Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 20, 1905 Page: 4 of 8
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THE OKLAHOMA PRINTING COMPANY
JOHN GOLCBIE, Stc.
Ph nc*No. 132
J. M. DOLPH, Pres.
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At the Pott Office at Guthrie. Oklahoma, aa «ecend cla*« Mail Matter
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THURSDAY APRIL 20. 1905.
JOHN GOLOBIE, EDITOR.
THE CITY COUNCIL SHOULD
WORK WITH THE HAYOR.
The citv council will make a mistake if it does
not work in harmony with the mayor in running
the affairs of the city in such a manner that they
will produce the greatest prosperity at the least
cost to the taxpayers. If a complete republican
administration had been elected a democratic
paper would bedenounced that attempted for
purely party reasons to cripple its ability to serve
the interests of the people; if a democratic, a
republican organ would be equally so. The pres-
ent city administration, on the other hand has a
democratic mayoi, with such new republican
councilmen elected by the people as were ex-
pected to serve the people to their best judg-
ment. The judgment of these republicans was
that the present city administration could best
serve the people by being in harmony with the
mayor, and they selected as president of the
council a republican who is with the mayor.
The republicans cannot afford to place them-
selves on record of carrying on a party fight
against what the people deem their interests
The present city administration is not a question
of a republican council organizing to serve the
party by fighting a democratic mayor to make
him fail, but a question of economy and good
government for the people. If the republican
council prefers to injure the people in order to
defeat the mayor, the republican party will lose
the election of the balance of the councilmen
next spring, and the fight may be carried to the
county election two years hence.
There is but one way tor the republican coun-
cil to strengthen its party and that is by serving
in harmony with the mayor wherever they think
be is right, and only differing when he is wrong.
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STOLEN OPINION YS. STOLEN
NEWS.
The Muskogee Phoenix twits its city rivals on
their stolen editorial intellectual parade, and
thereby hits a keynote that is applicable to quite
a number of Oklahoma newspapers, and especial-
ly those that parade themselves as metropolitan
dailies. It says:
The editorial columns of the local afternoon
papers are being overworked lately. Tuesday
one of them run as an original editorial, a half
column editorial article on "The Hen and Her
Product," which was published as a news item in
all the big dailies last Sunday, and yesterday
evening seven of the pert paragraphs in the ed-
itorial column of the other one were taken bod-
ily from recent issues of the Washington Post
and run as original "thinks,'' without credit.
Verily the pace is becoming very swift.
There are dailies in this territory that steal
from one to three colnmns of editorial matter
daily, and then wonder why their circulation
does not increase. The reason is that the ma-
jority of the readers read the papers they steal
from until they lose confidence in anything they
see in the paper, They fear they have read it in
some other so long ago they have forgotten.
Human nature resents having a cold deck handed
it, and especially an intellectual one, The t'tlilof
who steals his editorials should remember how
he feels when some "guy" tries to hand huh a
chunk as his own, that he has read in a book
when he was a boy, and he will appreciate his
subscribers' feelings who have to pay six plunks
for the stolen dope they have read somewhere
else before.
There is a class of Oklahoma editors who
boast that the cheapest thing in the market is
brains, and they prove it by not even using the
scissors intelligently.
A good editor is only entitled to steal editorial
matter when he gets drunk and is pushed for
time, but when he steals it year in and year out
by the one, two and three columns, his sin will
find him out as sure as a woman who has too
many lovers. He should either write his own
ideas, or if he has none, have no editorial,and his
readers will at least respeet his honesty.
It is bad enough to steal news matter, it is but
the record of facts open to anybody with indus-
try; but to steal another's ideas, which are the
accumulated industry and self-sacrifice, is abso-
lute harlotism and the man who does it is an in-
tellectual prostitute.
With one or two exceptions, it is the corre-
spondents for foreign papers who give expres-
sion to editorial opinion on Oklahoma matters;
and until some newspaper establishes a reputation
for ability and reliability to write justly and in-
telligently upon Oklahoma, socially, politically,
industrially and religiously, there will be no gre; t
journal established in Oklahoma, and the outside
newspapers will have to come to the rescue of
the people.
The State Register was led into an error in
stating a few weeks ago that Representative
McBride had been indicted by tbe grand jurv.
When the Register went to press the daily papers
and the usual avenues of news had him indicted
for tampering with the appropriation bill. The
editor went .o Kansas City to take in the Wag-
ner festival, and when he came back all the dire
rumors that were going to place half the legisla-
ture in the penitentiary had died out and the
grand jury had not brought a single indictment.
Everybody h s since "skinned her back" about
McBride doing anything wrong, and the editor
of this paper wants it understood he knows noth-
ing about it except the public talk made by
others, and when that changes he changes. The
State Register denounces all public, robbery of
whatsoever character; there has been too much
of it until an honest man can hardly be distin-
guished from a thief in public life, and a co n
scientious man can hardly trust himself; and
when it has a dead sinch will follow a public
looter to hell and back, but does not desire to do
a single innocent man an injury. Innccent men in
public life are too rare to be destroyed, they
should be protected when found
We make this statement from the fact that the
Watonga Republican draws attention to some of
the papers quoting the Register, on the McBride
indictment. We do not desire to lead any news-
papers astray; we want them to teel that "when
they see it in the State Register it is so."
Roosevelt may have perpetrated a
entendre when he called Flynn a chump.
double
The State Capital has reached the desperate
state of having to abuse republican city council-
men. Dr. Hixon, Moorman and B.ackman are
republicans as good as the State Capital dare be.
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Rojestvensky's telegram that he would whip
Togo or die, but never return alive would sound
heroic and thrill the blood if it wpre not for
Stoessel's and Admiral Alexis' mock heroic
sayings.
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"AD NAUSEAM."
Considerable effort has been wasted ip trying
to boost Dennis Flynn into undue public promi-
nence by mentioning his name by special cor-
respondence, specially provided for that pur-
pose , with President Roosevelt at Frederick.
The facts are that the president begged the good
people of Frederick and the surrounding country
to leave him alone like any common American
citizen and allow him to enjoy his hunt with
those whom he saw fit to choose as company,
and it was an irnpe rtinance on the part of Flynn,
if it was anything, too "mooch" in where he was
not wanted. And, as a matter of fact, instead of
there being so much glory in it for Flynn as is
attempted to be made out, the fact remains that
Flynn never saw the president except on the
rear platform of the train as it was pulling out,
when he addressed anyone who was there. Any-
one else who was there got as much glory out of
it as Mr, Flynn.
It is one of Mr. Flynn's old tricks to hang him-
self on the kite of a great man. Oklahoma well
remembers when he did this with Tom Reed,
making us believe he made Tom the czar of the
house and that of all the men in congress Tom
loved no one so dearly as Denny. Now Mr.
Flynn declares he ( Me, I, Big Ike) is going to
run Roosevelt for the third term and elect him
president, in spite^of himself, because, as a cor-
respondent quotes him saying: "I consider
President Roosevelt the greatest man in Amer-
ica today and i shall uO all in my power to se-
cure his renomination." Did you ever see a little
fiste bay the moon? The papers are making
Mr. Flynn ridiculous in this matter, and if he
has a little sens*' of humor he will stop them. A
farmer stopped his plow in mid-furrow the other
day to laugh about the matter, and he laughed so
loud his horses thought he was crazy and ran
away, and now the farmer has a grudge against
Flynn.
This hand-out that Flynn is the "n hole bunch'
with President Roosevelt won't go down yet
awhile, for we remember not many years ago he
openly insulted the president by "calling him
down"in the reception room at the1 White House,
before a room full of visitors, and he afterwards
bragged about it, because he considered him an
accident by the death of McK nlev, and because
he thought he was so unpopular he wou'd never
be his party's nominee for president on his own
merits.
The matter is quite different with Governor
Ferguson. As an executive of Oklahoma, he
went to Frederick and waited until the president
concluded his hunt, to pay him his respects and
escort him out of the territory. There was
something fitting and appropriate in this; not to
have done this would have been a fault; and by
formally introducing the president to the people
from the rear platform in an admiring and ad-
mirable manner he did himself credit in the per-
formance of a duty and a pleasure; but we fail to
see by what function, mortal or divine, or pro-
priety of heart or head, Mr. Flynn was there
hanging t« the coat-tails of the governor,
IWIdS SOnvJOl
Tfc Cum* of ItWIr «U Um Ijralni
ml Tralnlas.
The education given lu the schools of
Switzerland is In many respects more
comprehensive and practical than that
offered In our curriculums. The girls,
for instance, are taught not only to
read and write and spell, but to cook,
to wash, to sew. says the Housekeeper.
In addition to being trained for the du-
ties of homemaking and housekeeping,
each girl is taught some useful trade.
Many of the pupils are daughters of
rich parents, and there is little liveli-
hood of their ever having to earn their
own living, hut the paternal govern-
ment takes the view that every mem-
ber of society should possess the abili-
ty to be self supporting even though
the necessity to exercise that ability
should never arise. No expense has
been spared in equipping the school* of
Switzerland for the teaching of domes-
tic science.
Tile boys, too, have not been neglect-
ed in the Swiss s;.-te.:i .f education.
1 t'ysical culture and manual training
li.u-e pror.ilnent pjaces in tlio curricu-
lum, and every boy on leaving the pub-
lic school is cenipped to earn his own
living. Fads and frills are absent from
the S .viss schools. Tho hard headed tax-
payers want t j see s i ne return for
their .Money. They demand t!::;t the
ed\ cation for wljlch tlicy pay shall bo
P" 'c,:< ..1 and use.'ul in after life. Are
they not rig' t'-
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Guthrie Coffee and Tea Company
(Under New Management)
For Good Coffee, Teas. Baking
Powder and Spices. Tickets giv-
en for Premiums with every pur-
chase. Also a full line of Grocer-
ies and feed in connection.
McNULTY & HARTSHORN
(At New Building.)
Both Phon es.
209 E. Harrison.
Vo One
WHO IS INSANE?
Ki
Get in too big a hurry to clean house as
our Carpet Cleaning Machine will be here
about March 25th.
GUTHRIE LAUNDRY CO.
J i mi , m. $
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Don't Forget That The
One. Acrordlnff b*
We Aak (lie <lue*tion.
Y\ lio is insane? No one or every one,
according as we ask the question. No
•one In an asylum will admit that he or
she is insane. Each ill turn would re-
sent such an insinuation. Certainly
no one out of an asylum will assent to
the chat-ire of being insane. And yet
bf.'.i parties readily re.'-ognlze toe in-
- :r;.v of other*. An Intelligent old
lady, once the head of 4 ladies' sem-
inary. wished uie to discharge her
from an asylum, alleging that all the
patients In the hall believed her sane.
Seven women were privately asked
their opinions as to her sanity, and all
declared that she was very insane,
while asserting their own sanity. When
informed of the result of the test the
old lady accurately described the spe-
cial peculiarities of each of her ac-
cusers. 80 in every community the
private gossip is much concerned about
those who are called "strange," "pecul-
iar," "deranged," "unbalanced," "light
headed," "a little off," "out of gear,"
"wrong In the upper story," "cranks."
Few If any escape for a lifetime one
or the other of these epithets. Without
as within the asylum no one recognizes
his or her own mental deviations, but
readily detects the mental aberrations
of others—Stephen Smith, M. D., LL.
D., in Leslie's Magazine.
A WONDER OF RANGUN.
The Great Slionv Ditmin I'ttfforin Cov-
ered With l'ure Gold.
Rangun, the principal city of Bur-
ma, grew up around the sacred spot
on which is built the great Shoay Da-
gon pagoda, one of its principal won-
ders. "Rising to a height of 300 feet,
its size is greatly enhanced by the fact
that it stands on an eminence that Is
itself 166 feet above the level of the
city," says a writer. "It is covered
with pure gold from base to summit,
and once in every generation this gold
is completely renewed by public sub-
scription. Yet throughout the inter-
val the process 'of regilding goes on
perpetually, t'lous people who seek in
this way to express their veneration
and to add to their store of spiritual
merit climb up daily with little flut-
tering packets of gold leaf, which they
fasten on some fraction of its great
surface. There Is 110 more picturesque
sight offered by it than that of a group
of these silken worshipers outlined high
against its gold in the act of contrib-
uting their small unota to its splendor.
The pagoda itself has no interior. It
is a solid stupa of brick raised over a
relic chamber."
Worshiper* of Wak.
The Mora us are a strange people in-
habiting the frontier between British
East Africa and Abyssinia. The ti'lbe
are polygamists when they can afford
it, and by religion they worship the
spirit Wak, which requires constant
propitiation. This is done by sacrific-
ing their children and cattle. A Boran
of any standing when he marries be-
comes a "raba." and for a certain pe-
riod after marriage, varying from four
to eight years, he is obliged to "throw
away" any children that are born to
him to appease Wak. After this period
he becomes a "gudda" and keeps his
children.—London Express.
Explained.
III111 It must be awfully annoying
for a woman to have hair that won't
stay in place, like that girl Hi the, third
row in front of us, Her—There's noth-
ing the matter v. ltti her hair. Mie has
a new engagement ring Cleveland
Leader.
After the IlefuNiil.
Forsgood—I)o you' think you have
been fair to me, Miss Hawkins? Miss
Hawkins—You liavo said so all along.
Vim called me the fairest of my sex
aily live minutes lino.
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PHONE NO. 20.
EAST OF DEPOT
: The STAR GROCERY
1 and MEAT MARKET
ADAMS & TIB8ITTS, PROPS.
I Fresh and Salt Meats.
Staple and Fancy Groceries.
Vew l'hone 46'2
OI<l l'hone '44.
COR, HARRISON & BROA
All Kinds of
BULK GARDEN SEED
and
SEED POTATOES.
Wc Guarantee Our Prices.
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Phone No. 374.
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Careful of Illmxclf.
"When I was your age," said the
gilded youth's father, "I was at work
before • 7 o'clock every morning."
"Yes," answered the young man; "if
I liad all the. business cares you used
I to have maybe I'd get insomnia too."
—Washington Star.
The lien and lfer FirKn.
The eggs of a scavenger hen are not
fit to be eaten. My attention was call-
ed to this a number of years ago. A
lady said she could not eat our eggs.
She wanted sunflower eggs. I told her
we had the best eggs in the country,
but she said that an old German at
home fed his chickens on sunflower
seeds and that the cg-'s were remarka-
bly sweet. Some of the eggs were sent
for, and this was found to be true.
Eggs certainly do partake of the nature
of the food which has been eaten.—
Feathered Life, London.
The Uxplit mi t Inn.
"Oh. no, shu isn't going to accept,
him."
"Then, why does she encourage
Slim V"
"Why, because there Isn't any one
else to encourage." New York I'ress.
When a man seeks your advice he
generally wants your praise.—Chester
field.
New Cure for Cancer.
All surface cancers are now known
to be curable by Bucklen'a Arnica
Salve. Jas. Walters, of Duffield, Va.,
writes: " I had a cancer on my lip for
years that seemed incurable, till Buck-
len's Arnica Salve healed it, and now
it is perfectly well "J Guaranteed
care for cuts and burns. 25c all drug-
gists.
Dparrlptlve.
Grandfather, doing some carpenter
work ami finding he Reeded some
screws, sent little Mafy to the hard-
ware store to get some for him. When
she got there she could not remember
tho word "screw." At last slie said,
"Grandpa wants some nails with ruf-
fles on."—Life.
When the soup has a greasy look
pour It, when hot, through a cloth sat-
urated with cold water, and the fat
will remain iu the cloth.
Soft.
lie—Y'aas, you know, I want to find
something to take up my mind. She-
llave you tried "blotting paper?
Procrastination I* tho gentle nrt of
not doing things when you have a
chance to inconvenience yourself by
One of the greatest wonders In this
world Is what becomes of all the smart
doing them.—Council Bluffs Nonpareil. ' ehildren when they grow up.
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