Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 6, 1906 Page: 1 of 8
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FIFTEENTH YEAR NO. 15
GUTHRIE, OKLA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER <>, 1906.
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Irate Constitutonal Delegates Should Remember, Whom the Newspapers Would Destroy They Tin\ Make Ma4
President Roosevelt's Message
Greater Document than any Previous.
President Rossevelt's annual message to congress occupied the
attention of the senate for two and a half hoursTuesday, to the ex-
clusion of nearly all other business. The exception to this was the
introduction of a resolution on the Japanese situation by Senator
Raynor of Maryland, and the adoption of appropriate resolutions
regarding those members of the house who had died since the last
session. As a mark of further respect to their memories, adjourn-
ment was taken at 2:54 o'clock. The reading of the president s
message consumed two hours and 25 minutes in the house, and was
followed closely by a large number of members, while the crowded
galleries gave close consideration. Here and there the reading of
the document was punctured with applause, and hearty hand clap-
ping from democrats as well as republicans followed its conclusion.
During the major portion of the time of the reading of the message
Representative Lacey, of Iowa, acted as speaker pro tem, being
the first of the defeated "stand patters" to be reognized by Speaker
Cannon.
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The message is most comprehensive and advanced. Its chief
policies are a declaration for an inheritance tax and in time an in-
come tax; that the Japanese be given the same rights a Eruropean
aliens; asks for power to deal with such situation as that in San
Francisco; declares that courts are legitimate objects of profess-
ional and public criticism, as best safeguards against corrupt rul-
ing; asks for a law granting the Federal government the right to
appeal criminal cases on points of law; makes a strong plea for
compulsory arbitration; asks congress to withdraw coal land in the
public domain from public allotment, reserving for private devel-
opement still, but under government grants; better trade relations
with South America are discussed with Root's address to the Rio
conference attached; the enactment of the ship subsidy is urged;
reduction of Philippine tariff is asked of congress; the Hague peace
congress is endorsed and the efficiency of our Navy suggested as
the best guaranty of peace, pending international understanding;
the inadaquacy of state rgu'a'.ioii of commerce is pointed out. a
Federal control of interstate commerce urged, and further govern-
ment control of taxation. The president asks a constitutional
amendment empowering the Federal government to regulate di-
vorce, but is silenf on tariff r vision and leaves for a special mes
sage the further reommendations on the Panama canal.
were among those in attendance. It
is the sentiment of the meeting that
Oklahoma gas should be used by Okla-
hsma people and that by no means
ought it to be piped to Kansas City or
St. Louis.
If the gas should be kept at horn"
and not permitted to be piped into other
states it would last twenty-five years
to where it would last but five years
other-wise.
County Boundaries and Prohibits
Committees Overshadows the Convention
New Building and
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
President Roosevelt in bis annual
message again urges the enactment of
a law prohibiting corporations from
contributing to campaign funds. lie
also urges tlie passage of the measure
conferring upou the government the
right of appeal in criminal cases on
questions of law. Continuing, the
president saj s:
I cannot too strongly urge the pas-
sage of the bill In question. A failure
to pass it will result in seriously ham-
pering the government in its effort to
obtain justice, especially against
wealthy individuals or corporations
who do wrong, and may also prevent
the government from obtaining justice
for wageworkers who are not them-
selves able effectively to contest a case
where the judgment of an inferior
eourt has been against them. I have
specifically in view a recent decision
by a district judge leaving railway
employees without remedy for viola-
tion of a certain so called labor statute.
The importance of enactin,
tion will atld speed anu certainty m
the execution of the law. \Yhen we
deal with lynching even more is neces-
sary. A great many white men are
lynched, but the crime is peculiarly
frequent in respect to black men. The
greatest existing cause of lynching is
the perpetration, especially by black
men, of the hideous crime of rape, the
most abominable in all the category
of crimes, even worse than murder.
Lawlessness grows by what it feeds
upou, and when mobs begin to lynch
for rape they speedily extend the
sphere of their operations and lynch
for many other kinds of crimes, so that
tWo-thirds of the lynchings are not
for rape at all, while a considerable
proportion of the Individuals lynched
are innocent of all crime.
There Is but one safe rule In dealing
with black men as with white men.
It is the same rule that must be ap-
plied in dealing with rich men and
poor men—that is, to treat each man,
whatever bis color, his creed or his so-
into law i °'a' t,os'*'on' ""'t'1 even handed justice
on his real worth as a man. White
the particular bill In question is fur-
ther increased by the fact that the gov- ! PT owe iC 4mte us much l" tllem"
eminent has now definitely begun a ! t0, the, colore<1 ™cu t0 treat
policy of resorting to the criminal law j ™81 Jth« co'or,;(1 mnu wUo shows
' his life that he deserves such treatment.
In those trust and interstate commerce
cases where such a course offers a rea-
sonable chance of success.
Proper Vie of Injunctions.
In my last message I suggested the
enactment of a law in connection with
the issuance of Injunctions, attention
having been sharply drawn to the mat-
ter liy the demand that the right of ap-
plying injunctions In labor cases
should be wholly abolished. It Is at
least doubtful whether a law abolish-
ing altogether the use of injunctions
in such cases would stand the test of
the courts, in which case, of course, the
legislation would be ineffective. More-
over, I believe it would be wrong alto-
gether to prohibit the use of injunc-
tions. It Is criminal to permit sym-
pathy for criminals to weaken our
hands in upholding the law, and If
men seek to destroy life or property
by mob violence there should be no im-
pairment of the power of the courts to
deal with them in the most summary
and effective way possible. But so
far as possible the abuse of the power
should be provided against by some
such law as I advocated last 3 ear.
Afrnlniit Lj-nchlnff.
I call your attention and the atten-
tion of the nation to the prevalence of
crime among us and, above all, to the
epidemic of lynching and mob violence
that springs up now in one part of ouf
country, now in nnother. Each sec-
tion. north, south, cast or west, has
its own faults. No section can with
wisdom spend its time jeering at the
faults of another section. It should be
busy trying to amend Its own short-
comings. To deal with the crime of
corruption it is necessary to have an
nwakened public conscience and to
supplement this by whatever leglsla-
There is no question of social equality
or negro domination involved.
In my judgment, the crime of rape
should always be punished with death,
as I3 the ease with murder. Assault
with Intent to commit rape should be
made a capital crime, at least In the
discretion of the court, and provision
should be made by which the punish-
ment may follow immediately upon
the heels of the offense.
No more shortsighted policy can be
Imagined than in the fancied interest
of one class to prevent the education
of another class. The white man, If
he is wise, will decline to allow the
negroes In a mass to grow to man-
hood and womanhood without educa-
tion.
"Preachers of Merc Dlncontent."
In dealing with both labor and cap-
ital, with the questions affecting both
corporations and trades unions, there
is one matter more important to re-
member than aught else, and that is
the infinite harm done by preachers of
mere discontent. These are the men
who seek to excite a violent class ha-
tred against all men of wealth. They
seek to turn wise and proper move-
ments for the better control of corpora-
tions and for doing away with the
abuses connected with wealth Into a
campaign of hysterical excitement and
falsehood in which the aim Is to In-
flame to madness the brutal passions
of mankind. The sinister demagogues
and foolish visionaries who are always
eager to undertake such a campaign
of destruction sometimes seek to as
soclate themselves with those working
for a genuine reform In governmental
and social methods and sometimes mas-
querade as such reformers. In reality
itney are the worst enemies of the
cause they profess to advocate. Just us
the purveyors of sensational slimier in
newspaper or magazine are the worst
enemies of all men who are engaged in
an honest effort to better what i
(Continued 011 page 21
A City House
Cleaning on Sunday.
That was an interesting sight
to strangers,—a city street clean-
ing last Sunday afternoon, just
as people were going to the post-
office to get their mail. The
afternoon was beautiful, and the
people were out sunning them-
selves in their holiday attire, and
found the sidewalks dangerous
from the mud-throwing water
hose that was spouting in all dir-
ect ons at once. Many women
received a broadside on their
Sunday silks and lingerie.
In cities where such things are
a matter of experience the muni
cipal house cleaning is done be.
tvveen the hours of twelve oclock
at night and next morning busi-
ness hours- There is plenty el-
ectric light to do it in after
night and it isn't as annoying to
the citizens while at home asleep
as when walking around on the
streets.
Mrs. F. H. Greer
Passed Away.
Mrs. F. II. Greer died of heart ^fail-
ure Wednesday night at 11:30 at the
family residence, East Warner Avenue,
after an illness of over a year, Her
death was sudden. She was sitting
in a chair surrounded by friends, she
was getting ready to be carried to re-
tire, when she suddenly breathed her
last.
Mrs. Greer was one of the pioneer
women of Guthrie and Oklahoma and
was conspiciously identified with the
social life of the territory. She was
the personification of health and
beauty, and her misfortune was a tra-
gedy to her many triends. No one
ever knew her that did not like her,
and those who were nearer her ad-
mired her the most, for she was a
woman who was true to her friends,
generous to the public and charitable
la the unfortunate. How many poor
in Guthrie will shed a tear and bless
her life and all her friends will assuage
their sorrow- at her untimely taking
off in the rememberance of her buoy-
ant life when she was the soul happi-
ness and a charm of every social circle
and public function.
The deceased was a devoted member
of the Trinity Espicopal church. The
funeral will take place Sunday after-
noon at the family residence, the ser-
vice to be conducted by Rev. Nicholas.
The remains will be entered in Sum-
mit View Cemetery, The funeral is
held off that long for many relatives
of Adel Iowa, where the deceased was
born, to attend.
1 he long delayed and anxiously awaited action, is the climax
. . ... of the constitutional convention thus far—the
Loan Association. Presldent Murray of the
The Employees Building and Loan ],
Association lias b°en organized
Guthrie, capital stock of $500,000.
The officers and di~ectors are: U. C.
Guss, President. Geo F. Green, Vice-
President. Chas. Seely, Secretary.
Dr. E. 0. Barker, Treasurer. Dr. G.
A. Hughes, F. L. Williams, S. L
Spurrier, Chas. S. Woods, Attorney.
Auditing Committee: H. A. Tice,
Henry E. Asp, Dr, J. W. Duke.
The incorporators are a guaranty
to the soundness of the orgonization
La Follette Back on Top.
Instead of being thrown down and
trampled upon in Wisconsin, as report-
ed in the newspapers just after the el-
ection, Robert M. LaFollette appears
to have scored a triumph. Only one of
the members of the Wisconsin dele|
tion, Stafford of the Fifth district,
longs to the Spooner organization. Re-
presentative Miner, Representative
Webb and Representative Brown, all
of whom were Spooner adherents,
were defeated for nomination and La-
Follette men will come in their places.
Babcock was defeated at the polls by
Murphy, a Democrat, who had the
port of the LaFollette crowd.
The election of Frank McGovern for
district attorney in Milwaukee was
complete LaFolletts triumph. McGovern
caused 300 indictments to be returned
for numerous cases of municipal graft-
ing and the "interest" turned him down
for re-nomination. He ran independent-
ly on the advice of LaFollette against
the Republican nominee. The Demo-
crats arid Socialist had candidates also.
The regular Rdpublican nominee ran
fourth in the race. Esch and Cooper,
the Only LaFollette supporters in the
Fifty-ninth Congress, have been return-
ed to the Sixtieth Congress.
What to do with LaFollette is more
of a problem now than it was when he
first came to the Senate. Those who
have come from Indiana and Iowa re-
port that LaFollette made as much
trouble in these states as in Kansas.
KEEP OAS AT HOME.
The gas men of the new state met
with the 50,000 club in the club room
in the Spurlock building at 2 o'clock
Representatives from Tulsa. Shawnee
Oklahoma City, Coweta, Madill, Dew-
ey, Bartlesville, Romana, and Durant
Says Mrs. Eddy is
Never Going to Die.
Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, of
No. 7, West Ninety-sixth street,
head of the Christian Science
church in New York, answers
Mrs. Mary Baker Fady's critics in
an interview and declares her own
belief that the founder of Christ-
ian Science will never die.
"Mrs Eddy is in perfect health
and without a wrinkle," Mrs.
Stetson said. " I believe she may
give a demonstration of eternal
lite. Christ said to the apostles
after he rose from the dead,
'For, lo, I am with you always,
even unto the end of the world.'
And He was with them, only be-
cause of mortal mind they could
not see Hiin."
After a moment's thought Mrs
Stetson contihued earnestly .
"I flatter myself that even I,
the humblestof her students, may
be permitted to make a demon-
stration. I know if I have suffi-
cient of God's thought in me I
will not die."
Discussing the divorce question
Mrs. Stetson gave the following
" Divorce should warn the age
of some fundamental error in the
marriage state. Beholding the
world's- lack of Christianity and
the powerlessness of woman to
make home happy, the human
mind will at length demand a
higher affection. The frequency
of divorce threatens humanity
with a cloud which already is
shutting out the sunlight from
thousands of homes and depriving
innocent children of sweet paren-
tal influence. Husbands andjwives
should never separate if there
no Christian demand forit
appointment by
committee on county seat and county
boundary lines and the liquor traffic. With the announcement of
these committees, the city has suddenly filled up with lobbyists
until the hotels are more crowded than the first day. In fact the
lobbyists began to come before the committees were announced.
They came to consult who should be placed on them.
Although the Constitution of the United States is still on trial
before convention, contest between two delegates for a seat, a bat-
tle between the newspaper correspondents and certain members, a
special watch of Henry Asp, the railway and the liquor lobby, and
the location of an ideal capital city of the state in some seques-
tered spot where only angels are fit to tread, yet all these topics
pale into insignificance by the side of the question of countv
boundaries and county seats.' This question means the making and
unmaking of towns and cities, the destruction of millions worth
of property and the making of millions by the enhansing the value
of other property—and the making of thousands of dollars in lobby
money in the warfare of ambitious rival towns for special favors.
Some say a million dollars will be spent in the warfare.
All kinds of wild rumors are out about the committee. It is
claimed that every member was shown the map and his views as-
certained before he was appointed. President Murray says he
appointed the men because they are competent to deal with the
question and he will leave it all to them. The general estimate
is that there will be forty counties in the Indian Territory, two less
than in the Sequoyah constitution. Nineteen will be north of the
Canadian river and twenty-one south. Western half of Oklahoma
is equally as much interested in the county division. Beaver and
Woods counties will be divided into three counties, Greer into as
many er more, and all the others of the Western tier rearranged
clear down to Comanche, so as to split Woodward into two or more
and make new counties to the number equal to that of the Indian
Territory. The committee consists of Royal J. Allen, of Duncan,
chairman; Gardner, of Stigler; Roberts, of G'ustee; Nelson, of
Tulsa; Rogers, of Claremore; Tracy, of Beaver; Leeper, of Sul-
phur; Henshaw, of Madill; Carr, of Frederick; Tenor, of Taloga;
Lasater, of Paul's Valley; Hanraty, ot McAlester; Banks, of Hess;
Wills, of Miami, and Turner, of Checotah.
COMPARATIVE REVENUE RESULTS OF THE
SALE AND LEASING OF SCHOOL LANDS,
On the estimated value of Siooo.oo per quarter section of land,
the average return, as per filth biennial report of the board for
leasing lands, years ,1903-1904, is $ 36.50
Interest at 4 per cent on sale value of $1000.00 is 40.00
Tax on same true value Siooo.oo at a rate of 2 per cent is.. 20.00
Total annual income from sale
Less annual rental per quarter section
$ 60.00
36.50
Increase per annum in favor of sale $ 23.50
Total number of quarter sections now under lease is .. 12193
Which multiplied by $23.60 gives the sum of S 286,535.50
as the total increase from school lands per annum if sold.
The per cent of gross revenue per annum under the rental system
is .0365%. The per cent derived from sale per annum by adding
the interest and taxes per annum is 6%.
Annual increase in favor of sale 0235%
The committee on the liquor
traffic, unlike that of the county
boundaries, seems highly satis-
factory to both sides of the pro-
hibition question. The prohibi-
tionists are satisfied and claim
they have a majority of the com-
mittee, while those who look
closer into the personnel think
the most that the prohibitionists
can hope for is separate submis-
sion. The following is the com-
mittee : Luke Roberts, of Olus-
tee, chairman; Ledbetter, of Ard-
more; Johnson, of Perry; Caudill,
of Hobart; Wood, of Cherokee;
Harned, of Ringwood; Williams,
Lehigh; Rogers, cf Claremore;
Leahy, of Pawhuska; Tosh, of
Hobart ; Messenger, of Holden-
ville; McCance, of Mutual: Saler,
of Stillwater; Cobb, of Sapulpa,
and Stowe, of Winnewood.
A unique spectacle on the floor
of the convention on two sepa-
rate days were attacks upon the
newspapers who have correspon-
dents reporting the proceedings.
When a man talks he frequently
means one thing and his audience
understands another. It
learned and fortunate man who
can make himself clear in his
meaning, he is more fortunate
than any histoiy has recorded.
It follows that when Mr. Led-
better talked on the limitations
of the Constitution of the United
States, his interpretation was
colored with the prism of his
Southern environment and the
milk that he drew, even if he
could not see it himself, and the
newspaper correspondents, and
others—and now the whole coun-
try, see* it that way, the more so
the more he explains. So when
Messrs. Haskell, Murry, Ledbet-
ter, King and Herring find that
the newspaper correspondents
do not do them the justice they
do Henry Asp and get jealous
about it and make firey denoun-
ciatory speeches against the Ok-
lahoman, South McAlester Capi-
tal, and an unnamed Western
weekly paper, their owrr party
press, it simply means that when
Henry Asp speaks he does it with
more lucidity of expression and
tact, and perhaps with more
knowledge.
The greatest faults men have
are those they are unconscious of,
for if they were conscious ot
them they might correct them,
and Messrs. Murray, Haskell,
LeCbetter, King and others can-
not expect to have others see
them as they see themselves no
more than they can see them-
selves as others see them. This
was shown by the fact that Mes-
srs. Murray, Haskell and Herring
returned to the attack on the
newspapers another day. Mr.
Haskell explained that in not
naming the papers in his denun-
ciation the week before, he did
not desire it to be understood
that he condemned the press of
the whole country, and then
named the offending papers be-
cause they thought 20 cents mile-
age was too much for a reform
constitutional convention that
may ask for a 2 cent rate, and
then President Murray said :
" Those corrupting things are
coming from people who are
afraid to come here and present
themselves. The lobbyists have
backed off on the proposition of
lobbying and intend to buy the
press. They may buy the press,
but gentlemen, they cannot buy
this convention. It makes no
difference what the papers say.
It makes no difference what cor-
ruption is credited to us. The
people who sent us here will know
the results, and it is results they
aje after. The boys elected us
and know we're going to do the
right thing."
Mr, Herring said ot his paper :
" I will not give the name of the
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