The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-12-17
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When the campaign ended the Eagle
quit personalities In It's political dec
larations, and as a rule they will stay
quit until the next campaign opens
and they are an issue In the mean.
time we deal with principles only. III
does not do the state or community
any good 10 be continually advertising
to tho world that our political leaders
are corrupt. and the Eagle stands first
of all for the upbuilding of Enid, Gar
field county and Oklahoma
Eagle.
Yes Enid will likely vote for Guth.
rie for the state cspital.-Enid Eagle.
The following editorial from the New
state Tribune, Gov. Haskell's paper
is a timely recognition OF the great
work being done by the State Board
of Health.
The Tribune says:
Before we had statehood the people
OF the two territories we're not only
subjected to almost every exposure
that might deplete their purse, but
we're unguarded from the dangers that
beset human life; not In the sense Of
the assassin, but from the standpoint
of the substitutes and poisonous pre-
servatives that we're tolerated in the
| dispensing OF drugs and the necessi-
ties Il life.
Sanitation was ignored. except by
I Ill. ..raf
statehood brought a change.
What is considered by authorities to
be the most exhaustive pure food
law ever enacted Is today being en-
forced.
The farmer whc buys stock pow
ders now knows that It has been in
spected by the state; the man who
buys an ounce of iodine or bottle
Of bayrum is protected from the poi
sonicus wood alcohl used so frequent
ly in the past
Within the past few weeks several
prosecutions have resulted from an
examination of oysters sold in Okla
homa towns, Il being discovered that
deadly preservatives we're used.
Sanitation is being advanced as rap
idly as possible. Health, the price
less b-on, Is considered of sufficient
import in Oklahoma to Justify the
most critical safeguards.
The Trusting Girl.
: The Southwest (Ft, SMITH Ameri-
can, in retrospective glance at evils
observed i'm many localities, breaches
wholesome sermon worth more than
pages of fulsome flGttery OF social
customs:
Some women In the Middle West
are seeking to save from electrocution
young mother who killed the brute
that betrayed her.
An Indiana widow IS suing a 56-year
old millionaire who ruined her 1S-year
old daughter.
Eery day, in every state in the
UMiop, this nideous crime OF seduc.
tion OF young, ignorant and helpless
girls forces itself prominently into
the news.
Il Is not a pleasant subject to think
ABOUT. II IS considered q delicate one
to discuss above a whisper.
Flourishlng in the shadow OF false
modesty and protected by silence, it
has become one of the commonest
crimes of the times, and one of the
farthest-resching in heart-breaking
results
Murder of the poor victim, resorted
to in so many notorious cases. is not
the worst outcome.
To many a loving trusting girl
awakening to the horror-haunted
: realization OF her deception, II is
death that is kind, and life that Is
intolerably cruel.
More common even than her mur
der by her deceiver, to cover up his
+ more cowardly crime, is her own sui
: eide, to hide her sname.
More to be pitled more deserving
of charitable consideration. and more
in neei OF sympathetic help, than an!
other sinner In this world is the un
guided. inexperienced, credulous CIR
= who learns only through the hardes
! OF lessons that lust is not love, an,
y that the seeming lover with swee
+ wonis OF affection ana faithiuness oi
his tongue can be a beast at heart
: Il Is hard for the ignorant, innocen
, girl to believe tnat the older maj
Z who fasclnates her through his fiat
2 tering attentions and seductive words
: of love can be liar and selfisl
> schemer
And when, through the strange
sweet lntOxication OF her first loys
she idealizes him into perfection o
e truth and loyalty, and feels that an.
sauiice she may make TO him Is bu
poor return for mis- devotion, she /
II as helpless in his hands as a new
born Dabe.
All the more pitiful II the girl b
= motherlessl
Many a poor girl whose mothe
's lives is motherless in this matter, be
cause the parent deems 1t indelicat
to talk with daughter OF such thing
And when the horror of her sius
tion breaks upon her, the unmotneI
ed girl has none to turn to but tn
. man who has wronged her: and 4
him she can meet only unfortunat
marriage. desertion, death OF di
Is grace
the murders from this cause "
may count The desertions we ma
Is estimate. But the unhappy MARI