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Oklahoma larmer and Laborer
(INCOKruKATKU
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. f leld, Business Manager
Published Weekly at Guthne, Oklahoma, 208 W. Harrison Avenue
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The Oklahoma Farmer and Laborer as its
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ted organizations that they give considera-
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said tabor paper.
GUTHRIE CLERKS SHOULD ORGANIZE.
TP HE clerks of Guthrie .should organize, and
become a factor in trade unionism. The
stores of this city are open during the week
until 9:00 ajid 9:30 p. m., and grocery stores
and butcher^ shops on Sunday morning until
9.00 o'clock a. m. This is a wrong idea and
the olerks are to blame for such a state of af-
fairs. In other cities throughout Oklahoma
the clerks are thoroughly organized and are
very strict in enforcing the opening and clos-
ing hour.
We lived in Shawnee for thirteen years, and
there the clerks have a strong union, and after
the people became accustomed to the stores
closing at 6 p. m., they now don't tlunk of
such a thing as looking for an open store,' but
they do their trading during the day. On Sat-
urday and payday nights the stores are open
until 10 and 11 p. m. This gives the clerks and
proprietors a much needed recreation which can
be spent at home witk your family or the
park.
A merchant who keeps open during the even-
ings doesn't gain anything, even if he sells a
few pennies wo*th of goods, he is looser in the
l ng run. if he counts his light? and other ex-
penses worth anything.
The clerks of this city should organize by all
means, it makes better men and women, better
wages and working conditions.
THE governor of Ohio has called out the
state militia to suppress the street car strikers
at Columbus. The conductors ar,d motermen
on these lines work from 12 to 15 hours a day
for a mane pittance, and when they strike for
their rights the state militia is called out to shoot
t-hem down for asking for shorter hours and liv-
ir < wages. That is where fche corporations get
in their work and they are upheld in their greed
by the party that has dominated for yenrsi The
wag -earner is compelled to work to furnish au-
tomobiles and trips to Europe and the seashore,
while the poor wage'-tarner toils to c joumulate
latge dividends for the' corporations, and if
they rebel the^ arc shot down by the hired as-
sassins of our government who protect the em-
ployer in his means to accumulate his ill gotten
gains. l-*abor has rights as well as capital, and
it is about tima our national government was
looking toward bettering the welfare of the
wage-earner, and not catering so much toward
trusts and corporations.
I 111. State Capital seems to have a very bad
case of the sour stomach. It wants to give the
democratic party advice on how to make a rec-
ord. but«doesn't state where to make the im-
provement. It begins to look as though the re-
publican party in Oklahoma needed a little
house-cleaning, ahd it would be a very wise
idea for the above religious sheet to begin at
home and knock the cobwebs from the eyelid*
of the g.;.o. p. that has had full sway in Okla-
homa lor the past twenfy yeaj-s. Well, if the
State Capital was one of the INS it would be
more cheerful and the world wouldn't look so
dark, but cheer up old b >y and don't be hog-
gish give your neighbor a show at the public
teat, where you havie sucked for lo! these many
years.
TAKING advantage of the "brothei ly love"
program of that party, a negro has announced
as a Socialist candidate for £oni*ress in the See
ond district. Now the Socialist orators who
Pir' . u !°u much lov(' fhr the welfare ®f the
blaak brother, ar.> expected to line up and show
they practice what they preach. Wapanucka
Where's Bro. Fat N igle?
getting in the limelight.
He ought to be
IT'S going to he a fall house cleaning. The
' ANTI-TRUST LAWS. .
By S. 0. Daws.
COURSE the anti-trust law, the Sherman
act can be enforced against Farmers' Union
people and against the Labor Unions, but all of
tlnese laws and agitation do not seem to inter-
fere with the great big money trust or corpora-
tions to prevent them fw m the continuing of
forming their combinations and truBt?. These
are going right ahead, combining and concen-
trating as if there were no law, or even a talk
of the regulation of trusts.
New York and Baltimore cotton mill owners
have formed an organization with a capital
stock of twenty million dollars. Oh, its just a
modest concern compared with seme other
trusts, tho' iarge enough it seems to control
twenty-two great factories that make staple
goods of thirty-six brands.
Of course this will affect n 8t only these cotton
goods, but will aJfeet the price of cotton. It iu
too early to state, except by reference, what
prices it will fix upon the raw cottoo. Of
courift their manufactured goods will be advan-
ced. and, perhaps, the wage-earner's -wages
will be reduced, and, also, the price of cotton.
Of course the* organizations to promote the
interest of the manufacturers looks well upon
papery with their high-sounding words to be
operated in the interest of economy, but the ob-
ject to be accomplished is the decrease of the
cost of production, they say, by effecting great-
er economy in the handling and selling, as well
as the buying of commodities, which we under-
stand to mean, to buy the farmer' cotton and
other products cheaper, but the consumer has
not so far found any profit through any combi-
nation of manufacturers, neither the farm-
ers who produce the- raw material, in fact, they
always give it to them in the neck. But these
savings have been paid to the trusts and divi-
dends divided with the trusts; no part of itgoes
to any class of the industrial workers.
O, there can be no question but what the
twenty-two cotton mHls with twenty million
dollars operating as one concern, can produce
cotton oloth for a less amount per yard than
could any one of the mills; they can combine to
reduce the wage-earner and the wages of the
nun who nn.tduces the raw material. But lit-
any part of the industrial people whose labor
furnishes* the wealth and food that ie the life of
the nation and the vitalizing force of commerce
the backs that are bent that dig the ditch, lays
the railroad ties, hold the throttles of the en-
gines that move the commerce of the nation, or
thi minds and hands that constructs the beauti-
ful buildings in the cities,' that pushee the
plane and gives sabstantial strength to the
beauty and grandeur of all, its almost a crime
in the eyes otf the puWic mind, fof these to or-
ganize to demand their just portion of the* in-
trinsic value wnioh thsy produce.
Isn't ic strange that every class, kind and
color of a politician and his party are patting
and praising and lauding the patriotism and
industry of the industrial people of America,
and, yet at the same' time by their laws and
acts continuously infringe upon the rights and
prerogatives of Phe workers, at the same time
leaving them disrupted, disorganized, without
any means of redress from these combinations
and trusts which continue to rob them of their
earnings. "No effort whate\ er has hem made
to keep these combinations a secret." Their-
acts are known to the public, being published
in the newspapers and the promoters of this
trust have gone about their work just as though
we had never had an anti-trust law on the
statutes.
. THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.
Mr. Owen presented the following
Memorial of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association demand-
ing the recognition by Congress of the
right to vote for the women of the
United States.
To the Senate and House of Represent-
atives in Congress assembled:
Your memorialists, represent-
ing the women of the United
States desiring the right of suf-
frage and now being represented
in national convention, repre<-
senting nearly every State in
the Union, respectfnlly demand
the recognition by Congress of
the right to vote for those
women of the United States who
possess equal qualifications with
men in the matter of intelligence
on other conditions imposed by
the several States upon the ex-
ercise of suffrage.
We ask legislation which will
provide that no citizen of the
United States Jt>e denied or
abridged the right of votte by
the United States or by any ;late
•n account of sex.
We ask that an amendment be
submitted to the fifteentbartide
of the Constitution of the United
States, so that it shall read as
follows, to wit:
Article XV.
Section 1. The right of citizens of
the United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United States
or by any State on account of race,
color, sex, or previous con Jition of serv-
itude.
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Address
GUTHRIE, OKLA.
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LEFT AT HOME.
L> 1RD McGUIRE has made his threat to cut
the number of representatives in the row
apportionment. Now Bird may look for a big
cut in his vote in this district. He will have a
good chance to remain at homa after his pres-
ent term expires. In other words, Bird Mc-
Guire will be defeated at the polls this fall bv
Judge McNeil.—Enid Wave.
Bird has tackled a pretty stiff proposition for
this fall. The "grandfather clause" and Judge
McNeil will surely put the "fixins" to him.
When you see a candidate beginning to get hos-
tile it is a sure sign that they see the "hand-
writing on the wall."
THE Labor Unit has this to say in regard to
open shop talk in Oklahoma City:
"Already the talk is current that a move-
ment is on foot, under oover. to make Oklaho-
ma City "an open shop" town, and there is
a probability that a whole lot of merchants and
other business men might be jerked into such a
fight, who are sincere yet entirely mnoceut
Leaving aside all question of justice and wheth-
er it is the merchant's business to trouble about
the open shop." still, merely, as a business
hunch, it might be well to remember that shoes
and groceries and patient medicines and cloth-
ing are used chiefly by msnwho earn a living,
aod as these humble chaps are about ninety-
nine hundreths in the majority over the fellows
who exploit workers, artl make profits by pav-
ing less ti an a man should get, it. might be pos-
sibie that a declaration fc>r the
The reasons for our request
are as follows:
(1) The women of the United
States are citizens of the United
States, entitled by nature to an 11
equal right, to enjoy the oppor- ♦
tunit'ies of life. j ♦
(2) They perform half the ♦
work of the United States. ' ♦
(3) Bhey bear all of the child- ♦
ren of the United States. ♦
(4) They educate these child-1 ♦
rei>.
(5) They inculcate in these
children lessons of morality, of
religion, of industry, of civic
righteousress, and of civic duty.
(6) They deserve to be honored
by the children of theceuntryas
entitled to equal dignity and
honar posessed by men.
(7) They pay half of the taxes
of the United States.
(8) They possess half of ti e
property of the United State*
or at least they are entitled to
possess half of the property of
the United States by virtue of
labor performed and duty done.
Their property and their right
to liberty and to life are subject
to law. The law controls the
property rights of women and
therigntsof women to life, lib-
erty, and the persuit of happi-
ness. and, therefore, we demand
the right to a vorice in the election
of Representatives Do write these
statutes and to execute them.
We notify you that the injus-
tice of the past, denying us these
obvious ri«hts will no longer be
{jatiently endured. You can not
,111 the presence of God and with
a clean consience, deny the va-
lidity of the reasons we preset t
justifying our demand.
Answer these arguments.
Answer these sonwid reasons
with a good conscience, and you
are compelled to yield to the
righteous demand of the women
of America. You well know, as
students of statecraft, that the
ballot is the right) protective of
every other right, and, knowing
this, how will you deny women
equal opportunity to earn equal
wages for equal labor?
Will you suggest that good
women will not vote and women
will vote? Tnis most untrue and
unkind suggestion has been em-
phatically and finaly answered
by history, which demonstrates
thati the same percentage of
women vote as men, and that
vote of undesireable w«men is
an utterly negligible quantity.
That women are not to be re-
garded as bringing to suffrage
a preponderance of evil, but
that their vote has brought to
use of the state an important in-
fluence in the interest and well-
THE NEW YORK HARDWARESTORE
t>
wholesale and retail dealers in
Hardware, Stoves, Tinware, Cut-
lery, Pumps, Guns, Etc.
Gas Fitting and Tinwork a Specialty
We handle the Famous Garland Gas Ranges and
Heaters.
Phone 22. 218 Oklahoma Avenue.
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ITE purity of medicine isn't everything
—there iiiuM be strength, too. The
T
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we sell—every drug, chemical and
pharmaceutical—must he standard
by reliable tests for purity fresh-
ness and strength. Then they are
compounded according to the phar-
niacul 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 Drag Store,
Phone 25<l. lot e. Oklahoma Avenue.
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J. D. BURKE,
IDE ONLY CASH GROCER
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t IN GUTHRIE.
I No Phone.
20 P[R CENT 81 Willis *11# IIS. :
Opposite Post Office, ;
BANK OF INDIAN TERRITORY
Guthrie, Oklahoma.
State Bank. Capital, $50,000.00
PERSONAL INTEGRITY of its officers and EFFICIENCY
cky 'aws ^0Vern'n8 its transactions are the best evidence
of SECURITY that any bank can offer its patroni. Upon
this basis, we invite comparison and solicit your business.
Deposits guaranteed by the Depositors Guaranty fund
of Oklahoma.
OFFICERS:
U C. GUSS, President ROUT. SOHLBERG, Vice President
C. R HAVIGHORST, Cashier E. 0. BUENTIN, Asst. CashUr
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