The Mountain Park Herald (Mountain Park, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, May 24, 1907 Page: 3 of 12
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Farmers’
Educational and
Co-Operative Union
of America
All over this country there seems
to be s spirit of emulation as to who
can and will plant the biggest cotton
crops. In West Texas and In the Ter-
ritories thousands and thousands of
acres are being planted In cotton that
have not been in cultivation hereto-
fore, while the good prices obtained
‘for the last two crops have stimulated
production wonderfully In the old cot-
ton growing section! There Is a limit
to the demand, and this limit can and
will be reached one of these days.
Then some of the crop will not be
bought at all. What will be the re-
sult? It makes no difference how
many warehouses are built, if a man
must sell to a man who does not need
any article, the price will have to be
the only inducement. Let the Co-Op-
erators get busy and put this matter
up to the cotton planter. There Is no
use in being a fool. The warehouse is
the only system by which the right
price can be gotten for as much as
the buyer wants, but a million ware-
houses won’t make a price on what a
man doesn’t want, and all the fake
doctors of commerce can’t make it dif-
ferent. You get busy and raise a di-
versity of crops, with a good sprink-
ling of pigs, poultry and cattle, and a
few mules and colts, and you won’t
have to worry about anything.
It Is a solemn fact that the Farm-
ers’ Union has not perfected the art
and science of farming; it has not
made a success of every farmer who
has Joined Its ranks, and It has not
made it possible for farmers to make
a living without working like the
dickens. If any one has become a
member of the Union under Uie im-
pression that the organization would
do this work for him, he stands in
need of some correction. The Union
does not stand for the getting of a liv-
ing without work; it does not stand
for the making of anything that is
not due the farmer as the result of
intelligence and diligence in business.
It does stand for the full pay for his
labor, and the full value of every dol-
lar that he spends. If these planks
are big enough and broad enough for
you to stand on, you have the right
ideas for making a good Union man.
If you want to evade the Divine com-
mand, “Barn thy bread by the sweat
of thy brow,” you will have to look
to some sort of a grafting scheme and
not to the Farmer’s Educational and
Co-Operative Union.
In cotton sections, and that is all of
the South, the special work of the
Union has been along lines of betted
ment of the conditions appertaining to
that crop, but the Union la big enough
to go all round.
Co-operate in all the things that
will be helpful to your fellow-workera.
Do this in work, talk and in thought*
and the ideal Union man is not far
from your own self.
We are not hearing of enough farm*
era’ picnics where only farmers are to
do the "spieling.” It is time that
farmers cut out the professional politi-
cal wind-jammers and put up some of
their own men to do the talking.
While you are planting cotton, re-
member that you are having some aw-
ful strong competition. When you
plant something for the family to eat,
or something for the stock to con-
sume, you have little or no competi-
tion. See the point?
Don’t lend yourself to anything that
you would not want the world to
know all about—or that would make
the blush of shame mantle your cheek
if the world did know about it Be a
man after the sort that you want the
other fellow to be.
We are hearing from our constant
pounding about planting trees in the
odd corners about the place. This la
a good piece of news. There is not-
ing that will so surely increase tu
value as trees. Plant a trees under
the slightest provocation, and
without provocation.
If you think that the farm is a good
place for the boys to remain, it would
be well for you to see that it is attrac-
tive. them. The easiest way to do
this is for you to give them an interest
in It—a financial interest. Of course,
no worse thing was ever done for a
boy than for tho parents to pay him
for the work that he ought to do to
help support tho family and pay for
his raising. There should be some
other sort of way for the boy to make
some money of his own, and you
should see to It that he does make
some money and use it in such a way
that it will grow all the time. It is
Uhe growing of things that makes life
•worth living. This is one of the things
that the Union should help every
farming father to do. The Union
should stand for the uplift and the
magnifying of the calling of the farm-
AU work and no play makes Jack a
dull boy. You old, hard-working daiA-
dy, take a turn and recall what your
dady ought to have done to have mails
a better man of you, and you get awful
busy treating yourbo y as good as
your father ought to have treated you.
DO IT NOW!
It is queer how many good men who
would be a benefit to the Union, and
to whom the Union would also he a
benefit, are continually saying that
they intend to come in some time.
They are in need of the same “moving
spirit” that many would-be reformers
need—the spirit that will set them
a-going.
Get the boys into a debating society.
It is at one and the same time one of
the greatest fun-makers on earth, and
one of the greates Incentives to study
and learn something that will “ewaf*
the opponent. Get together at the
school house and get the Farmers'
Union Debating club a-going
The most lamentable lack of com-
mon sense seen in some communities
is that shown in the division Into s
number of weak little schools of s
community that should have one
strong, broad school. All over this
country the little schools are uniting,
building a few large, well-equipped,
houses, grading and classifying the!
students and giving a curriculum'
broad enough to be of real practical,
benefit. Good roads are one of the1
important factors in this matter, as
Indeed th£y are in all real progress!
among rural communities. Take these
matters up in your Union, and get to-
gether.
’ You most not forget that because
your grand daddy made a success of
life as compared with his fellows
without an education that he had
about as much as those fellows Let
your boys have as good a chance as
thul* fellows. Their fellows—those
that are of any account—are all In
school. Bee?
It is only a few years since the rail-
ways learned that cutting rates would
not create business. The time has
been when a person could go from
Cincinnati to 8t. Louis for nothing,
and get a meal thrown in. Now the
roads have learned the lesson that It
is Just an easy for one of them to car-
ry for nothing as it is for another, and
they put n fair price on the servloe
This is the spirit that is oomlng over
the farmer. The roads had to get
together on some sort of a common
sense basis and stick to it. Farmers
have not so easy nnd rapid methods
of Intercommunication, hence they
have been slower about getting togeth-
er. but it is coming. Indeed, the time
Is right now whon the day of coopera-
tion among farmers is growing into
full brightness. Get into the Union of
those who are “getting together."
FREE HOMER
CELEBRATION
FRIDAY, MAY 17, OBSERVED IN
THE CHEROKEE STRIP
Political History of Oklahoma Is Clear-
ly Allied With tho Law ..nich
Gave Settlors Their Homes
Free of Cost—Jefferson Is
Center of Rejoicing
GUTHRIE: In the Oklahoma ooun-
ties composing the Cherokee strip
"Free Home Day” was very generally
celebrated Friday. The bill which
gave the homesteaders In Oklahoma
their homes free was signed by Pres-
ident McKinley on May 17, 1900, and
It Is on that account that the day
was celebrated. Under that bill the
settlers were relleevd from paying
ILh stipulated price per acre as pro-
vided for in the act which opened the
country to settlement on September
II, 1813.
The fight for free homes In Okla-
homa dates -k to 1894, when Den-
nis T. Flyu.. then delegate to con-
gress from Oklahoma, introduced a
>111 which provided that all settlers
on lands should have their homes
free by complying with the regular
homestead laws in making their
homes on the land for five years.
Under the old law the homesteader
was required to live on the laud for
five years, and in addition pay the
government for it when he proved up.
Flynn's lack of success with this
bill was in a large measure respon-
sible for h|B defeat in 1895 by J. Y.
Callahan, a populist. Homesteaders
bad become discouraged at the slow
piv gress of the bill in congress and
were ready to listen to Callahan’s ar-
guments. fie had promised the set-
tlers that if he were elected to con-
gress he would get free homes for the
acklng; that the reason Flynn had
not accomplished anything was that
he wanted the free home proposition
as a platform to run on again, and
that he was duping the settlers. The
new delegate drafted a bill along the
same lines as Flynn’s, but he was
without influence in congress and the
bill was never heard of.
Flynn was returned to congress in
1898, and at cnce took up the fight
again for his pet measure, but It was
not until just before the close of his
term that the measure was passed by
congress.
The day was very generally cele-
brated in all of the strip towns, but
probably with as much enthusiasm
as anywhere else at Jefferson, in
Grant county. The Grant county set-
tlers who weye benefited by the *
formed a permanent organization the
year after the passage of the bill, and
have kept it up ever since. With
them the celebration of Free Home
day Is second only to the Fourth of
July.
THEY'RE OFF FOR WASHINGTON
Convention Delegates En Route to Bee
Roeeevelt and Bonaparte
OKLAHOMA CITY: W. A. Ledbet-
ter of Ardmore, 8. W. Hayes of Chick-
asba. Charles L. Moare of Enid and
J. R. Thompson, chairman of tho
democratic state central committee,
left Friday for Washington, where
they will present the constitutional
convention’s side of the controversy
over tho constitution and the elec-
tion ordinance to Attorney General
Bonaparte.
Tho men go as the regularly ac-
credited representatives of the consti-
tutional convention, being dispatched
on this mission by President William
H. Murray.
WORN TO A SKELETON.
jfit
A Wonderfdl Restoration CaudMfa
Sensation in a Pennsylvania
Town.
Mrs. Oharles N. Preston, of Elkland,
ftL, says: “Three years ago 1 found
that my housework
was becoming a bur-
den. I tired easily,
had no ambition and
was fading fast. My
complexion got yel-
low and I lost over
60 pounds. My thirst
was terrible, and
there was sugar in
the kidney secretions.
My doctor kept me on a strict diet, but
as his medicine was not helping me,
I began using Doan's Kidney Pills.
They helped me at once, and soon all
traces of sugar disappeared. I have
regained my former weight and am
perfectly well.”
Sold by all dealers. 60 centa a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Was Not For Old Gold#.
John 8loan, the noted illustrator
and etcher, laid down a newspaper ac-
count of the sale of a liongereau for
175,000.
Such sales,” he said, "remind me of
the conversation of old Gobsa Oolde
and his daughter Lotta. ‘Well, did yc
buy tliat picture?' said Lotta on her
father’s return from a gallery. ‘No.’
the old man answered. ‘Why not,
pop?' “Twan't dear enough.’"
When You
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White Lead,
[Get It
Probably there
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article of com-
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ed to so
muck
dub
te ra-
tion
and
mii-
repre-
irritation as
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Out of l8 brand* of “While Lead”
recently analyml by the Government
Agricultural Experiment Station of
North ll.tl.ota, 5 contained absolutely
no White Lead, 5 less than 15% of
White Lead, and only 3 over 91>4£ of
White Lead.
There is, however, a way to be cer-
tain of the purity and genuineness of
tiie White Lead you buy, and that ia
to see that the keg you buy bears the
Dutch Boy trade mark. This trade
mark is a positive guarantee of abso-
lutely Pure White Lead made
by the Okl Dutch
Process.
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Coy, Charles L. The Mountain Park Herald (Mountain Park, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, May 24, 1907, newspaper, May 24, 1907; Mountain Park, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc853755/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.