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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-04-11
A BOOST FOR THE DEACON
State Capital Hands Street Car Pro-
mOter a Nice Package

Here's a boost which Cad Allard
hands Deacon Jones in the editorial
columns of the State Capital:
@scOtt Jones, the Chickasha "bcos-
ter" is going to make good" his
street railroad proposition. Deacon
Jones, as many know him, has been
tussling with the street railroad
proposition and many men with less
grit would have let loose Of it long
ago. There is in all towns one or
more citizens who sacrifice much Of
their own time and worldly goods in
"boosting" and building up enter
prises about them. Such a citizen is
Deacon Jones, Of Chickasha. He has
spent many good dollars in landing
the street railroad and it is to be
hoped that he will at least realize lib
orally upon his expenditure"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-04-11
ATTRACTIVE PRINTING.

The Daily Express has recently re-
ceived a large number Of new type
faces, Of the latest designs, especially
adapted to high class job printing. In
addition to this we always keep in
stock, a desirable variety of bond
and fiat papers, envelopes, bill heads,
statements, etc. We would esteem it
a pleasure to submit figures on any
class Of work. 4-1O-dtf
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-04-11
CARNEGIE LIBRARY,

Just received Ralph Connor's latest
book, "The Doctor" According to the
March Boolrman, "The Doctor is still
leading its rivals by many points,
among the most popular books this
season.
The Boston Transcript says;
"Ralph Connor's works are alive
with interest upon every page and do
appeal to but compel the attention and
hold it to the end"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-04-11
RUTHERFORD
TONIGHT
Another Senatorial Candidate Win be
Heard Everybody is Invited

Hon. Morton Rutherford Of Mus
kogee, democratic candidate for U.
S. Senator, will speak at the court
house tonight and an invitation is
extended to everyone to hear him.
Ladies will be welcome.
Mr.. Rutherford is a pioneer in In
dian Territory and knows the eondi-
tons and needs perhaps as well as
any man. He is Haid to be splendid
speaker and his address will be heard
with interest.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-04-11
DOES IT PAY TO INsUREl

$50. 600 90 is a heavy loss for
one FIRE, but that IS the record In
chickasha today. aud il should
arouse prudent people TO buy In
surance. Delays are dangerous,
We have Il absolutely reliable old
line Fire Companies who are will
ing to take your risk and at low
rates.
A. B. Cochran & Co.,
Phone " Chickasha, |. I.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-04-11

to arrange matters connected with
the coming season of Chautauqua in
Chickasha which will be in June. At
ter this meeting the work Of advertis-
ing the Chautauqua course will begin.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-04-11

The Commercial Club Chautauqua
committee viii have meeting with
the club ladies the last of this week
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-04-11
CLEAN UP PR0CCLAMA.
TION.

: I, B. B. Bridges, mayor Of
7 Chickasha, by virtue Of the
!. authority vested in me, do
: hereby proclaim and desig- :
/. nate Monday and Tuesday, !
!, April 18th and 10th as clean !
Z ing up day.
: Monday all citizens are re-
+ questei to clean their prers-
: isea Of all rubbish and refuse,
: depositing same in alleys. On !
/. Tuesday they are expected to :
. assist teamsters In the load .
: ing u such rubbish and re- :
+ fuse and the cleaning Of al :
: leys. There vii be no ex- :
: pense to property owners for :
: hauling.
! B. B. BRIDGES,
: Mayor. :
!. Z. Z. Z. I. Z. Z. i. Z. Z. 3, i. t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-26
BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

who vaunts himself while he fills his nos trils with snuff and vindictively de- nounces our men and women.
 Let him go back to his jungles of India and mediate until he gains larger knowledge of God, the God who Is love and whose humanity can only be helped by love-
 Until he gains this knowledge America has no use for him. We have already too much that Is intolerant, conceted and jealous among our own sects and creeds. Our churches are torn with these emo tlons. One denomination Is bitter with denunciations against another. "Acknowl- edge my creed of be damned" seems to be the motto of each. Christian Science has been marred by the big, big 'I' of it's leader. the thrusting of a personality and personal achievements (not always well sustained by prooD into the whole some and cheerful rehash of very old truth
 Theosophy, another form of reEnodelling old truth, has been blurred and misrep- resented by personal ambitions and petty jealousies.
 If India is to send us a teacher, let us accept only one who has risen above the worst faults of our own.
 Such a one Is not found in the present visitor to our shores!
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and notably by Aristotle, who died more than two thousand years before Mr Dar- win was born. As this last statement may seem to some readers to be question able. l will here give the proof from Aristotle himself.
 In his "Physicae Auscultationes." book two chapter eight, section two. after sa. ing that rain does not fall to make the grain grow, any more than 1t falls to spoil the farmers crop when threshed out of doors, he adds: 80 what flinders the different parts (of the body) from having this merely accidental relation in nature? as the teeth. for example, grow by necessity, the front ones sharp, adapt ed for dividing, and the grinders flat and seryieeable for masticating the food; since they were not made for the sake of this but It was the result of accident. And in like manner as to other parts in which there appears to exist an adapta- ton to an end Wheresoever, therefore, all things together 0hat is all the parts of one whole) happened like as if they were made for the sake of something, these were preserved, having been appro- priately constituted by an internal spon- taneity. and whatsoever things were not thus constituted perlshed, and still per ish"
 When this passage was pointed out to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-26
BY J. C. HIDEN, D. D.

name. with the number of representatives to which each should be entitled. upon aceeding to the new constitution.
 The famous rhetorician. Dr. Blair in commenting upon divers numbers of the FSpeetator,n bestows his highest and most unqualified commendation upon sentence in which Addison had fallen Into the error of saying exactly the opposite of what he manifestly intended to say.
 John W Daniel Virglnia's senior sen- ator in the Senate of the United States, dropped in upon a democratic meeting in New York city, and was called on for a speech Whereupon he told his brother democrats that he had no prepared speech to make. "but, as the centurion said; Silver and gold have I none, but such as have give I unto thee " This was re- constructing the Apostle Peter-ehanging a fisherman Into a centurion.
 MT. Gladstone in his work on church and state tells us that when Peter cut off the ear of Malchus. in the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus ordered the apostle to put up his sword and added, My Kingdom Is not of this world" These memorable words of our Lord were ut- tered not in the garden to Peter, but in the palace to Pilate.
 Great men are not always wise.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-26
PHENOMENAL BLUNDERS or FAMOUS MEN

When MT. Calhoun introduced his reso- lutions, declaring that the constitution was "eompact" to which the several states "aceeded," Mir. Webster in the ensuing debate. said that the words "com- pact' and "accede" were aL new political vocabulary, unknown to the fathers of the constitution. An examination of the contemporary documents. and especially of tho correspondence of the statesmen of that period, shows that the word compact was commonly used to desig- nate the constitution. and that the word "accede" was commonly used to indi- cate the act of ratification on the part of the several states. The great expound- CT" was evidently expounding without q knowledge of the facts, and so was led into one of the most egregious blunders of his life.
 Edward Everett was governor of Massa- chusetts. United States senator, minister to England, and secretary of state tn Fillmcre's cabinet, and yet he seems to have given little attention to the text of the constitution for in his famous ad- dress In New York, July 1. 1861, he says that the states are not named in that document! If he had taken the trouble to consult Article 1, section 2. of the constitution, he would have found the thirteen original states all mentioned by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-26
NOTHING SHORT OF HOME RULE FOR IRELAND

of whisky consumed by the people. In Ireland for the last four Of five years the dimlnutlon in the consumption of whisky has had this direct result, that the grant for intermediate education has been reduced by about $75.0O0.
 As a sort of a sop to the Irish people the bin contains a clause removing the restrictions which barred Catholics from the office of lord lieutenant This con- cession Is not calculated to be regarded with very much interest or alarm by anybody.
 A problem that has always existed in every attempt to settle Irish questions is what to do with the present officehold- CTS. These are the Tite Barnacles of the Irish cireumlocution office. Any move in the direction of popular government acts upon them as a menace to their exist ence and therefore they leave nothing un- said or undone that will help to pre- vent any change In the form of gov ernment under which they hold their jobs. It Is a well known fact that many of tho conspiracies and futile insurrec- tionary movements in Ireland during the last century originated in Dublin castle; and 1t has furthermore been brought to light that some of the most vehement agitators for Irish liberty and uncom- promising foes of England and every thing English. men whose voices and pens were used at home and abroad to stir up strife and advocate physical force, were nothing more nor less than hired scoundrels working for Dublin castle
 If the reader desires to obtain a full and lucid account of castle government in Ireland let him read chapter 10 of Lit tie Dorrit," containing the whole science of government. If Dickens is accurate ir
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-26

MT Redmond pointed out how made quae was the surplus which would De- available for educational purposes, ln- dustrial development and public works.
 "In dealing with Ireland,' said he, you are dealing with a neglected property property that has fallen into dilapidation, and the first thing you have got to do is to expend a considerable sum of money in putting the property in decent re- pair.
 "There are a number of directions in which money might be spent on public works-for instance railways and canals but perhaps the direction in which worlls are most urgently needed Is that of arterial drainage. Royal commissions for generations have reported on this subject and have stated that the state of Ireland is absolutely appalling. Floods occurred regularly, and owing to want of drainage the water supply Is con- taminated and a sewerage system made absolutely impossible. It has been esti- mated that no less than $100,000,00O is re- quired for arterlal drainage in Ireland. One and a half million acres of waste land might be reclaimed by drainage.
 Another direction in which eXpendi- ture Of money was required was in reaf- forestation. Three millions of acres can be made available for this purpose, and it has been computed that if the for ests of Ireland had been kept up they would be worth $500, GOO today.
 '"rhe provision for education is alto gether ludicrous. In Ireland the teacher of our children Is paid less than the po- liceman. To remove that scandal will take a vast sum of money. Intermediate edu- cation is another anomaly. The amount to be paid on it depends upon the amount
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-26

HHE difficulty about answering ques-
 tions in regard to Ireland and Irish affairs is that the answer must be supplemented with a historical sketch in order to make the answer in- telligible. Within the last week we have read in the daily papers the news that the Irish council bill had been rejected by the Irish people, and out of that an- nouncement has arisen the questions What is the Irish council bill and why has 1t been rejected?
 Answer. The Irish council bill is Cor probably was) the measure introduced in the house of commons by MT. Birrell, chief secretary for Ireland and cabinet minister in the ampbell-Bannerman gov ernment, in fulfillment of the promises made by the liberal party to extend local self-government to Ireland; in short, 1t was a substitute for home rule, and being a poor and inadequate substitute, it was rejected. The demand of the Irish people has always been for home rule. The bills introduced by MT. Gladstone in l.- and again in 1893 were home rule bills and were accepted by the Irish people, as they contained the elements of the popular demand, demand which NJ. John Redmond has briefly expressed in these words:
 What we mean by home rule is free, elective Irish parliament with an execu- tive responsible to 1t for the management of exclusively and purely Irish affairs. IThat is our claim which rests on his Itoric right and title, and also on the ad- mitted failure of the British government in Ireland for the last hundred years" :"
 Such is the bill the Irish people were
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verse is so simple an affair, why doesn't some atheistic philosopher" make one on some fine morning by way of getting an appetite for breakfast? But to return to Mr. Mill: He holds that "the laws of motion and of gravitation are neither more nor less than the observed uniform tiles in the occurrence of phenomena IS this a convenient method of getting rid of the Idea of a God? Kepler's laws were just as really laws before as after kep- Ter observed them. They had been Tn operation for ages before they were oo- served. The uniformity was produced that is to say, it had a Will as it's foun- dalton. But MT. Mill, by reducing law to a mere shred of itself-by making 1t to consist simply in an observed uniform ity'-gets rid of all this.
 Again: MT. Mill SO defines a miracle as to make it impossible, and then, with Hume, concludes that mo- miracle ever oc- cured. The great logiclan evidently did not sec that he had here assumed the very thing which he was logically bound to prove.
 Mir Charles Darwin, after writing five hundred pages to prove that the 'origin of species is due to natural selection,' candidly tells us that he does not know what a species is; that nobody knows, and that nobody ever will know.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-26

lead to expect from the liberal party, and in it's stead they are offered the Irish council bill.
 The government of Ireland by England during the last 100 years is best described in a speech of Mr. Redmond delivered in the house of commons in reply to the cnIel secretarys speech introducing the Irish council bill. MT Redmond asks:
 What has the history been of your rule? A history of famine, of misery, of insurrection of depopulation. These are facts that cannot be disputed. There have been three unsuccessful outbreaks of in surrection during that time. There has been one great famine, which swept in one year a million and half of the Irish people by starvation. Depopulation had been going on during the whole of that period. so that in fifty years one-half of the population of Ireland has gone. You may differ from me as to the precise causes of all these things, but you must admit the fact that your rule has not been success-that 1t has been a fail ure."
 During these hundred years the govern ment of Ireland has ben carried on from Dublin castle by a system of depart ments and boards which have increased in number until they now reach 45. These boards constitute what Is known as "cas- tie rule" in Ireland and such has been the nature of that rule that in Ireland the words "Dublin castle" have come to represent everything anti-Irish Hear what MT Birrell himself says of the in- stitution over which he Is supposed to preside;
 q do not think that any chief sec retary, with the slightest tincture of pop
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-26

extravagant admiration for his extraor- dinary abilities, and when they were both members of the judiciary committee, Reed was fond of taking untenable positions just to see "old Cyclops demolish them. It was the ambition of the elder Culber- son to represent Texas in the Senate; not for vanity, but because he was con- scious of his capacities for that the atre A time came when the senatorship was his for the asking, but he wGs now growing old and tired of parliamentary life He declined it, and Texas gave 1t to his favorite son. the apple of his eye the core of his heart-the boy of whom he was so proud and who so well de- served his appreciation.
 The younger Culberson was born in Alabama in 1855, and the following year his father became a citizen of Texas. Ol1 Dave said that he intended that the boy should have an education that would enable him ito find his hat" One might write volumes and not express it so well. What the father meant was that his boy should be disciplined for the battle of life; that he should be taught detail; that he should be grounded in self-reliance; that he should know how to make his way in the world. Many a boy, bright healthy vigorous, cannot find his hat In the morning, and the pity of it is they go through life just that way-always seeking what they cannot find, and sim ply because they were not properly taught in childhood how to seek.
 And as soon as he was old. enough young Culberson was packed off to the Virginia Military institute, school little inferior to West Point. There he grad uated with high honors, and was anxious for a military career; but that did not suit the father who insisted that the son should study for the bar. He entered his fathers office and studied under the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-26

ular feeling In his bones can enter the I,oomy portals of Dublin castle with out sinking of the heart almost amount ing to an abandonment of hope.
 "1t is not that the castle is sink or a seat of jobbery and corruption. It may have been so once, it certainly is no longer: but to use familiar expression, it is switched off from the great cur rent of national life and feeling. l do not believe that anybody resident with In the walls of Dublin castle can feel that that is the way to secure the re- generation of Ireland. No pulse of real life runs through the place. The main ri CT of Irish life as it rushes past it's walls passes by almost unheeded there. It stands remote, unfriended, melan- choly, slow regarding this great stream of national life and feeling with a curi- ous expression of mingled cynicism and amusement"
 The Irish council bill Is offered as a remedy for Irish ills. Until the bill was published it was impossible to gather it's purport or the extent of it's scope, bl.- now, that it has been published, it may prove interesting to know it's nature and contents.
 The caption declares it to be "A bill to provide for the establishment and functions of an administrative council in Ireland and for other purposes con nected herewith" The bill is divided in- to three sections, the first section contain ing the clauses dealing with the estab- lishment and constitution of the council; the second section deals with the finan- cial provisions contained in the bill; and the third section is made up of general and supplemental provisions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-26

The council will consist of 107 members, of whom s2 shall be elected by the people, A shall be appointed by the crown, and the under-secretary for Irish affairs shall be an ex-offco member. The terms of councillors shall be for four years for tn first term and three years there after. The appointed day" for the coun- ct to begin it's duties will be May A. 1908, but the elections are to be held in January preceding. The new council is to assume all the powers and control at -sear exercised by the local government bo d, the congested districts board, the board of national education, the inter- mediate education board, the department of agriculture the board of public works, the inspector of reformatory and pu' lie schools, and the registrar general In all, eight boards or departments are selected from list of 45 and the trans actions of these boards entrusted to the new council
 As the bill is designed to confer ad- ministrative powers and not legislative, the greater part of it Is devoted to the defining of the extent to which these powers may be used and the allocation of the funds to be entrusted to the coun- cil.
 Finance is the note sounded through out the whole bill and 1t was the main topic in Mir Birrells speech introduce ing the bill. About $25 50O00o0 is the sum apportioned for the use of the coun- cil but of that sum over $20.00O0 GOO may be regarded as outside the control of the council, it being required to carry on the work of the departments as they are constituted at present. In speak ing on the financial section of the scheme
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-26
BY F. I. MONKS.

his description of the administration of English institutions by Englishmen for Engllshmen. what must have been the condition where the administration was in the hands of aliens and for enemies? Woe to that land upon whose throne the stranger sits, at whose gate the stranger watches"
 The Irish council bill would be an &C., ceptable measure if it were granted as an extension of the powers at present en- joyed by the county councilsi but as substitute for home rule, or as the full fillment of a promise of home rule 1t could not be regarded for an instant. The sooner MT. Campbell Zimmerman purges his cabinet of the nominal home ruless as Gladstone once called such men, the better for his party and the country. With home rule the Irish would remain at home and make their country prosperous and themselves contended. As 1t is now those who can leave are doing so and those who remain are disloyal. Millions of the Irish people have left Ire land. but from these same people in America in Australia, in Africa, comes the material and moral support which maintains their brothers on the fight ing lines at home.
 Far more important to Ireland than the council bill Is the preservation of unity among the people which was at one time that measure. Every friend of Ireland is glad to know that the danger of a split has been averted. The time is not far distant when S6 votes. counting 172 on a division, will set the liberal gov ernment to thinking whether 1t were not better to have that number on It's side than against 1t.