The Hammon News. (Hammon, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1911 Page: 1 of 4
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HAMMOk ROGER MILLS COUNTY OKLAHOMA THURSDAY AUGUST io 19U :
Number 47
DIRECTOR YOAKUM
Speaks Before the Texas
Parmers Congress
SELLING TOO HIGH
’
Says Farmer Gets too Lit-
tle and Consumer Pays
too Much
"The real problem to deal with
is not the high cost of living! It
( is the high eost of selling The
cost of getting last year’s farm
products from the producers to
the consumers amounted to the
enormous sum of $7000000100
The selling expense should be de-
creased which would increase the
returns to the farmers and the
‘cost of living would decrease”
r These statements were made
today by Mr B F Yoakum chair-
man of the board of directors of
the Frisco Lines in a speech de-
livered at the annual meeting of
the Texas F fmers’ Congress
Mr Yoakum asserted that the
farmers do not get as much as they
shouli for their products fcnd the
consnmer pays too much He re
ferred to the government reports
which show that the producer re-
ceives 16 cents for the products of
the farm for which the consumer
pays $1 The reports he says
show that last year’s farm pro-
ducts were worth $9000000000
the government using tarm values
in 'getting figures for this total
"Assuming that the farmers
kept one third of the products for
their own use the consumer paid
over $13000 W0 OdOfor what the
producers received ' $6000000-
000" said Mr Yoakum ‘‘and
$7 00000000 was expended in
selling the product 1
' AGBICULTUBAL EXPOBTS LAG
"The industrial exports are in-
creasing over agricultural exports
at the rate of 7 to 1 because
factory products are marketed in
a more businesslike way than farm
products The United States is
now exporting $2000000000
worth ot goods a year In the
last 25 years our agricultural ex-
ports have increased 60 per cent
while our commercial exports have
increased nearly 400 per cent
This is certainly a bad showing
for the farmers It is plain that
rural developement has not kept
pace with manufacturing and city
' growth"
: "There may be reasons foi this
but there is one which is more im-
portant than alj others That iB
our neglect of the business side
ot farming - '
- "The farmers of this country to
receive b tter prioes do not have
to experiment with untried theor-
es They only have to copy what
others are doing successfully
For instance the poople of Den-
mark 30 years ago received $12-
000000 for their butter eggs and
bacon Then they began the or-
ganization of market societies
Now the same character of pro-
ducts brings in more than $100-
000000 a year Nearly all their
dairy produots are marketed
through co-operative creameries
and their egg export societies
’ have 25000 members There is
no such talk of high cost of living
in that - little country because
they have a system of economical
marketing The farmers ' there
have organized under trust meth-
ods The commercial waste’ in
the distribtuion of farm prod acts
is reduced to a’ minimum -They
share in tfie profits of economical
marketing ' '
FOB NEIGHBOBHOOD MABKET HOUSE
‘TheN neighborhood market
house should become as important
and as popular in American life as
the country schoolhouse Pop-
ular education haa been the strong-
est force in the development of
America These neighborhood
cooperative selling plants will play
almost as important a part in our
future as the free Bchools have in
the past
“1 have little patience with the
work of thos6 busy people at
Washington who are trying to
ind oat through commissions and
investigations as to what is best
for th farmeer If the govern-
ment will aid in giving the farmer
his proper share of the fruit of
his work so that he will be able
l w
o buy for himself the things
which will make farm home the
best for his family and himself
then it wil attempt something
worth while
"The government should assist
in finding a way for better farm
marketing There should be a
market bureau of the Agricultural
Department devoted to accum-
ulating aid distributing informa-
tion on best methods and best
markets fi r selling The govern-
memfc should spend some money
to demonstrate proper marketing
just as it is doing in the develop-
ment of good roads work
‘‘I do not believe in combina-
tions of capital to a point of des-
troying competition This country
has made the great) st record of
any country in the world under
competitive conditions We can
o on in our development under
the enforcement of the Sherman
antitrust law as we now under-
stand it and whiah if enforced as
construed by our highest court
will prevent any destructive work
through any combination of in-
terests savs $2000000000 caiTbe saved
£‘Let ns pee ho wtha annual out-
put of your business compares
with the output’ of other - indus-
tries: " ' '
"The total business of the steel
industry of the United States last
year factory value amounted to
$550000000 of oil $175000000
of lumber $1200000000 of
sugar $350000000 of tobacco
$175000000 a total of $2450-
000000 while the farm value of
agriculture alone the same year
amounted to $9000000000 In
connection with this great wealth-
producing business it is certainlv
conservative figured from any
standpoint to say that on the
$9000000000 farm value crop
the producers should receive $2
)00000000 more money than they
are receiving Those $2000000-
000 saved would mean to the farm-
ers a $2000000000 saving on a
$9000 000000 crop When we
discuss figures so large they be-
come mystifying The $2000-
000000 we would save by a sys-
tem of going more direct from the
farm to the consumer nearly equals
the factory value ot all steel lum-
ber oil sugar and tobacco sold
in the United States last year It
is more than the combined rev-
enues of France Italy and Ger-
many It is more than double
the yearly cost of running our
own government-
‘I want to say that the rail-
roads of the country are interest-
ed in production and marketing
and are anxious to co-operate with
the farmers in every way they can
toward bringing abound a better
understanding and better feeling
between the two interests which
are natural partners and which
should work together upon all
questions of common interest '
At Lilt
- A well-known clergyaa called to
other dutlek Bays a witter In the
Western Christian Advocate preached
his last sermon before the Installation
of his successor The local weekly
paper In announcing the - order - of
services gave It as follows:
“Sermon by Rev Blank: solo and
quartette Hushed at Length’ '
RAILROAD DOINGS
Frank Kell Returns from
Kansas
TO GARDEN CITY
Work Heing Rushed all
Along— Highly Satis-
factory Trip
Vice-president and general man-
ager Frank Kell of the Wichita
Falls Route has returned from an
extended trip through Oklahoma
and Kansas where he has been
looking over a route for a further
extension of the road
Mr Kell spent several days in
an auto traveling several hundred
miles between Woodward the
terminus of the northern extension
now under way and Garden City
Kan covering the counties of
Mead Haskell Gray Edwarc
and Finney Garden City the
county seat of Finney county will
be the terminus of the next leg in
the extension work Of the
counties through which the pro-
posed extension would pass none
has more than one line of rail-
road while Haskell one of the
most productive is absolutely
without transportation facilities
Just Received
A Fine Line of the Following Specialties
Apple Butter
Sugar Corn
Salad Dressing
Cocoa
Chocolate
so it is considered an exceptional-
ly good proposition for a railroad
the land being fertile and almost
level the tormer insuring good
business and making the road a
success from a financial standpoint
while the later makes it a com-
paratively easy matter from a con-
struction standpoint Mr" Kell
said that he traveled for hours in
an auto at high speed without
even crossing a culvert
Accompanying Mr Kell during
a portion of the trip was S B
Fisher chief consulting engineer
for the Katy with headquarters at
St Louis and Ihe too was es-
pecially pleased with the outlook
for an extension as aforemention-
ed Garden City 'Kan is nearly
three hundred miles northwest of
Woodward and it is contemplat-
ed to having everything closed up
for the further extension by the
time Woodward is reached A
trip of forty or fifty miles along
the southern line of Kansas was
made but Mr Kell did not state
that an extension through this
territory was seriously ’ contem-
plate justlnow as ‘ the Wichita
Falls Route had about as much on
hand with the Woodward exten-
sion and the further extension to
Garden City as could well be
handled at one time " ‘
Some time ago a report was
circulated that the ultimate desti-
nation of the Wichita Falls Route
was some point in Nebraska but
this Mr Kell denied yesterday
stating that it was "Denver-bound”
instead The completion of the
extension to Woodward will be a
long step in that direction while
with a line to Garderi City Kan
the Colorado line is almost in
sight
'While on the face of if this
might not seem to be a big matter
but when it is taken into consider-
ation that the Katy and Wichita
Falls Route have closed a work-
ing agreement and that this would
Jive the two a line between Den-
ver Colorado and Galveston
Texas the importance will readily
be seen
The Katy is at present engaged
in an extension of the Texas
Central and so far there has been
nothing exactly official given out
concerning the matter it has been
admitted by men in a position to
know that a line to connect with
the Wichita Falls Route at New-
castle and the Texas Central
(Katy) at Albany or some place
in that vicinity Had been con-
Coffee
Catsup
Caviar
-OT5
Prepared Mustard
Sweet Piccaiettes
Truffles
sidered and that it was looked
upon as a good proposition
If such a line should be built’ it
would be a still better line for
Texas-Colorado business and
probablv the shortest route be-
tween Colorado and the Texas
coast
Concerning the extension to
Garden City Kan Mr: Kell said
that in his opinion it was one ot
the best propositions ever con-
sidered by the WichitaFalls Route
and one which would be worth a
great deal of effort on the part of
Wichita Falls people to put
through— Wichita News
A Son
Mr and Mrs Floyd Shafts are
the happy parents of a large heal-
thy boy which was born last Sun-
day night Dr Harry Dorroh
ushered the young gentleman into
the world J k'
A GREAT SUCCESS
Hammon’s Two Days'
Anniversary
( —
DRAWS CROWDS
Indian Sham Battle Proves
0
a Winning Feature
Everybody Pleased
Wednesday bright and fair the
people from far and near come
pouring into town from all direct-
ions The Witchita Falls train
came in at 10 30 packed to over
flowing with a large crowd from
Elk City and South where they
were met by the I lammon Coruett
Band making the Welkin Ring
with its strains of music After
lunch the Indian wild west show
come off a picture from real life
tin Chyeme Indian in war Boun-
nets and paint come into the town
firing their gun and following
them the old time cowboys m their
unique rigs At the g ounds the
Indians attacked an Emigrant
wagon and took some prisoners and
escaping on a horse brought the
cowboys to the rescue where after
a short fight the Indians were
driven off and the paleface at the
stake was rescued just in time
" At two o'clock Prof Moss made
the address of welcome to the as-
sembled thousands Judge Hamil-
ton of Altis made a rousing speech
which was listened to attentivlyj
the speaker spoke at length of the
march of events the changing
fr m an Indian Reservation to the
land teeming with Cities Bail-
roads and Alfalfa fields: theepeak-
ers delivery waa strong and forceful
and he was given good attention
An inieresting pony race came
off alter the Indian light the race
being won by Buster Brown in the
evening after a few preliminary
the State acrap'lecature the white
mans hope and the Irishman with
the Russian name was pulled off —
in about ten round Jess got tired
trying to keep up with the other
fellow and chase to nnn him
around the ring The gaiety at
the dance kept up till a late hour
It was estimated there were at
2500 people present all having a
good time a special train from
Elk City was run arriving in time
to see the fight bringing quite a
crowd of people
This
Is A Three-Party
Country
The manner in which tariff bills
are now being passed by the Sen-
ate of the United States brings
this country into an unprccedent-
ed situation — a situation in which
three distinct parties actually are
exercising legislative power:
Of course we have nearly always
had so-called ‘‘third parties” —
that is groups of protest claiming
some special mission But they
have exercised real power in leg-
islation such as the Insurgents
are exercising now
They did not vitally affect legis-
lation or permanently change a
majority into a minority Their
activities did not leave the country
unable to hold any party fully res-
ponsible for results
That is the situation now Re-
publicans vote as such Democrats
vote as such Insurgents vote as
such Their separate snd distinct
character is officially recognized
and recorded in reports of roll
calls '
Not any one responsible party
but a temporary and iirespousible
alliance of parties "is legislating
for the nation today "
The situation has its practical
inconveniences It also has its
dangers But it is not without its
compensations
The Insurgents Radicals ' or
Progressives if they so prefer to
be called are voting against all
Republican principles' and pro-
grams and organization They
are visibly not Republicans
Every Republican can now see
that they have no claims upon his
consideration as Republicans
They act aggressively as a Third
party
And that clears the situation
inight'iy
President Invited
Oklahoma Republicans have
urged State Chairman Harris and
National Committeeman Cade to
request President Taft to include
Oklahoma on his Western itiner-
ary The President will be "in
Hutchinson Kan on Sept 26
and the plan is to have him dip
into Northern Oklahoma if for
no more than one speech Pur-
poses of the trip as understood
here are to lay before the farm-
ers ©f the Middle West the Ad-
ministrations policy as toCanadian
reciprocity Oklahoma Repub-
licans feel that this will be an issue
in the next Congressional cam-
paign and it is advanced that the
President t able to remove much
of the criticism They also look
forward to at least reducing the
Democratic legislative majority
next year thus affording them an
opportunity in redistricting for
Congressmen
The President has been in Ok-
lahoma but once and that while
he was Secretary of -War -iff a
speech here he denounced the
Oklahoma Constitution and urged
its defeat at the polls
Bridge Out
A head rise in the Cimarron
River Monday flooded the stream
and took out the Chicago Rock
Island & Pacific Railroad bridge
at Dover Great damage is re-
ported along the river's course
The Rock Island is routing its
trains over the St Louis & San
Francisco from Enid to Perry
thence south over the Santa Fe
through Guthrie to the Choctaw
line of the Rock Islauu at Okla-
homa City A Rock Island bridge
at the same place went out in May
1906 letting an entire passenger
train into the Cimarron’s quick-
sand from where none of it ever
was recovered A wagon bridge
a quarter of a mile long north of
Guthrie went out Monday Jacob
Copeland was drowned while at
work taking driftwood from the
bridge The river rose six feet
overflowing the lowlands and back-
ing water in the Cottonwood and
Skeleton here until a tilood is an-
ticipated Women Too
Mrs Anna Caldwell recently
commissioned special deputy en-
forcement officer made her first
raid Monday at Shawnee Assist-
ed by Sheriff Pierce Deputy
Sheriff Tilghman and Deputy
County Attorney Hunter Johnson
Mrs Caldwell led a raid on a
rooming house and arrested five
women and several men and land-
ed them in jail at Tecums£h
Clothes and the Man
"The better a person Is dressed the
less money he has as a rule Thus
Judge Parry whose experience In the
county court certainly gives him a
right to speak on the subject— Lon-
don Telegraph
V -JU'
AN INVESTIGATION
Of Wheat Corner Will
Be Next
LANDIS AFTER ’EM
May Wheat Corner in
Chicogo Starts the :
Trouble
Federal investigation into th
famous May wheat corner in'
Chicago is expected to follow
oonrt action taken Tuesday by
William Lanyon the St Louis'
grain speculator who refused to
settle for 205000 bushels of wheat '
which he was short on oontract '
presumably to brokers represent-
ing Adolph J Liohtstern end the
other leaders in the 15000000
bushels deal
J ubge K M Landis sitting in
the United States District -oonrt
Tuesday entered an -order on ap-
plication of Lanyon restraining
James E Bennett A Co grain
brokers of Chicago from making
any settlement on Lanyon’a May
grain contracts The order also
restrains the board of trade from
forcing such settlement nnder the
rules of the board ‘ j
Friends oi Lanyon declared last
night the St Louis man was de-
termined through hie suit to ex-
pose the men responsible fer the
$1400000 loss sustained by Jaa
Pettit president of the Feavey
Grain company np to the time-of
his death in Lake Michigan in his
speculations in gram on the
Chicago Jxsard of trade Limyott
it is said holds the ’ sameijqirjst
manipulators that caused Pettit’s
ruin responsible for his own large
losses ' :
Bennett A Co in May sold the
wheat in question for Lanyon but
defaulted on delivery to the buy-"
ers on May 31 The board -of i
trade held that the market prion
was $1041-8 a bushel ' Lanyon
declares in his bill that this was
fictitious price due to manipula-
tion He says he Is willing to
settle at fair price but ' contends
that the price fixed by the - board
is excessive " -
Lanyon’s bill throws new light
ou the May wheat deal which cost
somebody several million of’ dol-
lars The end is not yet because
the speculators took all the grain
bought on contract at top prices
and still have it in warehouses—
a quanity approximating 12000
000 bushels
Some Peaches
L- D Trent one of Custer
County’s prosperous farmers was
in the city yesterday with an ex-
hibit of peaches which was truly
surprising even for productive
Oklahoma The exhibit consist-
ed of a 16 inch limb bearing 23
large peaches Mr Trent alio
has kaffir corn and milo maize
that will make mor than 60
bushels per acre This would in-
dicate that the crops about Ham-
mon have been several per1 cent
better than a failure this season
A Telegram
In your judgement should Prej
Taft sign the wool bill the farmer
free list bill and the cotton bi
do you believe the Preside!
should veto these bills axid wai
for reports from the tariff com
mission on which scientific redud
ion can be leased pleaae telegrapl
reply at onr expense
The Tribune
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McMurtry, J. W. The Hammon News. (Hammon, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1911, newspaper, August 10, 1911; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1814344/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.