Oklahoma Farmer and Laborer
(INCORPORATKD
MOTTO "Organization is the Spirit of the Age."
OFFICERS:—W. T. FIELD, President; FLOYD A.
CALVERT, Secretary.
Published by the Oklahoma Farmer and Laborer Company,
 Guthrie, Oklahoma,
W. T. Held, Business Manager
Published Weekly at Guthrie, Oklahoma, 108 ETHarrison Avenue
hi 1 avftecond-clasaButter,OctoberS, 1909,8*. font office at
Guthrie, Oklahoma, under the Act of March v ■'9."
MONEY THEN AND NUM.
One Year
• Six Months
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
$1.00
50c
HOSE WHO 00 THE DAY'S WORK.
From the Wichita Eagle.
[1 F there are corrupt men inotfice; if there are dishonest'
u men in business; if there are thousands of inefficients
blocking others' progress, anil thousands more who shift
their burdens and shirk their duties, there are yet, thank
God, still other thousands who are never wanting when
they are weighed, whft, in high places and in low, are
courageously doing the day's work faithfully, patiently,
and with a bravery never excelled by mortal man in any
emergency, says the Chicago Tribune.
On ships at sea, in engine cabs, on top of freight
trains, in interlocking switch towers, at telegraph keys
in a thousand places where Hunger or duty calls, stand
faithfully men who hold the lives of thousands in their
hands, in a myriad other places, less of trust than of .
danger, men are performing duties irlR.le necessary by
our complex life, commonplace duties, some of them, but
involving oft-tirnes danger to the lives of those who do
them.gJThe switchman tugging at his stubborn lever
fio/en with now, the telegraph linemen forty miles from
a MV and ten from the rail head, huntingfnr "tm i\le'
in a mountain canon where the twenty foot p>>les w ith
tlicir wiics are buried in fhe drift, the R. F. 1). man dig*
ging his rig and shivering horse out of snowbank* in
bleak*fii'iuntain country, the "copper" on the beat the
.jeered at "copper ' who, like as not, may be found stark
in thi now by m iming with u thug's bullet through his
J.eart; the lireman whoyi we see sitting in a chair cocked
back against the wall in the engine house today, tomor-
row may be a battered, charred, unrecognizable remnant
of humanity these and a hundred other- i<Vc performing
duties for u which we accept too much as a matter of
fact. "Well, that's what they're paid for,"
THE Central Co-Operative Union of Guthrie held a
meeting Tuesday night, but laid the election of new ofli-
cers over until next Tuesday night, at which time a good
Advertising Rates on Application
OUR ENDORSEMENT
Resolved, That the Guthrie and Logan County
Co-Operative Union does hereby endorse
The Oklahoma Farmer and Laborer as its
official organ, and recommends to all affila-
ted organizations that they give considera-
tion to advertisers that use the columns of
said labor paper.
THE MILWAUKEE PLAN.
From the Los Angeles Citizen.
\\J ICTOR BEKtiKR, Socialist Congressman-elect from
Milwaukee, tells how the Garment Workers won
their strike in the city presided over by the Socialist
Mayor Emil Seidel and a Socialist council. Mr. Berger
was a member of the strike committee which settled to
the satisfaction of both sides. He says:
"When the garment workers in Milwaukee walked
out, the strike-bound firms, as usual, went to the chief
of police for sluggers and provocateurs.
"The employers must do two things in a strike:
"They must get the public sentiment in their favor;
they must create discord among the strikers.
"If the employers can create riots and charge it to
the strikers they get the public sentiment turned their
way.
"The best rioters are the police, especially when
their jobs depend on obedience to the bosses.
"The old tactics were about to be pursued and the
Milwaukee chief of police who was appointed under the
former administration was. willing to lend his aid to the
employers.
"Emil Seidel, the Socialist mayor, at once addressed
a communication to the chief of police, instructing him
to keep hands olf and not harrass the strikers.
"In other words, the chief was told to preserve order
but not to create disorder.
"Without the Socialist administration no one can
tell how long the struggle would have been kept up.
"In Chicago the police protect the firms and club the
strikers. Here in Milwaukee the police protect the strik-
ers ami also the employers, if necessary.
We don t allow the police to take sides. We only
let the fight be carried on bet ween the bosses and the
workers.
"When the administration does not give any assist-
ance to the bosses they lose. The workers win an easy
victory.
"There won't be much trouble in Milwaukee in the
future. TS • masters know that if labor is not given as
reasiM • . , atment as is possible under Capitalism,
factories, shops and nulls will be put up by the city,
owned by the people and operated in the interests of the
workers."
The Milwaukee plan is the human plan. It is the
plan comprehended by high American ideals.
This plan puts the interests of humanity before the
interests of Capitalism. It puts manhood above money.
In Chicago—and Los Angeles—everything is arrayed
against the strikers.
Property is put first. In fact, it alone is considered.
No thought is given by municipal authorities to the
unfair treatment to which employers are subjected by
selfish employers.
Overwork, underpay, heartaches, domestic needs,
hunger, poverty and the kind are not computed to the
advantage of the strikers.
Property should be protected. It is in Milwaukee.
But not at the expense of aspiring, persecuted people.
From Collier's Weekly.
D\J AERATING history, the modern critic nearly always
^ fakes the economic view, emphasizing it partly be-
cause of its importance, partly to redress a balance,
since formerly it passed almost unnoticed. William
Stearns Davis, Professor of Ancient History in the Uni-
versity of Minnesota, in his new book, "The Influence of
Wealth in Imperial Rome," describes Roman conditions
in terms of our own. The ancient slum is compared with
the slum of Chicago or New York. Money in politics
under Caesar is compared with the mon.ey pull as we see
it now. What a dress cost a patrician woman is given
alongside what an American lady plutocrat pays in 1'aris.
Why childlessness became fashionable centuries ago in
the capital of the world is discussed in connection with
the same condition in our New England towns. Juvenal,
probably with the exaggeration of a satirist, tells us that
in courts of law a man's testimony bore weight in exact
proportion to his wealth. It is a fact that by the third
century A. D., when the Empire was well along on its
downward path, the first question of the judge was: "To
what class do you belong?" The punishment for crime
differed according to the class, not only actually, as now,
but as an acknowledged principle. From such respect
for wealth to the day when Didius Julianus bought the
office of emperor at auction, is only a logical progress.
If eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, one of the
things required most constant and determined watchful-
ness is the tendency of money, in a rich commercial age,
to monopolize prestige and power.
THE FACTOR OP THE WEST.
MILWAUKEE TO HAVE HOME RULE.
rW"| OME rule, as nearly complete as possible,
waukee under the city's Socialist admii
for Mil-
city's Socialist administration,
with provision for the establishment of a list of munici-
pal undertakings without parallel in the history of any
American community is being undertaken there.
Under instructions by the city council, the corpor-
ation attorney is drawing up bills to be submitted to the
legislature by which Milwaukee after a referendum of
its citizens will own outright all its civic utilities, and
which will provide for the establishment of many novel
adjuncts to the local government.
Among these will be municipal slaughter houses, four
municipal hospitals, one maternity home, free medical
clinics, free lodging houses for the poor, the employing
of city plumbers to do private plumbing and sewer work
and the appointment of a municipal forester.
CHEAP labor is not conducive to good business
methods.
THE county officials will now occupy the handsomest
court house in Oklahoma.
BE sure you are right, and then go ahead, is an old
adage, but a mighty good one.
A SUCCESSFUL business man is one who under-
takes nothing but what he can accomplish.
GUTHRIE should now begin to put her best foot
foremost, and line up some good business propositions for
the vear 11)11.
THE world is moving onward, and so should you.
Don't fret and worry about the past, but let the other
fellow do that.
NOW is the time to get down to business. Let the
world know that you are alive. Drones never get past
their own threshold.
KEEP the public informed of what you are selling,
and you will not be compelled to call in the sheriff to ad-
vertise your business.
SOMK men have the idea that «they are the
show, but when they do strike the bottom—they
good, hard shaking up.
whole
get a
A LABORER that is worthy of his hire, can accom-
plish as much work, and of a better quality, in 8 hours,
than a man who works It) hours a day.
THE present cold snap in Oklahoma, is something
"rattier unusual at the beginning of the New Year, Imtrii
seems to be pretty general throughout the country.
SHAWNEE is giving Oklahoma City the gufaw on
the capital location, since they succeeded in landing a big
cotton mill. The dinner pail beats all cheap politicians
for making a city, She tells Oklahoma City to take the
capital and go to hade*—that the price she paid for it, is
not worth the yell!
IN THE
NIGHT
From the Kansae City Star.
IT) RESIDENTIAL speculation that does not take into
account the West as the deciding factor is not
sound. If the next President is a Republican he will have
to get practically the solid vote of the West to win. If
he is a Democrat he will need the West to supplement the
vote of the South and possibly one or two Eastern states.
A Republican who could carry the West could also
win in the regular Republican states in the East, but it is
quite conceivable that a Republican might carry practi-
cally the solid East and lose nearly the solid West.
A Democrat who could win a number of Western
states would have the best chance to win in the doubtful
Eastern states.
Therefore, the deciding factor in the next Presiden-
tial election will be the West, more particularly those
states in which the progressive spirit is strong.
Important changes may take place in the prestige of
the respective Presidential possibilities between now and
the nominating year, and possibilities not now considered
may become conspicuous. It is too early to make fore-
casts as to men.
But the progressive movement will continue to grow;
its changes will be for the better; it will be stronger and
more general in 11)12 than it is now, and the next Presi-
dent will be a progressive, be he Democrat or Republican
or the leader of a new party.
And the section in which this qualification will be in-
sistent to the deciding point is the West.
Shawberk was Just dreaming that
he was sinking into a sea of feathers
wlien he heard his wife's voice. "Her
tones seemed distant and smothered
ami unreal, but the words were plain
enough.
"Charles! Charles!" she said.
"You'll have to get up and wheel the
baby!"
The baby belonging to the Shawberk
family had a cold and for three days
and nights had been, to put It mildly,
restless. Shawberk and his wife had
been so long without sleep that the lit-
tle respite they had Just been enjoying
seemed heavenly. At the fatal sum-
mons Shawberk, like a craven, felgni d
that he had not comprehended.
"What did you say, Mamie?" he
asked, drowsily.
"The baby," repeated his wife. "He's
awake—wheel him!"
The Shawberks kept the baby car
rlage In their large bedroom and It
was commonly utilized as a crib by
their son and heir, who was extremely
young Since his cold the baby had
sfept whenever he condescended to
close his eyes, which was rarely.
There was no help for It. Shawberk
pried his eyes open by main force, put
out one foot Into the night chill, shiv-
ered, shook himself and arose.
He stumbled against the carriage
and a little feeling of Irritation at his
wife Immediately surged through him.
She had been very careful to put the
carriage where It shouldn't escape
him. Then she crept under the warm
covers and left him to face the music!
Wasn't he every bit as tired and sleepy
as she was?
Then Shawberk had the grace to be
a little ashamed of himself as he be-
gan his tramp baclt and forth across
the floor. Long prnnlse had made him
perfect in the dark and lie avoided the
furniture skilfully. He was wlda
awake now and enduring his martyr
dom like a man. His wife already was
wrapped In heavy slumber.
Of course there was no reason why
she should keep awake, but Shawberk
somehow felt bitlerly that he had
been abandoned to a hard fate.
There was some satisfaction in see,
Ing that his ministrations had had
an Immediate effect, for quiet was
reigning inside the baby carriage.
Poor little duffer! The baby cer-
tainly had had a hard time of it. Shaw-
berk pushed the carriage more vigor
ously as he recalled the baby's general
! unhapplness of the past week. If he
was getting any .comfort out of being
pulled back and forth across the floor
Shawberk was very glad of It.
His heart swelled a bit with the
pleasant realization that he was
able to do something for his child.
There usually was so little a father
could do and sometimes he had even
bfen a little Jealous of the baby's
preference for his mother.
Shawberk suddenly realized that he
was cold and miserable. He stopped
wheeling the carriage long enough to
search for his heavy bathrobe. Hear
lng a slight rustle, however, he has
tened back to the carriage. Now that
the baby was asleep he felt that It
would be a shame to let all his work
go to waste by permitting him to wake
up.
Whenever Shawberk tentatively
slowed down bis ears would catch a
suggestive stir and rustle. Then, be-
fore the protesting cry which he ex-
pected had a chance to ring out, he
hastily began wheeling again Still
his wife slept quietly.
In spite of himself Shawberk felt
cross and Indignant. It seemed to
him as he stumbled on that she at
least ought to want to share his weary
vigil. Some women, he thought, would
even get out of bed and let their hus-
bands rest.
ShawberK yawned till his Jaw
cracked and then In a moment of dls
traction he struck his toe against a
chair
"O-o-o-ooch!" he moaned, dancing
about.
When the pain wap somewhat al-
layed he realized that the baby car
riage had stood still three or four
minutes with no protests from the
baby.
Shawberk wondered If he dared stop
and get some sleep himself. The top
of. his head seemed caving iii* his
veins ran Ice water and he ached all
over.
"Mamie!" he whispered hoarsely.
•Tan I stop now' tsn't he all right?
I've been wheeling him for hours'"
"What?" ask^d his wife, startled.
Then she awoke. "Why, Charles
Shawberk! What on earth do you
mean? WJiat have you hern doing all
this time'' The bnbv's sound asleep In
bed Here by mo—von did not put him
In his carriage at all!"
"Me put him In the carriage!" ex
claimed Shawberk. "Why, I thought
you had done that when you called
me!"
"Well, I didn't," said his wife "He
must have gone to sleep again of his
own accord Wtiere are you going""
"Me?" said Shawberk In tones of
repressed emotion. "Oh, I'm Ju9t
lng out to kick myself around the
block!"
J. B. FAIRFIELD,
Transfer, Goal, Wood and Storage
Receivers and Distributors of Car Lots. Phone, No. 20
407-409 WEST HARRISO AVE. GUTHRIE, OKLA
J. H. RUCKS,
U/ye GROCER
PHONES —192 and 374. 114.116 North Division.
GUTHRIE, - OKLAHOMA
We have the largest and most complete stock of
(qroceri es)
IN GUTHRIE.
We solicit your trade. vVe are sole Agents for
SANBORNS COFFEES and TEAS.
An-up-to-date Meat Market in Con-
nection wilH Grocery Store.
THE NEW YORK HARDWARE STORE
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
Hardware, Stoves, Tinware, Cut-
lery, Pumps, Guns, Etc.
Gas Fitting and Tinwork a Specialty
We handle the I' a ill oil.s (Garland Oas Ranges and
Heaters.
Phone 22. 218 Oklahoma Avenue.
T
Phone 354.
IIE purity of medicine isn't everything
—there must be strength, too. The
 M E D I C I N E S 
we sell—every drug, chemical and
pharmaceutical—must be standard
by reliable tests for purity fresh-
ness and strength. Then they are
compoundtd according to the phar-
maeal art, and come to you as med-
icines
THAT CURE
Bring all your prescriptions here for
the best results to patient and doc-
tor
(Name and address;
Owl Drug Store,
104 E. Oklahoma Avenue.
I. 0. BURKE,
TIE ONLY CASH GROCER
IN GUTHRIE. KOII SAVE 20 PER GENT BY TRADING WITH US.
No Phone. - - Opposite Post Office.
White.
Wa« Cured.
"What Ima happened to Mr.
who used to bo such a Joker?"
"Well, he proposed to his present
wife as a Joke. She accepted him and
he hns given up making Jokes «ver
■lnce."
BANK OF INDIAN TERRITORY
Guthrie, Oklahoma.
State Bank. Capital, $50,000.00
PERSONAL INTEGRITY of its officers and EFFICIENCY
of the laws governing its transactions are the best evidence
of SECURITY that any bank can offer its patrons. Upon
this basis, we invite comparison and solicit your business.
Deposits guaranteed by the Depositors Guaranty Fund
of Oklahoma.
OFFICERS:
U C GUSS, President. ROBT. SOHLBERG, Vice President
C. R HAVIGHOPST, Cashier F,. J, MURPHY, Asst. Cashier
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION No. 587, will hold its
regujar meeting next Sunday. Owin« to last Sunday be-
A Bad Bargain.
"Was anything sold at thai auctlonr
"Yes; I was."
Job Work A Specialty.
at the Farmer and Laborer Printing
0ffice==108 E. harrison Avenue.