Garfield County Democrat. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 19, 1906 Page: 4 of 8
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THE GARFIELD COUNTY DEMOCRAT
E. P. Moo e, Publisher,
Published Every Wednesday at Enid, Olfla.
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The Dkmochat'S 'Phone is No. 384.
DECEMBER 19 1906.
Entered a* steond class matter October 25, 1906, at Eaid, Ok la.
under the act of congress of March 3, 1879.
Fok Governor ok Oklahoma.
DK. M. A. KELSO.
SUBURBAN RAILROADS-
There is one sort of enterprise that the people
can well afford to aid and encourage in every
reasonable way. Until one or more suburban
electric roads traverse the broad highways throujrh
ncar|v every township in (iarfield county and
Oklahoma, the people will not be permitted to
enjoy that measure of prosperity, comfort and
happiness which it is possible for them to possess.
No agent of modern civilization has been more
potent in making- life attractive in rural communi-
ties, than the electric railroad. Thousands of
rural communities have the past few years been
transformed by the electric car, and cities and
■vilages given new life and every artery of trade
has throbed with* quicker pulsations. Where
-these life inspiring enterprises have penetrated,
suburban property doubled and thribled in value.
Conditions in Garfield county are ripe for the
development of surburban electric railway systems.
It needs but the touch of enterprise to cause these
systems to spring into a life of activity. If the
people pursue a liberal policy, based upon con-
ditions so favorable and so substantial as those
which exist in Garfield county and in fact the whole
of Oklahoma, the money will be forth coming to
■build these roads. In fact in all the broad range
of investment, no enterprise is more attractive and
inviting to capitalists than suburban electric
railway building and none have proven more profit-
cable and satisfactory the past five years. But
however greatly investors have profited, their
gains were insiguificent compared with the gains of
the communities penetrated by the roads.
It will be unfortunate if the convention at Guth-
rie in its commendable efforts to erect constitution-
al barriers against the lawless greed of corporate
interests, shall atthesame time unwittingly prohibit
the aid and encouragement needed for ulevelopement
of suourbar. electric railways.
STREET CARS.
The population and the business of Enid have ob-
tained such preportions as will justify the building
of an electric railway system. No one will deny
the correctness of that proposition. If there be
any who douut that the electric cars traversing the
give a new impulse to business
add to the convenience and the comfort of the peo-
ple and make life better worth living and vastly
increase the volume of our wealth, it is because
they have not been acquainted with the transfor-
mation brought about in other towns and cities by
these powerful agents of progress. We expect
the pa rites who put through these improvements
will make a good deal ot money, but however large
may be their gains, they will be small compared
with the gains of the people of Enid.
The City Council can therefore well afford while
dealing with this problem, to show such a spirit of
fairness and liberality as will insure the success
of the enterprise. As we have indicated above
street cars here iu Enid will pay and pay well. 1 he
city is large enough to support the enterprise, while
there are few towns in the country and none in
Oklahoma that give promise of more rapid growlh
in the future. But these are not the only consid-
erations that invite capital. Between all public
service corporations and the people there must
always be intimate and intricate relations. At all
times in the future matters will present themselves
for adjustment. Such action indicates a narrow
and an illiberal spirit of the people will drive in-
vestors to other fields and cause communities
where such a spirit is shown to be shunned as the
plague spots of Egypt. No such spirit exists in
Enid and we apprehend that the Council will do
nothing to indicate that such a spirit does exist
here.
On another page will be found the message of
the president just sent tc^congress relative to Porto
Rico. It will be gratifying to Democrats to know
that the constitution is at last following the flag.
The position taken by the president iu favor of
conferring full citizenship upon the Porto Ricans
will be approved except that it ought not to be
described as the conferring of citizenship. The
bill ought to simply recognize that the Porto Ri-
cans now possess full citizenship by virtue of the
fact that they are a part of the United States. In
1900 the Democrats insisted that the constitution
keep company with our flag wherever that flag
floated over American territory. The democrats
insisted then and insist now that we can not proper-
ly have difterent kinds of citizenship—full citizen-
ship in ilie United States, semi-citizenship in Porto
Rico and vassalage in the Philippines. There is
no twilight zone between citizenship and the condi-
tion of the suUject. Democrats will rejoice in this
new recognition of the correctness of the democrat-
ic position.
Porto Rico ought to have a territorial govern
ment, reserving the right to add to the territory
from time to time as conditions may require. When
Porto Rico became a part ot the United S4ates she
had representation in the Spanish legislature, and
■while it will be some time before the people of
Porto Rico are ready for statehood, they ought to
have the territorial form of government and a
delegate in congress.—The Commoner.
The above will be received by all fair minded
men as a fair statement of the conditions so far as
they relate to the insular problem, but it is hoped
that no such mistake will be made as that which
turned loose upon the devoted people of the south
of horde of black brutes unfit for the exercise of the
a suffrage.
THE LOBBY-
Much needless alarm is manifested because of
the swarm of lobbyists and grafters hovering
around the convention at Guthrie and the lear is
expressed that the convention will be utterly de-
moralized bv these birds of evil omen. We expect
the timid ones are persons little aiquainted with
other law making bodies. Every sort of a law
making body is embarrassed by swarms of people
attempting to influence legislation, many of whom
are trying to promote dishonest schemes, but the
largest number are those who reallyare or think they
are better law makers, than the persons chosen to
do that work. It will not do to conclude that
eveiy lobbyist is a dishonest man, though he is
often a mistaken one, and generally as a rule the
law makers had better be left free to do their work
without interruption from the gang of schemers
and fake reformers. It will not do to conclude
that the convention at Guthrie -will be very greatly
influenced bv one class or the other of the lobbyists.
No constitutional convention ever before called to-
gether is faced by so many delic ate and intricat-
problems, and whatever may be its final action, the
oudest hovls will be heard from the dishonest schem
Irs and the fake reformers, whose schemes have
failed. But we need not fear for the outcome at
Guthrie. The convention is iu the main made up
of capable, honest and strong men, whose influence
will dominate and whatever is done will be well
done.
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Picked Apples for Your Christ-
mas Supplies.
New York Brokers.
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ARE
THEY
WITH
"DONE"
IT?
It is amnsing to find from their own admissions
that many of the fake reformers writing from
Guthrie predicting dire results from the presence
there of swarms of lobbyists, are themselves at-
tempting to lobby through the convention measures
of questionable character and doubtful expediancy.
The New Press, a republican
paper, says: "The American
people are done with this system
of unrestrained corporations de-
priving a whole nation of its
rights and liberties while the cor-
porate powers declare that their
privileges are scared as their pro-
tection in them by the constitu-
tion is indefeasible. And if the
corporations and their legal re-
tainers can not see what every one
else sees blazoned in the skies,
the Ameriean people are also done
arguing with them. They have
only the answer of Napoleon to
the stupid Archduke of Austria
who, slaves of worn-out for-
malities, could not comprehend
the fact of the French republic.
•France,' said Napoleon, just at
the moment he was crushing the
shell of Austrian pretensions un-
der his irresistible heel, 'is like
the sun; so much the worse for
him who can cot see it!'"
If the American people are
really anxious to be "done with
this system of unrestrained cor-
porotions depriving a whole
nation of its rights and liberties"
then they will remove Irom
power the party which habitually
dervies its campaign fund from
these same corporations fand
habitually legislates in their
favor
If You Want the Very Best
We Have the Goods that stand the
Test
The Medford Patriot has a well written and
lengthy article deploring the demoralizing antag-
onisms that the people too often manifest against
the railroads, with which we agree in the main.
The railroads are uecessary. Without the aid of the
railroads the development of Oklahoma would
hardly have been possible. But the most progres-
sive railway managers will now aumit that govern
mental supervision had become necessary, to cor
rect many of the evils that have fastened them-
selves upon railway operation. One year ago the
railways of Ohio were a unit against a two cent
fare. Notwithstanding the legislature established
that rate, and now the experience of the past sum-
mer has shown that the roads made more money
under a two cent rate than formerly when charging
three cents a mile.
The fedral relations committee of the Constitu-
tional Convention of which Hon. Charles Moore of
Enid, is Chairman has reported in favor of an in-
come tax. Unfortunately in the United States the No issue will be raised on the question of state
burden of taxation has borne the most heavily upon rights, some of our frantic republican exchanges 1o
those the least able to pay. It needs no argu- the contrary, notwithstanding. These papers
ment to shov that men with the largest incomes when ever the words "states rights are uttere go
have profited the most from our system of govern- into hysterics, tlieir distorted visions repealing to
ment which is supported by the taxation of tl'e I nem the old and bloody phantom of secession again
people. Common justice, every consideration o the'sfrilrir • through the land. 'I bat issue was forever
How is This?
I never took a newspaper that
did not pay me more than I paid
for it. One time an old friend
started a paper way down South
and sent me a copy, and I sub-
scribed just to encourage him
and after a while it published an
order to sell a lot at public auct-
ion. So I inquired about the lot
and told my friend to run it up
to $50. He bid the lot off at $38,
and sold it in less than a month
for $100, so I made $62 clear by
taking the paper. My father
told me that when he was
young man he saw a notice in a
paper that a school teacher was
wanted away off in a distant
country and he went and got the
situation, and a little girl was
sent to him, and after a while
she grew up sweet and beautiful
and he married her. Now if he
had not taken that paper what
do you suppose would have be-
come of me? I would have been
some other fellow, or maybe I
wouldn't have been at all.—Bill
Arp.
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W. T. Overton, Prop.
rights of humanity requires, and the princif .'s o
our government demand that the burdens of tax
ation be more justly distributed, aud an income tax
seems to promise to do this,
Of the seventy nine coal dealers at Omaha indie
ted on the charge of being members of a coal trust
conspiracv, S. D. Howell, the president of the
alleged trust has been tried and found guilty. The
prosecution I will demand separate trials for the
other seventy eight alleged members of the trust.
And still perhaps there is work for the grand juries
in numerous other cities.
... ^ t decision of the sword in the war of
the rebellion. North and south both stand ready
to maintain that decision. And the people both
north and south, admit all other rights of the
states.
In the news columns of this paper will be found
the statements of Mr. Roy Hoffman giving his
reasons for resigning from the Democratic territo-
rial committee. It may require some weeks tor the
Democratic papers to digest his reasons, as given,
for the movement. He is said to be a candidate
for the U. S. Senate. He is a capable gentleman
Our elegant monthly '"Land-
Buyers Guide Magazine," we
send free to anyone, who will
write us that they wish to buy a
farm. You must mention in
what state and county you are
thinking of buying, and we wil
send this magazine, full ol good
stories, and choice bargains free.
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Striking Facts About American lie:'
roads.
There are 204,000 miles of rtlln n.
In the United States owned by a.w
panles having a total oaplta'.lzatioi
of more than $12,000,000,000 par val
affording livelihood to E,000,0.0 u.
■arsons (employees and their fiml
Km) and distributing *15,6SE nr.o k.
Ihrtdends to owners and $610,713,70'
to wages. These railroads are noml-
Hll; controlled by 2,000 corporations
wt vkleh about 1,016 art, operitla*
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Residence Phone No. 300.
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Enid, : : : Oklahoma,
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