Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1907 Page: 4 of 8
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Oklahoma State Register
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THURSDAY. MARCH 14 1907.
JOHN GOLOBIE. EDITOR.
Secret Corruption and
a Fight in the Open.
So lonp as the railroads get the bett-.r of the
American public by the "legitimate" arts of
•'business" morals, which are current, to the
effect that anything is fair that is not downright
criminal, the common American conscience con-
doned if it did not approve. It was in the nature
of what everyone else was supposed to be doing,
or willing to do. But the departure from their
secretive and seductive methods into open rt
taliation in Nebraska, because of the passage by
the legislature of a 2 cents rate, opens the flood
gates of public sentiment that the railroads will
not be able to stand.
The people of Nebraska have been notified
that because of the 2 cent rate, the railroads w.U
make no more half rate fares to preachers, no
more round trip tickets at reduced rates; the
county and state fairs, the soldiers reunions, Sun-
day school picnics and all must pay 2 cents.
This is all very well for the people, but it is bad
for the railroads. The one cent reduction the
year around is greater than the occasional half
rate fare. Hut this threat takes away the last
protecting sentiment from the railroads that was
wont to lull the public conscience to sleep. Fol-
lowing the absence of resolutions of the National
Press associations, commending the self-sacrific-
ing spirit of the railroads in the public service,
the voice of the Ministerial association will be
silent in invoking divine blessing upon " Govl s
servants" here below, and the voice of the Old
Soldier.'' Union and Confederate, will cease to
sing lauditory camp fire songs in their behalf,
and the County and State I"air farmer will for-
get to tell his representative in the state legisla-
ture not to be too hard on the railroads for they
are "pretty decent" after all.
But especially the preacher, oh, the preacher .
He has been, it anything, worse than the editor.
Has anyone ever heard him thunder anathemas
against the encroachment of the railroad octopus
upon the industrial welfare of the common peo*
pie, their gambling upon the food production of
toil. Not that the sinner kneeling in the pew
Xemembers. Hut wait, things will be different
hereafter. The old pulpits will not be able to
stand the pounding the moral upheaval will lay
upon them, at the " outrageous corruption of
Railroads and their menace to human happiness.
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Justice Brewer thinks the Cuban war could
have been avoided hy arbitration and also the
•' troublesome questions which are already bother-
ing the nation, so that no one can tell the out-
come of them." No; nor the outcome of any-
thing. It is the same old question of the man
who wonders if it was best that he was ever born.
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Valutas Vanitatum.
If Charles West had left himself out of the
question in the four column interview of grievan-
ces against Attorney General Cromwell s mis-
taken judgment in hireing him in certain terri-
torial cases, he might have left an impression
upon the public mind that some one else besides
himself was to be censured. But as it is, he con-
firms the impression that Attorney General
Cromwell allowed his friendship for his former
law partner to run away with liis judgment, and
that he was, after an association in small matters
only, wholly mistaken as to his fitness in matters
of large commercial consequences.
Leaving the merits of the work out of con-
sideration, West shows a blunt elipsis of the
ethics of the legal profession in his publicity of
what was supposed to be matters of professional
trust. Attorney General Cromwell knew he was
a democrat when he hired him, and probably did
it to give him a "little lift" into public favor.
But he little thought that after having used the
same privilege of dispensing with his services
that he used in securing them, West would con-
tinue to use the position in furthering his candi-
dacy for attorney general on the democratic
ticket.
It is, however, a further evidence of his lack
of judgment and discretion displayed in the
prosecution of the worlc in which Attorney Gen-
eral Cromwell hired him, that his methods will
have a tendency to destroy whatever chances he
had if he had any, of securing the nomination of
attorney general.
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It is noticed that Gov. Frantz had a pleasant
interview with the new secretary of the interior,
Mr. Garfield. That spells more than it looks.
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Anti-Bryan democrats are considering Jesse
Grant, youngest son of Ex President Grant, as
presidential timber. And he is trom Califoraia,
too, where timber is tall.
The Women in Politics.
That the constitutional convention refused ot
grant the women of Oklahoma the elective fran-
chise is largely a masculine prejudice based on a
difference without a distinction. That a woman
can be a wife and nelpmeet to her husband at
home and away from home is shown by the at-
tendance and devotion of Mrs. Haskell upon her
husband. That the making of laws is not such
an august matter nor destructive of femininity
is shown by the fact that the presence of Mrs.
Haskell day after day in that body is not only
welcome hut a pleasure. It is doubtful when the
convention has adjourned, if a more pleasureable
memory will be taken away by the members than j
that of this admirable woman's devotion to her |
able husband. That his leadership of that body has j
been largely assisted by the care of him by Mrs. j
Haskell has been the complimentary comment of J
every member. This assistance has been rendered I
not only by looking after his physical welfare, for in ,
his absorption in work he would have forgotten to |
eat or sleep had she not looked after him, but in j
her social qualities. No member, meeting her [
day after day, would hold any anger against her |
husband, engendered in the heat of debate, and j
none will ever know how much they have been
swayed in their policy by her presence and influ- j
ence.
Mrs. Haskell, for the time that her husband
is engaged in the legislative work of the people,
has virtually transferred her home to the hotel 1
where he lives and by her presence has sho:vn
that wherever the woman is there is the home.
Their comaraderie is something admirable.
Where the husband is there the wife is. Could
any woman be more in public if she had a vote :
As Mrs. John A Logan and many another
illustrious wife has helped her husband, Mrs.
Haskell has largely supplamented her husband's
power in the convention, and by her presence has
shown that where woman is there man is at his
best. Would masculine decency or masculine
dignity have been any more invaded had those
equally gracious women who visited the conven-
tion and asked for an equal citizenship with man
been given the privilege of being the compan
ions of their fathers, brothers, husbands, and—
their sweetheart—at the voting place as well as
at home, in the commercial marts and streets r
No. We are born in the same cradle, buried,
in the same grave, and should walk al! the paths
of life together.
fit
And now Mr. Harriman is good. It is noted
that after the trust and corporation magnates
have gone through a "sweating" process they
invariably think better of it and promise to
refo rm.
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Mrs. Eddy Worth $13,000,000?
The human is always mixed up with the
divine, or the divine with the human, which ever
way you may desire to put it. Here is the
Christian Science that declares material condi-
tions can be destroyed, rebuilt or ignored by the
immaterial "faith," and yet finds money, con-
demned by the Master who is the divine healer
of that faith, as the chief necessity of that cult.
Is Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy worth Si3.000,000?
Her confidents declare so, and her only son,
thiakijig the aged lady is feeble and in the
clutches of a clique, has asked for a receivership
of the property of the Christian Science leader.
This will drag the venerable lady before the
court to prove the soundness of her mind, unless
the matter is otherwise settled. Her son, George
Glover, is himself an old man past sixty, bewhis-
kered and ready for the grave.
Tnus the human conditions that hedge divin-
ity about are ever obtrusive. Even Mark I\vam,
that gentle, joy-giving humorist, has seen fit to
depact from his path of peace to write a book
declaring that Mrs. Eddy is not the writer of her
boolt on Christian Science and Health, but an-
other who died before publishing it.
It all shows that it won't do for anvfollo-vi r
of the lowly Nazararene to try to riv il the m > lern
trust magnates in wealth and at the same tini
set up separate Godship of their ow i. N > ro vi o.
woman can have more thin a snirt 01 hi-, >. h
back and attempt to be the vice g'rtut ti > '
upon earth—one of thos: d vin ■:>: 1. .1 11 n- 1
embodiments of the suffering, -hope a.ul t tith of
a struggling humanity out ot d ir':ness mJ li^ht.
Do they not remember that the soldiers c ist lo
for the one single girmiiit Christ h 1 I oil his
back.
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Some times a presidential thinker is 110 better
than the commonest topknot is to society. Pres-
ident Cleveland is for disfranchising bachelors.
He is too late. He should have been for such
before he was elected sheriff of Lrie county,
New York.
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There were thirteen votes against prohibition
in its final passage in the constitution. For
whom will that prove an unlucky number?
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On the basis of states rights, why not county
rights ? Greer county should investigate its
chances to cecede. A majority of the constitu-
tional convention agree to that interpretation,
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Real estate men say there is a scarcity of
residences in Guthrie. That is a good sign, but
it shouldn't hang out long.
| Do You Think Much S
We think lots of our.-. We believe in them and if you will read this ^
add you will be a believer THERE IS A REASON. Ask some of your •
neighbors v,ho have bought goods and are still buying. We have yet Q
unsold a lot of the J. J. Abell stock of Clothing. Bought from the j
Insurance Company at a reduction which puts us in a position to give JL
you better prices than any one else This is First-Class Herchandise ^
and in view of the great advance in prices of all lines of clothing you g*
will see it will be to your interest to come and see for yourself. Now Q
let us quote you some J
FIRESALESTOREJ
prices j
5.00 Hoys Suits $3.50
3.50 " " 2.50 O
2 50 " " 1.75 X
1.00 " Pants 75c
75 " " 50C Q
50" 35c. If
1.00 Hats 75c tk
B i\ s Shirts 35c
B iys Waists . 35c ®
I oys Union Suits 35c
Mens Work Sliirts J:0 cents. Q
•ns uits
$15 to 17 50
13 50 to ltt.50
" 12 50 to 15 < 0
10 t. 12 50
" 7 50 t i 0 00
" 3.50
' Pants 50 ' o 3 7 5
nderwear 1 00
" 75c
50c
" 35c
To Improve Military.
The military of the territory is
being placed on a higher plane
physically and the companies are
being examined accordingly to
the government requirement.
Within ashorf time the Oklahoma
militia will be equal to any in the
country in point of physical per-
fection. Hugh Scott, a member
of the governor's s'aff, was in
Chandler on Wednesday evening
and examined the sixty enlisted
men. This is being made neces-
sary by the government in the
regulations for the improvement
of the state militias by contact
with the regulars at the annual
field meets. Assistant Secretary
Oliver has notified govorner that
it has been found necessary to
omi'. for this year the contempla-
ted annual brigade and division
encampments for the instruction
infantry, cavalry and field artil-
lery of the regular army, as many
posts will be depleted by reason
of the absence of about 6,000
troops in Cuba, a considerable
number at the Jamestown exposi-
tion and the movement of a large
portion of the army to the Phil-
I lippines.
In lieu therefor camps of in-
struction for the coast artillery of
the army will be established dur-
ing the season ot 1907 and the
! national guard of the various
;ates continguous thereto will be
invited to take part in the devel-
opment of the problems involved
i 1 th<- defense of the seacoast.
Inflations will shortly be issued
to ihe governors of the seaboard
states interested, specifying in
detail the forccs desired to carry
'out the proposed problems. The
camps probably will be held in
I July and will last from one to ten
I days.
service after the foreman declar-
ed positively that it was impos-
ible to reach a verdict, and de-
manded that they be discharged
The prosecution declares that
Adams will be tried again for
murder of Tyler, but not sooner
than the next term of court which
begins in 0:tober. Attorneys for
the defense openly state their be-
lief that Adams will never be
trit d again on the Tyler charge.
They point to the expense to the
county of Shoshone, estimated to
reach #25,000 for this trial alone,
and say that the prosecution will,
in their opinion, ultimately an-
nounce that the case is dropped.
My Slioes are the best shoe value in
Oklahoma. Try a pair. Robinson's.
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Jury in Steven Adams
Case Unable to Agree.
The jury in the trial of Steven
Adams, Wallace, Idaho, for the
murder of Fred Tyler, announced
that it was impossible to agree on
a verdict, and was discharged by
Judge Woods.
The jury for many hours stood
seven for conviction and five for
acquittal, and it was only the last
ballot that the jurymen stood
evenly divided six for conviction
and three for acquittal.
Judge Woods thanked the jury
for its patience and diligence in
"The Scrap."
Here is an sensational episode
that took place in Mulhall, as
chronicled by the Enterprise. It
is absolutely proof against dama-
ges for libel.
"What has the Enterprise to say
of it? Very little. On the streets,
in places of business, in the
homes, and where men, women
and children have met by twos
and in groups, the affair has been
gone over in all its particulars of
detail. The Enterprise could
add but one more version to the
many now current. That there
was a melee is doubted only by
those who have not seen the ex-
hibit. That a catapult of fist
work was set in motion and a cat- i
aclasm became necessary is in |
evidence. If^out of such a re-
gretable affair, some lesson for
the future and general good can |
be learned. The Enterprise in j
the interest of the place and best !
j interest of the town and commu-
| niey feels called to say:
"That there was a provocation
I leading up to the mix.up, that
! this is not the first or second in-
I stance where men coming to Mul-
I hall to engage in their profession
have been in similar provocation,
that busy bodies, gossips, and
people having 110 business of
their own, have made it their busi-
ness to peddle back and forth
what they hear and can by spying
find out have added to the pro-
vocation, that needed only an
accosting on the street and addi-
tion of a vile epithet to start the
fire works. Suffice it to say
these parties might now live in
Mulhall for the remainder of
their lives and a similar povoca-
tion and accosting will not again
oc cur."
Excursions
SantaFe
Winter Tourist Tickets on
sale daily to Beaumont, Galves-
ton, Huston, etc. Very low rates.
Limit, June 1st.
Beginning March 1st, last-
ing until April 30th, the Santa
Fe will offer Colonist tickets to
Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc.,
for $25. Portland, Oregon, S29.
Special Kates to the City ot
Mexico, April 25th to May 18th;
June 8th to 15th, and June 20th
to July 12th. Good liberal limit-
Ft- Worth Texas account
meeting Texas cattle raisers asso-
ciation Ft. Worth March iSth-23rd
j the Santa Fe will offer tickets to
j Ft. Worth and return at rate of
jone fare plus $2,00 on sale March
| 16, 17, 19 and 21st final return
j limit March 26th.
M. N, Cockrell, Santa Fe.
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Golobie, John. Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1907, newspaper, March 14, 1907; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112539/m1/4/: accessed March 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.