The Prague Patriot. (Prague, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1905 Page: 1 of 10
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THE PRAGUE PATRIOT.
Volume 2.
A NEWSPAPER OF, BY. AND FOR PRAdUE AND VICINITY.
Prague, Lincoln County, Okla., Thursday, Jan. 20, 19G5.
Number 22
FRANK LEDER For Staple and Fancy Groceries.
RUSSIA IN THROES
OF REVOLUTION
The Russian Capital in State of Siege
===The Strike Spreading.
"Whom the gods would de
stroy they first make mad.'
Dissension at home ruined Rome
and its work has commenced in
Russia. Last we3k we read of
great strike in Russia, 58,000
rrenoutand the soldiers patrol-
ing the streets of St. Petersburg.
And on the 22nd a dispatch said
140,000 men would march on the
winter palace and demand the
right to deliver a petition to the
czar in person, and if they failed
t > attain this they would start a
revolution.
If ever a country needed a rev
olution and a reformation it is
Russia. Its history is one of
cruelty and oppression. Men
are forced into the war, torn
from the bosom of their families
to die in a far off country and
their families to starve and die
at home, and all that a few titled
parasites may prosper in specu-
lations in mining interests, for-
e-its and land grants. Many kill
their own wives and children
with little crucifixes i.i their
hands rather than leave them to
suffer, and then go with other
conscripts to die in a foreign land.
Women throw themselves upon
the track of the rushing train
and die, and men die upon the
battlefield cursing the czar.
The common people want no
war, only the rulers, and the
Christianized nations ought to
demand peace at once. Trie war
expense will burden the laborers
for generations to come.
Latek: Since writing the above
a revolution has developed in
Russia and several hundred men
and women killed and Wounded
in St. Petersburg. It cams as it
did in Prance when the streets
of Paris ran red with blood and
the kings life paid the penalty
As in London when the people
marched by thousands to lay
their grievances before the king
and women and children were
rode down beneath the feet of
cavalry. As in the land of the
Antiles of Cuba, indescribable
suffering prevailed among the
people. And now it is repeated
in Russia. Women and children
are fired upon who were match-
ing peaceably with the men
Accjrding to the latest reports
the strike is not confined to the
Russian capital, but is spreading
to every important city, and St.
Petersburg has been declared in
a st ite of siege.
Unless this is quelled Japan
will have peace and a czar s head
is in danger.
THOS. W. LAWSON
Fires Another Broadside
on the Subject of Fren-
zied Finance.
Wm. Grace, sheriff of Potta
He says in a few years ten men
will absolutely own the United
States and the people will all be
slaves to these ten men. It is
possible that many of the readers
of the Patriot remember that it
has in its columns gave like warn
ings of Rockefeller's influence,
which is the same thing in fact
as what Lawson calls the "Sys-
tem." Read what Lawson says
in part:
"You may ask if I desire to
convey the idea that the great
financial institutions and trusts
of this country, which have their
head center in Wall street, are all
concerned in a conspiracy to rob
the people of their savings," he
writes. "You think doubtless,
that so sweeping a statementgoes
beyond the truth. I declare to
go on record right here in d< -
claring that all such financial in-
stitutions which in any way are
engaged in takinc from the peo-
ple the money that is their bur-
plas earnings or their capital,
for the ostensible purpos of safe-
guarding it, or putting it in use
for them, or exchanging it for
stocks, bonds, policies, or other
paper evidences of worth, are a
part of the machine for the plun
dering of the people.
In the height of its prosperi
ity, the Louisiana lottery only
took from the people a paltry ten
or twenty million dollars a year,
while today there single groups
of banks, trust companies, coi-
porations and trusts which take
from the people by might, by-
trick and by theft hundreds of
millions each year, and there are
scores of such groups. The sugar
trust has been the instrument of
gathering in one year a hundred
million of the people's savings,
and the steel trust alone has rob-
bed the people of over $500,000,-
000 in a single twelve months.
ten men-will own country.
"It is only a matter of simple
mathematics to ascertain the day,
and that only a few years away,
when ten men will as absolutely
and completely be the legal own-
ers of the United States and all
there is of value in it, as John D.
Rockefeller is the absolute legal
owner of the large section of it,
of which he is today possessed.
"When that day is here the
1 people will legally be the slaves
watome county, passed through of these ten men.
town last Saturday with the no-! "If this is so—and it is assur-
torious Bob Avery and Charles edly so as it is that the constitu-
Tyner on his way to the county tion of the United States of
bastile. America guarantees to every
man, woman and child who is a
part of it perpetual freedom it
is so because the legal interest
alone to which the ten men will
be entitled and which they must
reserve (or our entire structure
will fall) will of itself bring to
their coffers all the wealth in ex-
istence within a given time.
"When one looks about, how-
ever, and notes happenings of
which one personally knows, and
the degradation and dishonor to
which public opinion is seeminc-
ly indifferent, nothing is incred-
ible.
"One sees a certain man open i
ly displaying $500,000,000. a sum
which represents the life earn-
ings nf 150,000 of our population,
and knows that this man has se-
cured this incredibleamountdur-
ing forty years of his life.
"One 6ees the second highest
and most honorable office in the
nation, a United States senator-
ship, openly bought for a few
stolen dollars by a man who up
to the very day of its purchase
was a watch repairer in a small
country town, and whohsd never
done a single meritorious deed,
or been possessed of worldly
goods to the extent of $5,000."
liOHEHlAN GIN.
The farmers are hereby noti
tied that I have toy gin in the
best of shape for the coming sea-
son, and will appreciate your
business. Iam prepared to buy
your cotton in the seed and pay
highest prices. B. P. Whitmore
is my buyer
P. N. L-ANik, Manager.
C. A. McNabb, who was super-
intendent of the agricultural and
horticultural exhibits for Okla
homa at the world's fair, was
committed to the county jail in
Oklahoma City because he would
not answer certain questions
while his deposition was being
taken in the probate court in a
law suit. Judge Burwell will
stand no monkeying.—State Reg-
ister.
For Sale.
A good furnished hotel with
good patronage, well located in
Prague, Okla., three lots and
eteer small buildings, everything
complete. Reason for selling, ill
health. For price and particu-
lars inquire or address P. O.
Kucera, at Lincoln County bank.
Prague. Okla
Go to the C. O. D. grocery and
meat mr.rket for everything
good to eat.
H. .JOSKY, Pre id Dt
F, E. Kingsbury, Pres. A. G. Rogers, Vice Pres.
II. I. Kingsbury, Cashier.
Lincoln County
BANK :
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C ash Capital, $10,000.00.
Surplus & Profits 4,000 00.
DIRECTORS
E. Foster, A. G. Rogers, A. P. Slover,
II. I. Kingsbury, F. E. Kingsbury.
Genera! Banking: Business Dore
Farm loans on our own examina*
tions. Quick money.
J Free Use of Fire Proof Vault for Storage of Valuable Papers
DON'T FORGET THE PLACE!
n
and above all things don't
forget that we have the larg-
est & best stock of dry goods,
clothing, and all kinds of
furnishing goods in the city.
THE LEADER,
M, Blumenthal, Manager.
J
E. L. (OKKI.IN, Vicf-Pre.ident.
GEO R. BUTTON, Otuhier
First National Bank
OF PRAGUE, OKLAHOHA.
Paid Up Capital, $25,000.00.
Transact^ all business that is consistent with safe banking—Your patronage solicited.
DIRECTORS P. S. Hoffman, president Union National bank, Chandler, Okla. J. B. Charles
president of the Stroud State bank. E. L. Conklin of the firm r Conklin & Grimm, Sac and Fox
Agency. H. Josey, manager Prague Townsite Company.
Responsibilily of StocKholders, $500,000.00.
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Overstreet, W. S. The Prague Patriot. (Prague, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1905, newspaper, January 26, 1905; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc146712/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.