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WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 20
THE SHAWNEE NEWS-HERALD
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taking one small strand at a time. The effect is
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SPORTS
MACK IS SILENT.
Owner of the "White Elephants" See
Owner of Ub.-TrIt8,.U'H
Special to The News-Herald.
San Antonio, March 19.—Manager
Connie Mack of the Philadelphia
Athletics, the champions of the base-
ball world, now doing their Bering
training in San Antonio, daily con-
templates the practice contortions of
his squad at the local park. He
makes no sign, but never misses a
move.
"What's the answer in the Amer-
ican League race for 1912?" he was
asked. He replied:
"There is no answer—yet. There
are too many things and too many
good club6 entering into the prob-
lem. It is a hard matter to make
even' a good guess now. I said last
year if we won the 1911 champion-
ship wo ought to take that of 1912.
But I don't know. You see, there
are some other mighty fine clubs
out this season. The Bostonians are
dangerous and there are the De-
troit, New York and Cleveland clubs,
nny of which may head us off. Wo
will have to keep moving and it is
sure we need a better start than
that of last season."
der way. The schedule includes
eighteen games and is the stiffest
the red and white brigade has ever
tackled. Among the schools to be
met are Central State Normal, Okla-
homa Agricultural and Mechanicil
College, University of Missouri, Uni-
versity of Missouri, University of
Texas, Texas Christian University,
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical
College, Southwestern University of
Texas, and probably Arkansas and
Mississippi universities. — University
News.
Sooners Begin Baseball Practice.
Bennie Owen's Sooners began base-
ball practice last Tuesday after-
noon. A large squad answered the
call despite the fact that the day
was anything but ideal for the na-
tional sport. The indications are
that the Sooners will place in the
field one of the best college diamond
aggregations in the southwest this
Bpring. There are three to twelve
candidates for every position and
the coach will have a busy time
weeding out his material in- the few
weeks left before the season Is un-
ltaising Money For Team.
Guthrie, March 19.—An effort Is
being made in Guthrie to raise a
sufficient guarantee in money to in-
sure a franchise for this city in the
Oklahoma State League A commit-
tee of local baseball enthusiasts
were busy Monday making tho
rounds, attempting to collect enough
money to put the team on a sound
financial basis to carry it through
the entire season. Letters have been
received from several old time Guth-
rie favorites who are desirous to re-
turn.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the
firm existing as Drs. Wilson &
Gallaher, Shawnee, Oklahoma, has,
this the 9th day of March, 1912, dis-
solved all partnership. All those
knowing themselves to be indebted
to the above named firm can call and
settle with either party and take re-
ceipt for same.
Dr. Wilson retains the rooms for-
merly occupied by the firm. Dr. Gal-
laher has opened his offices in rooms
210 and 211, fourth floor Mammoth
building.
DR. H. H. WILSON.
12-lm DR. W. M. GALLAHER.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinlm*
Tablets. Druggists refund money if
It fails to cure. E. W. GROVl'S
signature is on «ach box. 25c.
Subscribe for the News-Herald.
$50.00 Down and $10.00
Per Month
Buys a neat 4 room residence, close in, on nice 50x140 corner lot;
only one block from Main street car line and paved street, gas
for cooking and heating, good well, garden, etc. Why continue to
pay rent when you have the opportunity like this to own a home?
This proposition is only open for a few days, so you had better let
us show this property to you today; tomorrow the chances are it
will be gone. Price $800
240 acre farm near Colorado Springs, Colo., to trade for land around
Shawnee.
240 acre farm, 32 miles east of Colorado Springs, Colorado, 15
miles south of Calhan, a station on the Rock Island railroad; 30
acres in cultivation, balance in prairie; all subject to cultivation
with exception of about 40 acres; boxed house 16x16, small bam,
good well, etc. A large portion of the tract is underlaid with coal.
Price $2,500
Lambard-Hart
KEALTY & INVESTMENT COMPANY.
(Incorporated.) f
TELE PHONE 341.
THE HELFLIN BILL
UNFAIR TO FARMERS
WOULD UNSETTLE AND REVOLU-
TIONIZE COTTON MARKET
COTTON MUST HAVE HEDGE
FACILITIES
Which Enable# the Farmer to Sell
His Product at a Better Price
Several Months In
Advance.
Oklahoma City, March 14.—Hon. N.
T. Blackwell, editor of the Cotton and
Cotton Oil News of Dallas, spoke here
today to the business men and farm-
ers on cotton, fertilization, the need
of cotton grading, schools, etc.
Mr. Blackwell said in part:
"I address you not as an editor and
writer, but as «. farmer, as I am a
farmer and landowner. I want to ad-
dress you briefly on issues of the most
vital importance to every man, woman
and child in the South dependent di-
rectly or Indirectly on the cotton
plant.
"The subject of fertilization is Just
beginning to seriously engage the at-
tention of our people. In Texas.
Oklahoma, and other sections of
the South, with rich virgin soil,
we are prone to overestimate the
lasting qualities of same. We per-
mit fortunes of fertilizer to go
to waste for the lack of energy and
a proper knowledge of the chemical
needs of our soils to apply same. Ev-
ery ton of cotton stalks burned robs
the soil of $9 in value in potash which
said stalks annually take from the
soil. We cannot go on and on rob-
bing the soil and never giving back
the chemical properties taken from
it to produce cotton without being dis-
appointed finally in the yield.
"I want to urge my hearers to take
as good care of cotton after it leaves
the gin as they do a 16c bale of hay.
Cotton left in the weather will con-
tract country damage and the short-
sighted farmer who leaves his cotton
exposed, invariably loses in weight, as
cotton once wet will lose when dried
out. Take care of your cotton, wrap
it up fully and neatly and avoid a row
with the buyer over country damage
and help make our American packages
reach their destination without look-
ing like the miserable shabby or-
phans they are when they reach the
other side.
"Another important question I wish
to discuss with you and urge you to
begin now is to ask your State Leg-
islatures to make provisions for the
establishment of cotton grading
schools in the high school of each
county seat of the entire South. It
Is inconceivable that only two per
cent of our cotton planters are able
to grade their cotton, and thereby ar-
rive at an intelligent appraisal of Its
value—the most valuable product of
our soil. These schools can be estab-
lished with slight cost and conducted
in the summer months when the
young men of the farms have leisure
time.
"The only way to get anything near
what the present or the next crop of |
cotton is worth is to hold a million
bales or two of this crop over into
next year's crop and reduce the acre-
age 25 per cent. A 14,000,000 bale
crop in 1912 will bring 6 cents per
pound. A 12,000,000 bale crop will
bring 12 cent* per pound. The only
thing that can prevent a good ad-
vance of say $5 to $10 per bale in
cotton, if held for a few months, Is
for the bill of Heflin, of Alabama,
seeking to abolish future dealing in
eotton to pass or even to be reported
favorably by the committee on agri-
culture. Either would break the
price of cotton $5 per bale at the
present time.
"On the question of cotton ex-
changes, the future trading feature or
the application of the hedge preroga-
tive to the spot deal, our people are
very poorly informed or rather mis-
informed. Ia fact when very few of
our ablest editors or statesmen have
given the matter any thought how can
we exect our farmers to know any
better when they depend upon the
first named men to enlighten them.
"The producer of cotton and a
large per cent of the public generally
have a hazy idea that every detail of
the cotton traffic, especially cotton fu-
tures. is one vast propaganda estab-
lished and maintained solely to de-
press the price of cotton and take it
away from the producer as cheaply as
possible.
"The cotton echanges, of which
there are but three in all the world
which make the price of either spots
or futures, are those of New Orleans,
New York and Liverpool.
"The New York and New Orleans
exchanges are the producers' ex-
changes, and the Liverpool exchange
is the consumer's exchange, and in my
humble opinion both the producer and
the consumer must have an exchange
to create a balanced market Alto-
gether the exchanges are clearing
houses for the world's cotton traffic.
Without them it would be absolutely
Impossible for anyone to arrive at any-
thing like a fair and equitable price
for cotton.
"The application of the future trade
or hedge prerogative to the spot deal
is what makes the cotton market and
makes of cotton a cash asset and sale-
able every day in the year at every
town and hamlet in the South. If the
market was deprived of this facility,
as both the Scott bill, which died in
the Senate the last session, and the
present Heflin bill would do, cotton
would at once become a commodity
like rice, sugar, tobacco, steel and oil,
and saleable only on demand. In
other words a farmer might drive to
town with his cotton, and the buyer,
unable to hedge his purchases by sell-
ing cotton against them, could only
buy when he had specific orders in
his pocket, and the farmer would
either have to haul it back home, or
leave it on consignment to be Bold on
an order from the mills. To pass a
national law to prevent deali \g in cot-
ton futures would so cripple the Am-
erican spot cotton markets that Liver-
pool would at once dominate the en-
tire cotton world and fix the price, be-
cause our cotton buyers would be
forced to transact all business on the
Liverpool Cotton Hchauge and thus
clothe that institution with all power,
which would be used to the disadvan-
tage of the producer and to the advan-
tage of the consumer, because Liver-
pool is the consumer's market, market.
The mills have a habit of getting "out
of the market" when the farmer haa
cotton for sale.
"When the mills thus seek to de-
press prices by limiting demand, the
future contract system may be in-
voked to sustain prices, and there ia
no other agency that can create a de
mand in such a contingency.
The autumns of 1909 and 1910 were
the first years in all the history of
cotton that the producer got a good
price for cotton, while he had cotton
to sell, and that because the Amer-
ican cotton exchanges enjoyed all
their normal functions, which would
be limited by such legislation as the
Heflin bill. The buyers of actual cot-
ton are now able to buy cotton in the
absence of specific orders by protect-
ing their trades by future hedges.
"An enterprising Texas firm in De-
cember, 1909, did this very thing,
paying from 14 to 15 cents per pound
for spot cotton, hedged by future
sales, and thereby helped to maintain
good prices for the farmers spot cot-
ton. Is not this irrefutable proof of
the value and the necessity of a future
system? It is the farmers' only de-
fense when the mills combine to keep
out of the market and refuse to buy
actual cotton. Is there any farmer
or politician so dull as not to com-
prehend this proposition?
"The terms of the anti-future bills
expressly forbid the purchase or sale
of cotton when the purchaser does not
intend to receive it, or the seller in-
tend to deliver it. The effect of such
drastic legislation would be to pre-
vent spot purchases secured by fu-
ture sales, and the mills would be in
complete control. Even a blind man
can see this.
"In all products not governed by ex-
changes, like cotton and grain, great
trusts have been organized and plun-
dered the people. See what the Fed-
eral Government has had to do to the
sugar, tobacco, steel, oil and other
trusts. I know that a corporation of
$1,000,000,000 was tentatively formed
to corner the cotton market had the
Scott bill passed.
"When the Scott bill came near
passing the Senate laat February It
broke the price of cotton $15 per bale
because it would have killed the
American bull, the only friend to the
cotton market, while it could not
reach the European bear, the enemy
of high priced cotton. Not only this,
but the bears secretely encouraged the
Introduction and passage of such legis-
lation, because it is always a blow
to cotton.
"I do not specially blame our Far-
mers' Union friends for supporting
anti-future bills, because it is always
represented to them as cotton gam-
bling, while the necessity of such a
system for the actual legitimate spot
traffic is never explained to them. I
make this appeal to the public at
large, as well as to my audience, be
cause I do not want to see our people
commit themselves to a policy that
will prove injurious to the best in-
terests of cotton but on the other hand
I want to ask ray hearers to at once
petition their Congressmen to oppose
all legislation that will afreet our cot-
ton markets adversely, while at the
same time conferring a corresponding
advantage on those markets to whom
we sell our cotton
"Let our people wake up and study
the legitimate business which must
suffer by laws aimed at speculation.
I do not at all attempt a defense of
speculators, but realize that our leg-
islators are playkig with fire when
they attempt legislation that may de-
feat the very ends they set out to at-
tain. Finally I submit that if such
a bill as the Heflin bill should be-
come law that it would:
"(1) Unsettle and completely revo-
lutionize cotton prices by making
Liverpool the ruling ootton market of
the world.
"(2) That by depressing cotton val-
ues a corresponding depression would
take place in all Southern values, es-
pecially land values.
"(3) That it would require ten
times the banking capital available at
the South to move the crop.
"(4) And, finally, that it would re-
sult in the centralization of the cot-
ton traffic of America to the great
disadvantage of the cotton producer."
Women do Well In Marathon
A woman's Marathon race took place
from Polegate to Eastbourns, Eng., the
other day. Out of 18 competitors 10
finished the full distance of about four
and a half miles and the winner led
by only a few inches.
SAY PRESIDENT TUFT
WAS SMOKED OUT
DIXON'S REPEATED ATTACKS
BROUGHT OUT ANSWER
ABOUT PRIMARIES.
Washington, March 20.—"Smoked
out." That is the expression heard
in Washington when reference is
made to President Taft's speech In
Boston in which he said that he wel-
comes popular expression of prefer-
ences for president. There is scarce-
ly anyone who gives the presideut
credit for making his statement vol-
untarily. The general opinion is that
it was forced from him by Senator
Dixon's dare to Ilepresentative McKin-
ley, manager of Taft's campaign, that
McKinley call upon his chief to as-
sist in getting nation wide primaries.
Then followed the whollop of Colonel
Roosevelt upholding r .ion in his at-
titude and making it practically im-
perative that the president himself
take up the dare.
Means Primaries in Many States?
The president's utterances have
given a wonderful impetus to the
Roosevelt followers. They say that
nothing now need stand in the way
of primary laws in Michigan, Mary-
land, Illinois, Maine and New York,
where the legislatures are in session.
Ohio, too, they contend, will naturally
come into the preference primary col-
umn. In that state the law is that
the state committee has the power to
call for a primary or convention. In
Ohio, as well as every other state, the
president's machine has opposed the
election of delegates by the people at
large. It now remains to be seen,
Blnce the chief has spoken his willing-
ness for primaries, whether the state
leaders will take that as an order or
merely shrug their shoulders and go
contrary.
Nearly everybody here says that the
Taft leaders everywhere, where It is
possible, must make every honest ef-
fort to get preferential primaries, or
place the president in a position of
being insincere in his BoBton speech
No one doubts that it is within Mr.
Taft's power to demand that the pri-
maries be ordered in the states where
his friends control the political organi-
zation. If he issues the order it will
be obeyed. In other words, it's up to
the president to have his Boston sen-
timents made good.
Worked Against It in Bay State.
President Taft's friends in Massa-
chusetts tried and nearly succeeded
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in preventing the passage of the pri-
mary law In that state. They have
defeated It in Michigan, are seeking
to defeat it In Maryland, are fighting
in the courts to prevent a primary in
the city of Chicago, and through con-
trol of state committees have prevent-
ed primaries in states where they
could have been satisfactorily and
safely arranged for. In the face of
this open record of bitter hostility to
every proposition which could give
the voters some power in the selectiou
of a candidate for the presidency,
President Taft is capable of making
such a speech as that in Boston. i
Aagainst the record of corrupt politi-
cal activity combined with corpora-1
tion Intimidation by which the pri-
mary movement has been checked by
the Taft supporters, a speech such as j
Taft made is not likely to persuade
anyone that he dares submit his can-
didacy to the action of the people
themselves. In a letter addressed to
McKinley, Dixon calls attention to
Taft's Boston utterances, and assum- j
ing them to be truthful, asks that the j
Taft supporters now aid in getting pri-
mary laws in Maryland and Michigan.'
In Maryland the legislature is in ses-
sion, and in Mich'gan Governor Osborn |
has called another extra session In
order that the primary question may
be again considered.
Will Taft Aid Cummins's Bill?
Senator Cummins has introduced a
bill in the senate to provide for a gen-
eral presidential primary throughout
the country, to be held in July. This
bill could be passed with the aid of
the administration and a primary
safeguarded by law could be estab-
lished promptly. Yet it will probably
be seen that the president will not
give effective aid to primary move-
ment In Michigan and Maryland and
will not ask congress to pass the
Cummins bill.
In the meantime it Is becoming more
and more apparent that the strength
of the Taft support is derived entire-
ly from the machine politicians, who
hope to force themselves into control
of public affairs In states where they
had been defeated.
rtead This.
This certifies that we Lave sold
Texas Wonder for a number of yean
and find it to be the beet Kidney,
Bladder and Rheumatic remedy we
have ever sol*1. We have as yet to
Lear the first complaint. Shawnee
Drug Co., Cor. Main and Broadway. •
to cure a cold in one day
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine
Tablets. Druggists refund money If
it falls to cure. E W. GROVl'8
signature is on each box. 25c.
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No more limping for Tom Moore
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on my Instep that nothing seemed
to help till I used Bucklin's Arnica
Salve," he writes, "but this wonder-
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old, running sores, ulcers, bolli,
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Try It. Only 26 cents at all drug-
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To Keep Nuts Fresh
If walnuts or any other kind of
nuts are packed in layers of sand
and kept in a cool place, they will
keep fresh for an indefinite period.
Soak them in warm water for an hour
before using if you would have then
peel as If they had just beem gath-
ered fresh from the tree.
Our Want Ads
Bring Results
No greater proof of this is needed than the
growth of this department. People are learning
that if they have a house to rent, chickens, eggs,
a sewing machine, piano, or anything else under
the sun to sell, that the way to let the people
know who may be wanting to buy these things,
is to
Put It In The Want Ad Columns
Or if it is the other way around and they want
to buy something, whatever it is, from a section
of land to a pair of pigeons, they tell the people
who have these things to sell. How? The
surest and quickest way of course, they
Tell It In The Want
Ad Columns
The people of Shawnee and vicinity are getting
the WANT AD HABIT, if you havn't it, GET
IN LINE for it is safe, sane, cheap, result-getting
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