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HOMINY HERALD
BARRETT & COPE, Publisher*.
HOMINY - - OKLAHOMA
Mercury hasn't struck bottom yet.
Cheerup, old man, It will be still
voider.
The noiseless soup spoon calls for
A noiseless soup mouth.
Keep your gurd up. The pneu-
monia germ Is seeking to hand you
one.
London society has experienced a
jar. having taken to roller skates
again.
The Salome music has been trans-
ferred to phonographic records, but
no one wants Salome in that form.
GAN DO NO REAL GOOD
IDEA OF TARIFF COMMISSSION A
MERE SUBTERFUGE.
In Pennsylvania is a woman who
has waited nine years to be hanged
and Is In no particular hurry even
yet.
It took a postal card 36 years to go
from Connecticut to Indiana. Bet a
dollar he had it in his pocket all the
time.
There Is said to be a wealthy wom-
an In Denver who has never worn a
hat. That’s probably why Bhe is
wealthy.
Men thirty years old are estimated
to be worth $16,000 to the country,
and a good many would like to cash
In on that basis.
New York physicians are going to
charge for "telephone consultations."
Thus is another avenue of free ad-
vice closed to the world.
Cats and dogs as household pets,
therefore, are a menace. So also is
the mule, although he carries his dan-
gerous germs in his heels.
A New York woman says it is ut-
terly impossible for her to live on
$3,000 a year. What hard work some
people do make out of living!
Over in Europe somebody has paid
$72,000 for a grain of radium. Still
radium is a long way from being con
sldered one of the necessities of life.
The department of agriculture’s dic-
tum that Welsh rarebit is digestible
and hygienic would probably carry a
wider popularity if extended to mince
pie.
Somebody claims to have Invented
a new kind of mince pie. It might
help more if somebody would invent
a better kind of pill to be taken with
mince pie.
Most of this country's $250,000,000
fire loss may be needless, but, as the
man said coming down on the train,
It demonstrates that the people have
money to burn.
Well Described by the New York
Journal of Commerce as a “De-
lusion and a Snare”—Sub-
ject Too Partisan.
The New York Journal of Com-
merce, which has always doubted the
value of the tariff commission's worth,
thinks that It is better to keep the
present tariff board than to adopt any
of the changes which have been pro-
posed in congress. Of the Longworth
bill for a bipartisan commission of five
members, not more than three of
whom shall be of the same party. It
says:
‘That kind of device is a delusion
and a snare, and unless we can have
a tarilT commission made up of eco-
nomic experts and free from partisan
bias, we may as well leave the matter
to the regular committees of congress.
It will come to the same thing in the
end. The majority of the committee
will control the Investigations and the
recommendations, and the minority
will be impotent.”
Concerning the suggestion that the
work be turned over to a tariff bu-
reau with a single head in one of the
administrative departments, prefera-
bly the treasury, the Journal says:
“That would be no less one-sided.
So long as the administration is de-
voted to a certain tariff policy Its bu-
reaus would work for the support and
not for the reform of that policy.
There would be no independence In its
inquiries and no value in its recom-
mendations. The bureaus of the vari-
ous departments have all along been
working in behalf of the established
tariff. The consular service of the
state department, the bureau of manu-
factures and the bureau of statistics
In the department of commerce and
labor are continually furnishing ma-
terial to support the policy of the ad-
ministration, which has heretofore
been the policy of congress in the
matter of tariff, as of everything else.
Independent investigation and compe-
tent criticism are not to me expected
of an official bureau.”
In other words, in the official bu-
reaus, as in congress, party policy is
regarded as of a good deal more impor-
tance than public policy. Like mas-
ter, like man, and the Important thing
in the eyes of bureau or other politi-
cal employes is, first, to hold their
jobs, and, second, in order to hold
their jobs, to keep the party in its job.
To attain this end it must be made to
appear that whatever the party does
is right. Thus it can hardly be ex-
pected that a bipartisan commission,
which can be controlled by a majority
of partisans, or a partisan bureau,
would be of much service in the in-
vestigation of a subject so intensely
partisan as the tariff.
SHALL MEATS BE UNTAXED?
Dominant Party Has It In Its Power to
at Once Secure Relief From
Extortion.
If there bad been ten lines In the
president's message on the high cost
of living, with a recommendation In
simple justice that meats be placed on
the free list, does anybody suppose
that the beef trust would have ad-
vanced prices? A cornered market re-
sponds quickly to every impulse and
tendency. The protest at the polls in
November was understood. So also
was the silence at the White House In
December, noth found a response in
the monopoly’s price list.
A like degree of Intelligence on the
part of the people's representatives at
Washington would develop a policy as
to this particular trust which could be
carried out in 60 days.
Strangely enough in the legislative
department the Insurgent Republicans
appear to have agreed to attack only
the wool schedule of the tariff. Of
this Senator Aldrich said on May 4,
1909: "It is the very citadel of the pro-
tective system. To reduce that is to
destroy the whole system.”
In a way every important tariff
schedule is a citadel of monopoly and
bargaining, but meats are as yet only
an outpost and those who would serve
the people In their need will not ex-
haust their energies upon a strong-
hold when the weaker defenses of an
iniquity quite as objectionable Invite
assault. The tariff citadel may be Im-
pregnable. The camp of the be-
leaguered meat trust should be rushed
In a hurry.
The Long Island youth who has
fallen heir to a fortune on the condi-
tion that he never become a clergy-
man may be said to have fallen into
some easy money.
Former Senator Smith of New Jer-
sey says he is for "a Just tariff,’’ but
of course that is a misprint. What he
is really for is just tariff.
American mules are preferred to all
other kinds in South Africa. American
mules receive their early tutelage in
strong, rich language, which perhaps
puts ginger into them.
A Philadelphia man has been arrest-
ed for stealing 200 pounds of human
hair, or about enough for four up-to-
date coiffures, an especially serious of-
fense In view of the present fashion.
We've neard many people sing that
old song about wanting to be an angel,
but It could be observed that they
Were always afraid of getting their
feet wet during the grip season.
Pittsburg has already begun an an-
nexation movement against 1912. It
Is the early bird that stands well in
teensus tables.
The arrest of a Greek army officer
for the appropriation of $4,000,000 of
the government’s money leads one to
believe that all the financiers do not
hold forth in Wall street.
Two young Englishmen have been
Sentenced to four years In prison for
taking pictures of fortifications in
Germany. Leave your camera at
home and avoid trouble when you go
to Germany.
> -
Here comeB a snuffy old professor
who says that college women are fail-
ures. We suspect that the star-eyed
goddess ae had been making eyes at
has flunked on her examination in
conic sections.
The Bath Trust Indictments.
President Taft gives warning in his
message of a vigorous enforcement of
the Sherman act against all dangerous
or harmful trusts. There is to be no
"running amuck,” of course, but the
question of desirable modifications of
the act is not to be permitted to block
the prosecution of wilful builders of
oppressive monopolies.
The Detroit indictmeuts in the bath
tub and sink trust furnish an illustra-
tion of the meaning of the trust para-
graphs of the message. Assuming
that the department of justice has the
facts "straight,” the defendants could
not in any event expect the smallest
benefit from amendments of the Sher-
man law. If they had no other pur-
pose than that of fleecing consumers,
destroying competition, dictating to
jobbers, raising prices regardless of
any economic considerations; if there
was no thought of saving and improv-
ing and sharing gains of combination
with consumers, then the trust was of
the sort that should be dissolved In
the interest of honest and legitimate
commerce. The criminal indictments
are of the sort that bring home the
truth that conscious violation of the
law means personal guilt.—Chicago
Record-Herald.
There is a bunch of bachelors in a
certain Dakota city who are advertis-
ing themselves as matrimonial bar-
gains We wonder If they have been
marked down and out in their own
town.
In about two months the Ohio river
vrlll show the grand old Mississippi
that there are some rivers which
toave no intention of going out of
business permanently.
A Committee of Lawyers.
It is observed that every Demo-
cratic member suggested for the next
ways and means committee of the
house, except one, is a lawyer. The
exception is M. R. Denver of Ohio, who
is classed as a "farmer banker." That
there should be men of affairs on such
a committee as well as lawyers would
naturally be supposed.
The make-up of this Committee, how-
ever, is typical of that of congress.
Few occupations save that of the legal
profession are represented in the
house. This lopsidedness of representa-
tion is unfortunate. But until more
business men are willing to take part
In public life, it seems inevlt|b!e.
The Meat Trust and the Tariff.
The total business of the six great
meat-packing companies amounts to
$945,000,000 a year. The profits, ex-
clusive of those of the National Pack-
ing company, are set at $23,379,644.
Estimating the profits of the National
Packing company as equal to" those
of Sulzberger & Sons, the total would
be raised to about $25,000,000.
Some of the detailed figures are as
impressive as the totals. When a con-
cern like Swift & Co., can progress
from a $10,000,000 capital to upward
of $80,000,000 in about sixteen years;
when Armour & Co., after paying big
dividends, can pile up a surplus of
$73,000,000; when other companies in
the combine make almost as notable
showings, It is clear the profits are
enormous.
With such figures before them, how-
can even the standpatters of congress
pretend that protection is needed for
the meat trust? The tariff confers
monopoly of the home market and the
monopoly is used to exact from the
people excessive prices for one of the
most important necessaries of life.
Those are the plain facts of the
matter. There is no need for an elab-
orate Investigation by a tariff commis-
sion with a year of delay. There is
time enough for this congress to re-
peal the tax on meat and give the peo-
ple immediate relief.—New York
World.
The Sin of Lafe Young.
In vain does the Hon. Lafayette
Young of Iowa assume an air of bon-
homie and simplicity and refer to the
senators as "boys." His speech be-
trayeth him;
"I am not so much concerned about
inequalities as I am concerned about
business.”
Concerned about business; what un-
seemly, what almost blasphemous lan-
guage for a senator to hold! Is it not
the duty of the congress to legislate,
and of every public man who knows
when he is well off to bloviate, against
business?
As for the tariff, the Hon. Lafe
Young dares to forget that America's
sweetest eirenist, noblest practical
ethiclst and rarest occasional thinker
has found the tariff "a moral issue”
and will stick to that moral issue like
a wart to a wart-hog, at least until
some more moral issue diverts his at-
tention.
Business Is immoral. If the Hon.
Lafe Young has any friends they
should bring him up to date or send
him back to Des Moines.—New York
Sun.
Chicago barbers propose to charge
one dollar for cutting the hair of
“tightwads who shave themselves. It
will not work The average Income of
on American family being less than
$800, the average man can hardly *_f-
ford to pay $45 a year to a br-*V-*r .or,
say. 300 shaves Besides the w jstc o'
time
Party’s Faith Not Kept.
The present tariff law was enacted
in pursuance of a pledge to revise the
tariff downward. The violation of the
pledge was so flagrant that a number
of Republican senators and repre-
sentatives voted against the bill on its
final passage. Such is the record, and
such are the results of tariff revision
,by the friends of the tariff. In not one
of these cases was faith kept with the
people In not one was there fair,
reasonable and downward revision of
the tariff.
Public Money Wasted.
In Kansas, according to Auditor
James M. Nation, "thousands of dol-
lars are wasted every year In printing
reports and documents that have no
value, and In duplicating reports of
state officers.” Nobody has ever bad
the courage to calculate how much
money is misspent and thrown away
In the government printing office at
! Washington.
Idea a Mere Makeshift.
The Democratic principle of a rev-
enue tariff needs no commission at all
to apply it, and the task of framing
the schedules would be comparatively
simple. If the theory of protection la
once admitted to be right, much may
be said In favor of a commission. But
to those who deny this proposition the
commission can appear only as a
makeshift. .
Worse, and More of It.
Well, well, if Judge Anderson de-
served the opprobrious epithets he
was favored with from the greatest
man that ever was, what will be fitting
phrases for this same man to apply to
the members of the Supreme court of
the United States, all of whom have
united In rejecting the fantastic inter-
pretation of the law evolved by the
mighty Bonaparte of Baltimore to get
an alleged libel, published in New
York, under the Jurisdiction of the fed
eral courts?
The Modest IViod^l.
The late Julia Ward Howe, though
a woman of very good appearance,
was extremely modest.
"She once posed for me," said a
Boston painter the other day. "But
she hesitated a long lime before con-
senting. To urge her on 1 said;
" 'Don’t be afraid. I'll do you Jus
rice, madam.’
“ ‘Ah, she answered, ‘it isn't justice
I ask for at your hands; It’s mercy. ”
Not Just Off the Shelf.
Little Marget has the childist trait
of curiosity, especially in regard to
the age of her elders.
"How old do you think I am. dear?”
counter-questioned the spinster aunt
to whom the child had put the imper-
tinent query. The little girl consid-
ered earnestly before replying:
"Well, I don’t know, Auntie Alice,
but you don’t look new!"
INSIDE HISTORY.
Some Self-Explanatory Letters.
Battle Creek, Mich., Jan. 7, ’ll.
Dr. E. II. Pratt,
Suite 1202, 100 State St..
Chicago, Illinois.
My Dear Doctor:
“Owing to some disagreement with
- magazine several years ago
they have become quite vituperative,
and of late have publicly charged me
with falsehoods In my statements
that we have genuine testimonial let-
ters.
“It has been our rule to refrain
from publishing the names either of
laymen or physicians who have writ-
ten to us in a complimentary way,
and we have declined to accede to the
demand of attorneys that we turn
these letters over to them.
“I am asking a few men whom I
deem to be friends to permit me to
reproduce some of their letters over
their signatures in order to refute the
falsehoods.
“We have hundreds of letters from
physicians, but I esteem the one that
you wrote to me In 1906 among the
very best, particularly In view of the
fact that it recognizes the work I have
been trying to do partly through the
little book, ‘The Road to Wellville.’
"I do not sell or attempt to sell the
higher thought which is more Impor-
tant than the kind of food, but I have
taken considerable pains to extend to
humanity such facts as may have
come to me on this subject.
"In order that your mind may be re-
freshed I am herewith enclosing a
copy of your good letter, also a copy
of the little book, and if you will give
me the privilege of printing this over
your signature I will accompany the
printing with an explanation as to
why you permitted its use in publi-
cation In order to refute falsehoods,
and under that method of treatment 1
feel, so far as I know, there would be
no breach of the code of ethics.
"I trust this winter weather is find-
ing you well, contented and enjoying
the fruits that are yours by right.
"With all best wishes, 1 am,”
Yours very truly,
C. W. POST.
Dr. Pratt, who Is one of the most
prominent .nd skillful surgeons in
America, very kindly granted our re-
quest in the cause of truth and jus-
tice.
Chicago, Aug. 31, 1906.
Mr. C. W. Post,
Battle Creek, Mich.
My Dear Sir:
"I write to express my personal ap-
preciation of one of your business
methods, that of accompanying each
package of your Grape-Nuts produc-
tion with that little booklet “The
Road to Wellville,” A more appro-
priate, clear headed and effective pre-
sentation of health-giving auto-sugges-
tions could scarcely be penned.
“Grape-Nuts is a good food in itself,
but the food contained in this little
article is still better stuff. I commend
the practice because I know that the
greed and strenuousness, the conse-
quent graft and other types of thiev-
ery and malicious mischief generally
can never be cured by legislative ac-
tion.
“The only hope for the betterment
of the race rests in individual soul
culture.
"In taking a step In this direction,
your process has been so original and
unique that it must set a pace for
other concerns until finally the whole
country gets flavored with genuine,
practical Christianity.
“I shall do all that lies in my pow»
er to aid in the appreciation of Grapw
Nuts, not so much for the sake of the
food itself as for the accompanying
suggestions.
"Visiting Battle Creek the other day
with a friend. Dr. Kelly of Evanston,
Illinois, while I was consulting with
Mr. Gregory, my friend visited your
factories and came away greatly
amazed, not only at the luxurious fur-
nishings of the offices generally and
the general equipment of the place,
but with the sweet spirit of courtesy
and kindness that seemed to fill the
air with a spiritual ozone that was
good to breathe.
“The principles expressed in the
little booklet. 'The Road to Well*
vlile.' I well know are practical and
they work in business of all kinds, in-
cluding sanitariums, as will be fairly
tested before time is done.
“I know you will not regard this let-
ter of appreciation as an intruding
one. It is simply the salutation of
good fellowship to you from a man
who, although he has never seen you,
feels drawn to^you by the kinship of
thought
‘The only thing that makes a man
live forever In the hearts of his coun-
trymen and his race is the good that
he does. Your position in this respect
is an envlab’e one and I wish to ex-
tend my congrntulatior.s."
Your^ respectfully.
E II PRATT.
PREACHED HIS BEST
CANDIDATE THOUGHT HE MADE
AN IMPRESSION.
But He Should Have Heard the
Comments of the Flock He
Wee So Anxious to
8hepherd.
The candidate has done his best.
He believed that It had made a deep
impression on the church, before
which he was "candidatlng.” He
might have changed his mind had he
heard the following comments on his
effort by the people as they passed
out of church cr lingered for the aft-
ernoon tea sort of chatter that ob-
tains In some of our modern
churches:
"Well, how did you like him?"
"Fairly well, but he ain’t no way up
x> what dear Pastor Elder was."
"Did you notice that he said ’eye-
ther?’ 1 always hate to hear a min-
ister say that.”
"His dellv’ry wa’n’t none too good
I could not make out some of his
words.”
“I dldn^t just like him having that
pink rose In his buttonhole. Looked a
little vain to me. I like to see a min-
ister dress rather soberly.”
"Didn’t his coat fit awfully? M
you notice that the sleeves were too
long? And his trousers were too
short. I think that a minister’s dress
has a lot to do with the Impression
he makes."
“I can’t bear to see a man with his
hair parted In the middle, and If he
should be called to us I wouldn’t make
no bones of telling him so."
"Wasn’t some of that poetry he
quoted beautiful? I do love to hear
a minister express himself In poetry*
"Seemed .to me he wasn’t very deep.
When you come to think It over, he
didn’t say much I hadn’t heard be-
fore.”
“Seemed to me he was rather sing-
song In his delivery. Didn’t Pastor
Fourtherly have a beautiful delivery?
He never said much of anything, but
his delivery was so beautiful that ha
held you with It.”
”1 didn’t like the way he hammered
the pulpit with his fist. I like to see a
minister calm and dignified In the pul-
pit. Always makes more of a lasting
Impression.”
“Did you notice the way he began
fo .nany his sentences with ‘And'?
And I was just reading the other day
that one should never begin a sent-
ence with ‘and.’ ”
“I didn't like the way he rolled up
his eyes. It seemed so sort of sanc-
timonious.”
“It didn't seem to me there was
much real spirituality In his sermon,
and I don’t like a sermon unless It Is
downright spiritual.”
“I don’t believe tha* he Is the man
for us.”
“Seems to me that he’s better suit-
ed to some church where they don’t
really expect much of the minister.”
“If they called him I think that I
should take my letter to some other
church."
■Wasn’t he Just splendid I think
his sermon was Just lovely! Seems
to me he is just the man we are look-
ing for!”
"I wouldn’t want It said as coming
from me. but I have heard that he
didn’t resign of his own accord the
last pastorate he had. If Ms resigna-
tion was asked for. seems to me we
ought to know the reasons why. -
Puck.
Feminine Logic.
Hailed as "The Master of Fomin
Ism,” Marcel Prevost endeavors tc
make good his right to the title by
the following bit of philosophy: ”I»
a woman's hat meant to cover hei
head? Is a woman’s sunshade meanl
to shade her from the sun? Are a
woman’s shoes made for walking? Oi
her bejeweled watch meant to tell hei
the time? Why, then, should a worn
an's letter be meaut to convey hei
real thoughts!"—Argonaut
A J. PR1NE
auctioneer
Sens everything and gets the High
Dollar.
HOMINY. - OKLAHOMA
SALE EVERY SATURDAY P. M.
For first-class Boots and Shoe*
made to order see
Henry Schmale
Boots and Shoes
Repair work quickly and neatl;
done. South of Hominy Trading
Co. Call and see me.
HENRY SCHMALE
THE HOMINY BAKEEY
Fresh Bread, Pie#
and Cakes mC
In the new Stout Building
G. K. SUTHERLAND
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Will practice in all the court* in
Oklahoma. Offiice
south ot P. O.
HOMINY.
one
OKLAHOMA
There are 51 active volcanoes In
Japan, notwithstanding the fact that
no political campaign Is going on In
Japan.
In football, as In politics you cannot
always tell. The same Is true of
love and the stock markets, how-
ever.
Pockets In women’s skirts are com-
ing back, says an exchange, If ever
they can find the place where they
used to be.
Dirigible balloons are dirigible
only when they move with the wind.
They cannot buck the wind as a real
man-bird does.
The statement Is made by a Swiss
doctor that drunkards live longer than
total abstainers. But even If they do,
what's the use?
H. C. Hargis G. W. Hargis
Eldon E, Sams
HARGIS, SAMS & HARGIS
Attorneys-at-Law
Fawhuska,
Oklahoma
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PHYSICIAN AND SURCEON
Phone 81.
HOMINY. - OKLAHOMA.
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