The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 11, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 10, 1904 Page: 3 of 8
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I PLEASURES ANTICIPATED.
*>& •* S ^ - ♦ «■•■ -4U" - «!t
BY MAY BOLTON PECK.
The Mist * Teppard landing a'
their kitchen window watcajd the bo;
from Kice & Austin s, who had takei
TOO STVPRXDOOS TO COMCCTB-
u4 WuulU Aiu^uir.
to la Eighty Year* itiPw Cant.
Hew will tha world adjust Itself u
-e i at the American S ,lllou^_rc?
This is tha stupendous %4esUon« sug-
gested In the estimate by Henry Clewi
the natural growth of the ten, gr at-
►it fortunes In America in elgh:y yt.i.'3.
Mr. Clews' figures are based up^a a
the orders for groceries and left Uii casual statement recently made by ,-ohn
budget ol news, as ne stmtted slowly' * aUornf * ** late
1 Bradley Plant, at the Plant estate
down the elm shad:d walk. The en-| ^ ,£ dqw yalued 2Q mm;on dj(.
thuslastic welcome jrcordej hitu tha;
B.xty years and 320 million dollars it
morning by every .-.ousek, per in tha
Tillage had so flatte-. d his seil-esteem | ejgfcty*
that his habitual wu.stle was silenced, Mr c,ew3 eslimate8 thati valued t>
by a complacent smirk; he felt well re- day ^ 1E26 ml„ion dollMBi thegl. leu
paid for the effort he had made to gel fortunes> on tte basia ^ for the plam
an early start and a scoop on tho j e3late wyj jn eighty years reach tne
other news bulletin, the butcher s boy. i a3toUnding and wholly inconceivabl
"Do you suppose—" Miss Eunice be-1 Qggregate ot $36,402,896,000—and this
gan breathlessly. | ,l0[ jjy speculation or any superficial in-
But Miss Esther interrupted. It i j cleasa jn values, but by the gradual ac
the first time since we were little girl3 ( umulation of wealth by wealth at the
that a house of Ware village has been I 3pparentiy insignificant rate of 4 per
broken into. 1 wonder they chose the | cent a year
postoftice when there's a dozen placed Tliiv> means that these ten fortunes
in town where more money is kept, u> , rnt size It is the strike at which lhey
«ay nothing of silverware." , would in eighty years be worth 12,000
"And Deacon Rogers is married!" i. million dollars (12 billion dollars) more
"So it seems," said her sister. "Nc |ian all the goId and giiver ln the world
doubt he expects to live on fruit cake ^ means that they would be sufficient
and 'honey for the rest of hia days. The ttl |)UJ- up au tj)e f00(i in the United
deaoon Is pretty lond of his victuals, f,tates, at the present prices and rate cl
but he's wonderfully mistaken it he j production, for a period of forty years,
looks to have his appetite coaxed by It mPans that these ten estates would
Mrs. Norton. She's as good a cook ai: : wB jn eighty years enough of the
there is in the country and I don't deny j vaiues 0f the world to give every man
It, but she's close, terrible close, and th woman and child in existence J18—oi
deacon ought to know It as well as 1 do j twice as much as they would have to-
He may be thankful if she wastes flour | .jay were all the wealth in the worM
Northwestern Acad.my and Carrier
Items.
New students are still arriving.
Miss Eckes of Helena, and Mr George
Bradley of Lahoma, arrived la*t
week.
The basket-ball court tins just been
completed and the j;irle are begir-
aing practice for the tirst game.
The Athletic Association is now
under the management of the ne
president, Mr. Pierson Jones.
Misses Maud and Mabel Jones enter-
tained the students and teacher?
Hallow een. Games were indulged in
and refreshments were served. The)
report avery pleasant evening.
Dr Lane haster of Avard attended
the entertainment given Saturday
night.
'lhe N. \V. A. and Carrier base bal
teams crossed bats
WAGES AND THE COST OF LIVING.
President Roosevelt Deliberately Seeks
to Deceive the Public.
Of the many statements deliberately
made by Mr. Roosevelt, in his letter of
acceptance, which have aroused un-
favorable comment because of their in-
accuracy, none is destined to cause him
more trouble and «> result in greater
harm to his canvass than that in
which he alleges that wages have been
increased during the last few years
lu greater proportion than the cost
of living has Increased. This state-
ment has called forth a storm of pro-
test, not only from the press, but
among well-informed labor leaders and
political economists.
Nearly every independent journal
has taken Mr. Roosevelt to task. One
of these, the Philadelphia Public
Ledger, published in the metropolis of
last Thursday, ;he strongest protectionist State in the
and eggs in a panful of plain dough-
nuts once a fortnight. But there, if w«
aren't gossiping in the morning, break-
ing rules like a couple of school girls/
Which would you rather do, Eunice,
wash ip the breakfast dishes or sweep
the sitting room'.'"
"It isn't me that's doing the gossip-
ing," Miss Eunice retorted, a sharp edgs
on her usually mild voice. "I suppose,
though, we had better put off talkin;
over things till after dinner, but seem
to me with a wedding and a burglary
tn town the same day we might hava
dinner a little early."
She was ashamed of her lmpatlencs
and to punish herself she chose the dish,
washing aa a part of her forenoon i
stributed equally among them
With a world supply ot precious
metals falling 12 billion dollars short of
an ability to represent the toftunes of
'ten American estates, what changes in
finance and currency could be devised
to meet the unparalleled condition?
With a one year's food supply of th;
"reatest national granery on the earth
representing only one-fortieth of th-
purchasing power of these ten estates:
what new and now undreamed of plans
might be necessary to protect the food
ot the world from monopoly control?
These are some of the questions which
r.re raised for general consideration bj
tha astounding estimates which Vl
^Jenry Clews has made.
Union, devotes a column and a half of
Its space in refuting the President's
statement. Mr. Roosevelt, to quote
him precisely, says:
j "As conclusively shown by the bul-
letin of the Bureau of Labor, the pur-
chasing power of the average wage re-
1 ceived by the wage-worker has grown
faster than the cost of living."
The Philadelphia Ledger regrets that
attended the concert given by the ^ cannot confirm this statement. It
Neb. Wealeyan quartette in Enid, says:
"More reliable, because more disin-
terested, and more unprejudiced wit-
nesses than Mr. Roosevelt's Comniis-
Dormitories gave a reception for Bjoner 0f j^ahor, have time and again
Miss Bessie Cook last Thursday night declared it conspicuously inexact.
She will depart Jor Missouri thi- Among the disinterested witnesses are
yjggk both Bradstreet's and Dun's carefully
,,,,,, [compiled reports, and among the un-
John Nelson .enrolled Monday ipreludlced ones ar„ seVerai prominent
Seventy four isn't a bad ending fot !(abor leaders, who have testified to the
the second month. truth respecting the wage scale of the
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas of Point 'one part and the regular quotation of
Creek visited Mrs. Stewart at tj,e'lhe Prlces of the necessities of life of
dormitory. .Saturday.
scoring 13 to 8 in favor of Carrier.
Miss Benedict and Miss Orvis spent
a very pleasant evening at the honi'
of Dr. and Mrs. Lawson,Saturday. j
All report a good time spent at the
entertainment given by the N. W. A. |
Saturday evening, (Oct. 20.
Some of the teachers and student
Friday, Nov. 4.
The teachers and students of thi
wort. Mill Esther pulled a blue cam- j Henry Bradley Plant, late president
brie sweeping cap over the gray natr ! >f the Plant system ol railway and
smoothed into a hard little lump on the | cteamsmp lines, left an estate worth 30
top of her head, and with broom in hand j million dollars.
walked resolutely into the next room By the terms of a remarkable will Mr.
and closed the door behind her. | Plant placed his vast estate in tr«s-.ioi
Miss Eunice sorted the dishes heaped j a period of sixty to eighty years.
i the kitchen table into neat piles, and
made a foaming suds in the dish pan
She was to absorbed in thought thai
•when the sitting room door opened a
crack and her sister's voice broke Into
her reverie she gave a startled try an.
thumped two eups together with an
alarming clatter.
"It's lucky we bought those stampt
yesterday. Like as not it will be •
fortnight berorerthey get any more from
Washington. How many did thetbiev«l
get, did the boy say?"
-•About $5 worth."
"Let's see; that would be 250 J-cenl
stamps. What ln the world could any-
body want with such a sight of themT"
In the interest of her mathematics)
calculations Miss Esther pushed tli«
door wide open and stood on the thres-
hold. A breeze from the sitting room
windows brought into the kitchen a thin
mist of gray dust and carpet lint. Misi
Eunices eyes were bright with excite-
ment; she dropped the dish cloth ani
took a step toward her sister.
"They were after money, of course
and when they couldn't find any the)
The fortune remains in tact until a
son of bis infant grandson shall have
reached the age of 21 years.
In * suit now brought to set aside the
will Attorney Johi £.. Parsons recently
made the following startling statement:
"I haYe calculated that the Plant for-
tune in sixty years will hare increased
n value to 160 million dollars. In eighty
yeara it will be worth 320 million dol-
lars"
Mr. Parson's estimate is based upon
an uninterrupted increase of 4 per cent
per annum. Calculated at the same
steady rate of Increase, the ten greateat
American fortunes will, according to
Henry Clews, present the astounding
fotals of $16,266,201,000 at the end ol
sixty years and $26,-102,896,000 at thi
end of eighty years.
These figures represent a sum so stu-
pendous that tho human mind cannr>t
comprehend it. They mean, for exam-
ple, that eighty years from now the
world's supply of gold and silver will
fall 12 billion dollars short of enough to
measure tl.e wealth of these ten estates.
The world's supply of precious metal*
the other part. And the, precise testi-
mony given by these trustworthy wit
'nesses, is directly contrary to the Presi-
i dent's statement.
"The prices of domestic commodities
have had an average increase from the
lowest standard reached in 1896 of 37
per cent. No sensible and well-In-
formed man will seriously assert that
since 1896 the average wage rate has in-
Lawton O. T., Nov. 7.—For the sec- creased to that extent—more than one-
ond time in three months a railroad third. There is no workman in the
land who can testify to the accuracy
of this. The President's contention Is
that the alleged greater proportionate
KAILK0AD BRIDGE HIRNtD
Second in two Months tor Frisco Near
Manitou. 0. T.
bridge near Manitou, over a tributary
of Dead Man's creek, has been burn
ed, and there no longer remains an} increase of the average wage to the
doubt that both fires were incendiary, increased cost of living has been due
The Frisco railroad has refused t„ ,10 the beneficent protection afforded to
labor by the tariff. Here again the
give the town of Manitou a station
President's position is contested by
and it is thought the burning of the ial)or itself. It is true that the wages
building is the work of incensed citl- of artisans and their unskilled helpers
zens. The rival town of Sibony, two have been materially increased since
and one half miles away, is backed by
the railroad townsite company ami
the war between the two little towns
has waged bitterly.
took the stamps. I should watch thi increase at the uniform rate of 200
factory hands over at the mill an4 n' million dollars a >ear. AU ot the ao-
if some of them didn't try to buy thing*, cumulated store of 5,000 years, added to
at tho storea with stamps, if It was ml; tha product of eighty years to come,
was responsible for flnding tha burg -* "" * !~v~'
lars."
of di
Miss Bunlce glowed with pleasure, foi
she felt that a genuine detective storj
was to be enacted In her very presence
The gentle old lady was a romancer wht
converted the disasters and crimes re
corded in the wee«y paper :nto mrllllu*
melodrama®.
"There might be something ln thM
notion of yours," Miss Esther assented:
then as she became conscious o£ the fac
that they were talking again during th<
forbiddu hours. "Well, I never," sh
cried ewtritoly, "If It wasn't netkat be
gan this tlmal"
That there might be no waste elthei
of ime for work or time for amusement
it was the Misses Peppard's custom t(
busy themselves about the house ant
garden until dinner time, exchanging n<
words except those necessary in plan
nlng their worl:. In the afternoon thej I
■at down to the delights of needleworli ^ the s
and systematic goss p.
Throusftcut the whole forenoon, hour
lonc-'r to the Impstient ladles than a:
ordinary morning, they schemed to keet
as lar apart as possible within theli
parrow boundaries. Miss Esther sat l«
the kitchen and pared atplos for sail*
while Miss Eunice scrubbed ft" plalW
and the plank walk to the fro gate.
Itlu Eunice went upsta rs to o ke tni
bads, whlln her sister molded - >r?ad;
the coast might bt e'ear
Eunice to get dinner, Miss E
Into the woodshed and pli- '
smooth tier against th" wall
firewood that had bee > dumpi at tt
thed doot.
will not pay the toll of tho ten richest
men.
In eighty years more these combined
fortunes would amount to J18 per capita
for every man, woman and child ln ex-
istence. The per capita Is now $8.79.
If Adam had had ten sons and they
had set to work at |2 a day to earn this
gigantic sum, each would still have I,-
,95,000 years ot toil before him.
This sum would buy and store up the
«ntlre food crop of tha Unite! States for
forty years.
In gold it would wstgh 96,812,500
mounds.
GREEK COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
Will be Built at a Cost
$18,850.
1896, but while there have been slight
increases at various times of the wages
of the so-called protected workmen,
the aggregate differences have not kept
step with the increase of the cost of
living.
"At present the tendency all over
the country is to reduce the wageB of
those employed in protected industries.
At Fall River, Mass., 25,000 textile
Of About operators are out of work and de-
prived of wages because they would
not consent to a flat wage reduction
lot 12 per cent. In Chicago the Meat
Mangum Okla., Nov. 8.—The con- Trugt has cruShed to death one of the
tract for the construction of the new |m0st powerful labor organizations be-
♦20.UCO school building in Mangum ha> | cause it demanded a reasonable in-
been let. L.F. Lee of Oklahoma crease of wages for the under-paid
! laborers. The Steel, Iron and Tin
City secured the job and he was given ;Trus,g lnterests protected by the tariff,
twenty-flve day$ in which to get his 1}^,, |)een largely reducing their wage
bond and have it approved and be will schedules, as has also the Glass Trust,
then be given a reasonable time in I The artisans, mechanics and all sorts
... , , .... , . ■ of their unskilled helpers, to whom the
which to get the bu lding completed ...
* ' tariff does not even pretend to give
As he knows that the money is now tn | protection receive high wages, and
the bank waiting the completion of
the job he will probably push the
work as rapidly as possible when be
gets it started.
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Two Rock island Officials
Killed at Lone Wolf.
It Kills.
out trie O T. Nov. 7 — John M.
Hunt, bill pocter, 23 years old died
at his home in thi- city as the result
Mist
went
ntO I
Ida i
?mr.
not 1
the
<"one.
attack.
ki " poisoned whir key. The
was taken last Sunday and
• ■Hiiion '► that the bottle in
p rornved it contained a
„-m ti4v o* wood alcohol. It Is
Ht wb;-' saloon heobtalned
- 1 did not regain
pes? ?'ler the first serious
hi I iv
whti
o'.'ee Times; One of the many
"■a1" >' organ grindeis
<i->rn tne down-town corners,
en di nursinghU"innslc"
«■ I ut returns, started
'' n'lden inspiration
I'iore i <• >n. Before he was
•o-'thern all, uver
> into bis cigar
will continue to receive them so long
as their unions remain Intact. But
what single tariff-protected Industry
pays its workmen the same generous
reward for their labor that the un-
protected activities pay their em-
ployees for their labor."
It might be added that Commissioner
, Wright's remarkable statement and
tabulation upon which President
Roosevelt bases his remarks already
quoted, was discredited long before the
candidate's letter of acceptance was
made public, for Secretary Shaw in a
A deplorable accident occurred at 6tump speech delivered several weeks
Lone Wolf, on the Mangum branch'ago stated that the Commissioner of
of the Rock Island. Division Engi-' Labor has prepared a bomb which
ueer G. A. Richards and Road Mas
ter Johnson, both of whom live at I
Chickasha, were run down by a train,
while riding their railway tricycle,
aud Instantly killed. The engineer
of the train stated that he did not
see the men, and the first Intimation
he had of the accident was when he
felt the jar of the engine as It pa-s
over them. The bodies were badly
mutlated.
The election proves beyond a doubt
that Oklahoma is a Democratic com-
monwealth or almighty close to It.
Blrdl: Is beaten, now we will be ad
mltted to Statehood next winter.
The Republicans will never allow this
otate to be admitted under a
Democratic delegate in Congress.
would blow the Democratic party sky
high, or words to that effect. He said
ln so many words, that this "bomb1
was In the nature of a carefully pre-
pared article showing that the Dem
ocratlc contention that the cost ot
living had been increased out of pro
portion to the Increase ln wages was
untrue.
Commissioner Wright s "bomb" has
deceived no person of average intelli
gence. It bears on its face the im-
print of untruthfulness born of the
desperate necessities ot a losing cam-
paign.
GOBBLE
All You Gan
If- you are not satisfied with Jyour business,
Look a around you ; pick out the most prosperous
business houses and you will find them all to be
advertisers. Most of them started in a small way.
They took newspaper advertising space and
watched it carefully. They changed the copy
frequently and kept it bristling with store news.
You can turn the tide of prosperity your way by
advertising in The 'Wavr. It goes to the right
people at the right time to influence the buyers
for their next day's purchases.
An Orator
IRVANITiS FOB PARKED.
Genial, good-natured, able and brill-
iant Governor Hogg, of Texas, has
bean In New York for the past tour
or Are days. Gov. Hogg and Colonel
William J. Bryan are aa elose a*
brothers. With emphasis the Oovsr-
•eO|. *^ .fofr
Is not necessary to con-
vince thoughtful people of the value of good job
Work.
Our Job Room is the best equipped of any in
the county, and we are able to turn out better
work than most of the larger cities. Another
pointer : We have all the latest styles of type ; use •
the best quality of paper and can do work cheaper
than our competitors—quality of work considered.
Another consideration
We Print it Quick.
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Isenberg, J. L. The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 11, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 10, 1904, newspaper, November 10, 1904; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112412/m1/3/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.