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Oklahoma State
SEVENTEENTH YEAR NO. 40
GUTHRIE, OKLA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1908.
#1.00 PEK YEAR
PRESIDENT'S
- MESSAGE,
Makes Annual Recommen-
,1, dations to Congress.
ATTACKS ANTI-TRUST LAW
Sherman Act Should Be Amended to
Permit Combination, Which Art In
the Interest of the Public, Says the
President — Urges Legislation to
Safeguard the Wageworkers—Dwells
on Need of Protection For Forests.
Views on the Army and the Navy.
Washington, Dec. 8.—In his message
to congress, read to the two houses,
■the president, said:
The financial standing of the nation
at the present time is excellent, and
the financial management of the na-
tion's interests by the government dur-
ing the last seven years has shown the
most satisfactory results. But our
•currency system is imperfect, and it
is earnestly to be hoped that the cur-
rency commission will be able to pro-
pose a thoroughly good system which
-will do away with the existing defects.
During the period from July 1, 1001,
to Sept. 30, 1008, there has been a net
surplus of nearly one hundred millions
<of receipts over expenditures, a reduc-
tion of the interest bearing debt by
ninety millions, tu spite of the extraor-
dinary expense of the I'anama canal
and a saving of nearly nine millions
on the annual Interest charge. This Is
an exceedingly satisfactory showing.
There has been a reduction of taxa-
tion.
Corporations.
As regards the great corporations en-
gaged in Interstate business, and espe-
cially the railroads. I can only repeat
what I have already again and again
said in my messages to the congress.
I believe that under the Interstate
clause of the constitution the United
States lias complete and paramount
right to control all agencies of inter-
state commerce, and I believe that the
national government alone can exer-
cise this right with wisdom and ef-
fectiveness so as both to secure Justice
from and to do Justice to the great
corporations which are the most Im-
portant factors in modern business. 1
believe that it is worse than folly to
attempt to prohibit all combinations,
.as Is done by the Shprman anti-trust
law, because such a law can be en-
forced only Imperfectly and unequal-
ly, and Its enforcement works almost
as much hardship as good. I strongly
advocate that Instead of an unwise
effort to prohibit all combinations there
shall be substituted a law which shall
•expressly permit combinations which
are In the interest of the public, but
shall at the same time give to some
agency of the national government full
power of control and supervision over
them. One of the chief features of
this control should be securing entire
publicity in all matters which the pub-
lic has a right to know and, further-
more, the power, not by judicial, but
l>y executive, action to prevent or put
a stop to every form of Improper fa-
voritism or other wrongdoing.
The railways of the country should
lie put completely under the Interstate
commerce commission and removed
■from the domain of the anti-trust law.
The power of the commission should
be made thoroughgoing, so that It
could exercise complete supervision
and control over the Issue of securities
as well as over the raising and lower-
ing of rates. As regards rates, at least
this power should be summary. Pow-
er to make combinations and traffic
agreements should be explicitly con-
ferred upon the railroads, the permis-
sion of the commission being first
gained and the combination or agree-
ment being published In all Its de-
tails. The interests of the sharehold-
ers, of the employees and of the ship-
pers should nil be guarded as against
one another. To give any one of them
undue and Improper consideration is
to do Injustice to the others. Hates
must lie made as low as Is compatible
with giving proper returns to all the
employees of the railroad, from the
highest to the lowest, and proper re-
turns to the shareholders, but they
must not. for Instance, be reduced la
«uch fashion ns to necessitate a cut
In the wages of the employees or the
abolition of the proper and legitimate
profits of honest shareholders.
Telegraph and telephone companies
engaged In Interstate business should
be put under the Jurisdiction of the In-
terstate commerce commission.
Ample Rewards For Intelligence.
It Is to the interest of all of us ttmt
there should be a premium put upon
individual initiative and Individual ca-
pacity and an ample reward for the
great directing intelligences alone com-
petent to manage the great business
operations of today. It Is well to keep
In mind that exactly as the anarchist
Is the worst enemy of liberty and the
reactionary the worst enemy of order
o the men who defend the rights of
property have most to fear from the
wrongdoers of gre:it wealth, and the
men who are ^championing popular
rights have most to fear from the
demagogues who In the name of popu-
lar rights would do wrong to and op-
press honest business men, honest men
of wealth, for the success of either
type of wrongdoer necessarily invites
a violent reaction against the cause
the wrongdoer nominally upholds.
The opposition to government oon-
trol of these great corporations makes
Its most effective effort In the shape
of an appeal to the old doctrine of
states' rights.
The. proposal to make the national
government supreme over, and there-
fore to give it complete control over,
the railroads and other instruments of
interstate commerce is merely a pro-
posal to carry out to the letter one of
the prime purposes, if not the prime
purpose, for which the constitution
was founded. It does not represent
centralization.
I believe that the more farslghted
corporations are themselves coming to
recognize the unwisdom of the violent
hostility they have displayed during
the last few years to regulation and
control by the national government of
combinations engaged in interstate busi-
ness.
Labor. j,'-' t
Tlior? fife maSy makers'fwTiitlr'g Is
bor and the status of the wageworker
to which I should like to draw your
attention. As far as possible I hope
to see a frank recognition of the ad-
vantages conferred by machinery, or-
ganization and division of lab<5r, ac-
companied by an effort to bring about
a larger share In the ownership by
wageworker of railway, mill and fac-
tory. In farming this simply means
that we wish to see the farmer own his
own land. We do not wish to see the
farms so large that they become the
property of absentee landlords who
farm them by tenants nor yet so small
that the farmer becomes like a Euro-
pean peasant.
The depositors In our savings banks
now pumber over one-tenth of our en-
tire population. These ure all capital-
ists who through the savings banks
loan their money to the workers—that
la. In many cases to themselves—to
carry on their various Industries.
Postal savings banks will make It easy
for the poorest to keep their savings
In absolute safety. The regulation of
the national highways must be such
that they shall serve all iieople with
equal Justice. Corporate finances must
he supervised so as to make It far
safer than at present for the man of
small means to Invest his money In
stocks. There must be prohibition of
child labor, diminution of woman la-
bor, shortening of hours of all me-
chanical labor. Stock watering should
1* prohibited, and stock gambling, so
far as is poss&lc, discouraged. There
should be a progressive Inheritance
tax on large fortunes. Industrial edu-
cation should be encouraged.
Protection For Wageworker*.
There Is one matter with which the
congress should deal at this session.
There should no longer be any palter-
ing with the question of taking care
of the wageworkers who. under our
present Industrial system, become kill-
ed, crippled or worn out as part of the
regular incidents of n given business.
The object sought for could be achiev-
ed to a measurable degree, as far ns
those killed cr crippled are concerned,
by proper employers' liability laws.
As far as concerns those who have
been worn out, I call your attention to
the fact that definite steps toward pro-
viding old age pensions have been
taken in mnny of our private Indus-
tries.
Tending a thoroughgoing Investiga-
tion and action theoe is certain legis-
lation which should be enacted at
once. The law passed at the last ses-
sion of the congress granting com-
pensation to certain classes of em-
ployees of the government should be
extended to Include all employees of
the government and should be mr.de
OK ABSENT BROTHERS
far severity agalnsf persons of small , MEMORY
means and favor only the very crlml- |
nals whom it Is most desirable to pun- j Kept (.reeii bj Local Elks In Tender
lsh. ! Ser\ Ices.
At the last election certain leaders j
of organized labor made a violent and
sweeping attack upon the entire Ju- |
dlclary of the country, an attack i
stating they wished the principle of
that bill or nothing. They Insisted on
a provision that In a lnbor dispute no
Injunction should Issue except to pro-
tect a property right and specifically
(Continued on Page 2.)
BANKERS AGREE TO
AME\I> BANKING
act
Passing resolutions indorsing the
principles of the state guaranty law.
recommending that ^ legislative com-
mittee be appointed to work for the
amendment of tlie present law pro-
viding that the guaranty fund me al-
lowed to remain in the bank upon
which it is drawn as the bank's lia-
bilities, subject to sight draft of the
state banking commission, the state
banking section -of the Oklahoma
Bankers Association was formed at
Muskogee at a meeting of two hun-
dred and fifty representatives of the
state banks of Oklahoma.
General officers were elected and
group officers chosen as follows:
President, J. B. Jones, of the Okla-
homa Trust Co., Muskogee.
Vice president, W. S. Guthrie, Ok-
lahoma City.
Secretary, W. E. Gordon, Tulsa.
Treasurer, J. B. Ferguson, Enid.
Group Officers.
Western group: O. H. Cafky, pres-
ident; W. J. Barber, vice president;
F. A. Vickery, secretary.
Northern group: C. C. Smith, Enid,
president; T. H. Grunnell, Okeene,
vice president; E. A. Pendarvous,
Enid, secretary.
Eastern group: J. H. McBirney.
Tulsa, president; F. 8. Westfall, Sa-
pulpa, vice president; B. J. Burke,
Claremore, secretary.
Central group: A. R. Eastman,
president and vice president; D. E.
Mahan, secretary.
Southern group: Dr. D. H. Halley,
McAlester, chairman: Harold Wal-
lace, Ardmore, secretary; C. E. Mil-
Ian, McAlester, vice president.
E. M. Clarke of Pawnee, recently
elected by -the Republican party as a
member of the legislature, spoke at
length. Oklahoma, he said, has re-
cently drawn the eyese of the world
towards it, and should keep them
directed this way. Oklahoma is in
tellectuall.v great and at times spec-
tacular.
Mr. Clark wanted suggestions
from the bankers. He asked whether
or not it would be a good plan to
allow this guaranty fund to remain
in the! banks from which it was
drawn, and allow the banking com-
mission to draw on the fund as need-
ed. He believed the state should
actually back the guaranty fund as
far as possible.
Governor Haskell Speaks.
When a committee escorted Gov-
ernor Haskell to the platform he
was given an ovation.
The governor prefaced his remarks
by declaring that what he had to say
The faults of our Brothers we write
upon the sand:
couched In such terms as to Include Thell. virtues upon the tablets of love
the most upright, honest and broad anJ memorv ••
minded Judtres no loss than those of • .
, . „ . ' Deeply Impressive were the memo-
narrower mind antf more restricted ( . , „
outlook. Last year before the house , rial services conducted at the Brooks
committee on the Judiciary these same j opera house Sunday afternoon by
labor leaders formulated their de- ! Guthrie l.odge No. 426, Benevolent
mands, specifying the bill that con- an(j protective Order of Elks. The
talned them, refusing all compromise. 10pgra house was filled when, at 3
o'clock, the members of the Elks
lodge filed down to the seats reserved
for them, the officer sof the lodge,
past exalted rulers and members of
the memorial committee occupying
seats on the stage, which was most
beautifully set and decorated for the
occasion.
"Crossing the Bar," by Tennyson
Buck, was exquisitely rendered by a
mixed quartet consisting of Miss Del-
ia Duncan. Mrs. B. F. Coughlan, Mr.
Fred Soehi and Mr. Frank Post, the
deep hush following being broken by
the gavel taps of Exalted Ruler Frank
B. Lucas, and the lodge was opened
in due form.
Secretary H. B. Newman called the
roll of the "absent Jirothers": S. L.
Overatreet, S. B. Wadsworth, J. O.
Wikinson, B. C. Maine, H. H. Hagan,
H. A. Piatt, H. Maxey, Edgar W.
Jones. A. P. Saunders, H. Brandon,
Wm. H. Conway, R. R. Carltn, A. A.
Crandall, C. A. Noble, A. H. Rieble,
C. E. N. Coles, following which the
lodge joined in singing the opening
ode, to the air of "Auld Lang Syne:"
"Great Ruler of the universe,
All seeing and benign.
Look down upon and bless our work,
And be all glory Thine!
"O! hear our prayers for the honored
dead,
While bearing in our minds
The memories graven on each heart.
For 'Auld Lang Syne'."
Rev. A. B. Nicholas, rector of Trin-
ity Episcopal Church, pronounced an
eloquent Invocation, following which
Prof. Harry Erlxon gave a beautiful
violin solo, with Mrs. ('has. Woods
accompanying at the piano.
A beautiful contralto solo. "Jesus,
the Very Thought of Thee." by Mrs.
B. F. Coughlan, was a fitting prelude
to the masterly eulogy pronounced by
Judge A. H. Hustoiu whose beautiful
word pictures of the Life Beyond, with
the hope of immortality, and his glow-
ing tribute to Elkdom sank deep into
the hearts of his hearers.
An arrangement of "Lead, Kindly
Light." by Dudley Buck, was sung
with fine feeling by the male quartet.
Brothers Fred '• Soei.!, Dan Williams,
J. E. Woodworth and Frank Post, and
after the closing ceremonies, the sing-
ing of the Doxologv, in which the au-
dience joined, and benediction by Rev.
Nicholas, the memorial service was at
an end.
River Navigation Bonds of
Five 1 - nired Million Will
IncluA the Arkansas River
Washington. Dec. 9.—Sen nt in
favor of a government bond , 2^ for
a comprehensive improvement the
rivers, harbors and canals o ^he
countrv to the end that this n "•* i
o
shall have the greatest system ji
waterways in the world, gained head-
way at the opening session of the
rivers and harbors congress here to-
day.
The scheme contemplates $500,000
worth of federal bonds for internal
water courses, to be distributed over
a ten year period, or $50,000,000 an-
nually.
Following the lead of President
Roosevelt and President-elect Taft,
both of whom, before the joint con-
servation meeting advocated the issu-
ance of government bonds for con-
structing permanent public improve-
ments, enthusiastic endorsement was
given the proposition at the congress
by Vice President Fairbanks, Andrew
Carnegie and Joseph E. Ransdell.
The gathering will likely adopt res-
olutions asking congress to authorize
the bonds.
Leading figures In the nation's pub-
lic industrial and commercial life in-
dicated their interest in waterways
improvements by their presence and
participation. The speakers included
Vice President Fairbanks, Andrew
Carnegie, Ambassador Bryce, Seth
Low of New York, Representative
Joseph E. Ransdell, Representative
Champ Clark of Missouri, Governor
George E. Chamberlain of Oregon and
Samuel Gompers.
Upwards of 3500 delegates, repre-
senting 44 states and territories of
Alaska, New Mexico and Hawaii and
Porto Rico were in attendance.
Mr. Clark declared that congress is
not opposed to river and harbor im-
provements and never has been. To
say so, he declared, would be to as-
sume that the congress is composed
of a job lot of political Idiots. He ex-
pressed the belief that if congress
were presented with a feasible scheme
for waterway Improvement it woulj
be adopted.
c0rtely0u ubges
sl'm
in bl*dget
was his individual opinion, and he
more liberal In Its terms. In this re- did not expect It to influence the ac-
spect the generosity of the United
States toward its employees compares
most unfavorably with that of every
country in Europe—even the poorest.
The terms of the act are also a
hardship tn prohibiting payment in
cases where the accident is in any
wn.v due to the negligence of the em-
ployee. It Is Inevitable that dally fa-
miliarity with danger will lead men to
take chances that can be construed
into negligence.
I renew my recommendation made
In a previous message that half holi-
days be granted during the summer to
nil wageworkers In government em-
ploy.
I also renew my recommendation
that the principle of the eight hour
day should ns rapidly and as far ns
practicable be extended to the entire
work being carried on by the govern-
ment.
The Courts.
I most earnestly urge upon the con-
gress the duty of Increasing the totally
Inadequate salaries now given to our
Judge s. On the whole, there Is no
body of public servants who do as
valuable work nor whose moneyed
reward Is so Inadequate compared to
their work. Beginning with the su-
preme court, the judges should have
their salaries doubled.
It Is earnestly to be desired that
some method should be devised for do-
ing away with the long delays which
now obtain in the administration of
Justice and which operate with pecul-
tion of the bankers.
He urged that the bankers not
form a separate organization from
the Oklahoma State Bankers Asso-
ciation. He considered it unfortu-
nate that the state and federal laws
conflicted. He believed the federal
law was impracticable so far as the
small towns of the state were con-
cerned. He said the national bank-
ing law was based on the business
of the banks In large cities and an-
tiquated so far as the small towns
were concerned.
"The Western banker does not vis-
it congress enough and the bankers
of the Eastern states visit congress
too much." He spoke of "burglary
on the Inside," and did see how some
bank examiners could draw their sal-
aries and be side'racked by such
men as Walsh and Bigelow. "The
name 'national' gives no longer any
feeling of security." He quoted sta-
tistics showing that the failure of na-
tional banks was three and one-half
times greater than that of state In-
stitutions. He characterized the pos-
tal savings banks as a scheme to cen-
tralize the government. He said It
would put the small hanks out of bus-
iness and all the money would be
drawn to the sub-treasuries of the
country.
says agreement is not abl'sed
Owen Declares He Is Piping Gas Un-
der Contract Only.
Charles Owen of Bartlesville, head
of the Owen Pipe Line Company, vig-
orously denies that his company is
supplying gas to the Kansas Natural
Gas Company or to any Kansas con-
sumers outside of t~ose named in his
agreement with the state. Mr. Owen
came to Guthrie tn consequence of a
story that the governor had detec-
tives on his trail because of the al-
leged sending of gas outside the state
congress ready for work
The Galleries Were Crowded for the
Opening Session.
Washington, Dec. 7.—In the pres-
ence of crowds that packed the gal-
leries of both houses, the short and
closing session of the sixtieth con-
gress began at noon today. Although
It was known that little business
would be transacted, the hundreds of
spectators waited for hears to wit-
ness the ceremonies that mark the
opening sessions of the nation's law
making body.
After the usual committees had
been appointed by the senate to in-
form the President and the house of
representatives of the meeting of that
body, and a resolution of regret upon
the death of Senator Allison had
been adopted, the senate at 12:15
o'clock adjourned.
The house was called to order at
noon. When the vice president-elect,
Mr. Sherman, entered the chamber,
he was applauded by his Republican
colleagues.
There were cheers for Speaker Can-
non. too, when he mounted the plat-
form to call the house to order. Some
Democrats Joined in the applause.
New State Will Receive Benefit of
Indian Appropriation.
Secretary Cortelyou, of the treas-
ury department, at Washington, has
included the following items of inter-
est to Oklahoma in the Indian budget
for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1910:
Dawes Commission, at Muskogee,
$140,000. Supporf and maintenance
of the schools In Indian Territory,
$300,000.
Per capita payments to Semlnoles,
$570,000.
Per capita payments to Sac sand
Foxes, $1,000,000.
Removal of restrictions, $33,000.
Removal of intruders, $17,000. '
Support and maintenance of district
agent, $90,000.
Leasing mineral lands. Creeks and
Cherokees, $30,000.
Support and maintenance of Chiloc-
co school. $120,000.
Protection of Indian timber lands.
$100,000.
Indian school sites, leases and con-
struction, $300,000.
Allotment of lands in severalty,
$105,000.
The above figures, including rou-
tine expenditures which may be clas-
sified as salaries and annuities and,
together with other estimates of more
or less interest, were laid before
congress.
Th last three items are general in
their nature and should congress see
fit to appropriate the money it will be
expended in those states where it will
do the most good. Whatever money
Is voted for ths preservation of In-
dian timber lands will be spent in co-
operation with the forestry service,
and as there are nearly 500,000 acres
of forest lands in the Choctaw and
Chickasaw nations it is unlikely that
considerable of this money will find
its way into the new state.
But of all the items contained in
the list perhaps none will receive
greater welcome than the $300,000 es-
timate for a continuance of the fed-
eral chain of schools in east Oklaho-
ma. now in charge of Superintendent
J. D. Benedict. The action of the
treasury department and Secretary
Garfield's recommendation of this
item paves the way for favorable
consideration at the hands of con-
gress this winter and if voted will
enable Superintendent Benedict to
continue his good work started sev
eral years ago.
Second in importance perhaps is
Secretary Garfield's plan to make per
capita payments to the Sac and Fox
and Seminole Indians of Oklahoma
who have more than $1,500,000 to
their credit at the treasury depart-
ment.
school for blind
Fort Gibson, Okla., Dec. 9—"It is
difficult to get a report of the blind
children in Oklahoma." said Dr. Geo.
W. Bruce, president of the Oklahoma
state school for the blind, now located
at Fort Gibson. Dr. Bruce was in
Oklahoma City looking up blind chil-
dren He learned of one, but Is sure
there must be others of whom he has
been unable to learn.
"The parent or guardian of blind
children would do a great service to
their suffering charges as well as to
us to let us know the names of the
afflicted ones," said Dr. Bruce.
state news.
The commissioner of Indian affairs
has recommended the abandonment
of the Chilocco school and the prop-
erty will be given to the state of Ok-
i lahoma. i!
Senator Gore has been admitted to
practice before the supreme court of
the United States.
Bert Tillotson is again a candidate
for speaker. .
The state G. A. K. Is making ar-
rangements to celebrate Lincoln's an-
niversary, April 12th.
Attorney General West Is reported
of the opinion that the corporation
commission has power to regulate
wages.
For the time being the Bcheme to
conduct Oklahoma gas outside the
state has been stopped.
Carrie Nation is finding English
suffragettes so much rougher than
she that her hatchet won't chop.
The farmers' institutes this year
are proving more successful than
ever, under the management of the
board of agriculture.
Governor Haskell was Initiated In*
to the Woodmen of the World at Ok-
lahoma City In a class of 300, and Is
reported to have ridden the goat bet-
ter than anyone.
J. J. Sullivan, Republican member
of the legislature, and a miner, de-
clares the miners will oppose the re-
duction of coal to $2, as it will ne-
cessitate the reduction of awges.
The Enid Eagle Insinuates that ex-
Congressman J. Y. Callahan's plan of
co-operative bakeries is a bread trust.
a cutting at navina.
John Maples, a prosperous farmer
residing at Navina, has been brought
to the city and placed in the county
jail on the charge of assaulting Tom
Lindsay with a deadly weapon Sat-
urday night. Lindsay, who is the
owner of the grain elevator at Na-
vina, was badly cut in the arm, an
artery being severed. J. Fuller, a
livery stable man who tried to act as
peacemaker, was slashed about the
chest with Maples' knife. Dr. Brun-
ner, who dressed the injured man's
wounds, pronounces them not serious,
although very painful. The trouble.
It Is stated, started over a grudge of
long standing between Lindsay and
Maples, who were formerly partners
in the elevator business.
railroads must
build westward
Chicago, Dec. 9.—J. Plerpont Mor-
gan sat at the banquet board of the
Chicago Association of Commerce to-
night, while B. F. Yoakum, chairman
of the executive committee of the
Rock Island-Frisco lines, discussed
"Our Country and Our Railroads."
Mr. Yoakum declared that the panic
of last winter caused a shrinkage in
the pay rolls of the railroads of $1,-
00,000 a day, largely as a result of
misdirected agitation against the
railroads. He averred his conviction
that an established railroad policy by
the government Is necessary, but it
must be a stable, centralized one un-
der which the railroads can plan
construction work years ahead. He
said 100,000 miles of road would have
to be built west and southwest of Chi-
cago to care for Increasing population
and commerce. Railroads alone, he
said, cannot solve the transportation
problem of the country, but the gov-
ernment must adopt a broad and
comprehensive waterways policy as
has been pursued by the capitalists in
building railroads.
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