention than in an Angel chorus.
 And the attorney who merely knows that Black stones Commentaries annotated by Coleridge, Chtty and Christian has not yet reached that degree off professional proficiency where all matters of public cern will be referred to him for final opinion.
 We want men--broad- gauge, wel-inforned men, men of experience and knowedge---to frame stituton for the Commonwealth of Arkansas We will not get them, if unorganized, we allow flapack poli- cians to organize farmer against lawyer, lawyer against farmer We will not accomplish the end desir ed if delegates elected merely upon the theory that because the pay is small the mans mental should necessarily be crcumscrbed within the dmnutive metes and bounds '
 The constitution of state is it's fundamental law it is the Kie Canal behind which hostile legislature cannot to attack legitimate business to take away from the individual complete freedom of action. It should be built by men versed in fundamental law, and fortified by those most familiar with the possibilities for assaults.
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