Justice (Duncan, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 1907 Page: 1 of 10
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THOMAS I WILLIAMS'
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Mend your grunito ware
THOMAS & WILLIAMS
Pumpa Pipe and 'Wind
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VOLUME 1
DUNCAN INDIAN TERRITORY OCTOBER 25 1907
NUMBER 41
Like Socialism They Teach Mutual Inter-
est and Protection
(Seymour Stedman)
' There are 171 recognized fraternal soci-
cieties in America with 71434 lodges tents
orcourts They have 5205255 benefit mem-
bers and 333428 social members The later
are largely those who do not possess the phy-
sical qualifications necessary to carry insur-
ance The endowment certificates out or in-
surance in-force Jan 1 of this year amount-
ed to $65620319 -
The cost of operating fraternal societies
amounts to 8 per cent of income as against
196 of regular life insurance companies In
other words it costs private enterprise 116
per cent more on every dollar’s business than
it does the co- operative method
1 In the near future some fraternal societies
will fail These were organized many years
ago and the assessment rate was too low
for a growing mortality In all lines' the
' quick and early failures precedeu the perma- ’
nent and more stable form of organization
- These societies comprising over 5000000
members have paid out over $1189472 in
sick disability and death benefits They are
composed mainly of workingmen men at the-
' anvil the plow in the counting room and en-
gine room These societies art democratical-
ly organized The members elect all officials
either directly or through conventions fix
their terms of office and the amount of their
salaries the same varying from $1 to $10000
per year -
- These societies are not great corporations
organized for profit and for gain but co- -partnerships
wherein all have- equal rights
equal vote and equal opportunities They
make no contributions to the campaign funds
nf political parties and do not pay $50000 a
year salaries or waste $11 000 000 a year for
new business as was done last year by the
Equitable of New York and the New York
Life Insurance company
-These societies are distinctly Socialistic
in their nature for they eliminate profits '
and they are mutual t:6-operative and demo-
cratic "
The obligation at the altar the spirit of
the ritualand sermons' are filled with senti-
ments and expressions of brotherhood fra-
temity cooperation concord and mutual
help Think what will happen when these
5000000 men realizing what they have done'
in the field of fraternal insurance extend
their principles to all industries “
You members have assumed the obligations
and listened to your invocations of co-opdta-tive
fraternal insurances with approval and
have taken a great step toward the triumph
of Socialism for extending your theory to
all industries is the purpose of the Socialistic
movement
’ The brother of any fraternity who fails to
espouse the cause of Socialism does not grasp
either the spirit of his society or his ecbnomic
basis or he has never had Socialism presented
to him ‘
What do you want? Sick disibility and
death benefits and the social benefits of your
brothers’ society Mutual' fraternal insur-
ance and co-operative without paying a profit
to a master Suppose we should ask - you to
sell your society to us that' we might make
money out of your needs what answer would
you make? You would cry out “Charlatans
vre will have none of your interest' profits
and robbery”
Why can’t you who advocate co-operative
insurance be big enough be strong enough
and take a worldwide grip and join us in es-
tablishing the fraternal co-operative and col-
lective ownership and operation of all indus-
tries and thereby let your principles live
grow blossom and triumph in a lodge as wide
and broad as the race of which' you are ‘ a
kindred part? -
: READ UIESN THINK
Have you been attending the electric thea-
ter lately? It certainly is up to-date If you
have been attending you know what it is
without being told but if you haven't been
attending you don’t know what you are miss-
ing It is elevating educating interesting
and entertaining it will make you mad make
you glad and make you sad It is the culmi-
nation of modern invention No student can
afford to miss it no man or woman is too old
to be benefited by it If you never went to
an electric theater go and have illustrated to
you how far behind the times you really are
see with your own eyes how far human in-
vention has advanced in your life time and
then shut your eyes and try to think what
wonders will be worked in a few more gener-
ations ‘ -
Have you seen the elephant-skinned boy?
He js at the fair and he is a horrible illustra-
tion of what pre-natal influence does to a
child It is said that his mother was scared
by anelephant before he was born and that
was the cause of his being marked like he is
His hands and feet are' covered with a horny
substance probably a half inch' thick while
each of his knees look almost like the head of
an elephant facing you The skin on his-
knees is exactly like the skin of an elephant
Is it any1 wonder that the sale of liquor is
doubling every ten years when this damnable
competitive system forces “the prospective
mothers into the struggle for existence wear-
ing their nerves away making it necessary
for them to take some kind of tonic to keep
them from breaking down and by so doing
fastening a desire on the unborn child that
makes the liquor habit on him almost a certainty
We wen’t out to the fair grounds last Sun-
day afternoon to see what we could see We
found that everything was looking fairwards
and especially the horses There were about
forty horses Some of them were beauties
and no mistake But about the1 interesting
sight that met ouraze was Dusty Bob No-
body seems o know just exactly who Dusty
Bob is but everybody (except a few skeptics
who say there is nothing to him but sand and
hair) seems to have a little mysterious infor-
mation anent this grimy knight ofj the turf
It seems to be the fixed opinion of the ma-
jority of the smart people who don’t bet
that Dusty is going to get off with nearly all
the grapes He has five or six horses most
of them look like plow horses but it is whis-
pered around by several hundred people that
there are horses in that bunch that can just
outrun anything When you are out around
the stables about the first thing that happens
to you is someone edges up to you and says
“See that long-haired pinch-faced ornery-
looking old cuss qver there Well you look
out for him he isn’t here for his health” Of
course the first thought that occurs to you is
that if he were he would take a bath put on
some clean clothes shave his face and neck
and cut off a couple of sacks of that wool It
is said that Dusty will bet on anything any
time and any place They say he will pick
an ant with you around a bed and bet his ant
gets in the hole first One fellow says Dusty
got converted once on a misrepresentation of
heaven After the preacher had explained to
him what a happy place heaven is Dusty was
elated He said: '
“Good God won’t we pull off some races
up there that will be pippin!”
“Hold on Dusty” said the preacher “we
won’t have any horse racing up there”
- “Well said Dusty “what are we going
to bet on?’’
“We can’t do any betting up there” said
the preacher
“Well what will we do?” asked Dusty
“Oh” said the preacher “when we get
up there we will have wings -and just fly
around and be happy” '
“Tell you what I'll do ” said Dusty “bet
you a hundred dollars right now I can beat
you a flying when we get there ”
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Cheves, Wiley Edgar. Justice (Duncan, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 1907, newspaper, October 25, 1907; Duncan, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1977805/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.