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Granite Enterprise
CHA8. E. HILL £ SONS, Ed. «. Prop.
GRANITE, OKLAHOMA.
News of the World
Briefly Told
Meal Important Event* of tko Pot Wert
Bailed Down for the Bat; Reader
WASHINGTON
thousand Japanese cherry
Congressman McGuIre has endorsed
A. W. Maxwell for reappointment as
register of the Lawton land office.
Maxwell is opposed for the place by
George Crosby, who has the endorse
ment of Congressman Morgan.
G. W. Hale, father of Roy Hale, the
seven-year old boy who was killed m
a recent automobile accident at Law-
| ten, has brought suit for damages in
I the sum of $20,000. The petition
charges neglegence on the part of tne
driver.
It is reported J. Pierpont Morgan,
of New York, and the Duetscht rbank
of Berlin, are planning a world-wide
trust in the nitrate industry with a
capital of $200,000,000. It is under-
treee, the gift of the corporation of j stood the syndicate intends to pur-
Tokio, Japan, to Mrs. Taft and the | chase all the salt peter mines iu
city of Washington arrived Friday.
As soon as the weather is favorable
these trees will be set out along the
drive in Potomac Park.
Because he dared to show that Sec-
retary Ualllnger, of the interior de-
partment, had acted unwisely in the
case of the Alaskan coal land claims,
and dared to reiterate his charges in
a letter which was read in the Unit-
ed States senate, Pinchot was dis-
missed from the service by Pres. Taft
Friday.
Efforts are to be made at the pres-
ent session of congress to pass a law
permitting the compulsory retirement
of superannuated government em-
ployes and providing for pensions for
such employes.
President Taft, has sent to the sen-
ate the nomination of Captain Charles
E. Vreeland of the navy, to be a rear
admiral.
General H. Rucker the oldest re-
tired officer of the United States
army, died at his home in Washing-
ton Thursday, aged 89 years.
With the democrats fighting every
inch of the way, ihe Mann bill pro-
viding for the administration of the
Panama canal zone and centralizaiing
the government there in the presi-
dent of the United States, passed the
house by a vote of 119 to 102. The
vote was along strict party lines.
An aggregate of $6,344,500 for re-
pairs to naval vessels is provided for
in estimates which the secretary of
the navy has subtrtted to tne. house.
Recent legslaton required the recom-
mendations for authorizmon where thj
repairs are to exceed $200,000.
DOMESTIC.
Work on the new federal building
for Oklahoma City will, it is expected,
be commenced by January 20. Post-
muster E. E. Brown received the seal-
ed instructions containing the prelim-
inary information for the Muskogee
contrators who were awarded the con-
tract.
John J. Gerlach of Woodward, to
whom Governor Haskell offered the
vacancy on the state board of affairs
left by the resignation of Col. Roy
Hoffman, has declined the preferred
office, saying that his large business
interests require his time.
Senator Campbell Russell won the
first tilt with Guthrie over the "New
Jerusalem" before the secretary of
state. The Guthrie protest was over-
ruled by Secretary of State Bill Cross
as not affording any reasonable
grounds whatever for an objection.
Retail merchants of Sparks, Okla,
have climbed into the organization
band wagon and are now affiliated
with the national and state associa
tions of retailers.
Judge Malcolmn E. Rosser of Po-
teau has been assigned by the su
preme court to Sulphur to hold
week's session of the district court
there to begin trial of eome of the
officers under indictment. Judge
Rosser presided at Tecumseh in the
first of the trials of county officers
of Pottawatomie county.
The income of the board of agricul-
ture from fees, etc., for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1909, is shown to
have been as follows, according to
State Inspector C. A. Taylor's report:
Stock food licenses, $400; foreign
nursery permits, $941; fertilizer li-
censes, $140; state nursery permits,
$729.05.
Governor Haskell has received req-
uisition from Louisiana for Jim Brady,
now under arrest at Okmulgee, who is
wanted in St. Landry Pariah, Louis-
iana. chargcd with stealing two bales
of cotton.
Postal receipts both for the month
of December just passed and for the
quarter ending December 31 in the
Lawton postofflce, just completed,
show a gain over the corresponding
periods of the year 1908 of 25 per
cent.
The Oklahoma delegation to the in-
ternational convention of the Y. W.
C. A. and Y. M. C. A. workers at
Rochester, New York, Dec. 29 to Jan.
2, returned to their various schools
Thursday.
Hotel managers throughout the
country are planning the formation
of a protective association. A meet
ing will be held in Chicago this month
The object is to check frauds and
beats without recourse to lew.
Harry Padgett, a former deputy in
the office of the county clerk or Mus-
kogee county, was arrested on an in-
dictment charging him with falsifying
the records of the county court.
That the proposed Income tax
amendment to the federal constitution
is so broad in its scope that a greai.
injustice might be done to the people
unless congress makes material
Chile as well as the nitrate works
in Norway.
An oil well, one of the biggest in
the Muskogee district, was brought in
Friday on the site of old Benson Park.
There is ten acres in this park and
has three of the best wells in the
Muskogee field.
Census Director Durand has decid-
ed to extend from Jan. 25 to Jan. 31,
the time in which persons desiring
places as census enumerators may
file their applications on blanks fur-
nished by the census supervisors.
The Standard Oil company has an-
nounced a reduction of fifteen cents
a barrel in the prices of refined oil,
making refined in cases $10.30 and
refined, in takns $4.40 and Standard
White $7.90.
The secretary of the treasury has
selected the site for the public build-
ing at Guthrie, located on corner of
Oklahoma and Second street, and
onned by Wilbur M. McCoy. The
ptice to be paid is $10,000.
The latest political gossip is trt the
effect that J. B Taylor, former super-
intendent of schools at Oklahoma City
and J. E. Dyche, who was the last ter-
ritorial superintendent and auditor,
will both seek the republican nomina-
tion far state superintendent of public
instruction.
Mc Alester has adopted the commis-
sion form of government, electing six
lJemocrats and six Republicans on the
board of freeholders, to formulate a
charter.
According to reports of federal
prison authorities, Charles W. Morse,
the convicted New York banker, who
but recently entered the prison at
Atlanta, Ga., to begin serving a fif-
teen year sentence, is cheerful and is
rapidly adopting prison customs.
The Muskogee Commercial club has
been asked to submit a proposition
for a large tract of land to be used
permanently by the government as an
assembly and training ground for
troops. Land .sufficient for an army
'if 20,000 men to maneuvers upon i»
desired.
The gift of $50,000 of R. A. Long,
the wealthy Kansas City lumberman.
IE LAW
AND THE TRUSTS
TREATED BT TAFT
PRESIDENT HANDLES TWO IM-
PORTANT TOPICS IN HIS SPE-
~ CIAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.
WANTS NEW COURT CREATED
rate-making', and other practices of In-
terstate carriers established by the acts
of congress, and as recommended In this
communication, I see no reason why
agreements between carriers subject to
the act, specifying the classifications of
freight ana the rates, fares and charges
Tribunal Would Hear Case* Arising
Under the Interatate Law—Chief
Executive Also Urges Federal In
corporation Statute to Suppress
Abuses and Not to Destroy Legiti-
mate Combinations of Capital.
Washington, Jan. 7.—Needed legislation
concerning the interstate commerce law
and the control of trusts formed the sub-
ject of President Taft's special message
to congress. The president calls atten-
tion to tiie partial failure of the present
commerce law to get results because of
the frequent appeals from .Its decisions
to federal courts and the slowness of the
supreme court in deciding these cases.
The me?
"It wo
age
d.-,„
id not be proper to attempt to
e any corporation of the right to
view by a court of any order or de-
ft'hlch, If undisturbed, would rob it
reasonable return upon its Invest-
ment or would subject it to burdens
which would unjustly discriminate
against it and In favor of other carriers
similarly situated. What Is, however of
supreme Importance Is that the decision
of such questions shall be as speedy as
the nature of the circumstances will ad-
mit, and that a uniformity of decision be
secured so as to bring about an effec-
tive. systematic and scientific enforce-
ment of the comerce law, rather than
conflicting decisions and uncertainty of
final result.
Recommends "Court of Commerce.
"'For this purpose I recommend the
tabllshment of a court of the United
States composed of five judges desig
nated for such purpose from among the
circuit judges of the United States, to
be known as the 'United States court
of commerce,' which court shall
clothed with exclusive original jurlsdic
tlon over the following classes of cases
"(1) All cases for the enforcement, oth-
erwise than by ajudication and collec-
' °f a forfeiture or penalty, or by in-
fliction of criminal punishment, of any
order of the Interstate commerce com-
mission other than for the payment of
money.
*•(2) All cases brought to enjoin, set
aside, annul or suspend any order or
requirement of the interstate commerce
commission.
"(3) AH such cases as under section «
of the act of February 19. 1903, known
as the 'Elklns act.' are authorized to be
P1 j «a ne<i in a circuit court of the Uni-
ted States.
"(4) All such mandamus proceedings as
erAothe-provlsion8 of section 20 or sec-
tion 23 of the interstate commerce law
are authorized to be maintained in a cir-
c"!i> court the United States.
«i . ?a?°2s Prepisely analogous to those
which induced the congress to create the
court of customs appeals by the provi
i ..—"i"";. uy ii provi-
sions in the tariff act of August 5, 1909
may be urged in support of the creation
of the commerce court.
"In order to provide a sufficient num-
ber of judges to enable tills court to be
constituted it will be necessary to author-
appointment of five additional
circuit judges, who. for the purposes of
appointment, might be distributed to
those circuits where there is at the pres-
. ent time the largest volume of business
to the Missouri Bible college, located ' second, third, fourth, seventh
at Columbia, Mo., has been assured | power the chief'jus'tlcehat any toe^whleii
by the raising of a like amount by 'Jj? rourt of commerce
the board of trustees of the school. | lodges to re'assTgn the"jud£!>2 designated
The school is under the control of the
Christian church of Missouri.
Thomas Blodgett. of Wichita, has
been appointed regent of the Kan-
sas Statd Agricultural college, to suc-
ceed Col. W. A. Harris. Mr. Blod
gett was appointed a director of the
state penitentiary and declined, but
accepted the college appointment. j
that court to th„ wmcn
they respectively belong; and it should
£.hnJ>r7.\ fw°r Payment to such judges
while sitting by assignment In the court
of commerce of such additional amount
necessary to bring their annual
compensation up to $10,000.
Only Second to Supreme Court.
"The regular sessions of such court
should be held at the capitol, but It
should be empowered to hold sessions in
different parts of the United States
found desirable; and Its orders and judg-
ments should be made final, subject onh
freight which they may agree to estab-
lish, should not be permitted, provided,
copies of such agreements be promptly
filed with the commission, but subject to
all the provisions of the interstate com-
merc»* nit. and subject t.» the rigrht of
any parties to such agreement to cancel
It as to all or any of the agreed rates,
fares, charges, or classifications by 30
days notice In writing to the other par-
ties and to the commission."
Other Amendments Urged.
In accord with other declarations of the
Republican platform of 1908, the president
further recommends that the interstate
commerce law be amended so as to pro-
vide, that no railroad company subject
to the commerce act shall, directly or In-
directly, acquire any interests of any
kind In capital stock, or purchase or
lease any railroad, or any other corpora-
tion which competes with it respecting
business to which the interstate com-
merce act applies; that a law be enact-
ed providing "that no railroad corpora-
tion subject to the interstate commerce
act shall hereafter for any purpose con-
nected with or relating to any part of Its
business governed by said act. issue any
capital stock without previous or simul-
taneous payment to it of not less than
the par value of such stock, or any bonds
or other obligations (except notes matur-
ing not more than one year from the
date of their issue), without the previ-
ous or simultaneous payment to such cor-
poration of not temp than tin- par value
of such bonds, or other obligations, or,
If issued at less than their par value,
then not without such payment of the
reasonable market value of such bonds
or obligations as ascertained by the in-
terstate commerce commission: and that
no property, service, or other tiling than
money, shall be taken in payment to such
carrier corporation, of the par or other
required price of such stock, bond or oth-
er obligation, except the fair value of
such property, services or other thing as-
certained by the commission."
Would Prevent Wrong Practices.
The president continues:
"I believe these suggested modifications
in and amendments to the interstate com-
merce act would make it a complete and
rfective measure for securing reasonable-
iess of rates and fairness of practices in
the operation of Interstate railroad lines,
without undue preference to any individu-
..or class over any others.
By my direction the attorney general
has drafted a bill to carry out 'these
r?Ci0n3.mendatlon*' which will be fur-
nished upon request to the appropriate
committee whenever it may be desired.
In addition to the foregoing amend-
ments of the interstate commerce law,
Ce ,Jn^er«tate commerce commission
snouid be given the power, after a hear-
ing. to determine upon the uniform con-
ch
sill
steps, ladders, roof hand holds, running
boards and hand brakes on freight cars
engaged in interstate commerce—used by
the trainmen in the operation of trains,
the defects and lack of uniformity in
which are apt to produce accidents and
injuries to railway trainmen. The won-
derful reforms effected in the number of
switchmen and trainmen injured by coup-
ling accidents, due to the enforced in-
troduction of safety couplers, is a demon-
stration of what can be done if railroads
are compelled to adopt proper safety ap-
pliances.
"The question has arisen in the opera-
tions of the interstate commerce employ-
ers liability act. as to whether suit can
be brought against the employer com-
pany in any place other than that of its
home office. The right ti
under this act should be
forcement as the right of „ „ _
son not in the company's employ to sue
on an ordinary claim, and process In each
suit should be sufficiently served if upon
he rlpht to bring the suit
asy of en-
private per-
McAlester voted at a special elec- {? ,^'eo. the supreme'court of the
tlon to adopt a new charter and ex- ; the operatfon'of thedMree Appealed from
tend the citizens' ticket, of six re-
,,, - ^"ui i Moan so oroer. i ne commprf*#* pniipt
publicans and six democrats to write | should be empowered In its discretion to
It. All the men elected favor com-
mission form of government.
The public school house In rural
school district No. 29, Okufskee county
is considered one of the best, rural
school houses In the state. It Is
built of native stone. The district is ...
one of the largest fotmed by J. I). Nel- | IToTtotVe "ou^Vltl SH£nS,'ffi!!2!:
son, school superintendent of the coun
ty.
hall not be stayed unle
court shall so order. The commerci
.lowered In its discre,
restrain or suspend the operation of an
order of the interstate commerce commis-
sion under review pending the final hear-
ing and determination of the proceeding
but no such restraining order should be
made except upon notice and afetr hear-
ing, unless n cases where irreparable
damage would otherwise ensue to the pe-
titioner. A Judge of that court might
be empowered to allow a stay of the
commission s order for a period of not
FORFIGN.
For the last fifty years the sani-
tary conditions of St. Petersburg have
been such that it Is called the un-
healthlest and most infected city in
all Europe.
Jn a series of telephone experiments I tions of
a German scientist has made tnag- I °- -admlnl*<
nets, alternating current transform-
ers, and even dynamos talk without
the use of vibrating plates or mem-
branes.
The only part of the German empire
where cremation may legally be car
court of Its order or Injunc-
tion, then only where his order shall con-
tain a specific finding based upon evi-
dence submitted to the judge making the
order and dentin,-d by reference thereto
that such Irreparable damage would re-
Jetitloner. specifying the na-
suit to th
ture of the d«_
"Under the existing la
the interstate
commerre commission Itself Initiates and
defends litigation in the courts for the
enforcement, or in the defense of its or-
ders and decrees, and for this purpose it
employs attorneys, who, while subjec t to
'•ontrol of the attorney general, act
upon the initiative and under the instruc-
mmisslon. This blending
ve. legislative and Judl-
functions tends, in my opinion, to
impair the efficiency of the commission
by clothing it with partisan characteris-
tics and robbing It of the impartial judi-
cial attitude It should occupy In pass-
ing upon questions submitted to it. In
my opinion all litigation affecting the
government should be under the direct
control of the department of Justice; and
I therefore rerommend that all proceed-
rUd out are Saxony and Hamburg, but jnf" affecting orders and decrees of the
a step has been made toward legal!*- STby Si"inZ «he0r^i&°V,t£
eo nomine, and be placed in charge of an
■ SHlntant attorney general acting under
the direction of the attorney general."
Would Permit Agreements.
Coming to the subject of railroad pools
and traffic agreements, the president
ing it in Prussia.
From Milan, Italy, comes the news
of a new invention of a telegraph
transmitter and receiver, which ex-
perts say will revolutionize the pres-
ent flald work, especially for military
purpose*.
"The Republican platform of 1908 ex-
iressed the belief that the Interstate
, ornmerce law should be further amend-
On his deathbed in Home last Sat- ! fd 80 ,a8 to Blve tl,e railroads the right
...day morning, Cardlnel Batolll sent CprSva^^hTcommu!
- hn message to President Taft saying *rut^ natu^
; he hoped that some day the United competing lines, and avoiding the corn-
States and Italy would be allied, Italy 1 whatsoever* °f "Uch "ne* by any means
then being a republic. "in view of the complete control over
Nearly a 16,000 marriages took place I '
in France last year. . „
A Child's Development.
The leading newspapers in their The development of a child's char-
issues of Sunday disapproved the ac- I acter should not be left to the mother
< eptance by Japan of Secretary Knox's alone. It needs the directing Influence
proposition for the neutralization 0/ of the mother, the strengthening in-
Munehurlnn railroads. j fluence of the father. Often a child's
As the result of the sr- aUonal nature. Possibilities and growth are
allegations that have beet: recently unkn°wn and unwatched by his father,
made against F'rench giass-workers, n.?.tJ"n^er'
the Italian government is enforcing
the station agent of the company upon
whom service is authorized Is made, to
bond the company in ordinary actions
arising under state laws. Bills for both
the foregoing purposes have been con-
sidered by the house of representatives
and have been passed, and are now be-
#rcV t,le inler8tate commerce committee
of the senate. I earnestly urge that they
be ^iacted into law."
Control of the Trusts.
The second part of the message Is de-
moted to the control of trusts. After a
lengthy discussion of trusts, good and
bad, and the success of prosecutions un-
der the Sherman anti-trust act. Mr. Taft
lys:
"It is the duty and purpose of the exec-
utive to direct an investigation by the de-
partment of justice, through the grand
Jury or otherwise, into the historv. organ-
ization, and purposes of all the industrial
companies with respect to which there
any reasonable ground for suspicion that
they have been organized for a purpi
°nd are conducting business on a plan
hich Is in violation of the anti-trust
law. The work Is a heavy one, but It
t beyond the power of the depart-
ment of Justice. If sufficient funds are
furnished, to carry on the Investigations
and to pay the counsel engaged in the
work. But such an investigation and
possible prosecution of corporations whose
prosperity or destruction affects the com-
fort not only of stockholders but millions
of wage earners, employes, and associated
tradesmen must necessarily tend to dis-
turb the confidence of the business com-
munity, to dry up the now flowing sources
of capital from its places of hoarding, and
produce a halt in our present prosperity
that will cause suffering and strained cir-
cumstances among the innocent many for
faults of the guilty few. The question
which I wish in this message to bring
clearly to the consideration and decision
of the congress whether to avoid business
danger something cannot be done by
which these business combinations may
be offered a means, without great finan-
cial disturbance, of changing the char-
acter. organization and extent of their
business into one within the lines of the
law under federal control and supervision,
securing compliance with the anti-trust
statutes.
For Government Control.
"Generally, In the industrial combina-
tions called 'trusts,' the principal busi-
ness is the sale of goods In many states
and in foreign markets: in other words,
the interstate and foreign business far
xceeds the business done In any one
state. This fact will Justify the fed-
eral government In granting a federal
charter to such a combination to make
and sell in Interstate and foreign com-
merce the products of useful manufac-
ture under such limitations as will se-
cure a compliance with the anti-trust
law. It Is possible so to frame a statute
that while it offers protection to a fed-
eral company against harmful, vexatious j
and unnecessary invasion by the states,
it shall subject It to reasonable taxation
and control by the states, with respect to
able or can be introduced Into the stat-
ute.
•In considering violations of the anti-
trust law we ought, of course, not to
forget that that law makes unlawful,
methods of carrying on business which
before its passage were regarded as evi-
dence of business sagacity and success,
and that they were denounced in tills tfet
not because ot their intrinsic immoral-
ity, but because of the dangerous re-
sults toward which they tended, the con
centration of industrial power in the
hands of the few, leading to oppres
slon and injustice. In dealing, therefore,
witli many of the men who have used
the methods condemned by the statute
for the purpose of maintaining a protit
able business, we may well facilitate i
change by them In the method of do
ing business, and enable them to bring It
back into the zone of lawfulness, without
losing to the country the economy of
management by which, in our domestic
trade the cost of production has been
materially lessened, and in competition
with foreign manufacturers our foreign
trade has been greatly increased.
Asks National Corporation Law.
"I therefore recommend the enactment
by congress of a general law providing
for the formation of corporations to en-
gage in trade and commerce among the
states and with foreign nations, protect-
ing them from undue interference by tbe
states and regulating their activities so
as to prevent the recurrence, under
tional auspices, of those abuses which
have arisen under state control. Such a
law should provide for the issue of stock
of such corporationas to an amount equal
only to the cash paid in on the stock;
and if the stock be issued for property,
then at a fair valuation ascertained un-
der approval and supervision of federal
authority after a full and complete dis-
closure of all the facts pertaining to the
value of such property and the interest
tHerein of the persons to whom It
proposed to issue stock In payment of
such property. It should subject the real
and personal property only of such
poratlons to the same taxation as Im-
posed by the states within which it may
be situated upon other similar property
located therein, and it should require
such corporations to file full and com-
plete reports of their operations with the
department of commerce and labor at
regular Intervals. Corporations organized
under this act should be prohibited from
acquiring and holding stock in other cor-
porations (except for special reasons upon
approval by the proper federal author-
ity). thus avoiding the creation, under
national auspices, of the holding company
with subordinate corporations In different
states which lias been such an effective
agency in the c reation of the great trusts
and monopolies.
State Laws Conflict.
"If the prohibition of the anti-trust act
against combinations in restraint of trade
is to be effectively enforced, it is essen-
tial that the national government shall
provide for the creation of national cor-
porations to carry on a legitimate busi-
ness throughout the United States. The
conflicting laws of the different states of
the union with respect to foreign corpora-
tions make it difficult, if not impossible,
for one corporation to comply with their
requirements so as to carry on business
nu.rnber of different states.
# « , . suggestion that this proposal of
federal incorporation for industrial com-
binations is Intended to furnish them
refuge In which to continue industrial
business under federal protection. It
should be said that the measure contem-
plated does not repeal the Sherman anti-
trust law and is not to be framed so as
to permit the doing of the wrongs which
it is the purpose of that law to prevent
but only to foster a continuance and ad-
vance of the highest Industrial efficiency
without permitting Industrial abuses.
"Such a national incorporation law will
be opposed, first, by those who believe
that trusts should be completely broken
up and their property destroyed. It will
be opposed, second, by. those who doubt
the constitutionality of such federal in-
corporation ami even if it is valid, object
!? «.?8v.to° ffreat federal centralization.
It will be opposed, third, by those who
will insist that a mere voluntary incor-
poration like this will not attract to Its
assistance the worst of the offenders
agiinst the anti-trust statute and who
—ill therefore propose instead of it a svs-
■m of compulsory licenses for all feder-
b|lsJcn0pr«)rttt,on« engaged in Interstate
♦ u P1 Vs consider these objections In
their order. The government is now try-
ing ti dissolve some of these combina-
tions and it is not the intention of the
government to desist in the least degree
in its effort to end these combinations
which are to-day monopolizing the com-
merce of this country; that where it ap-
pears that the acquisition and concen-
tration of property go to the extent of
creating a monopoly of substantially and
directly restraining interstatM commerce,
\ ^ "ot,.thP, ,lnte"tion "t 'he government
to permit tills monopoly to exist under
federal Incorporation or to transfer to
the protecting wing of the federal gov-
f"!men..of B,atc corporation now vio-
lating the Sherman act. But It Is not
and should not be, the policy of the gov-
ernment to prevent reasonable concen-
tration of capital which Is necessary to
the economic development of manufac-
ture, trade and commerce. . .
May Doubt Constitutionality.
"Second-There are those who doubt the
constitutionality of such federal Incorpor-
ation. The regulation of Interstate and
foreign commerce Is certainly conferred
n the fullest measure upon congress, and
If for the purpose of securing In the most
thorough manner that kind of regulation
congress shall Insist that it may provide
and authorize agencies to carry on that
commerce It would seem to be within Its
power, this has been distinctly afllrmed
with respect to railroad companies doing
an Interstate business and interstate
bridges. The power of incorporation has
been exercised by congress and upheld
the supreme court In this regard.
Why, then, with respect to any other
form of Interstate commerce like the sale
of goods across state boundaries and into
foreign countries, may the same power
not be asserted? Indeed, it Is the very
fact that they carry on interstate com-
merce that makes these great industrial
to, fe<J< ral prosecution
ind control. How far as incidental to
""rrying on of that commerce It may
Flashlights on Pistols
In Colorado an inventor got a pat-
ent on a flashlight put on smaller
amis, even pocket pistol^ eo that
wherever the searchlight strikes there
the bullet hits, making /the taking
of aim unnecessary. This pistol
method was devised by the inventor
for policemen to use on burglars and
other night felons.
Much Material in Turban.
The Turkish turban contains about
20 yards of material.
How Does the Rule Work?
A close observing fellow tells is
that you can always spot a gentleman
by the way he winds his watch. Bf
the same token we are enabled to
Identify a man who is not a geutlo-
tnan by the way Jie hasn't any wa'.cfl
to wind.
Apologies to "Brute.''
"Not thnt I love Smith less, but thJ
love Bryn Mawr," said the Junlo|
as he Invited a Philadelphia girl
the prom.—Amherst Four Ix;af Clove
Folly of Fretting and Fuming
Stevenson: To fret and fume is un-^
dignified, suicidally foolish, and theo-J
logically unpardonable.
Necessary to Support Life
As a rule, two productive acres ol
land are required for each inhabitanti
logically unpardonable.
In Rainy London
London annually makes use of 4,-
000,000,000 umbrellas, one-fourth of
which are imported.
Wine Cheaper than Water
^\ine in Spain is so cheap that It
1b used instead of water for mixing
shoe blacking.
Habits—or Clothes
Gertrude—Did that Mrs. SportteighJ
bring her riding habit? Kathryn-
No, but she brought all the others.
Youth's Brief Delight
Youth's greatest (advantage over
nge is that youth can see visions.
Lsisure and Laziness
Franklin: A life of leisure and a
life of laziness are two things.
An Every-Day Philosophy.
The Cyrenalc philosophy, "the mo-
ment for the moment's sake," is *he
current philosophy of the modern man
and woman.
The Last Time.
"This is the last time I'll get
stewed." muttered Percy Piker as the
cannibal chief dropped him into the
kettle —Harvard Lampoon.
Radical.
We frequently see the stateme
that earrings arj sem-barUaroos b
haven't got it through our head y_
why they put in the semi—Ohio Stat?
Journal.
f
A Causual Inquiry.
"I never have tasted liquor of any
kind nor used tobacco nor uttered an
oath in my life." "TJm! You haven't
eh? Do you wear ruffles on your night
shirt?"—Exchange.
Child Botanists.
No fewer than 109 different speci-
mens of wild flowers were shown by
a Halberton (England) child at the
local flower show. Another chlhl had
107 kinds.
Explained at Last.
The Pied Piper had Just charmed
the children into the mountain. "Told
them it was disputed whether It had
been climed," he said. Thus we see
his lure was comparatively common.
I
. people conducting great busi-
nesses have cherished a hope and a be-
lief that In gome way or other a iine
may be drawn between 'good trusts' and
'bad trusts,' and that It Is possible by
amendment to the anti-trust law to make
a distinction under which good combina-
tions may be permitted to organize, sup-
press competition, control prices, and do
it all legally If only they do not abuse
the power by taking too great profit out
of the business. They point with force to
certain notorious trusts as having grown
Into power through criminal methods by
the use of Illegal rebates and plain cheat-
ing. and by various aits utterly violative
of business honesty or moralltv, and urge
the establishment of some legal line of
separation by which 'criminal trusts' of
this kind can be punished, and they, on
the other hand, be permitted under the
law to carry on their business. Now
the public, and especially the business
public, ought to rid themselves of the
idea that such a distinction Is practlc-
■rnment to authorize the manufacturer of
goods, Is perhaps more open to discus-
sion, though a recent decision of the su-
preme court would seem to answer that
question In the affirmative.
"The third objection, that the worst of.
fenders wll not acccpt federal Incorpora-
tlon. Is easily answered. The decrees of
Injunction recently adopted in prosecu-
tions under the anti-trust law are so
a.n<?. "*ecP!n* that the corpora-
tions affected by them have but thro#
courses before them: 8
th*y must resolve themselves
en» ?rn':nt part"in the <n««r-
ent states, with a consequent loss to
themselves of capital and effective organ-
za Ion and to the country of concSR-
trated energy and enterprise; or second
iScre't 'nW ,,n<lcr ■om«
secret trust they must attempt to con-
tinue their business In violation of the
federal statute, and thus Incur the nen-
11 »,of contempt and bring on an ml
evltable criminal prosecution of tho Indl-
■iSlifti " o? ,n th6 deoree and their as-
"Third, they must reorganise and ac-
cept in good faith tlie federal charter I
suggest a federal compulsory license law
Son" rawUb7i,tUtC tnr » MeC?anM„cao7:
poration law. is unnecessary excent
vhYue ofa,thtnd "fl7'rporatl°n whlcft, by
virtue of the considerations alrendv
vanced, will take advantage voluntarily
■»a»Ln ,nrorf>onIit,°n law, while the other-
state corporations doing an interstate
husinoss do not need the supervision or
woeu!dego„a|v0nK.0f f°""ral lleonso and
thereby." unnecessarily burdened
Hit Ability.
A man's wife seldom gives him
credit for being able to decide for
himself after he has decided as to
her.
Criminals Have Short Arms.
A French scientist has discovered
that criminals have shorter arms than
the more law-abiding inembere of the
community.
Society's Division.
Byron: Society is now one polished
horde formed of two mighty tribes-
tie Bores and Bored.
Few Would Dare.
Heine: Even with the moat honest
Intention no man can tell tbo truth
about himself.
OKLAHOMA DIRECTORY
stand, because he does not study it.
amendments is the belief of Governor stringent measures for the suppres-
Haskell, who has received a telegram 8ion of alleged traffic in children
Norway to Have Expoiltlon.
Early historic times in Norway are
from the New York Times asking for "nder aSe. by the glass-working Indus- to be illustrated at an exposition to be
his opinion. ( 'ry 'n France. j held at Bergen next summer.
Diplomacy.
"Fanny, your father has been walk-
ing around out there for two hours. Is
he opposed to my being in here with
you?" asked the young suitor. "Tee,
bee," giggled the maiden, "of course
not. This Is the night I bet him you
would propose and he's waiting to see
whether he wins or loses."
Woman and Time.
A woman thinks clocks were made
for the purpose of enabling her to
tell Just how much she Is going to be
late.—Chicago Record-Herald.
Truth ac a Prisoner of War
Macau'ay. seeks truth, not as she
should be sought, devoutly, tentative-
ly, with the air of one touching the
hem of a sacred garment, but clutch-
ing her by tho hair of the head and
dragging her after him in a kind of
boisterous triumph, a prisoner of war,
and not a goddess.—John Morley.
Philosopher's Peeelmlam.
A woman is tho most Inconsistent
compound of obstinacy and nelf gacrl-
fice that I am acquainted with —Klcb-
ter.
Nice light bread and (laky biscuits
can be made from
CHOCTAW FLOUR
Insist on this brand and you
■re sure to have the best
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