Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1904 Page: 3 of 12
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l united upon any of the great problems expense, together with a special agent
j of government, still it is pertinent to ! of the school land department to visit
' | review questions which are of interest< these lands and report to me the actual
and the abandonment of the Republican to us here at home, and in which our
policy of protection. What did it do j delegate will have a vote, or will be
when it came into power? After months j more or less influential in determining,
of wangling, they passed the Wilson i The school land question is one of im-
tariff bill, which was neither flesh nor | portance and always of interest to our
foul, neither a free trade nor a protec- j people. We all know the history of
tive tariff measure, a bill which be- ! the frittering away of bountiful school
came a law without the approval of! land donations made by Congress to
President Cleveland and which he bit- j many of the Western states. We know
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conditions prevailing.
I instructed the Territorial Superin-
tendent of Instruction to find some
means of relief, if pessible. I reported
to the Secret ury of the Interior De-
partment at Washington that "the se-
lection of large bodies of adjacent lands
is apt to work a hardship on the im-
mediate locality as in the case of the
Kickapoo reservation, where nearly all
the land is so reserved and consequently
is not subject to taxation.
As a result, the only means of rais-
ing money for erecting school houses,
constructing roads and bridges and
carrying on the schools is by personal
taxes upon tha lessees of school lands,
as they are mostly poor men the
is small and it is with
terly denounced as an "act of perfidy | that in many cases the liberal pro-
and dishonor." The result of this tariff j visions made by the government for
discord was that the business interests j the educational advancement of the
of the country became paralyzed, bank- i people were fritterf d awa- and lost to
ruptcy swept over the land in great and j the states either by incompetent and
growing waves until distress prevailed (ill considered legislation or by fraudu-
everywhere, and the people were in , lent and corrupt design in the adminis-
utter despair, and this condition of af- , tration and execution of the laws. The
fairs continued to grow worse and question of how these lands shall be
worse until McKinley was elected and disposed of is not now nor can it be an amount raised
the Republican policy of protection was j issue until Oklahoma becomes a State great difficulty that they are able to
restored to the statute laws of the j and the State becomes the owner of! give their children the i dvantages o
land, and once more we experienced a (the lands, and until then we are only ' schools.
return of prosperity such as was never i permitted to lease the land, the rentals
approached in the history of the coun- [ arising therefrom to be applied to the
try, and don't we all know that if the ! purposes for which the lands were re-
Democracy was restored to power to-1 served. And in looking to the future,
day the fanatical, theoretical, free ] standing as I believe and hope we now
trade faction of the party would at- [ do upon the threshold of statehood, it
tempt to tear the present beneficent is well that we do not forget the con-
tariff laws into a schedule of crazy dition of affairs connect- d with the
Corner Division and Cleveland Ave.,
Is devoted entirely to the purpose of fiting young men
and young women for the active duties of life
It Commands the Rcspcct and has ihe Support of the
Leading Business Men of Guthrie and Oklahoma
It is generally recognized as the Leading and Represen-
tative Business College of the Southwest
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by
shreds and patches.
Then came Bryan with his crown of
thorns and cross of gold, whose slogan
was free and unlimited coinage of sil-
ver in the ratio of 16 to 1. Suppose
B-yan and a free silver congress had
been elected. We all know now that
years of untold calamity and distress
would have followed, and again the
people would have been plunged into
the blackness of distress and despair.
Parker's gold telegram proves it.
If Parker believes that the gold
standard is irrevocably fixed and he is
in harmony with his par v, why did
they not so declare in the platform
made at St. Louis. Why didn't he say
so before he was nominated so that
delegates could have expressed their
convictions and their judgment. To
have changed their nominee after that
declaration would have been to make
themselves ridiculous and the laughing
stock of the world.
Mr. Bryan and the free silverites saw
their mistake after that telegram was
received at St. Louis, but it was too
late then to change the nominee or to
amend their platform. The situation
reminds me of a man who was b. eas-
ing a yoke of steers. After exercising
them for a while he attempted to lead
them with a rope into an adjoining
field. As he came to take down the
bars he gave the rope a turn about hi -
leg that he might use both hands.
Something started the steers and awa;.
they went down th« field, dragging cha'
poor unfortunate farmer along witt
them, and final'y leaving him strewec
al ing the path in a very lamentabl.
condition. After a while some of the
neighbors gathered in and picked up th.
pieces and brought them together, ane
soon the young man regained con-
sciousness, when one of his friend*
asked him why in the world he tied th<
steers to his leg, to which he replied
that he hadn't gone ten rods until hi
saw his mistake.
How will it be with Parker and tht
trusts? Who knows, who can tell'.
Bryan saw in the convention how thoy
were working for Parker and h<
sounded the alarm that the money
power "was capturing the nomination,'
and he hasn't taken anything back that
he ever said there or anywhere else.
So it is all along the line; everybody
knows what the Republican part)
stands for, and everybody knows that
Roosevelt will enforce the laws vigor
ously and sincerely against every vio-
lation that is brought to his notice, and
nobody knows, nobody can tell what the
Democratic party will do if placed in
power, nor what Parker will do if
he is elected ( resident. So I have faith
in the intelligence and sound judgment
of the American people, anH believe
that they will stand by the party whose
policies have been tried and proved sue
cessful and elect Roosevelt to be Presi
dent, whose position upon every public
question is as an open book before all
men, and I believe that Roosevelt will
receive the electoral vote of every
Northern and Western state. Why
then, tell me why, should Oklahoma
place itself upon record at this critical
period in its history as a people of un
soynd or no political views by the elec-
tion of a Democrat to Congress,
have faith, too, in the intelligent and
capable people of Oklahoma, and I have
no more fear that they will turn Mc
Guiie down and elect Matthews than
would have of the result of a combat
between a bantam rooster and a steel
gafted game cock.
But questions of National policies
upon which so long as we remain
Territory we have no voice aside, it is
matter of great importance to us all
which party candidate shall be elected
to stand for and represent the wishes
and interests of our people in Wash-
ington.
I believe a majority of our people
have already determined in their ow
minds to return McGuire, who stands
for well defined policies in which the
mmodiate welfare of our people are
The Territorial Superintendent is
trying to devise some means of aiding
them. These settlers are paying an-
nually large sums into the school fund
for the benefit of the schools of the
Territory, and it doas not seem right
that they should be so restricted in
their own school facilities."
No adequate measure of relief being
apparent, the matter went over until
the legislature met, when I said to that
honorable body in my first message:
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bacillus or germ which exists plenti
. ■ lv in street dirt. It is inactive so long I
"The peculiar condition of atfairs pre- ^ exposed to t|le air. but when carried
ttailinrr in fVia K"ielfnnnr f* n 11 n tv V. where I tV,£> el/in a S in the Wounds
>y pel .
nails, and when the air is excluded the
germ is roused to activity and produces
the most virulent poison known. These
germs may be destroyed and all danger
of lockjaw avoided by applying Cham-
berlain's Pain Balm freely as soon as
the injury is received. Pain Balm is
an antiseptic and causes cuts, bruises
and like injuries to heal without mat-
uration and in one third the time re-
quired by the usual treatment. It is
for sale by the Owl Drug Store, F. B.
Lillie & Co., and the Eagle Drug Store.
vailing in the Kickapoo country, where beneath the skin as in the
a large and contiguous body of land has caused by percussion caps or by justy
been selected as indemnity land and re-
served for school purposes, seems to
impair and limit the resources of the
people resident therein to adequately
provide for the maintainance of their
own schools. Some measure should be
adopted to remedy these conditions and
assist these people to their rightful
participation in the benefits of our free
school system."
During the session of this legislature,
Mr. Chas. H. Filson, then Secretary of
the School Land Board, prepared a bill
providing in detail for the control and
leasing of school lands which, ;f I rec-
ollect rightly, contained some pro-
visions designed for the aid and relief
of lessees in the Kickapoo country, and
other counties having large and con* I
tiguous bodies of indemnity lands.
This bill was revised and perfected
by Mr. Filson and the committees on
public lands of the House and the Coun-
cil acting jointly, but when the bill was
considered in committee of the whole,
both in the Council and the House ti e
desire of the average member to ' 'goose
bite," it prevailed over the recommen-
dations of committees and it was rid-. ®
died fuller of holes than a harmonicon |
and hacked out of all resemblance to j of all the things in the hous ■ furnishing
the original bill, which had been so goods line you would like to buy if you
school lands, and how these conditions
were brought about. The school lands
of Oklahoma are the Territory's most
valuable heritage, and the leasing of
these lands, collecting the rentals and
distributing the proceeds to the schools
and school districts is the most im-
portant department of the Territorial
business. These lands were reserved
from homestead entry and settlement
by several acts of Congress with the
expressly avowed object of donating
them to the state for educat.onal pur-
poses whenever we shall become a
state. Also by act of Congress, a
board for leasing school lands was cre-
ated, composed of the Governor, Sec-
retary of the Territory, and Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, and this
board as constituted by Congress con-
tinues to control and administer all the
business of the school land department.
These several acts of Congress per-
mitted the Territory to select indemnity
lands from the public domain in Okla-
homr in lieu of any sections reserved
for donation tbat might for any cause
be lost to the Territory, and in pursu-
ance of this authority large bodies of
ndemnity lands were selected by an
agent ©f the Democratic administra"
tion of Governor Renfrow and approved
by President Cleveland.
Over in the Kickapoo country the
settlers were peculiarly unfortunate in
the time and manner of indemnity land
selections. You h ve suffered and are
till enduring to some extent the harsh
conditions brought about by the man
ler in which these selections were
made.
During the four years that I was
Jovernor of the Territory no question
ave me greater concern than the con-
ditions prevailing here, and it was my
onstant desire and effort to do every-
thing that could be rightfully and
justly done to ameliorate and modify
those conditions that worked so much
hardship on the people.
And 1 feel sure that a Republican
State administration will find some ade-
quate measure of relief during the first
session of the State legislature. For
myself, I shall always favor the im-
mediate sale of lands held in such large
bodies, giving preference right of pur-
chase at fair rates to the occupying
essee whatever may be the general
policy adopted as to the ultimate dis
H>sal of all the pubhc lands. In the
first place, it was unwise, I had almost
said idiotic, to permit so large a segre
gation of these lands in a contiguous
body. It was unfair and unjust to you Land Commitees, in explanation of the
people who had gathered around the j veto of this bill:
borders of this country with the intt n- j LETTER FROM MR. FAHS.
tion of making homestead settlements! Oklahoma, Okla., Mar. 11, 1899.
therein to segregate and reserve these ! pear Sii':—
lands by executive order on the day j j have watched the progress of the
before the one which had been already [ Schooi Land Bill through the fifth legis-
fixed by proclamation of the President, lative a83embly with a deep interest,
upon which you might enter upon and and j cannot tell you how disappointed
occupy them as homesteads. But that j am with the re8U|ta. The bill as
was exactly what was done. The Dem- flnai|v passed is the result of a series of
ocratic administration of President compromises between the House and
Cleveland after droclaiming these lands the (^unc^ and finally resulted in both
would be opened to settlement on a | houses taking what they could get.
certain day and after it was too late to I It entjrely changed the present sys-
give you any notice of a change of jem wjth which the people have become
policy, permitted the agent of the acquainted, and it was the hope of the
Cause of Lockjaw.
Lockjaw, or tetanus, is caused bya
J W. MoNEAL, President-
A. L. COCKRUM, Vice President-
WM. M. STILES Cashier.
National Bank of Commerce
CAPITAL, $100,000.00.
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA.
DIRECTORS
A. L. COCKWUM, C. I'. COOPT3K, II.
WM.S. STILES.
G. FAROUHARSON
J. \V. M'NEAL.
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W M BRONSON L C BRONSON
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in Oklahoma.
Fire ati'l Tornado In: uranre. Onlv comnlete and
Abstract Books in Logan county
in compiling Abstracts of litlc.
rates on farm and city oroocrtv.
correct
Twenty rears' experience
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carefully and intelligently prepared.
When I read the bill as it finally passed,
could spare the money,
your heart it won't cost
I felt at once that it was a dangerous you think if you let us supply the at ti
one and detrimental to the best inter- cles. Our assortment of
ests of both the Territory and to those TINWARE
who were leasing the school lands.
(The only CERTAIN,
j SAFE, SUREct POSI-
i . * / t,\ / i i i J T!VE CURE for all
"by, hi. ;s ] weakness caused by
n ally what : the err >rsof youth.
A Sr XtJAL IN VIGOR A TOR.
Cures Lo&ses, Premature Discharges,
is the most complete in the city, and
there is nothing in these lines you can-
not find in your store. And please re-
member that though our prices are IinY
very low, our goods are the kind that ] Mo.
last a long while and give satisfaction.
We don't keep trash at any price.
I received many letters from private
citizens and lessees and from the Sec-
retary of the Cattle Men's Association
and the President of the School Land
Lessees Association, which confirmed
me in that opinion, and I determined it
to be my duty to veto the bill, which I
did with great regret and reluctance.
My disappointment at the failure of
the legislature to pass a good bill on
this subject after so much experience
and careful preparation was very
great.
In order to more fully explain to you
why this bill was vetoed, let me read to ^ & Raty a]bum C()ntaining vieW8
you the letter which I received from of all the principal buildings, repro-
Mr. Fahs, then President of the Les- dueed in colors. Leaves loosely bou id,
sees Association, and my message ad-1 suitable for framing. Send 25 cents
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Democratic Territorial Administration
of Governor Renfrow to select them as
idemnity lands, and issued an executive
order withholding them from home-
stead settlement, and it was not until
long afterwards, too late to seek a
homestead elsewhere, you found your-
selves occupying reserved school lands.
I say that such action upon the part
of the government was hasty, ill-con-
sidered, unwise and unjust and the re-
sponsibility for the resulting hardships
which you have since endured belongs
to a Territorial and National Demo-
cratic administration. I believe you
will agree with me that such unfair
and unjust treatment of its citizens
proves the utter incompetency of Demo-
cratic administration of public affairs
and the incompetency of Democrats to
deal with important public questions.
When I succeeded Governor Renfrow
lessees that about the present system
would be crystalized into a law. It
puts the management in a board of
trustees at a very great increased cost,
and instead of giving that piotection
which the lessees had a right to expect,
it makes some provisions that would, if
strictly enforced, deprive or confiscate
the property of some unfortunate les
see by compelling him to remove all
his improvements and property that he
had placed upon the tract of land or his
growing crop planted thereon within
thirty days from the expiration or can-
cellation of his lease.
The bill is so full of inconsistencies
and doubtful provisions that it should
not become a law, and I earnestly rec
ommend and request your excellency to
withhold your official signature and not
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