The Nevada County picayune., 1918-12-12
MAKES REPLY TO CONSTTTIJ
 HON CRITIC
judge Evan, Discusses Prohibition. Woman Suffrage, Taxation aud Bonds.

In the issue of the Gazette of Nc Hember 10 former State Senator Bush of Nevada county utters some com paihts against the new constitution. He pushes aside statewide prohibition with the statement that we have statewide prohibition and will soon no doubt have nationwide prohibit tion
 Statewide prohibition in Arkansas iS only statutory and any whirI of politics or temporary change of opin- ion can wipe out statutory prohibit tion. The real friends of temperance in Arkansas are exceedingly anxious to have statewide prohibition by coil- stitutional provision This cannot be changed by any legislature or by any initiated act of the people which re- quires only majority of those vot- ing on the question to enact it. Con stitutional prohibition can only be 1 changed by constitutional amendment initiated by the legislature or by the people and to become effective must receive not only q majority of all the votes on that question but d ma joritg of all the votes east al that election l If prohibition is good thing, and certainly no rational man will dispute that why not make prohibition as per manent as any governmental solution of problem can be made permanent? Certainly we ought to vote for the proposed constitution with all it's de fleets, and no doubt it has them, as no human instrument is perfect, in order to get constitutional statewide prohibition.
 National prohibition approaches the question from the standpoint of the nation and not from the standpoint of the state Neither state prohibi tion nor national prohibition will trench upon or occupy ground held by the other. National prohibition has not come It may never come. Why take chance on somebody doing for us what we can do for ourselves. Who wants Arkansas ever to be anything but prohibition state, regardless of what the national government may do and regardless of what any other state may do?
 He next takes a whirl at equal suf- frage Does anyone maintain that equal suffrage is not right in itself? Great Britain. thatgreat self-govern- ing monarchy. has given the benefit of equal suffrage to its women. The necessities of the world war have opened the eyes of mankind to the fact that women must bear the bur den of war and the burdens of civil government the same as their hus- bands. fathers, brothers and sons. Everywhere women are being emanci- pated from the narrow tyranny of the common law ideal Other states in 1 right to women The Republican states in this Union where women are entitled to vote cast their electoral votes for Woodrow Wilson in the last presidential election, breaking party ties and giving to the country and to the world in the most critical period in the history of mankind. Woodrow Wilson. to be president of the United States of America. and the leader in the highest Ideals of Christian civilia- tion. If the women of these states had rot voted Wilson would have been defeated Who among all man. kind, excei Wilson, could have walk ed to the leadership of the military and civil forces of civilization? The world is indebted to the votes of wo- men for the Wilson of 191Z-1S. Let us now keep abreast of the times and complete the emancipation of women from political bondage of whatever character. The state has already done SO ny legislative enactment Dy allowing women to vote in primary elections. If their help is valuable in primary elections it is still more val uahlc in the general elections. The president of the United States, with 1 his clear vision. sees woman suffrage not only IS a necessary war measure, hut also as a necessary peace meas aro. neee~sars in peace for recon
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 IL is Hae tHe, as stated Iy Se88tar Rush .Elt 4 poor 2asheEaoHaa Nla male v.es over Haaatah nut pay taz ol her income There iz ne such provision as#that ih Ge new constitution. Nobody but one