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Oklahoma State Register
Published Every Thursday by
OKLAHOMA PRINTING COMPANY.
I. M. DOLPH, Pres.
JOHN GOLOHIE, Sec.
■sUbllshed Deo. 17. 1890.
Inc., Dec. 17, 1903.
Subscription Price per Venr, #1.00
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1910.
JOHN GOLOBIE. EDITOR.
ROOSEVELT AM) TAFT.
When two public men are personal friends,
thoroughly understand each other, it must surely seem
amusing to them to hear the many speculations as to
•what they think when they say nothing and what they
mean when they speak, of each other and their re-
lation to current political history.
This is the condition Taft and Roosevelt are in.
The shuttlecock of daily events goes in and out, by stand-
patters and progressives, as their interests seem to be
tried in the balance of public opinion, motives to
each as the glasses through which they are looking
refract. In the meantime the two men have had two
very Intimate visits to talk matters over that they
would not trust to paper, neither afterwards to news-
paper gossip, and which visits, at their conclusion, each
cf them declared lie enjoyed very much.
This paper would not venture upon a speculation
equally as futile and equally as unwarranted as the
mass of those exuded daily by the public, but certain un-
mistakable results of Mr. Roosevelt and the President's
conferences warrant the deduction that they have
agreed upon a progressive policy of the republican
party, whatever the methods of developing may be by
which that future is to be attained. So much is cer-
tain. Something like that was certain from the day
that Theodore Roosevelt chose William H. Taft as his
successor for the Presidency as against all the other
strong men in the republican party who worked with
him during his term in office.
But while so much can be hazarded, based upon
the President's ever ductile policy, some time amount-
ing to contradiction, the further speculation as to their
agreement, or decision upon the candidacy of either
for the next term for President cannot be formulated
with any grounds of logic based upon the revelation of
their motives. With the agreement that certain policies
to preserve this nation in the perpetuation of its high
achievements, the cjuestion as to which one should stand
for the election of the next President could at this time
be left open, or be a matter of expediency to fit the
conditions as tbey shall develop between now and the
next national convention. There is no doubt but that
Roosevelt does not desire to be President again, but
that he does desire those policies carried out which
he initiated when he was President. It is equally as
certain that President Taft, as he was reluctantly per-
suaded to consent to the achievement of his present
position, is not set on a second term simply as a mat-
ter of personal ambition.
It will dawn upon his et itics some day that
Theodore Roosevelt is infinitely a greater mart than they
gave hi in cred.t for. If he is the man of Napoleonic am-
bitions they credit him with, with the desire of becoming
a world-power and to be reconed with in future his-
tory. then h<- must a'so be given that far-sightedness
that a historic perspective forecasts. And this vision c:
universal comprehension he possess. Every word lie ut-
ters. every movement he makes warrants this. Ho is
as much above any statesman of the present time, as his
large learning, various experience, training and deep
profound feeling is above any man now living In Amer-
ica or elsewhere. Theodore Roosevelt sees the mo-
mentum of a univrsal change, incident upon the achieve-
ments of the immediate age. and desires to adjust the
conditions of the average mass of the people with the
gigantic forces of wealth that have grown up in con-
trol, without the usual revolutionary distruction incident
in all ages of the past upon such change. While
some think him the opportunist meteor of borrowed
light of the day. he is a sun of the first magnitude
whose light reaches into limitless distance backward
and forward, comprehensive of so much as can be com-
prehended by on man in his age.
RELIC OK OKLAHOMA FETDALISM
Anyone who knows Jim Harris, the chairman of the
republican committee, knew that he would take goc.l na-
tured the suggestion of his succession to the secretary-
ship of the department of the Interior, should a va-
cancy occur. Oklahoma is strewn with republican chair-
man wreckage stored in and out of Federal office. While
the party, as the result, has lain a strewn wreck on
the prairies of Oklahoma.
Jim Harris knows the fate of this tendency of
party managers, In the Feudal days of Oklahoma, fur
Federal castles in the air, and intends to steer clear
if he can. Making this state republican will give na-
tional prominence to any man and place higher honor
and office if he chooses, at his command than Federal
machine politics.
Governor Stubbs, of Kansas is getting to be one
the thinkers In public life. There are so few.
.IN OLD THEORY IN I'M) TH E l> OKI. A MOM t
In the troublesome growth toward excess in the
genial, in the past, much loved, lauded and sung, art
to express the joy of life, in eiixer Juices of the fruits
of nature, one of the many theories of making the gentle
aie of serving the inspiring beveriges was to take off
ail restrictions of law and license tax and let every-
one sell what he desired, just as other needs and lux-
uries of life are sold.
This condition of freedom of dispensing liquor in
Oklahoma now exists. There is at present no revenue-
license restriction and no prosecution-enforcement of
any of the laws supposed to exist. Anyone that can get
from one drink up to gallons or barrels liquors and bev-
eriges can go Into the business—Is in the business.
The condition has had a democratic effect upon the
business. All classes of people are in it. The humble
and the proud equally. The poor boy and the rich citi-
zen. It is true that the conscious sense that the law
against such freedom is somewhere in the constitution
and the statutes of Oklahoma, hangs a little over self-
respect of the average man and makes him regret that
w hat is right In nature Is wrong In law, and that In order
to carry out the one he must transgress the other. But
the average man has but a shadowy idea what the tech-
nical law on the subject is, and has more respect for
the habit and custom which he inherited from his rev-
ered parentage, in their admonition of moral principles
"in the good old times" than he has for a law that he
never read, and could not comprehend if he ijld, and
which he sees, Is, In its outward and legal exemplifi
cations, not understood, or respected by those who
made it and those who are charged with the carrying
out of its provisions.
Without the intention of anyone. Oklahoma virtually
has an unrestricted sale of liquor. Why not legalize that
condition as an experiment—why not go back to the
primitive simplicities of the traffic—to the beginning
of it all—and see if we cannot attain some of its in-
nocencies. It ought not to be hard to reach
harmful condition than the one in which w
addition temperance the disregard of law.
taken law, but it Is law, and an honest people ought
either observe law or abrogate it. and so relieve
their conscience.
Kit EE HOOK TO PROTECT HOt St. OKLAHOMA TO ENJOIN ITS LIOl'OK
HIVES FROM TRADESMEN'S ! TRAFFIC. *
TRICKS.
New York, Sept. 20.—Clement .J.I Oklahoma < ity, Sept. 16. As an-
Driscell, commissioner of weights and : 0*^er step to stop bootlgging. the first
measures, has had printed a larg-1 "lea,ls of the kiml resorted to so far
number of booklets setting forth way
and means by which purchasers ma.
guard against being "done" by trades
men, and affording many practice
hints in the line of household economy.
The booklet, of which the commis-
sioner himself is the author, is en-
tiled, "What Every Housewife Shoul !
Know." It begins with the declara-
tion that no kitchen is complete with-
out good scale and set of accurate dry
and liquid measures. In it house-
wives are advised to see to it that the
weights of all purchases are plainly
stated on bills rendered, the same to
he produced at time of protest shoul I
weights prove "short."
• When you purchase vegetables by
the dry measure he sure to examin
the measure the merchant uses befor
making your purchase," to be sur-
that it lias no false bottom," he aci
shoi
less
break in
It is a mis-
i ises.
Do not eave the trimmings of meat
j ti.a! are charged up to you wit.i your
j butcher. 1 the butcher can sell theui
1 at various prices per pound, surely
- they have some value to you
I lie:i..',rs are exhorted by
[ miss.oner to learn how to read thei
scales accurately, and to take not
carefully of stales used
i where they make purchases
"Why telephone your orders to you
, tradesmen and take a chance whe
, by going yourself you can be sure yo
j are getting what you pay for? asks th
commissioner. Here are few of hi
"Don'ts."
Don't allow your grocer or dairy
man to weigh in the wooden butte
dish when he is weighing your but
ter.
to make effective the liquor laws of
the state. State Enforcement Attorney
Fred S. Caldwell yesterday secured
an injunction in the superior court
restraining every railroad and three
express companies doing business In
the state from delivering intoxicating
liquors in any unreasonable amounts
to hi liiers of federal licenses in the
state. The hearing on the applic
tion for a permanent injunction Is set
for September 20.
Jt ,s the belief of the attorney and
other lawjers that if the permanent
injunction is granted it will have the
effect of accomplishing absolute pre
aibtion which previous efforts hav
faile d to accomplish. The pet.tion ear
ries the complete list of those holding
federal licenses in the state.
YOLNEY HIGGIX'BOTll AM
KNOWLEDGE AM) Ol'I.MON.
Based on knowledg, speculation, or superstition, th
human mind and human needs are so constituted thai
man must generate an opinion upon everything that
touches him about and effects his existance. The in-
vestigation on application for advance railroad rates be-
fore Interstate Commerce Commission in Chicago, is
letting in some light on the subject that the public has
had much to do and to say about and very little know-
ledge. The difficulty is that railroads are private
business, and at the same time as vital public business
as any department of government. In its growing
power probobly as vital as the executive and legislative
departments of the national government itself. This
private public character of the transportation busi-
ness necessitates the public getting all its knowledge of
its relation to the interests of the mass of industrial
life in a statistical way, without a reliable look-in.
Public agitators can therefore not be blamed from con-
eluding many wild things that may or may not be true.
But this rate examination has shown so far some
policies that cannot be attained by the average business
of the country. It came out that what is considered
a leg-timate rate of prof t earnings, earned
surplus over and above all
maintain ante, in ten years. t(
of the rcadr—to pay
A
Don't buy in a careless manner. Al-
ways ask for whatever the coinmodi
ty is by a known weight or measure.
Don't buy in small quantities if you
can avoid it.
Don't understand < heapness for
economy.
Don't be afraid to carry a bundle
unless you are prepared and willing tc
stand the expense of having it de-
livered to your home.
Don't gossip with your merchant
while he is weighing your purchase
unless you are absolutely sure of th*
honesty of your tradesman.
Don't be ashamed or too proud to do
your own purchasing.
Don't be afraid of your tradesman.
Don t leave your shopping until the
I last minute and then buy in a hurry
UEKM \\ \MKRK \>S ( OMIKM
ELECTION LAWS OK OKI \-
HOM
* short biographical sketch of the
life of Volney. Merritt Higginbotham
Democratic Candidate for Register ot
Deed?, Logan county, Oklahoma.
\ olney was born in "Old Virginia,
in Amherst county. His great grand
father, on his father's side came from
Scotland, and riiis great grandmother
from Ireland. His mother was a de
scendant of the "Fighting Merritt's.
One of li s great uncles of this name
was a soldier under Washington dur-
ing the Revolution; and another was
with Paul Jones. Two other uncles
served in the Mexican war.
His father moved from Virginia to
Ohio, while Volney was still a small
boy, and l.e was ra sed 011 a farm in
the northwestern part of the state.
He was educated in tho pub'ic
schools of Ohio, and the University
it A-ia. Has taught successfully for
21 years; sixteen years in Ohio and
live years after he came west.
He settled in Oklahoma the year
the Strip opened, and has put two
blackjack" farms in cultivation. He
has always been a good democrat and
ias-done much for the party. He held
the office of Justice of the Peace for
the past twelve years but never in
that time settled a case on the dock-
et, but in every case afTected a com-
promise .
He believes that honor and principle
are greater than dollars and cents,
and that a man should be honest, and
have a higher interest than just be-
ing honest for policy's sake.
If elected to office he will try to
till it with honesty and efficiency,
nd he most earnestly solicits your
support, regardless of politics
)r the
rate cf profits t
er such line every ten years
or, retail merchant, or far
expenses, extract enough
business every ten years?
•xpenses of
to equal t*ie boi
road at its own v
ie road can duplk
enough
operation,
de;l value
iluation.
ate anoth-
What a vera g
e-r can, over
J manufactur
tnd above al
DEI'REt IATI\ 0 THE STATE CREDIT.
There is nothing ever gained by telling m
is true atainst ones own family. There is
to lie gain-'d in mak ng the administration of t
appear, or be. more injurious than it is.
There- appears tojhe a terdency. because ,f
disturbed conditions Incident to the immersnr i
political activity and the ending of t'-.e re
oppressive methods of the present adm'n'sfi
beat down the state credit by discount ! * c r,
pense state warrants that heretofore t
This, In the lone run. will r< art Injurlrosh- to
er extent upon the very men that m'srht V b
by it now. A states growth is ah:
Its own citizens decry their own
tonly and without warrant am! t^at n
and money will fear and refuse to com
Then values w.ll stand still and retire!
sets in.
Ix-t us not
this state, not vet
security upon the
fo'd greater than ti:
ire t:ian
nothing
lit
'tu t'':.. 1
and t'-nt
'lit t' . .
a .I stagr
blind to ourselves, the wealth
n"c fourth developed warrants
future an ir.Iebtedness a hundr
'■ c f temporary credit in t
initiation of a new state with its necessary romp'
ment of officers and institutions. And erlticisn
extravagance or improper expenditure of public-
like stealing a ten dollar bill from a wea'
does not go far enough to reflect on the
rif ti
Individ!
We
THE I 1U I Ir ISM OK ||| i f, jity
do not wonder that some critics have presented
Mr. Roosevelt's Western tour as 'a preparation for a
presidential campaign in 11.12; because we have Ion-
ceased to wonder at the appearance of the small-mind-
ed man who can not conceive that a public service is
evc r rendered without hope of a personal reward Such
men are to be pitied not blamed. They are dull not
corrupt. They have never felt a throb of personal pa-
triotism themselves and therefore cannot recognize 'it
in another. That a man may volunteer to render
service to the state In time of peace as in time of wal-
ls beyond their Intellectual
the Outlook.
power to conceive. Froi
At Semi-Animal Meeting Thej Demand
Primary and General Statute that
will Protect Honest Voters.
The German-Americans of Okla-
homa at their semi-annual session ad
opted the throwing resolutions at
Shawnee:
"Experience in tii.s state under the
present state-wide prohibition law
has confirmed our oft-repeated decla
j ration that prohibition is a farce, i.
travesty upon justice and i: iuiious-
to t'. e whole people.
| "Fubl c records show that crime and
- drunk ness arc c ti the increase, tax ;
are higher at;d in many counties there
Is little restraint upon lawlessness.
"1 •:,'!• r tV- iniative and referendum
j law the people of this state are seek-
| ing to amend the prohibition law and
• more than 59,000 ciualified electors
■ sigr.el the necessary petition to ob-
tain a resubmission of this cjuestion
to a vote of the people. The governor
has issued a proclamation calling for
an election on this question for No-
vember 8. We give our hearty indor-
sement to ti:e proposed amendment in-
j It'atoi by the people providing for lo-
cal option and high license instead of
£:t!'te-wide prohibition, and. as the
I candidates fur governor of both the
republican and democratic parties
ha\e committed' themselves to state-
wide prohibition, we urge our people
to disregard the appeals of these po-
j litical parties and go to the polls on
| November S and work for this amen-
' ment.
j "We regard the Initiative and refer-
endum law as a bulwark of tYie peo-
ple's rights, and condemn any and al
persons who would attempt to thwart
the will of the people by Ignoring or
setting aside this right reserved to the
people.
"We condemn the outrageous frauds
exposed in the recent primary elec-
tion and demand a primary and gen-
eral election law that will protect ev-
ery citizen who exercises the right of
I sufTrage and provide ample punlsh-
I ment for high crimes.'"
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER S
e A S T O R I A
A HI NET MIST .11 DUE COMtlCT
OK It A LLIXfSER.
' ' i> ci I i- 1,-j
ing liast to Eorre Action from
Iaft and Ids Associates,
Washington, Sept. 16—Whether R.
\ Lall.ngers resignation as secretary
■ if the Interior will follow immediateh
upon the meeting of the cabinet, Sep-
tember 26, to attend which he is now
en route from Seattle, or whether he
'Vi.: retain his posit: n indefinitely-
at least, until alt. r the iivery of til-
reports of the committee which inves-
tigated his stewardship o f the pub
the cost of operation and maintenanc
was in a large measure due to highe^
cost of materials. Gardner's opinion
was that the increase in the cost of
labor and the restrictions put upon
the workmen by recent independent-
through unions and similar associa-
tions was the largest factor in the cut-
ting down of the net profits.
Gardner did agree with previous
railroad officials that the railroad
ought to be permitted to charge ship-
pers enough to pay dividends, fixed
charges, the cost of operation and
maintenance, in addition to return-
ing a substantial yearly surplus.
Likewise, he believed that should it
be expended in addition or improved
property, and then should be given
suitable interest or dividend from the
earnings.
SEEX A DREAM FROCK YET?
It's Even Later thanTbe Hobble and
Stovepipe.
Chicago, Sept. 21.—Enters tho
"dream frock."
It walked into the annual conven-
tion of the Chicago Dressmakers at
the Palmer House and drove every-
thing before it, not excepting the hob-
gles and the bolster slips and the
stovepipe patterns.
The "dream frock" is a dream.
It is as full of peculiarities as the
heathen Chinee, "a dream frock" is
as hard to recognize as a jelly fish or
a chameleon. When you don't see it,
it's probably there.
The properly constructed "dream"
frock" is as thin as it can be and still
Stay on. It is cut after the bolster slip
idea, but has the same relation to the
remainder of a well dressed woman's
clothes as a filmy veil to her face.
It softens things and produces a fog-
gy, hazy., don't-know-it-is-or-isn't im-
pression.
•Most of the "dream frocks" may be
rolled up and tucked away in an or-
dinary sized thimble, but they cost
like sin.
At the theatrical matinee to be con-
ducted tomorrow afternoon one will be
xhibted which cost $350.. It is to be
worn by Miss Daisy Lehay, an English
actress.
Not on account of this gown, but for
far more important reason, Miss Lie-
hay has been invited to appear before
the dressmakers.
She knows how to sit down.
Why, lots of women know how to
No, that's just it.
With the development of the stove-
pipe skirt, sitting down becomes the
most fashionably dressed woman, Miss
".ehay has learned the trick.
She backs up to a chair and then
tits.
I just fall from knees," she ex-
plained.
-Miss Lehay backs up to a chair with
a sort of sidewise. crawfish motion,
puts oLe foot out behind to be sure the
chair is there and then simply falls
until she lands.
The hard part of t is to make the
kne-es bend quickly at just the right
ni' in- l.t
upon ti:
atti-
' -e of his c ablnet associates.
•Mr. llallinger is coming to Wash-
■ i:gton. his friends here insist, wholly
unconscious of any act on his part for
which he should be condemned, i
has determined to force his chief and
lis official colleagues to be, in effect
lis judges. If they concur in th e view
at present attributed to Mr. Taft that
the accused secretary shall be sus-
tained as an innocent and persecuted
man, he will retain his position ;if
they fail to back him up, he will re-
sign. That this is Mr. Ballinger's po-
sition. was learned here today upon
authority hardly to be questioned.
KAIMVA V M AKES A HI CiE PROFIT
Dates Probe at Chicago Shows Re-
markable Gains.
' hicago, Sept. 21.—The remarkable
Unaneial returns of the Chic ago North-
wegtrn ral'road during the last ten
vr.is was brought out in ti e- rate hear-
ing before the Interstate Comment
Commission bv the attorneys for the
shippers and a.l litional testimony of
a startling nature adduced.
Ti.e witness was W. A. Gardner,
vice president In charge of the op-
eration and maintenance of the road
liis testimony, ellcted by cross-ex-
amination by Attorney Frank Lyon
for the Commission was that tli
pany thought Itself entitled t
in freight charges now in
WHE> A WOMAN FI.IER FELL
Mrs. Frank Ituisrlie was the Coolest
At Garden City Aerodrome.
New ^ ork. Sept. ]e*.—Mrs. Frank
Raische who fell and escaped injury
while flying in a strong wind at the
Garden City Aerodrome today, was in
the air about ten minutes, but in that
time probably few women experienced
as much excitement in so short a per-
iod.
Her flight was the first one ever
made by a woman at the grounds. The
aviatress is the wife of one of the
French-American Aeroplane Sompany,
braved a 30-mile wind in making her
flight, a velocity which made Harknes
and the other aviators shake their
heads. It had been arranged some
time ago that she was to take a "plane
up," but it was a sudden impulse that
caused her to visit the aviation field
this morning while her husband was
in New York.
fact that tli
spit
a raise
' of the
ten years it had return-
divldendi
than tin
ed to stockholders In
and uiiappropriat d more
amount of the capital stock.
I lie witness also controverted the
testimony of the Illlnoins Central of-
ficials previously that the increase In
TRU\S ( RASH. ONE DEAD AM) 18
HIRT.
steel Cars Prevent Lartrer List of In-
.inre'el when Rock Island and Bur-
limrton passengers meet
Holt, Mo.. Sept. 16.—One man was
killed and IS persons injured when
two passenger trains met in a head-on
collision on the ' hicago, Burlington
Quincy railroad one mile north of
here at ti:30 o'clock tonight.
The trains collided were the Chica-
;o. Burlington & Quincy No. 6, which
left Kansas City at 5 o'clock and the
Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific No.
201 which left Chicago at 11:30 o'clock
last night. The latter train headed in
on the C. B, & Q s track at Comeron
Junction on its way to Kansas City.
A mlsur.cjerstnndlng or orders by the
C. B. & Q. crew is said to have been
responsible for the wreck.
The trains were to have passed at
this station.
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