Republican News Journal. (Newkirk, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 7, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, June 15, 1900 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL SEVEN.
NEWKIRK, KAY COUNTY, O. T., FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1900.
Eighteen Candidates for Register of Deeds on the Fusion Ticket. Holy Smoke!
KING’S
Way to reduce their stock of
goods is to make their prices
so low you can’t help but buy.
To-day we are Beginning on tie Millinery, Shirt
Waists and Ready Made Wash Goods.
Sailor Hats at Greatly Reduced Prices. All Trim-
med Millinerv Cut to Half Price.
Shirt Waists One-fourth Off the
Rest of this Week.
All Linen, Gnash and Ready Made
Wash Skirts One-fourth Off.
Now is the Time to take Advantage of these Prices, and lay
in your Summer’s Supply.
KING'S:
Mary D. Williams, *
§j The Great Scientific Healer,
A Treats all Diseases Without Medicine.
O All the thinkers of the world are begining to recog-
qi nize the potency of this wonderful mode of treatment used > j,
A by the most eminent healers in this country and in Eu-
rope. With flattering success, chronic diseases, whiskey
and morphine habit yield to this mode of treatment. If ‘ '
you are suffering from any disease whatever, mental or
physical, give the healer a call and be convinced that
-'d there is health and peace for you.
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PUBLISHING COMPANY.
CELEBRATION!
Free Homes, Harvest
Home and a
4th of July,
All in One. at Newkirk, Satur-
day. June 30.
□ The people of Kay county are invit-
en to Newkirk, on the above date to
join in celebrating the good fortune
of our Free Homesteads, good crops
and the National blessings that at-
tend us on this another Fourth of
July season. June 30th lias been se-
lected as the date because other towns
•of the county are arranging tor Fourth
of July celebrations, and it is the de-
sire of our citizens not to conflict with
other points.
Harvest will he well over by this
date, and everybody will be in the
right mood for a glorious time. Jt
will be a basket dinner, and t he city
w ill provide buildings or booths with
tables, and will furnish free and in
abundance, hot coffee and ice water.
Farmers are asked to decorate their
wagons and buggjes with grain, llow-
ers and fruits, Hags and the National
colors, and to participate in the street
parade.
A full program will be published
next week.
i P. W. Seith,
Committee. J. 0. Corn miua,
/ L. Ml K INLAY.
Equal Chance For All.
J J. Illinois in Nhw York Journal.
One summer evening, in pensive
thought, I wandered fifty odd years
ago, with a schoolmate under the
“Buttonwoods.'’ in Haverhill, on the
shore of the moonlit Merrimac. We
talked long, as thoughtful school
boys will, of the mysteries of the
uni verse and the enigmas of destiny.
In our defective forecast the future
appeared dark, troubled and uncer-
tain. Time’s golden age was behind.
The battle for fame and fortune was
more desperate. We did not know,
we could not know, no one knew, that
we were standing at the portal or the
threshold of the most marvelous age
of the world's history: an age of such
incredible achievements in science,
war, wealth, luxury and national pow-
er. growth and glory, that by compar-
ison the most exaggerated fables of
lirtion. 1h"' Lamp of Aladdin, the
Purseof Fortunatus. the Philosopher’s
S. me, seem like the trivial common-
places of the nursery, and the wildest
hyperbole becomes tame and prosaic.
Looking backward across the years
since that moonlight stroll on the
banks of the enchanted river, J do
ii .t s>-e that 1 have b >en denied any
rielit. privilege or opportunity enjoyed
by those who have drawn the great
prizes in the lottery of life -we all
bad the same chance.
if laws were unjust, all alike were
their victims. If statutes were bene-
tieient, none was debarred their ad-
vantage. Those who climbed the high-
est began lowest. None was favored
by legislation or influence.
Lincoln and Grant, neither suspect-
ed of greatness, were waiting in home-
ly indigence the summons that, ten
years later, was to call them up to im-
mortal fame. Edison, the mightiest
magician of the force of nature, was a
tramping telegrapher. Carnegie was
a messenger boy in Pittsburg. Hunt-
ington was selling picks, pails and
horseshoes in Sacramento. Jay Gould
was a book agent in Delaware county.
The Rockefellers and the mob of plu-
tocrats that excite the envy and
arousethe indignantion of those who
have failed, all began in the lowest
and humblest ways of life.
i had the same chance, and every
hoy of that time had the same chance.
The world was all before me where to
to choose, and Providence my guide.
1 had the right to build railroads or to
go into Wall street and wreck them,
to invent a telephone, to write “Un-
cle Tom’s Cabin,” to mine for gold
and silver, to concoct patent medi-
cines, to corner petroleum, to bull
pork and wheat, like my contempor-
aries.
The only thing I lacked was brains.
1 did not know how. So I went west
and helped to lay the foundations and
build the superstructure of the great
empire of the northwest and thus
missed the whole show.
And then, too, luck lias much to do
with success in life. He who leaves
t he element of luck omits one of the
important factors in the game. The
dish of some is always bottom up
when it rains.
The luckiest man of this generation
is Admiral Dewey. He threw double
sixes twice in succession at Manilla.
What chance has the poor man in
1900? About the same, 1 should say,
lie had fifty years ago. In some ways
rather better, if lie can adapt himself
to the changed condition of society.
Many avenues open then are now
shut. Many opportunities once free
no longer exists. Competition is more
selfish and strenuous, but the world
was never before so ready as now to
pay for what it wants. There has
been no t ime when the man or woman
who can do anything better than any-
body else was so sure of constant re-
cognition and renumeration.
Paderewski and Irving have just
sailed away with fortunes earned by a
few months of professional exhibition.
Mine. Nordica received *1,000 for sing-
ing two songs that occupied ten min-
utep, while an equally meritorious
seamstress earns 25 cents for ten
hours’ repulsive toil in a sweatshop.
Kipling gets more for a stanza than
Milton for the copyright of “Paradise
Lost." Millett and Meissoner derived
from the brush and the palette the
revenues of the treasuries of king-
! doms.
Tl'.e poor man’s chance, then, de-
pends very much on what the poor
man has to sell. J f his stock in trade
consists of untrained muscle, a dull
brain and sullen discontent, he will
w irk fur wages, dine from a tin buck-
et when the noon whistle blows and
die dependent or a mendicant. If he
have courage, industry, enterprise,
foresight, luck and the willing mind,
he will gain competence or fortune.
He will establish his children in com-
fort, educate his children and accus-
tom them to the environment of re-
fined habits, which, after all, is the
best of life.
The real difference in men is not in
want of opportunity, but in want of
capacity to discern opportunity and
power to take advantage of opportun-
ity.
Society is reinforced from the bot-
tom and not from the top. Families
die out, fortunes are dispersed, the
recruits come from the farm, the
forge and the workshop, and not from
the club and the palace. Those who
will control the destinies of the twen-
tieth century are now boys wearing
homespun and hand-me-downs, and
not the gilded youth clad in purple
and line linen and faring sumptuously
every day at Sherry’s and Delinonico’s.
This is the poor man’s chance. It is
open to all comers. It is not a matter
of law, or statute or politics.
Tlie election of Bryan or McKinley
will make no difference. Free silver,
tariff, expansion, militarism, have
nothing to do with it. What is need-
ed is some legislation that will give
brains to the brainless, thrift to the
thriftless, industry to the irresolute
and discernment to the fool. Till this
panacea is discovered the patient
must minister to himself.
The worst enemy to the poor man,
except himself, is the trust, and of all
forms of this odious tyranny the most,
intolerable is the labor trust. The
money trust kill the body; the labor
trusts kills the soul. It destroys the
Independence of the laboring man,
effaces his Individuality, cancels ex-
cellence and substitutes brute force
for intelligence.
The right of labor to combine and
to refuse to work for wages that em-
ployers are willing to pay is undenia
ble, but when strikers organize to pre-
vent others from taking their places
by violence and murder, destroying
property and subjecting great com-
panies to enormous inconvenience,
hardship and loss, they attack the
fundamental rights of citizenship and
become outlaws and criminals, who
ought to be exterminated.
Democratic Contention, Kansas City.
7.35 takes you to Kansas City and
return for the above occasion. Tick-
ets will be sold July 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
Pullman and tourist cars will also be
increased. It is expected a rate of
*2.50 for Pullman and #1.50 for tour-
ist sleepers will be named. Should
any sleeping service be desired, kind-
ly send me word and I will endeavor
to have same reserved. This occasion
coming at the same time our National
holiday rates are in effect, it is expect
ed our equipment will be very busy
but we will arrange ample accommo-
dations for all. We would like any
intending to go to send us word or
call, if possible, a few days in advance.
F. J. Bkst, Agent.
Sufferers with malaria will find Col-
lins Ague Cure an unfailing remedy.
Chas. F. Adams’ Drug Store, New-
kirk, or City Drugstore, Kildare.
Our New Constitution.
At a not very
distant day
there will ap-
pear in the
heavens of the
Union another
Oklahoma with
her dusky In-
dian neighbor will become a state—
the 46th,—and we venture to state no
one of her companion stars will be
more refulgent, or present a more daz-
zling lustre on the glorious shield of
the United States. The constellation
of sister republics will be amazed at
the remarkable brilliancy of this new
star of the first magnitude, for in the
Indian Territory we have inexhausti-
ble mineral wealth, oil and natural
gas, and in Oklahoma perennial agri-
cultural resources.
As we approach statehood it is well
for the people to take up the various
important subjects Involved in the
organic law of the new commonwealth.
Some of these subjects are matters
connected with the constitution, while
others are more properly matters for
the first legislature of the new state,
to take up and enact suitable funda-
mental laws. Jt is conceded that the
present Oklahoma statute law is sad-
ly in need of a thorough overhauling.
Our effort is tentative and suggest-
ive, and those who do not agree with
the ideas put forth should remember
that. We do not seek to arouse an-
tagonism, but do desire to set people
thinking, so that in the interim be-
tween now and statehood, the judg-
ments of our citizens may be shaped,
formed and corrected.
On the question of the retention or
sale of the school lands we believe
they should be sold to the highest
bidder for cash or deferred payments
with good mortgage security. The
money derived from the sale of these
lands should he placed in bonded se-
curities and become the heritage and
endowment, witli their entire usu-
fruct and annual interest, of all the
school children in the grand new com-
monwealth. We believe these lands
should be sold simply because we be-
lieve they should become the free-
holds and fee simple property, sub-
ject to taxation, of many thousands of
homeseekers. To our mind this is
the great and absorbing reason why
the lands should Ire sold. J f there are
reasons why they should not be sold
we leave you to think them out for
yourself.
On the question of liquor traffic we
believe in high license and local op-
tion. Local option gives each com-
munity the privilege of saying wheth-
er liquor shall he sold in their vicinage
or not. High license affords a reve-
nue, and brings about a cleaner and
better regulated saloon. As to pro-
hibition it is ideal and not practical,
nor can it succeed so long-as the
United States sanctions the manu-
facture and sale of intoxicating bev-
erages by deriving its main revenue
therefrom.
Ou the question of corruption and
boodling iu office, and we desire right
here to state that this is the main is-
sue before the American people, hon-
esty at home and honesty abroad in
our insular possessions is the watch-
word of our perpetuity as a republic.
Hence we believe in the corrupt prac-
tices act which compels all elected of-
ficials to make affidavit showing how
and how much money was spent to
obtain office. We also believe in the
system of checks and counter checks
as used by the internal revenue serv-
ice of the general government, mak-
ing it impossible to defraud the gov-
ernment. A large number of the city
and county governments have adopted
the office of comptroller whose busi-
ness it is to see that each and every
appropriation of public funds is legal.
Human beings may be born honest,
but opportunity and temptation lead
them astray. Checks are the proper
system to keep men honest. In the
East all hank cashiers and tellers are
locked in their respective quarters
during bank hours.
On the question of taxation. This,
we may say, comes next as the im-
portant question of government. Tax
laws should be simple, and some sys-
tem must be devised to make the
wealthy bear their proportion of the
tax burden; furthermore we believe
the poor may be relieved of taxation
under, the same principle as they are
star of the first | exempted from the payment of judg-
magn itude. Jments. We do not believe in the sin-
gle tax theory of Henry George which
seeks to place all taxation on land and
none on improvements.
There are other questions of im-
portance which may be taken up from
time to time but enough have been
enumerated here to set our readers
thinking. We advise you to see to it
that your candidates for the legisla-
ture and the constitutional conven-
tion are not merely blatant politi-
cians, hut men of merit who have sol-
id views on these important questions.
“Jerrymander.”
Instructions, Free Homes Law.
General Land Office, \
Washington, 1). C., June 5, 1900. f
Registers and Receivers U. S. land
offices:
Gentlemen: Your attention is
called to the provisions of the act of
congress of May 17, 1900, (Public No.
105), entitled “An act providing for
free homesteads on the public lands
for actual and bonafide settlers, and
reserving the public lands for that
purpose.”
You will observe that only settlers
under the homestead laws upon the
agricultural public lands, which have
already been opened to settlement,
acquired prior to the passage of this
act by treaty or agreement from the
various Indian tribes, are affected by
this act.
This act does not change existing
laws as to the time of submitting final
proof and making payment of final
commissions. See acts of July 20,
1894, (23 Stat. 123), June 10, 1890, (29
Ktat., 342), June 7, 1897, (30 Stat., 87),
and July 1, 1898, (30Stat., 595.)
Where final proof has been hereto-
fore made for lands affected by this
act and payment has not been made,
such payment will not now be requir-
ed by you.
Where the payments were author-
ized to be made in installments and a
partial payment has been made but
final proof has not been made, no oth-
er or further payment will oe required
when the homestead settler makes his
final proof, except the payment of the
final commissions and. the testimony
fees.
In reporting entries hereafter where
the money is “released which if not
released would belong to any Indian
tribe,” which were heretofore report-
ed under a separate series, you will
continue so reporting them in accord-
ance with the instructions already
issued.
Where the regular series of entries
was kept, you will continue such se-
ries.
Where the right to commute home-
stead entries within any of the reser-
vations covered by the act has been
heretofore authorized by statute,
homestead settlers may commute
their entries therein in the time and
at the plaees now fixed by existing
laws.
Entries where settlement and resi-
dence are not requisite, as is the case
under section 2300 R. S., do not come
within the provisions of this act.
Very respectfully,
Hinokk Herman,
Approved: Commissioner.
E. A. Hitchcock, Secretary.
K. B. Kastman, Presldout.
V. L. Flint, Vioe-l’i-uuldent.
The Bank of Santa Fe,
NEWKIRK, OKLAHOMA.
JUNE: II, 1900.
Capital paid in....................................................... #10,000.00 !
Surplus and Profits................................................ 10,000.00
Demand Deposits................................................... 80,000.00|
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Doe* n General Banking Bualnesa.
Good Fitting Harvest Gloves.
The Kind That Wears.
Owing to the fact that it has always been hard*to get a
Good Fitting and Good-Wearing Glove combined in* one, we
have searched the market thoroughly to get the very best
t hing to be had, and we believe we have the very best ma-
terial combined with a Good-Fitting Glove that can be se-
cured anywhere.
C. A. Kastman, Caihier,
J. S. Kastman. Aw’t Cashier.
Good glove with canvass back, light color.........25
Goat glove, extra size, wite canvass back, dark.. .25
Goat glove welt seem in thumb...*.....................35
Light colored glove, calfskin front....................50
Horsehide gloves, welt in every seem................50
Heavy goat glpve, welt seems, long wrist with
patent fastener on wrist, cannot come loose .65
...HAYNES & SON-
A. A. Sloshon, President.
W. S. Brown, V-Presldent.
J. H. Coleman, Cashier.
FARMERS STATE BANK
Capital Paid Up $10,000.
GENERAL BANKING
mi
I Real Estate and Farm Loans.
W-H-f
We make farm loans on best terms
at lowest rates. Call and see us before
you make application for ? loan.
BRAUCHT & PROSSER.
List Your Claims With Us.
$20.00. FREE! $20.00.
As a Special Premium I
As a Special Premium we will give 1000 feet of No. 1
Lumber to the farmer who exhibits the best Bushel of
Soft Wheat at the Kay County Fair.
Remember we
Building Material.
The Normal Institute.
The Kay County Normal Institute
for 1900will meet in Blackwell on July
9th, fora six-weeks session. No extra
charge will l>e made for the longer
period of the Institute. Examination
on the 17th and 18th days of August.
R. M. Burch,
Co. Supt. Pub. Inst., Kay Co., Okla.
The class of Interstate Music pu-
pils wishes to thank all the friends j
who assisted
are Headquarters
Call and see us.
for all Kinds of
FOSTER LUMBER COMPANY,
N. H. HUMPHREYS, Manager.
Latest Improved Ball-Bearing Bicycles,
Champion Binders and Mowers.
Wagons, Buggies, Surries, Spriug Wagons, all
kinds of Grain Drills and Listers, Riding and
Walking Plows, all kinds of Cultivators.
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