Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 9, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 1, 1912 Page: 4 of 20
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OKLAHOMA FARMER, GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA.
September 1, 1912.
Oklahoma Farmer
Published Semi-Monthly at
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA.
ARTHUR CAPPER, Publisher.
M. L. CROWTHER, Editor and Manager.
T. A. McNeal, Associate Editor.
Editorial Contributors.
Prof. N. O. Booth Prof. H. A. Bittenbender
Prof. O. O. Churchill Miss Irma Mathews
Prof. W. A. LinklaterMiss Henrietta Kolshorn
Prof. Roy C. Potts A. Bollenbaeh
Prof. C. E. Sanborn Prof. C. K. Francis, Chemist
Prof. B. C. Pitturk Dr. L. L. Lewis
Alice L. Henderson, Roosevelt, Okla.
James A. Wilson
Director Experiment Station 4. & M. College.
John W. Wilkinson
Supervisor Agricultu al Clubs, A. & M. College.
Department Editors.
Farm Fables, Tom McNeal.
Oklahoma Farm Notes, A. Bollenbaeh.
Farm Question, James A. Wilson
The Farm Home, Mrs. Alice L. Henderson.
Veterinary Advice, Dr. L. L. Lewis.
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vertisement In Oklahoma Farmer."
SEPTEMBER 1, 1912
THE OREGON PLAN ADOPTED. '
The constitutional amendment, adopting the
Oregon plan of electing United States Senators,
carried In the recent state election by more than
50,000 over the required constitutional majority.
This speaks pretty well for Oklahoma.
Plans are now being perfected to put the new
plan into effect at the general election this fall.
Every party nominee for the legislature and every
other other candidate who files nomination papers
Is required to file with the secretary of the state
election board one of two statements, the first
pledging himself to cany out the will of the peo-
ple In regard to the election of a United States
senator, and the other declaring thai he regards 't
ar, nothing more than a recommendation, whicn he
is at liberty to disregard if he sees best. Says
the Oklahoma City Times:
■Don W. Riley, secretary of the state elec-
tion board, probably will prepare forms
for these statements, following the lang-
uage of the initiated measure, and send
them out to the party nominees, so that
all of them may have opportunity to de-
clare themselves.
Statement No. 1 reads: "I am a can-
didate for election to the Oklahoma legisla-
ture and I pledge to the voters of my dis-
trict and to the people of the state of Okla-
homa that if I am elected I will during my
term of office, curry out the will of the peo-
ple of Oklahoma concerning the election
of a senator in congress to represent them "
Where a candidate files this statement,
there shall be printed on the general elec-
tion ballot opposite or just below his name.
"Pledged to vote for people's choice for
United States senator."
Statement No. 2 reads: "I am a candi-
date for election to the legislature and I
hereby declare to the voters in my district
and to the people of the state of Oklahoma
that if I am e'ected I will, during my term
of office .consider the vote of the people
of Oklahoma no more than a recommenda-
tion which I shall be at liberty to wholly
disregard if the reason for doing so seems
to be sufficient."
Where this statement is returned, there
is to be printed opposite the candidate's
name on the general election ballot
"Refuses to pledge to vote for people's
choice for United States senator."
The same comment is to be made in
case a candidate refuses to sign either
of the statements. No time limit is fixea
within which these statements must be
filed, but it is assumed that if they are not
in by the time when the secretary of the
state election board has the official bal-
lot ready for the printer, the candidates in-
tend to ignore the statements.
The names of the party nominees for
United States senator are to appear on the
official ballot, and each voter is given an
opportunity to declare his first and second
choice.
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A PERMIT TO BREAK THE LAW.
According to the Oklahoman there are 165 boot-
leggers in Oklahoma City. At least, that many
government licenses have been issued to Oklahoma
City. The Oklahoman also suggests that the New
State brewery be opened up again to give employ-
ment to the laboring men now out of work and
prevent the shipment of so much booze Into Okla-
homa City. The paper says the brewery would not
be molested as the officers do not Interfer with the
bootleggers who are plying their trade now in
Oklahoma City.
Just another instance of the United States gov-
ernment giving a man a permit to conduct a busi-
ness in a state where that business is prohibited
by law. But the government is quick to prosecute
any man who does not have that permit and who
attempts to dispense fire water without it. After
all, the U. S. plays a mighty important part in the
making of the crop of drunkards, home-wreckers
and murderers which is annually turned out by
the cities of the country
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WHiTt WASH IS tXPtNSlVfc, ANYWAY,
Three red headlines in a recent Issue of the
Tulsa Dally World: Senator Penrose Replies to
the Charges of His Accusers; Flinn Answers
Penrose, and Roosevelt Calls Penrose a Liar
Pretty prominent man, this man Penrose, don't
you think? But its hardly the sort of prominence
the average man is seeking.
In this recent rumpus as to the size of the
Standard Oil's contribution to the Republican
campaign fund of 1904, in which the veracity of
the Colonel has been questioned, we are inclined
to lean a little towards the Colonel. As between
Archbald, the Standard Oil Attorney, Penrose, a
senate go-between, and Bill Flinn, Pennsylvania
boss, we are inclined to give the Colonel the bene-
fit of the doubt.
What's the use, anyway, of another expensive
congressional investigation of what happened in an
election eight years ago? Nine out of ten of these
investigations come to naught. Why make the
country as a whole stand the burden of expense
piled up by one of these special investigating com-
mittees from Congress just to give a few politi-
cians an opportunity to "fight back" at some of
(their old-time enemies. Besides, white-wash is
expensive.
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PROPERTY INTEREST IN GOVERNMENT,
Barber, the match man, is quoted as saying that
the solution of the transportation problem in this
country Is to let the people own the railroads. He
would have the government take the railroads at
what they are actually worth and issue bonds to
pay for them.
The bonds would be issued in small denomina-
tions from $50 to a thousand dollars bearing 3
per cent interest and non-taxable and a limitation
set to the amount of bonds that would be sold to
any one person, no single individual being permitted
to buy more than $5,000 worth of the bonds. In
the same manner bonds would be sold where neces-
sary to build and equip new lines of road.
At present new lines of road are nearly impos-
sible unless the Morgan interest agrees that they
may be built. A new line of road finds it nearly
impossible to secure money either at home or
abroad and If money is secured at all it is by sell-
ing the securities of the line at a terrific dis-
count that places on the road an almost unbear-
able burden of debt if it ever Is completed.
With the government behind the bonds however,
the money would be forthcoming and there would
be no ocasion to sell them at a discount. That
it would tend to increase patriotism there is no
doubt. The individual who has a government bond
in his pocket or laid away in the box where he
keeps his most valued possessions isn't likely to
get on the rampage and want to destroy the gov-
ernment. It isn't human nature for a man to
want to destroy his own property.
One of the great troubles with Mexico today
is that the masses of the people are ground down
in poverty. The government means nothing to
them. They are just as well off when mixed up
with a revolution as they are in time of peace,
the difference being that they have more fun and
excitement when there is a revolution.
The more people there are among the working
masses of this country who can feel that they
have a direct property interest in the government
the better it will be for the government. If the
scheme suggested by Barber were put into opera-
tion the savings of the working people would go
into these small bonds instead of into savings
banks. The popular hostility against railroads
would cease for the railroads would belong to the
people themselves.
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AN ENORMOUS ANNUAL LOSS.
We recently made a trip into the country around
Guthrie, through what is called the Elberta dis-
trict. This was since the harvesting of the peach
crop. We were told that in one orchard which we
visited thousands of peaches were left on the trees
too ripe to market. And the peaches were there to
bear out the statement. A man who had made a
close insuection of the orchard told us there were
nearly ten thousand bushels of peaches left to rot
in that one orchard. And the same condition ex-
isted in nearly every orchard in the county.
The owner of the orchard in which the ten
thousand bushels were left to spoil had an immense
force of pickers and packers at work day and night
and he shipped a good many car loads of peaches,
but those that were left on the trees represented his
profit on the orchard. Surely in fruit growing dis-
tricts, like in the Grand Junction district in Colo-
rado and in California and other western states,
they do not allow such a wastfi.
Through the means of the state association and
local associations the fruit growers of these sec
tions have perfected plans for disposing of every
last bit of fruit. It appears to us that Oklahoma
Is sadly in need of a central selling agency or a
state Fruit Growers Association. And there Is no
better time than right now to form such an organ
ization, Who'll be the first to make a move in this
matter? Oklahoma Farmer will lend all assistance
possible. Anything to stop this enormous loss of
money through fruit left on the trees to rot
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MAKE THEM PAY.
There was a splendid cartoon in the Topeka
State Journal recently with this caption: Is this
the flag that is to fly over the Panama canal?
And the flag was half British and half American.
It does seem rather queer that the United States
should put millions into a job that other countries
gave up and then when the work is completed be
confronted with the request from England
that her ships be allowed to use the canal without
cost. We've considerable English blood In our
veins, but we are dead opposed to giving British
ships an annual pass, good for continuous pas-
sage through the Panama canal.
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COME AND GET BETTER ACQUAINTED.
Oklahoma Farmer will keep open house at the
Oklahoma State Fair, Oklahoma City, Sept. 24 to
Oct. 5, and we hope that none of our readers will
visit the fair without paying our headquarters a
call. We expect to have a good sized tent erected
at a convenient spot on the fair grounds and there
will be plenty of chairs, lots of ice water and a
general welcome for every one. Don't forget this
when you are at the fair.
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What do you think of that Kan=as farmer who
went away to Colorado for his health, leaving his
wife alone on the farm with six or seven children
and another babe expected any day? Not a sole
was near to help that poor woman or lend en-
couragement at a time in her life when succor
would have been a God-send. She died alone and
deserted, but the babe lived. And the father was in
Colorado for his health.
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A sign tacked to a basket of peaches in the dis-
play window of a local store reads: Some peaches
from Smith's fruit orchard. The merchant prob-
ably thought someone would think the peaches
came from a vegetable orchard.
V
IMPROVEMENT IS APPRECIATED.
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Mr. Editor: Since the changing of hands
of the Ok'ahoma Farmer we have often felt
that we would like to express our apprecia-
tion of such a paper in Oklahoma. Being
a reader of the Farmers Mail and Breeze
and Missouri Ruralist we feel sure that you
and Mr. Capper will make the Oklahoma
Farmer be to Oklahoma farmers what the
Breeze and Ruralist are to the other two
states. Being a breeder of pure bred stock
!we certainly appreciate a farm paper in
Oklahoma that takes an interest in pure
bred stock. M. A. Watkins.
Bermuda Lawn Stock Farm, Enid, Okla.
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