Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 17, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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Thursday, December 17, 1908.
JOHN GOLOBIE, EDITOR.
BAD SPIRIT OF THE PRESS
The Oklahoma City Times had the follow-
ing self-gratulating preachment last week:
"Governor Haskell reproduced our signed
editorial of last Monday in his New State Trib-
une, and commented as follows, under the cap-
tion of 'The Spirit of the Press':
" 'There i3 no one element of our Oklahoma
citizenship which can do more to mold the poli-
cies of our state or the character of its people
than the newspapers of the state. They are
the medium through which the outside world
knows Oklahoma. They are also the guide to
progress and prosperity within our borders.
" 'The heat of a political campaign may of-
ten lead to intense conflict and controversy, but
when the smoke of battle has cleared away, it
is of great credit to our newspapers that a
spirit of justice and fair dealing prevails. No
man is ever so great but that just dealing and
fairness to his neighbors is commendable. In-
deed, the biggest man in America makes him-
self greater in the eyes of the people when he
shows a disposition to redress any wrong he
may have in any way contributed to. In this
connection we publish the following taken
from the Oklahoma City Times of last Monday
and express our appreciation of Mr. Benedict,
the Times' editor, in being one of the Oklaho-
ma spirit who is big enough and broad enough
and fair enough to do justice when he is con-
vinced j ustice is due.' "
Mr. Benedict adds: "That's keeping the
record straight."
That is very good. But how will all the
other newspapers, which were induced to say
all the Times said about Governor Haskell, be-
lieving it knew what it was talking about, take
their charges back? How will they restore the
governor to the position of treasurer of the
Democratic party, of which their cumulative
charges cheated him? The State Register re-
members very well that the Times and State
Capital did not think a Republican newspaper
wa3 a decent partisan unless it attacked the
governor just as unjustly, wantonly and inde-
cently as they.
Less accusation and more fact is what is
needed in the press, and especially in the press
of a hew state, of which the outside world is
willing to believe any wild thing as it is of a
new character, country or truth flashed upon
the world. Oklahoma is doing more injury to
itself by unduly decrying its differences of poli-
tical opinion than those at the distance who
misconceive its opportunities. It is like a fam-
ily slandering its members.
The governor is neither an angel nor a fiend,
and if Democracy has come to stay permanent-
ly in the state, or can be got rid of, the way to
drive it out of power is not to throw mud at
the chief executive one moment and at. the next
kiss him with honey suckled words. With Has-
kell dead, the Democracy may still live. The
way for Republicanism to drive Democracy out
of power is to show greater wisdom, greater
knowledge, greater willingness to advocate
those public policies that will be of greater
good for the .greater number of citizens of Ok-
lahoma.
Nevertheless, the Times is using greater
wisdom than some of the gentlemen in Guthrie
who are still fighting the governor and driving
his influence for the state capital from Guthrie.
"ISTEGRITY" AS AS ASSET
President Roosevelt is to show in his out-
going days what an asset is "integrity," when
a man has once established a fa:th in the pub-
lic that it is his ruling principle.
It is evident that certain factors in con-
gress—especially in the senate—and out of it,
are bound to put the President "to the bad" if
they can, the last days of his official life. That
they will do much they would not dare i£ he
were not going out of office, goes without say-
ing. On the other hand, the President is, if
anything, harsher and more vehement in de-
nunciation of his assailants, and threatens, if
congress sides with his enemies, to prove many
things that he has but hinted.
No man not as thoroughly intrenched in the
confidence of the people would dare to go so
far, and no man but he would have their sup-
port under similar circumstances. The Presi-
dent is neither immaculate nor infallible, but
in his seven years of office he has demonstrated
that, no matter how great the individual sweep
of his personal authority, at times placing all
other departments of government and many
powerful individuals on the defensive, he has
opposed such gigantic enemies of the people
that any method on his part was excusable.
The things that make a man happy or mis-
erable are those that never happen.
The assessed valuation of Oklahoma is
$728,507,373.53, and some persons are inclined
to be hilarious until they reflect that Rockefel-
ler, by his own statement, is worth $750,000,000
—and then he was confessing, not Doasting.
Our old friend R. A. White is back again
in El Reno, editing the Republic. White is one
of the best newspaper men in Oklahoma. His
only trouble is that he tries to give the people
too good a paper for their money and for the
size of the town in which it is published. This
transfers the red in his headlines into carmine
in his bank account, and his finish is read in
the rival newspapers. By the way, this is the
trouble with most newspapers—they are too
good for their patronage.
THE INSANITY OF IDEATION
"I am no longer 'Adam God.' I'm just plain
James Sharp."
This was the statement of James Sharp,
the leader of the religious fanatics, whose fear-
ful hallucination ended in the bloody battle in
Kansas City. "A long time ago I followed a
man named Green who told me he was Jesus
Christ and that I was his son. We traveled
through Oklahoma together, studying deeply
the Bible. The more 1 studied the more I came-
to know that I was the son of God. Then I
believed that all persons who opposed me were
enemies of the Creator. I believed this until
the first bullet from the officer's gun struck me
in the hand. Then I knew that my teachings
were wrong. The light suddenly dawned upon
me, but it was too late ancTI fou.ght on. I am
sorry for my sins. I am no*onger 'Adam God.'
I'm just plain James Sharp. When I become
composed I shall write a letter to my followers
who are scattered throughout the entire coun-
try, telling them that our religion is all wrong;
it is a mistake."
There was a Jewish Messiah in Turkey in
the sixteenth century, the last of many who
arose in the belief that the chronology of their
lives fulfilled the Hebrew prophecy that a king
should be born who would deliver Judaism out
of bondage, who had the same experience when
the supreme test came. The sign at his birth,
and each succeeding incident, fitted into the
Rabinical history of the conditions under which
the Messiah should be revealed, until he him-
self could no longer doubt his divine calling,
and with reverence betook himself to his task..'
All Islam was filled with his fame and the thou-
sands that followed him awakened the Turkish
government to the danger of a revolt. They
placed him in prison and gave him the choice
of recantation and freedom, or persistence and
death. He was a good fellow, and they showed
him that although the Lord had seemed to come
to his aid.in every other emergency, in this last
resort He had failed him and that, therefore,
he must be mistaken as to being the promised
deliverer of the Jews.. It is recorded that the
highly educated man, with almost supernatural
spiritual powers, was convinced, and took an
honorable position at court than fatuous death,
as all his thirty odd predecessors had done.
The verbal interpretation of the Scriptures
is responsible for much hallucination of many
forms and degrees. You cannot read the Scrip-
tures in the exactitude of verbal revelation when
it has betn transmitted through so many hu-
man instrumentalities. Religion is a spiritual
growth commensurate with the needs of our
age. It is individual interpreation that gives
so many creeds.
Listen to the tragedy of mistaken faith:
"I'm afraid I've lost faith/', said Mrs. Pratt.
"When I learned that Adam was wounded I
knew he was not of God as he claimed to be.
The Scripture says that when one shoots at the
children ol God their arms will fall to their
sides and their knees would be weak like
And again: "I used to believe that to be-
lievers God would send education from heaven.
But that—that was before I got to thinkm.
I'm goin' to send the chil'ren to school when I
get away from here. I believe I'll go back to
work on a farm somewhere." n
Mrs. Sharp was "Eve' 'to "Adam God, her
husband. Hear her confession: "I believe that
the revelation which told us to fight came irom
Satan. 'Adam' was a true-hearted man. But
—Aether he could tell when the revelations
—i the Lord and when they came from
tae juv.: ;ne I doubt very much. ^ I don't know
whether he was inspired or not."
"Did you believe him inspired?" she was
Eskcd.
"Inspired? Why, of course we did. He
told us that the revelation told him we would
be unharmed. That's the reason we fought so.
We were not afraid. We were sure the Lord
would help us. It must have been the prompt-
ing of Satan. But Adam did not know. He
surely could not tell."
Mrs. Sharp, the "Eve" of the faith, looked
candidly and without embarrassment into the
eyes of her questioner as she told of a "praise
service" in Minnesota a year ago last spring,
when the entire band—two men, two women
and six children—marched about the cottage
they occupied in a nude condition. They had
sung and shouted, she said, in praise services.
"We don't look on those things with the
eyes of the world," she said with earnest con-
viction. "The children began it. One of them
took off her clothing. We thought she might
have a revelation, so one after another we took
off our clothes. The services lasted an hour."
it is said Sharp was a man of no normal
religion, was a narrow, selfish man on a farm
out in Woodward county when a more than
ordinary meteor flashed across the sky and
threw him into a spiritual panic. He went to
reading the Bible, interpreted from it that he
was called, and sold all he had and started
preaching. . ...
In the light of so many religions, spiritual
expansion of children should be just the
same as you expand a blossom into beauty, a
sound into a symphony, a pigment into the col-
ors of a rainbow, the articulation of the human
throat into a prayer of the soul. The soul
should expand with the intellect.
DANDELIONS IN DECEMBER.
Dandelions, by the roadside, in December!
This in Oklahoma!
Are Italian skies more fair?
Eastern financiers should take note.
Oklahoma cannot be so bad—in spite of the,
Democratic constitution and administration,
which are said to be, at the same time, so dem-
agogic to the people and destructive to capital
so long as dandelions blossom in the middle
of December. .. , .,
President Roosevelt and Governor Haskell
are quarreling as to who is trying most to pro-
tect Oklahoma, Standard Oil is trying to rob
the state, the railroads sulk in their tents that
they are not given a fair show, the merchants
grumble against the extortionate rates, and the
farmer thinks he is being oppressed by every-
body, and the laborer—well, he knows he don t
get his share—
But a child gathering dandelions by the
roadside, in Oklahoma, in the middle of De-
cember, is happier than they.
Dandelions in December!
When, before a dying ember,
You shiver, shaking every member.
Then remember
Dandelions in December.
Omer Benedict's retraction of statements
against Governor Haskell during the campaign,
which he ha3 found were unwarranted and
based on statements at the time vouched for
by friends as true, is the right thing to do. A
newspaper loses nothing by correcting its er-
rors, and it is equally true that it has more
influence if it is surer of its facts.
The "hazardous risk" in Standard Oil is
carrying that 5500 per cent profit around.
150 Dozen Christmas
ilandkerchiefs
A big purchase of fine Embroidered
Handkerchiefs for Ladies, also the Hem-
stitched, Pure Linen, Cambric and Fine
Swiss with scolloped edges, bought at a
remarkably low price, which enables us to
offer you Handkerchiefs this Christmas at
a big saving.
50 dozen of this lot, all at one price 19c, handker-
chiefs in this lot worth 35c to 50c ^ q
only - -
Another lot at 10c, I21/ic and 15c,
Men's fine all pure linen Handkerchiefs 20c
or 2 for ••••
We have many other desirable things to show
you. Come and see Umbrellas, Purses, Hand Bags,
Combs, Fancy Linens, Drawn Work Tieces and
hundreds of other things too numerous to mention.
C'HCRCH >OTICE.
First Methodist Church, corner of
E. Noble Ave., and Broad St. E. E.
Fairchild, pastor.
Sunday School, 9:45 a. m.
Preaching, 11 a. m.
Junior League, 3:30 p. m.
Epworth League, 6:30 p. m.
Preaching, 7:30 p. m.
Prayer meeting, Wednesday, 7:30 p.
m.
Strangers are always welcome.
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Sold Guthrie by C. R. Renfro and The
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While you are racking your brain about what to get Father, Mother, Brother, Sister or Sweet-
heart, zve ask you to call at this big Shoe and Slipper Store and inspect our many styles of Shoes
and Slippes, which will make the most practical and useful Xmas Present you could give. Every-
body likes nice Shoes and comfortable Slippers, and everybody appreciates useful presents. Hence
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Golobie, John. Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 17, 1908, newspaper, December 17, 1908; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112628/m1/4/?rotate=270: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.