Marshall County Democrat. (Madill, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, March 27, 1908 Page: 1 of 10
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MARSHALL COUSTY DEMOCRAT.
"PROVE ALL THINGS; HOLD FAST THAI WHICH IS (,OOl)
VOLUME II.
MADILL, MARSHALL COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, MARCH 27 1908
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Millinery
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PRING is now here. Nnture is putting forth her new beautiful gar-
ments of grandeur of grass, foliage and buds. We are here to assist
in adorning some of God's creation-WOMAN-the delight of man's
heart. A new Hat for Spring is now the subject of all ladies, we have
them You need not leave Madill to get your headgear, we have the right
things, come and see for yourself. Don't go away disappointed and say you
did not see what vou wanted. Call for it, I am sure we have it. Let us make
your Hat just like you want it. We have been here seven years, sold the tirst
Lady's Hat in Madill, you surely know ine by this time. I thank you for past
favors, and ask you for a continuance of your patronage. Yours for business
and fair dealing,
Mrs. Lula Glenn
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Prohibition Bill
Passed, and Approved
Governor
Guthrie, Ok.,March 24-The Billups prohibition enforcement bill
became a law at 12:35 this afternoon, when it was signed by Governor
Haskell in the presence of 25 or 30 members of the legislature, pro-
hibition workers and newspaper men.
It had been expected that the bill would be signed in the govern-
or's office, but plans had been made to take a photograph of the
signing, and as the light in the governor's offiice was not good for
that purpose the party adjourned to the senate chamber,where the
governor was seated at a desk, with Mrs. Haskell beside him. Sen-
ator R. A. Billups and Represenative William Murdoch, chairmen
of the prohibition enforcement committees of the two houses, were
seated on either side of him, with the members of the two houses
who had been active in securing the passage of the bill and promi-
sive—so extreme, as to be dis
tasteful to the average moral
minded citizens of the state. The?
recognize that public sentiment
amongthe best people of the state
consider that in certain cases of
illness, liquors are deemed a nec
essary medicinal quantity. They
recognize that many of our best
citizens woald resort to any
means to secure such medicine
when they believed that member
of their family were suffering
pain and possibly death for want
of it. They believe that a code of
laws thatdidn't provide for these
necessities, would breed violations
of law in the obtaining of liquor
and the commission of perjury,if
necessary, in their own defense
thereafter. They believe that be
ginning with cases which the ma
jority of the public would consid
er excusable, that the violations
of law would gradually become so
:ommon as to render the wuole
who naa nvc m i—— *• commune tw ••
nent prohibition workers of the state grouped just behind theunplan of prohibition unpopular
i A.i J..* f,.lrun Ofpimvincr nrnminpnt positions W0H? . -ti ~ ^la Tn mir nnniititii.
when the picture was taken. Occupying prominent positions were
the Rev. E. C. Dinwiddie, state superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
league, the Rev. E. N. Sweet, Jr. of Muskogee and J. Y. Callahan of
Enid.
In signing his name to the bill,
Governor Haskell used three
pens, which were given to Mess-
ers Dinwiddie, Billups and Mur-
doch. Five or six other pens
were used in completing his en-
dorsement on the bill, and were
given to state officers and local
prohibition workers.
Declaring that its enemies have
endeavored to render it offensive,
that many obstacles will be plac-
ed in the way of theofficers to be ap-
pointed and refuting the charges
of the republican press that the
state will be compelled to sell $1,-
HOO.OOO worth of liquor to cover
the total expense of conducting
the dispensaries. Govenor Hask-
ell today issued to the people of
the state a proclamation urging
them to co-operate in enforcing
the prohibition enforcement act.
The proclamation follows:
Governor's Proclamation
We
Want
Corn
NUMBER 27.
DID YOU KNOW
That we made Pure Corn Chops and Meal always fresh,
grinding only as our trade wants them?
CET IN THE HABIT
Of asking for them, and help home people, the corn is
bought from our neighbors, and you help us by buying
our products to buy other products from them,
TO OUR FARMER FRIENDS,
We exchange Fresh Ground Meal for your Corn, either
shelled or in the ear. We will also grind or exchange for
Chops, or if you will bring us in your ear corn shucked,
we will grind cobs and corn together which makes a very
tine feed.
Madill Grain and Elevator Co.
confidence that faithful service
will be rendered by all such offi-
cers. Anything short of a com-
plete discharge of official duty
would not only disappoint me, but
would work a great disappoint-
ment in the minds of the people
of our state. We now have the
detail law fully sufficient to carry
state-wide prohibition into effect.
The people declared for state-
wide prohibition, not in theory,
but in fact and as long as that is
the will of our people, they are
entitled to its faithful application.
Oklahoma Law Practical
To the people of Oklahoma and to
the public officers. Whose
dutv it is to enforce the laws
of the state, in every county
city or community:
We hereby call your attention
to the code of laws adopted by the
legislature for the purpose of car-
rying statewide prohibition into
complete and practical effect.
It is not your privilege, nor
mine, to waste time discussing
the question as to whether we
would have drawn this code of
laws exactly as they are. There
are questions upon which most
people differ and any law of great
extent or consequence is invaria-
bly framed to meet the approval
of at least a majority of the legis-
lative body, but this code is now
tlie law of the state of Oklahoma
and is entitled to the support of
all our citizens and most emphat-
ically of the public officers who
have assumed the responsibility
and taken the oath to enforce the
laws, and we have the utmost
I fully realize that every obsta-
cle possible will be thrown in your
way. The claim is made that
prohibition i.s a fanciful fad and
incapable of practical enforce-
ment. This might be true if im-
practical means were applied, but
remember Oklahoma's law is
practical.
The method of those opposed
to prohibition are ingenious in-
deed. Every since election day
with our p ople In our constitu
tion, provision was made for
dispensary system for medicinal
purposes. This was the act of
our people themselves at- the
election last September, and the
legislature has acted strictly
within its duty in making pro-
vision for a dispensary for me-
dicinal purposes. The same indi-
viduals who fought for free whis-
ky before the election and the
same newspapers that they paid
to aid them in that fight, are found
today wildly criticising this new
code of laws.
Evidence of Real Merit
Is there any better evidence of
the real merit of these laws than
that they displease that class of
people and papers?
Our dispensary provides for
liquor when needed in sickness
and leaves no excuse for violating
the law.
Remember this is not a bever-
age dispensary, as these people
and papers would have you be-
lieve.
It is not a barrell of whiskey
with the head knocked in and a
of sickness in his family, unless
he has obtained it from the
agency and upon the written pre-
scription of the physician. As to
the conduct of the physician, the
public need not fear that he will
violate the law. The physician
will first read the law carefully,
and having read it, there is no
probability of his violating it.
Charges Deliberate Untrath
No stronger proof of the strict
propriety and efficiency of this
new code of laws can be found,
than the attitude of the Guthrie
State Capital—the persistent
enemy of prohibition and given to
reckless and untruthful criti-
cisms of every individual and
every law working for prohibi-
tion principles. Their publica-
tion last Sunday purporting to
give the provisions of the law,
were deliberately untruthful in
practically every particular. Not-
withstarding, they have alluring,
inviting advertisments to buy
whisky by mail from foreign
houses on three other pages of
their paper, they editorially de-
plore the fact that the state is
about to engage in the whiskey
business. Considering the fact
that the State Capital has had its
every possible virtue on the bar-
gain counter for sale at advertis-
ing rates, this pretended sorrow
about the state engaging in the
whiskey business is properly
understood as insincere and ridi-
culous. This legislature in
Cotton Seed
For Planting
Kings Early Improved Cotton Seed
$1.00 Per Bushel
The Commercial Club of Madill, recognizing the necessity for an
early maturing variety of cotton seed with which to tight the boll
weevil, has secured 1200 bushels of Kings early improved cotton
seed, specially selected from seed grown in North Carolina.
This variety of cotton seed has the approval of the Agricultural
Department of the United States and is a potent factor, with which
to combat the boll weevil. The seed is put up in 3 1-3 bushel sacks
and will be delivered to the purchasers from the warehouse of the
Madill Cotton Oil Co.
The Commercial Club is ditributing this seed at exactly the cost
• MADII.L COMMKHCIAJ, Cl.CH,
price. s
smallercommunities, living great
distances from the large town, i
But this question the people will:
settle for tnemselves at the next I
election
I notice another newspaper
publishes the statement that the ..
state will have to sell $l<800 000j
worth of liquor in order to cover j
the total expenses of conducting j
the business.
This, again, is a false state ;
ment.
Pretended Morality Awakened
If thefcital sales throughout the
adopting this code of laws, keeps 'course of a year amounts to $:>< ,
strictly within the provisions of 1000, the state will not loose one
the constituiion in providing for cent, and;
Spring
Opening of
Millinery
March 27-28
You are cordially invited to
call and inspect my stock
whether juu buy or not.
the dispensary in towns of two
thousand populationor more,and,
again, realizing that often thick-
ly settled communities are so re-
mote from these large.towns as
to make such dispensary wholly
inconvenient and impractical to
their patronage in cases of ne
Again if the sales were abso-
lutely nothing in the course of a
year, the state would not lose
a total of $15,000.
The complaint that the state is \
degrading itself and degrading
its women and children by put-
ting these medicinal sales of
tin cup
hanging conveniently provided that
cessity and therefore the legis- liquor under its own control and j
lature seeking the convenience 1 direction, is a sudden awakening
alike of all communities of the of pretended morality when it
state and mindful of the right of comes from a class of newspapers
the people to govern themselves, or individuals, who, in the late
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Mrs. M Hammond
Court House Building
Main Street
Russell
Writes
Ashby
David Russell, some days ago
wrote Represenative Ashby for a
copy of the Marshall County
Perambulating County Court Hill
In response thereto Mr. Russell
at the next election were so unmindful of the
— >• — - November election, without morals of the state that they bit
they have studied to devise. near, but .1 does mean P furljier troubie ()r expense of a terly fought the adoption of pro
every possible way to make pro up under state supervision i, th estion ()f dispel - hibition. I warn you that they
hibition unsatisfactory to the peo- sealed packages and put on e I' ' s|im)ler toWM| may be are utterly unfit to advise we who fcxlay received the following:
pie of the state, to the end that, shelf in the local agency_ stamped ,. . • ^ and are engaged in fighting for prac | H(m David Russell,
an early amendment to the con- j with consecutive numbers ao , thereby perrnittetUo tical enforcement of prohibition | Dw Friend: 1 have no copy
stitution might be adopted set- sold only on awntten prescripti nj 1 dispensary question and the elevation of moral condi | of bill you refer to. I am to offer
ting prohibition aside. of a reputable physician, basea, Intheinean tions today, and I therefore, ap tl„, bi„ by request, and I think
When they fought the adoption i upon a personal diagnosis ot the j election being seven 1 peal to every public officer of the ; 20th April is date on which I ain
of state wide prohibition last patient's condition and tor every j ^ ^ fBtnf(L the ooera- i state, its counties and municipal-! u, offer it. Your friend,
Ashby
summer, they told us that prohi-
bition would destroy the pros-
perity of our people and our
growing towns. In short they
tried to convince us that to be
prosperous we must engage in
a losing business—that to be
prosperous we must spend our
of the .),
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the state agent the receipt of the
purchaser and the physician s
certificate. The local agency
cannot become a booze joint. Im-
prisonment stares him in the
face, for even permitting the
towns will give the voters a | of the state, to join hands in the,
chance to observe the ope ations enforcement of a law which is
of the dispensary and therby j bound to disprove the time-worn ,
form practical experience to de- statement that prohibition does
cide whether or not they desire, not prohibit: that is bound to ele-
a continuance thereof, and to evate the morals, and intellect,
$50 Reward
money for an asset that we would | package to be opened or used on
destroy as soon as we purchased j the premises or for parting with
it. Time has already demonstrat- a package in any other method
ed the fallacy of all such argu- than detailed in the law. Iheie
ments. Today those same people will be no excuse hereafter for
are fighting the adoption and en- j the one charged with violation
forcement of oractical laws, i of the liquor law to plead that lie
They want the law to be so offen- j had obtained the liquor because
have the dispensariesestabliahed
where the distance is so great
that convenience requires
them in smaller towns. We be-
lieve that if a dispensary is a
proper convenience in a town of
two thousand people, it is a prop-
er convenience for the people of
For the arrest and conviction
of any party or parties dyna-
and the prosperity of our people. I miting or poisoning fish in Mar-
Let us all stand together to shall County. It has been brought
prove by our acts and by the con , to my notice that fish are being
ditions to prevail In the grand | dynamited and this is to give fan-
state of Oklahoma, that our state
may be noted for its deeds rath-
er than for its empty words.
C. N. Haskell, Governor
warning that any persons caught
will be prosecuted to the full ex-
tent of the law. W. T. Ross,
Game and Fish Warden,
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Draper, W. G. & Looney, Joseph L. Marshall County Democrat. (Madill, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, March 27, 1908, newspaper, March 27, 1908; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc273312/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.