The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, November 26, 1909 Page: 1 of 4
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MANCHESTER GRANT COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, NOV. 26,1909.
Volume 17, Number 25
WAS IT PERFIDITY?
In an interview published in the
State Capital, Bird McGuire says
Oklahoma will go republican by
twenty thousand next year and
gives as his reason “the party pcr-
fidity and extravagance of the
democratic administration.”
It is to be supposed that McGuire
is conversant with definitions of
words, and undrstood when he
used the word perfidity that it
means “violation of a promise or
vow, or trust reposed.” Now let’s
see where the democratic party and
administration has been perfidious.
It promised in the platforms for
election of delegates to the constitu-
tional convention, to place in the
constituion a provision for the
regulation of corporations; the in-
itative and referendum; primary
elections; a labor commission, and
for a board of arbitration; and for
separate coaches and waiting rooms
for whites and colored. There were
many other minor matters,- but
these were the principal questions
up before the people.
After an overwhelming victory
for the democrats, the constitutional
convention organized and began its
work. Every promise made to the
pepole by the democratic party was
carried out; every pledge fulfilled,
except provision for separate coaches
and it was put up to the delegates
in plain language that there would
be no statahood unless that measure
was left out of the constitution.
Not only did the party fulfill all
its pledges through its delegates,
but many other things were done
in accord with the wishes of the
people. A two cent fare proposi-
tion was inserted in the constitu-
tion, many requests of laboring,
business, and farming people were
placed there for the protection of
the masses.
When the constitution was rati-
fied and we became a state, the
people showed their approbation of
the democratic party by overwhelm-
ingly electing representatives and
senators to the first legislature.
The first bill introduced was one
in fulfillment of the pledges to pro-
vide for seperate coaches and wait-
ing rooms. Now that we had state-
hood, the party of Bird McGuire
could no longer threaten us witn no
statehood, and the bill was quickly
passed. At that session of the
legislature the constitution was
vitalized and all the promises of the
party to the people made good. It
would take a column of printed
matter to tell the laws that were
passed in response to the demands
by the people of this state. Not
one was overlooked. Was it per-
fidity? Was this a record of broken
promises and treachery? Now let’s
discuss Bird McGuire and his
party.
The republican party promised
in its Chicago platform to revise the
tariff so that the schedules would
only be sufficiently high to cover
the difference in the cost of pro-
duction in this and foreign countries.
The candidate for president said
repeatedly that the tariff should be
lowered, and that he would call a
special session if elected that the
tariff might be revised and the
schedule lowered that the cost of
necessities of life might be reduced
The republican party was successful
and an extra session was called
Not a single effort has been made;
or ever was made to ascertain the
difference in cost of production in
this and foreign countries, and the
machine in congress would not
allow those who wished such statis-
tics any voice in the proceedings
The revision was made by the
manufacturers through Senator
Aldrich who denied that the re-
publican party had promised re-
vision downward. Honest repub-
licans of the great middle west pro-
tested and fought every inch of the
ground, but the manufacturers who
are the beneficiaries of the tariff
were too strong and the tariff was
revised to suit them. In the aggre-
gate the schedules are higher than
they were.
What did Bird McGuire do? Oh,
he voted with the manufacturers.
He voted to raise the schedules.
He voted to make the consumers of
his district pay double the amount
they should pay for their farm
machinery; for their barbed wire;
for their lumber; for their nails; for
their woolen goods—if they are
able to buy any at all; for their
cotten goods; for everything that
is manufactured. Did he vote for
the interest of his constituents?
Ask such republicans as Senators
Cummins and Dolliver of Iowa; La-
Follette and Clapp, Nelson and
Beveridge, Brown and Burkett, and
Borah, ask Victor Murdock of Kan-
sas,* and Senator Bristow of that
state, and when you get their an-
swers, ask yourself who has prac-
t'ced perfidity.
A FINE THOUGHT
J. G. Alden, postmaster at Aurora,
Nebraska, wrote for a local news-
)aper this fine thought:
‘My three-year-old son stood en-
raptured watching the setting oi
the sun. It was a glorous sunset.
The great orb hung low in the
western sky and all the west was
jathed in a flame of golden light,
t was such a sunset as artists at-
tempt to convey to their canvas.
was busy with some trival matter
at hand when a little voice inter-
rupte me: “Papa, is that our sun?’
The lad’s face was aglow with the
Measure of the sight. I hesitated
a moment and then replied: ‘Yes,
my boy, that’s our sun.’ ‘And no
one can take it away from us? he
rejoined. ‘No, son, no one can
take it away.’ He was satisfied
and turned to his play. But his
question brought to my mind a
train of thought that would not
eave. How many of us go blindly
through life, groping our way amid
the things of the earth, training our
eyes to pierce the darkness rather
than enjoy the light, and taking a
meagre portion of our share of the
Measures of life when it is ours to
enow and possess a thousand bless-
ings of nature put here for us by
loving Creator. Our’s is the
golden sunset, but we do not see it.
Our’s is the sight of the waving
green and the bloom of the flowers,
jut we heed them not. The songs
of the birds and the music of the
brooks were made for our ears,
but we hear them not. Our minds
are full of the sordid thoughts of
life and business, so crowded with
daily cares that we miss the glories
of nature and the blessed inspira-
tion which they bring. We need
the voice of the child to awaken us
to an interest in the beauties of
God’s wonderful creation, and need
to feel as did the little lad that the
beautiful sunset was made for our
enjoyment and none may deny the
sight to us.”
WONDERFUL MEMORY
“Speaking of memories. Wimple-
ton has the most wonderful memory
of any man lever met.”
“I never noticed anything re-
markable about it.”
“Why, he has a memory abso-
lutely under control. If he bor-
rows a dollar of you he can forget
it immediately, but if he happens
to loan you a dollar he simply
can’t forget it.”
POSTOFFICE ROBBED
Burglars Blow the Safe at the
Manchester Postoffice and Get
Away With $720.64 in
Cash and Stamps
When Postmaster G. W. Morris
came to the postoffice on Saturday
morning of last week he discovered
that the front door of the office had
been pried opened and on entering
the office he found the little safe
blown to pieces and the contents
scattered and missing. Nitro gly-
cerine had been used, evidently by
experts, who had planned well their
work, and made a safe get-away.
Soon after this report gained cur-
rent it was discovered that Rev. C.
Wright’s team and buggy bad been
stolen during the night and the
A. H. T. A. at Manchester took the
matter in hand and it was soon
bund that the team had been
driven to Harper and were left
there at the stock yards. This led
to the belief that the robbers had
completed their work and driven
the team to Harper, and there took
the early morning train for Wichita.
Two strangers bought tickets for
Wichita at Harper that morning,
jut were not seen get on the train,
when it pulled in three hour or more
behind time.
Investigation proved that the
robbers had taken the team and
mggy from the minister’s stable
and driven to the state line over the
lill west of Manchester and there
tied the team to a fence where
they stood and wrere in readiness
when the work of robbing the post-
office was finished.
The safe was a frail affair and
but one explosion was all that was
required to demolish it. This
plosion was heard by a few people
living near the postoffice, but think-
ing it was the discharge of a gun
no attention was paid to it. The
robbery was committed some time
between one and two o’clock in the
morning.
The exact amount of the
—B. Cord ray and wife left on Thurs
day of last week for a two week’s
visit to relatives in Missouri. Char-
ley Cordray left the day before for
Guthrie, Okla.. where he is attending
business college.
—Large line of Clothing just re-
gatud at
B. L. Surra & Go’s.
loss to
the postoffice department is $720.64.
Of this amount $183.55 was in cash
and the remaining $537.09 was in
stamps—a pretty good haul for
small office like Manchester. In
addition to the above there were
$51.72 in currency and coin that
was overlooked by the robbers
About $50 of this was in bills that
were left in the postal register,
laying in a bunch between the
leaves of the book as it had been
closed and placed in the safe, ant
which the robbers failed to open.
About two weeks prior to the
robbery a small pinch-bar used at
the farmers’ elevator was missing,
and this bar was used in prying the
front door open and was found in
the postoffice next morning ant
recognized by A. E. Deere, agent at
the elevator, the moment he saw it
The robbers (or a couple of men
supposed to be them) were seen in
Manchester by two or three parties
and the description of them tallies
pretty well with that of the two
men who bought tickets at Harper
One was a man about six feet tall
and the other a short, heavy set
fellow, both wearing corduroy pants
SOCIALIST TRACE THIR AN-
| CESTERS TO THE MOKEY
Socialist lecturers and speakers
- alwiys pride themselves upon their
-1 logic and learning and are usually
They evidently belong to a gang of charitable enough to assure their
professional safe blowers and prob-1 readers and hearers that the only
,, , .. . , , , • I reason the said readers and hearers
ably make their headquarters in x , ,.. .
. I are not socialists is because of their
,ckl^a' I ignorance. Then from out their
An inspector came Monday to I vast store of learning they proceed
check up the office and get such to begin with the beginning and to
information as he could, and while I tell how man is a descendant from
here he told us that he had a slight a monkey’ the monke>' ,from ?he
, . . ,, ,. kangaroo, the kangaroo from other
clew as to who the robbers were, | 6 . ,. ,
I mammal, and they trace the cle-
)ut he would not state what it was I scen^ through amphibious animals
nor did he care to have us mention I to the fish of the sea and from the
lis name. I fish to worms and the lowest form
-- I of animal life. A great many peo-
SUCH LITERATURE IS I pje (who are not ^socialists have
DANGEROUS I already subscribed to this Darwin
It has been repeatedly charged I *an theory of the evolution of man-
nhat the socialist party, as a party, I kind but the socialist enlarges upon
through its leaders under the guise I the progress of man from the time
of spreading the socialist doctrine |°f h*8 latest monkeyhood or earliest
is in reality generating infidelity I manhood. They tell us how in
and is using party machinery to I the struggle for existence this man
annihilate Christianty. This has [monkey or monkey-man has grad-
ieen bitterly denied by many socia-1 ua^y but persistently developed,
ists and it cannot be denied that I They lay stress upon the fact that
many socialists do not believe that I ^or thousands of years when man
this is true. • I was a savage in his struggle with
That many of the socialist speak-1 the e.ements and with othersavages
ers and writers are rank infidels does I be developed his mental powers un-
not prove that the socialist party is I til he finally became a barbarian,
a party of infidelity. The republi-1 They say thousands of yeaas when
can party cannot be accused of I *n te(Ct according to their theory it
jeing a party of infidelity because I was millions of years. The socialist
one of its most brilliant leaders, I speakers assure us that during
ngersoll, was an infidel, but there is I savagery and a great part of the
this difference between the action of I period of barbarism that mankini
the socialist party, the democratic > I enjoyed what they call “collective
republican parties. No great political I ownership.” Sometimes it was a
>arty has ever assumed to dictate a I tr*be which constituted the unit
man’s religious beliefs, and no great I of society, sometimes it was
political party except the socialist | patriarchial form of government,
jarty has ever attempted to, I but that during all of this period
through its speakers and literature I which extended clear into civiliza-
influence religious beliefs. I tion, collective ownership was about
The socialist literature that is now I the only ownorship at all. The
jeing sent broadcast throughout the I socialist speakers then take up
and and published by the great I civilization and show how for many
co-operative socialist publishing I years the ruling class depended up-
company, contain a great amount I on the labor of slaves to perform
of infidel literature. I the labor of the world. The slaves
“God and my Neighbor,” is the I caused them a great deal of trouble
title of one of these standard works I and this wise ruling class hit upon
and was written by Robert Blatch-1 the expeident of owning the land
ord of England who glories in the I and instead of having slaves, to
charge that he is “the notorious I reduce the slaves to serfs which
infidel editor of the Clarion.” This I really became a part of the real
book denies the divinity of Christ, I estate that they owned. This re-
scoffs at the truthfulness of the I duced the responsibility of the
bible and in fact puts up the ordi-1 owner from seeing that his slaves
nary argument of the Atheist. I were provided for, and we are
One very short chapter in his book I gravely assured that the serfs were
is entitled “One Reason.” It is as I more profitable to the ruling class
follows: I than were the slaves. The ruling
“I have been asked why I have I class, however, hit upon a still
opposed Christianty. I have several I more profitable expedient which di-
reasons which shall appear in due I vorced them from every responsibil-
course. At present I offer one. 11 ity connected with the worker. They
oppose Christianty because IT IS I began to pay wages. This is what
NOT TRUE. No honest man will I the socialist agitator calls the period
ask for any other reason. It may I of “Capitalism,” and under this
be asked why I say that Christianity I system of wages they declare that
is not true, and that is a very pro-1 the ruling class get more from the
per question which |I shall do my I laborers than they ever did under
best to answer.” I slavery or serfdom. They declare
The author then proceeds to fTse that under this system of capitalism
about 200 pages to prove that I or wages that all of the property of
Christianity is not true and the I the world is fast passing into the
socialist party are advertising this I hands of a few favored individuals
as one of their standard works and and in order to avoid this calamity
a?e inducing people all over the I they demand that all individual
country to read it, hence they can-1 property rights be annihilated and
not in candor deny that they are that all the property be owned col-
parties to and interested in the dis- lectively. Of course, from this point
semination of literature calculated the real discussion of the merits and
to break down the Christian reli- dangers of socialism begin, but it is
gion. • J not the purpose of this article to
discuss the merit or dangers of
one connected with this society,
’’inally after the system was chang-
ed and the individual began to en-
oy the fruits of his own labor, the
wheels of progress moved with ac-
celerated motion and 90 per cent
of the progress of civilization has
>een made under the influence of
individual ownership.
Now it is a fact that collective
ownership retarded progress for
thousands of years and that in-
dividual ownership, which is but a
few hundred years old, resulted in
all out civilized progress, does it ap-
>ear to be the part of wisdom to re-
turn to that system which kept us
in barbarism and savagery? Shall
we discard this so-called “struggle
or existence,” using the term as
an economic sense and return to a
System that offers no premium for
special effort? It seems to us iat
the socialist must either acknowl-
edge that they do not care for far-
ther progress, in fact that they are
willing to retrograde or else declare
that this is one rule that dots not
work both ways. It would appear
that a system which has accomplish-
ed more for mankind in a few hun-
dred years than another system had
accomplished in a million yean is
not to be discarded without great
consideration. This illustrates one
of the many fallacies of the kin l of
socialism that is now being propa-
gated all over Oklahoma. The
logical conclusion of their argu-
ment is that socialism if pursued
long enough and persistently enough
would result first in barbarism and
lastly in savagery.
-A card from C.T. Brown request* I cialismbutmerely tQ show how
that his Journal be sent U) Denver, I illogical aU socialist writers and
Qal., where he and hie wife are now| 3 kerg are i{ they really deaire
living. He says Mrs. Brown is 1m-
that civilisation continue to progress
proving some since they went there. in3tead of retrograde. what « it
After leaving here they went aome they Mk U8 to do? col-
time in Iowa, then went to Nebraska j^tive ownershpi. Did we ever have
and are now in Denver.|Ee said noth- eoUectiveownershp? Yes forthous-
ing about returning to Manchester, andsj and thousands of years, but
bat we look for him back by eprtng. very littie pr0gress because of the
—XcAUeater fancy lamp eon! for fact that society placed no premium
sale at at Melcher’a Hardware Store, upon the individual efforts of any
INDIRECT TAX THE ONE
THAT HURTS
This is the time of year when we
always hear a great deal of com-
plaint in regard to the taxes and
often these complaints are not with-
out foundation. It has been the
history of all new countries th: t in
their formation the expense^ of
government is necessarily high and
taxes are high accordingly. When
a tax payer has to march up to the
window of the county treasurer and
pay $10 to $100 he naturally feels
the loss very keenly, but could he
measure up this direct tax with
what he pays indirectly, this d; ~ect
tax would look very small indeed.
We have one day in the year to
pay direct taxes while we have
every day in the year to pay in-
direct taxes. Direct taxes are in
proportion to the amount of pro-
perty assed for taxation. Wealthy
men and wealthy corporations pay
the most of the direct taxes. In-
direct taxes are assessed on what
we consume and the poor man’s
family which necessarily consume
almost as much of the necessity
of life as the rich man’s family.
A good percentage of every dollar
invested in shoes, in clothing, in
head wear, in the furniture, in every
implement used on the farm, in fact
on almost every article purchased
by the consumer, is an indirect tax
levied and collected in the form of
a tariff. To the average family
living on an Oklahoma farm this
amounts to several times more than
all the direct taxes paid for main-
tenance of state, county, township
and schools. In discussing taxa-
tion let us try to see which tax is
hurting us the worst.
—Daq Mayes, a brother to L. E
Mayes living five miles east of Pocd
Creek, was found dead io the field on
the farm where he was working, ea>t
of Medford, recetly, having been dead
shout three hours when found. Hearo
failure is supposed to have been the
cause of his death. He used to live
in Haarper county, Bans., on the
farm where W. M. Moore now resides.
—Mrs. L. A. White, mother of Mrs.
J. M. Simmons, arrived on Thursday
of last week from Gas., Mo., for an ex-
tendedivislt.
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Simmons, J. Mason. The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, November 26, 1909, newspaper, November 26, 1909; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc496774/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.