The Darrow Press (Darrow, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1907 Page: 1 of 4
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HUtoi-Uttl Society
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The Darrow Press
Zbe ©fficial paper of £be Blaine County Civic jfefceration.
VOL. 3. NO. 44.
Mbollp in tbe llnterest of (Boot* Government
DARROW, BLAINE-COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, sEPT 5, 1907.
$1,00 THE YEAR.
The greatest obstacle in the way of
good government, the greatest hind-
rance to the progress of righteousness,
is the inactivity of good citizens.
When these disregard their obligations
to their counties and their state, they
leave control 'to undesirable elements.
There never was a time in our history
when the need of patriotic men in office
was greater than now. Political cor-
ruption and commercial dishonesty are
menacing the purity of the home, and
the hour is come for the father and
citizen to arm against the perils threat-
ening us. The moral revolution that
is beginning to sweep the land- means
the patriotism that comes from the
heart and not from the head, and it is
that kind of patriotism which is re-
quired in the solution of our present
serious problems. The strength of the
lawless is great but it is nothing when
it comes in contact with an aroused
public conscience. Our public con-
science must be aroused, and we must
fight as our forefathers fought, in the
battle for right and justice.—Joseph
¥. Folk.
The True Partisanship
When Citizenship Ranks Higher Than Fealty
to a Party Label.
How Good Citizens Would Have Voted and
How They Are Going to Vote.
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Watonga, Okla., Sept. 3—Dur-
ing the past few days your cor-
respondent has been in nearly
every school district in Blaine
county. He has talked with men
of every political faith, and al-
most without exception the voter
has said, "I am going to vote for
the.best man."
We call to mind one old fellow
we met in Canadian township.
After remarking that it was hot
enough to make evangelists su-
perfluous, he drifted to politics.'
"I am a Missourian," he said; !
"born there and prejudiced ac-
cordingly. Missourian and Dem-
ocrat as I am, however, had I j
been a voter in New York last j
fall I should have voted for i
Hughes, a Republican, against
Hearst, a Democrat. If in my
own state, the choice should be
between Hadley, a Republican,
and Stone, a Democrat, I should
vote for the Republican. I've
quit voting for any old thing the
party puts up. Here in Blaine
■ county this fall I am going to
vote against John Tyler and
George McArthur, not because
they are Republicans, but be-
cause they are not to my notion,
tit for office. And the most of
my Republican neighbors think
as I do. We're all voting for the |
man down here. We are con-1
scious of better partisanship and
of better citizenship' by so j
doing."
A CedarValley man said to us: j
"Yes, I suppose I am a Repub-1
lican; but do you know that I
really believe I am an indepen-'
dent voter. I have decided that
I will never vote for a bad man,
I don't care what ticket he is on.
I couldn't vote for Koch or Tyler
if the devil was running against
them. I'd simply leave those
places blank. I am not only go
ing to vote against those fellows,
but I am doing some missionary
work among my Republican
friends."
"Their crowd of rooters give
them away," said a man from
Wells township, when speaking
of Koch and Tyler. "Public
officers can't serve me and my
family and all the bums and
toughs in the county at the same
time."
Taxpayers are pretty gener-
ally agreed that the present
county officials—that is, Koch,
Lowary, McArthur & Tyler,have
been running the affairs of the
county in their own interests,
and that it is high time that the
grafters, both big and little, be
turned out, The effort of these
fellows to make the people be-
lieve that, they have ever done
anything to entitle them to the
support of the good citizens,
seems like the extreme of an in-
sult to intelligence.
One is very naturally amazed
at the unintelligence of the office
seeking partisan, but cau no
longer be astonished at the mag-
nitude of the landslide loosening
itself in Blaine county and surely
to come down on those who have
not sense enough to get out of
the way.
KEEPING HIS END UP
LIQUOR DEALER: "See how I bear the burden of taxation?"
Upon nothing is the gin miller more loud moutbed than in his assertion that the liquor
traffic bears a large part of the burdens of government. Object to the saloon's lawlessness
and the saloonkeeper replies. "Look at the license fee I pay. What do you pay?" At this
very moment the liquor papers of the country are filled with boasting concerning the large
revenues that are accruing from the new applications of the policy of high license. A liquor
journal published in the state of Ohio blatantly calls attention to the fact that the saloons of
that state have just paid $4;000,000 into the public treasury and says: "Now let them alone;
let them run their business as they please, and earn the §4,000,000 more that they must pay /
six months hence."
Of all the saloon's falsehood this is the most colossal. The saloon does not bear the
burden of taxation in any real sense of the word—does not even help to bear it.
At the March 1906 term of the district court, it cost Blaine county $500 more to indict
men who committed crimes because of our saloons, than the county received the whole year
in license money.
Even were this not the case; were the saloon's bribe as big as the saloonkeeper pre-
tends that it is; did it actually bear all the expenses of government, from paying for the
pettiest services of the poundkeeper up to the salary of the President of the United States,
still saloon revenue would be the worst possible bargain that any people could make. For
that is everlastingly true which is written in the oldest text book of economics in the world,
"WOE UNTO HIM WHO BUILDETH A TOWN IN BLOOD."
How comes the burden of taxation to be so heavy? What makes the jail and the poor
house and the prison? In very large part this same infamous liar who is boasting to us of
his "generosity" in paying for these things.
And where does he get the money with which he pays this bribe of the devil? And
how much more than the paltry dollar that he pays into the treasury does he take from
the people? But these questions, as Kipling says, are "another story."
These Statistics Prove Whether Saloons
Build Up a Town.
The Record of Two California Towns
For the Year 1804
Santa Bar-
bara (wet)
Riverside
(dry)
What Santa Ba
gains(?) from 25
rhara
saloon!
in letter of
;: "Let pas-
o dri\
Pope Leo XIII,
March 27, 1887, saj
tors do their best to drive the
plague of intemperance from the
fold of Christ by assiduous
preaching and exhortation, and
1'0 shine before all as models of
abstinence."
In Kansas, since prohibition
was adopted,crime has decreased
65 per cent. In the same time
the criminal population of license
Nebraska has outrun the general
growth in population 47 per cent
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Population
Assessed valuation
No. of saloons
No. of city police
Total No. of arrests
No. of arrests for drunkenness
Arrests for disturbing peace
No. of arrests for vagrancy
I No. of cases tried in police court
11,000 11,000
$0,538,433 $7,010,905
25 0
Deposited in savings banks
No. of churches (Protestant)
No. of soholars jn public schools
I No. of grocery stores
No. of meat markets
| No. of clothing stores
209
155
281
121,325
Expense of three officers
554 arrests
198 drunkards
121 rowdies
133 tramps
1,40
33S
71
34
148
135 220 police con
0 .{7.500 blood nj
1.10 Increased tax i
577.213 Increased ta.v
'J.i. 351 Loss in saving
21 Immorality an
1898 Ignorance and
19 Loss in Wine
9 Less food
6 Less comfort
Looks Like Ingram
From reports there seems to
be no question but that Job
Ingram will be the uext state
senator from Blaine and King-
j fisher. It is gratifying to the
! friends of good government and
civic decency to learn this. Mr.
j Ingram is a man of sterling in-
tegrity, a friend of the people,
| and a man whose opposition to
1 graft and corruption is well
; known. On the other hand, Mr.
Ingram's opponent is bidding
[for the corrupt vote. This of
1 itself is sufficient to defeat Mr.
; Brownlee. No man can serve an
honest constituency and do the
lliterac
bidd
| The
will
1 jorit
of the vicious elements,
ess believes Mr. Ingram
elected by a large ma-
for this is a time when
the people are wanting good men
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Daeschner, Gideon. The Darrow Press (Darrow, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1907, newspaper, September 5, 1907; Darrow, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc180050/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.