Cleveland County Leader (Lexington, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 28, 1899 Page: 1 of 8
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Vol. 9.
Lkxixoton, Oklahoma Territory, Saturday, October 28, 1899.
hs,u favors trusts.
Says Publicly That They are a
Necessity.
Cleveland, O, Oct. 19.-Senator
Hanna, in a speech before the Fifth
District Clu!) to-night, iletineil his po-
sition regarding the trust. On this
subject he said:
"The Democrats say I am afraid to
talk about tiie trusts. That settles it.
I'm going to talk about them. This
combination of capital for one thing
or another is not political at all. It is
a business question and ought not to
have been brought into politics. When
o,ir industries were in their infancy,
England and other countries came
along and sold goods in this country at
less than the price asked in their own
country.
lican party will give relief."
i hey have had a chance long
enough. A physician might as
well stand by the side of a dying
consumptive and say, "If he is
sick I will heal him some day."
The trouble is either that the
Republican party doesn't know
and can't be convinced that trusts
are a menace, or being so con-
vinced, are unwilling to heal the
sore.
The ring leader of the Repub-
lican party is stepping into the
box we want him in. Let the
Republican papers over the coun-
try follow tlieir leader and come
out and defend trusts. That is
"Then followed the protective tariff! JUS*Wherf WC want them'
i , ,n November, WOO, Hanna will
rue the day he said "trusts are
necessary."
law, formulated by that friend of the
working-man, William McKinley.
Having secured this protection, Amer-
ican manufacturers went abroad. They
are making rapid strides and are suc-
cessfully competing with the whole
world.
"It is evident, however, that they
cannot continue to (fo so unless they
have combined capital. We ought to
own and control our own merchant
vessels. We then would be in shape
to make our own rates and compete
with other nations on an equal footing.
We have now reached the stage when
we are doing more exporting than im
porting. The last year was the first
year in the history of the country that
this was true.
"But we must look to the future. W
must stand prepared for the changes
that are hound to come. This forma
tion of combines is simply an evolu
tion in business methods. Should rail
ways own their own steamship lines,
there would be a marked change in the
races. All this requires capital, and
such a tremendous amount that no
ordinary corporation could stand it.
"The so-called trusts are not new
They have been found in Kngland and
Germany as far back as 200 years, and
are increasing. Therefore, from
business point of view, the formation
ot these combinations, in one sense, is
a step forward. The Democrats would
have you believe that they are terrible
anacondas that will swallow us all up.
"However, if the trusts are a menace
to the country, what party better than
the Kepublican party can give you re-
lief/ When it comes down to plain
facts, the various labor organizations
are a sort of trust, and I believe in
them, and always have. They are for
the purpose, I believe, of helping the
individual members. The organization
of the employer should gu hand in
hand with the organization of the em-
ployed. In that way much good can
be accomplished."
Well might Mark say that
trusts should never have come
into politics at all. Privately
proud and publicly ashamed is
the republican party of her off-
spring, the "trusts". Fostered
1>y the protective tariff laws, the
home manufactories grew into
giant establishments. Then, not
content with their mammoth for-
tunes, they now combine and
crush all who refuse to enter the
monopoly. Retail establishments
of all kinds, mechanics, profes-
sional men, farmers, have to
meet competition and live or die,
as their success or failure per-
• wnits. Trusts might do if all
kinds of business men could com-
bine. Could labor organize with
, enough capital behind it to live
ninety days, every trust would
break. Labor is being reduced
in price while these great manu-
facturers upward trend. Let
them give their employes money
enough ahead to live on ninety
days and then both combine—
then see who wins by combines.
Whether these combines are
new matters not one mite to
the sufferers from the combines'
mighty blow.
Then Hanna says, "If the
trusts are a menace the Repub-
Prcgram of Teachers' Meeting.
The next meeting of the Cleve-
land County Teachcrs' Associa-
tion will be held at'Lexington,
Saturday, Nov. 4. The reading
circle work has been taken up
and the meetings this year prom-
ise to be exceptionally interesting
and instructive. Live (juestions,
which arc directly applicable to
the work of the school room, will
be placed on the program, and
no enterprising teacher of Cleve- j
land county can well afford to
miss hearing and taking part in
the discussion. The following is
the program:
FOR dNOON SESSION*,
10.00—Rights and Duties of Amori-
can Citizenship, chapters 2 and 3, con-
ducted by E. L. Cralle.
11:00—Shoup's History of Education,
chapter* j and 1, conducted bv W N
Rice. 1
AFTERNOON RESSION.
l!30 System in the Teacher's Work,
conducted by W . A. Allen. Discussion
by J. E. Turner, w. 3. Hearst, Nora
Pantier. General discussion.
Recitation—Georgia Wallace.
What is the Teacher's Duty in
Counteracting Outside Influences?" by
J. H. Stull. Discussion, Hultla Her-
rington, Almetta Williams and J. A.
Cowan.
Literature—Subject, "Macbeth," A.
B. Hontsold.
Grand Lodge I. 0 0. F.
The territorial Grand Lodge I.
O. O. F., which has been in ses-
sion at El Reno, closed Thursday
evening with a grand ball and
banquet, tendered the visitors by
the people of El Reno
The Grand Lodge officers were
elected as follows:
Grand Master—I. W. Rush, of
Stroud.
Deputy Grand Master—Grant
Yakey, Enid.
Grand Warden—C. H. Hollo-
way, Ponca City.
Grand Secretary—G. W.Bruce,
Guthrie.
Grand Treasurer—L. J. Bick-
ford, Hennessey.
There were one hundred and
four delegates present and about
a hundred Rebekahs. The next
meeting will be held at Guthrie.
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CUFF BUTTONS!
S>1.50 BUYS A
Buttons, warranted for
finest line of Cuff Buttons in the city.
PAIR OF GOLD CUFF
five years. We have the
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Old Boston Store, Lexington, Oklahoma,
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not be Duplicated,
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Mens' Suits from $3.00 Up /j\ We are
Boy s Suits from .50 up u j f
Men s Shoes, per pair,.. J.00 up /ft rtead(5uarters
Ladies' Shoes, per pair,. [75 up /J\ For
Blankets, good .ize, pair, .50 up § EvcryUltog
THE DIXIE. |New and
Lexington. O. T. Vt' Up-to date
Tor all fresh cuts or wounds, in
either the human sufcjaet or In anl-
m&as n dressing-, Natlara's Suow
Liniment is ejccollent,; while for sores
on working horses, especially if slow
to heal, or suppurating:, its hoalinsr
fjualitiea are unoqualod. Price 25-SOc.
Mian & Abernathy
lames Crawford, of Purcell, wants
all the hogs the Oklahoma farmer*
have for sale. He will pay the highest
market price and will pay bridge toll
on all hogs brought to him from Okla
ran.
Thousands
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The Best. 1lit
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Keller's Furniture House.
Successor to Houghton, lexington, Oklahoma.
of the most stubborn
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Exactly as They are stated in the
Books," W. N. Rice. Discussion, N.
E. Butcher and T Pool. General
discussion-
Model recitation—C. T. Wilson.
Adjournment.
A. B. IIonnold, President.
cure.
Ointment. It never fails to
Price 50c In bottles; tubes 75c.
Bilan & Abernathy.
Fine Dental Work
Now is the time. l)r. Coil the
Purcell up-to-date dentist in order
White's Cream Vermifuge is a to *>ct tetter acquainted with
highly valuable preparation, capable, (,klah!1"la people will give thein
from the promptitude of its action, of aiV^!|1 ♦i.™1?,,01! aI'd,e"taI work-
clearing the system in a few hours of £ th , frf
every worm. Price 25c. i Kff 15™ IT °f Ca1taPhor«slf
I1-'111 *ind see him and save hal.
l lan & Abernathy. ! your money.
Just as well
Get the best
Bed room suits,
Bureaus,
Dressers,
Wash Stands
Bed Steads
Baby Buggies,
Carpets,
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Matting,
Curtains,
20 per cent reduction
To move our immense stock
of ladies Shirt W'aists we
make this price.
HANDSOME PATTERNS TO SELECT FROM
BLANCHARD 3b CO
Purcell, I. T.
My goods are assorted to suit all classes of people. I have the
cheaper and the costly furniture. I have anything you want and
will appreciate your trade.
E. J. KELLER, Prop.
DAVE KOSTENBADER, Mgr.
Buterick Patterns
at Blanchard's
.20
.25
Toll Rates on Purcell Bridge
Foot passengers, $ .05
-'6 tickets for $1.00.
Horses, cattle, sheep and hogs on
foot, each way, per head,
Man on horse,
Return coupon good for 24 hours.
One horse buggy,orsingle vehicle
Return good for 24 hours.
15 tickets for $1.00.
100 tickets for $5.00.
Two horse vehicles,
Hetnrn coupon good for 24 hours.
14 tickets for $ 1.00.
80 tickets for 5.00.
200 tickets for 10.00.
Public conveyances, licensed, $1 00 per
month,payablei|uarterlv,in advance
One passenger in public and private
conveyances other than driver ■>
family .05 each way.
Four horse vehicle, ,35
Return good for 24 hours.
12 tickets for $1.00.
Bicycles ,25
Return good for 24 houis
MURDER AT IRETON.
J. W. (>oodin has just come in
.05! from Ireton, a little postoffice in
j the Cnickosaw nation. He re-
ports the murder of Riley Lowe
there Tuesday by his son-in-law,
Ben Weaver. Dispute over some
whea caused the trouble. Weav-
er w .uld have been lynched had
escaped to Chickasha and
• red.
not
sur
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H. Coil, the up-to-iiate Den-
rcell, does not only tell the
it he can do in the line of
. but is showing them that
work he does is the means
■I him a half dozen others.
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Lydick, J. D. Cleveland County Leader (Lexington, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 28, 1899, newspaper, October 28, 1899; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc108990/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.