The log cabin Democrat., 1921-10-27

ercised it during the legal 6O-day limit prescribed by law. No one, tc my knowledge, objected during that period. That's the reason the bonds Were issued and the roads construct ed. In the meantime, however, al most like bolt from the blue, cotton dropped from 40 to 50 cents a pound down to the low level of from eight to 10 cents a pound. That was a different story. While every one was enthusiastic over the roads they had constructed when they had a shed full of 40-cent cotton to meet the assessment, they suddenly acquired
 long faces and grouch when they had to pay the fiddler with liquid as sets that had depreciated seventy five per cent almost overnight. The small planters became frightened; agitators got busy-especially the element that could command legal fee for agitating; peanut politicians with an 'ax to grind" started to rave about the "extravagance" of their more fortunate political "enemies" who were in office and supporters of good road building. Of course,' he said, nine-tenths of these objections were simply small local families, but there really was some objection in various districts due to the entire road dbuilding project. At the dark est period of the entire depression the Times cores pondent arrived in the district, which accounts for his story, but since he was here cotton has gone back to 20 cents a pound The liquid assets of the planters have doubled. The "blues" have been dispelled. Not only are they now able to meet their assessments, but they have money left. The result is that you hear no one talking about confiscation or bankruptcy and all objections to road building have prac- tically disappeared, and, I tell you, stranger, the main reason for that is due to the big crops we have this year and the tremendous increase in value of farm products since the time the New York Times gathered it's in formation'
 q found that this statement ap- piled throughout the state, and, al though the citizens vehemently de- nied that they had even dreamed of allowing tax payments to default. or that they even believed the road laws were confiscatory, or that they had ever objected to the good roads plan, 1 received enough second thought information, especially from the small planters, to convince me that there had been many frightened taxpayers of the 'hill-billy' type eight months ago, although I really be- lieve that they were more scared than hurt at that time."
 Mir. Rogers concludes his remarka- ble article with tribute to the character of Arkansas citizenship. "One feature of Arkansas assets that appealed to me more than any thing else was the fact that in my trir throughout the state" he says, II did not hear a foreign language spoken, nor even a foreign accent, nor could learn of single l. w. W. being within the border of the state. People looked at me with amazement when I asked them if there were any revolutionary radicals. They took it as an insult.
 'It was a wonderful relief to spend 1 two weeks in a state where every other man was not grumbling about
 the where there were
 no strikes or threats of strikes. l never heard so much real loyal, 100
 per cent American talk as l did dur
 ing my fourteen-day stay in Arkan-
 sas. A state in the union that all
 who believe in the constitution of the
 United States should take their hats
 off to-"