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FRIDAY MORNING —o— MUSKOGEE DAILY PHOENIX —o— OCTOBER SIXTH
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Weekly Established in 1884. Tenth Year
as a Daily.
Published at '220 Wall Street.
However, the Turk is anything but a dead Is-
sue.
The people seem to be determined that tho
high cost of living ahall come down.
If the war between Italy and Turkey Is not
stopped soon somebody may get hurt.
How long will It be before Jack Frost takes
the tlrst fall out of tho temperature?
Snapshots In Dallas News Bays some old drunk,
ards consider hard cider a soft drink.
Tho Muskogee fair begins to look like an Il-
lustrated edition of Oklahoma prosperity.
They can't make a map of Oklahoma which
will show the state reliably democratic.
The Sapulpa Star says that the Champ Clark
movement In Oklahoma seems to be of short
life.
There seems to bo a hammer busy on every
platform which Is possible for the presidential
year.
It Is a mooted question whether politicians,
like wine, improve with age. Perhaps they are
sometimes adulterated.
Kansas City restaurants which have been clas-
sified according to degrees of filth want to clean
up on the board of health.
If the Turks don't get together In defense of
their country goon they may be separated Into
different squads of prisoners.
Tho Oklahoma democratic managers have more
on their minds than when they undertook tho
task of making a state to suit themselves.
The trusts must como out in the middle of the
road If they hope to escape the dangers of the
devious paths which they have been pursuing.
Some day we will all be witnesses to tho high
cost of dying, but other consumers will be the
producers, and no one wlU have anything to say.
It Is announced again that Bryan if off on a
speaking trip. Unlike Roosevelt, he never gets
on to the fact that he is doing too much talking.
Not even a low murmur of applause when
President Taft declared at Cheyenne, in the cen-
ter of the sheep country, that the tariff on wool
was too high.
The question agitating the Oklahoma democra-
cy since the decision which invalidates tho
grandfather clause Is: "Who wants to be an
election officer?"
Tho St. Paul Dispatch opines that it will take
Woodrow Wilson a long time to get rid of his
long meter religion, no matter how much pro-
gress he may make In politics.
The governor of Rhode Island and other east-
ern potentates hnve been entertaining a fake
duke who Is now wanted for passing worthless
checks In Boston and elsewhere.
There Is not much reciprocity of sentiment
among the different groups of politicians In Wash-
ington who are losing time discussing the prob-
able results of the Canadian election on their
fortunes. Forget It.
The latest opinion of Attorney General West
Is that Governor Cruce and the members of the
school land commission should be removed from
office if they persist in disregarding West's advice,
that the school funds should bo controlled and
managed by the state treasurer. What a happy
'umlly ?
i i m: i how.
AN AtJE OF REVOLUTION.
"The people are almost up to the point of a
revolution, and If the price of the necessaries of
life climb much higher there Is going to be a
revolution—not a blood-shed revolution, I hope,
but a rising of the common people who find It
dally harder to get enough to eat and wear with
the advance of prices at every turn of the cor-
ner."
The above comment Is from one of the prom-
inent business men of this city, and It was made
In all sincerity. He is not a calamity howler,
nor Is he an anarchist; but rather, just a man
who employs many people, especially women,
and hears their dally comments upon the ever-
Increasing cost of living. Continuing, he said:
"These people are the best workmen I have,
and they are drawing more money than I can
really afTord to pay, and yet I know that they are
finding It a difficult matter to pay rent, pay for
fod stuffs and dress decently. I tell you the
thing is gradually growing more serious. Tho
advance of sugar, tho cost of meat and the gen-
erally high price makes me sit up and take no-
tice and 1 know that It Is a serious problem for
the man or woman who draws ten, twelve or fif-
teen dollars a week. Somthlng is going to have
to be done or there Is going to be a political or
Some other kind of a revolution in this fair land
of ours."
Such talk is a little strong, but talk the same
question over with your wife and those who are
straining every nerve to keep the expense down
and who are flndtng it more difficult from month
to month, and you will sec that the crisis is com-
ing. What It Is to be, or how It Is to be solved,
no one seems to know.—Oklahoma City Times.
it develops that the Turkish gunners at Tripoli
can't hit a warship.
Pallas Athene was honored by two hundred
maidens on their tip toes In a beautiful ballet
at Kansas City Wednesday night. They repre-
sented seasons and flowers. Some of the scen-
ery fell down as a result of dainty misses taking
tumbles In the more difficult parts, which In-
cluded the chantleler dance, but this did not ma-
terially mar the altogether charming effect.
John Armstrong Chaloner, who claims that he
has grown a face like Napoleon by thinking
about It, Is trying to prove in the United States
court that he la sane, and entitled to the pos-
session of one-and-a-half-milllon dollars. Hla
estate has been in charge of a committee since
he made some startling prophecies in 1897, after
which he was removed from his home In Vir-
ginia to the Bloomington, N. J., asylum.
As a final outrage on the tin bucket brigade,
they have raised the price of beer In St. I*ouls.
tt now takes a dime to make music in the bot-
tom of the pall, instead of the nickel which for-
merly Induced the saloon man to do his best
for poor folks. It may be said that this can be
or no possible interest to Oklahoma people. But
If they raise here In the same ratio the boot-
legger may want fifty cents for getting busy.
CALLING FOB THE CURTAIN.
The Kansas City Journal points' out that the
arbitration treaties proposed by President Taft
would be of service In the settlement of the
opera bouffe war between Italy and Turkey, be-
fore It results in something more serious, con-
cluding as follows:
"The sooner the stage is cleared of this tragic
farce the better. There are no issues Involved
which have an importance warranting the shed-
ding of blood. If the 'unspeakable Turk' could
be wiped off the may of Europe and Asia the
cause of civilization would be served well, but
Italy Is hardly the Instruments which Divine
Providence would use to accomplish such a su-
pendous benefit to mankind. Revolutions are
great time savers, but evotution requires time and
the extinction of the Moslem, the atavistic sur-
vival of the savage childhood of the race, must
wait, or at best must have a nobler finale than
a comic opera squabble over the remnants of a
pirate horde huddling on the edge of the African
desert."
PEACE INSURANCE.
Turkey's experience demonstrates the Import-
ance of having a good navy or none. The Turk
has been spending millions on a navy that was
merely an Invitation to trouble. He has trained
up more than 30,000 officers and men for the
warships he does not have. Turkey has more
seasoned naval fighting men than has Italy, but
It has not the ships. The result is that In ltd
hour of need the money it expended to build up
that arm of Its defense might as well have been
thrown away. It pays to have a good navy or
none.
Turkey has a strong land force, one which
Italy will not care to tackle. It Is navy had been
In shape to put up as good a fight relatively as
the army could, Turkey would not now be in
trouble. Not only Italy, but all other European
powers would be wary nbout getting Into a ron
with even a second-class nation equipped with
a few first-class fighting ships. If Turkey pos-
sessed a fighting fleet of modern build and pro-
portions It would now have Tripoli.
A navy, such as Uncle Sam has, is a tremend-
ous expense and seeming waste in time of peace,
but when we have It we have peace, which com-
pensates some.
THE MILLIONAIRE IN POLITICS.
Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin admits the
expenditure of $107,793 to secure his election to
the United States senate. He thinks he ought
to be exonerated, however, because he does not
know what was done with the money. He told
the boys to keep within the law. He has been
In the habit, he says, as the head of large In-
dustries. of handing out sums of money to lis
expended In his Interest without Inquiring as td
tho details. He pursued tho same policy in se-
curing his election to the United States senate.
The most favorable construction that can be
put upon the matter Is that he was such an In-
nocent old guy that he supposed $107,000 could
be expended legitimately In educating the voters
at the primaries and the members of the legis-
lature as to his superior qualifications for the
office, if that amount of money were required
for a legitimate campaign of education as to his
fitness, it must follow that he possessed no easily
recognizable qualifications for the office.
"HEAR THE OTHER SIDE."
Always, we should remember, there ts a pos-
sibility that the man who disagrees with us may
be right. The cock-sure attitude of mind sel-
dom characterizes the student who Investigates
deeply and widely, whether the subject be re-
ligious, economic or political. As a rule our so-
called opinions are based on meager evidence.—
Bartlesville Examiner.
Still we can't think of a much better service
thnt the governor could render to the people of
Oklahoma than to help and send a delegation to
Congress to carry >ut the good work begun by
the democrats at the last session.—Bartlesville
Examiner, , ^ .. ... ...
Just for Fun
1 R. WILEY'S PI,AN.
The high cost of living problem must be solved
by elimination of the needless middlemen, says
Dr. Harvey Wiley, federal pure food man.
"Every city has a supply bureau, and there is
no question that this could be broadened Into a
depot of public supply," he says. "Now, of
course, this idea will be Juped on by every
wholesaler and every retailer. But that Is not
the question."—Oklahoma News.
INVESTIGATE THE BOARD OF
AGRICULTURE.
Queer as It may seem, not until quite recently
has there been any tangible movement on foot
to investigate the methods and evidences of mis-
appropriation of funds by the board of agricul-
ture; but now that the matter 1s being put up
to the proper authority It seems that the charges
that have been repeatedly made are to be taken
before a grand Jury.
One thing Is quite sure, there Is evidence that
the board of agriculture has violated the law by
misappropriating funds—using funds thnt were
specifically appropriated for one purpose for an-
other quite different purpose. The fact Is scarce-
ly denied by the members of the board, and yet
If that fact Is established. It will be up to those
guilty of such action to return the money to the
funds from which they were taken.
It is also quite likely that those so convicted
would be removed from office, and possibly oth-
erwise punished. It is certainly time for action
—Oklahoma City Times.
DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS SEE DANGER.
Democratic politicians are discussing the prob-
able results of the decision in the federal court
at Enid doing away with the grandfather clause.
The Ada News say, among other things:
"However, there Is no question about the de-
cision having an influence in some localities on
the election of next year. Inspectors will be
afraid to enforce the grandfather law on the ne-
gro voters, and in a close district like J. S. Dav-
enport's, the chanoes are that the republicans
will elect a congressman. It may yet be neces-
sary to call the legislature together to change the
date of holding the state election."
What She Wanted.
They had been married but two
months, and they loved each other
devotedly. He was In the back yard
blacking his shoes. "Jack," she
called at the top of her voice—"Jack,
come here, quick!"
He knew at once that she was in
imminent danger. He grasped a
stick, and rushed up two flights of
stairs to the rescue. He entered the
room, breathlessly, and found her
looking out of the window.
"Look," said she, "that's the kind
of a bonnet I want you to get me."—
Harper's Magazine.
Since Teacher Did Not Know.
It was in the primary class of a
graded school In a western city, and
the day was the twenty-second of
February.
"Now, who can tell me whose
birthday this Is?" asked the teach-
er.
\ little girl arose timidly.
'Weil, Margaret, you may tell us,"
said the teacher.
"Mine," was the unexpected reply.
•—Everybody's Magazine.
A Rird-Woman's-Eyc View.
The aviator's wife was taking her
first trip with her husband in his
airship.
"Wait a minute, George," she said.
"I'm afraid we will have to go down
again."
"What's wrong?" asked the hus-
band.
"I believe I have dropped one of
the pearl buttons off my jacket,
think I can see if glistening on the
ground."
"Keep your seat, my dear," said
the aviator. "That's Lake Erie.'
Voungstown Telegram.
A Stock Story.
"When I was a barefoot lad," said
Mr. Dustin Stax, "I had to spend
good deal of time minding the stock
on father's farm. I'll never forget
the day when father told me to take
rope and hold a couple of bull
calves."
"What did they do?"
"They scorched my hands with
the rope and then turned around and
stepped on me."
"Unruly disposition?"
"No. Wonderful instinct. They
recognized me at a glance as a small
stockholder."—Washington Star.
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PLENTY OF COTTON AT ARDMORE.
The first tickets on the wagon drawing were
issued yesterday morning by the county weigher
and before the end of the day 299 tickets were
issued. One ticket was given for each bale of
cotton weighed and the total receipts for the
day yesterday was short of 300 bales only one.
Cotton is opening fast, pickers are busy, cotton
Is being brought from a long distance Into Ard-
more and 30,000 bales for the season are not
Improbable. One hundred weighing days like
the one yesterday will make the 80,000. Enough
boosting of the Ardmore market will easily bring
the receipts to this amount.—Ardmoreite.
ADA IS VERY BUGGY.
All the bug creation must have been elmgrat-
Ing last night and in their flight they evidently
selected Ada as one of their stopping places.
This morning the citizens of Ada had a fair
idea of the plagues of Egypt when they saw
bushels of green bugs, thousands of crickets,
big black bugs and grasshoppers piled up in
heaps under the arc lights, covering walls of
buildings and crawling over the streets.—News.
APPEALS TO FAIR-MINDED MEN.
Mr. Taft's appeal for fairness to big business
Interests will be resented by the radical reform-
ers, but It commends Itself to thoughtful and
fair-minded people everywhere. And, after all,
It Is the thoughtful and fair-minded people who
control presidential elections, not the noisy radi-
cals.—Kansas City Journal.
Tlio Mosquitoes Flight.
"Yes, said the traveler who had
Just returned from South Africa. "I
was one day so annoyed by mosqui-
toes that I was compelled to take
refuge In an old iron safe which lay
discarded on the veldt.
"My first emotions of Joy at my
happy deliverance were hardly over
when the mosquitoes, scenting me,
began to drive their stingers through
the safe. Fortunately, I had a ham-
mer in my pocket, and as fast
their stingers came through the irori
I clinched them down, until at lengtll
such a host of them were fastened
down in this way that, when thes
started to fly away, they carried mj
and that safe miles.
"Then one by one they died witl^
the exertion, and I was able to come
out with safety. Yes, wonderful
things happen in foreign parts."—)
Ideas.
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GOLD-BEARING SOLDIERS.
The "Yaqul Indians used gold bullets In fighting
government troops and the doctors at the gov-
ernment hospitals are prospecting their soldier
patients for pay streaks.—St. aul Dispatch.
A BRUTAL ASSAULT.
That may be war on the Mediterranean, but
It looks more like assault and battery, with the
"Terrible Turk" In the hole of the assailed and
battered.—Kansas City Journal.
A SWEEP OF GENIUS.
Woodrow Wilson condemns the hymn about
"The Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" as "silly and
meaningless." Yet there are those who have
boldly doubted that Woodrow would be able to
grasp the great, vital problems of government.
A vigorous demand for the recall of hymns
would make a powerful paramount Issue for
1912.—Kansas City Journal.
REFLECTIONS ON A EUPHONIOUS PHASE,
on reflection, It appears thnt "pacific penetra-
tion" of a foreign country Is simply a kind of
euthanasia. It Is murder—with an anaesthetic.—
St. Louis Republic.
AFTER THE PROPHET'S BALK
Who's who Is less Important in this week's
conversation than the questions of who wore
what, which was which, and whose was the pret-
tiest.—St. Louis Republic.
THE RI/OW THAT KILLED GRANDFATHER.
That grandfather clause verdict at Enid prom-
ises to cause turmoil during election periods?
Hereafter, who will serve as election Inspectors?
—Guthrie Leader.
THINGS COMING OUR WAV.
"Weather report: (State! Fair at Oklahoma
City, with prospects for an eastward movement
to Muskogee by early October,"—Henryette Free
Lance.
SOME MISTAKES HEBE.
"Seems paradoxical—-Oklahoma's best fair In
Its poorest agricultural year."—Oklahoman.
No, The exhibits at the Muskogee fair show
It Is a pretty fair year In eastern OMIahoma.
which embrace* the mnt extensive area of
fvud |gimlug land in tho stSta
HER KISS TOO SHORT.
The Oklahoma girl who said that "a kiss has
no taste" must have bit her's off.—Bartlesville
Examiner.
The good ol* summer tlmt la flaying a low-
town sneak autumn.——Bartlesville Examiner
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