The Enid Daily Eagle. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 309, Ed. 1 Monday, January 30, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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M(iM).vv, j.i\i.u;\ .10, 11111.
As Announced in Yesterday's Papers Our Store
Is Now Under New Management
Mr. M. L. Brown Having Withdrawn From the Firm
We wish lo assure our many friends and customers that under the new management the same high class policy of doing
business will be adhered to. We will at all times give you good reliable merchandise at moderate prices. Our store service
will be of the best and we wish to impress on you that we are here to please you.
This coming season we will put in larger stocks than ever—carefully selected merchandise necessary to meet the require5
ments of our thousands of customers, and our prices at all times will be extremely moderate. You will always find the best
here both in style, quality and price, and our guarantee of money back if not satisfied stands back of every purchase made in
this store.
There will not be any changes made in our selling force. You will lind all of them at their respective stations ready and
willing to show you our merchandise whether you wish lo buy 01* not.
We wish to thank you for your past patronage and hope to see you in our store frequently during the coming season.
We wish to Call Special Attention to Our Big Clearing Sale
=========== Which is Now Going On =============
All Coats, Suits, Dresses, Skirts. Waists, Furs and Underwear being practically sold at One-Half price. You will find on
our first floor hundreds of splendid values in Dress Goods, Silks, Wash Goods, Laces, Embroideries, Blankets, Comforts, etc., at
a saving from 25 to 50 per cent.
Space will not permit us to give details and prices but we can assure you of splendid bargains in every department.
BROWN, FRASER & COMPANY
THE HOME GOODS SALE
WILL LUST a 11 M If.'fW.' 1/1 vs
500 new pieces of OnyxEnamelcd Ware just
received, price Oc and up J list as well
save some money 011 your next week's supply
of groceries, Try the quantity price, all
orders of $2.00 or over delivered to any
part of the city.
NEW YORK BROKERS
SELL EVERYTHING
THE ENID DAILY EftGLE
I'libllshcd o v
it unlay, and Si
ingle Printing
A feHIM'tlll fit
y evening.
lay m.u-nliu-. I.
i<l rubllahlng
M. II. WltKillT,
K<li tor ami Malinger.
Some \ery I'xn'llcnl people till'
mi l lu\\ dare not hop* . To me it
• tn*. nmrli moil* impious lo ilniv to
i viiuii-.—Sydney Smith
The other day we met a man who
:'s complaining that there is notli-
*g good « nougli in ti in town for hlr i; |
.it there Is no place to no, and nof
croon of consequence whose friend-
hip he might cultivate. We inferred
:orn the monologue of this person |
i r he was trving to fool himself
, 1 someone ,1.. .
\nd now Charles N. Haskell Mas
horned to the Capital City of the
! le of Oklahoma. has put his 111a-
lihie in working order, and advo-
;ros two plans as dangerous as
ny of tin shameful and calania-
h policies which he forced upon
' ^ unsus|K' ting young state when
was governor. He urges the bulhl-
<v: of a slalo railroad from the
I thwest to the southeast through
capital city; this policy the poli-
ans of Oklahoma City and their
Mures everywhere will further to
best of their selflshm ss and
demagogue is the substitution of iiis
name for that of Robert Owen as a
I nited Stale ' senator from Oklaho-
j ma. No man of patriotic sense will
favor this latter scheme,; and y-M
(In fight of his lit'' is probably just
ahead of Owen Haskell is a menace
to Oklahoma, and ev« ry other cli-
mate tliat names his name.
II \lll lv
He
' The drinks were mlx<
name of the college which was re-
cntly located in Enid by I he 70,-
fton Baptists of the state Is "The
William Carey College,' not the Wil-
liam Jewell College of Missouri
The name William Carey is consid-
ered one of the greatest rcsour.'s
that tin uew instil hi ion has, and tli
beaten paths of names in the n r-
vous organization of the scribe a>-|
counts for the substitution in Sun-:
day's Kaulc. Habits years old ass' ri j
themselves, Inevitably, a^ul the
founders of Hie William Carey Col-;
lege know I his very well; the mission ;
of the school Is to help make habits'
that will be sources of wealth ami j
happiness to the thousands of stu
dents who arc now naming this clly
when tin \ plan fop their education.
m:sT.
The head of the Moot and Shoe
Manufacturers' association of Angeli-
ca has made a slogan like this:
"More business and'less tariff sul-
fation." And lie says thai the busi-
ness Interests of this country ''need
a rest."
That sounds familiar; Indeed, It Is
partially, at leftit, a plagiarism The
"rest" that be solicits would be paid
decades. We all want a rest, but
not such a rest. When the average
man g' Is a square deal with the man
who owns factory and shipping ma-
chinery, the long, sought day will
have arrived. Perhaps the manufac-
turer might as well face the fa«t
that the price of "rest" for the com-
mon man has been increasing rapid-
ly of late and that it will continue
to do so until it has been paid.
"More real business and less tar-
iff agitations" would suit every one
when It becomes a feasible and reas-
onable slogan.
m:< 'ii'Kocm.
Advices of every character from
Washington indicate that determined
opposition to lhe Canaoian treaty of
reciprocity is being encountered by
the administration. And the same
advices indicate that the president
has asserted himself irrevocably In
favor of the treaty, and that he will
not give up the fight until it lias
been ratified.
It was to tie expected that opposi-
tion would d< \elop. That treaty pro-
poses the good of tin common peo-
ple in both nations, and the special
interests that feed at the vitals of
these common folks will not be loosed
from their hosts without the usual
struggle of the parasite; but if the
president will stay firmly in his pres-
ent determined frame of mind and
continue to "stnile at the opposi-
tion," he will win the fight, for Hie
overwhelmingly majority of the peo-
ple agree with him in this matter,
Kngland is said to he clearly favor-
able to the treaty, so that in all the
earth wo have the so-called "high
tariff" politician only to whip.
The newspapers of the country will
probably be agreed upon the treaty
as they would thereby secure the
privilege of an unrestricted market
for paper and wood pulp. At present
the newspaper is the victim of the
paper trust In just the degree and
with as little hope of relief as are
the common people to the American
Sugar Refining company. Every
free man Is behind the president and
the insurgents in this fight for (lie
privileges of the masses who make
the over rich an American possibili-
ty. and who have no alternative nor
choice about so doing at present.
SI OAlt.
The \morionn Sugar Refining com-
pany has recently issued a circular
of information, comparing the prices
ganlzatlon of the company, and the
years 1891-194)9, since such organ-
ization. •
According to this statement, the
average price of all sugar sold during
the former period was 9c per pound;
and the average since lias been 4.Otic
per pound, while the people have
consumed a yearly average of 69.12
pounds during the last period as
against 4">.".2 pounds during the for-
mer.
The people of the country arc not:
incensed against this trust because of
the improved methods they are using
and the development of the beet su-
gar industry nor because of the fact
that the demand for sugar is great - r
than ever before; nor are they angry
because the trust has been able to
eliminate certain competitive wastes,
and thereby cheapen the prices of the
product to the consumer.
The "Case of the Seventeen Holes'*,
is the quality of incident that
j arouses the ire of the populace; the
j fact of plunder, cheating, and the
most impudi nt dishonesty, make it
ni'jiarent that the trust is not deal-
j ing in good faith with the nation a3
a whole nor with the consumers. Tin
j fact that this same trust .cm sell ami
is selling sugar manufactured In
' America to Englishmen, in England,
for two cents per pound less than
Vmericans pay Is the kind of evidene,
which makes the comparative state-
ment pale as moonlight at high noon.
Let the sugar trust deal honorably
with the people and the government
of the pcopb . and then issue a com-
parative statement; their good faith
will be a|vpreciated when it becomes
a matter of fact and not so much
mere senile and deceitful palaver.
I OKI M.N Ml >\o|'OI A .
A« ording to Representative Hum-
! phrey, the real cause of high prices
j to consumers, and the responsible
i agent for the evils of monopoly is
not. the domestic trust; the guilty
one Is the nominally foreign steam-
ship line. Mr. Humphrey declares
that more than 90 percent of the for-
eign trade of the country is carried
in the ships of otfier nations which
recognize cliques, combinations,
pools and rings as p« rfectly legiti-
mate; that at persent we have no
recourse under the law; and that
therefore tin .-«> companies are in po-
sition to dictate rates to all places
of shipment In the Cnltul States and
the Hues over which their products
shall he carried.
•' V shipment of meat can be taken
Humphrey, and this is a fair exam
pit of the discriminations that are
made by these monopolists. He
charges In particular that Standard
Oil, the steel trust and the harvester
com bine are profiting at the expense
of the people and in defiance of any
competition on account of the ar-
rangements that tlicy have made
with these foreign companies.
Mr. Humphrey proposes to refuse
the privileges of harbors to the ships
belonging to any of these pools, and
would thereby cut off their advan-
tages. The fact that such compan-
ies control practically all nf the for-
eign trade of the nation, however,
would appear to imply and argue an
understanding between interested
shippers that would be difficult to
unearth and control.
This is a .case of the skin of tho
Ethiopian and the spots of the leop-
ard Standard OH, steel and the har-
vester combine would not hesitate to
j take over the nominal ownership of
tlx j
lines, if such action would
i further their Interests. The fact of
j their participation indicates that they
: are the majority stockholders now,
and that they would not be seriously
| interfered with by tho. proposition of
! barring a foreign vessel which they
! own from the shipping ports of tho
| nation. Mr. Humphrey may he on
the trail that will eventually get
them out of their hiding, however,
and this in itself would be a matter
of great importance.
LETTERS TO THE EACLE
j To The Eagle.
j After reading the announcement
' in your paper Friday evening of tho
! definite location of thu Willi im
j Carey college I could not but won-
der if tho good people of Enid would
now be content to relax into inactiv-
ity along the lines of securing more
public institutions, wholesale houses,
factories, etc.. or will they follow
up the advantage gained.
\bout .1, M. Ilrandt.
A few weeks ago the board of di-
rectors of the Chamb* r of Common e
elected J. M. Brandt to the very Im-
portant and highly• honorable posi-
tion of president of that body Al-
most Immediately a new spirit of en-
I thuslasm was aroused. The organ-
; izutlou soon became the llvest In the
city. Mr Brandt courageously faced
a Job which has heretofore been tac-
kled In vain by numerous able men
that of bringing together Enid's
main property holders and Industrial
of Enid's "big men" be it said to
their shame—were so bitter in their
antagonism to other "big men" that
they hardly spolte to each other.
Hut Mr. urandt got them together
and by his tact so organized the
varied interests that they bid against
each other for the location of the
Baptist college in a way that assured
the college coming to Enid.
From $.">,000 to $10,000 Earned.
Of course. Mr. Brandt did not no
this alone, but he was the guiding
spirit. He did more than this, how-
ever. Few people in Enid, and few
even of the members of the Cham-
ber of Commerce, know that Mr.
Hrandt so framed the contracts made
that wherever tho college would he
located the Chamber of Commerce!
would get five percent of the bonus
paid. That contract holds good on
the site selected. The Enid Clianw
ber of Commerce will receive from
five to ten thousand dollars in cold
• ash from the location of the Bap-
tist college. It will get some of this
money soon.
A Little History.
For nine years, to the personal
I knowledge of the writer, the Enid
I Chamber of Commerce has been try-
1 ing to find a man capable of filling
j the jiositlon of leading in the up-
j building of greater Enid. During
; that period many able men have been
tried none lias proven all the suc-
i cess hoped None has been able to
| put down the self-interest warfare
' between the men who ought to he
! shoulder to shoulder in pushing the
| < Ity forward.- Not once In that per-
: iod have we had a real Chamber of
I Commerce organized along business
lines, conducted on business princi-
ples, backed by the business Inter-
ests of the city. And finally the.city
spirit and enterprise almost broke
under the Incubus of disorganized,
contending and factional Interests.
Brandt Fits the Place.
Tn the person of J. M. Hrandt the
j "man of the hour" for Enid's Indus-
trial interests has been found. There
are plenty of men In this city equally
capable, equally progressive, equally
| courageous. But to fit Into the pe-
culiar. trying and exacting position
of leading In the city's upbuilding,
Mr Brandt Is par excellence the
man. The experience of the past fiw
weeks has demonstrated this to tho
satisfaction of all who look beyond
his personality to the situation
which he Is meeting.
Would l*ay Him a Salary.
Now what Is the wise and logical
thing to do under the circumstances?
ten his lnisi-
e lee ted president of the Chamber of
Commerce and has put in his time
day and night for the city without a
dollar compensation. Had he not
been on the jcb all the time, even
within tho past week, the Baptist
college would have gone to Oklahoma
City. He has other big projects for
Enid on hand which he can probably
work out if lie does not flag under
the heavy task ahead. The Chamber
of Commerce is looking for a man
to take the place of the i*re6fent sec-
retary who has resigned. "Distance
lends enchantment" and men who
can write fine letters and get others
to write for them are being consid-
ered for the place. But no matter
who is chosen, Jim Brandt will have
to be tbn guiding spirit, as he lias
been, or the present standard will
not be maintained. Then why npt
do as Oklahoma City has done with
one of her strong men, elect him
manager of the Chamber of Com-
merce at a salary that is worth while,
and let him select a secretary or as
slstant to do the clerical work? Why
not give Brandt from $3,000 to
000 per year in such a position, and
everybody get behind his leadership?
He has already made from $5,000 to
j $10,000 for the' chamber In a few
j weeks—what, would he not do in a
I year? And he asked no man except
• those who would be directly bene-
; tited for a single dollar to help lo-
i eate the Baptist college here—tho
j first time any such public institution
' has been located on that just plan,
J. M. Brandt would he mighty
cheap for the Chamber of Commerce
at $5,000 per year. If Enid is ever
going to be a city we must quit this
I plnchy, pinhead method of doing
j business and ho willing to pay some-
thing for what we get. And above
i all. we must bury or cremate the
factional antagonisms which have
kept the Chamber of Commerce a
mere name. We believe Jim Brandt
can do these things, and we believe
he would If the people of Enid would
, ask him In the right way.
CITY BUILDER.
A piece of flannel dampened with
Chamberlain's Liniment and bound
on to the affected parts Is superior
j to any plaster. When troubled with
Inme back or palr.\ in the side o;
j chest give It a trial and you are
| certain to be more than please.1
with the prompt relief which It ut-
! fords. Sold by M. & B. Drug Co.,
The Ponayo Store.
Mrs. leKse Atkinson, of Cherokee.
js_ spending a w eek w ith her par-
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Wright, M. H. The Enid Daily Eagle. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 309, Ed. 1 Monday, January 30, 1911, newspaper, January 30, 1911; Enid, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc268175/m1/4/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.