The Chandler Publicist. (Chandler, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 12, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, July 7, 1905 Page: 4 of 8
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their training and they will miss no op- been secured, there must of necessity re
portunity to further their own private in- main important questions which it may
terests when they meet to usher in the require years of experience and continu-
new state. They are busy and hustling ous discussion to dispose of in the most
andjwill wnte the new consitution if we satisfactory manner. For this reason it is
don't wake up. and then when it is all apparent that provision should be made
over the workers will go begging for in the constitution itself and therefore in
privileges. the preliminary draft at the Oklahoma
.... iiil .L 1 City convention for the continuous dis-
lt is acknowledged that the workers
. * , „,, , .. cussion and mature consideration of all
have made Oklahoma to blossom as the .
.... ill questions anecting the interests of the
rose. And if we look about us we can . . .
, i . .. . . , people insofar as those questions must not
see the rose in the capitalists button hole. ,, I, . , / , . .
■ i n i .l . i be determined tinallv before the admission
The capitalists tell us of the great pros-
. _., , . . , ot the two terntones to statehood.
pentv in Oklahoma. How much pros- ,
■ 1 he people should be left free to make
penty, Mr. \\ orkingman. does your in-1 .
. V ti a. their own laws as well as to amend the
dividual bank account showJ Honestly i . ' •
consbtubon as orien and as radically as
zine had made a brilliant start and it is
to be hoped that the publication will be
kept up to the standard it had establish-
ed for itself.
That broken sidewalk on Ninth street
has not been fixed vet.
T£ Publicist.
M IIS. W H. FRENCH
Editor, and Publisher
PUBUCISJ 'phone 28
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THE CONSTITUTION
FOR THE NEW STATE.
(By J. E. Snyder.)
The question is always answered in
the affirmative when you ask the Ameri-
can citizen if the people make the con-
stitutions for the states of America.
A certain part of the people are sure
to be on hand when the writing of "our
constitution" takes place, but who will
they be? Will it be the farmers and the
wage workers? I can see the lawyer,
the doctor, the business man and the
politician smile at the question; as if
farmers and wage workers would know
how to write a state constitution!
Now, Mr. Farmer and Mr. Wage-
worker, just how much do you know
about it? How much independent
thought have you given the subject, and
do you feel that you have any interest in
the subject? Could you write a consti-
tution for the state of Oklahoma?
The capitalist will be at the constitu-
tional convention, of course, through his
chief representative, the lawyer, (who
will have the biggest say.) So will the
small business man to see that the big
fellows don't get all the privileges. The
doctor will be there to shut out all those
who would dare propose a new science
of health restoration. The politician will
be there to see that his opportunity for
"pie and boodle" shall not perish.
But the farmer and the wage worker,
where will they be? Why, they wil|
be at home so busy at work that they
will have no time to waste in making
constitutions to their own interests, this
being too small an item for them to
bother the.r heads about. What con-
cern have they in the regulation and
operation of a state? They have fallen
into the way of thinking that this is not
in their line.
now, have you bought a new spring suit
for each of the boys and a nice, pretty
hat and summer dress for each of the
girls? And that new dress your wife
has been wanting ever since the country
opened? And, well, have you bought
anything for yourself? If you have what
did you mortgage to get the money?,
I Mr. Workingman, (that includes you,
j Mr. Farmer) how about that constitu-
tion anyhow, what ought to be in it for
I your benefit?
Who owns the machinery of distribu-
tion, the money, the credits, the markets,
the great manufacturing establishments
today? Who gets most benefit from
them? Did you say the capitalists own
them and necessarily get the most bene-
fit? How comes it that the capitalists
got all these things? Did the capitalists
make them? Do the capitalists run
them? Do they ever stay about and
manage them? Is it not a fact, Mr.
Workingman, that the workers of the
world make the machines, run them,
raise and dig raw matenal to supply
them and furnish from their ranks men to
manage them? If you stop to think a
minute you will reach this conclusion:
That the product of the workers of
Oklahoma made Oklahoma what it is
today, and that those who work the
workers (the capitalist and his flunkies)
have used the product of the workers of
Oklahoma to make Oklahoma and have
feathered their own nests while at the
building, so they now own almost the
the necessity may require.
All the business interests will be repre-
sented in the gathering at Oklahoma
City as they should be, and the great
corporate interests, a necessity which is to
be regretted. But also to a considerable
extent there will be a representation of
the farmers and the miners and the me-
chanics of various crafts in this conven-
tion. Reformers have insisted on one
demand with remarkable unanimity of
recent years recognizing the great neces-
sity for the reform demanded. This is
the initiative and referendum. It was
embraced in the Chicago platform of the
national democratic party. It saved La
I' ollette from defeat in the republican
state of Wisconsin. It was one of the
first demands of the people's party; it is
one of the leading demands of the
•American Federation of Labor, and has
been favored by Farmers' Alliance,
grange and union ever since the farmers
began to organize for political work. It
is in effect the survival of the old town
meeting of New England, the tribal
councils of the ancient Saxons and the
popular assemblies of the early Greeks
as well as a fundamental proposition of
international socialism by which it is
ought to revive popular self govemmens
throughout the civilized world.
In its application to the peculiar situa-
tion of the people in Oklahoma, and in
the authority of the present demand, as
well as in the time honored history of the
principle, the initiative and referendum
While the coal mines in the Indian
territory are so cheap it might* pay the
government to buy a few. This would
give the authonties • complete control of
the situation whenever the bust should
have bouble with the miners of the gen-
eral public. " It might even pay Okla-
homa to buy some of them.
The lawyers should not expect to do
all the talking nor the editors all the writ-
ing when it comes to the scratch in the
constitutional convention.
It don't pay to buy all the people.
That's the reason the initiative and refer-
endum is unpopular with corrupt poli-
ticians.
The Indians may be swindled out of
the coal mines and the citizens of Okla-
homa made to pay exorbitant prices for
their fuel.
The farmers will cultivate the acquaint-
ance of their delegates to the constitu-
tional convention here tomorrow.
The country people want the town
people to tell them what's the matter
with the initiative and referendum.
The people should make the laws and
force the politicians to observe them.
Other reforms would be easy if the
people had the making of the laws.
Tomorrow the eagle will scream. Also
the small boy who gets hit.
enbre territory and have a mortgage on . , , ,
, , , . , . . proposition must appeal to the people ot
the rest. Had the wcrkers done their , . . . • l ■ • i
own thinking and owned tlx r own mar-
kets as well as the machines of produc-
tion and distribution they would be
better 08 today. Don't you think so?
Who should Oklahoma be for? You
answer "the workers." What must the
workers do to get Oklahoma? Think
for themselves, organize, study the inter-
ests of the workers, attend the constitu-
tional convention and write the constitu-
tion. Come now, let's do it.
THE PEOPLE WILL
GOVERN THEMSELVES.
The essential object of the constitu-
tional convention at Oklahoma City is to
submit to the congress and people of the
United States in advance of statehood,
and to facilitate its attainment, a formal ex-
pression of the ideas of the people of the
two territories on the subject of state gov-
ernment as they would have it.
Peculiar in all things Oklahoma is par-
ticularly distinguished from all the other
states by the extraordinary circumstances
under which she seeks admission to the
American union.
The conditions which prevail in the
country at large are reflected strongly in
the two territories which it is proposed to
1 join in a state and to the people of the
country at large as well as all the powers
that be with more force than anv pro-
posed section of the proposed state con-
stitution.
It will be presented in the Oklahoma
City convention and supported by the
effective argument which is made for the
initiative and referendum in the interest
of popular self government in this great
democratic republic in which the will ol
the people has been so often overriden
by the purchase of their representatives
in legislative assemblies.
It will be presented at the seat of the
national government in full view of all
the corporate politicians whose plans it is
proposed to disconcert.
It will be presented in the real consti-
tutional convention of the new state of
Oklahoma and as often as necessary in
every state convention of reformers and
every municipal, county and township
convention and in every state and local
election until the measure is made a part
of the organic law and until it is put in
practice so completely as to be thorough-
ly understood.
Th« people of Oklahoma know how
the two territories and the destiny of the
. new state will be affected in a marked to govern themselves aid are determined
Atthe consbtutional convention there by ^ ^ problflm of the ( ^ ^ be ^ ^
will be 40 per cent lawyers, 25 per cent times no ^ ^ by (he pecullar con
business men, 20 per cent doctors. 10 j which hgye been created here by | dom« so'
per cent farml and 5 per cent wage | circumstances over which they have had
workers. And you, Mr. Farmer and ^ contro|
Mr. Workingman. you number 85 per '°wold ,he p^ple of Oklahoma
will have more political problems to deal
with in the formation of their state con-
cent of our population and all the others
only 1 5 per cent. But the I 5 per cent
get 85 per cent of the representation,
and you, the 85 per cent of the people,
THE PEOPLE W.-vNT
A CHANCE
will get the 1 5 per cent of same. In [)een wise (0 defer the discussion of the
state constitution until statehood should
have been secured, but the idea of pre-
i senting to congress a document in which
The people of Oklahoma ought to be
secured in the right to manage their
stitution than the people of any state that j „ . , ■ . ,
. . . Ill affairs and conduct economic retorms
! has ever been admitted. It might have
whose interests would a flea make a con-
stitution anyhow? In the interests of the
dog?
The only way the working class will
get a working man's constitution is to get
busy from now until the time of the state
convention—study and determine what
kind of a state is best for the working
the views of the people should be repre-
sented seems to have met with favor.
But this document which is to inform the
people of the United States as well as
their representatives in congress and the
class. Your investigations will lead you president who will be asked to sign the
to see that it should be a state governed statehood bill must be genuine in order
by the workers instead of the shirkers; to be effective. It must truly represent
that it should be a state for the people the views of the people of Oklahoma.
by the people and not for the "dear"
people (the middle class) by the poli-
tician.
It is useless to waste time blaming the
capitalist and the business man, the doc-
tor, the lawyer and the politician for get-
ting possession of the convention. It is
All this is pertinent to one point. This
is that no matter how great may be the
ability and patriotism of the delegates to
the present Oklahoma City convention;
no matter how much greater may be the
wisdom of the real constitutional conven-
tion which is to meet after statehood has
interests whose baneful influence on
legislators has been so woefully exhibit-
ed in various state capitals of late.
To this end the initiative and referend-
um proposition will be presented at the
Oklahoma City convention July 12. A
section providing for the initiative and
referendum should be inserted in the
constitution of the new state in accord-
ance with demands of the progressive
portions of the democratic and republi-
can parties, the American Federation of
Labor, the different farmers organizations
and a leading principle of international
socialism.
W. A. axwell has sold the Okla -
homa Magazine to R. A. White of the
Farmers' Magazine and will make Den-
ver his home. The Oklahoma Maga-
Clfmate and Crop Conditions,
Oklahoma City, July 5, 190'i
For week ending July 3, 190-Y
• liE.NKKAL SUMMARY.
General precipitation, moderate to
heavy in character, occured on June
30th, July 1st and 2nd, and local
showers on June 2'tith, 27th and 29 h.
All growing crops were greatly ben-
efited and the ground was placed it
fine condition tor fall plowing, which
is now in progress.
Wheat thrashing was delayed but
progressed at intervals, with poor to
fair yields reported.
Oat harvest progresses with fair to
good yields of a good quality secured.
Broom and Kaffir corn, cane, millet
a d maze made good growth: millet is
being secured.
Corn is generally laid by, is silkiDg,
tasseling and earing out well, and
making good growth; some cjrn was
laid by in the grass, but generally the
crop is in a clean condition, and very
promising. .
Cotton is mostly chopped to a
stand, with the early squaring, bloom-
ing and fruiting well: web worm dam-
age is about over, and the crop, where
clean, is making a good growth and
doing well.
Hay harvest is in progress with a
good yield and quality. Alfalfa is
making a good growth. Pastures and
range grass are in tine condition and
stock is doing well.
Potatoes continue to give fair to
good \i#lds, but digging is being de-
layed .
Fruit, grapes and be.ries are in fair
to good condition. Berries are yield-
ing abundantly, while fruit is ripen-
ing.
Following are the reports from Lin
coin and adjoining counties:
Lincoln, Oklahoma and Canadian.
—Rains benefited all crops, but de-
layed work: wheat being threshed with
poor to fair yield and quality; oats
being harvested: corn benefited by
rain^and making good growth, mostly
laid by:.cotton blooming and squar-
ing and mostly chopped, in good con
dition but damaged some by worms
and wet weather: potatoes a good
crop; kafircorn doing well; pastures
good and stocic doing well; apples a
fair prospect.
Cleveland apd Pottawatomie.—Good
rains benefited crops: wheat beinj;
threshed with a poor yield and qual
ity: oats harvested with fairtogood
yields; corn tasseliug and forming
e rs and doing well; cotton blooming
aud mostly chopped oik to a stand
and doing well: potatoes gave a good
yield: grass Uue and stock doing well;
berries are givlne good yields. „
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FRISCO SPECIALS
Special excursion to Eureka Springs
nnd return July 18, 1905. Tickets will
be on «a!e at for round trip July
18, good for leu days for return, leav-
ing time of train 11:55 a. m.
International Sunday School con-
tention, Toronto, Ont., June 20-27,
1905. Tickets will be on sale June 18,
19, 21 and 22, 1905. Final return limit
June 30. Rate, «ne first class fnre
plus $2 for round trip.
International Couvention United
Society of Christ'an Endeavor. Balti-
more, Md., July 5 10, 1905. Tickets
on sale July 1, 2 and 3, at ore fare for
round trip plus *2. Pinal re urn limit
July 15, 1905.
Annual meeting imperial counei
| Ancient Arabic Order o. \1 vatic
Shrine, Niagara Fails, N. V , June
20-23, 190'i. One fare plus $2 &>r rouad
trip. Dates of sale Junn IT, 19, in-
clusive. Final limit June 2.. 1905.
Special srminer tourist rates to re-
sorts in ihe southeast:rate of one fare
plus $2 for the round trip to vaiious
resorts in the southeast, return limit
60 days from date of sale. See Frisco
ticket agent for destinations to which
we ran sell.
•Summer tourist r*ites to Colorado
Utali ami Wyoming, season 1905.
Denver, $22.55; Colorado Springs,
$21 GO; Puehl. , $21.60; Glenwood
Spriogs. 133 00. Ogden, Salt Lake
City, Utah; Graud Junction, Colo.;
| Uaw!iu8 and Walcott, Wyo., $35.55.
Ti kets on sale daily June 1 to Sept.
30, return limit 00 days from date of
; sale, bv* not later than Oct 31, 1905.
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Lewis & Clark Centennial exposi-
i tion, Portland, Ore., .iune 1 toOct.*15.
| Cheap rates to Portland and other
Pacific coast points, account of above
occasion. For rates and dates of sale
>nqulre of ticket agent.
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Summer tourist ra'es to Ho* Springs
MSCALL/^
PATTERNSVly
McCall's Patterns for sale at
HEINEMANN'S
Clwodlar, Okla.
Ark., Siloam Springs, Ark., and El
Dorado Springs, Mo , season o( 1901).
Tickets on sale; daily from June 1 to
: Sept. ,10 at one fare plus t- for round
trip. Limit 30 days from date of sale,
| One way drat class rates to Port-
land, Ore.: Tacoma. Seattle and Bell-
ingham, Wash., and Victoria and
Vancouver, B. C.: tickets on tale
, daily at *40 .60 to above poiDts until
' Sept. 30
lit acres well improved near corpor-
ation line of Springfield, Mo., to ex-
change for a farm in Lincoln county.
Lincoln County Abstract Co.
For Exchange.
A good hotel proposition in Chand-
ler to exchange for a farm in Lincoln '
county.
Lincoln County Abstract Co.
We have at all times houses for lent
aid for sale.
Lincoln Co Abstract Co.
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