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THE OKLAHOMA STATE CAPITAL SHNTIAY MOHNINO, MAltOH 1'. in"-.'
5The (Oklahoma §tate Capital
BY THE STATE CAPITAL PRINTING COMPANY.
FRANK H. GREER, EDITOR.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATE8.
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DAILY, H.x month* by mall >•**
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DEMOCRATS OF OKLAHOMA WOULD
HOLD STATEHOOD BACK INTERMINABLY
C I Barrett one Qf the delegates appointed to go to Washington and re-
present the will of the Muskogee convention for single statehood, i? otit in a
screed in which lie say- the State Capital has changed its position on the
tatchood question. Jl< ^ays this because we came out and said wc were op-
posed to postpnnment of Oklahoma statehood until congress say - the I ti -
dian Territory ii ready.
This paper ha always been for -.ingle statehood. It is yet. It believes
the joining of the two territories is inevitable. Nearly every one else thinks
-■ -except the democrats 111 congress. The chief supporters of single state-
hood m Oklahoma have been the democrats. They have advocated it largely
on selfish political grounds. The State Capital, and those republicans who
have stood by it. have done so on the broad grounds of the greatest good to
the largest number—of the making of a great and powerful state in those
material element^ necessary to diverging avocations and permanent prosper-
ity.
But what have we now ? The democrats of the lower house met in cau-
cus and declared for two .states—took exactly the opposite view of the demo-
cracy in Oklahoma. When Barrett went to Washington he found few demo-
crats for his cause in the house and fewer in the senate, hut he found the re-
publicans of both house and senate in favor of a union of the two territories
into one big state. He found, too, that the republicans are not in favor
of keeping Oklahoma out waiting for the Indian Territory to meet the re-
quirement which members of congrcst* allege that the territory does not now
possess. What is the result? A determination to adopt the future absorp-
tion plan To submit Oklahoma now—with a provision that the Indian Ter-
ritory shall be a part of Oklahoma ti* soon as tribal governments are abro-
gated and the lands alloted. There is a flexed republican congressional
policy for bingle statehood—a fixed democratic congressional policy for
double statehood. And the democrats have made their policy purely on sel-
fish ground Senator Bailey and other leaders make no concealment of this.
They want more power—more senators for the West.
Now what comes? A determination of the single statehood democrats
of Oklahoma to keep Oklahoma out of statehood until Indian Territory is
ready. This may be years. But what care the democrats if in the meantime
a seltinh political purpose can be fostered.
Already democratic members of congress in the house and senate have
b« ii. approached by democrats from Oklahoma to block Oklahoma statehood
until the Indian Territory can comc in. If statehood is defeated in this
congress it will Ik chargable directly to the criss-cross of the democrats of
Oklahoma and tho-c in congress—one end being for single and the other for
double statehood. {
In the meantime Senator Fairbanks and other republican leaders of the
senate and republican leaders of the house are trying to devise some tair way
for the future absorption of Indian Territory, that it may participate in the
constitution it will live under. They propose to provide for a new constitu-
tional convention when Indian Territory comes in, that amendment may be
submitted and a new vote had. if the first constitution is not satisfactory.
In the meantime the house committee will unanimously report the Flynn
bill, providing for ultimate single statehood. This hill, all the Oklahotnans
who have recently come back from Washington say. is the only bill which
will stand any chance of passage at this session.
The plan "f the democrats in Oklahoma and those of congress is to kill
the Flynn bill in the senate. They admit it will pass the house.
The democrats of Oklahoma have lined up for immediate single state-
hood or none, and they do this when they know there arc not twenty-five
•uigle statehood democrats in both branches of congress.
IN O .
Bromo-Laxative Cough Syrup
Has cured more Colds in Guthrie
than all other Remedies combined.
IT WILL CURE YOU. 35c.
EDWARD NICHOLS,
Prep.
The Eagle Drug Store
HARRISON AVENUE.
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THE CRYING NEED OF CUBA
IS BUT A BUSINESS PROPOSITION
There has been a great deal of senseless scntimentalism in the press of the
United States with reference to the Cuban situation and particularly in regard
to the proposed reciprocity legislation for the island. The democratic press
has been particularly lachrymose in the premises. The plea for a reduction of
tin tariff on Cuban sugar and tobacco has been argued principally on the
ground that the United States owes this concession to -the island as a duty
and that it is honor-bound to grant it. 1 he argument is good enough but it
is not the best argument nor the pica that will have the best effect in behalf
oi the Cubans. There is an appeal that will reach the business men. This
country is the natural market for the products of Cuba, her nearness making
quick transportation and low freight rates possible. Last year the island
exported to the United States goods valued at $75,000,000. Her imports
during the same period amounted to $60,000,000: but of this vast amount of
expenditures the United States received only $jH,ooo,ooo. In other words
the island received from the United States ior goods $41,000,000 more than was
shipped iu return, and that amount of money went to foreign manufacturers
who . re businr.-i rival . This would probably not have been the case had .1
fair reciprocal agreement between theUnited Stales and Cuba been 111 opera
tion. The wants of Cuba arc growing.and a magnificent trade with her is sure
to develop under uvorahle conditions.flcr.cr.al Wood estimates that the island
w ill oon be expending $.mo,aoo,oon an-nually in foreign markets. This trade
may all l>. -retired by the United State,under suitable reciprocal leg: lation.
This 1- the business proposition of theCuhan question.
The wise administration of the late President McKinley did for Cuba
more than that island could have done for herself 111 .1 hundred years, by
throwing off tor her the yoke of tyranny that had been placed about her pea-
pie. The Cubans have been given a stable government of their own by the
republican administrations of the United States. The people of Cuba are for
the first time iri the history oi the island, since that day when the first Spanish
vessel landed tut her shore, in the fullest measure the architects of their own
destiny.
In the light of all the circumM.an.-es the following absurd wail from the
New York Herald is a matter oi interest to show how ridiculous the position
of the extremist can be: %
The refusal of '' t i 'o give the quick relief which In conceded all afOu .it
to b. HMnttal i" tilt salvation of Cuba la a apceUulle <>f Ml flail ■ *.-• d, i,
unit dishonesty lor wheh It would In* hard t mid a parallel
Am « hold exh blt.on "pelf ti '"re patrlti>i.«rn t In w.li calculated to disjoint
th** country with tM* r. put.it. ui psriv ,,nd protection and cause n wld.-una
notion* In fav or of the d'tnocrats rcoran nlsed under wise leadership lis imn t-
«|il<> effect. If madly permuted In. must to rutn and consequent anarchy in Cuba,
slil. h would he i wore*- evil .it our oners than that f< r which w« went to w. r
kith Spain, or fa.oe i imu^ ai, at ih« cost of the very interests which arc now
re Illy bent on preventing any concession.
in his statement bvore the Ways and Means commute of the house oi
representatives F. B- Thurber, president of the United States Export Asso-
ciation, said: ,
I believe It would be In the Inter nt of the Pubsns. ami American Hour and pro-
vision interests and American f' ult enni Ii>k and preserving Interests. and the in-
terest uf all American consumer* of ugar. If what the Cubans «sk could
granted, viz.: free raw siik .• and on<-h It the present duties on tobacco and
c gars. Hut if in your wisdom you think we can not go so far as that at '.his
time, then the vi ry least eon caston which should he mad- should l>e 50 per cent,
on ali her products: and w th th.s. it * ould bit remembei ed. it would still leave
her products subject to a duty eipi.il to the average on t'ie dutiable products re-
celvid by iih from all other countries This would lower by one-half the high
tariff pull which we liavi erected agulnst m# ward. And If she in return woui-i
establish a tariff averaging 50 |« r < > ri her Importations, she could reduce tli.it
oiv i. i f on her linisirtatious from the l tilled States; and th.s wounl enable her
merchants to buy ail of their supplies ii th. t'nlted States, thi ee-tlfths of which
they now buy In Kurope. This would not violate the most favu.ed nation elans.' in
trestles with other countries, Hecai.se no country could offer Cuba so-li induct—
nu m.* is we would offer her by such an arrangement. And it would st I! g.v>- her
sufficient revenue because her present tariff, established by our wai departnx at
lor Cuba, averages about 28 per cent American products would still enter the
Cuban market at the p csent rait, but those of other countries would have t
pay the higher rato: hence, we would get the trade; and a larg ■ and Inerca-ng
trade, because with increased pun iias.ng power on the pat.t of her people Cuba
would become one of our most Important markets.
The house committe is considering two measures tor the relief oi Cuba.
Chairman Payne of the committee has presented a bill which will be again
considered Monday and which seems to be favorably received by the mem-
bers of the committee. It is as follows:
That for the purpose of equalising the trade of the I'nlted States with Cuba,
the president «« hereoy authorised, •>* soon as may be after the estaWtshmnt of
an independent government In Cub i and the enactment bv said gove.nment <>f
immigration and exclusion laws «.i lullv restrictive of Immigration as the law* >.f
the I'ntfed States, to enter Into pegot atlon:- witii said guv** nn.ont with . vi. u
to the iirrangement of i common ai .«r • -merit in which reclprodal and <-ipiiv d nt
concessions may be m*ctfvd In fav >r of the products and manufacturers "f liie
t'nlted States by rates of duty. Which shall be less by an amount e<|Uival. iu to
nt least an per cent, ndvalorem than the rat. - Imposed upon ihe like articles wh-n
imported Into Cuba from the most fav>> e«I ..f other enuntrVs: and wlieii-vr th
«■ivemment of Cuba shall enact such Immigration laws and shall enter Into such
commercial agr. etnent with th- I'nlted States, and shall make .such coin s-
slons hi favor of the pioducta and manufactures thereof ii« aforesaid, nnd which
agreenn id in the Judgment of th • p dent shall be ■. ipr-.cal and equivalents
■hall lie authorised to proclaim such fac . both as to tie • nactmcnl of such in
mlgrat on laws and the mak.ng ot suc.i agreement, and thereafter the imposii n
of ih« duties Imposed by law on all articles from Cuba Into the t'nlted States
shall hi* suspended, and In lieu there.if there shall be |e\ <d upon all irtieles im
port<d rr in Cuba eighty percentuni "f the rate of <Sity r:<>\\ lev* led upon lik-
articles import -d from foreign e .untrles. The president shall hiv. pow . and it
shall be in* duty, whenuve,- ie shall be antlstl-d that • i'her such Immigration
law* or such agreement mentioned in th:s ait is not belnu fully executeu n the
Kovernment of <!uba. to notify stich government thereoi. and thereafter then
nlitiil be levied u|sui aetleles imported from Cuba the pull rate of duty provided
by law upon articles imported from foreign countries.
A reasonable concession that will result in a business advantage to the
United States is what should he granted to Cuba. The beet sugar industry
of the United States is not so important to all oi the people a- cheap
sugar. The cane sugar and the tobacco propositions are on a par with the
former. Tampering with the tariff, however, is ai all times fraught with dan-
ger. The present era of unexampled prosperity in the United Slates was
never bttildcd upon free trade.
y^ND if you will to Renfro's Drug Store
he w ill save you money. Spring is here and
you must paper your house and clean up, and if
you will give Renfro a chance he will do you
good for we have the wall paper and can sell it
very low, and everything in our line we are mak-
ing special prices on. Come in and see us
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RE IN F
rDRUGS, PAINT AND OIU
A*
THERE IS NO MORE EXCUSE
FOR DELAY IN RAISING THE BONUS
Now that the litigation between the Choctaw and the M. K. & I has been
terminated there remains no reason for further delay in the matter of the M.
K. & T. bonus. The committee have not been pushing the subscription for
the reason mentioned. They should meet early in the week and organize
a systematic and persistent campaign after the men whose subscriptions arc
necessary to the completion of the fund There will Ik small difficulty in rat-
ing the bonus, for the people arc waiting to b« asked to contribute Then
i-. a sentiment in their minds that they arc entitled to be solicited. Perhaps
thi> is because the committee, who raised the b.mil* in the former instan-
ces were zealous and called early and often until : desired note was -ecur
cd. The people can not be blamed ior the attitude they have a turned in tin
premises. They will be prepared to make their notes when the committee
shall call. The committee must get to work at an early da> and then the
bonus for this latest nnd best proposi tion may be closed.
The proposition, as has been before explained, is a gilt-edged otic in the
view of an investment. It promises more than any other railroad propo
sition will ever offer to a town ior a like consideration. The closing of the
subscription must not be delayed any longer. I.ct every property owner in
the city meet the committee with a spirit of public enterprise and a di-p"-i
tion to back it up with a liberal subscription. .
A STORY OF GREAT PROGRESS
THAT HAS COME TO THE SOUTH
The \vonderlu! development oi the South ha- ..t racted much attention„_;n
the past year. The prc-s of the North has been di- overing the South with
great regularity and marveling. The South has long since ceased to Im
New" in the sense in which it was so termed a quarter of a century ago
t is the .same South, the same warm-hearted impulsive people that it always
was, but they arc not the people ol tnc romance or of the tradition, i hey
are a people oi tremendous energies, ambitious, progressive, and engaged in
a giKantic work of wealth-building and in the establishment of the most en-
lightened and beneficent institutions.
It is a wonderful country these people of the South have. A third of a
century a«o they had practically only one industr> ind that a bap-hazard
sort oi one. Since then they have wrought a . ire or more out of t'ie
natural resources, and cotton is still kin«. The South is now shipping co.d,
iron, and fuel oil to the North and Wc-\ and actually export-
ing steel products to the European counttu- There ts now scarccl> a
state in the Union that does not use her timber, and her exports of it an
continually bringing foreign gold into her bank-. In winter her vegetable-
gardens send their products far into the cold and ice of the North. Her
fresh fruits .ire a blessing to the buyers and a sour of revenue to the peopU
of the South.
The United States need never import another pound oi sugar if the -ugar
lands of the South be tilled and cropped in their full limit. The rice crop*
of the coast arc increasing in a manner to set the importers to wondering
how soon they must turn exporters. There is one by-product of the cotton
industry that occupies a large place in the commercial world. There arc in the
South 351 cottonseed oil mills. They crushed over 2,000,000 tons of cotton
seed last year and produced approximately qi,000.000 gallons of oil. This
was sold for upwads of 1 .ocxi.ooo; while 111 addition their oil cakes and meal,
hulls and linters brought the products of these mills up to $4-',000.000. The
South had one cottonseed oil mill in 1*14. only in 1H70. 45 in 1XX0, and imi
in iKjrv \ thrifty people who turned that waste into >4^.000.000 u year are iv
behind the people of any section of the nation.
This ^ VOflM "I the prosperity ol the South rht «lm BtlOR that
a corollary is, what can this section not do.'
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The democrats of Oklahoma have •i.'.-tiv
declared against the primary elcctioii j,1.'.' i,",j,,
-ystem, and now candidates for defeat , t ;
who think they stand better with the Kino tie?
man
A wealthy old Illinois gentleman died
the other day. His will contained .
bequest of $1,000 to a railroad conduct-
or "because oi courtesy." The old gen-
tleman had ridden often on the Alton mn- cs than with the bo-se
train of which liis conductor had ing a howl.
charge. He had learned the business
side of that conductor—had found h'm
a gentleman, a man who could be de-
pended upon to do what he might lor
the comfort and pleasure of his pas-
sengers. The testimonial to the
qualities of the railroad man was eh
quent with argument of the greatness
of the American hired man. In Lurope
train men are .servant-. I'hey are con-
firmed seekers after tip-. I lie train
man of the United State- is marly al-
ways a gentleman, lie kiw\' the ?X>-
portance and dignity of Ins t ntploj
nicut. The safe transportation of lo.ie
children across the continent is a Com
mon thing. It i-. sale because the men
who run the railroads arc lin n in the
broad sense. The American man who
works is a da-- by hi n-eli. The Amer-
ican method i- a revelation.
The
Hlver
The pessimistic clergyman who do
dared that a young man's chances of
going to the devil were never so bright
as now might have added that all of Im
the good other chance- are likewise enhanced.
\ Salina, Kansas, man was fined the
other day for killing a neighbor's ton
musical cat. According to the prevail-
ing superstition that is the first jolt he
w ill get in a long series of ill luck.
May first has been fixed upon for
the inauguratiiMi of the new Cuban
i;oveminent. Then treaties will be ne-
gotiated and United State- troops
withdrawn.
the
lis" tlllt
•-wH]iaiier8
I is re 1I1)
The German Reichstag has not be.
o impressed by the kindness of ti
United States for Prince Henry as
reduce the duty on American corn.
Senator Tillman accepted his censure
n spirit that could hardly be called
" 'meek. He told the senate that its
The young men and women who membership were not gentlemen.
teach country schools are working in 1 -
many instances bccau-e of a niis ion—
not because oi the coming of salary
day. The fire and energy and dcvottoi
of their lives are used to help children
become real men and women. A wo
man who taught in one school room
for fifty years lives in New York. She
was _'-i years old when she entered 1 !•.<-•
school room one October day and fac-
ed yo boys and girls, -lie 1- 74 n,,v':
Like the others :he lin.s had her hi of
romance, but she never married. Ihe
boy who asked permission to p : the
w afer 50 years ago. cnlk"l Ik r "Mi- s
Bruce." and his children's children call
her "Our Miss Bruce." I'hey can v *
much for this fine old lady who h:.s The man who know- how to mnk.;
worn herself out for the good of mat' people believe him is aware that it d< os
The M. K. & T. dirctlors will tnc f
in Guthrie next month. There will be
many other meetings hen- ior thi- is
headquarters.
At last Kitchener has made a killing
in South Africa. His victory at
Klerksdorp the other day was that 111
a double sense.
Kit
kin. She might have married but
felt that the children needed her—t
another would not understand th
ways—so she forgot herself and gavi
up the future that makes happine - iot
most women, and stuck to the book
and to the ta-k of making good ItlCl
out of mischevious boys and gran l wo-
men out oi awkward girls.
not pay to talk too much.
Even when men borrow trouble some
of them want to give their notes for it.
The democratic committee did think
for a time of taking the convention to
Marlboro or Langston, the only other
towns save Enid and Cordell that had
no candidates for '.he democratic nom-
ination, but Enid's offer, through the
agent of a brewery, to take off the
spigot from the beer keg and put on a
no/zle saved the day for that town.
I he man who sticks to one thing 1111-
j til he can't get away from it is tixe't.
I Education teaches men and women
to conceal the worst things :n them.
Colorado has arrived with
annual snowslidc fatality.
regular t.
It costs more than il conies to, to
right some wrongs.
OKLAHOMA PARAGRAPHS
It VI
month
would
velt.
as Senator Tillman who a few
ago said no self-respecting man
sit down at a table with Roose-
That was iu tin light oi the
Medford watits .•
Manchester km
oker T. Wi
senator is
1 to Roost
shington incident. Now
sore because his invita-
vclt - dinner was revok- ,
reinvention.
Fellows
itly
The insistence of the society
in -.tying that people were |HI
married" is remarkable. Such event#
are not generally characterized by the
turbulent scenes that arc supposed to
intervene between that ceremony and
the session oi the divorce court.
At the meeting oi the democratio
committee it was decided that no cm-
with a candidate should be consider-
ed in connection with the territorial
convention. This narrowed the con-
test down to Enid and Cordell.
Prince Henry asked the
American citizens of the Sat
give to the United State-
good qualities they brought
fatherland. I- there not
pomposity iu the remark?
German-
THE CAPITAL NA-
TIONAL BANK, OP
GUTHRIE, OK LA.,
OFFEESTO DEPOS-
ITORS EVERY FA-
CILITY WMICI1
THEIR BALANCES,
BUSINESS AND RE-
8PO N SiFtlLITY
WARRANT
A Nt wk'e
Wilt for t
ikluhoma.
Railroad camps hnv been established
• tie mil-- east of Hewitt and K'adinK Is <"i
ti earnest.
I'niioi city and l'ond < 'reek ntainl to
•s. their dai|> n. WMpajier8 if the tei.-i-
ichb men do not put up.
< "!■ Blackwell man paid nut ni c than
1 thousand dollaiH in one day last v- k
1 ' "s 1 !• 111 • lie was ,1 nlifpper.
Xcarlv every newspaper in Oklahoma
1 is published the Arbm- I ad priw-lanm-
nni uf tho governor. Tlu> people ah mi i
iced it.
e'uptuin Price of Hobart lt« a eandl>l.it.
I ■ >1 ti I >t" police Jlldne. tie li;i i ■
ivetl 7;; years and this is hitf lirs«t ef
In Poad O-eek a man wn« lined tts f a
I v. oiiIhk t" put on a home talent <h< w
What would they do with a profeuHlmia
Itrl lceport News: Thin has been a w.
• 'c 1,1 hema spring: weather and 1 ' •
number eastern people have mor. «
than they ever possessed !>• f r..
fashion Ailvance: Jamea K Sir
TteadinK rem w his subscription t<> 1
vance and the Weekly State r.ipltal
aa>H they aro household necessities.
The KinftflHhcr I r. • I >.r««ii^- |i
ills Flynn that he will not be turn". 1
t<> ret 1 e from congruiw. 'Hut. ar m-
.•thcrs like the Free Proas who set 1
value of ripe experience.
.-. townships
"'-tion belli
>>; colored 1 •
or the ••Dill-
lit lite thos
maps, per-
a d, it rmii
ne the 1har
pr< dymliii
itlnis In a".v
ie Terr to
r\ ;i nd eslt
and loci
linn of tlii
IT liMlit 11
raj purpost \
1 tlie loea
turn ami cx-
liiidm am
i lands suit-
lKt.ill Pos
t: Oklahoma
„■ StTVll'eS
.f I.lelegat'J
t In?
era
nee
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l' eal !• pre- | 1
nlng. because Mr. Flynn is putting
mln >• for < ngrt aa, row
. . IJ111 v el nit s Up O chorus 1-f
: 1 .)■ (us CI- I llll- 'I 1.lilt i < Meail-
!•■ tin aspirants are comlnn out "f
Woods. Iftitlv til f Ik lit thtoii'.h t hi- k
thin t'-u lie- delegates shoes. Ho
so much i f the comrrewitonnl run-
at for iicople in ihe new country, who
i 1 . throe 1 mei as much as con-
I, Ills III .III old -•« 111 • I Slate. That Im
s , nt it I* 'I 10 rest on h s laurels One
the:- days Okluht ni.1 will In com'
Then't hi le«!islaturi Will rew od
with a commission to come to th«
1 time saves ll\
u Syrup, natt
Is. puluiiiuary
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