THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
Front St., NEWPORT, ARK
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Let Us Do What Missouri Has
Done.
Where is there a good roads
believer who does not warm to
the news of what Missouri has
done upon her good roads days ?
/ The governor of the state, her
business men and farmers clos
ed their offices, stores and
shops, donned their working
clothes and will) picks, shovels,
graders and other road machin
ery went into the highways and
cross roads and labored for the
cause, which they recognize as
essential to the development of
their state dud the communities
in which they live.
The news dispatches further
tell us that good roads zeal
was not confined to the men ol
Missouri, but to the women of
the state as well, who cooked
dinners and furnished the noon
day meals of this army of arous
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What Missouri has done, we
too can do. Governor Hays has
set apart two days and urged
upon the citizens of our state
the importance of this work.
We are not following another
state merely, but joining hands
in a nation-wide movement to
better our highways
With greater needs of road
work the demand should be
more imperative and our zeal
correspondingly greater. Let us
not be content to follow, but
rather aim to eclipse the efforts
of other states. And to do so,
the movement must be organiz
ed, not only in each county, but
every township and community.
We become aroused in primar
ies and political issues, where
little is involved beyond the
personal triumph and success of
our man over perhaps an equal
ly capable opponent, and in this
greater tight for better roads,
easier, quicker and more eco
nomical transportation of our
products, that means the sav
ing of millions to the wealth pro
ducers of this country, let us
recognize the importance of the
issue and what good roads will
do for Newport and Jackson
county, and give to its support
our interest, our zeal, our phys
ical labor and means, that are
requisite to the success of these
two days in turning Arkansas
from passable roads to improv
ed highways.
The Conviction of Diggs.
In the defense of Maury I.
Diggs in his recent trial for
white slavery, his own attor
neys were willing that his de
praved nature, habits and life
should be fully exposed, relying
upon the technicality that the
interstate trip upon which the
California official took the girl,
Martha Warrington, was mere
ly incidental and accidental and
not intentional and thus did
not violate the Mann white
slavery act. which penalizes an
immoral traffic from one state
to another and makes it a crime
against the federal laws.
With such a defense, it is not
hard to understand that public
sentiment rejoices in the convic
tion of this sensual man, whose
own home had been the scene
of his licentiousness. Why are
not the state laws and courts of
California sufficient to prevent
such an avenue of escape from
the consequences of such a
man’s debauchery and evil na
ture? If California has a white
slave law. it is a reflection upon
her courts and the officers of
the law, that this man should
feel free to plead such a flimsy
defense, for it was charged
that the government had dela;. -
<>d the trial of these case-, ow
ing to the political prominence
and wealth of the parties ac
cused.
At any rate, it will teach his
companion in vice, Caminetti,
that juries properly instructed
by fearless courts, are not so
keen to allow such a libertine to
escape responsibility for a life
that leads others into disgrace
and ruin upon a technical con
struction of the law.
The expose of these men’s
lives, the fact that Digg- held
not even his own home sacred
from his lust, and in the ab
sence of a faithful wife was
wont to make this home the
harbor of his lustful and disso
lute orgies, emphasizes the fact
that laws to prevent white slav
ery are needed in this day and
particularly for the protection
of society in our larger cities.
STEADFAST CONFIDENCE
The Following Statement Should
Form Conclusive Proof of
Merit to Every Newport
Reader,
Could stronger proof of the
merit of any remedy be desired
than the statements of grateful
endorsers who say their confi
dence has been undiminished by
lapse of time? These are the
kind of statements that are ap
pearing constantly in your local
papers about Doan’s Kidney
Pills. They are twice-told and
confirmed with new enthusiasm
Can any reader doubt the fol
lowing? It’s from a Batesville
resident:
Mrs. Susan A. Alexander,
Main St., Batesville, Ark., says:
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the small of my back and had
dizzy spells and blurring of my
sight- I always felt tired and
lanquid and could hardly get up
in the morning. Doan’s Kidney
Pills rid me of the trouble soon
after I began using them. I ad
vise a trial of this remedy in all
cases of kidney complaint. My
former endorsement of Doan’s
Kidney Pills still holds good. I
think just as highly of them to
day as ever.”
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Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 22.—Appli
cations and petitions for par
dons are not rolling out very
rapidly.
Gov. Hays is endeavoring to
strike a happy medium. He
does not aspire to be known as
a great pardoner, neither does
he wish to be known as a gov
ernor who will grant no pardons
at all. It is his purpose to give
every individual case a full con
sideration as it comes up.
“I think all will agree with
me," said he. “that the pardon
ing power has been greatly
abused in Arkansas. My long
experience on the bench has
taught me that there are very
few really innocent men ever
convicted, while there are un
doubtedly a great many that go
unwhipped of justice. But ev
ery case presented to me for
clemency will be considered on
its merits-”
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SEPTEMBER 3 AND 4
GOOD ROADS DAYS
President Phillip- of Jackson
< ounty Good Roads Asso*
ciation Urges Compliance
With Proclamation.
I
Newport, Ark., Aug- 22, 1913.
Editor of Independent, City.
Dear Sir:
I have received the following
proclamation from Governor
Geo. W. Hays, requesting that I
have it published, as follows:
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, there is no mat
ter of a greater public or private
interest than the development
of a system of good roads
throughout the state, and
WHEREAS, there has been a
notable awakening of interest
everywhere manifested in the
numerous mass meetings, in the
expressions of the Press, and in
'he enactments of the recent
Legislatures, *1! of which will
go to prove that there is a grow
j ing realization of the vital im
portance of public highways of
the highest class ready to be
icrystalized into a statewide con
! certed effort at Road Improve
I ment. and
WHEREAS, this is a matter de
serving not only the attention of
farmers and business men, who
have need for the roads, but also
of the Chief Executive of the
State, who is charged indirectly
with its welfare, and
WHEREAS, no better method
occurs to me for furthering the
cause of good roads than the
setting apart of a day or days to
be dedicated to the study, dis
cussion and practical advance
ment of good roads.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Geo.
W. Hays, Governor of the State
of Arkansas, do hereby set
apart and designate the 3rd and
4th days of September, A. D..
1913, being the first Wednesday
and Thursday of said month, as
Good Roads Days, at which time
and on which days all persons
interested in this cause, are re
quested to contribute in whatev
er manner may seem most ap
propriate for the advancement
of good roads, by holding Insti
tutes. Public Meetings, Road
Workings, or in any other man
ner best suited to each respec
tive locality.
IN TESTIMONYWHEREOF,
I have hereunto set my hand
and caused to be affixed the
great seal of the State this 16th
day of August, 1913.
Geo. W. Hays, Governor.
I do most earnestly request
the citizens of Jackson County
that they take an interest in
complying with the request of
Governor Hays by coming to
gether on the days designated
in their various townships and
do something toward the accom
plishment of the purpose for
which the proclamation is is
sued. The necessity for good
roads cannot be estimated, and
each citizen ought to bestir him
self and do something that will
make the roads better in this
county. Let it not be said that
the citizens of Jackson County
are behind the other counties in
the state in this very necessary
improvement
Joseph W. Phillips.
President of Jackson County
Good Roads Association.
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Railroads Ask More Fay.
All of the railroads of the West
have joined in a request on the
Post Office Department for an
increase in pay for handling par
cel post. During the first six
months of the parcel post the
government received over eleven
and a quarter million dollars in
revenue from this class of mail
matter, but did not pay the rail
roads one dollar for hundi-'.'.g
the service. Commencing .iuiy
1st the government has been al
lowing the railroads a five per
cent increase in their post ser
vice, although the sworn testi
mony of the Postoffice Depart
ment before the United States
Senate Committee shows that
during the first six months Trie
parcel post amounted to at least
9.16 per cent of the postoffice
increase, or nearly double the al
lowance made by the railroads.
Under the extension of the
parcel post system inaugurated
August 15 the size of package
permitted is increased from
eleven pounds to twenty pounds
and the mileage has been in
creased and the rates greatly re
duced, so that it is estimated
that the parcel post business will
increase several fold. The rail
roads in outlining this condition
of affairs respectfully requested
that they be allowed more than
the five per cent increase allot
ted them, especially as the par
cel post system deprives them of
the revenue they formerly re
ceived from the same business
when it was carried as express
or freight.
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