Ellis County Republican (Gage, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 30, 1909 Page: 4 of 6
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L
ONI LITTLE HOMELY WORD
THAT CONVEYS MUCH
MANY HUMBUGS IN DISGUISE
Human Nature Much the Same In
All Agee—People Easily Deluded
Into MakIng Poor Invest
I mints
Cant phrases have been invented
and words more noted for their force
than elegance have become popular
as expressive of common things In
all that is slang it is doubtful if there
Is any better word than "graft" Long
before Chaucer indited what would
now be called "pigeon English" witty
Greeks and Romans indulged in their
aestbestio forms of vulgar expression
and there can be little doubt that good
old Socrates impressed Plato and
some of his other pupils with pungent
idiom and in turn was called by Aria-
tophanes an impious old grafter
It is quite evident that "graft" has a
place among eupbonius words and
conveys an idea plainly and tersely
The famous Barnum who said some-
thing about the people anxious to be
humbugged had a pretty good idea of
human nature and made the most out
of his knowledge The business man
of to-day does not ignore the gullibili-
ty of the masses and yearly millions
of dollars are spent in printers' ink to
convey to the people various kinds og
information that will stimulate the
letting go of dollars for the benefit of
the grafter
Pick up a copy of any current Sun
day newspaper farm journal religious
publication magazine or other period-
ical and look over its pages! Graft is
evident in each and every one It is
covered under the guise of artistic ad-
vertising Thousands of cure-alls won-
derful discoveries great bargains from
bankrupt sales exceptional chances
for investment and Lord knows what-
not beams from the pages to catch
the eyes of the person who has not re-
ceived sufficient lessons in the "school
of graft" The people like to be fooled
There seems to be more or less av-
arice in the makeup of most men and
women too The getting of something
of value for little or nothing is a com-
mon offer to gather in the dollars for
the benefit of the grafter !
For a few years a young man with
ambition and a liking for work strug-
gled along in the mercantile line in a
large central western city ' He de-
cided to enlarge He needed money
A splendid scheme presented itself
Why not get dollars needed to carry
on a big business from the people?
They needed a chance for investment
He was just the fellow to help 'em
out He organized a big cooperative
coneern He advertised broadcast
Told of the wonderful possiblities of
his business and lo! the dollars rolled
his way by the hundreds of thou-
sands Soon the government ended
his game He was charged with using
the mails to defraud Hundreds of
thousands of dollars were lost by
those who invested in his "coopera-
tive society" Many similar schemes
are up for consideration day after
day The people never tire of them
Just like buying a lottery ticket There
Is a chance to win and as long as the
proposition looks good the grafter
flourishes
The wise man be he farmer or doc-
tor stockman or storekeeper will
avoid jumping at such chances for in-
vestment Look out for the coopera-
tive organizer Beware of the grafters
who want to interest you in their' busi-
ness affairs and at the same time hold
the combination to the safe
D M CARR? '
AGAINST PREMIUM GRAFT
Laws Passed by Some States Prohibit-
ing Prizes in Packages of Foodstuffs
mamanme
Some classes of people when they
Wish to purchase goods look more aft-
er so-called bargains than quality and
quite often the bargains prove expen-
sive It seems that the getting of
something for nothing is qtractive to
the average person Of late years
there has grown up a practice among
manufacturers of staple articles par-
ticularly in the food line of giving a
prize with each package of theirgoods
It is apparent that there is an inclina-
tion towards gambling in the make-
up of most people and this spirit is
appealed to largely by the giver of
prizes The purchaser seems to over-
look the fact that he receives nothing
other than he pays for Whatever ar-
ticle is given as a premium represents
so much money value and certainly
the manufacturer does not lose by
the operation The value of what is
given must be made up by either the
retailer or the consumer and it is gen-
erally the consumer who pays the
Cost
Retail grocers as well as the pen
pie in general have cause to be thank-
ful to the lawmakers of some states
for making it illegal to place premiums
In packages of foodstuffs Such a law
Is now in force in the state of Nebras-
ka Premium and prize giving has
been a cause of trouble and disturb-
ance and has resulted in the making
of inferior goods palming oft their
poor productions relying more upon
the prize given to secure trade than
the merit of goods The wise house-
wife in whatever state she may live
will be careful to discriminate between
quality and quality backed op by
prizes It Is well when you buy arti-
cles in the food line to avoid buying
anything which has a prize attach-
ment You are compelled to not alone
pay for the goods that you require but
the prize as well
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SCIENCE OF TOWN KILLING
Unwise Booming and Maintaining E
orbitant Prices an Effective Way
—
There Is a county seat town in one
of the central western states that has
a population or about 3000 It is sur-
rounded by one of the richest farming
countries For years this town has
been at a standstill If anything it
is retrograding and even farm values
near it are lowering while poorer land
some 20 miles away is advancing
Why should such a condition exist?
The answer is plain A dozen years
ago there was a boom With the boom
real estate went to the top notch
Keeping pace with the boom the
prices of products in that town went
up There was a collapse in real es-
tate values but the merchants re-
mained and kept up the high-price
habit That is they wanted more than
an equitable share of profit Another
town was started 20 miles away Some
of the farmers went there It was i
found that ihe merchants were selling i
goods at a lower price The stock-
buyer and the grainbuyer paid a few
cents a hundred more for their pur-
chases The habit of trading at the
new town grew The business men of
the old town couldn't learn a lesson
Before they knew it their customers
were leaving them So it has been
since then The merchants have been
plodding along The money that
should be retained in the town went
elsewhere Much of it went to build
up the competing town
Mistakes like this one are made
frequently Towns become dead
places instead of live ones In fact
some towns are so dead that the farm-
ers who withdrew their trade from
them are suffering in decreased farm !
values They take no interest in
these places other than to visit them
now and then Unhealthy booms un-
healthy prices made by the merchants
and which are foolishly maintained
are quite certain to kill a town even
though it may be a county seat and
have some advantages nearby towns I
may not have
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GRAFI' AND GRAFTER I WEALTH CONCENTRATION EVIL 1 TO HI PARNIR-101 11
Operation of Injurious Trusts Can Is
Curtailed by Efforts et the
Masses
IIIMIEMIED
1 An evil that at present Is receiving
more than ordinary attention in the
press is the concentration of vast
amounts of money In the hands of
corporations The accumulation of
wealth by Individuals when controlled
by natural law will inevitably become
divided The millionaire who has a
family at his death will apportion to
each member a share of his wealth
Even though these divisions may be
Increased by work and by speculation
and investment by the children they
In return will divide the accumula-
tions among their offspring and even-
tually it matters not how great the
fortunes of any one of the family
may become it Is only a matter of
time until there is a scattering of the
money and a great portion of it will
pass from the members of the family
On the other band corporation meth
ode mean the building of a system
that prevents the operation of the
natural law In other words corpora
Bons are machines that work con
tinuouely and whets one part is brok-
en It is replaced by a new one Thus
the accumulation goes on The death
of Rockefeller will not result in a
discontinuance of the Standard Oil
company the death of the present
stockholders of any of the large trust
companies banks or insurance com-
panies will make little difference in
their existence All will go ahead
The sareguardz of corporations in
many cases are excellent But the
Inclination to control trade by the
crushing out of smaller concerns and
the destruction of legitimate compe-
tition and the controlling of prices 1
seems against public policy All
classes are compelled to pay prices I
dictated by these trusts for the goods
produced Each year finds new cont
binations to control trade It Is the
centralization of capital that makes
such operations possible The person
who assists In concentrating money In
large financial centers does his part
toward helping along such combines
It is only by individual action on the 1
part of every small producer and lab-
orer in the country ttat conditions
can be changed Stand by every home
Industry and do your part toward
keeping money in circulation at home
and thus bring about conditions that
will make the operations of trusts and I
combinations impossible
Hie Chances Are Beet In His Herne
Town Rather Than in the WI City I
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My boy the farm is all right Boma-
' times you may feel that its environs
ars too narNW for you Its life toe
much of a humdrum and that you
would prefer to be one of the residents
of the big city or town There have
been hundreds and thousands of oth-
ere just like you and with just suck
Ideas They have started from the
farm buoyant with hope and after
years have regretted their youthful
resolutions Others have succeeded
have won laurels In the professional
fold in business In statesmanship
but the few who have succeeded thus
are so small in number compared to
the army of failures that there is lit-
tie encouragement for the careful
thinker to leave that which promises
security from want and independence
for a life time rbs farmer is surely
the most independent of all workers
He is sure to receive a greater re-
ward for his labors is his own man-
&ger and if he will strive diligently
can aspire to a place in the public es-
timate that few can attain in the large
towns
of course there are times when you
think there is almost an unbearable
dullness about existence on the farm
Were you a resident of the cityithere
would be times when you would long
for the quietness and the pleasure that
the farm affords Hours of work may
be long riding the plow or harvesting
the grain but far superior is the work
than that the great majority of the
city youths are compelled to follow
and how much greater the compensa-
tion? How would you like to stand
behind the dry goods or grocery coun-
ter from morning to night for the
small wages that the city clerk re-
ceives? Ypar after year the laborer !
lives in cheap boarding houses and
rarely save suMcient to engage in
business His is a mere subsistence
and a constant struggle The best I
years of life are wasted in making '
money for others while the Indus-
trious farmer is working for himself
saving money year after year and l
when the time for rest comes it en- 4
able him to take it
Cities are overcrowded with clerk
help An advertisement inserted In
any daily paper for a clerk to fill any
position will bring hundreds of re-
sponges The array of unemployed
and those seeking to better their con-
ditions is always large Of late years
a large element of workers from cit-
les are looking toward the farms for
employment They realize that the
farm offers more permanency of occu-
pation and greater independence than
like efforts in the city can possibly
afford Before you concentrate your
attention on employment in city or
town weigh every matter well and
then act according to what reason die- i
tate& You will be very likely to con-
elude that the farm is a good enough I
place for you and that your own lit-
tle home town is preferable to the !
over-crowded city Remember that I
your greatest interests center in v
what you call your "home town" Do v
all you can to assist in Its improve- r
ment and make it a better business
place D M CARR
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OPPOSED TO LOCAL PROGRESS
Journals That Help to Concentrats
Business in Large Cities
There are thousands of so-called ag-
ricultural papers published in the
United States all of more or less
merit Yet few are all that they should
be There is an inconsistency about
them that invites careful study While
they are supposed to represent the
best interests of the great class of
workers whom they gain support from
in the way of subscriptions the ma-
jority of them apparently work against
the progress of farming communities
by becoming the mediums a part of
the machinery which draws from
country towns the support which they
should have
It is to be regretted that many of
these so-called agricultural papers are
merely published for the purpose of
circulating the advertisements of con-
cerns which seek to secure trade from
residents of farming districts to the
detriment of the home towns These
establishments take money from the
rural communities to the large finan-
cial centers The thoughtful man or
woman can see how injurious it
Is to the interests of the farmers to
take away the surplus earnings which
represent the wealth of the commu-
nity It requires but little observa-
tion and study to understand that to
a great extent farm values are de-
pendent upon the importance of the
near-by town and that any system
that takes away its business will re-
suit in a decrease of farm values
Such papers as advise tfte farmers to
patronize other than home institutions
and which advocate systems that are
opposed to the up-building of Indus—
tries in agricultural districts are not
worthy of support
O baLSLbaa a LU v aStaVa al a VT'
Support Home Newspapers
pendent upon the importance of the
The country newspaper is a power near-by town and that any system
in the land Its place can never be that takes away its business will re-
filled by the big daily papers or the suit in a decrease of farm values
bulky magazines or agricultural Jour- Such papers as advise tIte farmers to
nals It tills a field entirely its own patronize other than home institutions
It is the bavometer of the place in and which advocate systems that are
which it is published Its news pages opposed to the up-building of Indus
represent the life of the people and tries in agricultural districts are not
its advertising pages should reflect worthy of support -
the business activity of the town It
Is the duty of every good citizen to Education
give hid support to the local press 1 Intelligence is the distinguishing
Particularly the business men should ' mark between the savage and civ-
patronize it with a view of bettering ilized man Education is one of the
his trade It is not money wasted to greatest of Gods blessings and ig-
nse advertising space in it One good norance a curse In America there ex-
merchant in the town who under- tots no valid reason why every man
stands how to advertise rightly can woman and child of normal brain
bring trade to the town that will help should not have an education There
every other business man in it But is no phase of life where knowledge
911 should do their part and the store- I is not necessary In the most progres
keeper who does not give his home 1 sive communities is where the supe-
paper the support it merits is not the or schools are found Help along
wisest kind of a business man your town and help along education
in general By affording your chil-
Make Good Packing Paper dren a chance for a good education
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SAVED BY LOCK OF HAIR
A'Initaculous rseue of a :little
girl by her father took place at
Tacoma Wash r(:eently The girl
who had a l)asket on her arm was
boarding a steamer when the basket
bumped woainst a post of the
steamer's lower deck causing her to
lose her balance and fall into the
water She went under once: and
when she came to the surface a etir-!
rent started to sweep her out into
the bay Just aS she was floating
pat the steanwr l stern her father
seized a 'lock of 'ler hair anil held'
her until other tql-sengers could pull 1
hpr aboard 1
THE EGOTISTICA ACTOR
Theatrical Manager—I'm sorry
but there's no place for you in this
drama every part has been taken
Egotistical Actor—Never mind
Sat create my part"—Puck
CARUSO USES GOOD ENGLISH
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Perhaps the "Story of My Life" May
Have Been Revised Before
- Publication
I roust confess at once that I am
not what you English with your
weird ever-mystifying idioms Call
"a flier" at the art of reminiscing
and so I must crave your pardon for
any literary faults My parents
have told me that I was born at
isTsples in 18173 My latherwas a
poor man employell as a mechanic
who as i trustworthy man had been
put in charge of the warehouses of
a large bankingand importing con-
cern He was wont to chastise me
not a little to train me up in the
way I should go
mother alas! died when r was
only 15 I might have continued to
on -her account but her death
seemed to justify me in altering my
career My father fell into a great
rage in fine he gave me my choice'
of continuing to be a mechanic or of
starving I chose rashly enough to
starve and became a wanderer with
nothing to fight the world but per-
fect physique and an optimism that
happily never failed me—Enrico
Caruso in the Strand Magazine'
London
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A MALADY OF TEE
Opinion of New York Journal Is Not
Complimentary to the Woman
Suffragists
—
Do the suffragists suffer from a
disease to be cured by pills or lotions
or perhaps a surgical operation ?
There is an immense amount of
medical literature to bear out' the
theory and a number of medical au-
thorities are attempting to diagnose
it The victims are believed to be
suffering from tarantism a disorder
which has been observed and record-
ed in medical literature for centu-
ries The malady is allied to St Vitus'
dance and is distinctly a nervtus
disorder which in all but extreme
cases is believed to be curable The
theory has been advanced by one of
the first medical authorities of Eu-
rope Dr À E Shipley of Cam-
bridge a specialist in zoology whose
opinions upon his specialty are au-
thoritative The malady broke out
in Europe five centuries ago and
raged in several countries for years
before it was finally checked :
The most familiar symptom of
the mania is the presistent monot-
°dons and rhythmical utterance of a
word or a short sentence and the
abandonment of all self-control
Many of the patients are violently
affected by music and their parox-
ysms are often brought on or in-
6reased by it The mania attacks
women more frequently and more
violently than men although men
of high nervous temperament are
not infrequently sufferers—New
York Herald
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PRETTY FAMILY ROMANCE
A pretty story of two hrothers
has just come to light William Mc-
Carthy'the son of a prosperous ten-
ant fanner in the Abbeyfeale dis-
trict of County Limerick emigrated
3T years agQ to America where all
trace of him was lost Sixteen
years later hereturned to' Loudon
and filially through lack of employ-
ment 'WEIS at the age of GO com-
pelled to enter the workhouse At
length he determined to find out if
his relatives were still alive and
wrote to the old address The an-
swer came promptly in the perFon
of a brother named John whom
William had never seen as he was
born after William had left for
America Jolly insisted that his
brother should travel to Ireland
with him at once and the old man
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OnnonoaMNOAv WdbOIMENWatiallalOODOOMMOPaNaffilfale
fore left the house for his old howe —Harvard LOMpOffit
Wm A Gonter noth of town
was trading with our merchahta
yesterday )
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J 0 Clemons e't
Optician :
Eyes Scientifically Tested
Glasses Accurately Fitted
At Dr G E Irvin's Office Gaga
RULES BY KINDNESS
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To those who are accustomed to
see trained dogs monkeys cats aad
other animals driven to their wart
with whips and kept at it frost
sheer terror the performance inter -
rupted at times for tha mks et dia
cipline it is a great pleasure ts
watch the work of Ballerimi and his
little menagerie at this' Orpiment
Not once is the whip used or eves
displayed Not ones dies Signor I
Ballerini give a verbal commarid or -
even speak a word Eli fair
legged assigtants know their parts
and rush into them with a delight
that enhances the pleasure of the
andrence
Signor Ballerini bows and smilax
at the audience but apparently pays
no attention to his animals lita -
places the stage properties for them
and the great yellow cat the tey
poodles the fox terrier and all the
others throw somersaults and jump
hurdles and go through with their
act with the precision of human be '
Iligs--Sunday Magazine if the
Pittsburg Dispatch
QUEBEC'S TREASUMTROVIL
"Masterpieces of famous paints
are being discovered in Europe b
this day" says a writer in Harper's
Weekly "but few would - bass
thought of searching for a Robes'
or Gainsborough upon the Almeria'
continent Yet Quebec ha a best
yielding up recently a wealth of art
treasures discovered by Mr POMO
Carter in the galleries of the Semi
nary and University of Laval' The
catalogue contains the names at Al
bani Cuyp Gainsborough
Lawrence Poussin Ribera Salve-
tor Rosa Ruben! Velasques and
Signoreli Most of these were takes
to Canada by exilPd families at fin
time of the French revolution Tits
article is illustrated with some es
cellent reproductions
GIFT TO THE CLUBS
Mrs Russell Sage has given
000 to the New York State Fedora
tion of Women's Clubs with the un-
derstanding that the federation it-
self will raise $12300 This will he
used for a fund to pay the expooaet
of the officers and to found a scholar
ship for women in sores college It
has come to such a point it le ealik -
that only rich women marMori
be officers of the federation ani -
endowment fund will pit riot oat
poor women all on the tame pleat
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arm-in-arm with his younger i Fusser 1—I love that girl
brother whom he had never seen be- fusser 2-1 tecond Obi amatiaL
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