A
DDRESSED L
crowd mm in
Hon. Champ Clark, speaker of the ticket.
house of representatives and candidate
for president, spoke to a crowded house
at the Auditorium aSturday night. Bar
ring a very hoarso voice the speaker
was in good trim and delivered a
strong speech dwelling largely on the
subject of tariff legislation.
West Virginia For Clark.
Washington, D. C, Tost: Hon. S.
V. Matthews, chairman of the republl-
Thc Only Logical One.
Panhandle (Tex.) Herald: Presi
dent Champ Clark sounds good to us,
Many people in Texas express the con
viction that Champ Clark and Williau.
H. Taft will face each other next fall
a
CI
self," is our foremost man before the
public and hence has a foundation to
support a nomination at the hands of
r.
by its very nature. No frank mind can
doubt that the great systems of special
privilege and monopolisties advantage
that have been built up have been
built up upon the foundation of the
tariff. The tariff question is at the
heart of every other economic question
. . . . . ....
we nave to aeai witn, ana until we
have dealt with that properly we can
deal with nothing In a way that will
be satisfactory and lasting."
Governor Wilson is for tariff for
revenue only," first, last and all the-
time. He believes that tariff revision
is the most pressing need of the coun
try, and that the people are right in
their determination to settle this quea
tion unequivocally at the coming elec
tion.
"We have under our federal system
s candidates for the presidency. Mr. a great many governments to support.
lark as speaker has "proved him- Direct taxes must, for the most part, be
in i it e f(iiiiiii ill hh ill it hsi iri?iiii;i 11.. .1 . .... .
" uiH democrats. nv not Clark fo
said: "So far as I have been able to rndeut anyway? We have numbers
observe there has been no marked of folkge profeB8ors an(1 SOIne forty
change in the sentiment among the (1(II tnvurnn w i
p . v .iui m, wv4v win; i H'KIU 4.1 1
democrats of my state. They appear
to be for Speaker Clark, and although
I am not In the confidence of the dem
ocrats, it is uiy guess that Clark will
get the West Virginia delegation in
the convention."
The Strongest Team.
Sioux Falls, (S. I).) Public: In the
opinion of The Public the strongest
team that could be nominated by the
democrats would be Champ Clark of
Missouri and Governor Kugene I'oss
of Massachusetts. This combination
years in the limelight, as an able ex
ilian for president Champ Clark,
the speaker.
Kern Thinks Well of Clark.
News (Buffalo, N. Y.) : Senator
Kern, of Indiana, who was Bryan's rut.
nlng mate In the last presidential cite
tion, says: "I think well of Speaker
Champ Clark. He would make an ii'l-
mirablo chief executive."
The Strongest Candidate
Times (Detroit, Mich.): Speaker
Clark has been for about eighteen
would carry not only New Jersey, but ponent of democratic doctrine. He
Massachusetts, probably New Hamp
shire, and almost certainly New York;
while in the south, anw middle west
where most of the democratic states
lies, they would lone a probable state;
Indiana would be certain; Wisconsin
in the event of Taft's nomination,
while Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Min
nesota would be good fighting ground,
and could be counted on for the demo
cratic ticket.
Clark Can United Democrats.
Shenandoah. (Iowa) World: Champ
Clark can unite: Uio democratic party
of the nation. Besides, ho will be whol
ly acceptable to the progressive repub
licans who desire to have their pro
presslve ideas written into the legisla
tion of the country. The more Champ
Clark's record la examined the more
it will be found to line true with the
very things that the man who works
for a living and the man who desires
only a square deal In government mat-!
ters, is entitled to demand. We uhi-
cerely hope to see Champ Clark noni-.
has been tried thoroughly and lias ac
quitted himself with great ability in
one of the most trying foruma in the
world as the leader of the minority,
a most critical position in any repre
sentative government. He has led the
party last year, and established a
splendid record, as the second man in
the nation politically, a record which
must commend itself to the people,
and by and through which the national
democracy must make great gains.
Our president leader should come
from the ranks. Who in the ranks of
the democrats stands such a show of
success as does Speaker Champ Clark?
We like Clark. He 1 a man of great
natural ability, thoroughly polished
and educated; but what is more, he is
a man of experience and ripened judge
ment. He is competent and has done
(he fjjosit difficult work of statesman
ship with a breadth' of mind "arid - a
thoroughness, which is very refresh
ing and should appeal to democratic
minds. This Is why we favor Champ
inated for president on the democratic Clark for president.
WHAT EDITORSSftY OF WILSON
New York, Jan. 1. The following is
from the New York World:
A quizzical smile stole over the in
tellectual features of Woodrow Wilson,
governor of New Jersey, as he leaned
back in his chair and repeated
question:
"What is a yrogVe-aaive democrat?"
The former president of Princeton
University paused for a moment, un
hooked his eye glasses from a little
.tfold catch on his vest and, holding
them in his hand to emphasize his
reply, said:
"I can best answer that question by
first trying to define a republican. I
do not mean a progressive republican
for a progressive .republican is only
a republican in a way to become a
democrat but an orthodox republican,
..still dominated by the older standards
.of his party.. :
An orthodox reputuican is a man
u-ho reallv believes that the covern-
ment of the country ought to be a
sort of trusteeship; that those who
have the biggest material stake in its
industrial affairs should be made the
trustees, and that all policy should be
made to conform to ttieir judgment and
interest, in the expectation that, as
trustees, they will hand on to those
whom their enterprise controls a fair
and reasonable share of the prosperity
of business.
"Now, a progressive democrat is a
man who' sees, what ought to be patent
to everybody, that these self-constituted
trustees have been both blind and
selfish; that a dangerous and inequit
able system of business has been built
up and that changes must be effected
which will square tl commercial and
industrial methods of the country with
the general interest, the interest of
the people at large, as understood by
the peopl themselves and not by spe
cial coteries. When the representa
tives of 'big business thing of the peo
ple, they do not include themselves."
Forestalling the next question, Gov
ernor Wilson continued:
"What policies characterize progres
sixe democracy? All those policies
whose object is to wrest government
from the control of special groups of
men, and restore It to the control of
tne general opinion of the country. AH
the policies that re-establish tu con
nection between representatives and
the people. All well-considered meas
ures that will tend to re-establish gen
eral opportunity and freedom of enter
prise. ,
"It will need wide common counsel
to work such policies out. No one class
or group of men can work them out
alone. The man of affairs and the pol
iticlan must come into conference with
the student and the ardent reformer.
"Do you not think that there
everywhere manifest a very great dis
content with existing conditions?" was
the next question.
"Most nssurdedlv. It Is disconten
t"e with the trusteeship and its results.
r roni Governor Wilson s manner
there could be no doubt that he has
abundant confidence in his own ability
to "meet and correct" the existing
evils. So the next question was:
Is the demand of business men to
be 'let alone reasonable in the cir
cumstances:"
Governor ilson toyed for a mo
iiient with a pencil on the desk, and
said:
"The demand docs not come from
the rank and file; It comes from those
who have created the very conditions
we w ish to correct. They wish so far
as I can make their program out to
have the government accent the con
sequences of what they have done,
legaliz" them, and assume control of
them, without the least effort at cor
lection.
"There is nothing the matter with
the mass of business in this country
It is as sound as it ever was. No change
contemplated need touch ordinary bus
iness men at all, except to set them
free of some of the trammels and dis
advantages luuler which they now
labor. The very object in view Is to
set business free freo from the con
trol of the few and then let it alone
to follow its own right laws.
"What are the business men of the
country? Are not the fanners busi
ness men? Are not the small traders
business men? Is not the' sub-contractor
a business man as well as the con-traetor-in-chicf
; the man who Is build
ing up enterprise as well as the man
who has built it up? Is not the man
whose credit Is small and "on the
make' a business man as well as the-
man whose credit is unlimited i.rd es
tablished? Is not every employer of
labor, every purchaser of material and
every master of any enterprise, big or
little, and every man in a profession,
a business man?
'These smaller men, who constitute
the body of the nation, so far as busi
ness is concerned, do not want to be
let alone. They want to be set free of
artificial trammels, of high prices, and
of the restricted opportunities that
have been created by oud tariff-walled
system of privilege."
"What is to be the greatest issue of
the coming campaign?" There was no
hesitation In Governor Wilson's u:i
swerf '
"The GuilT. of course. It must be so
left to the individual states. The gov
ernment at Washington must depend
chiefly on indirect taxes.
"But a great system of industry has,
as a matter of fact, been built up on
the basis of a protective tariff, and the
question of statesmanship ahead of us
is one of fairness and good judgment.
It is a question of expediency in the
large sense of that word. Where shall
we bring our tariff duties to a revenue
h?r.!a fit filinfl' Wtiopa mnof ut cri
wum.u . fc. .' I HV I Vi 1111.11. 11 ,
slowly and ease the process off by well
considered, gradual measures of reduc
tion. "With regard to some schedules it is
already abundantly evident what it is
just and necessary to do. Congress in
the special session showed that Is un
derstood which they were and how
they ought to be dealt with. The pres
ident did not seem to understad either
the spirit and purpose of congress or
the temper and opinion of the coun
try."
"But, governor, it is being urged
that the interests of the east and west
are divergent as to the tariff. Do you
think that is so:"
"No; the interests of the east and
west do not seem to me to be diver
gent in any Important matter of na
tional policy."
"What effect has the tariff had on
wages? Governor Wilson was next
asked.
"Very' little, directly. When wages
have risen they have generally risen
more in response to the demand of or
ganized labor than from any other
cause. The men who have chiefly prof
ited by the tariff have no many of
them voluntarily shared its benefits
with -weir- workmen. " The- working-
men of the country have been grossly
deceived about this matter from the
first. But, fortunately for the coun
try, their eyes are being opened now
to the real facts and to the real forces
that are at work."
A pile of reports of Investigating
committees, and of the Department of
Commerce and Labor, on the gover
nor's desk was evidence of the inter
est he takes in the so-caleld "trust
problem. It suggested the next line
of questioning.
"How are the trusts to be dealt
with?"
"The tariff lies at the bottom of much
o fthe trust question. That is the rea
son why the tariff question is the cen
tral and dominating question. It is
behind the shelter of the tariff wall
that the trusts have been able to build
up a system by which they have limit
ed opportunity and all but shut the
door upon independent enterprise."
'Will the reduction of the tariff
schedules by which the greatest trusts
thrive vltrualiy solve the trust ques
tion, then?"
"By no means. It will do a vast deal
to cut away the artificitl advantages
upon which the trusts depend for es
tablishing monopoly; but there is some
thing beyond that. Looked at from
the side of business organization, the
trusts are chiefly a means 6f economy
and efficiency. It is from that side that
they are so vigorously and persuasive
ly defended by their advocates and by
many thoughtful students of modern
economic effort. But, along with their
efficient organization goes a tremend
ous power anu they have used that
power to throttle competition and es-
iblish virtual monopoly in every mar
ket that they have coveted."
Do you think, governor, that com
petition can be re-established by law?"
"It is not necessary to answer that
question until we have done what the
iw certainly can do. The methods
by the greater trusts have driven com
petitors out of business are well known
So are also the methods by which
those who have financed them have
seen to It that those who tried to es
tablish rival enterprises were prevent-;
ed from doing so. There are lawyers
available who can describe these
methods with abundant precision In
statutes. Those methods can be made
criminal offenses and the monopolistic
use of trusts can be stopped by the
punishment of every person who tries
to make such use of their power.
"Guilt is always personal .and we
shall never get at the root of these
things by changing merely the size and
organization of our business corpora
tions. The offenses they have been
committing against freedom of oppor
tunity ad of enterprise are well known
and can be put a stop to. It is not a
question of their size, but of their acts
These have been brought out in del U'
by the inquiries of half a dozen com
mittees and many legal contests."
Punctuation In Piano Playing .) WANTED Men to learn the bar-
Joke is going the rounds of the ber trade. Here, is an offer that In
press about the girl whose music eludes tools with tuition. A method
teacher wished to compliment her but j that saves years of apprenticeship,
of whom he could only say that she j Positions waiting in city or country
played the rests excellently. This is,
however, real praise of a sort, for It
Is not every young student of music
who Is careful about playing the rests
well. , Indeed a great many players
seem to forget that the rests are Just
as much of the piece as is the punctu
ation in a sentence. Nowadays peo
ple do net put in so much punctuation
as they used to do, but the pauses la
the voice are there Just the same and
are readily understood by good read
ers, and always regarded. The rests
In music are like the pauses in read
ing that are needed to give expres
sion to the sentences. If the player
slights the rests or extends them too
long the whole effect of the musical
sentence is spoiled.
shops.
Dallas,
White
Tex.
Moler Barber College,
Telephone Conversations as Evldenos.
In a recent case It was admitted
that a telephone conversation had tak
en place between a representative of
the plaintiff and the defendant, but it
wag claimed on the part of the defendant-appellant
that each party to
the conversation could testify only to
what he said and could not testify to
what he heard through the telephone,
presumably upon the ground that he
might have misunderstood what the
other party said. In declaring this
objection untenable the appellate dlvi
sion In the second department perti
nently said that such a rule would ad
mit fragments of conversation, per
hapa meaningless and probably unln.
structive. "The conversation, that is,
what one said and the other replied.
la the only Intelligible and helpful evi
dence." Bench and Bar.
Profit In Growing Vegetables.
In a report published by the depart
ment of commerce and labor on the
farming carried on by Italians in
Hammonton, N. J., we have such
litems as a nee pront or iieo rrom a
'quarter acre of strawberries; $5,000
net profit in two years from 50 acree
lof raspberries, by an Italian hardly
able to speak or write English; $3,000
net profit on dewberries and black
'berries, acreage not given; a father
land son bought a farm (acreage not
stated) for $2,000, leaving a mortgage
of $600. In. one season, 1906, they
ipaid the mortgage and all their living
expenses and saved $800 In addition.
;An Italian laborer In the limits of
Greater New York city made as much,
as $1,600 net profit from little more
; than an acre and a half of land last
lyear, growing vegetables for the market
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
FRISCO.
North and East Bound.
Leave Vinita
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South and West Bound.
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North Bound.
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South Bound.
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Physician and Surgeon
Phones 625 Residence 525 W.Delaware
OfficeOver Wimer Drug Store
DR. F. L. MARNEY
Graduate Veterinarian
Office, Webb Bros. Livery
Phone 143 Vinita, OKU
MRS. W. B. CRAWFORD
Singing and Piano Lessons
Pupil of William Sherwood, Piano
and Vernon d'Arnalle, Singing
Barrett-Buffington Building
Phone 295.
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Office in First National Bank Building,.
India's Toll Paid to Wild Animals.
( Wild animals and the damage they
jdo make an Interesting chapter in
;the blue book of India. The latest eta
jtlstics are for the year 1909 public
(documents are proverbially slow in ap
fpearing and there, carefully set
down, are statistics showing that In
one year snakes killed 19,700 persons,
tigers devouring an even 900, leopards
300. wolves 270 and other animals 686.
i When It comes to cattle and other
jfarm animals, the leopards were most
destructive, since they made way
jwith 42,000, tigers coming next with
28,000, wolves with 10,000, while
snakes have only 9,800 charged against
,them.
. But man was not altogether lazy,
since he killed 70,000 serpents and
17,900 tigers, leopards and wolves. j
WILLIAM T. RYE
Attorney and Counselor-at-Law
Room 6 Scott Building
VINITA OKLAHOMA
THEO. D. B. FREAK
attorney and Counselor-at-Lav
Rooms I and 2. Cherokee Building
DR. 0. C. HEIDTMAN
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GOLD CROWN AND BRIDGE
WORK A SPECIALTY
Office In Empire Block VINITA
If You Have Farm Lands
For Sale
list it with me. 1 have agents in
other states and can sell your land.
Have sold over $40,000 worth in
the last thirty days.
Write Fire insurance in
Good Companies. i
R. P. CLAY
Barrett Building Phone 669
DR. R. L. MITCHELL
Cowan Bailding
Phones; Office 607 Residence Red 479
VINITA, OKLA
The Might of One Man.
The dwellers In Kensington's most
i charming and Old World square can
,now sleep o' nights without fear that
the too enterprising "flat" builders
iwlll encroach on th green tnrt tnil
greener trees or Edwardee Square and
;turn it Into a wilderness of bricks and
; mortar. For and this is where the
Edwardes Squareltes score there still
exists the old charter, which provides
that so long as there is a male resi
dent In the square the property must
be loft imact. This is a great Joy to
the dwellers thereon, many of whom
have promptly proceeded to become
absolute owners of their houses.-
Lady's Pictorial.
New Auto Motive Power.
; Automoblllsts In England they call
them motorists over there are much
'Interested in the success of an inven
tion known as solid petrol." or gaso
line In little bricks. Its exact compo
k1: ion Is. of conrso, a secret. It eon
fains SO per cent, of ordinary gaaoline.
a percentage of soapy matter, and
one per cent, of a foreign substan.-o
which gives it Botidlty. A small blook
of it is said to be equal to a gallon
of liquid motive power, and its In
ventors say that enough to propel a
car 1,200 miles can be carried In a lit
tle box on the running board of the
Brilliant but Unkind.
jonn w. Yerkes, formerly commis
sioner of Internal revenue, was on cn
excursion given by a bar association.
In one rowboat, where a landing from
the big excurbion , craft was made
there were several ' lawyers whom
Yerkes did not like. Suddenly the;,
rowboat capsized. "There goes to
the tettom now," he remarked, "a
lot of good booze and bum law."
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Maud Jack vows he'll marry you
yet
Ethel Maybe if he goes In for the
ministry.
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