The Lexington Leader (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 26, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1916 Page: 4 of 8
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THE LEXINGTON LEADER
The r^exington Lea-cler
THE OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
Postoffice at Lexington, Oklahoma as Second Clasps
Entered at the
mail matter
REX D. JONES, Ownkr and Editor
8ulyicription Rates:
$1.00 per Year. 6 months 50c. 3 months 25c
Strictly Cash in Advance
BURBANK OUT FOR WILSON,
•THE GREATEST STATESMAN"
Announcing his support of Presi-
dent Wilson, Lnther Burbank, the hor-
ticulturist wizard of California, sai«l:
"I believe him to be the greatest
statesman we have ever hud."
Mr. Burbank, the Edison of scien-
tific horticulture, declared that with-
out reserve he endorsed the position
announced a week earlier by Thomas
A. Edison. Both Burbank and Edison
The Rural Credits Hill
TP HE man on the land who noeeds credit in the thrifty and skillful
* tenant or laborer. A good credit scheme will help him to be-
came .i home owner, and by.helping him help agriculture; for. taking it
by and large, it is better that farms should he worked by owners than
by tenants or hired hands.
But a considerable difficulty at once presents itself. Farm lands in the
beet agriculture regions are already selling at such a price that even
practicing the greatest economy the average tenant will be unable to
purchase land unless given substantial help by the banks or the govern- J
ment There are two and a quarter million farm tenants according to j
statements compiled by the Department of Agriculture.
The Rural Credits Hill, officially known as the Federal Farm Loan Act,1
will provide funds, through the twelve land hunks, that will enable the !
tenant? and mnall farmers to secure homes. The rate of interest will be j
aa low as five per cent, aud the borrowers will be given long time in
which to pay Hie principal The Federal Farm Loan Act is but one ol:
many acts of constructive legislation passed under the direction of Pres.;
ident Wilson, and is a piece of legislation that will be carefully avoided j
in the attacks by the enemies of Mr Wilson during this campaign.
EVERYBODY is looking forward to a great season's business this
fall. It is a good time now to be putting in a bid for the business that
can be brought here by a vigorous campaign. The business people of
the town should get in the game, and let it he known that Lexington is
out after (be business.
UTHEft
UPBAOK
....
have been life-long Republicans. Edi-
son put It this way:
"Times are too serious to talk iu
terms of Republicanism or Democracy.
When it's America that Is at stake
men have got to vote as Americans.
A fool or a coward would have bad
the United States in all sorts of
trouble. As it Is, we are at peace,
the country was never more prosper-
ous, and we have (he strength that
comes with honor and integrity of
purpose."
LET us not lose sight ot the Fair this fall. We can not afford to
let slip by an opportunity to advertise this great farming country, and no
better advertisement can be had than collecting and exhibiting our farm
products.
AT this time we have no intention of buying a Ford but if our de
IinQiieiit subscribers would pay their back subscription we would have
enough money for such a transaction.
THE old fashioned man who read by the light of a tallow dip
a son who burns midnight oil in a six cylinder car.
lias
AN ANTI-CAMPAIGN?
As a candidate Mr. Hughes lias not
| yet come up to expectations. The
j trouble It that he has not yet told the
American people positively and con-
! cretely Just what he proposes to do
J if elected President. The American
people want to know what construc-
j tive program Mr. Hughes has to offer
! them. They demand of a leader a
j demonstration of leadership. There
| Is n serious danger that the Repub-
lican candidate may become an "antl."
j And It never pays In this world to
be an antl-anything,—The Indepen-
dent.
Anniversary
On the morning of September 25, 1898,1 en=
gaged in the Furniture business in Purcell===
past 18 years now, and 1 am still doing bus-
iness, giving the best merchandise for the
lowest possible prices and you will always
get the most courteous treatment, the best
and most prompt service in any of the va=
rious lines represented in my big store.
If you have helped to make this estalbish*
what it is, I appreciate the favor. If you
have not, I want you to become a patron
and see for yourself that satisfaction re=
mains long after the price is forgotten, when
vou trade with
B. H. Racfcley
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AFf'Elt touring the West Hughes will speak to the soldiers on the
l'exas border. Such are the horrors of war.
WIT AND WISDOM OF PRES. WILSON
lix l rai ts the /'a/iZ/oS/wec/ieti of the JLeini-
vr mid ftiterprvtc-r of American Ocniooracy
The iVcw Duv
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the
last a vision tins been us vouchsafed of our life as a whole. We j
see the bad with the good, the debased and decadent with the |
sound and vital. With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty
is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without im- j
pairing the good, to purify and humanize every process ol our common
life without weakening or sentimentalizing it.
We have itemized with some degree of peculiarity the tliin^s that
rhould be altered and here are some of Hie chief items: a tariff which cuts
us off from our proper part in the commerce of the world, violates the
the just principles of taxation, and makes the Government a facile in- '
strument in the hands of ptivate interests; a banking and currency sys-
tem based upon the necessity of the Government to sell its bonds fifty j
years ago and perfectly adapted to conccntnvting cash and restricting nietelj
credits: an industrial system which, take it on all sides, tihancir
well as administrative, holds capital iu leading strings, restricts
liberties aud limits the opportunities of labor and exploits without re-
newing or conserving the natural resources of the country; a body of ag-
ricultural activities never yet given efficiency of great busiaess under-
takings or served as it should through the instrumentality of science
taken directly to the farm, or afforded the facilities of credit best suited
to its practical needs; watercourses undeveloped, waste places mire-1
claimed, forests unbonded, fast disappearing without plan or prospect of I
renewal, unregarded waste heaps at every mine We have -tud; d. as j
perhaps no other nation has, the most effect iv> meat- -I production,
but we have not studied cost or economy as we should either as organ-
izers of industry, as statesmen, or asiindividuals.
Nor have we studied and perfected the means bv which government '
may be put at the service of humanity, in safeguarding the health of the !
Nation, the health of its men and its women -„l its :■! :' Iren, as well as
a* their rights in the struggle for existence. This is no sentimental duty.
The firm basis of government is justice, not pity. These are matters of j
justice. There can be no equality of opportunity, the first essential of
justice in the body politic, if men aud women and children lie not shield- !
ed in their lives, their very vitality, from the consequences of great in-
dustrial and social processes which they cannot alter or singly
with. Society must see to it that it does not itself crush or weaken or
damage its own constituent parts, The first duty of law is to keep
sound the societv it serves. Sanitary laws, pure food laws, and laws
determining conditions of labor which individuals are powerless to de-
termine for themselves are intimate parts of the very business of justice
and legal efficiency.
ibis is the high enterprise of the new day: To litt everything that
concerns our life as a Nation to the light that shines from the hearthtire'
of every man's conscience and vision of the right. It is inconceivable
that we should do it iri ignorance of the facts as thev are or in blind
haste. We shall restore, not destroy. We shall deal with our econo-
mic sjstem as i, is and as it may be modiltHd, not as it might be it we
bad a clean sheet of paper to write upon; and step by step we shall
make it what it should be, in the spirit of-those who question then own
wisdom and neck counsel and knowledge, not shallow self-satisfaction
or the excitement of excursions whither (hey cannot tell. Justice, and
only justice, t-!i.<ill always lie out motto
This is liul u dny of tiiumph; it is .i day ,.t dedication. Here
muster, not the forces of party, but the forces of humanity. Men's
hearts wait upon us; men's lives hang in balance, men's hopes call tip-
on us to say wl,at ive will do. Who shall live up to the great trust?
Who dares fait to Ir>V I summon nil honest men, all patriotic, all for-
ward-looking men, to my side. God helping me, I will not fail them,
if they will but ,• uom-I ! -(i {,.i«i n,e!
DEMOCRATIC PROMISES
TO FARMERS FULFILLED
Benefits Under Wilson Set Forth in
Official Pamphlet.
The Democratic platform of 1012
made this promise to the fanners of
America:
"Of «*<|ihi1 importune** with the
question of currency reform is the
; question of rural credits or agri-
j cultural finance. Therefore we rec-
j oinmend that an investigation of
• j agricultural credit societies in for-
eign countries he made, so that It
may he ascertained whether a sys-
tem of rural credits may he de-
vised suitable to conditions iu the
United States; and we also favor
legislation permitting national hanks
to loan a reasonable proportion of
their funds on real estate security.
"We recognize the value of vo-
cational education, and urge Federal
appropriations for such training and
extension teaching in agriculture In
co-operation with the several states."
These pledges, with many other
services to the farmer, have been com-
fulfllled in the legislation of
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High Culinary Education. How It Happened.
(telle—"Oh! yes, Marlon is very ! "How did yon happen to vote for
domestic. Slie spends a great deal ol I prohibition?" "I did it 'cause I got
her time in the kitchen." Bert— j 'he general state of grouch," replied
"Cooking?" Hell©—"No; counting and i Hroncho I!ob. "Everybody in Crimson
PURCELL,
OKLAHOMA
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Sherman ft
Sherman
the present Administration. The rec-
ord ot Democratic Performance is of-
fered in comparison with the Repub-
lican record of broken promises to the
farmer, in an attractive pamphlet is-
sued h> t lie Democratic National Com-
mittee. Cnides have been furnished
to even Dcuiocwitic State Commit-
tee for free distribution.
For Kent: The Lefevre farm.
! 160 acres, S miles east and 1-2
J south for cash. Will lease for three
I years, with option to rent two years
| longer For information see John
Devorss or Neal Smith. 3 4t pd.
For Sale—Two spans of young
mare nitles. broke to work. See
J. C. Burkett, 2 miles south of
Noble. 2t.
Rev. Ray will preach at Denton
Saturday night, Sunday morning
and Sunday night. There will be
no services at Lexington.
classifying germs.'
Told the Truth.
"Your advertisement distinctly stat-
ed. there are no mosquitoes here,' "
said the disappointed guest. "I told
the truth in that advertisement," an
swered the proprietor of Pine Ridge
inn. "Why. the idea! They are
swarming about us right now." "I
wrote it last winter."
Observing the Formalities.
"Any news from that bandit today?"
"Yes. He has given orders that it
| anybody comes to capture him we are
to say he is not at home."
! Gulch got sort o' huffy with everybody
| el?" an' we seem to got some kind o'
| satisfaction out o' standin' around au
I seein' one another suffer."
WJiat's the Antwfrf
Fifty years ngo two-thirds of all
Americans lived on farms Today but
one-third lives in the country How do
you explain it when every year life on
tho tarin grows easier and every veai
it becomes harder in the citv?
It Stirred His Bile, Though.
I've just left Walker He's laid up
in bed." "Bilious 'ItacK Automo
bilious. lie was knocked down and
very badly bruised."
The So'sn's Net.
A bo'sn's mate was in charge of a
bunch of men hoisting and lowering a
boat from the water to the deck, it
was seen it would he necessary to
have a block of wooiV put under the
boat to make it set up even. The
bo'sn's mate yelled: "Put a block un-
der the boat! Use your head!"—
Judge.
BURLESON'S "THREE STRIKE"
"The Democratic party seems to I
have enough capacity to run the Post
Office Department. Postmaster (ien
eral Burleson has deposited a cheek I
for $5,200,000 with Secretary McAdoo, j
being the profits of the fiscal year
of 1010."
Sounds like a Democratic campaign I
orator, doesn't itt
Hut it isn't; it is the Philadelphia j
Public Ledger, a paper that is sup-
porting Hughes, telling its host of
cope j readers about merely one of (he deeds ]
of the Wilson Administration.
Continues the Ledger:
"The Secretary of the Treasury re- J
plies that his department has experl- ]
enced the sensation of receiving a pos-
tal surplus only thre times, and
those three times have been undei j
the Administration of President :
Wilson and Mr. Burleson. But we have j
no hope that this will satisfy Me.
Hughes. He will tell the next audi-
ence he gets hold nf that the service
is not nearly so goc.i as it used to be
wher. Postmaster Generals were Re-
publicans and there was a deficit every
year, the amount being something over
SC,000,000." , i
Art for the Animals.
First Farmer—"I hear you are goin'
to allow some of the big ndvertisin'
signs over in your pnstur' side of the
railroad track?" Second Farmer—
Yep: it'll kind of keep the caows
contented lookln' at the pictitr s when
tliey git tired of oatin'."
New (loocls are Arriving
New goods have been added
to our stock in the Breeding
Building. ,
The Bia Sale on Dry Goods,
Clothing, Hats and Shoes
still continues
Burk Mercantile Co.
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Jones, Rex D. The Lexington Leader (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 26, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1916, newspaper, September 29, 1916; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc110745/m1/4/: accessed April 27, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.