The weekly soliphone., 1917-05-03

It is matter of distinct regret to Arkansas that its junior Senator continues to and refuses to be comfortcd
 Inasmucn as the people themselves had hand in sending Mr. Kirby to the Senate it cannot be said that his present attitude of shunting the Administration is disappointment because there has been any < for building hopes upon such fragile foundation.
 It is another case of the silk purse and the sow's ear
 Still, it is to be regretted that the condition pre- vas It is matter of keen embarrassment to Arkansas that at time when democrats and republicans social ists and mugwumps Christians and sinners have laid aside personal preferences for the good, the State of Arkansas must be proxed in national councils and its sentiments misrepresented
 We do not blame MT. Kirby for his attitude any more than would attempt to hold year-od boy accountable for smashing the Golden Rule.
 In dealing with the junior Senator it should be re- membered that indscretions committed in all cases where the exercise of human intelligence is demanded ought to be overlooked in the that the keeper of an insane asylum overooks the acts of inmates with whose behavior he is charged.
 R It is not meant to convey the impression that the Senator is insane. People who insane general rule, started with something; their condition is due to sudden gradual mental deterioration. The Senator has passed through this process He is just where
 
 finesimal He has neither advanced retrograded. Hence the lack of surprise today that he should align himself with the nations enemies We have only re- grets-a senatorial regret. Poor Willie has been miserably misplaced. On the supreme bench n Arkansas he judicial joke; as "a candidate for office before the people he poli cal demagogue, and Senator he is lending his ato the Foreign Alliance.
 We have wired the suggestion that in this day of
 
 tensification watchwords he can effectively posterty by renouncng the light fantastic and turning home to tickle the bosom of Mother Earth Yet he listens with creduity to the whsperings of fancy and pursues with eagerness the phantoms of hope"
 Our heart goes out in pity to those who are mis- placed, either politically socially, and who appreciate the fact of their displacement. The Senator, however like youthful warrior with tin helmet and wooden sword, continues to beat ten cent drum in back yard lot and tackles iron weeds with degree of eager ness quite typical of Tom Sawyer If it possible to transfer him from the Senate to military school the change would give relief in the upper house of congress and at the time act of salvage might be com mtted Give to Mr. Kirby ten fifteen years of train ing firsclass prep school and he might emerge with the qualifications of useful citizen. Take away from him the pomp and splendor he has appropriated by of official position and he might good wages picking strawberries Judsonia Any change would be satisfactory those who must bear the brn of his sWer to ro-calls
 We do not ask that the Senator vote with the Ad- mnisration Neither do expect it. It is preferable that he return to Arkansas and begin all again; that he start the task of mental training where discontinued in the wet spring of 76. As boy attempt ing to make something of himself he will have the pub- lies encouragement As Senator attempting to chastse the Administration for having indorsed the candidacy of James P Clarke he has the contempt and of al
 
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