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f IN NORTH ARKANSASCCitizens or northern Arkansas, desperate over th eburning of bridges and other depredations intended to v prevent continuation of traffic over v the Missouri North Arkansas railroad, flamed up in a passion of ac- K tion that, up to this writing, has re- c suited in one supposedly maliciously active striker being hanged, and in the pleading guilty of two others and their starting on the roade♦v(1to the penitentiary. ! aIt seemed as if the situation in tNorth Arkansas demanded some sort of action supplemental to the i operating processes of administra- r tion of justice. Arson was being i committed boldly and oil mi, and 1 the entire section wu.-i being handicapped because of it. Wight bridges ) were burned wihtin a few days, t Property rights were being flagrant- i ly flouted, and the regular courses t of law enforcement seemed unable » to cope with the situation. It was t an intolerable condition of affairs lt;that must have struck fire to the (1 spirit of any community of law- ' abiding Amreieans, and because the f people of this particular community did react to it must not be considered surprising. Sabotage can have no defenders outside of Russia, and deserves none, it, is unthinkable, impossible program applied to the problem of labor and capital, or to any other problem modern civilization.—-Joplin Globe.
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Harrison Times
Harrison, Arkansas, US
Fri, Jan 26, 1923
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