THE INDEPENDENT
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Some of the Robinson contem
poraries say that Brundidge is
running for governor to build up
a machine to land himself in the
U. S. Senate. Well, with us any
new machine would be prefera
ble to that one Hays is run
ning to perpetuate—Robinson’s.
And we are pretty well satisfied
that the voters of the state
when they come to cast their
vote will look at it that way too.
Poor Hays, in packing Robinson
and his crowd has certainly got
a load. Shake ’em old boy, and
go home. —Lee C mnty Courier.
St. Barnabas Day.
Tomorrow being the Feast of
the Apostle St. Barnabas, there
will be a celebration of the Holy
Communion at St. Paul’s church
at 10 o’clock. The Rector’s Bi
ble class will meet as usual in
Sunday school room Wednesday
evening at 7 :‘\0.
i with gasoline-driven vehicles as
I with the horse-drawn machine.
(Prejudice against the automo
bile has been overcome and its
! value, even its necessity on the
i farm as well as in the commer
; cial world is admitted.—Rogers
j Co-operative Free Press.
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Saving and Spending.
Stuyvesant Fish, the railway
j ‘
; magnate, has delivered himself
of the opinion that Americans
are extravagant. He calls us a
! nation of spendthrifts. “During
j hard times,” he says, “we are
j forced to be prudent and thrifty,
and in consequence get rich fast
er than we do in what we call
prosperous times.”
If everyone pinches, trade will
I languish, employment become
harder to obtain, and still more
pinching will be necessary to
meet losses in profits and fall in
wages. Therein lies the fallacy
of the theory that universal par-j
! simony adds to the wealth of the !
! nation.
One class of people alone gain
by universal saving. That is the
I class from which the United
'States has suffered most in the
past, and has most to fear today
—the frenzied financiers and
monopolists. The savings of
the people become the tool of the
men organizing the big trusts,
seizing upon natural resources
or financing wildly speculative
n/inn ao
A young lady from Kansas
City, who is visiting Miss Ade
line Moore, is so afraid of the
domestic animals that when a
young calf feeding in the yard
got its muzzle off and approach
ed her, she ran into the arms of
a gaping farm hand, who is now
suing her for breach of promise.
—Pleasant Valley Correspond
ent to the Rogers Co-operative
Free Press.
As we write an auto has just
passed the office of the Co-opera
tive Press, which has attracted
our attention. The machine is
evidently owned by a farmer.
On the running board was fas
tened a large cake of ice and
the rear of the machine was fill
ed with empty berry crates. This
turn to town in the morning
with the crates filled with fresh
crisp berries for which the high
est market price will be secured.
The automobile has already
passed the luxury stage. It has
become a utility vehicle. Our
columns usually contain adver
tisements for machines of vari
ous makes, machines that are
built and being sold by reputable
firms for the countryman’s use.
These machines are not prohibi
tive in price, and yet are vouch
ed for and sold in many cases by
the same firm that sells you the
cultivator or binder. In nearly
every section of the country the
farmer’s horse is as familiar
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j For remember the money with
{which the big financiers fix the
! yoke of monopoly upon the
necks of the people is not their
own, but the savings of the peo
ple themselves.
The American people spend
more per capita than any other
people on earth. But they pro
duce more. Their liberal expen
diture is an essential to their
liberal production and active do
mestic commerce.
It is what a people spend,
quite as much as what they save,
j that adds to a nation’s wealth.
, The mania for saving which
makes the individual hard and
i miserly is one thing; and the
1 saving which means sobriety, in
dustry, home ownership, integ
rity, good citizenship and edu
cation of children is quite an
other.— Memphis News-Scimi
tar.
G. R. Locke, a well known
railroad promoter and builder,
J. E. Felker, a prominent bank
er of Rogers and Mr. Wilson of
Bentonville came in Tuesday
morning on a business trip and
are spending the day in the city.
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Reaching tha Idaal.
Tha ▼taton that you glorify hi yonr
mind, tha Idaal that you enthrona in
i your heart—this you will build you!
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In very truth a modern battk.shlt
does, in modern phrasing, carry som.
Bunting. About $160,000 Is spent by
the United States navy for flags each
year. Every case of bunting costs th*
government $560; every roll costs
$11.25. The bunting comes from Ma*
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to the most severe test. It must
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and stand the weight test of seventy
pounds to two square inches. It is
steeped In salt water for six hours
and then exposed to the sun for the
same period of time. If after this
treatment It continues to be bunting
of a distinguishable color It la pro
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A Cautious Program.
“How do you go about ordering s
dinner?” Inquired the man from i
rural district. “Well. I cee how much
money' I have, take out the waiter’s
dp. and then spend the obange on ray
Constipation, if Neglected,
Cause* Serious Illness
Constipation, if neglected, leads
to almost innumerable complica
tions affecting the general health.
Many cases of
typhoid fever,
appendicitis an4
other severe dis*
eases are trace
able to prolonged
clogging of the
bowels. Resrard
the effects of
constipation, C.
E. Ayers, 6 Sabin
IS t., Montpelier,
Vt„ says:
"I was afflicted
with constipation
and blliousnsas for
years, and at times became so bad I
would become unconscious. I have been
found in that condition many times.
Physicians did not seem to he able to
do me any good. I would become
weak and for days at a time could do
no work. Not long ago I got a box
of Dr. Miles' Laxative Tablets, and
after using them found I had never
tried anything that acted in such a
mild and effective manner. I believe
I have at last found the remedy that
suits my case.”
Thousands of people are sufferers
from habitual constipation and
while possibly realizing something
of the danger of this condition, yet
neglect too long to employ proper
curative measures until serious ill*
ness often results. The advice of
all physicians is, ‘‘keep your bowels I
clean,” and it's good advice.
Dr. Miles’ Laxative Tablets are
sold by all druggists, at 25 cents a
box containing 25 doses. If not
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SAYS BRUNDIDGE'S
RECORD IS GLEAN
JUDGE GEORGE SIBLEY CF LON
OKE COUNTY WRITES OF
CANDIDATE.
DID DUTY AS PROSECUTOR
Discharged Duty Faithfully in That
Office as Well as When Member
of Congress.
The following letter, relating to the
candidacy of Stephen Brundldge for
governor, was written by Judge George
Sibly, a prominent lawyer of Lonoke,
to the editor of the England Courier
and was published in the Lonoke Dem
ocrat.
I>onoke, Ark., May 10, 1913.
Editor England Courier:
Dear Sir:—In your paper of May 2d
you devote about half a page in dis
paragement of Mr. Brundidge, begin
ning with a reprint of an article from
the Kensett Keynote, in which you
say he was repudiated by his home
county and fliat:
“It is a mystery why the people of
Arkansas would support a man who
has been repudiated by his own county
who, not only know his everyday life,
but associations as well. As we said
last week, it would be well for the
people of tliis state to fairly acquaint
themselves with Mr. Brundidge’s past
history as a man, whether when he
was prosecuting attorney of this dis
trict he conducted his office for per
sonal gain and for the interest of the
court house ring. If the people desire
any information about him or his
record let them ask the people of his
home county, who repudiated him in
the last election.”
You also invite investigation of his
course in congress. Now It occurs to
me that the first thing to inquire into
is the reliability or standing of the
author of your quotation. Who is the
Kensett Keynote? How long has it
existed in White county and by whom
owned and edited? You know he once
had charge of a paper in this county
at Cabot.
But assuming it to have been a re
putable paper of established charac
ter and owned and edited by some
first-class newspaper man of like es
tablished reputation and full knowl
edge of the people of White county
and their political history. Let us
first ask how long has the writer been
among the people to enable him to
speak for them? What would be the
answer?
I have known Mr. Brundidge for
many, many years and a great many
of the best people of White county for
the past forty years. Mr. Brundidge
was a brick-mason's son and in his
youth helped his father burn them and
carried them in a hod up a ladder to
he laid in the wall. Did you or the
author you quote ever in your early
days get ‘ your bread by the sweat of
your brow" as he did? It was his
unusual brightness and good qualities
as a boy and young man that prompted
Coody & McRae, a firm of eminent
lawyers, to take him in charge to fit
him to practice law. Can you say that
for such reasons such men as Coody
to McRae ever were so impressed with
the writer in the Kensett Keynote?
I knew him well as prosecuting at
torney—ate and roomed with him in
several of the counties in his district
and was opposed to or associated with
him in many criminal cases, and to
my certain personal knowledge he was
a clean, hottest prosecutor. He neither
favored friends nor oppressed foes in
the discharge of his duties. He not
only discharged his duty honestly and
faithfully as he saw it, and he had the
energy and ability to properly and
fully see it, and was always well pre
pared with a knowledge of the facts
to discharge that duty.
As congressman he gained a high
standing in the house among its mem
bers, and was senior on his side of
fhe most important committees of the
house. As a member of congress, his
services resulted in more benefit to
his district than that of any meptber
before or after him. He secured more
for his constituents, more valuable im
provements than they are likely to
ever obtain again.
I challenge mortal man to specify
a derelicition of duty or an unclean or
unprofessional act or word while he
was prosecuting attorney or member
of congress, with which he is charg
able. If the editor of the Kensett
Keynote or any one else of his prompt
ers know of anything to the contrary
let them speak it out, for I am not
one that will condone wrong in any
one.
In regard to the indorsement or re
pudiation of Brundidge by the people
of White county: They have always
stood by him when he ran for prose
cuting attorney and congress, and
those who knew him longest and best
did so for senator, but it is a matter
of common knowledge that many peo
ple worshipped Jeff Davis, and for hint
would sacrifice father or mother, sis
ter or brother at the polls, and men
who would cheerfully- support Brun
didge for anything at any time would
not put Jeff Davis aside for anybody
or anything at any time. Probably no
man—living or dead—had such a li .11
upon many people; many politicians
shouted for Jeff to get into office upon
his shoulders and i: was almost r.
political crime to oppose him. His
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