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WEDNESDAY MORNING —MUSKOGEE DAILY PHOENIX
SEPTEMBER SIXTH
fRitakitgw {Ufamix
AND W K K K 1, Y
Weekly, 1884. Entablliihcd Daily, 1901.
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MUSKOGEE WEEKLY PHOENIX.
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Campbell Russell will star the
trouble at Oklahoma City next Mon-
day.
The question of the hour In Shaw-
nee: "What shall the price of cot-
ton be?"
r
*'
Chief Blake does well to begin at
the worst place in his effort to clean
up the town.
That anguished cry of "Let go of
my toe" is all that there is left of the
Russian lion in the history of Amer-
ican sports.
The Peoples Power League Is pre-
paring to put the rollers under the
agricultural department of the state
government.
If any uninformed American thinks
the Kaiser is monarch of all he sur-
veys he should read a few lines from
the constitution of the German em-
pire.
small fry get punished. But when
there comes a big fish, a packer who
wants to sell putrid canned stuff, a
man who uses something like ben-
zoate of soda and desires that it be
declared innocuous, something must
be done. It Is then that the McCabes
come In handy. They have no scru-
ples and are not nice about their
methods. Dr. Wiley Is all right. The
people have taken care that he does
not lose his position. But what about
McCabe? It Is a crime for him
remain In his place another day.
the course of human progress. A tlnuous activity In the military and!
movement of jWodlglous proportions' naval departments of both govern-
Is now under way in the south In
which an Influx of whites from other
portions of the country is accom-
ments, the negotiations between the
diplomat)) over the situation In Mo-
rocco continue to drag their slow
RACK
More
panled by something like an exodus j length to what seems at times an in-
of negroes. This Is one of the revela-1 determinate conclusion.
tiong of the late census. For a num- All the world Is wondering M they
ber of years negroes have been i will fight. Meantime the German
crowding into the southern towns I emperor is being criticized, harassed
cities and from there have found I almost to the pwlnt of Insult, by the
their way to other parts of the coun- j German Jingo press because he has
try. Oklahoma has been receiving a' not forced France to yield promptly
large number of them. Driven out
here they do not seem to think of re-
turning to their old homes In the
south but take the trains for the
TROUBLES IX AMERICA.
efficient police protection
must take the place of orders given Inorth. There they will again wan-
to tho hluck race to leave Oklahoma . der In search of employment in corn-
towns en masse. Many of them arc- munitles where the struggle for
useful to the communities In which existence Is something more flercelhow, en a certain ocasion not many
they live and It will be difficult tojUiau -.lythlng they have ever seen years ago, In a crisis In South Amer-
to all the demands whJch have been
made upon her, in view of Germany's |
commanding position in European
politics and the cherished belief In
her military superiority over her
rival for empire in Africa.
Reading Americans will remember |
dispense with their services without
almost irreparable loss.
However, the trouble caused by
lawless members of the race has be-
come acute In this state, as is pe-
riodically the case where large num-
bers of Idle blacks congregate. Mis-
chief inevitably results from their
presence, eventually bringing dan-
gerous disturbances of social order.
White pecple cannot be expected t<r
xcuse or palliate the hideous crimes
which have provoked the rage of
communities in the southern part of
the state. But disregard of the law
by freniled crowds of whites must
Inevitably result greatly to the detri-
ment of the state.
The pursuit of white women by
negroes means death, perhaps ac-
companied by orgies of mob violence.
The negroes should bear this in mind,
those who have minds to Bee. What-
ever progress they have made by
reason of the grace of the American
people must not lead them to con-
eider lightly the distinction which
nature has made In the creation of
before. There, as In the south and lean affairs, German diplomacy elab-
ln Oklahoma, they will find them- orated on the proposition that Ger-
selves as t othelr occupation and con- many had no political designs to
fined in the locality of their hablta-1 further In that quarter but was seek-
tion. These restrictions are lnvlt-
able and must continue as long as
white people and negroes live to-
gether In the same country, restric-
tions which divide the races, prevent-
ing dangerous troubles which must
always result whenever the line of
regulation is crossed. Can such a
condition continue? This generation
has not answered the question. They
are doing the best they can under
the circumstances to mitigate the
evils inherent In the situation.
General Grant ofTered a proposi-
tion Immediately after the t^vil war
for which the country may have been
prepared by the experiences of the
past forty years. In brief, he wished
to have the United States purchase
the island of Haytl and establish there
a negro state in which the blacks
could be taken from those districts
in which they were not doing well
and given an opportunity to develop
illfferent races. It may be their hope to the full extent of their ability In
that eventually all the social barriers every way. It is a matter of current
Harry Kemp, the Kansas poet who
has fascinated Mrs. Upton Sinclair,
has not worn a hat in twenty years;
now if she can hold him as long as 1 where
that fad.
Does poor old Mike Schreek in-
tend to devote his declining years to
the encouragement of white hopes
by standing up to be Knocked down
by them ?
Governor Woodrow Wilson ad-
vised the boys of a reform school In
which separate the two races will
disappear by some sort of magic
which will eliminate the Insurmount-
able obstacle marking the point
where the negro's natural desires
and unwarranted ambitions fade into
Insignificance, confronted by a law
not made by man and not to be re-
pealed by any human statute. And,
while In this county, the white man
accords the negro full equality of po-
litical rights, something which he
does not enjoy In any other land
two races have came In
contact, the Instinct of the white man
revolts at miscegenation under any
circumstances, and laws have been
made for Its suppression which the
negroes and degraded whites must
obey, whatever may be their licen-
tious proclivities. White men who
would marry negresses or white
women who have passed into the
hands of negroes may for the time
an address the other day to "flndi being find refuge in some negro com-
themselves." He will locate his ownjmunlty where they may become ne-
positlon on the political checker i groes to all intents and purposes,
board a little later. though this Is In violation of the law
of the white man which the negro
In view of the expected collision of must obey.
two sections of the democratic state i When it comes to white women
machine the sentiments of many who] being assaulted in their homes or on
are riding therein might be expressed I the public highway by negroes, re-
devoted iriend of the
he got out of office ai
game was over. But
had been drawing a g«
prlsals follow swiftly so that the
uperatlon ef the law Is suspended,
und no hope can be held out to the
negro that he can escape lynching,
and there ought not to be, for the
criminals, any prospect but to speed-
ily meet the doom Impending over
all who commit such offenses.
The present problem In Oklahoma
is how to deal with Idlers thronging
front as an important I In the towns an r on the country
e was, It appeared, thf; roads. There, apparently removed
In these lines from a popular ballad:
'"Says Casey Jones. I'm grin' to Jump;
Kase they's two locomotive* an'
they're goin' to bump."
W1I,KY AND McCARE.
After the Ballinger-Ptnchot con-
troversy there wbn a man named Mc-
llirg, from North Dakota, of whom
nobody hud ever heard before, who
came to
personag
belief that there will be considerable
extension of the territory of the
United States In the tropical regions
of America In the future. This may
open the way for the relief of some
of the congestion which comes of the
crowding of the blacks Into the cities
of this country.
But all of the race troubles In
America are not on account of the
negro In the southern states, or else-
where In the United States. The
people of the Pacific coast, Including
those of British Columbia, see a
growing menace in the prospective
Invasion by countless hordes of Asi-
atics. All the nations of Central and
South America with which we are
being brought Into closer relations,
have troubles of this kind in a popu-
lation which Is anything but homo-
geneous.
It would seem, indeed, that the
white race, which may find In the
western hemisphere the field of a
greater development than It has had
In Europe must meet not one but
several of the other racer^if mankind
in th« building Of another civilization
which may be modified to a consider-
able extent by the conflicts and other
incidents cf this association.
WHAT IS HOLDING GERMANY.
With equulfy patriotic hosts con-
fronting each other at Nancy, one
singing the "Wacht Am Rhein" and
the other the "Marsellaise" and
troops gathering at various points
along the Franco-German frontier,
while the most powerful fleets which
the nations have ever assembled are
being reviewed, and there is con-
ing only economic advantages, that Is
to say that she wished to have her
commercial Interests protected, and
Investments cf the subjects of the em-
pire guaranteed. It will be remem-
bered how, afterward, German gun-
boats battered down Castro's mud
forts amidst execrations in Spanish
and English from both ends of the
continent But the Monroe doctrine
was not damaged and the Venezuelan
government came through with the
grace of a coon which has been treed
when it did not know the dogs were
around.
Something like that has happened
on the coast of Morocco. Whatever
the French and English press may
have to say on the subject, a Ger-
man warship Is lying in one of the
most important harbors on that
coast, Agadis, with vulnerable forti-
fications of a very Important point
under their guns. Germany might
reduce those fortifications to a pile
of debris in a short bombardment,
and afterward build there a modern
fort which for strategic purposes
would be scarcely less commanding
than Gibraltar. Meantime Germany
is politely assuring France that she
Is seeking only a fulfillment of the
conditions of the Algeclras treaty
which guaranteed certain advantages
of trade to Germany which she
claims have not ben complied with.
But if Germany should seize a posi-
tion on the Moroccan coast from'
which she could menace passing
commerce. Great Britain might suf-
fer. The British don't care so much
about Germany holding up France on
the trade from the Interior of Mo-
rocco. Germany don't care how far
the military glory of France may be
carried toward the Interior of Africa.
What Germany wants is the lion's
share resulting from the extension of
European commerce in that direction.
Will she get it?
There Is a general consensus of
opinion that, while Germany is con-
stantly growing stronger, France Is
growing weake.' as a military power,
d that the German navy is rapidly
approaching the strength of the
British navy. Conscious of her grow-
ing power Germany can wait. Can
France, rent with internal discord
and distressed In her economic condi-
tions, abide the slow progress of
events. Can she not rather afford to
interests, and | from the restraints of law, men
soon as the j different races and many nations are !
meantime he I free to wander up and down the
od salary and | country, each pursuing his mission
doing as much hurm to the public as; without question, whether it be law-1
he could. j ful or otherwise. Under such clr-
Now it Is one McCabe. Nobody jcumstances, criminal propensities find
ever heard of hlin before; but It ap- | provocation on frequent opportunity,
pears that he. toe, in his day and gen- 'More complete surveillance must be
eration, has been rendering noble ser- j exercised over wanderers like these
vice, to private Interests. He is n;than hits ever yet been seen In Okla-
member of the board that passes onjhoma. Vagruncy laws must be strict-1
the cases presented under the pur.e.ly enforced, and perhaps more strln-
tood law, tosay whether or not the | gent laws will have to be enacted, a|
offenders shall be prosecuted. As the | special session of the legislature Is
record shows that, wherein the work l coming and it would not be surprls-
of Dr. Wiley has been hampered and j ing If the lawmakers should feel
nullified, McCabe played an lmpor-(called upon to deul with this matter
tant part. < >ne of his most Interest- ! In some manner.
Ing little performances was to cite n On the general subject of the re-
decision of a Missouri court, from (iations of the races In the United
which he deliberately omitted the.States there 1s considerable specula-
portion bearing on a food preservative j tion, much of it perhaps In vain, but
toward which he has a tender feel- |altogether revealing the magnitude
ing. This Is the contemptible crea- (of a problem which kt< among the
ture who has been largely responsible I most serious with which the Ainerl-1
for the attempt to force
out of the public sen U e, after he had as dc\ elopments up to the present
made his plate so uncomfortable by time may seem to point the way to a
incessant insults and defeats that absolution of difficulties it would seem
man less devoted to his duty would that minor troubles may be mint-
have resigned long ago. : mixed by a gradual process of ellni-
The case is a very dear one. Dr. inatlon and segregation. As long as
IWiley believes that the pure food law the negroes are confined to the ugrl-
Should be enforced. He does not It-|cultural districts of the south, where
Ueve that the public should be pol-ja condition prevails not altogether
soned in order that prlvute manufac- unlike that of ante bellum days, ap-
' turers may heap up millions. And parently there Is no grcut amount of
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make concessions in Morocco by
which her prestige may got *be
dimmed while she resumes the strug-
gle for the working out of the prob-
lems which fill the people with dread
while the burdens of the military es-
tablishment oppress the people with
taxation?
If she should concede to Germany
more than Great Britain desires she
should concede the entente cordiale
between the governments of France
and Britain might suffer. This she
has failed so far to do, much as Ger-
many might desire such a consum- j
matlon. Any sudden move on Agadis 1
would be met, not by an Invasion of
French territory, but by a defensive
movement along the French frontier
for Germany has a constitution which
provides that ^var cannot be declared
without the consent of the federal
council of the empire except In the
case of the Invasion of German ter-
ritory. The southern states of the
German confederation do not attach
so much Importance to the trade of
Morocco and a majority of the people
are opposed to a war with France on
any such Issue.
They would prefer to wait, for
France, they say, is constantly grow-
ing weaker and Great Britan also.
And in all three of these countries
there is a growing sentiment for the
settlement of all international dis-
putes by arbitration.
And this is just what the diplomats
of the three powers are trying to do
while a lot of people are wondering
what ft all means.
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A SERMON FOR SELF CONTROL.
That the way of the transgressor
hard is the lesson of the tragedy
or series of tragedies being enacted
in the eld county court house at
Chesterfield, Va. The murdered
wife, the orphaned babe, the broken
hearted father and the disgraced
family are pathetic figures in a
drama in real life that Is a powerful
sermon for simple morality.
There Is little doubt that young
Beattle murdered his wife. The nor-
mal mind cannot conceive that a
sane man would commit such a
crime. The normal mind in the nor-
mal state never conceives murder so
terrible, but there is with most men
but a narrow zone between the nor-
mal and the abnormal. Passions,
when they master discretion and
break down self control, drag men
backwards In a .few weeks or In a
few days and some times In a few
moments to the primeval -savage
state, to the level of the ferocious
brute.
Beattie is evidently a degenerate
and what is commonly called degen-
eracy Is frequently the result of in-
dulgence, and the lack of that traln-
ng which cultivates and establishes
the habit of self restraint.
Some criminals are born with phy-
sical characteristics that make it im-
possible for them to resist the influ-
ence of conditions that incite them
to crime. Many who are born into
the world sufficiently normal phy-
sically and mentally to become nor-
mal and useful citizens are brought
up In such a manner as to develop
desire for self indulgence and to de-
stroy the power of self control.
Restraint is the beginning of all
morality. The power to restrain j
men; first in the power of the
stronger individual and then in the
power of the community, Is the be-
ginning and foundation of all moral-
ity and all civilization, but the trage-
dies that darken even the golden age
are constant reminders that there
must be restraint of the individual
by himself.
The condemnation of public, opin-
ion, regard for the feelings of fam-
ily and friends, the terrors of the
penalties of the criminal law, are all
swept aside when men become the
slaves of passion. The strong man
who has not the power of self con-
trol is a weakling when assailed by
passion.
The tendency of all progress has
been to ameliorate the rigors of the
criminal law and to rely more and
more on the moral restraints and
the development of Individual self
control. Sympathy and aid for the
weaknesses of men, rather than ven-
geance Is now the guiding principle
of enlightened criminal jurispru-
dence. We are learning that it is
more important to develop Individual
self control and thus prevent crime
than to visit severe punishment upon
the criminal.
Fear of the law no doubt restrains
the criminal tendencies of an ig-
norant element, of those who are
ruled entirely by sordid propensities,
but the real protection aganist crime
Is In the control the normal well-
balanced man exercises over him-
self.—Enid News.
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Gold Crowns $;4.50
Gold Fillings $1.00
Silver Fillings 50c
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he h<u( to enforce a law more subject
to constant assault und Incessant in-
sidious attempts to nullify it than any
frtctloa between the two races. But
this Is not u permanent condition nny
more than that of chaltle slavery
other law on the statute books. The which was doomed to disappear In
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Statement of Condition of
THE OKLAHOMA STATE BANK
at Close of Businets September 1st 1911.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $495,455.06
Overdrafts 1,219.66
Warrants 29,990.38
Furniture and Fixtures 1,000.00
Cash and Sight Exchange 136,948.77
$664,613.87
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $ 60,000.00
Surplus Fund 40,000.00
Undivided Profits 8,162.68
Deposits 556,451.19
$664,613.87
Attest:
P. W. SAMUELS,
President
W. R. McCLUSKEY,
Cashier
Official Statement of the Condition of the
COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK
Muskogee, Oklahoma
At the Close of Business Wednesday, June 7th, 1911.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts.$1,488,810.48
Overdrafts
Stocks and Securities.
Bonds and Premiums.
Real Estate, Furniture
and Fixtures
Cash and Exchange,.
10,438.68
100,662.28
282,260.00
14,800.00
886,981.77
LIABILITIES
Capital | 200,000.00
Surplus and Profits.. 74.26t.8S
Circulation 200,000.00
Deposits 2,882,621.82
12,836,783.11
$2,t8t.78S.ll
The Above Statement It Correct.
, B. D. SWEENEY, Cashier.
B. K. FINK. President O. T. THOMPSON, JR., Ass't Cashier.
Official Statement
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
At the Close of Business, Jun« 7, 1911, as Rendered to the
Comptroller of the Currency
**SOtTHCM
Loato aat discount..
IT,101.##
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IS.H4UI.il
Warrants
Overdrafts
U. S. kends
Cash |
UABIUTIRS
Cavttal | KI.MI.N
Surplus •*« prcflt* ... 141,111.11
Clre Ulatla* I !«. •«•«
I.HMIiUC
The above statement Is corrocu
Attftti
F. O. HUBBARD, Chairman ef the B ard
H. H. OGDEN. President
ASA E. RAMSAY. Vice President #
M.«M, <1111
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