Muskogee Cimeter

The Muskogee Cimeter. Muskoee, I. T., Friday, December, 7, 1906. Vol 8 COWARDLY ATTACK On A White Woman. Of all the cowardly attacks we have read for many a day, the one of the Phoenix, the morning democratic paper of Muskegee, on Postmaster Alice Robertson, is the worst. If it had been done by a colored paper, some of the Lilly White bregade would have joined the Tillman democrats and at once proclamed a race war. The Phoenix has been openly a democratic paper for about a week. It has boomed Fite, Haskell, Owen, Rntherford, Hopkins and Sundry democratic candidate for various offices almost every day and in looking around to see whom it could attack outside of its stockholders and Lilly White supporters it finds one poor lonely, unmarried woman for its first victim. It certainly should feel proud of its job. If its unknown Editor dout, we know of no one outside of its stockholders and Lilly White satellites who do. This is a big state. The Constitutional Convention is in session. The State is full of men holding Government and Municipal jobs. The Congress of the United Stated is in session, with 400 members in both houses. Washington, is full of federal appointee. The great rail roads of the Country are doing all kings of bad things from gaining rebates to offering bribes to judges, lawyers, jurors, congressman, and members of the state legislatures. The great corporations of the land are defying the laws and saving the people be damed. The President has just delivered a long message to congress saying all kinds of things, but the democratic Phoenix can find nothing to attack but this lone, good woman whose heart is as big as the new state and whose character is better than the best, must be attacked by this strangled sheet. Well white men stand up and rebuke this attack on a good woman or forever after hold your peace when they speak of outrages on southern women. ANOTHER OUTRAGE. James L. Gary. who has always been able to get jobs from Tams Bixby and U. S. Marshall Bennett, let a crazy man get away from him on the way to St. Louis, Monday. They did not stop the train to get the inferior man but went on to St. Louis. Gary claims the train was running 40 miles per hour but claims he did not kuow his prisoner was gone until some time after he had jumped off the train. The mans name is William F. Wills, from Ardmore and Gary claims he left the train some where between Masthes ville and Duthan Mo. The fact is Gary dont know where he left the trainWas Gary asleep or what?. If this had been done by some poor colored guard who was compeld to stand out in the cold and guard some federal prisoner he would be bounced in about a second and reprimanded also. Think for a minute of the barbarous conduct of this agent of the Marshall's office. A man jumping from the train under guard of a pet of the Marshalls office. The train was running 40 miles an hour. He may have had his legs and arms both broken. But what matter he was only a federal prisoner. It was of so little importance that Gary did not even speak until he had reached St. Louis and got something to eat and something. Well Brewster here is another case for you. Reporter. THE PHOENIX NOW DEMOCRATIC. The Phoenix has come out now as a democratic paper. Duglas is out. His name has been taken down from the editorial page. Fite, Owen, Ben Martin, West, Jackson, Rutherford now own it and run it- Every republican should stop it. By taking it and paying for it you are giving food to the enemy, let the republicans get out of it now, For your Drugs, Shool B00ks and STATIONERY. 106 Main Street. Creek Grocery eo. Is the to get anything in the Groceries line. Number 304 South 2nd St. Phone 912. A CRIME OF NOV. 6th. Living near Wybark is a farmer named H. P. Ewing. He is a colored man and came here from Kansas three years ago Every knew him as resident here a legal voter. On Nov. 6 he came to the polls in the 76th district and asked to vote. He was promptly challenged by one of Haskells hired men. Fred Moore, Wm. Harris and Henry Ward were the Judges of the election. Mr. Moore one of the judges said he had known Ewing for three years. Ewing then asked the judge to swear him so he could vote. They refused to do this. Section 8, of the compendium of the Election laws provides that the judges of election shall administer all oaths. These judges had been instructed to swear in no colored man. There was no Notary Public any where near. Ewing started away disconraged. Mr. A. A. Kinney a Democrat and an architect in Muskogee who was one of Haskells hired men then came over to Ewing and said "we will fix it up so you can vote without being challenged if you will vote for Haskell., Ewing said all right then fix it with the judges and I will vote. The Australian ballot system was in force as you well remember. Section 47, provides that if any man shows his ticket so as to reveal how he has voted he can be sent to the penitentiary for five years No 12 Kinney after talking with the judges about Ewing and being informed of how strong a Republican he was, said to Ewing, "If we let you vote you must let me see your ticket, so I can know that you really voted for Haskell. Ewing then said to Kinney, Why is that the law forbids you to look at my ticket." Kinney then said "well I guess we wont take chances on you and you cant vote. Mr. Republican how do you like this busineas. Yet this had the Endorsement of P. L. Soper, Republican National Committeeman, Mr. Archer, Secy. to Executive Committee Grant Victor Chairman executive Committee and others, all holding places just because they claimed to be Republicans Is there any wonder the state went Democratic. The fact is our Republican organization sold out our Party. They have done it many times before and will do it again. They should all be removed from place and office and real Republicans put in their place When this is done we will win. If it is not done we will lose again. No Republican should ever vote for these betrayers of the Republican Party in its first great fight in the New State. AGENTS WANTED We want energetic hustling agents for this paper and will pay liberly for good work. If you want to make money, write at once to—W. H. Twine. PREFER TO GO IT ALONE. Creek Teachers Object to Amalgamations With Oklahoma. Okmulgee, I. T.—The Creek Teachers' Association closed a three days' session here today by the election of the following officers: President, G. Mitchell, Checotah; vice president, Thomas Yokum, Sapulpa; secretary, ;Miss Garber, Haskell treasurer, J. D. Campbell, Beggs; executive committee, C. W. Briles, Muskogee; Edward Swingle, Wetumka; Mr. Garber, Sapulpa; W. E. Snook, Paden; Thomas Scott, Okmulgee. The address of welcome was delivered by Judge Orlando Swain and the response by Superintendent C. W. Briles, of Muskogee. Numerous papers were read by prominent educators of the Indian Territory, the most notable of which was a paper by John B. Benedict, supervisor of schools for the Indian Territory, on "How to Teach Pupils to Think." A resolution was adopted condemning the action of two members of the executive board of the Indian Territory association in attempting to transfer the annual meeting of the association from Muskogee to Snawnee and attempting to amalgamate the associations of the two territories. TO EEP GAS AT HOME. Tulsia Commercial Club Starts Conservative Movement. Tulsa, I. T.—At a meeting of the Commercial club tonight a movement was started to secure a plank in the state constitution to prevent any individual or corporation from piping gas out of the state. It is understood that the Kansas Natural Gas Company has been securing a large number of leases for the purpose of piping gas to Kansas City and St. Louis. Other companies are said to be working along the same lines. All Commercial clubs in the two territories will be asked to unite in the movement. "SOFT DRINKS" AGENT SUES. Wants $78,000 and Makes Hitchcock One of the Defendants. McAlester, I. T.—H. Cohn, agent for manufacturers of a number of alleged soft drinks, filed suit today for damages in the sum of $78,000 against Marshal George K. Pritchard individually and as marshal; the Citizens' Trust Company, of West Virginia, his bondsmen; Deputies Lee, Sassada, Dowell, Nolan; the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, of Baltimore, their bondsmen; W. E. Johnson, special agent; J. George Wright, Indian inspector; Ethan Allen Hitchcock, secretary of interior, and J. W. Brewster, special agent. It is claimed these officials have wilfully and maliciously prosecuted Cohn and conspired to injure his good name by arresting him and destroying his goods. This suit reopens the liquor question in this district and another big legal battle is expected. The previous suits brought against Marshal Pritchard for destroying liquor were dismissed in the Atoka court two weeks ago. WANTS THE LAND TAXED. Guthrie, O. T.—B. S. McGuire was here today en rouse to Washington to attend the coming session of congress. In regard to the work he will take up during this session, he said: "I expect to make the principal fight during this session for the alienation of allotments, excepting homesteads, in both territories. It must be remembered that the east, both Republican and Democrat, is against us on this proposition. I will stand for the alienation of the Indian homesteads in instances where the Indian is capable of managing his own affairs, in order that his homestead may become taxable." WANTS TO BE GOVERNOR. Enid, O. T.—Dr. M. A. Kelso, a prominent Democrat of this city, has announced himself for governor of Oklahoma at the next spring election. The Six Largest Lakes. Six lakes of more than 20,000 square miles in area exist in the world. The Caspian is the largest of these, and Lake Huron the smallest. Keep in Good Health. There are many thousands of people all over the world who can attribute their good health to taking one of two Brandreth's Pills every night. These pills cleanse the stomach and bowels, stimulate the kidneys and liver and purify the blood. They are the same fine laxative tonic pills your grandparents used, and being purely vegetable they are adapted to children and old people, as well as those in the vigor of manhood and womanhood. Brandreth's Pills have been in use for over a century and are for sale everywhere, plain or sugar-coated. Lesson Others Might Learn. In a railroad train Bishop Brooks of Boston leaned across the aisle and toward an intelligent looking gentleman, and asked: "What were you going to remark?" "I wasn't going to remark anything." "But you looked at me, and seemed about to say something to me." "Yes, I am said to be very deceptive that way. I used to say things and make remarks as soon as I thought them. I have often thought I had something to say, and discovered after I had said it that I ought to have kept my mouth shut." Wife Desertion Alarms. So many Cincinnati wives have been deserted by their husbands of late that the city council has taken steps toward putting a check on such runaways. It has been found that mortgage loan sharks are contributing factors in a great many cases. A man's ability to mortgage his furniture without the knowledge of his wife is a strong temptation to husbands of weak will. An ordinance has been introduced making such mortgage of no avail unless they bear the signature of both husband and wife. Will Study Irish Language. The education committee of the London county council has decided to recommend to the council that classes for the study of the Irish language and literature be opened in the public elementary schools of Finsbury, Islington, St. Pancras and Stepney. NEW YEAR'S CALLS. A New Drink to Replace the Old-Time "Apple-Jack." Twenty-five years ago the custom of making New Year's calls was a delightful one for all concerned, until some of the boys got more "egg-nog" or "apple-jack" than they could successfully carry. Then the ladies tried to be charitable and the gentlemen tried to be as chivalrous as ever and stand up at the same time. If anyone thinks there has not been considerable improvement made in the last quarter of a century in the use of alcoholic beverages, let him stop to consider, among other things, the fact that the old custom of New Year's calls and the genteel tippling is nearly obsolete. The custom of calling on one's friends, however, at the beginning of the new year, is a good habit, and another good habit to start at that time is the use of well-made Postum instead of coffee or spirits. A Staten Island doctor has a sensible daughter who has set Postum before her guests as a good thing to drink at Yule Tide, and a good way to begin the New Year. Her father writes: "My daughter and I have used Postum for some time past, and we feel sure it contains wholesome food material. "I shall not only recommend it to my patients, but my daughter will be most pleased to give a demonstration of Postum to our Christmas and New Year's callers." Read "The Road to Wellville" in pkgs. "There's a reason." BABY'S AWFUL HUMOR. Thin Skin Formed Over Body and Under It Was Watery Blood—Cured in One Week by Cuticura Remedies. "When my little girl baby was one week old she had a skin disease. A thin skin formed over her body and under it was watery blood, and when she was washed it would burst and break. She was in that condition for weeks, and I tried everything I could think of, but nothing did her any good. When she was three months old I took her to San Antonio to see a doctor, but the doctor we wanted to see was not at home, so my sister gave me a cake of Cuticura Soap and half a box of Cuticura Ointment, and told me to use them, which I did in time. I used them three times, and the humor began to fade, and in one week she was sound and well, and it has never returned since. I think every mother should keep the Cuticura Remedies in the house. Mrs. H. Aaron, Benton, Texas, July 3, 1905." LOW WAGES IN RUSSIA. Farm Laborers Get Little Above a Bare Subsistence. The extreme poverty and the low standard of living of peasants from whom the Russian agricultural laborers are recruited assure a low level of wages for agricultural labor. The average wages will appear almost incredibly low from an American point of view, notwithstanding the general complaints of the estate holders concerning the unreasonable demands of the laborers. According to an official investigation embracing the decade of 1882-1891, the average annual wages for a male agricultural worker in Russia were less than $32 and for a female worker less than $18. To this must be added the cost of subsistence, which is equally low, being on an average $24 for a male and $22 for a female worker for a whole year; so that the average cost of employing a laborer for the entire year is equal to only $55 for the male and $40 for the female. The wages for the summer season of five months are almost equal to the annual wages, being $22 for the male and $13 for the female laborer. Certainly Fair. Of all troubles humanity is subject to none perhaps cause more acute distress and more frantic efforts for relief than many forms of itching skin troubles. We will tell you a remedy that rarely ever fails—Hunt's Cure. One box only is absolutely guaranteed to cure any one case of itching trouble—no matter the name. If it fails, your money is cheerfully refunded. Department's Good Record. The colonial secretary of the Bahamas states in his report of the islands for 1905-1906 that no complaint of error or delay has been received by the telegraph department for 14 years. NO MORE MUSTARD PAIN THE SCIENTIFIC AND MODERN CAPIS VASE EXTRACT OF THE CARE A QUICK, SURE, SAFE AND ALWAYS 15c.—IN COLLAPSIBLE TUBES—AT A BY MAIL ON RECEIPT OF 15c. IN TILL THE PAIN COMES A substitute for and superior to mustache blister the most delicate skin. The p the article are wonderful. It will stop Headache and Sciatica. We recommend counter-irritant known, also as an ex- and stomach and all Rheumatic, Neu- will prove what we claim for it, and in household and for children. Once us people say "it is the best of all your p of vaseline unless the same carries out SEND YOUR ADDRESS AND LINE PAMPHLET WHICH WILL NO MORE MUSTARD PLASTERS TO BLISTER. THE SCIENTIFIC AND MODERN EXTERNAL COUNTER-IRRITANT. CAPISICUM VASELINE A QUICK, SURE, SAFE AND ALWAYS READY CURE FOR PAIN.—PRICE 15c.—IN COLLAPSIBLE TUBES—AT ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS, OR BY MAIL ON RECEIPT OF 15c. IN POSTAGE STAMPS. DON'T WAIT TILL THE PAIN COMES—KEEP A TUBE HANDY. A substitute for and superior to mustard or any other plaster, and will not blister the most delicate skin. The pain-allaying and curative qualities of the article are wonderful. It will stop the toothache at once, and relieve Headache and Sciatica. We recommend it as the best and safest external counter-irritant known, also as an external remedy for pains in the chest and stomach and all Rheumatic, Neuralgic and Gouty complaints. A trial will prove what we claim for it, and it will be found to be invaluable in the household and for children. Once used no family will be without it. Many people say "it is the best of all your preparations." Accept no preparation of vaseline unless the same carries our label, as otherwise it is not genuine. SEND YOUR ADDRESS AND WE WILL MAIL OUR VASE-LINE PAMPHLET WHICH WILL INTEREST YOU. CHESEBROUGH MFG. CO. 17 STATE STREET, NEW YORK CITY --- Never Disappoints. "Many extensively advertised remedies are failures when put to the test. Hunt's Lightning Oil is an exception. Confidence in it is never misplaced—disappointment never follows its use. It is surely the grandest emergency remedy now obtainable. For cuts, burns, sprains, aches and pains I know no equal." Sounded Praises of Soap. In a guide to etiquette published early in the last century the writer says that "soap does not irritate the complexion; some of the finest complexions we have known have been regularly washed with soap every day." The same authority remarks that "the daily bath is now the rule rather than the exception, and common sense has triumphed over the decision that washing was injurious." And then the writer has a dig at her great-grandmother, "whose only ablutions consisted in wetting her cheeks with a cambric handkerchief dipped in rosewater." "In all our directions with regard to the bath," adds this early Victorian dictator, "it must be borne in mind that we only refer to those in sound state of health." "That new stenographer of ours is a very stylish speller." "What on earth is a stylish speller?" "Well, for instance, take the word 'loafer.' She spells it 'l-a-u-f-f-e-u-r.'"—Judge. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL-KIDNEY DISEASES CURES RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES BACKACHE discontinued its use of this package. The public may rely on unfitations, sold only in bursa SICK HEADACHE CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. Positively cured by these Little Pills. They also relieve Dizziness from Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Too Heavy Eating. A perfect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue, Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. LASTERS TO BLISTER. EXTERNAL COUNTER-IRRITANT. MICUM LINE GENNE PEPPER PLANT IS READY CURE FOR PAIN.—PRICE ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS, OR POSTAGE STAMPS. DON'T WAIT KEEP A TUBE HANDY. And any other plaster, and will not in-allaying and curative qualities of the toothache at once, and relieve end it as the best and safest external oral remedy for pains in the chestalgic and Gouty complaints. A trial will be found to be invaluable in the and no family will be without it. Many preparations." Accept no preparation label, as otherwise it is not genuine. WE WILL MAIL OUR VASELL INTEREST YOU. --- THE FARMER IN WESTERN CANADA. The Quality of No. 1 Hard Wheat Cannot Be Beaten. The Canadian West in the past five or ten years has given a set back to the theory that large cities are the backbone of a country and a nation's best asset. Here we have a country where no city exceeds 100,000, and where only one comes within easy distance of that figure according to the census just taken and where no other city reaches a population exceeding 15,000. The places with a population over 5,000 can be counted upon the fingers of one hand, and yet the prosperity that prevails is something unprecedented in the history of all countries past or present. The reason for this marvelous prosperity is not hard to seek. The large majority of the 810,000 people who inhabit Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, have gone on to the farm, and have betaken themselves to the task of not only feeding and clothing themselves, but of raising food for others less happily circumstanced. The crop of 1906, although not abnormal, is an eye-opener to many who previously had given little thought to the subject. Ninety million bushels of wheat at 70 cents per bushel—$63,000,000; 76,000,000 bushels of oats at 30 cents per bushel—$22,800,000; 17,000,000 bushels of barley at 40 cents per bushel—$6,800,000; makes a total of $92,600,000. This is altogether outside the root products; dairy produce, and the returns from the cattle trade; the beet sugar industry and the various other by-products of mixed farming. When such returns are obtainable from the soil it is not to be wondered at that many are leaving the congested districts of the eayst, to take upon themselves the life of the prairie farm and the labor of the husbandman. With the construction of additional railroads new avenues, for agricultural enterprise are opening up, and improved opportunities are offered to the settler who understands prairie farming, and is willing to do his part in building up the new country. This is the theme that Mr. J. J. Hill, the veteran railroad builder in the West, has laid before the people in a series of addresses which he has given at various points during the past few months, and, having been for so long identified with the development of the West, there are few men better qualified than he to express an opinion upon it. Take care of the country, says he, and the cities will take care of themselves. The farmers of the Western States and the Canadian West, are more prosperous than ever before, and when it comes to measuring up results, the Canadian appears to have somewhat the better of it. His land is cheaper in fact, the government continues to give free homesteads to settlers, and the returns per acre are heavier when the crop is harvested. Farming land in the Western States runs from $60 to $150 an acre and up, whereas equally good soil may be purchased in Canada for $8 to $15 per acre, within easy reach of a shipping point, and much of this is available for free homesteading. The quality of the Canadian No. 1 hard wheat cannot be beaten, and the returns to the acre are several bushels better than on this side of the line; the soil and climate of that country being peculiarly adapted to wheat growing. The fact is evidently appreciated by the large number of American farmers who have in the past two or three years settled in the Canadian West. The agents of the Canadian Government, whose address will be found elsewhere, advise us that for the fiscal year 1904-5, the records show that 43,543 Americans settled in Canada, and in 1905-6 the number reached 57,796. From all of which, it appears that at present, there is a good thing in farming in Western Canada, and that the American farmer is not slow to avail himself of it. Almost any one can be a power for evil—but it takes a man among men to be a power for good. New State Topics A fire at Krebs on Monday morning caused $5,000 worth of damage. The Tulsa World has purchased a $12,000 Duplex color press. The National Good Roads convention is now in full swing in Muskogee. Frank James, the old time bandit, is spending the winter te Cement, Oklahoma. A large cotton warehouse is being built at Hastings by the Farmers' union. The Federation of Women's clubs of Oklahoma has inaugurated a campaign for compulsory education in the new state. Fireman Joe Douglass, who was injured in the wreck on the Katy near Checotah recently, died later of his injuries. The six month's old child of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Millsaps, who live near Chicotah, fell into a fire place last week and was badly burned about the head. The last of the old town of Jet has disappeared and the site is now but a great stretch if weeds. The last remaining evidence, that of John Sickles, was removed Friday. Judge Hoyt, U. S. Commissioner at Muskogee, in the past nine months has tried and disposed of 841 civil cases, 271 felony cases, 203 misdemeanor cases, or a grand total of 1,305 cases. A surveying party is at work in the vicinity of Vinita. It is thought the party is at work on the line from Pittsburg, Kan., to the Gulf, which road passes through Muskogee. Ike Coombs, a carpenter who has been living in the territory for 35 years, went violently insane at Bartlesville this week, and was only captured after a desperate fight with a deputy marshal. A special payment will be made to the Osage Indians on December 3, on which occasion the sum of $310,000 will be disbursed by Agent Red Millard—$90,000 interests, $70,000 grass money and $175,000 royalty on oil. Tulsa has launched a boom for the first Democratic state convention of Greater Oklahoma, and has the phimise of Chairman Dunn, of the state campaign committee that he will use his influence to secure the convention for the new state oil metropolis. Professor Alva Presnell, of Grand, has planted twenty-five pounds of locust seed on his farm just north of the town, and epects to have a fine forest of locust trees within three years, and one that will later prove of considerable commercial value. Mike Cassidy and a large force of Greeks are ballasting the main line of the Rock Island from Okarche to El Reno. All of the old mud road bed to a depth of four inches is being removed and red ballast from the pits near Oklahoma City is being put in its place. Max West, a special agent of the bureau of Commerce and Labor, is in the territory gathering data in regard to oil conditions. It is thought the information he gleans will be used against the Standard Oil company in the action brought against that company by the federal government. Thieves drive thirty head of horses out of Hardy Briggs' pasture, twelve miles south of Shawnee, but they were freightened into abandoning the drove about four miles further south when neighbors, who, had recognised the stock as it passed, attacked the band. PHOTOGRAPHY AND FINE ART. Camera Pictures Much More Than Mechanical Reproduction. Few persons could be found who would deny the claims of photography to rank among the fine arts, when skillfully used and properly controlled, since the photography of of to-day is something more than a mechanical reproduction. The individuality of the photographer is being expressed in his work almost as much as is that of the painter. The painter still has the advantage, for while he may give us an impression fuller than that made by nature upon the eye, the photographer can deal only with that which is observed with such unerring fidelity and skill by a mechanical eye. Composition is therefore one of the necessary principles to the photographer, who thus supplies the mechanical eye with a mind, yet he must study lighting at different hours of the day and varying weather conditions that he may know the best effects to be obtained. Many otherwise successful photographers need to realize that scientific accuracy is not necessarily artistic truth, so that, while one actualizes, the definite sharpness may be softened and the effect enhanced.—Home Magazine. Rigid Rules for Chauffeurs. According to new regulations in France, no one will in future be granted an automobile license who is not able to prove, in addition to the possession of the necessary technical knowledge, exemption from any physical infirmity which would tend to involve unfitness for the control of an automobile. Persons whose eyesight is impaired, whose hearing is not acute, whose hand is rendered unsteady by drinking habits or who suffer from fits of nervousness will not be allowed to add to the list of accidents. King Edward's Confidant. Lord Knollys, King Edward's private secretary for the past 36 years, is the only man from whom his majesty has no secrets. Lord Knollys controls the king's enormous correspondence, aided by a corps of assistants. A man without a wife is a balloon without an anchor. LIKE A FAIRY TALE. The Story of Postum Cereal in Words and Pictures. The growth of the Postum Cereal Co. is like a fairy tale, but it is true, every word of it. "The Door Unbolted" is the title of a charming little booklet just issued by the Company which tells, and illustrates, the story of this remarkable growth. It takes the reader from the little white barn in which the business was started Jan. 1, 1895, through the palatial offices and great factory buildings of the "White City" that comprise Postumville, Battle Creek, Mich. The little white barn, so carefully preserved, is a most interesting building, for it represents the humble beginning of one of the country's greatest manufacturing enterprises of today, an enterprise that has grown from this little barn to a whole city of factory buildings within but little more than ten years. No less interesting is the quaint official home of the Postum Cereal Co. The general office building of Mr. Post and his associates is a reproduction of the Shakespeare house at Stratfordon-Avon, and upon the house and its furnishings has been expended vast sums of money, until the rooms are more like the drawing rooms of the mansions of our multi-millionaires than like offices. That Mr. Post has believed thoroughly in the idea of giving to his employees attractive and healthful work rooms is proven not only by the general office building of the Company and its furnishings, but by his factories as well, and of all of these things this beautiful little booklet tells the interesting story. It will be sent to anyone on request. CAINED 34 POUNDS Persistent Anaemia Cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills After Other Remedies Had Failed. "When I began taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills," says Mrs. Nathaniel Field, of St. Albans, Somerset county, Maine, "I was the palest, most bloodless person you could imagine. My tongue and gums were colorless and my fingers and ears were like wax. I had two doctors and they pronounced my trouble anemia. I had spells of vomiting, could not eat, in fact, did not dare to, I had such distress after eating. My stomach was filled with gas which caused me awful agony. The backache I suffered was at times almost unbearable and the least exertion made my heart beat so fast that I could hardly breathe. But the worst of all was the splitting neuralgia headache which never left me for seven weeks. About this time I had had several numb spells. My limbs would be cold and without any feeling and the most deathly sensations would come over me. "Nothing had helped me until I began taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, in fact, I had grown worse every day. After I had taken the pills a short time I could see that they were benefiting me and one morning I awoke entirely free from pain. The distress after eating disappeared and in three weeks I could eat anything I wanted and suffer no inconvenience. I also slept soundly. I have taken several boxes of the pills and have gained in weight from 120 to 154 pounds and am perfectly well now." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure anemia because they actually make new blood. For rheumatism, indigestion, nervous headaches and many forms of weakness they are recommended even if ordinary medicines have failed. They are sold by all druggists, or will be sent postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. HIS TROUBLE WAS INTERNAL. Indian Chief Had Peculiar Ideas About Hydrophobia. Mayor Stoy of Atlantic City was describing the cosmopolitan throngs that visit his famous and gay resort. "Every nationality comes here," he said. "Greeks, Turks, Hindoos, Chinese, Moors—they all come. "I was talking the other day to one of the physicians of the Pasteur Institute—the hospital, you know, for the prevention and cure of hydrophobia. The Pasteur Institute reminded me of Atlantic City, its visitors seemed to be of such a diversified character. "The physician told me about an Indian chief who had come to him for treatment last year. "My name,' said the chief, 'is War Eagle. Please take me in hand. I fear I am getting hydrophobia.' "Have you been bitten,' the physician asked, 'by a mad dog?' "Not exactly bitten,' War Eagle answered, 'but I have the gravest suspicions about a black poodle that was served to me in a ragout last Friday afternoon.'" TEN YEARS OF PAIN. Unable to Do Even Housework Because of Kidney Troubles. Mrs. Margaret Emmerich, of Clinton street, Napoleon, O., says: "For fifteen years I was a great sufferer from kidney troubles. My back pained me terribly. Every turn or move caused sharp shooting pains. My eyesight was poor, dark spots appeared be- teen years I was a great sufferer from kidney troubles. My back pained me terribly. Every turn or move caused sharp shooting pains. My eyesight was poor, dark spots appeared before me, and I had dizzy spells. For ten years I could not do housework, and for two years did not get out of the house. The kidney secretions were irregular, and doctors were not helping me. Doan's Kidney Pills brought me quick relief, and finally cured me. They saved my life." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Tight collars cause short sight. My God Bless J. B. Foraker. There is one man in the U. S. Senate, who is big enough and brave enough, to stand up for right. He hails from the Buckeye State, Senator J. B. Foraker. He ought to be President of the United States. PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK IN THE INTEREST OF THE NEGRO BY CIMETER PUB. CO ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AT MUSKOGEE, I. T., AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER W H. TWINE . . . Editor. E D. NICKENS, Advertising Manager. For Governor of the State of Oklahoma, Hon. John D. Benedict, of Muskogee, I. T. My God Bless There is one man in the big enough and brave e right. He hails from the tor J. B. Foraker. He of the United States. The people at Wildcat alias Grayson, have organized an emigration society that will be a success. E. N. C. Woods, the manager and the entire force of City officers are behind the scheme. We have on our desk the Muskogee News, the latest Craft on the Journalistic Sea, in this locality. It is a simon pure Republican Daily and starts out with bright prospects and is the only Republican Daily Newspaper in Muskogee. The boys claim to belong to no faction and will give all men a "Square Deal." We are glad to know that at last we have a real live Republican Daily News paper in Muskogee and we wish the New Comer a pleasant and profilable journey on the Journalistic. SEE. Tillman says that all Negro women deem it an honor to consort with white men. Its a d lie and he knows it. Its only the debased and degraded women of our race who stoop to leason with Tillman and the other low class whites as evidence of this there is now in Muskogee a Creole (so called) resort where white men of the Tillman type go to practice social equality with women who carry a small per cent of Negro blood and it seems that Tillman class, of our white men must consider it and honor to consort with these depraved women. We believe this den of hell should be put out of business aa it is just such places as are the incubators of race riots and a- ```markdown ``` FOR SALE. Lot three (3) in block Ninety three, to the city of Muskogee Indian Territory. size 100x145. Also one of the finest business lots in the town of Panama. Indian Territory, one block from depot. size 25x140. Abstract shows these two pieces of property to be all O. K. and a perfect chain of tiile. Address S. M. Twine. 218 1-2 State St. Pine Bluff. Ark. J. B. Foraker. The U. S. Senate, who is enough, to stand up for the Buckeye State, Sena-ought to be President gain this Creole hotel or resort is in close proximity to one of our schools and every day the little children, boys and girls as they pass by can witness an orgie of dancing, h h kicking and vulgar displays that would shock the high sheriff of hell. We call on the Ministers, the Good Women, the Teachers and all others good citizens and also police force, the Marshall office to put the lid on this den of infamy and vice. If it is not done and done at once all the signs indicate one of of the most violent conflicts among the lowest class of both races that our town has ever seen. The first article to the constitution sounds like children play it starts out with a resolution offered by Leadbettars to seperate the races on railroads and waiting rooms. To a man on the outside this is one of the most ignorant set of men that ever met in the west. The Daily Searchlight—Dec.1 1906 We told old Gordon when he was making "Goo Goo Eyes" at the Democratic Combination last Nov., that they would do this very thing but the old man thought differently but now his eyes SEEM to be open. AGENTS WANTED We want energetic hustling agents for this paper and will pay liberly for good work. If you want to make money, write at once—W. H. Twine. CIMETER $1. A YEAR. Pioneer Abstract Co. IOWA BUILDING This Company makes absolutely correct abstracts of title. Go there for correct information. Next to Bank of Muskogee, Muskogee Tours Via R To Mineapolis Very low rates acc Tickets on sale Aug To Milwaukee Very low rates acc Tickets on sale Aug Bidea-Wee - Trips To Colorado Low rates all summe tember 23 to 29 incl To California Low rates all summe tember 3 to 14 incl To Mexico Fare and one summer. 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We expect your co-operation anc patronage. Almost three hundred Negroes Attended The Convention In Muskogee Dec. 5th. The convention before adjournment passed the following resolutions: "The negroes of the Indian Territory, in mass meeting assembled, believe that the Constitutional Convention for the proposed state of Oklahoma, now in session at Guthrie, Okla., should make no law nor at tempt any legislation that would curtail the rights, restrict the privileges or cut off the immunities of any particular clas of its citizens. "The Indian Territory, or the eastern half of the proposed state, has progressed and prospered with amazing rapidity during the last decade, and every race within her borders has shared in that progress and by thrift, industry and rightful liv prosperity. In common with all other races, the negroes of this territory, ing, have made themselves in a large measure a useful part of this new citizenship. "Numbering approximately eighty thousand, owning quite a million acres of the soil, possessing personal and real property to the value of ten millions and upward, with creditable representatives in every legitimate walk of life, the negroes of the Indian Territory show themselves eminently fitted to enjoy the fullest measure of unrestricted citizenship in the new state. "Nor has this country ever before been marred by attempts to promote racial discord, force vicious class legislation upon any one people such as is practiced in certain Southern states with the intent to throttle the honest, earnest attempts of the American negro to secure and protect his constitutional rights. In this territory white man, red man and black man have always lived in perfect accord; no hideous lynchings to mar the good name of the territory; no mob violence to destroy, frighten or drive away outside investors; no election laws aimed to deprive a large class of its citizenship of the elective franchise because God created them black. "The introduction of such meth- ods or the incorporation of such 'Jim Crow' legislation in the fundamental law of the new state would be an injustice to a large number of her citizens, a disgrace to our western civilization, and the forerunner of other vicious legislation that would cause endless strife, racial discord, tumult and race disturbances. "Therefore Be It Resolved, By the negroes of the Indian Territory in mass meeting assembled: "That in view of the negroes not having a representative upon the floor of the said Constitutional Convention, that a committee of twenty-five be appointed by the chairman of this meeting to perform such service and take such steps as may be necessary to fully protect our civil and political rights in the proposed new state; that such committee be empowered to adopt such means, prepare and present such requests petitions and memorials to such constitutional convention, the congress and president of the United States, and take such judicial proceedings as will prohibit the introduction of any proposed 'Jim Crow' legislation within the new state of Oklahoma." Concerning the discharge of the negro soldiers of the 25th Infantry, the convention passed the following resolution: "Whereas, Senators Joseph Benson Foraker of Ohio and Boles Penduced into the senate of the United States resolutions seeking to discover the true facts concerning and connected with the recent discharge of the battalion of negro soldiers, members of the 25th Infantry, U. S. A.; and "Whereas, Public sentiment as well as justice for all concerned demand that a fair, rigid, impartial investigation of this entire matter be had; therefore "Be it Resolved, By the negroes of the Indian Territory in mass convention assembled, that the thanks of this convention be extended Senators Foraker and Penrose for their efforts to secure immediate congressional action and investigation of this affair; we earnestly hope and ask for the immediate passage of the resolutions introduced by these distinguished statesmen; and be it further "Resolved. That copies of this resolution be forwarded to Senators Foraker and Penrose at Washington, D. C., and that a copy be transmitted to President Theodore Roosevelt." CHRISTMAS SUITS AND OVER COATS The Holiday Season is fastly approching and this is the time of all the year, when the Heart begins to throb in the breast of every man and boy...and anxiously thobing for a New Suit of Clothes or A New Over-Coat. --- estion comes is where es in Strictly Hand es. The next question comes is where can he get the best prices in Strictly Hand-Made, Well Fitting Clothes. ```markdown ``` right here; that we are daily to go away from our Store Debt g "Made Right" Suit—The you have never been to our s show you our complete for men and Boys. and complete stock of men and Children. SON HATS, OUR CAL shirts, Sweaters, Underwear and any other First Class Clothing it done justice to yourself at We want to convince you, of our prices will do the w as a call—We want to become We want to establish between and will be sure to exist af We wish to say right here; that we are daily pleasing many good dressers, who go away from our Store Delighted, well pleased with a charming "Made Right" Suit——The kind we always show you.——If you have never been to our store! If you have never allowed us to show you our complete stock of "Hand Made" Clothing for men and Boys. Our strong and complete stock of Shoes for Men Women and Children. OUR STETSON HATS, OUR CAPS, GLOVES Our Woolen Shirts, Sweaters, Underwear and in fact every thing carried by any other First Class Clothing and Shoe house, then, you have not done justice to yourself and to us,—We want to see you. We want to convince you, A look at our line and a comparison of our prices will do the work. Please gives us a call—We want to become better acquainted with you—We want to establish between us that frindly relation which should and will be sure to exist after you have paid us a visit. WANT YOU WE WANT YOU TO COME If you are already our Customer and our friend, then we ask you to continue with us, and thanking you for your continued visits we are yours very truly. Jones Bld'g South 2nd. St. Muskogee. Ind. Ter. THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL MESSAGE Recommends Legislation on New and Important Subjects. He Believes Such Laws Would Curb Growth of Fortunes to Dangerous Proportions. His Views on Negro Question—Asks for Currency Reform, and Shipping Bill—Would Make Citizens of Japs Many Other Important Subjects Discussed. Washington, Dec. 3.—The notable features of President Roosevelt's annual message to congress are his appeal for the enactment into law of several bills introduced into congress last winter and spring; his views on the negro problem; the scoring he gives those whom he terms "preachers of discontent;" the stand he takes for the control of corporations by the federal government under the interstate commerce clause of the constitution, and his recommendation for an inheritance and income tax law. Many other subjects common to messages of the chief executive are touched upon, but the ones mentioned are by far of the greatest importance. He especially urges the passage of the bill prohibiting corporations from contributing to campaign funds, and also that one which would give the government the right of appeal in criminal cases. Of this he says: "Another bill which has just past one house of the congress and which is urgently necessary should be enacted into law is that conferring upon the government the right of appeal in criminal cases on questions of law. This right exists in many of the states; it exists in the District of Columbia by act of the congress. It is of course not proposed that in any case a verdict for the defendant on the merits should be set aside. Recently in one district where the government had indicted certain persons for conspiracy in connection with rebates, the court sustained the defendant's demurrer; while in another jurisdiction an indictment for conspiracy to obtain rebates has been sustained by the court, convictions obtained under it, and two defendants sentenced to imprisonment. The two cases referred to may not be in real conflict with each other, but it is unfortunate that there should even be an apparent conflict. At present there is no way by which the government can cause such a conflict, when it occurs, to be solved by an appeal to a higher court; and the wheels of justice are blocked without any real decision of the question. I can not too strongly urge the passage of the bill in question. A failure to pass will result in seriously hampering the government in its effort to obtain justice, especially against wealthy individuals or corporations who do wrong; and may also prevent the government from obtaining justice for wageworkers who are not themselves able effectively to contest a case where the judgment of an inferior court has been against them. I have specifically in view a recent decision by a district judge leaving railway employees without remedy for violation of a certain so-called labor statute. It seems an absurdity to permit a single district judge, against what may be the judgment of the immense majority of his colleagues on the bench, to declare a law solemnly enacted by the congress to be "unconstitutional," and then to deny to the government the right to have the supreme court definitely decide the question." Injunctions. On the subject of the abolition of injunctions in labor disputes, he says: "In my last message I suggested the enactment of a law in connection with the issuance of injunctions, attention having been sharply drawn to the matter by the demand that the right of applying injunctions in labor cases should be wholly abolished. It is at least doubtful whether a law abolishing altogether the use of injunctions in such cases would stand the test of the courts; in which case of course the legislation would be ineffective. Moreover, I believe it would be wrong altogether to prohibit the use of injunctions. It is criminal to permit sympathy with criminals to weaken our hands in upholding the law; and if men seek to destroy life or property by mob violence there should be no impairment of the power of the courts to deal with them in the most summary and effective way possible. But so far as possible the abuse of the power should be provided against by some such law as I advocated last year. The Negro Problem. The negro problem is given considerable attention, after calling attention to the fact that no section of the country is free from faults, and that no section has occasion to jeer at the shortcomings of any other section, he turns to the subject of lynchings, and especially as applied to the negro of the south. He says the greatest existing cause for mob law is the perpetration by the blacks of the crime of rape, a crime which he terms even worse than murder. He quotes the admonitions to the white people spoken by Gov. Candler, of Georgia, some years ago, and by Gov. Jelks, of Alabama, recently, and then says: "Every colored man should realize that the worst enemy of his race is the negro criminal, and above all the negro criminal who commits the dreadful crime of rape; and it should be felt as in the highest degree an offense against the whole country, and against the colored race in particular, for a colored man to fail to help the officers of the law in hunting down with all possible earnestness and zeal every such infamous offender. Moreover, in my judgment, the crime of rape should always be punished with death, as is the case with murder; assault with intent to commit rape should be made a capital crime, at least in the discretion of the court; and provision should be made by which the punishment may follow immediately upon the heels of the offense; while the trial should be so conducted that the victim need not be wantonly shamed while giving testimony, and that the least possible publicity shall be given to the details. The members of the white race on the other hand should understand that every lynching represents by just so much a loosening of the bands of civilization; that the spirit of lynching inevitably throws into prominence in the community all the foul and evil creatures who dwell therein. No man can take part in the torture of a human being without having his own moral nature permanently lowered. Every lynching means just so much moral deterioration in all the children who have any knowledge of it, and therefore just so much additional trouble for the next generation of Americans. "Let justice be both sure and swift; but let it be justice under the law, and not the wild and crooked savagery of a mob. Capital and Labor. On the subject of capital and labor the president takes the agitators of class hatred to task and says "to preach hatred to the rich man, as such, . . . to seek to mislead and inflame to madness honest men whose lives are hard and who have not the kind of mental training which will permit them to appreciate the danger in the doctrines preached is to commit a crime against the body politic and to be false to every worthy principle and tradition of American national life." Continuing on this subject he says: "The plain people who think—the mechanics, farmers, merchants, workers with head or hand, the men to whom American traditions are dear, who love their country and try to act decently by their neighbors, owe it to themselves to remember that the most damaging blow that can be given popular government is to elect an unworthy and sinister agitator on a platform of violence and hypocrisy. Whenever such an issue is raised in this country nothing can be gained by finching from it, for in such case democracy is itself on trial, popular self-government under republican forms is itself on trial. The triumph of the mob is just as evil a thing as the triumph of the plutocracy, and to have escaped one danger avails nothing whatever if we succumb to the other. In the end the honest man, whether rich or poor, who earns his own living and tries to deal justly by his fellows, has as much to fear from the insincere and unworthy demagog, promising much and performing nothing, or else performing nothing but evil, who would set on the mob to plunder the rich, as from the crafty corruptionist, who, for his own ends, would permit the common people to be exploited by the very wealthy. If we ever let this government fall into the hands of men of either of these two classes, we shall show ourselves false to America's past. Moreover, the demagog and corruptionist often work hand in hand. There are at this moment wealthy reactionaries of such obtuse morality that they regard the public servant who prosecutes them when they violate the law, or who seeks to make them bear their proper share of the public burdens, as being even more objectionable than the violent agitator who hounds on the mob to plunder the rich. There is nothing to choose between such a reactionary and such an agitator; fundamentally they are alike in their selfish disregard of the rights of others; and it is natural that they should join in opposition to any movement of which the aim is fearlessly to do exact and even justice to all." Railroad Employees' Hours. He asks for the passing of the bill limiting the number of hours of employment of railroad employees, and classes the measure as a very moderate one. He says the aim of all should be to steadily reduce the number of hours of labor, with as a goal the general introduction of an eight-hour day, but insists that on the Isthmus of Panama the conditions are so different from what they are here that the introduction of an eight-hour day on the canal would be absurd, and continues, "just about as absurd as it is, so far as the Isthmus is concerned, where white labor cannot be employed, to bother as to whether the work is done by alien black men or alien yellow men." He urges the enactment of a drastic child labor law for the District of Columbia and the territories, and a federal investigation of the subject of child and female labor throughout the country, He reviews the work of the commission appointed to investigate labor conditions in the coal fields of Pennsylvania in 1902, and refers to the wish of the commission "that the state and federal governments should provide the machinery for what may be called the compulsory investigation of controversies between employers and employees when they arise." Control of Corporations. A considerable portion of the message is devoted to the subject of federal control of corporations in what he refers to the passage at the last session of the rate, meat inspection and food laws, and says that all of these have already justified their enactment, but recommends the amendment of the meat inspection law so as to put dates on the labels of meat products, and also to place the cost of inspection on the packers rather than on the government. Continuing on this subject of the control of corporations by the federal government he says: "It cannot too often be repeated that experience has conclusively shown the impossibility of securing by the actions of nearly half a hundred different state legislatures anything but ineffective chaos in the way of dealing with the great corporations which do not operate exclusively within the limits of any one state. In some method, whether by a national license law or in other fashion, we must exercise, and that at an early date, a far more complete control than at present over these great corporations—a control that will among other things prevent the evils of excessive overcapitalization, and that will compel the disclosures by each big corporation of its stockholders and of its properties and business, whether owned directly or thru subsidiary or affiliated corporations. This will tend to put a stop to the securing of inordinate profits by favored individuals at the expense whether of the general public, the stockholders, or the wageworkers. Our effort should be not so much to prevent consolidation as such, but so to supervise and control it as to see that it results in no harm to the people. The reactionary or ultraconservative apologists for the misuse of wealth assail the effort to secure such control as a step toward socialism. As a matter of fact it is these reactionaries and ultraconservatives who are themselves most potent in increasing socialistic feeling. One of the most efficient methods of averting the consequences of a dangerous agitation, which is 80 per cent. wrong, is to remedy the 20 per cent. of evil as to which the agitation is well founded. The best way to avert the very undesirable move for the government ownership of railways is to secure by the government on behalf of the people as a whole such adequate control and regulation of the great interstate common carriers as will do away with the evils which give rise to the agitation against them. So the proper antidote to the dangerous and wicked agitation against the men of wealth as such is to secure by proper legislation and executive action the abolition of the grave abuses which actually do obtain in connection with the business use of wealth under our present system—or rather no system—of failure to exercise any adequate control at all. Some persons speak as if the exercise of such governmental control would do away with the freedom of individual initiative and dwarf individual effort. This is not a fact. It would be a veritable calamity to fall to put a premium upon individual initiative, individual capacity and effort; upon the energy, character and foresight which it is so important to encourage in the individual. But as a matter of fact the deadening and degrading effect of pure socialism, and especially of its extreme form communism, and the destruction of individual character which they would bring about, are in part achieved by the wholly unregulated competition which results in a single individual or corporation rising at the expense of all others until his or its rise effectually checks all competition and reduces former competitors to a position of utter inferiority and subordination. Inheritance and Income Tax. It was expected that the president would refer in some way to his belief in the necessity for the curbing of enormous fortunes, and he has done so by recommending legislation for both income and an inheritance tax. He believes the government should impose a graduated inheritance tax, and, if possible, a graduated income tax. He says: "I am well aware that such a subject as this needs long and careful study in order that the people may become familiar with what is proposed to be done, may clearly see the necessity of proceeding with wisdom and self-restraint, and may make up their minds just how far they are willing to go in the matter; while only trained legislators can work out the project in necessary detail. But I feel that in the near future our national legislators should enact a law providing for a graduated inheritance tax by which a steadily increasing rate of duty should be put upon all moneys or other valuables coming by gift, bequest, or devise to any individual or corporation. It may be well to make the tax heavy in proportion as the individual benefited is remote of kin. In any event, in my judgment the pro rata of the tax should increase very heavily with the increase of the amount left to any one individual after a certain point has been reached. It is most desirable to encourage thrift and ambition, and a potent source of thrift and ambition is the desire on the part of the breadwinner to leave his children well off. This object can be attained by making the tax very small on moderate amounts of property left; because the prime object should be to put a constantly increasing burden on the inheritance of those swollen fortunes which it is certainly of no benefit to this country to perpetuate. There can be no question of the ethical propriety of the government thus determining the conditions upon which any gift or inheritance should be received. Exactly how far the inheritance tax would, as an incident, have the effect of limiting the transmission by devise or gift of the enormous fortunes in question it is not necessary at present to discuss. It is wise that progress in this direction should be gradual. At first a permanent national inheritance tax, while it might be more substantial than any such tax has hitherto been, need not approximate, either in amount or in the extent of the increase by graduation, to what such a tax should ultimately be. Agricultural Interests. He appeals for every encouragement that the congress can give to the agricultural interests of the country. He points to the good that is being done by the various forms of grange organizations, and says: "Several factors must cooperate in the improvement of the farmer's condition. He must have the chance to be educated in the widest possible sense—in the sense which keeps ever in view the intimate relationship between the theory of education and the facts of life. In all education we should widen our aims. It is a good thing to produce a certain number of trained scholars and students; but the education superintended by the state must seek rather to produce a hundred good citizens than merely one scholar, and it must be turned now and then from the class book to the study of the great book of nature itself. This is especially true of the farmer, as has been pointed out again and again by all observers most competent to pass practical judgment on the problems of our country life. All students now realize that education must seek to train the executive powers of young people and to confer more real significance upon the phrase "dignity of labor," and to prepare the pupils so that in addition to each developing in the highest degree his individual capacity for work, they may together help create a right public opinion, and show in many ways social and cooperative spirit. Organization has become necessary in the business world; and it has accomplished much for good in the world of labor. It is no less necessary for farmers. Such a movement as the grange movement is good in itself and is capable of a well-nigh infinite further extension for good so long as it is kept to its own legitimate business. The benefits to be derived by the association of farmers for mutual advantage are partly economic and partly sociological. Currency Reform. Amendments to the present currency laws are asked for, and after showing that present laws are inadequate because of the wide fluctuation of interest charges, he says: "The mere statement of these facts shows that our present system is seriously defective. There is need of a change. Unfortunately, however, many of the proposed changes must be ruled from consideration because they are complicated, are not easy of comprehension, and tend to disturb existing rights and interests. We must also rule out any plan which would materially impair the value of the United States two per cent. bonds now pledged to secure circulation, the issue of which was made under conditions peculiarly creditable to the treasury. I do not press any special plan. Various plans have recently been proposed by expert committees of bankers. Among the plans which are possibly feasible and which certainly should receive your consideration is that repeatedly brought to your attention by the present secretary of the treasury, the essential features of which have been approved by many prominent bankers and business men. According to this plan national banks should be permitted to issue a specified proportion of their capital in notes of a given kind, the issue to be taxed at so high a rate as to drive the notes back when not wanted in legitimate trade. This plan would not permit the issue of currency to give banks additional profits, but to meet the emergency presented by times of stringency. He again asks for free trade with this country for the Philippines and in the same connection reviews the work done by this country in the islands, and says "if we have erred in the Philippines it has been in proceeding too rapidly in the direction of granting a large measure of self-government." Cuban Intervention. The rebellion in Cuba and the incidents leading up to the establishment of the provisional government is reviewed, and the president says: "When the election has been held and the new government inaugurated in peaceful and orderly fashion of the provisional government will come to an end, I take this opportunity of expressing upon behalf of the American people, with all possible solemnity, our most earnest hope that the people of Cuba will realize the imperative need of preserving justice and keeping order in the island. The United States wishes nothing of Cuba except that it shall prosper morally and materially, and wishes nothing of the Cubans save that they shall be able to preserve order among themselves and therefore to preserve their independence. If the elections become a farce, and if the insurrectionary habit becomes confirmed in the island, it is absolutely out of the question that the island should continue independent; and the United States, which has assumed the sponsorship before the civilized world for Cuba's career as a nation, would again have to intervene and to see that the government was managed in such orderly fashion as to secure the safety of life and property. The path to be trodden by those who exercise self-government is always hard, and we should have every charity and patience with the Cubans as they tread this difficult parth. I have the utmost sympathy with, and regard for, them; but I most earnestly adjure them solemnly to weigh their responsibilities and to see that when their new government is started it shall run smoothly, and with freedom from fragrant denial of right on the one hand, and from insurrectionary disturbances on the other." 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