The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 11, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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THE “ANTI-TRUST” LAW.
The attorney general of the United
States, by request from that body, has
filed with the lower Itouse of Congress
a statement of expenditures made by
him in prosecuting the trusts under
the so-called “anti-trust” law. Of
the 1500,000 appropriated by Congress
for trust prosecutions, Mr. Knox in
his statement says he has expended
only *25,986. Of this amount all was
paid out to attorneys and "special
clerks” except 1973, which was spent
under the head of "expenses.”
The Journal is of the opinion the
whole appropriation of 9500,000 could
have been easily expended by Mr.
Knox in a very profitable way to the
producers of the country had he the
inclination to look up trusts to spend
it on, but it appears he has not.
To show our readers conclusively
that he is not doing his duty under
the law, we print below the following
resolution as passed at Topeka on
Jan. 13 at a meeting of the Kansas
Improved Stock Breeders’ Association:
‘‘Whereas. Sufficient evidence has been
presented to the stock breeders of Kansas to
convince them that there exists at Kansas
City and other points an Illegal or unlawful
combination or trust that has the power to
and does, depress the price of beef on the
hoof, to the great damage and detriment of
the breeders and feeders of Kansas, aud
without a corresponding benefit to the meat
consumers of the world, but to the sole
benefit of the packing trust; therefore
Resolved, That the Kansas Improved Stock
Breeders' Association requests President
Roosevelt to call the attention of hts attor-
ney general to this matter and require him
to Investigate the same, to the end that the
guilty parties may be punished and the
anti-trust laws of the United States be fully
enforced."
This is only one case in a thousand,
perhaps, wherein Mr. Knox could
have used a part of that appropria-
tion. The packing trust steal has
been going on for months and months
and the newspapers throughout the
land have been talking about it
every week and every day, but Mr.
Knox, the attorney general of the
United States, lias been unable to
find a place to spend only a very small
portion of the appropriation made by
Congress for the protection of the
producers of the country against the
wanton greed of combined capi
talists, and it has now come to
the point that the stock growers
themselves feel that they must take
their grievance direct to President
Roosevelt in order to get recognition
and redress
And now we would like to ask those
stock growers if they really expect
protection from the present so-called
"anti-trust” law, and if so, how soon
do you expect to get it? That law,
with an appropriation of *500,000
behind it to push it along, has been
in vogue a long time. Is there a
single producer or consumer in Grant
county who can truthfully say he has
tasted of its benefits up to the present
time?
Perhaps some of the numerous Re-
publican editors in Grant county can
point out one. If so the Journal
would be glad to know his name. We
want to give him a column mention
in this paper.
Bro. Jones of the Medford Star
was the only one among the news-
paper fraternity of Grant County to
oompliment the Journal on being
made the official county paper, and he
overdone the thing—no doubt by
mistake. Here is what he said
The Mawcwmtkb Joukxal has been desig-
nated as the official comely paper by the
commiestoeers. This Is e just recognition
though e loos time coming, sa Editor 81m
moos has beee the brains of tbs Democrat
patty ever sines the county was organised.
He evidently intended to qualify
his statement by saying the Journal
man "hae been the ‘editorial’ brains,
etc., which would have been emi-
nently correct as we have been the
only Democratic editor Grant county
has had since soon after the opening
of this country to settlement. We ap-
preciate Bro. Jones good intentions
bat dislike to be placed in a position
ffi) embarrassing and misleading.
COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL.
The county high school proposition
which Is to be decided upon by the
voters of Grant county at a special
election to be held on Tuesday, the
23rd day of February, 1904, is merely a
question of whether or not the tax-
payers wish to saddle upon themselves
an indebtedness of twenty-five or
thirty thousand dollars and an addi-
tional taxation each year for all time
to come to support and maintain it.
While the Journal at all times
believes in increased educational
facilities, yet on the one-sided propo-
sition before us at this time It is
forced to draw the line.
The town of Lamont, while up-to-
date In every way for a village of its
size and located in one of the richest
farming sections in Grant county, is
by no means the proper location for a
county high school by reason of inac
cessibility to the people of the county
It is located almost in the extreme
southeast corner of the county and
can only be reached by rail by first
making a trip to Kay or Garfield
county and then take the ’Frisco
railroad to Lamont. This especially
objectionable feature alone is enough
to condemn the proposition as a
county measure in which the people
one and all are to be taxed for its
support.
Again, the tax-payers of Grant
county are not ready in a financial
way to meet the expense of erecting
and maintaining a county high
school. The county is comparatively
new and there are numerous other
necessary expenses to be borne which
runs our taxes up to the limit of what
our people can afford to pay.
By careful management on the part
of the board of county commissioners
they were enabled to reduce the tax
levy for 1903, and if the high school
proposition Is voted down we may
look for an additional decrease in the
levy for 1904. As for the Journal
its taxes are high enough, and we
believe this is the sentiment of nine-
tenths of the tax-payers of Grant
county.
But the proposition is up to the
voters of Grant county and they must
act one way or the other. If you
remain at home on election day and
permit the instigators of the high
school movement to do ail the voting,
you may depend upon it that the
proposition will carry and that you
will bump up against an increased
levy next fall when you go to pay your
taxes. On the contrary, if you make
it a point to go to the polls and vote
against the high school proposition,
you may count safely on a decrease in
your 1901 taxes instead of an increase.
The proposition can be looked upon
as being altogether one-sided, as the
proposed location for the school would
make it of value only to people living
in Lamont and the southeast part of
Grant county. Why, then, should
the county at large shoulder a large
debt and perpetual expense when the
majority of our people receive no
benefit whatever from it?
Talking against the proposition will
do no good further than to Influence
others. The kind of talk that counts
is to get out to the polls and vote.
It requires a majority of the votes
cast to elect or defeat the high school
The other fellow will be on hand, so
unless you want the county bonded
for twenty-five or thirty thousand
dollars you had best be at the polls to
guard your own interest.
The national Democratic conven-
tion Is to be held at St. Louis, Mo., on
July fi. William Randolph Hearst,
editor of the Chicago American, is
about the only man so far who is
being boomed for the nomination.
Hearet Is a man of wealth and great
influence among the laboring people
and might prove the best man to
nominate.
—The Star resturant at Manchester
is for sale or trade. The work is too
hard for a man of my age and I must
quit it. H. P. Writs.
The appointment of P. C. Simons
of the law firm of Mackey & Simons
of Pond Creek to the office of attorney
general of the territory by Governor
Ferguson is a fitting compliment to
a deserving young man and one that
meets with general approval among
Republicans in Grant county—at
least we have heard of no kicking—
which is a thing entirely new in
Grant county when a piece of Repub-
lican pie is to be handed out. As a
rule there are a dozen or fifteen odiee
seekers waiting at the pie counter
ready to pounce upon every crum that
falls as a pack of hungry hounds
would pounce upon a chunk of raw
meat; but for this one time it is
quite different. It is not stated that
even P. II. Loomis feels in the least
slighted. In fact there is not a ripple
on the Republican waters except that
Bro. Thomas of the Vidette at Pond
Creek claims the credit of having
forced Governor Ferguson to terms in
recognizing Grant county, while Rro
Palmer of the Patriot at Medford is
as fully convinced that recognition
would have come long ago had not the
Vidette been fighting the governor.
Thomas and Palmer may stir up quite
a stink among themselves over the
appointment, but we hardly think
they will be able to draw many of the
“faithful” on the outside into the
scrap. The Democrats, so far as we
know, would as leave see Percy Simons
hold the office of attorney general as
any Republican in the territory. The
office pays *1,800 per year.
Inasmuch as the time limit has
passed whereby it would be possible
for Oklahoma to get into the Union
of states in time for her people to
vote for president and vice-president
next fall, it now appears as though
the Republican congress is going to
submit to Oklahoma becoming a state
at the present session. And now if
they don’t back down in the fear of
Oklahoma going Democratic In 1908,
the Journal will feel like exclaiming,
God bless the Republicans! We have
been promised statehood for years,
and years, and years, and to get it
when the opportnuity to vote for an
anti-trust candidate for president is
only four years off would make us feel
like rejoicing beyond measure. We
always knew that the Republican
party had a heart but we never
thought before that the righteous
pleading of an honest, law abiding
people would be able to reach it in
the short period of fifteen years time.
The Pond Creek Vidette is of the
opinion that the appointment of
Percy Simons as attoney general
leaves the way open for Grant county
to go Republican at the next election.
We are at a loss to know on what
grounds Rro. Thomas bases his opin-
ion. Has lie forgotten that the people
of Grant county at the last election
turned Mr. Simons down by a majority
of 149 in favor of W. H. C. Taylor for
county attorney? You are doubtless
talking through your hat, Bro.
Thomas. Mr. Simons’ appointment
will add no strengtli to your party
ticket and the trust price on coal oil,
flour and implements, compared with
that of cattle, hogs and wheat, would
not allow the farmers of Grant county
to vote the Republican ticket and
thus sanction the unjust predicament
into which the g. o. p. has placed
them. Grant county is strongly op-
posed to trusts and trust methods of
robbing tire producer and her people
will tell you how they feel about It
when they get to the polls next Xo-
<*-jmber._
The Journal one dollar a year.
8CHOOL LAND QUESTION.
E. B. Shotwell of Lincoln county
wrote the following able article on
the school land question for the
Chandler Tribune, which should be
read and studied by every tax-payer
in Oklahoma. The Journal opposes
a system of government tenantry in
Any manner, shape or form and hopes
to see the day come when every bona
fide lessee will be able to secure title
to his leased land at a fair and equita-
ble price to both the school fund and
himself. Mr. Shotwell says:
"The school land question is one
which every citizen should study. We
find many people ready to express an
opinion as to what should be done
with the school land, and at the same
time they have not made a thorough
study of the question. Three points
should be considered in the study of
the question: the fund, the lessees,
and the general taxpayer. As to the
school fund, we believe all desire a
good strong school fund properly
raised. We differ as to whether it is
better to sell the land or hold it for
continual rental. We believe it to be
best for the fund to have the land sold
and the fund invested, under proper
safeguards. We believe that if these
lands were sold now and the resulting
fund invested it will produce a greater
school fund, do justice to the lessee
and be better for the taxpayer.
“Let it be once settled that these
lands are to be forever rented and the
result will be that the tenants will
each endeavor to get what he can from
his lease and return as little to the
land as possible. Each one will leave
it poorer than lie found it, so that in
a few years it will be so deteriorated
that it will lease for but little. Hence,
for the best interests of the produc-
tive side of the fund, it will be better
to sell the lands.
"Again, the lease system is very
expensive and is getting more so con-
tinually. The expense of the board
for the year 1902 was $31,299. During
the last year there has been added the
additional expense of an additional
board of five members as an equaliz-
ing board at an expense of many dol-
lars per day. Add to this the expense
of eviction suits which have been in
progress and which will follow a
permanent rental system and we have
an enormous sum to be taken yearly
from the school fond.
"The lessees have rights- in this
matter. Most ot them settled upon
these lands thinking they would one
day be permitted to secure title to
them: they have opened up these
farms, built houses, planted orchards
and otherwise improved them, with
the veritable idea that they were es-
tablishing what they would one day
be permitted to call home. Had the
idea been held out in the opening of
the country that these lands were to
be forever held for lease we would not
see the Improvement we now see upon
these lands. The lessees were led to
believe that the improvements they
placed upon these lands belonged to
them, yet as each period of rental
elapses we find the board raising the
rent, not on the increased value of
raw land but largely on the improve-
ments, which in reality belong to the
lessees. * * * *
"While the half has not been told, I
forbear using more of your valuable
space at this time and will close by
saying I am convinced for the best
interest of the school fund, the lessee
and the taxpayer, these lands should
be sold and the proceeds properly
invested and the present enormous
expense In handling them be cut
down.”
The Winfield Tribune points an in-
teresting moral with this simple tale:
“A. B. French is a good man. Every-
body speaks well of him. He has lived
in Winfield many years, and has a
large acquaintance in the city and
throughout the county. His place of
business was located on one of the
best business comers in town. His
store was well supplied with fresh,
salable goods, articles of every-day use
and necessity. He is capable, honest
and reliable. He should have done a
thriving business. A few days ago
he went into bankruptcy. Do you
wonder who? He never advertised a
line.”
t TOO MUCH MERCIUNDISEI
_ A WORLD OF GOOD WARM WINTER WEAR.
Womens Coats and Furs, Men and Boys Clothinj, Underwear, Shirts, Flannels, Dress Goods, Shoes, and all kinds of foods
mm that can be found in a first class, up-to-date store.
Below we Give a Few Prices.
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GROCERIES. GROCERIES.
Best flour.................................... 96c
19 & sugar ............ .1.00
Lard......................................... n*
Lard compound ..................................................9c
Breakfast bacon ...............................................14
Dry salt................................... I2|c
Gallon apples.......................... 23
Whole rice..........................................................„..6
Colorado potatoes...............................................96
Star and Horseshoe tobacco........................43
SHOES
Is another department overloaded. Will
give only a few prices as my space is getting
short.
*1.25 value, sale price....................„............69c
1.65 value, sale price_________________ 98c
2.00 value, sale price......„............ 11.39
2.25 value, sale price________________________ 1.69
2.50 value, sale price.....„ „........................ 1.90
2.75 value, sale price................................ 2.19
3.00 value, sale price......................... 2.48
3.50 value, sale price............................ 2.79
4.00 value, sale price......... 2.98
We have some lines broken up in sizes.
You will find good bargains. We are going
to clean up in this department.
WARM UNDERWEAR
Much needed just now. The values we
offer are exceptionally attractive consider-
ing the quality.
Christmas Candy and Nuts.
Candy by the pail, such as you will want
for Christmas trees, per pound.........._...... 6c
Nuts from........................................16c to 20c
WOMENS WINTER COATS, FURS AND
WRAPPERS.
ALSO CHILDRENS AND MISSES.
Remember we make special prices which
save you money on the very latest and most
fashionable, nobby, neat garments. These
are EXTREMELY, STYLISH and EX-
TRA LOW in PRICE, as the pricoe was
cut once before in our Hurry-up Sale. Now
another cut.
*5.25 coat, sale price....................................*3.98
5.98 coat, sale price................................ 4.79
6.98 coat, sale price..............................5.39
7.00 coat, sale price............................. 5.98
8.50 coat, sale price..................................6.39
9.00 coat, sale price...............................6.98
10.00 coat, sale price..................................8. 8
12.00 coat, sale price......_.......................9.98
*1.50 kind, sale price.................................48c
1.75 kind, sale price.............................56c
2.00 kind, sale price____________________________.69c
2.25 kind, sale price................................79c
3.00 kind, sale price_____________________________98c
3.25 kind, sale price........................ *1.06
3.50 kind, sale price.................... L19
3.75 kind, sale price________________________1.68
4.00 kind, sale price________________ 1.79
4.25 kind, sale price___________________1.98
5.00 kind, sale prioe.................. 2.19
A big line of furs we are making very loir
prices on.
Don’t think because the above cloaka are
marked cheap that they are not good.
FOR THEY ARE GOOD.
Almost every man, woman and child a*
this time of the year are contemplating a
trip to some town to buy presents for father,
mother, brother, sister, or some friend or
sweetheart. Below we suggest a few items:
Handkerchiefs for men, women and chil-
dren; golf gloves, neckties, jewelry, shaving
mugs, baby mugs, ribbon, nice fancy robes,
baby socks, lace curtains, hats, shoes, jack-
ets and caps, furs. Fancy waistings, baby
hoods, fancy towels, mufflers, trunks, docks,
buggy whips, harness, pocket books, bed
spreads, stationery, mirrors and pictures.
Sewing machines, fancy lamps, gloves and
mittens, a nice line of dress shirts for men.
We have a fine line of queensware we are
making low prices on, such as dfcffiter seta,
tea sets, water sets, berry sets and a big
display of fancy lamps.
MENS PANTS.
5.00 panto go in this sale at______________2J9
4.50 pants go in this sals at_______________2.48
3.50 panto go in this sale at...............2.1#
3.25 panto go In this sale at________2.08
3.00 panto go in this sals at................. 1J8
2.50 panto go in this sale at.__________L«6
2.25 pants go in this sale at................1.48
1.95 pants go In this sals at__________8L88
1.75 panto go in this sals at_________________98e
1.40 panto go In this sals at____________toe
•1.25 panto go in this sals at__________________48b
65c panto go in this sals at.....
50e panto go in this sale at
SAFFOLD MERCANTILE 60..
MANCHESTER,
OKLAHOMA......
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