Muskogee Cimeter

APOSTROPHE TO "WILIAME THE DAMNED" By Warren E. Comstock. Symbol of monarchy and of greed; Flowering of privilege—gone to seed! William the second, on history's scroll. But as the centuries onward roll Thy monument shall forever be Of all that's vile, the epitome! William the Domned. Thou great assassin! Dread connoisseuie, And vivisector of all that's pure And sweet and holy—of good intent; Direct from hades by arch-fiend sent. Thou Methistopheles of a man The most accursed since time began— William the Damned. Embodiment of a dying world, Now, into the melting pot are hurled All kings and queens and thy retinue. With cast and preferment of the few. Thy grasping hand and thy grinding heel Shall I furnace of retribution feel— William the Damned. From fate's retort, midst a flaming sea. Shall come forth pure gold of libebrty! Then the fatherhood of God shall reign And the dove of peace descend again. Soon the brotherhood of man shall bloom In triumphant fragrance o'er thy tomb Democracy—the young Hercules— Will bring autocracy to its knees. All royal emblems of might and woe Have now reached the crisis, and must go! Justice and mercy shall wield their power! For the clock of doob now strikes thine hour— William the Damned. MUCKOGEE HAS: Pouplation: 44.000. Storm sewers: 33.3 miles. Sanitary sewers: 79.9 miles. Paved streets, 59.7 miles. Concrete sidewalks: 104.5 miles. Water mains: 71.9 miles. Motorized fire department. Two ten story steel buildings. Three eight story concrete buildings. ings. One six story concrete building. Three five story buildings. One four story office building. Four large modern hotels. Thirty-eight churches. Two high schools. Ten graded schools. Largest reservoir for city water is fully improved. Headquarters 475 traveling men. Three modern hospitals. Manufacturing gas at 4c per M. Railroads: Missouri, Kansas & Texas. St. Louis & San Francisco. Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf. Midland Valley. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern (from Ft. Gibson via, Interurban). The general shops of the M., O. & G. and Midland Valley Railroads. Two thousand railroad men at work every day in Muskogee. A Congress has been called by the National Colored Liberty Conference, and we want to go on record as saying that we believe that every state in the union should be recognized at that Congress. Mr. William Trotter, of Boston, and others are behind the movement, and now is the opportune time to push the fight for equal rights to all of the people in the land land. We are buying Liberty Bonds. Thrift Stamps and contributing to the The Muskogee Cimeter. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA, SATURDAY APR. 20 1918 Red Cross and sending the best blood of our race to fight for our country, and we see no reason why we should not be guaranteed all the rights of a Citizen. Our people should go down in their pockets and dig up the sinews of war and see to it that a splendid delagation goes from this stae to the Congress. Hon. J. Coody Johnson, president of the Protective League, has done his part. as appears in another article of this paper. Our city schools were about to be cut short one again, but Dr. Bass and others got busy and as a result, we feel justified in saying that the school will run its full limit. If our people would quit fighting each other and go to work as a unit our chools need never be short and our teachers will receive better pay, thereby enabling us to have the very best talent. We are informed that some of our teachers have been offered better pay elsewhere, and of course this is an inducement for them to go. If we desire the best talent we must get together and make a fight for better pay. The teachers cannot make this fight and the patrons ought to make it. Let us do it. There has been several arrests of white men for disloyal talk, we are glad to say this has had a soothing effect upon the loud-mouthed Negroes who were following in the footsteps of the disloyal whites, and the loud-mouthed Negroes have disappeared from the street corners and gone to work. Let the good work go on. TO THE NEGRO CITIZENS OF OKLAHOMA, GREETINGS: Know ye that, whereas, A call for a Negro Congress has been made by the National Colored Liberty Conference , and that said Congress is to convene in the City of Washington, District of Columbia, on the 29th day of May, 1918, and continue in sessionuntil June 2nd. That said Congress is called for the purpose of taking action to secure from the Government a guarantee of equality of civil and political rights and abolition of injustice and discrimination on Color lines as our share of the World Democracy for which our race is legally bound to offer life in the World War. Whereas, I have been officially notified and asked to name delegates to said Congress, now therefore, know ye that I, J. Coody Johnson, president of the Negro Protective League for the State of Oklahoma, do by virtue of authority in me vested by said League, name and appoint the following delegates to said Congress. Delegation: J. Coody Johnson, chairman, Wewoka; G. W. F. Sawner, Chandler: J. M. Marquess, Langston; E. T. Barbour, El Reno; T. H. Traylor, Oklahoma City: T. J. Elliott, Muskogee; A. J. Mmitherman, Tulsa; R. Emmett Steward, Muskogee, and W. H. Twine. Dated this 18th day of April. 1918, at Wewoka, Oklahoma. L. COOPY, JOHNSON FEATURES OF LOAN DRIVE How Oklahoma Scored Success In Great National Financial Campaign. Oklahoma City, April 17. (Special.)—The success of the part played by Oklahoma in the great Third Liberty Loan Drive already has been proven by reports received by the State Council of Defense from every section of the state. The factors which contributed to that success are of interest. How Organization Counted. First of course was the patriotic spirit of Oklahoma and the tremendous response which the people of the state made to the appeal of the government. Next was hard work on the part of hundreds of war workers. But the campaign also emphasized the value of organization. In every county where there is an active and well organized council the task of getting the quota, and often more than the quota, was comparatively quick and easy. The county organization was at the service of the loan campaigners, every community and individual could beeb reached. In counties where the county organization was not up to the mark, more time and effort were required and ultimate results were less satisfactory. Kingfisher county was oversubscribed the first day and in addition the county made almost a state or national record for the numbebr of bonds sold in proportion to the population. Loyalty of Farmers. The farmers of Oklahoma demonstrated their loyalty, quotas in most of the agricultural districts being oversubscribed. In Pontotoc, where practically every school district is organized, bonds were purchased by 90 per cent of the families, another striking example of the combined effect of patriotism and organized effort. The subscriptions from alien enemies, that is immigrants from enemy countries who have not become citizens, was encouraging proof that many of them know from experience the evils of tutocratic rule and wish to help in the fight against it. Oklahoma ayways has been patriotic; the response to the Third Liberty loan is proof that every section of the state has realized the life and death issues at stake in the war. BUY COAL WHILE YOU It May Be Hard to Get When Winter Again Sets In. Oklahoma City, April 17. (Special.)—The State Council of Defense strongly advises Oklahomaans to purchase their supply of coal against the coming winter this spring or early in the summer. It is quite possible that when winted again sets in it may be difficult to obtain a sufficient supply. One of the reasons for the coal shortage last winter was the failure of dealers and householders to lay in their usual supply before the cold weather come. This was largely due to the uncertainty which prevails regarding future prices. When an unusually severe winter same, everybody wanted coal at once; they could not get it and much suffering resulted. RETURN ADDRESS LETTEDS TO SOLDIERS May Prevent Unnecessary Delay and Worry In Case of Transfers. Oklahoma City, April 17. (Special.)—The State Council of Defense advises all persons writing to soldiers to place the return address on the envelope. Often it happens that the soldier has been transferred, so that the address given is incorrect. Where possible the letter is forwarded. Sometimes it is not possible to forward the letter. In such cases the return address will make it possible to return the letter promptly to the sender. THE TEAMER BROWN CO. Come to 1404 North 4th St. for first class Brooms, made by master workmen. Prices to meet your pocketbook. We lead where others follow. We are able to meet competition. J. F. TEAMER. Manager. W. S. STAMPS ARE BASE HITS Hughie Jennings, famous manager of the Detroit American team, applying base ball parlance in a War Savings speech said: "Remember that these Stamps are the base hits in this war game. Every time you buy a Stamps you are making a base hit and helping Uncle Sam and the cause of democracy to score." Buy War Savings Stamps and help win the war. AN APPEAL TO THE 12.000,000 NEGROES OH THEM Our nation is engaged in a war for its very existence. To win this war we must save food, grow great crops of foodstuffs and substitute other foods for those most easily shipped to our associates in this war and our own soldiers in France, thousands of whom are men of our own race. The Food Administration realizes that the Negro people of this ration can be of the utmost help in food conservation and food food production. Every Negro man, woman and child can render a definite service by responding to the appeal and instructors of the Food Administration and its representatives. The Negroes have shown themselves loyal and responsive in every national crisis. Their greatest opportunity of the present day, to exercise this loyalty, is to help save and gdow food. I am confident that they will respond to the suggestions of the Food Administration and thus prove again their patriotism for the winning of this war. (Signed) HERBERT HOOVER It is easy to save if we remember that by saving we are helping those who are undergoing indescribable hardships and discomforts, and risking their lives every day for us and for our country's sake at the front. Buy War Savings Stamps. Our soldiers and sailors offer all they have for us. We must not use their sacrifices to enable us to live in comfort now. By so doing we lengthen the war and the casualty lists. Buy War Savings Stamps. When we save and lend to the government we transfer our spending power to the Nation, and what the government spends is substituted for what we have been spending, instead of being added to it. Buy War Savings Stamps. A *$10,000 FINE FOR LYNCHING House Measure Would Penalize County for Mob Violence Washington, April 8.—A bill to prevent lynchings by imposing a fine of $5,000 to $10,000 on counties in which they take place was introduced today by Representative Dyer, Republican, Missouri. The bill probides drastic penalties for county or municipal officers who fail to make efforts to prevent lynchings and for prosecutors who fail to push lynch cases.—Christian Recorder. The Cimiter has alwey said; gake lynching a federal crime and it will stop. We hope the above bill will soon become a law. Mob law is wrong in all cases. Ireland, has for years been fighting for home rule and failed, but the great world war coming on made it possible for the Irish to get their desire, and now Ireland is offered home rule and they get it because they are going to be compelled to furnish their proportion in the draft. And Premier Lloyd George says they must take home rule and stand the draft. Now our people in this country have never objected to the draft and they willingly furnish their proportionate share of fighting men and more, and now they are demanding the right to vote and have that vote conuted as cast, the right to set on jurics, and in fact every right due an American citizen. We believe in equal rights to all men regardless of race, color or creed and exclusive privileges to none. The negro congress that meets at Washington will place this matter before the Government in proper shape. On April 18th Claude Singleton, a Negro convicted of the murder of E. J. Bonds, a white railroad worker, was taken from the county jail and hanged. A mob of about a hundred persons had forced the sheriff to turn over the keys of the jail. Every man in that mob, the sheriff included, are outlaws and murderers, and equally as bad, if not worse, than their victim. This is another argument to make mob law a federal crime. The sheriff in this case is not worth three whoops in hell, and he and the mob are d—— slackers, just as bad as anyone who dodges the draft. EOFFMAN IS PROUD OF NEGRO TROOPS Brigadier-General Roy Hoffman is proud of his 27,000 negro soldiers. Frank Long of Tulsa dined with General Hoffman the night before he sailed from New York and it was then that the general told something of his pride in his dusky warriors. "In all of the six months I have had them, there has been no insubordination and no crime committed which warranted punishments worse than a few hours extra guard duty," Hoffman said. "These negroes sleep, dream, think and live for nothing but to kill Germans. They are 'rarin' to go' and I don't expect to come back because I can't hold them when it comes to a battle—I'll just have to let them go and go with them. "It's the hardest thing in the world to make them drill with rifles. They just simply haven't any use for them and don't like them at all." "But, you should see their trench knives. These little weapons are the pride of those Negroes' hearts. They are constantly shining and rubbing them and the edges are so sharp that many of the Negroes shave with them. "You wait until those Negroes get into action—they're going to make life mighty miserable for those Germans and they're going to make a reputation for themselves." General Hoffman was sorely displeased when he was first transferred from his command over the Oklahoma boys to the Negro bigade, but now he's too proud of his dusky soldiers to remember to be angry at anybody for anything. He and his Negroes have been in France no wfor some time and 'n all probability, judging from General Hoffman's account of their anxiety to get into action, they are pulling at the bit now for a bit of real fighting.—Muskogee Daily Phoenix. The above article was clipped from the Phoenix. It seems that the Phoenix is always willing to throw some slur at our boys. Now the Phoenix man attempts to leave the impression that our boys can't fight with the rifle, but must resort to knives or razors. Of course any such statement is a lie on its face because our boys have proved upon many a battlefield that they can handle a gun and handle it well. When they climbed San Juan Hill just such fellows as the Phoenix writer were lying flat on the ground and our boys had to march over them. Again the writer says that General Hoffman was displeased and so forth, now we know this statement to be untrue and that on the contrary that General Hoffman, and young Kerr, were equally proud of the fact that they had Negroes under their command and Major Kerr, will agree with us in this statement. We have known Roy Hoffman for thirty years and we can say of our own personal knowledge that he is a great big white man and couldn't be small as the Phoenix would have him be, and he knows our people and has always given them a square deal and has never been ashamed of it. General Hoqman was not forced to take charge of Negro soldiers, but did so willingly, and is just as proud of our boys as they are of him. They will be as true to him as the needle to the pole and no soldiers under his command will show more loyalty than these black battalions of the Republic Price $1.00 A year They are now in France and are making history and it is a very poor patriot that will cast slur at men because God in his wisdom painted their skin black. If the Colored Red Cross wants to succeed, they should give out buttons, same as the white Red Cross. Why is it not done? STATE COUNCIL HOLDS MEETING Problems of Farm Labor Supply and Greater Efficiency Are Taken Up. HOW FOOD SUPPLY CAN BE INCREASED Farmers Urged Not to Plant Over One-Half Acreage In Cotton. Oklahoma City, April 8. (Special.)—At the monthly meeting of the State Council of Defense, held in the State House March 30, the problems of creating a sufficient supply of farm labor, of increasing the food supply and of making all the county councils thoroughly efficient were among the important matters discussed. The question of the proper representation of farmers on county councils was taken up. Provision was made for a greater representation, especially in the counties which are largely agricultural. Organization of Councils. Since the big war conference in Oklahoma City there has been a noticeable increase in the efficiency of county work. Most of the county councils are doing splendid work. A few are not. A resolution was passed providing for investigation by the State Council of Defense of such county councils as are not up to the mark for the making of such changes as may be necessary. Farmers, especially in the southern part of the state, were urged not to plant more than one-half of their land to cotton, leaving the rest for food products. The State Council will insist on the carrying out of this recommendation. GARDEN CAMPAIGN Oklahoma City. April 3. (Special.)—The "Grow a Garden" campaign, which has been conducted under the direction of the State Council of Defense by J.J W. Bridges, has met with splendid success. It will prove a practical and valuable addition to the food supply of the state. There is scarcely a community in Oklahoma where large numbers of gardens are not under way. The pamphlet issued by Mr. Bridges, giving practical advise on garden growing, has been highly commended by the government, as well as by the defense councils of several states, which have asked permission to use it. DISLOYAL TEACHERS CAN BE DISCHARGED Oath of Office an Obligation to Loyalty, Says the Attorney General. Oklahoma City, April 3.—(Special.) — Any Oklahoma school teacher who is disloyal can be removed, according to an opinion rendered by Attorney General Freeling. The case of a disloyal teacher came to the attention of the Craig County Council of Defense. The question was referred to the Oklahoma State Council, which questioned an opinion from the Attorney General. Mr. Freeling states that there is no express provisions of the state statute dealing with disloyalty in such cases. The oath of office, which every school district officer must take, does, however, obligate him to "faithfully discharge the duties pertaining to said office and to obey the constitution and laws of the United States and of Oklahoma." Talking into account the intent of the law, Attorney General Freeling says that a disloyalty to the government in time of war is a violation of this oath and cause for removal. ASSAILS DEMOCRACY PINION OF HENRY WATTERSON, IN LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL VALLOPS CONGRESS iso Whacks State Legislators, Charging Most Are Politicians, Without Power to Elect U. S. Senators, But With Power to Amend Federal Constitution Under the heading "Democratic Tynny," the Louisville Courier Journal scans thus: Congress has voted to submit to the legislatures of the States a constitutional amendment for national prohibition. If three-fourths of the Legislatures vote to ratify the amendment on it becomes a part of our organic w and one year thereafter no man this country will have the right to take, sell, transport, export or import toxicating liquors. In other words, three-fourths of the state Legislatures will have denied the her states the right to legislate for ourselves and will have denied inlets of citizens of all the states the personal liberty to make a drink e take a drink if they choose. No Majority Rule. Advocates of this proceeding affirm that it is in accordance with the rule the majority in our system of democracy. But it is not in accordance with the rule of the majority; though if it wore it it would be inconsistent with the spirit of real democracy which never intreaches, except in extraordinary emergency like war, and certain lines on the personal liberty of the individual. If this amendment be ratified as required by the institution it will not have been notioned by a majority of the people, so will not have voted on it at all really. In the case of Kentucky if a present Legislature ratifies theendment the people of Kentucky will never have voted on it even indirectly, and in the cases of the Legislatures which are to be elected the action of the approval of this amendment will not be popularly voted on confused with other questions and personal equations of the candidates, always largely influential in the action of a Legislature. Our experience in following our own theory of democracy has proved that we founders of our system, to the extent it, which they meant the functions our legislatures to be a medium of democracy ratier than a check on democracy, made a mistake. This distake has been acknowledged and corrected in the method of our choice of United States Senators. The evils delegating to Legislatures the propratives of the people were so clearly demonstrated that we changed the constitution, took away from the legislatures the power to elect United States Senators and imposed it direction on the people. An election by a legislature and one by popular vote is notoriously very different things in methods and results. The legislature, composed in the main of politicians, is so small, comparatively, to admit of manipulations and inences difficult or impossible in the larger field; and the "logrolling," the pork" trading, the wheels within wheels and the many indirect, unrelated and sinister factors which enter to the final result of a vote by the legislature are often not only not representative of the popular will, but positively misrepresentative of it. Rapa State Legislatures. That is why we have taken away from the Legislatures the power to elect our United States Senators. But we have not yet taken away from them he power to amend our Constitution. This plays peculiarly into the hands if those who subordinate all else to exhibition; for the devious ways by which Legislatures are worked are ast the ways the prohibitionists like to employ and with which they have been most successful. The manner in which they have worked our National Legislature at Washington to submit this amendment pertinent to this point; for nobody pretends that Congress has reflected popular sentiment in this matter or even reflected its own sentiment. A constitutional amendment establishing national prohibition will derive millions of American citizens of their rights without even the ascertained approval of a majority of American voters.—From The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky. LET 'EM GO TO— [Luke McLuke, In Cincinnati Enquirer.] If we shall know each other in Heaven, a lot of Prohibitionists will be perfectly misleave when they discover that they have to associate with a lot of people who believed in Personal Liberty when they were on earth. NO, I WON'T GIVE YOU A CENT! WE ARE FIGHTING HELL AND THE DEVIL... AND HAVE NO TIME FOR YOUR PUNY LITTLE WARS! THE ANTH-SALOON LEAGUE NEEDS YOUR MONEY THREE CHEERS FOR HARD CIDER IF 1,000,000 PEOPLE LOSE THEIR JOBS THROUGH NATIONAL PROHIBITION — LET THEM GET OTHER JOBS. WHAT DO WE CARE FOR THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, VOTE DRY! When Colonel F. W. Calbraith, commanding the First Regiment, Ohio National Guard, who then was President of the Cincinnati Business Men's Club, recently asked James A. White, Superintendent of the Ohio Anti-Saloon League, to call off the campaign for a prohibition amendment in the Buckeye. State and give to the Red Cross the money which the Drys plan to spend for the election in November, the suggestion was promptly turned down. Lewis H. Gibson, Manager of the Ohio Home Rule Association, on behalf of the "Wets," agreed to donate this sum to the worthy cause. The reason for the Drys' refusal is best explained by the words of the Rev. Hovey Matthews, of Montclair, N.J., who wrote a letter to the New York World, criticising the efforts of that great paper to remove the blockade raised by the Anti-Saloon League in insisting that a national prohibition clause be included in the Federal food bill, while the life of the nation was at stake. The irate preacher wrote: "ARE FIGHTING HELL AND THE DEVIL AND HAVE NOTIME FOR YOUR PUNY LITTLE WARS." OHIO FEDERATION OF LABOR VOTES AGAINST PROHIBITION Buckeye Workers Declare Proposed "Bone-Dry" Law is Unpatriotic and "Will Mean Complete Elimination of Our Cherished American Institutions" State-wide "bone-dry" prohibition was given a jolt at the session of the Ohio State Federation of Labor, held at Eagles' Hall Wednesday morning, when the following resolution, introduced by John Gilliam, of the Cigar Makers' Local Union No. 4, after being given twenty-four hours' consideration, was adopted with only one dissenting vote: revenue, or curtail the personal liberties of soldiers, sailor or civilian, while we are confronted with "bone-dry" prohibition, which the sponsors for prohibition are endeavoring to foil upon the people of Ohio, and, "Wkerens. The success of this social and industrial monaster can not but foster strife and unrest among the people, destroy a means of livelihood of thousands of our fellow workers "Whereas, Our country, having adopted a war-time policy of conserving all resources and providing for the revenues necessary to meet the enormous financial obligations incident to a state of war, need not only the loyal support of a patriotic and a united people, but demands the vigilant preservation of all sources of revenue, and, "Whereas, in spite of the crisis confronting our nation and state, and not withstanding the fact that the allied nations, during the entire war period have not found it necessary to hamper or destroy the sources of dependable FOUR ARRESTED ON WHISKEY TRIP U. S. Agents Trail 18 Gallons of Liquor to Dry Virginia Three hundred and fifty dollars, not counting incidentals, in the price Pate Ellis and a trio of friends from Wilson County, N. C., will have paid, as the police charge, for a trip to Virginia with 18 gallons of whiskey are they return to the Tarheel State. Ellis and friends were arrested in Alexandria, Thursday, by Department of Justice agents. The specific charge against the quartet is that they transported liquor into a dry territory. When the four men were arrested the price of their release was fixed at $50 each. Ellis alone could furnish the price. He went away with the announced determination of getting $150 more to free his companions. Up to 7 o'clock last evening he hadn't returned with the cash, so his friends spent the night at No. 9 Police Precinct—Washington Post. We Know It. You would not prevent (by Prohibition) the drinking of Liquor or the bills that grow out of it, but you would destroy the supervision of the liquor traffic by local authority. You would destroy this revenue, and the bills of intemperance would still exist.—Congressman Oscar W. Underwood, of Alabama. revenue, or entail the personal Liberties of soldiers, sailor or civilian, while we are confronted with bene-dry prohibition, which the spouses for prohibition are endeavoring to foist upon the people of Ohio, and, "Wikerens. The success of this social and industrial monarch can not but foster strife and unrest among the people, destroy a means of livelihood of thousands of our fellow workers, eliminate dependable sources of enormous revenues of state and nation and increase the burden of taxation upon the workers; therefore be it "Resolved, That the Ohio State Federation of Labor, in keeping with the patriotic and economic demands of the time, urge upon its members and the voters of Ohio to resent this attempt to hamper the nation and the state by voting against prohibition and thus eliminate a menace which, if permitted to continue, will mean the complete undermining of our cherished American institutions."—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. LIQUOR ARRESTS TO GRAND JURY "Parson" Jones Among Those Held By Judge In Alexandria, Virginia A dispatch from Alexandria, Va., to the Washington Post says: "Alleged violators' of the state prohibition law were in the police court yesterday passed on for further consideration by a grand jury in the corporation court. The Rev. Jacob Jones, a street exhorter, who, the police say, had eight pints of ardeal spirits in a sack when he alighted from a trolley car from Washington on Saturday, pleaded that the liquor was for home consumption, but it did not avail. A man giving the same of John T. Burns and his destitute Richmond, who had five pipes of liquor in his suitcase when he was arrested at the union station, failed to get off on a plea that only a part of the liquor found in his possession be longed to him. "I simply say that wanton deprivation of alcohol does more harm than good; that we should kenestly teach temperance and not dishonestly preach Prohibition; that we should above all, tell the truth and abstain from lies, and remember that, after all, each man must control himself and if he uses liquors be temperate in their use."—Andrew J. Barchfield. The amendment is not a war meant country could do nothing to open upure because at least three years and the state for sales. They were, therepossibly seven will be required to set fore, not interested in the outcome andtle it. It is an anti-war measure he no effort was made by the distilling,cause the fight will take place during brewing or liquor dealing interests toby interrupt national unity in war work influence the campaign,and war measures. It will divert vast If Iowa has gone "wet" the alimunems of money to the pro and antipropagandas and campaigns whichition remains unchanged, for the stateought to be expended in the summer legislature will not meet for two moreof the war. ponded and their electronic contents Another feature which contributed regulated by the President. The battle may be futile. It is hard to the Iowa district of prohibition likely that 40 states will agree toew the report of the Congress Bureau, control all the states in the matter of liquor. The question of the sight of the effect that many citizens have each State to govern the conduct of its left that state sluse is went "dry." own citizens in the use of liquor, which The Iowa election will we doubt have does not arise in State campaigns for prohibition, will appeal to many vot an important Bearing on the elections ws, particularly in the dry South. If the amendment should be adopted enforcement would require an armenion on November 6th. its enforcement would require an army station on November 6th of United States officers and heavy ap. The Cincinnati Enquirer of October propriations by Congress.—St. Louis 17th, in a story dated at Des Moines, Post Dispatch. The protest of Representative Mo- Arthur from the City State of Oregon has gone around the world over the longshore world where he has seen five people who have been forced to attend from war activities was a sound and potent argument against throwing this bone of concession among the States: To inject a question, such as national prohibition, will not tend to solidify the people of the country in support of a common cause, but will upset business, economic and political conditions, that the war will become of secondary importance in the minds of millions of people. If this amendment is approved by Congress and sent to the states for approval or rejection, the question of standing by the administration and supporting the war will become secondary in the minds of several million radical prohibitionists and extreme anti-prohibitionists when next year's elections are held. The general test of loyalty to the government will be lost sight of in the campaigns that will hinge on the attitude of candidates on the question of prohibition. Mr. McArthur gave a well deserved rebuke to the Anti-Saloon League and other prohibition agencies which are pushing this measure when he said that they would be better employed in constructive movements against the violations of the anti-alcohol laws we have and in conducting campaigns of education against liquor than in force in its question that will create alliances. ing "a question that will create ill-feeling and discrimination among millions of our people." A "DRY" SPREE Brooklyn Eagle. UNOFFICIAL RETURNS GIVE VICTORY TO IOWA "WETS" RE-COUNT WILL BE NECESSARY—LIDERALS MADE NO FIGHT—DIDN'T SPEAK OR SPEND ONE SOLITARY NICKEL Citizens Tire of Prohibition That Doesn't Prohibit and Robuke Legislature Which Created Odious Law—"Drys" Use Immense "Pork Barrel"—Hobson Fails To Stem Tide Indeed, we can see that the constitutionale law described here most decisive defeat as paws by the complete amofoicial returns from Iowa which show that the Hawkeye state has gone against the proposed constitutional "dry" amendment by a small majority. Although it is possible that the official returns may balance the scales to the other side, nevertheless it is apparent prohibition in Iowa has received a tremendous rebuke. On October 15th Iowa citizens voted on the adoption of a prohibition amendment to the Constitution. Iowa is now a "dry" state. It has been so since January 1st, 1916, by act of Legislature. The prohibitionists and the Anti-Saloon League were not satisfied with this, but made an effort to fasten prohibition into the Constitution. Iowa being "dry," no sales of liquor could be made in the state, and, no matter what the result of the election, the state will remain "dry" until the present law is repealed by the Legislature. Under these conditions the brewers, distillers and liquor dealers of the "@complete unofficial returns from Monday's vote en an amendment to the Iowa constitution providing statewide piskibition, tonight showed the wota leading by only 887 votes, and it seems obvious that an official recount would be necessary. The complete unofficial returns gave the vote as 214,634 against and 213,747 for the amendment. "Neither side claimed victory tonight, and with a total vote of 400,000, both the wet and dry factions pointed out, so small an advantage would not be allowed to stand without a recount. It probably will be 10 days before the result is determined officially. "It developed that part of the soldier vote, pooled under the absent voters' law, had not reached County Auditors in time to be included in the count. There are about 7,000 Iowa soldiers at Mineola and Denning." The New York World and other great newspapers recently predicted that the tide was setting against prohibition when Virginia, after a year's trial of the "dry" law, nominated Westmoreland Davis, a "wet" candidate, for Governor on the Democratic ticket. Inasmuch as the Democrats control Virginia this is equivalent to an election. The remarkable feature of the Iowa election is the fact that not a cent was spent there by the liquor interests for publicity or campaign work. The Anti-Baloon League expended many thousands of dollars and had Captain Rishmond Pearson Hobson, U. S. Senator Cummins and other noted temperance orators as speakers. As the Iowa election would have no immediate effect on conditions in that state, the wets completely ignored the Anti-Baloon League campaign. It was nothing else but a light between the people and the Anti-Baloon League, and the people apparently have won. TREMENDOUS DRIVE IN THIRD LIBERTY LOAN How Enthusiasm Will Be Aroused in Every Section of Entire State. Oklahoma City, April 3. (Special.) Under the direction of J. H. Gordon, of McAlester, state chairman of the Third Liberty Loan drive, and with the co-operation of the State Council of Defense and other agencies, a campaign is under way to arouse every person in the state to the necessity for making the loan a success. An organization has been perfected which will reach every community of the state. Speakers of national fame, as well as more than one hundred of the most prominent men of the sect, will present the issues involved. State Divided Into Districts. The state has been divided into eight districts, with a district chairman in charge of each. The districts are divided into counties, each with a county chairman. Through the school district organizations the counties are still further sub-divided so that everybody will be reached. The county councils of defense have given splendid co-operation in this work of organizing. Nearly every county in the state has proven itself 100 percent loyal. Prominent speakers coming. The campaign will formally open on April 6 and last from four to six weeks. The speakers will be sent out under the direction of Chester H. Westfall, Diretor of the Oklahoma Speakers' Bureau. Among those who are expected to speak will be Ex-President William H. Taft, Charlie Chaplin, known to all "movie" patrons, Senator Robert L. Owen, Lieut. K. F. Nance and Sergeant Edward Edwards, both fresh fro mthe trenches, and many veterans of the fighting armies. FOR SALE. CHEAP Enough fine lumber and other material to build you a home for cash or small monthly payments to reliable parties if taken out of my way at once. Also vacant lots on same terms, and all of the following houses and lots for sale for cash or payments like rent. Take your choice and come to see me. No. 718, 723 and 725 S. Main street; No. 114 Westside Boulevard; No. 1722 Court street; No. 1134 North Third street; No. 517 North Seventh street; No. 1716 Court street. Three houses and lots on East street between Fifth and Sixth streets. If you want any of the above propositions, come to see me at once. Will trade for city property, country property, or oil leases. Phone 174—nights 2543. W. P. FIELDS. —Adv. FOR SALE. The following splendid bargain in real estate in the live little city of Tullahassee, Oklahoma: Nine lots at a bargain for cash. The yare beautiful lots, and well located. To the right parties wh ocannot pay all cash I will sell in the installment plan and easy payments. Oil is now being discovered near this City and a fortune is in store for land owners in the locality. Don't let this opportunity go by. See or write J. T. TRIMBLE, 2201-2 North 2nd St. The sale of War Savings Stamps began to increase as soon as the news reached Oklahoma that the Germans were making an apparently successful offensive on the Western front. The reports received at the state headquarters of the National War Savings Committee from the seventy-seven counties are indicative of this. Not only have the sales been increasing, but there has been a rush to join War Savings Societies. The latter are believed by the government to be an effective method of keeping Americans "on their toes," of having them meet with their reneighbors, assist in routing out disloyalty and of perpetuating the doctrine of thrift. Ten thousand of these societies are being formed in Oklahoma and 300,000 in the United States. It requires only ten persons to form a society, and reports indicate that there is intense rivalry in the respective counties over the honor of possessing the greatest number. ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE PROHIBITION LEGISLATOR SOLDIER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS MORRIS -New York Evening Mail. CIDER STUBE TEA WINE HOUSE WHISKED SALOON CLOSED BEER CLOSED COCKTAIL BALLOON EXCURSION TWICE DAILY HIGHBALLS SERVED 5 MILES UP DRINK X LD UNDER JUNG WHISKED DOWN WITH BOOZE, SAY! TO HELP WITH B-B-E-GLU "No argument! Sign it, or political death for you." IN "BONE DRY" LAND DRINK PINK RIVER PUREE FOR FUNNY PEOPLE THE NUT SUNDAE CLUB DRINK NEAR-BEER FOR DEPRESSING BEVERAGE MANCIFIED SPIRITS OF VANILLA PHARMACY SODA POUNTAIN PREMIUM CAREFULLY COMMUNICATED WITH THE NUT SUNDAE CLUB DRUGS THE JOYLESS LINE TAKE THE CAMEL ROUTE FOR BONEVILLE ON PARCHIMONT THIS STONES BURG AND ALL POINTS OF DUSERS SALOON CLOSED BEER CLOSED COCKTAIL BALLOON EXCURSION TWICE DAILY—HIGHBALLS SERVED SMILES UP YOU PUT THAT IN HERE! THE CODE WELLE TAKE A SWIG OF THE OLD SNUPPE DRINK OLD UNDER WHISKER UNG DOWN WITH BOOZE SAY! WHITE WASH DOWN WITH BOOZE!! HERE LIES BOOZE TO HELL WITH B-2-B-2-BUM From "Judge A "DRY" SPREE —Brooklyn Eagle. UNOFFICIAL RETURNS GIVE VICTORY TO IOWA "WETS" RE-COUNT WILL BE NECESSARY — LIBERALS MADE NO FIGHT—DIDN'T SPEAK OR SPEND ONE SOLITARY NICKEL PEOPLE VS. THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE Citizens Tire of Prohibition That Doesn't Prohibit and Rebuke Legislature Which Created Odious Law—"Drys" Use Immense "Pork Barrel"—Hobson Fails To Stem Tide Indigenous people that the prohibitionists have opposed have met decisive defeat in years by the complete unofficial returns from Iowa which show that the Hawkeye state has gone against the proposed constitutional "dry" amendment by a small majority. Although it is possible that the official returns may balance the scales to the other side, nevertheless it is apparent prohibition in Iowa has received a tremendous rebuke. On October 15th Iowa citizens voted on the adoption of a prohibition amendment to the Constitution. Iowa is now a "dry" state. It has been so since January 1st, 1916, by act of Legislature. The prohibitionists and the Anti-Saloon League were not satisfied with this, but made an effort to fasten prohibition into the Constitution. Iowa being "dry," no sales of liquor could be made in the state, and, no matter what the result of the election, the state will remain "dry" until the present law is repealed by the Legislature. Under these conditions the brewers, distillers and liquor dealers of the country could do nothing to open up the state for sales. They were, therefore, not interested in the outcome and no effort was made by the distilling, brewing or liquor dealing interests to influence the campaign. If Iowa has gone "wet" the situation remains unchanged, for the state legislature will not meet for two more years. However, at that time the legislators will no doubt head the admonition of their constituents and put Iowa back in the "wet" column. Another feature which contributed to the Iowa distract of prohibition was the report of the Census Bureau, to the effect that many citizens have left final state since it went "dry." The Iowa election will no doubt have an important bearing on the election to be held in Ohio on the same question on November 6th. The Cincinnati Enquirer of October 17th, in a story dated at Des Moines, says: "Complete unofficial returns from Monday's vote on an amendment the Iowa constitution provides statewide prohibition, tonight shed the wets leading by only 9 votes, and it seems obvious that official recount would be necessary. The complete unofficial returns gave the vote as 214,634 against and 217,747 for the amendment. "Neither side claimed victory night, and with a total vote of 40,000, both the wet and dry factor pointed out, so small an advantage would not be allowed to stand win out a recount. It probably will 10 days before the result is determined officially. "It developed that part of the soldier vote, polled under the abscotters' law, had not reached Coun Auditors in time to be included in the count. There are about 75 Iowa soldiers at Mineola and Deing." The New York World and of great newspapers recently predie that the tide was setting against exhibition when Virginia, after a trial of the "dry" law, nominated Westmoreland Davis, a "wot" candidate, for Governor on the Democrat ticket. Inasmuch as the Democrat control Virginia this is equivalent an election. The remarkable feature of the Iowa election is the fact that not cent was spent there by the liqu interests for publicity or campaign work. The Anti-Saloon League expanded many thousands of dollars and had Captia Richmond Pearson Hobson, U. S. Senal Cummins and other noted temp ance orators as speakers. As iowa election would have no mediate effect on conditions in state, the wets completely ignores the Anti-Saloon League campaign It was nothing else but a f between the people and the A Balcon League, and the people parently have won.