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LLIS FLOGGING.
all amount of criticism
•d for the party of citi
w nights ago escorted a
ro to the outskirts of
re him a flogging. On
nd endorsement of the
oeen unanimous,
he grand jury did not
t evidence to indict the
laws are not sufficient
) bring a man to justice
ide the utterances Ellis
But this laxity of the
interfere with American
The Ellis negro’s case
it from the case of one
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who would say what he thinks about
you and yours, when the only recourse
left open to you would be the taking
of the matter into your own hands
for tie protection of your honor.
It is plain Ellis was not in accord
with the United States government
nor our war program, and he at
tempted to influence others to his
way of looking at the matter. In this
manner he placed himself in a posi
tion to receive the just treatment
that was given him.
Probably these men have sons or
brothers on the firing line at this
minute. If they have, there is no
wonder their blood was made to boil,
and those who have criticised them
for their act could better understand
the situation if this war were in their
own household.
The fact that Ellis is a negro did
not quicken the men’s temper. Had
he been a white man no clemency
would would have been shown.
We are glad to know that Ellis had
no influence upon our negro popula
tion, .whose loyalty to the flag is a
source of gratification to every pa
triotic citizen of the country.
If we had any criticism to offer
our government it would be directed
at the lax manner in which it uses
disloyal citizens and enemy spies.
Instead of interning a lot of these
fellows, we believe the firing squad
could deliver a better and more de
served punishment.
America offers freedom to peoples
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of the world that is not equalled in
any other nation, and within its
boundaries is no plAce for an enemy
to lurk and scatter poison, and the
sooner people awake to this situation,
all the sooner will the war for free
dom be won.
And, to the men who resented the
utterances of the Ellis negro, we say,
more power to you.
THE GAME AND FISH LAW.
An outstanding feature of the pres
ent term of circuit court is the num
ber of convictions for violation of the
state game and fish law. Every case
has ended in conviction, having been
tried by a fair and impartial body of
jurymen. Conservation of game and
fish at this time is of vital importance
and Game Warden Stedman says he
has assurance from the court that
persons who in future again violate
the law will be given the limit
of punishment. The wholesale
slaughter of game and fish, and the
smallest case of violation, should
cease in order that the future supply
of food that will result from this con
servation can be had at a time when
greatly needed. There is agitation
in this and adjoining counties for the
passage of a general gun law, which
would require each person owning a
gun to pay a license fee and prohibit
non-taxpayers from borrowing a
gun and pot shooting quail and other
game.
WOULD DEFER
FARM WORKERS
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Deferred Classification for Men En
gaged in Farming Is Urged by
Governor Brough.
Special to Independent
Little Rock, Feb. 16.^-Governor
Brough has taken up with the Fed
eral authorities the matter of secur
ing deferred classification for those
men who are -engaged in agricultural
pursuits, both farm owners and ten
ants.
In the first draft he secured the
authority from Washington for the
Exemption Boards to grant furloughs
extending from 30 to 90 days. In the
new Questionnaire, furloughs are not
ovicied for, but deferred classi
fications are.
The governor has recently had
(Jailed to his attention the fact that
over 30 per cent of the rice producers
have been classified in Class 1 A.
Doubtless this percentage of the farm
laborers classified in the First Class
is maintained in other branches of
agriculture.
The District and Local Exemption
boards are in sympathy with the
granting of these industrial and agri
cultural claims, but no provision ex
ists in the new Questionnaire in the
Selective Draft Service Law for de
ferred classifications.
A meeting of the Agricultural
Commissioners of a number of the
southern states will be- held in Mem
phis Monday, and the governor has
given to this meeting his unqualified
approval, so far as it is destined to
secure deferred classification for
farm laborers.
“Our farmers,” said the governor,
“constitute our second line of de
fense. A very large share of the
production of food of this country, as
well as the allies, will fall this year
upon the south. The tremendous
strides made in Arkansas and in the
south are reflected in the fact that
last year the total farm values of
southern products exceeded $4,5000,
000,000.
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Pan-Germans Are Denounced
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Associated Press Dispatch.
Hague, Netherlands, Feb. 16.—
Germans who “did what they could
to make the war inevitable” are de
nounced by the Frankfurter Zeitung
j and are warned that ther hour "of
(reckoning is coming, in an article
! published in that newspaper. The
j article is a reply to a criticism by the
I Pan-German writer, Herr Eigenbrodt,
' who accused the newspaper of enter
taining an anti-militarist spirit.”
Retorting to the critic, the Frank
furter Zeitung asked “what has hap
pened in this war?” and answered
the queston by saying:
“The army which enlisted at the
beginning of the war has failed by a
long way in numbers. Masses of men
have had to be added to it and train
ed wthin a time far shorter than that
which even we contemplated.
“The conceptual that England de
sired to seek a decision by arms in
i any circumstances was the basis of
the Pan-German policy. They cher
] ished the idea of the imminence of
j this world because they longed for it.
| In the first number of the Pan-Ger
man News, at that time the chief or
gan of Pan-Germans, these words
were written, ‘the hour we have long
ed for at last has struck; the holy
war.’ ”
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“It is impossible to say that the
war was desired abroad but it is not
difficult to see what one is straining
every nerve to bring about. Any
body who did not go about with his
eyes shut knew that Germany, ex
cept for a small group, did not wish
for war, but what that small group,
just these Pan-Germans, could con
tribute towards making it inevitable,
that they did.
“If we along with others have any
reproach to make to ourselves it is
that we did not more carefully watch
the doings of such people. They were
talkers whom one thought a nuisance
but did not take as seriously as the
damage which they subsequently did
proves that one ought to have done.
“The effect of Pan-German out
bursts upon foreign public opinion
was not considered at the time but
they alone can account for the flood
of hate towards Germany which
showed itself at the beginning of the
war and which found the German
public comparatively unprepared.
We could not understand it aftd we
asked ourselves how it was possible.
Now we have found out. From the
writing of Baumgarten and other
publications we have seen that not
the good German people but the Pan
Germans earned a bad name for
Germans in the world. We are not
so foolish as to look upon the enemy
as angels. The consciousness of the
innocence felt in Germany at the be
ginning of the war, though under
standable, was not justified, for now
we see that agitation on the part of
Pan-Germans which they carried
even beyond our frontiers created- a
false impression upon foreign public
! opinion, an impression that the Ger
man people and their government
were animated by plans for conquest
i and deeds of violence, and this opin
! ion was encouraged by chauvinists in
those countries abroad.
“German people do not yet know
the extent of the damage done to
them by the Pan-Germans, but the
hour of reckoning for them is com
ing.”
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