Enid Daily Eagle. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 197, Ed. 1 Friday, May 14, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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PAGE FOUR.
EMI) DAILY EAOI.E, FRIDAY
1HE ENID DAILY EAGLE
Published every evening except Sun- |
day. by the Eagle Printing and Pub-i
Ushing Company.
w. I. DRUMMOND. . . .Pre*, nnd Misr.
Entered ac he postofflce at Enid,
Oklahoma, as second class matter.
Dully b> mall
Per Month
Three Months
Six Months
One Year
lesson and every citizen of Des
Moines who may some time aspire |
to become a councilman, namely, j
thftt the people are able to lix re-1
gponsibility, and that they have a
strong leading string bj which ti' !
can pull back any man who does not .
live up to the best there is in hipa.
It will be a long time in Des
Moines before there will be another!
attempt to do any important public
business excepting after the fullest
counsel and the most public discus-
sion.
WATTUItSOX ON THK KIHTOKI A I.
WKITKlt
Hy Carrier.
Per W..k t0«
Three Months (In Advance) ....$1.20
One Year (In Advance) $4 50
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Eastern Representative. William D.
Ward. Tribune. Uldg , New Ywrk City.
DIVOIM'K PETITION \l.LIGA-
TIONS
The law makes requirements in
tiling petitions lor divorce which
are very naturally misconstrued by
the public, the language conveying
an entirely different meaning from
that intended. For Instance. the
Kagle yesterday gave an account of
the Satterlee divorce suit in which |
the reporter stated that the action
was baaed on inhuman and cruel
treatment." As a matter of fact, I
while these allegations were neces-
sarily made in the petition in order;
to comply with the statute there was!
no inhuman or cruel treatment in
the usual meaning of these words
on the part of the defendant in this
case, though there was such action j
as in the eyes of the law constituted!
such treatment. The principal in
the case lived amicably together un-
til for reasons sufficient they sep-i
arated. The statutory allegations
convey a directly opposite idea of
their conduct.
The policy pursued in this case of
having the hearing secret and pro-
hibiting morbid curiosity from being
satisfied by listening to evidence of
no legtimate interest to the public
is a good one. Publicity has its
beneficial influence hut not when
that publicity relates to matters the
telling of which cannot possibly ben-
efit, the hearer or reader and may
do much harm. It would be just
as well if all divorce hearings were
kept secret.
•tJ.JL.
mi plan \ ini>i( \n:i>
Henry Watterson. in a recent is-
sue of the Louisville Courier-Journal
discusses ' Anonymous Letter Writ-
ing for Newspapers" from a point
of view directly opposite to that giv-
en by Dr. C. II. Parkhurst In writ-
ing on the subject for the Hearst
papers.
To the newspaper drudge the fu-
tility of all newspaper writing, says
the veteran editor, must often edge
its way into his tired fancy. The
best of it seems so quickly swallow-
ed by the ocean of currency, like
waves upon the beach, each day
succeeding the other to efface Its
existence. Words, words; even
thoughts, thoughts; what does it
matter?
Yet to those of us who live, move
and have our being in the grind of
daily journalism, and in none other,
It matters a great deal; so that, af-
ter a bit of rest—a night of sleep—
under the spur of the news of the
morning Maybe under the inspira-
tion of some principle, or dogma, or
measure-—we fake up the pen
again, and rush along the page, and
blot out and Interline, and read the
proof and revise It, amid the glow
of effusion and the glare, if not the
glory, of print, inwardly ex-
claiming: "Now, that is something
like!" to see the poor, ephemeral
thing, as a skyrocket, come down
like a stick, its coruscations lost
forever in the darkness of illimitable
space.
All of the great newspaper prop-
erties are passing into the owner-
ship of corporations or estates. As
a consequence h* opportunities for
individualism of any sort are few
They are likely to grow even rar-v
| still. Dr. Parkhurst's intimation
that they are edited from the count-
i ing room, however, is not necessar-
ily a reproach.
The editorial page Is valuable in
I the degree that it aids the reader to
I digest the news. Under the changed
conditions it is becoming if it has
i not already become, a rather useless
I appendage not even ornamental
reminding one of those of artificial
i flowers which at the more preten-
tious railway eating houses are
supposed to decorate the tables and
to deceive the wayfarer.
Yet ought It, after the exhilara-
tion—the distractions and excite-
ments of the news pages, to be as a
raised dais in the center of a great
hall, a seat of power and charm; an
has waked up the country. They
have distributed among their num-
ber the handling of particular sched-
ules of the bill, so that no one "in-1
surgent" need prime himself to meet J
Aldrieh and Suioot and Hepburn on |
the whole fighting line. Bristow or j
Kansas is assigned to lead ores and I
sugar, Cummins to iron and steel, j
ftolliver to woolens and cottons. Nel-
son to lumber, and so on- The plan
is working out in a way to revive I
hope that whether Senator Aldrieh i
carries his bill through or not, it |
must submit to very material
changes in these vital schedules in
conference, or the question of tariff !
revision will be taken up anew from i
the hour the bill becomes law in an 1
"appeal to the country." This has
been announced in open senate by
Dolliver, Bristow, Nelson. Clapp and j
Cummins separately as they have
taken part in the debate.
In discussing the iron and steel j
schedule Senator Cummins showed ■
that the l\ S. Steel corporation dur- j
ing the year of the panic declared '
dividends of 100 million dollars o:i I
a property worth (500 millions in
fact. He protested against congress
underwriting 10 per cent profits to i
the steel trust by an excessive tariff, j
The dividends the preceding year
were 17". millions. He showed that
at this time, follow ing a depression '
in business, the watered preferred '
stock of the company is selling on ;
the market 20 per cent above par.
He went through the schedule in
detail, cited prices and imports and
made an unanswerable case for low- j
er duties and for.free iron ore.
In his speech Senator Dolliver I
showed from the record that the |
woolen schedule was written, not by ;
the committee on ways and means !
In the house nor by the fin ace com-!
mittee in the senate, nor by-the cus-
tom house at New York, but by two
New England woolen manufacturers.
His exposure of the concealed "jok-
ENID LflulES PURCHASE
TABLECLOTHS AND
(Continued From Page One.)
I at an Enid store, but when one aver-
aged up the price on towels and table
cloths ii was very low, awful low in
fact. Any housewife could figure
I that out, and scores of Enid house-
: wives did. The agent sold about
j ten car loads of linen towels at five
< ents each and bath towels at ten
«ents each, and about one car load, '
more or less, of damask table cloths
j at the "evidence of sincerity" price
; above referred to. Fortunately, of
• ■ourse, the table cloths were deliv-
ered and paid for on the spot. Be-
ing out of the towels it was impossi-
ble to deliver them until some fu-
ture date. When they arrive scores
of Enid ladies will have a delightful
surprise for their husbands—when
they arrive.
NEW BANK 10 OPEN MONDAY
I While the new State Guaranty
1 Hank had planned to open tomorrow
! morning, the opening was today
postponed until Monday. The reason
for the change is that the furniture
i and other fixtures could not be in-
! stalled in time.
WILL APPEAL ANTHONY CASE
.1. M. Dodson and H. O. tllasser,
attorneys for Floyd Anthony, stated
today that they would file a motion
sometime today in the district court
for a new hearing of the Anthony vs.
Enid Planing Mill ease. If granted
this will make the fourth hearing of
the case which grew out of an aeei-
haracterized it, was the sensa-1 to Anthony In 1907. The three
He accused ! Jur,es have been very w ide apart in
their verdicts, the last one giving no
damages to the plaintiff.
Clothes Yojrtl Like to Wear
"/ like to wear Hart, Schaffner. Marx clothes
said a customer the other day who was trying
one of the celebrated makes, "they give me such
a feeling of comfort, a sensation of being well
dressed that is very pleasant, and how they do
wear!" This gentleman is not alone, others have
similar experiences who wear these garments.
Why? Because they are properly cut and tailor-
ed. Don't you want that kind of clothes? The
latest models are here.
We are Sole Agents
$20.00 to $35.00
Other Makes $10.00 to $18.00
We are showing a line of Cravenette
Mohair Suits, something new. The
very thing for summer at .
$20
I elevation from which to survey the
-This row down at Des Moines ghow, having its lights ad-
does not, as some carping critics im-j justed t),e better to set forth this
agine, disclose weakness in the com-1 |lU!i8jnft shoWi and )tli relulv chorus
mission plan of government. Rather; lo explain It?
it reveals how the commission plan An editorial page thus conceived
provides a remedy for every dis-|und executed COuld not fail to im-J
tresslng situation, for it presents th
opportunity to bring forward one o
the
most excellent feature
and
i press itself upon the thought of (he
i time, at once an arm of the service
and a commercial
that one which provides for the re-j humble anonymous writer
call of Incompentent or dishonest or'^ not ji^ely long to remain either
negligent officials. The commission j i,umble or anonymous, either ob-
plan is all right." Sioux City Trib-i scure or poor, if he has something
une. of special value to communicate to
The Tribune is perfectly right in | the public and knows how to put it
this view of the workings of the
Des Moines city government, replies
the Des Moines Register and Leader
to the above* it Is the strength of
the plan rather than the weakness,
that differences sufficient to wreck
many business organizations have
not persunded a single member of
the council to definitely propose
anything or vote for anything that
would waste a penny of public
money.
The Des Moines public will not
fail to take notice that throughout j manded a greater premium, per-
all the debate, amidst criminations haps. But the throng is not even
and recriminations, the business in- yet so great that rare men doing
ferests of Des Moines have been I good work ma> be shut out from
conserved. There will probably : (he public view.
never be any plan that will make
for what it is worth.
The old personal journalists such
as Greeley and Prentice, Raymond
and Forne\. .James Gordon Bennett
and Same Bowles and Father Ritchie
were exploited In spite of them-
selves. Each of them was first of all
true to his tlag. The triumphs of
each were due to himself and after
their kind. But they were very
marked men. They lived in times
and places less crowded than now
Individuality was easier and corn-
disputes among men impossible. K
is certainly a very meritorious plan
that holds men who are In dispute
to the muln purpose of their em-
ployment.
While the impression may go
abroad that Des Moines has lapsed
back into the same old rut under
the new plan, the judicious and dis-
criminating observer will discover
that with every inducement to bad
management the city will get its
new city hall on time, will get it
under the best possible supervision
for the city's Interests, and will get
it at an honest cost
Moreover this confab has taught
every member of the city council a
TACTICS OF IHI WI STKIIN
SENATORS
"I never enjoyed anything so
much in my life," Senator Tillman
remarked of Dolliver's speech on the
woolen and cotton "Jokers" in Sen-
ator Aldrlch's tariff The democrat^
are "innocent bystanders" of the
contest on within the majority ranks
In the senate. They are letting the
republican Insurgents fight it out.
nnd the Western insurgents are
showing a skill of tactics that com-
mands admirntion.
There are about 12 Western
"downward" revisionists who have
adopted a system of attack which
ers" in this "preposterous'* schedule
as he
tlon of the debate. He accuse
Senator Aldrieh of being ignorant of
the effect of the "jokers" in his own I
bill and of getting his daily coach- >
ing from a lobby of woolen and cot- j
ton men whose swarming in the cor- |
ridors of the Capitol, he said, was j
"disgusting to every self respeetin
senator."
Senator Bristow showed that on i
the testimony of members of the I
Finance committee the total cost of j
smelting lead ores is $ 1 li.•">0 per ton. j
and he cited a representative oT the j
Smelting trust as testifying that it j
did not average over $7.50 a ton. |
while the duty affixed at that point. |
in addition to the duty of $30 a ton
on ore, intended to cover the "dif-
ference" in wage-cost at home and
abroad is $12.00 a ton, or more than
the total cost, let alone the platform
standard of "difference in wage-
cost."
Senators Nelson, McCumber and
LaFollette are yet to be heard from
on schedules assigned to them. The
insurgent senators "mean business"
In their well planned attack- It is j
a tactical arrangement that centers i
fire first on one schedule in dispute j
and then on another.
But what it demonstrates beyond j
anything else, is the absurdity, as j
Dolliver noted in his brilliant speech
of the congressional method of mak- i
Ing tariff laws. In desperation these j
opposing senators have undertaken |
to make themselves experts on one j
schedule each. The main body or
the senators sit by, mouth agape, in I
silent awe and wonder, that any-!
body In the United States senate j
outside of Mr. Aldrieh has the te-!
merity to imagine it possible to
comprehend any single schedule in '
the monumental mystery of the j
Chinese puzzle known as a general
tariff bill. As the senior Iowa sen-
ator remarked In closing his speech
lie would first vote for the Bever-
idge bill for an expert tariff com-
mission, that being lost, as he ex-
pected it to be, he would vote for a
democratic bill to the same effect,
and when that was lost, as he knew
It would be, he would move a bill
of his own for a tariff commission
in the identical words of a bill in-
troduced twenty years ago by Allison
and Aldrieh.
Naaine Face Powder
Produces a Beautiful Cnmp'^xion.
Soft velvety
Remains until wa.«hec
off. Purified by t
newly discovered pro-
cess. Harm leu a.
water. Prevent! ^ rc
turn o( diwoloraticns
(In green bcxe# only.
Buy one 50c. pack-
age and mane:* will 1
^ ^ refunded if you®an
ot entirely satisfied. Tints White, Flesh
3ink, Brunette. By leading druggista or mail
reo d by NATIONAl TOILCT CO., Paris. Ten
Sold by Corry Pharmacy and Peer-
less Drug Co.
It Is a pleasure to hear Herbert F.
Briggs; the opportunity will be
yours on next Thursday afternoon
and evening at the Loewen opera
house. 5-12-1
Clothiers
Straw and
Panama
Hats
$
ENID, OKLA.
Your Money
is only on
Deposit
when you
buy Goods
of Us
"ENID COAL" 10 BE ADVERTISED
"On practically every pound of
coal that leaves the Henryetta mines
and is distributed over Oklahoma,
Kansas and elsewhere a boost for
Enid will be uttered, and arrange-
ments are being made to advertise
the Henryetta coal as Enid coal ex-
tensively."
So said John McDonald, former
president of the McDonald Coal com-
pany last night before returning to
Henryetta after transacting business
here in the interests of the coal com-
pany.
On May IS the Henryetta mine
opens and over sixty miners and as-
sistants will be given employment.
Later the force will be increased.
Don't forget to pay telephone bills
by the 15th and avoid having your
telephone service discontinued.
Another two days special sale in
the ladies' ready-to-wear section at
Kennedy's. See ad. on last page. It
53 INQUIRIES IN ONE OAK
Enid is certainly becoming known
all over the country. Yesterday fif-
ty-three inquiries were received at
the Chamber of Commerce for data
about Enid. Secretary Cunningham
of the Chamber of Commerce in ans-
wering them sent each inquirer a
copy of The Eagle Special Edition.
Today at noon over thirty inquiries
had been received.
Fifty Linene Wash Suits
r
<r'^.
V. j
For this May Sale,
SATURDAY and MONDAY ONLY
Specially Priced for
Saturday sM Monday
. . Selling -
Wash Suits that portray the latest features
in practical apparel for this summer's wear.
These garments are remarkably pretty, artisti-
cally trimmed in contrasting shades, with Repp
and buttons, giving that extreme rich effect.
Blue, Brown, Tan and Lavender stripes and
Plain Colors.
We consider these Suits Exceptionally
Dressy and Remarkably Cheap.
A $7.50 Suit
S4.501
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