The Union Advocate-Review (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, October 29, 1909 Page: 3 of 12
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THE UNION ADVOCATE REVIEW
HOW THE GOVERNMENT DI8- ire so apt to be led Into doing fool
CRIMINATES AGAINST OUR
OWN PEOPLE.
It is three cents cheaper 10 send a
letter from New Zealand to the United
Sjates than It Is to send a letter from
the United States to New Zealand. 11
Is 51 cents cheaper to send an eleven-
pound package by mall from Germany
to the United States than II is to send
the same package in the same manner
fijom the United States to Germany. It
Is 27 cents cheaper to send an eight-
pound mail package from Vienna to
the United States than it is to send an
eight-pound mail package from II""
United States to Vienna. II Is —
cents cheaper to s end an eleven
pound package by post from London to
New York than it is to ■end the same
package back from New York to Lon-
don. II costs just as much to send an
eight-pound package by mail from the
yuited States to Norway as It does to
send an eleven-pound package by mail
from Norway to the United Slates.
The charge is 1)6 cents in either case.
For fi cents more than it costs to send
an eleven-pound mail package from
the United States to Austria, one may
send two eight-pound packages by
mail from Austria to the United
States. If you wish to send a pack-
age that weighs eleven pound;* from
San Francisco to Home you may do
so by paying $1.32, but if you wish to
send the same articles from San Fran-
cisco to Los Angeles, in the same
state, you must divide your merchan
dlse Into three parcels and pay a total
of $1.76 for the service, if you wish
to send merchandise that weighs eight
pounds from Chicago to The Hague
you may do it up in one bundle and
obtain its transportation by paying 80
cents, but if you desire to mail the
same merchandise from Chicago to St
Louis, the contents of the original
package must be made into two pack-
ages and the charge for carrying th
two this comparatively short distance
will be $1 28 or 48 cents more than the
cost of sending It across the Atlantic
ocean.
This difference is a consequence of
our government's discrimination
against Its own people. We may send
eleven-pound packages almost any-
where in the civilized world, except to
points in our own country. We pay
on these packages at the rate of 12
cents a pound. Hut if our package's
destination is some point within the
United States we are limited to a four
pound parcel and we pay at the rate
of 1 cent for each ounce.
Had you thought of the reason for
this discrimination? It is simply this,
that the express trust has been able in
the past to control legislation in the
United States, whereas lit cannot con-
trol the governments of Europe.—
Woman's National Daily, St. Louis.
things just because another fellow Is
a good talker. It seems to me that If
1 were a boss I'd encourage every
good man In the shop to Join the
union, if it were simply to keep the
fellows from being stampeded. It
isn't the professional labor leader that
ordinarily does the mischief. It's some
fool bunch in the shop or iu the union
that carries everything before it. Of
course, the fellows who go into the,
tight professionally become the spokes- ;
men for the crowd, but they rarely
originate the trouble Often they are
held responsible for what the men
themselves have forced upon them.
If there were more good men In the
union—men who could think and
speak clearly—It would result in two
desirable things; tlrst, there would be
better leadership; and, second, the
men would fight out in their secret |
meetings, in a war of words, most of i
the battles that are now being fought
out on the streets of our big cities
with the bullet and the bludgeon.
Meanwhile we are slugging away.
We get a good many knocks—those of
us who stand for the union—but a
fellow must expect that. Even the
folks that fought for the oarly church
got some hard raps. I notice, by the
way, that no one in this country is
getting many of them for the church's
sake these days. And things aren't
what they should be, either. There is
good deal about this labor move-
ment that suggests to me what the
fight of these early crusaders must
have been. I can't help but feel that
the great Carpenter was a member of
the organization of His craft, and I m
pretty sure <hat Paul, the journeyman
tent-maker, belonged to the tent-mak-
ers' guild. Anyway, it was among the
working people of his day that he had
his biggest success, and if the ac-
counts are true, the labor unions
stood by him In the fight for the "big"
church—the church to which we all
belong, even though we ain't Baptists
or Methodists or Episcopalians.—Rev.
Charles Stelzle, in "Letters from a
Workingman."
The
Burning Issue
OR
What Co-Operation Will Do
By J. Y. CALLAHAN
Mr. Callahan's lectures have attracted great attention a.. I brought
him into national prominence. The national convention of the F. E. &
C U of A. which met at Ft. Worth, Texas, last year, passed a resolU;.
turn asking him to reduce his lectures to writing and publish them in
book form. We now have a few hundred copies on hand and would be
glad to place one in the hands of every Farmers Unipn man in Okla.
To Read It Is to Appreciate it
Send 25c for a Copy Postpaid
I ri |
r
It contains 59 pages of very interesting reading, em-
bodying a brief history of ine Fainit-is Union, "Why there
should lie a Farmers Union,"i"How to market crops, Re-
lation between Farmers aud Labor Unions, "The Farmers
Union Politics," etc.
Address all orders to
Advocate-Review
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
FUNNY, ISN'T IT?
KICKS AND KINKS.
Labor Troubles and the Church.
At least one good thing ha3 come out
of the strike—we have come to learn
more about every other fellow's real
worth. Some of the men that we had
regarded as cracker-jacks In the la
bor world are now down and out. They
were great at shooting off their
mouths, but when it came to making
good they weren't in it. It was quite
plain that thev had no brain power
and that as leaders they should never
be trusted. Unless the fellows forget
they will never again come to the
front in any kind of a deal. The ques-
tion of leadership is really the most
Important phase of the labor question.
This was very clearly brought out in
the meetings of the union, Most men
(By Emanuel Julius.)
People who work and produce are |
suposed to be poor. That Is what
everybody thinks and believes. They
have been taught to believe that he
who bakes the bread, build the houses
weaves the broadcloth, should be hun-
gry. homeless and ragged.
How anv one can believe that it is i
right for parasites to live on the cream
of labor's product while the workers
themselves should feel the pangs of
hunger taxes my understanding.
When we meet an ill-dressed man
i the streets we immediately surmise
the fact that he is a workingman.
Why? Because he is seedy and hun-
gry looking Workers are supposed
to be hungry.
Funny, isn't it.
The workers themselves cannot rea-
lize the fact that they are entitled
to as good, if not better fare than
their exploiters receive. They cannot
realize that being the producers of
wealth they should be the receivers.
I beg your pardon. I should not
have said 'cannot," for they are slow-
ly, very slowly, beginning to realize
the fact that they are being robbed.
Nevertheless, it is a huge joke.
KNIFE FREE!
COMPLIMENTS OF
TOM WATSON
EDITOR OF
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croach on his land, and I Insist that
he Is trespassing on mine. Now, what
would you do if you were in my
place?" "If I were in your place," re-
plied the solicitor, "I'd go over and
give Brown a cigar, take a drink with
Whether to laugh or weep depends him, and settle the controversy in ten
the point of view.
THE LAWYER'S NEED.
"It's this way," explained the client.
"The fence run* between Brown's
place and mine, He claims that I en-
minutes. But as things stand, 1 advise
you to sue him by all means. Let no
arrogant domineering, insolent pirate
like Brown trample on your sacred
rights. Assert your manhood and
courage. Never mind the costs; I tteetl
the money,"—Exchange,
H. KEMPNER
(Unincorporated)
COTTON and BANKING
GALVESTON, TEXAS
We have handled with great suc-
cess considerable cotton for Farm-
ers Union and we solicit the ship-
ment of alt interested members of
the Union. Write us for terras and
prices.
Rural
t^frculation in the
State °f Oklahoma
NO. 24.
icorporating the Farmer.
3
By Frederick J. Hasklji.
le the farmers of Georgia and Tennessee, and in every
tensive and defen.
Ees have not met
ch has attended
manufacture and
y enough the im-
nization became
lie same time—
I War—but the
>t the two move-
Itirely dissimilar,
recrudescence of
tive organization
Of the country,
movement
vhole future of
American So-
old its national
alls; the Na-
g of Husbandry,
ttes, and the Na-
ongress will be
Farmers' Union
/.tftfo'n the ftrst
ir at Raleigh,
•etlngs repre-
*
Southern State it changed atisoiutely
the current of political thought. The
Farmers' Alliance rose during the
late eighties, flourished in the early
nineties, dissolved Into the Populist
party and waB swallowed up in the
campaign of 1896.
Since that time there has been no
national organization of farmers
which has Invited the ilU-nlion of
politicians. The organi tioi.s now
building are making the ♦>usli - o
controlling prices their Aral tous.Jer-
ation, leaving politics and kindred
questions to secondary consideration.
The American Sot ty of Equity is
an example of t kind of organiza-
tion, bMng slmlid to the Farmers'
Union he cotton States and other
n«w • ! nations. The Society of
Equity h the purpose of controll-
ing >f farm products as its
chief a.'u.. V«eiaring that the farmer
must buy hit, -applies from a highly
organized mark* r. ■ifescutlbfc'HTnst-
contrvlled nu'ii'. fc^aiid union
larger Or- controlled ^boi
fsurmerm must sn.
« tilK.tly organised
;i'i, <)tH
a! bu*«t*4**tH
KQteifM
,V
„ £2!£ *
Ithis v e k wm
unnlersary ol
first grange al
, Tather of the
"lly of Minne
k 111 what wae
Agriculture In
ie close of the
sent South to
inquiries, and
[Southern farm-
ays which lm-
'<! for a farm-
is : yateni
tfj* "Uiiltiy
ark v r<jgu.'at« f Uh>
to
'• onoie* out, in thi 1ft
•c- . -s- -.
i
eoai ana asphalt proper-
ties to the state of Oklahoma at an ex-
travagant price. No contract for the
sale of these properties to the Btate
should become effective until same
has first been submitted to and rati-
fied by a vote of the qualified voters
of the state.
TAXATION.
I favor the observance of all law.
Ry^an act of Congress all Indian lands
•from which restrictions have been re-
moved are made taxable, and in ob-
t se ; that law the officers of Ok-
laho' ,i -re but doing their plain duty
"1* riTH'- ■ y levy and collect taxes from
all tftich lands. Personally I believe
that very person In the state upon
wlion has been conferred all the rights
and piivileges of citizenship has had
imp* n him. also, the burdens
aiMy, 1 i'if-, ' citizenship, and while
lie enjoys the one he should bear the
othtr. There Is no sort of condition
or logic that will justify exempting
from taxation the property of one
class of our citizenship simply be-
perous that contines to pay exorbi-
tant rates of interest. The institution
Intending to make the loaning of
money a fixed business, by charging
exorbitant rates of interest, does it-
self as great an injury as it does the
borrower. The people of Oklahoma
are entitled to have the constitution
vitalized by the passage of a usury
law In keeping with the progressive
spirit of oyr citizenship.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Oklahoma has a splendid public
school system, and her citizenship is
thoroughly imbued with the educa-
tional spirit. In the Interest of still
greater efficiency in our public school I
system I believe the state should pro
vide a fund which, added to the ren-
tal on school lands and the Interest
on our invested school fund, will be
sufficient to give each oistrict school
in the state a five months' school. By
th method alone can bo insured to
every child in the state a common
o people can be permanently pros-; chief executive of the state is to en-
force the law>s as he finds them, and
if the enforcement of any law is ob-
noxious or hurtful to the people
they have their remedy in its repeal.
CONCLUSION.
In conclusion I will say that if my
party places in my hands its stand-
ard I will do all I can to bear it to
honorable victory, and if elected gov-
ernor of this splendid state I will give
to its citizens the very best adminis-
tration of its affairs that my ability
will permit. Respectfully,
LEE CRUCE..
HOW CAN WE DO IT?
Savory Fish.
Required: Three-quarters of a pound
of raw fish, seasoning of pepper and
salt, and a suspicion of nutmeg. For
the sauce: Half a pint of milk, one
egg, one ounce of butter, one ounce
of flour, one teaspoonful of curry pow-
der.
Dissolve the butter In a saucepan,
stir in the flour smoothly, add the
milk, and lastly the egg. Cook till
quite blended, and then add the cur-
ry powder and a little chopped pars-
ley, and lastly a few drops of brown-
ing. Cut the fish in neat pieces. But-
ter a fireproof dish, lay the fish In it,
spread over
ind soon be-
ee. Granges
community,
opened, and
to control
.'s. At the same
e of the Grange
ae invasion and cap-
, maeuinery of the Grange
by politicians resulted in its eclipse,
but Its social features and its recog-
nition of the equality of woman on
the farm saved the order from ex-
tinction. The Grange is no longer a
great national factor, as an organiza-
tion, but it must be credited with some
excellent work. Monuments to the
Grange are the number of co-operative
farmers' insurance societies over the
country. The Grange tnitlated the
movement which resulted in the ef-
forts to regulate railroad rates and
abolish rebates and discriminatory
freight charges. Rural free delivery
season with pepper, salt, and nutmeg, of mail had its origin In the GrangJ
pour the sauce over, and bake for 7
.,nd lt8 succesgor the Farmers' Alll
Cotton Prices Fixed.
Two yeare ago the cotton manufac-
turers of the world" met in England
and mutually agreed that under no
circumstances would they sell their
fabrics under prices fixed by a certain
schedule, and that under no circum-
stance's would they pay more than a
certain schedule for raw cotton. The
cotton growing farmers of the South-
ern States denounced this combination
bitterly, while the trade journals rep-
resenting the cotton textile industry
praised the agreement as a great
triumph of economic foresight. Where-
upon the cotton growers have as-
sembled themselves, and they have
declared that under no circumstances
will they sell their cotton for less than
a certain price. Conditions have been
favorable and they have kept their
word, . The same journals of the tex-
tile trade denounce the action of the
farmers as piracy, while the farmers
declare their organization and their
purpose to keep up prices is a most
praiseworthy bit of economic fore-
sight. This Is related by way of illus-
trating the fact that it still makes a
difference whose ox is gored.
Attempts to fix the prices of farm
products have ben made In many
countries. Governments have sought
thus to thwart the operation of the
law of supply and demand. Not long
ago Brazil, in an effort to keep up
high prices, bought millions of bags of
coffee to hold back from the market.
The Russian government is now con-
sidering the advisability of a large
purchase of grain in the hope of rege
latlng the amount of wheat pla"ed
about 20 minutes. Scatter browned
crumbs over before serving.
Editor Advocate-Review: The above
question is often asked by farmers
when national reform is suggested
Now my argument Is by direct legis-
lation,- the adoption cf the initiative
and referendum and the right of re-
call. By this system the lobbyist and with the flavor of the coffee.) Put
boodlers will be driven out of the \ eg* and ,coffee «nl«ure Into the
, school education, and until w-; have leeislatiirp th i coffee pot, pour in a pint of boll-
. i I egisiaiurc, tn© 86D3t6 would b6 tin- inc wfltfr Anil l<*f Iwtii a i
cause of race distinction. Hitherto nade this provision for the cdu.rat'rn t>, ,, . s ifj let boll for five min-
, , . . .. . I . .«i , neessary, the veto power would be utes. The proportions are one hean.
in this state there has been no con- of the children we have not done our | placed in the hands of the people, thus : 'ng tablespoonful of ground coffee
flict between the white nice and the full duty. Wherever It W found prao making it useless to have a trust bll' each P«">on.
Boiled Coffee with an Egg.
Use one egg to one cupful or less of
ground coffee. Stir the coffee into
the egg, add half a cupful of cold
water and beat well. Scald the coffee
pot with boiling water. (This is lm- ! the Farmers'
portant and makes a great difference
Indian race. They have been receiv-
ed upon a plane of absolute equality
in all matters social ami political.
The .surest way to bi
tlcal I favor the consolidation of rurr.l I passed, because the people would j Falrv Toast
schools in order that tke children re- veto It by their votes. Thus it would T««st six slices of brown bread
siding in the country diatiic fa may restore honesty in our legislature, as which have been cut as thin as a wa-
hish school j it would be useless to pass bills unde-,
I .Iraki, md against the interest of the |
-I
an end to ■ have the heu«flta of
be deuired i education.
t upon the market. Merchants in the
ance Pure food laws owe much to United States sometimes wickedly .ie-
i<? support and early championship of stroy many carloads of good
'i" (llansers. rather than pe,rmit a bountiful
Farmers' Alliance. supply to force down the market price.
After the occulatlon of the Granu\ 1 The great difficulty of controlling
the next considerable movement wah the prices and sale of farm products is
Alliance. This organi that there are too many- farmers and
nation became very powerful in he that they are too independent. Or-
\ est and South. Although it aimed ganizations looking to the control of a
at control of crop prices and co-opera limited product in a limited section of
Hon In business, its chief mhsion and territory have been very successful,
purpose was political. It arose to as witness the fruit-growers of South-
supreme power in many Western em California, the peach-growers of
States, controlling Kansas and Xe- Georgia and the truck farmers of va-
braska. It maintained the balance of rious Atlantic coast communities. The
power in such States as Illinois and growers of a certain variety of dark
ler, and tlien stamped olit with a bis-; •u<*,;,na- Farmer Alliance is, tobacco iu K«: :.uckj and feunesset-
cutt cutter. When done a light brown I lhe only P0"tical organization which j were goaded into reprisals by the or- \
.
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