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POLITICAL MS
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INTEREST
Collected and Compiled by The
Democratic
Press Bureau
Lee Hotel, Oklahoma City
THE CONSTITUTION AND
THE SCHOOLS
Ar. Extremely Liberal Provision For
Educational Purposes—More than
One-half the Total Tax Levy
Authorized for Mainte-
nance of Publio Schools
Thu constitutional of the propo.od
stale of Oklahoma makes ample pro-
vision for the support and mainte-
nance of the common schools.
13 accordance with section nine of
article ten of the constitution, the
total taxes on an advalorcm or prop-
erty valuation basis for all purposes
is as follows:
State levy not more than .1% mills.
County levy, Including two mills for
county high schools and aid of the
oommon schools of tlio county, So
mills.
Township levy for general purposes,
not more than 5 mills.
City or town levy, not more than
10 mills.
Kediool district levy, when authoris-
ed by a majority of tho voters at a
school district election an additional
14 mills.
School district levy, ns a matter of
law. not more Ilian 5 mills.
Total. 43*4 mills.
The foregoing Is more proporely
subdivided as follows, to-wit:
a. Mandatory for School Purposes,
county high schools and common
schools, 2 mills.
School dlslrlot levy, as n matter of
law, not more than 5 mills.
School district levy, when author-
ized at any school district eluatlou,
not more than 10 mills.
Total, 17 mills.
b- For General or Other Lawful
Purposes.
State levy, not moro than 316 mills.
County levy, not more than 8 mills.
City or town levy, not moro than 10
mills.
Township levy, not moro than 0
mills.
Total, 20% mills.
So the total tax rate for all pur-
poses In Incorporated towns and
cities under this constitution Is 43M>
mills, or $4.35 on every one hundred
further find by calculating that In In-
corporated towns and cities that 17
out of tho 43H mills that may he
levied lit the way of taxation is to be
applied to education, that Is 39.87 of
nil the taxes that may bo levied by
law la towns and cities.
In addition to the foregoing liberal
provision for education and the main-
tenance and support of the common
schools there is the interest and in-
come (o be derived front the per-
manent school fund consisting of
live million dollars appropriated by
congress and the school lands of the
state, which lands are estimated to
be worth at least twenty-five million
dollars. Under the provision of the
constitution (see sections 2, 3, 4 and
G, article 11) this school fund shall
never be decreased, that is the fund
derived from the money appropriated
So you will ooserve that 6 2-3 coins
under the truo valuation basts as Is
provided for in the constitution is
equivalent to twenty mills under the
existing conditions in Oklahoma ter-
ritory today, on tho same basis that
$1.65 on every one hundred dollars
valuation provided for In our consti-
tution would bo equal to $1.95 on
every one hundred dollars valuation
under tho existing conditions in the
territory of Oklahoma today. And
the $2.65 lax on every one hundred
dollars valuation 1hat might ho levied
and collected In towns and cities
under under our constitution would
bo equivalent tu $7.96 cn every one
hundred dollars valuation under the
existing conditions in the territory ot
Oklahoma today.
But the critical man, the man that
doesn’t want to be convinced, the man
with a special Interest, the pian at
the pie counter, may be skeptical and
say that he cannot have property
assessed at its true valuation. That
statement is tantamount to the dec-
laration that no government can en-
force law; that the people through
government are powerless to enforce
I SIMPLE REMEBT
ONE OF THE WAYS TO CURTAIL
OPERATIONS OF TRUSTS.
HOME PATRONAGE PRINCIPLES
Systems That Oppose the Advance-
ment of Rural Towns and Agri-
cultural Communities.
by congress and from the sale of
school lands, but may be added there-1 tow and restrain crime and prevent
to, so the Intoresl derived from the | wrong. When we have Incorporated
moneys constituting this fund and a provision to the effect that the as-
rontals that may bo derived from
the land prior to the time that H may
bo sold may be used for the mainte-
nance and support of the common
schools of tho state.
We call special attention to the
faot that, excluding the taxes for edu-
cation and school purposes that may-
be levied in districts outside of the
sessor shall be guilty of a crime
when he wilfully neglects to perform
his duty In tho assessment of valua-
tions all- it needs is proper state of-
ficers to see that those laws are en-
forced, and If the people of this state
will entrust a democratic administra-
tion to enforce these laws Just as
they entrusted the democrats to
jurisdiction and limits of incorporat-1,rame the constitution, they will find
ed towns and cities, that there is leftj that the democrats will enforce and
only $165 on every- one hundred dol-! oxocute the laws with the same fidel-
lars of taxable valuation for the sup-j By with which they framed this con-
port and maintenance of the state and ] stitutloo.
county government, and thut In the NOTH.—By reference to page 26 of
Incorporated cities and towns there j the report of the governor of Okla-
belng an additional ten mills per- |homa to the secretary of the interior
mitted to bn levied, that $2.6-5 on
every one hundred dollars’ worth of
taxable valuation is left utslde of
the tax levied for school purposes for
for the year ending June 30th, 1906,
you find the following: "As hereto-
fore, property is assessed much be-
low its actual value. The values
the support of the state, county and fixed by the assessors are not one-
municipal government. sixth, and in many instances ono-
N'ow, soma persons may be exercis- eighth, of the true value, while inon-
lng the right of a special privilege
under the territorial government, or
may be drawing n salary as an ap-
pointive officer, or may have a special
privilege tinder the past existing con-
ditions, may seek to raise the ques-
tion that this Is not sufficient taxes
ey, stocks and bends are frequently
not given In at all
"farm lands have been assessed at
an average of $3.19 per acre, horses
at $16.96 per head, mules and asses at
$23.07 per head, cattle $5.X9 per head,
sheep at $1.10 per head, and swine at
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dollars taxable valuation. Iu tho I permitted to he levied In order to
country, and in all territory, outside support and maintain state, county
of Incorporated towns and cities, the and municipal government. At the
rale would be ten mills less, as a ten present time in Oklahoma not more
mill tax Is provided for Incorporated than twenty mills are permitted to he
towns and cities. Therefore the rate levied for the support of the schools.
In the country, outside of Incorporat- It is a fact that the assessment val-
od towns and cities, is 331, mills, or nation In Oklahoma on an average
$3.36 on every one hundred dollars does not exceed 33 1-3 ot the actual
taxable valuation. | value, and so tho twenty mills taxes
[ XOU will observe that two mills of, under the existing conditions In Ok-
tiie county tax may be applied toward lahoma are equal to only 6 2-3 mills
education, one mill of which may l>e ou an assessment basis where the
applied toward the mantenance of j property shall be taxed at its fair
a high school in -the county. The cash value estimated at the price it
other mill, whan levied, must be ap-
plied towards the common schools.
And further, that as a matter ot law,
rive mills may he levied In each
schexi district towards the mainte-
nance and support of common schools,
and, by a majority vote authorizing
same ten mills in addition to the fore
would bring at a voluntary sale, as
Is required under the constitution.
Section 8, article 10 of the consti-
tution provides that alt property
which may he taxed on the valuation
basis shall he assessed at its fair
cash value estimated at tho price It
going may be levied In each school 1,1 fair voluntary sale.
district for the support and mainte-
nance of the common schools.
By calculating you will find that In
and any officer or other person an
thorixed lo assess values for taxation
who shall commit any w-ilful error in
the country districts outside of the the performance of his duty, shall he
incorporated towns and cities 60.57 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
of the taxes levied under this conati upon conviction thereof shall forfeit
tution are applied to the mainte his office and be otherwise punished
as provided by law.
nance and suiu*ort of schools Y. u will
$1.84 per head. Tho total value of
$96,625,604. as fixed by the assessor*
and equalized by the board, does not
exceed 16 2-3 per cent or the true
value of all property subject to taxa-
tion. The actual value is fully $579,-
763,624."
The actual value of the assessable
property in botn territories after dis-
counting the governor's report
twenty-five- per cent, at least $750,-
000. A 17 mills school tax ou that
amount will raise aunually $1$2,760-
000.00. There are In Oklahoma Ter
rltory, according m the last sohool
census, 211,000 children of school
aga, and in both territorioa there are
not exceeding 422,000 children of
school age. Therefore, this 17 mill
■evhool 1ax would realize a fraction
over $30.00 for each child of school
age in the proposed a hue. not Includ-
ing the revenue derived from the
$5,400,000 school fund appropriated
by Congress and the school lands.
Remember that a vole for the dem-
ocratic ticket is a vote for statehood
and organized solf-government.
No man will vote for the democrat-
ic ticket and against the constitution.
THE DEMOCRATIC THEN—
"The anti-pass sentiment is not or
Iginal with this generation. In the
archives of the Pennsylvania railroad
1* a letter dated March 24, 1859. from
President James Buchanan of
United States, In which he returned a
free ticket in the Northern Central,
politely acknowledging tho courtesy,
and saying that he was opposed to
tratellng free on railroads; also op-
posad to granting Buoh favors to those
not connected with rallrwd* .”
Times have certainly changed
| democratic president thought
THE REPUBLICAN NOW— |
By tho provisions of the railroad
rate bill passed by the last congress
and the ruling ot the interstate com-iwron* forth-elght > <n. i for a
morce commission, the issuance of a' public official to accept a free pass
— railroad pass, even to the editor In although there was no law against It,
the! exchange for advertising, is made a; but the Satellites of the great re-
finable offense. And yet the voters of; publican reformer are permitted to
these two territories are treated to'set aside tho laws of the great land
the spectacle of a high cabinet mlu and parade around the territory ia
ister and a governor, appointed by special train* i > a regal style that
the great "trust buster", traveling tuakaa the pomp and aplendor of tha
ovar the new state ou a guttural mis-, Oriental potaaute vlaltlng a cu»-
aloa in hriurioualy sp.-mal trains \ queued prortaae look bk* a >h4-
rumtataad Co* by railroad offlatat*. ,nua*
Never before have the people of the
country been so awakened to the im-
portance of home protection as they
are at present. The wide knowledge
spread by means of the public press
as to the operations of tile great trusts
and how the masses are made to serve
the more favored classes Is having its
effect. The residents of agricultural
communities are beginning to realize
tile dangers of business concentration
In sections of the country dominated
by tho capitalistic classes. They are
fast becoming aroused to the truth
that this concentration is a menace to
the prosperity of the nation, and di-
rectly affects every producer, every
laborer and every citizen of the coun-
try who depends upon his work for
support.
The building up of great trusts com-
menced less than a score of years ago.
At the same time there were other
systems inaugurated that tended to-
wards robbing the home towns of
business and concentrating this busi-
ness In the large cities. One of these
systems, most notable in Its injurious
operations and Its force to draw
wealth from communities where It is
produced, Is the mail-order system of
business. None will say that this sys-
tem is illegitimate, but no economist
can show wherein Its principles are
sound. By the system communities
are Impoverished and kept from pro-
gressing. He who will give study to
tho basis of country development will
see that it is the labor employed that
not alone enhances the value of the
farm lands, but builds up the towns.
When there is little to employ this la-
I bor, tho result is depression, stagna-
j tion and non-progress. The great evil
I of the mail-order system which has
grown up, is its taking away the
means that small towns have of em-
! ploying labor, and the drawing from
each community tho profits in com-
mercial transactions that represents
the wealth that is procured. It Is
sophistry to claim that the resident of
a community who sends his money to
a foreigh town and saves the ten per
cent, that may represent the home
merchant's profits, is not a factor in
Impoverishing the community. While
the saving may remain In the com-
munity tho employment of labor essen-
tial to every business is given to the
foreign place, and the home town is
robbed of this employment giving
power.
Every dollar that is sent away from
a community where it is produced
either by the tilling of the soil, by the
growing of live stock, by the work of
the day laborer, or by the storekeeper,
impoverishes the community to that
extent, and this dollar ceases to be
any factor in the advancement of the
community. Presuming that there are
iu a community 2,000 people, suppose
that each one of these 2,000 people
send away to some foreign place $50
per year. This in the aggregate is
$100,000 per year that goes to the sup-
port of a foreign town. Suppose that
each one sending his money away
saves ten per cent.; the savings for a
year would be $5, and In ten years $50.
Look at the other side—$100,000 busi-
ness per year would support in the
home town five good stores. Each one
of these stores would give employ-
ment to a number of hands. The small
percentage of profit that would be
made would be retained in the com-
munity and be invested In new enter-
prises. Y'ear after year there would
! be a continual Increase in the pros-
; perity of the town, and the building
l up process would add to the value of
I all the town property, and to the
farms w ithin the trading radius of the
town. While by sending away the
farmer would In ten years' time save
but $50. whereas by patronizing the
home town the profits that would
come to him in substantial Increase
in real estate values would be ten
times this amount. The building up
of the town would improve the home
market, affording every producer on
the farms better prices for all his pro-
duce.
Then there Is another thing, the
town supports the churches, the
schools and other public Institutions.
The efficiency of these institutions are
dependent upon the life and activity
of tho town. Where poor towns exist,
the schools do not receive the support
that is necessary to make them good,
neither are the churches of the high
standard they should be. Home pat-
ronage means good schools, good
churches and all conveniences that
add to the pleasure and enlightenment
of a people.
All tho residents of a community-
have common Interests In it—the
banker, the lawyer, the doctor, the
merchant, the farmer, the day laborer
—all have equal interests. Thus we
find that a community is in reality a
large cooperative assembly. What is
i of Interest to one is of material inter-
| est to the other. But more Important
than all is that by a practice of the
home patronage principle the possibill-
ties of building up trusts for the con-
trol of Industries of the country are
reduced to the minimum; In fact, n
strict adherence to this simple princi-
ple of building up and protecting homo
industries precludes the building up
| of harmful frosts end combinations.
SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.
Two Vital Things for the Welfare of
the Masses.
There is wisdom In the old slogan.
“A school on every bill top and a
church in every valley.” Citizens of
the United States may well feel proud
of the great educational system which
makes it possible for all classes to ac-
quire the jiropcr mental cultivation.
They may also feel proud of the re-
ligious liberty that each and every
citizen enjoys. There is no estab-
lished church to interfere- with the
free exercise of conscience, neither is
there any law that interferes with the
exercise of religious belief.
The United States can be looked
upon as a nation where schools and
churches flourish to the fullest. The
public school system is one of the
most perfect that civilization has yet
evolved. Of course there are com-
munities where local conditions are
not so favorable for schools as other
places. It will be observed that the
more important is the city or the
town, the more advanced are the edu-
cational facilities offered tho people,
llie residents of rural communities
have their state or district school, the
curriculums of which are restricted.
It is to the nearby town that the chil-
dren who are residents of the farm
districts must look for their higher
education, which is a necessary prep-
aration for entry into college, and for
business life. How important it is,
then, to the resident of the farm dis-
trict that his home town be an active
place and of sufficient business im-
portance to justify the maintenance of
a high class school! It can be seen
how each resident of a farming com-
munity should be interested in the
home town and all that pertains to its
upbuilding. If on no other account,
purely on account of the educational
facilities.
Kunning parallel in Importance with
the schools are the churches. The
better tho home town the better are
the church buildings, and the greater
is the talent that fills the pulpit. Both
schools and churches have education-
al qualities that should not be lightly
valued. They mean the highest men-
tal and moral development, and upon
this development depends the good
citizenship and the advancement and
perpetuation of the nation.
OVERLOOKED OPPORTUNITIES.
THEN TRAMPS LONG DISTANCE
TO REJOIN HUSBAND.
Pretty "Broncho Buster” After Being
Arrested for Masquerading at Last
Reaches Better Half In
Western City.
U XL CARR.
Chances in Average Small Town for
Profitably Engaging in Business.
According to the United States cen-
sus of 1900 there was produced in the
United States 1,293,662,433 dozen eggs.
The same statistics give the annual
production of poultry at 250,623,114.
The butter made on farms each year
is in excess of 1,000,000,000 pounds.
The cheese made on farms averages
about 20,000.000 pounds annually.
These statistics are interesting, and
with each farmer growing poultry and
eggs and making butter and cheese, t(
hardly seems possible that such com-
binations as dairy trusts and egg and
poultry trusts could exist, but that
they do is nevertheless a fact.
Every small town in a farming dis-
trict can command sufficient butter,
egg and poultry trade to support a
prosperous exclusive produce estab-
lishment. The practice has generally
obtained in agricultural districts of
storekeepers in various lines taking
farmers’ produce in exchange for
goods. The produce thus received by
merchants is forwarded to the com-
mission houses In the large city, and
these houses are factors that make it
possible to maintain trusts In the pro-
duce business. It appears that If each
town had its exclusive produce estab-
lishment to buy what the farmer has
to sell instead of the produce going
through the local stores, that better
prices could be paid the farmers and
the business made a most profitable
one If rightly conducted.
According to the natural laws of
business industry succeeds best where
advantages are most abundant. Thus
It seems that the l)roduoe offers a
most excellent field in the majority of
agricultural towns.
GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT.
Millions of Dollars Annually Saved to
the Farmers of the United States.
One of the most important move-
ments that has been Inaugurated of
recent years, and which has resulted
in wonderful benefit to the people is
the good roads movement. Within the
United States there are approximately
about S.000.000 farmers. If during a
year each of those farmers can he
saved $10 in time, or in wear and tear
upon horses and wagons by means of
Improved roads, it means n saving ol
$80,000,000 annually; but the truth Is
that the improved roads that havo
been built up the past half dozen years
through agitation of the good roads
movement saves earh farmer iu the
land from $50 to $100. Thus it can bo
seen that iho savings brought about
through this movement aggregate hun
drods of millions of dollars each year.
Good roads are important to the
progressive town. This fact has be
come so recognized that wherever
there exisls a live agricultural town
its citizens will be found to bo staunch
advocates of road improvement, and
there is a civic pride and friendly com
petition in the matter of having good
roads leading to the towns. The work
of road improvement has only fulrly
begun. A number of state legislatures
have taken up the work and during
the next dozen years great changes
will be wrought ns to the building and
maintenance of public highways.
Spokane, Wash.—After having
tramped more than 1,000 miles attired
in a man's garments, arrested at Walla
Walla, south of here, and detained in
jail two weeks on a technical charge
of masquerading, Mrs. George Earl,
who was Nora Clay, daughter of a
former cattle grower near Ft. Worth,
Tex., has joined her husband in
Spokane after a separation of six
weeks.
They eloped three years ago, be-
cause the bride's father threatened to
place her In a convent. She was then
16 years of age, and had a reputation
throughout the panhandle as a "bron-
cho buster.” Mrs. Earl is of medium
height, slender and comely, a typical
Texan, and speaks with an air of re-
finement. George Earl has found em-
ployment in a local hotel, where Mrs.
Joseph A. White has given the girl-
wife a home. This is her story:
"I was raised on the plains of Texas
and started to ride bronchos when four
; cars of age. When I was 10 I started
busting mustangs and Indian ponies.
Papa sold his ranch later and started
a wiki west show. I did trick riding
and broncho busting. It was easy, as
1 had roped and branded cattle on the
Texas ranges.
"While with the show I met George
and we fell in love. My parents ob-
jected to our marriage because they
said I was too young. I was 16. Then
George and I ran away, because papa
threatened to put me in a convent. 1
was to be taken to Lott from El Paso
ou the 6:35 o’clock, evening train and
George and X left for Waco an hour
earlier.
“We went around the country, final-
ly going to Oregon.
“George failed to get work and
started for Walla Walla. I did not
hear from him for several days, and
my funds gave out. Determined to
reach him, I decided to don a suit of
his clothing and beat my way to Walla
Walla. Reaching there, I heard he had
gone to Spokane, and started out to
tramp it to this city. When I reached
Starbuck I got a report that he was
at Walla Walla, and turned hack.
"I tramped all the way from Star-
back back to Walla Walla on the rail-
road track, not having a bite to eat
from Sunday morning to Monday
night. I was arrested by tho consta-
ble at Walla Walla, who noticed that
I wore women's shoes, and suspected
that I was masquerading.
“I told the police of Walla Walla
that I was stranded, and was deter-
mined to reach my husband and real-
ized that the adoption of a disguise
was the only means whereby I could
carry the scheme through. I was
turned over to the Salvation army,
where I was treated nicely, and re-
ceived transportation to Spokane, after
George had written to me where he
was. We expect to stay In Spokane,
as we have found good friends who
will assist us in making a home.”
Gave Much Work to Women.
Tho invention of the typewriter has
given work to more than 1,000,000
TWITS BRIDE-ELECT; SPURNED.
Pennsylvania Swain Makes Fatal Mis-
take at Clerk’s Desk.
Philadelphia.—Because her fiance
twitted her about her age, Miss Emma
Perth, of Reading, broke off her en-
gagement with Harry Bissell, of the
same city at the marriage license bu-
reau in the city hall this morning.
Miss Perth indignantly told Bissell
that he talked too much for her, and
that he could go and find some other
girl to marry.
All went well until Clerk Smith be-
gan to ask the customary questions.
Bissell stated that he was 24 years old.
while the bride-to-be admitted 29 sum-
mers.
“She doesn’t look her age, though,"
said Bissell.
“You needn't apologize for me." said
the prospective bride. "I am old
enough to know my own mind.”
"You bet you are.” replied Bissell.
"I consider that an insult," said Miss
Perth. "You talk too much. Now I
will never marry you. No man who
makes remarks about his wife's age
will ma'kti a good husband. Good-by.”
Hogs to Eat Omaha Gariaage.
St. Louis.—It was learned the other
day that 1,000 head of hogs bought
recently by Thomas McPherson from
the Immense herd of porkers on Ches-
ley Island, in tho Mississippi river be-
low the city, where the St. Louis gar-
bage is consumed by the swine, were
destined to feed on tho garbage of
Omaha. The municipal contractors
had round that the high bred Poland
Chinas and Berkshires from Iowa
wouldn't ent the daily dumpings of
tilth from Omaha. The Omaha con-
tractor paid a good price for the St.
I.ouIh swine with undlscrlmlnntiug
taste.
Only One Deaf Mute Pupil.
Columbus, O.—Miss Delia D. Rice,
of Columbus, who was sent to Matfla
hy Iho 1 nlted Slates government
three months ago to leach tho 97 deaf
mute Filipino children, reported by
the census, writes that a mistake was
made- hy the census takers and only
one such pupil has been found She
is under rontract to remain three
yearn at $1,000 a year, and will re-
main to teach this one pupil.
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