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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-17
P. AN
HIGHER
GOT TON
PR|C;E:S

New Orleans, Nov. 17.--At It's two
days convention held here last week
the National Farmers union, with a
membership If 100000. took the first
important step toward the creation OF
better market for cotton, the cor
rection of existing evils which tell
against the farmer in his Relationship
with the consuming world. and at the
same time the union frowDed up-n all
fantastic suggcstiohs. faulty Logic and
grand stand playa for popular favor
Fhrouga the appointment OF a strong
committee. with plenary powers the
conyo1tion paved the yny Or intelli-
gent research, careful analysis. and a
definite and practical plan OF action
in which, farmers, bankers, cotton mer-
chants and experienced business men
shall cooperate in the interest OF the
cotton industry.
AT The opening session President G.
S. Barrett requested the delegates to
refrain from praise # themselves and
condemnation Of the other fellow and
pointed out that the only way to ac-
complish important results was to
seek tie aid of men OF affairs VIII
were in position TO help them. Mr..
Barrett's advice was followed con-
sigtently throughout the meeting, ald
1t the final session thc farmers
adopted a resolution endorsing the
app intment of committee which is
% confer with a like committee Of New
Orleans business men and bankers,
learn what is best to he dcre, and
eeOmmend action, and also approved
"a general plan to create such ware
housing and handling facilities at tle
)ort of New Orleans as are needed to
augment the efficiency rf the interior
warehouses, reduce port handling and
jtOrage costs to a minimum and sup.
lly a public warehouse receipt. backed
W such absolute security as Is needed
o give spot cotton owners the char
lcter of bank collateral most desired
" III ney lenders. The ultimate aim
II this port warehouse plan is to en-
lble those who may wish 10 bold cot.
on when a surplus supply is available
md sell 1t when the demand is greater
han the supplt, to do so under the
most favorable c-nditions possible
There are seven farmer aud seven
business men on the Joint committee.
some cf these men are familiar with
ne advantages to accrue from the
'reation of modern warehouse facili-
les at New Orleans. They say that
properly constructed wareh use Will
reduce the present Insurance rate of
)ne to two dollars per 500 70 aDout
5 cents per 500 per year; that its
favorable location on the river front
will eliminate cogtlv batflqgp nv draws
permit the delivery ~ cotton into
hips hold on the day Of sac aud
protect the bale from damage, while
machinery equipment WILL enable TIE
laborer to do better work in every
way and at a reduced expense. Men
who have given the matter serious
thought express the belief that an
average benefit of So a bale, irrespec-
tive of whether Gotten is worth 10
cents or 20 cents a pound would ac-
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-17
asT EEn Howls AGAIN.

The Morning 81 Fe sees no harm In
any act done In the name OF Repnbli.
can partisanism. It professes to be.
lieve that there could be no harm in
Republican partisans gathering in
front Of The Leader office and shout.
ing themselves h-arse over the result
Of ule election at the Saturday night
ratification meeting. That is correct.
The Leader would not deprive any
man OF being happy over a victory
won. There could be no displeasure
upon the part of The Leader because
its owner has incurred the p-litlcal
displeasure OF the Republicans. Bun
there Is a wide range between gather.
ing ih16ront of the office and firing
three volleys from the guns at The
Leader windows. The firing of "un.
loaded weapons has been the cause OF
almost as many deaths as when they
were known to be h-aded. and al
though no one would Intentionally do
so, one might accidentally get the
wrong cartridge. Anyhow no one de.
sires to be sh1t at when those shoot.
ing remind one of the hours when the
roisterer program is in full effect.
The Leader certainly was modest
over the insult and outrage. II men.
toned the incident with some splrit;
Il Is true. and in no case did II over.
state fact The truth Is. The
Leader does not aver or undersiate a
news item. It mas the habit of relating
incidents as they occur. n the st Fe
paper would take try at that manner
OF giving news to the word. perhaps Il
would have more standing, not only In
Guthrie but over the state as Well
There could be no tne so foolish as
to charge the incident to the people OF
any one community. for those jollifying
were frcm all parts OF the state. The
Republicans of Oklahoma were jubil.
ant The carpetbaggers had met With
defeat again throughout the state, but
Mr. TAFT had succeeded and the two
congressional districts a Republican
congress had arranged to send Repubh-
cans TO congress had gone back to
their own; hence the JOY and hilarlty.
The leader is willing to advance the
question Of which Guthrie newspaper
has standing. at home cr abroad The
Leader has the confidence OF Dem.
ocracy-the whole Democracy. too. 1t
has consistently supported the prin-
ciples of its party. but in so doing has
not felt called upon b. use false state
ments OF others Can the ST Fe say
as much, rather can ii truthully say
as much?
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-17
FINANCIAL CRISIS.

The United States treasury Is being
depleted at the rate of $4,000 600 per
day
1ile postal authorities spend more
daily than they take In and the service
Is being made bad through futile at
tempts to economize among the al
ready underpaid rural route men and
city carriers.
The enormous appropriations and
expenditures OF the last congress
staggered even the extravagant menp
bers of the plunderbund. In the midst
of plenty. with granaries bursting,
railroads staggered because curs can
not be manufactured fast enough to
transport the greatest agricultural
harvest the world hath yet known, ,
sea-going vessels ladened with with the
products OF the United States. goihg b.
feed those OF other lands. and the in
coming ships ladened with the luxu-
ries q proud and wealthy people de-
mand, we are broke!
Markets soaring skyward; demand
greater than ever In the history of
humankind. and men ready to accept
more and nNre-yet the United States
is rushing toward ruin at the rate of
cold million dollars per day!
Why?
AS the second hand OF Ble clock
ticks once Rooseveltian extravaganza
shoots us toward psyerty to the tune
Of $ll5.00. Great Is Theodore Roose-
velt Greater man doth not live. sing
his admirers, and to the extent OF
reckless disregard Of rule and Law. he
does stand unexcelled.
But there must be halt. Well do
We understand this effort 10 stop the
treasury having money was started to
avoid revision OF the tariff scales. We
are TO again fhtten the treasury and
the plunderbund at the same time. We
Will still sell sewing machines In
Buenos Ayres for Sl2 and in Chicago
for $24 But there is hope. All is
not idarkness-out of wilderness Of
defeat will yet c-me a Moses who
win show his fellow citizens the land
of promise.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-17
RAllRoAp rEMPgRANce b WORK


The greatest foe liquor has to Hight
ahese days Is found in the great in
dnstrial railway commerce. Managers
OF railroads grow more strict each
year. There are many great railroaj
systems which will not allow an EN-
ploye to take a drink when on duty
or Just before going on duty. En-
gineers and conductors are employed
with regard 10 their temperate habits
"A Conductor or engineer who abstains
from strong drink. in many sections
of the country, get the preferred
rims and are continually. encouraged
Fbf time the liquor interests fought
this rapid cure for drink, but the vast
millions of property involved caused
the ~ ad managers 70 be firm. and to-
day the railroads are making more
total abstainers than all the temper.
ance speeches ever made. Commerce
Is inexorable in its DEGREES. He who
nllots the ship or the locomotive, each
carrying wealth In many instances be-
yond computation. is employed accord
ing to the value OF the services he can
render. Seventy-six captains who sail
tie gessels of the Hamburg line never
touch iiiipxicants. and one OF these
draws salary of $4,000 per annum.
This captain knows the Atlantic as the
egerage man knows the way from
n me to office. and he has never had
10 report the loss OF ship or heavy
damage to one. Each month he draws
$3.50 for the same work others do for
SIPS to $17b per month. But me
serves the commerce well--his hcrv-
Ices are In demand. He never has to
wait for a ship. nor would he argue
one moment for his place because
others want him.
Il is the same everywhere. Men
who drink ascertain that no matter
now honorable and trustworthy they
are. those who stay to Ulelr posts and
never touch intoxicants soon secure
the best places. And lis not preiu-
dice. In many instances the employ
ing power is In the hands Of one VINO
imbibes freely; or, II not that, they
at least are Of opinh-n all men nave
right to choose their habits, so long as
following them does no one injustice
II is simply q commercial proposition
and one that must ever be solved ac-
cording to the law Of profit and loss.
Time ives when all men were sup
posed to drink. But Few decades have
gone since public men were supposed
10 get drunk at times, and they were
generally reliable in exhibiting their
manner 4 keeping the idea alive.
That Is OF the past and the public lnen
OF today do not use intoxicants to
great extent, many are total aD'
stainers.
attorneys OF note, thirty years ago,
acre expected to 'cut up Jack" but
an attorney in this age who would get
full would soon have no client.
II IS because OF these things men OF
judgment predict that intoxicants viii
soon be little used. Il viii not be by
Legislative enactment. but because
people find II does not pr,iit them 20
drink
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-17

erue TO the producer using such a
warehouse because of economics in
handling, saving on cost of insurance
and freedom fr,m damage, and that
1ae receipt such q warehouse would
.ssue would enable any holder to bor-
row money from any New Orleans
Banker or from any banker in any
towl in the cotton states. In ether
words the owner of cotton so stored
and holding such warehouse receipts
would be In position b. use them at his
home bank or wherever the lowest In.
terest rates might be offered to obtain
loans to the extent Of almost the iaar-
ket worth OF his c-tten.
In this way II is planned to hold at
ONE The surplus supply of each sea.
son until the home and foreign miLs
need It and seek it.
Discussing these matters before the
convention, Charles Janvier, president
of the Sun insurance company and
vice president of the CanalIJ-uisiana
Bank and Trust company, and one Of
he leading financiers of the South
said:
Cotton warehouse receipts OF the
character | describe would becoaae
current as gilt-eige collateral, and tbe-
ing in a convenient form, wculd prove
an ideal security in the eyes of Dank-
crs at home and abroad With such
collateral available, surplus funds
would gravaite TO New Orleans
naturally and without any effort on
the part OF any one Such collateral
would be s. ught by bankers and
money lenders who have surplus funds
or cheap money on hand in the South.
North, East and West and in Europe" ="
Waile the carrying out of the New
Orleans warehouse plan would not in
anyway harm the interior warehouses.
Z would tend to cheek exports OF cot
ton to Europe during the early season
when Gotten IS usually cheap. and in
oera5e exports to Europe in the win
ter. spring and summer when prices
are. as a rule. higher
The men who will determine what
should be done, and devise ways and
means for doing il are
Ex-Congressman j. Y Callahan. of
Oklahoma
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-17
MAAr LgoIsLATuRE VII oo.

The Second legislative assembly will
nave plenty to DO. f
II will have to pass In the short
sixty days allotted the requisite budge'
OF appropriations for the state Off
cials and institutions.
II will repeal the election law and
give a decent one in place OF the thing
now in force.
Il will repeal the act preventing.
by a prohibiting taxing act. a man
owning more than 800 acres OF land.
While no one. not even the Wise-com-
mercial screed ever touched this act,
Il was the one passed by the First
legislative assembly that outild Popu-
lism and put the Socialists in the safe
and sane department..
The Second legislature will spend
no time IN Din1iwiddieing the people
or in listep.ng 10 doctors disagreelng
ls to the manner and form of pulling
a Zee for surgery
II is not that one knows so much
what the Legislators may De dreaming
1i, but the people are supreme and
tne legislator who wishes to pass a
aw regulating the digestion and the
thoughts Of the public will be sent TO
IT, supply or Texas, his punishment
being about the same In either in.
stance.
The Second legislature win attend
TO the duties as they should be at
'endel TO. and go nome. the place for
al good citizens who have finished
heir work elsewhere.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-17
WAS
EXCESSIVE
..lliAM 4%.vr

The board Of regents OF the LangstC n
college met yesterday in the office Of
Secretary J. l.. Mi.1h to open bids f1r
the construetiol Of 'he new main nail
at cost of $65,000 to re- place &C
building destr-yel by fire last sPrias
The board found upon investigation
that no bids were on file for the
reason that the dozen contractors who
/ Figured upon the plans and specifica.
tions adopted by the beard that Il
would be impossible to erect the
building for less than $4,000 Archi.
tect Studholter, of Muskogee. who pre-
pared the plans failed to figure the cost
Of hauling the material needed two
miles and half from the town Of
Langston to where the school is locat
ed. The architect stated that he was
satisfied that the contemplated build
ing, width the material called for, could
not be erected for less than sS5 900 or
$4,000.
The board instructed Architect Stud.
hotter to at cnce reduce the building
so as to come within Ble S65,000 limit
voted by the legislature. The plans
as originally drawn call for twenty
nine large rooms, Which will he cut
down to twenty rooms. In the revised
plans which will he ready for submis
sion to the bidders on November 23rd
and on the 2Sth the board will meet
again TO open bids on the revised pans
State superintendent Cameron stated
Today that all the contractors figuring
upon the work were prepared to begin
the erection OF the building at once
and that a c.ntnact would be let and
HE construction work commenced by
December 1st
Some of the board wanted to delay
building in the hope that the legisla.
ture would increase the appropriation
50 that the originally planned building
could be erected. But as the building
Is badly needed II was thought best to
60 ahead with $4,000 building and
later get an appropriation for an al.
ditional building for industrial and
manual training departments. Many
new departments have been installed
In the school in the past year which
are Handicapped for room Recently
established in the school Is the depart
ment OF trained nurses, the only me
Of IT'S kind in the state institutions,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-17
ECONOMISTS"

One election result cost the state a
splendid legislator OF Democratic faith
ana the defeat was dear too, because.
aside from die cranky idea that all
men will be open, frank and patriotic,
this legislator vas capable AMI well
understood conditions, and h. i'm
provemeni could be made.
When the printing law was Delne
made this man was one OF ,he faith
who wished to have all printing done
by competitive bid. In place OF these
Republican newspapers which ne
wished TO have regard him as being
above partisan patronage treating him
well. they unmerciiaiiy Fambasted arm
and the money he indirectly threw into
fheir Golfers was used to make erron'
eotts statements. He was defeated
and the state lost good legislator and
Democracy a true teacher OF the word
He will come back. In year cr two
and The Leader viii wager he win take
no vide interest in throwing thousand
dollar printing contracts into the
hands OF his enemies
All OF us mast learn, but sometimes
the lesson Is hard and deprives us ot
many opportunities, 10 say D2thing. q
being disappointed In the actions oi
oar fellowmen.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-17
poaroEElcE nEEIclr-

The fiscal year ending June 3Oth.
1908, shows the postal department
with a deficit. Il is small, OF course.
being bit the trifilng sum OF s16,910.-
297. Tue salaries of the employees in
certain lilaes were properly advanced.
ana the appropriation was larger than
ever before. but the shortage Is In tho
wild rulings which marked decrease
in second and third class matter suf,
ficient to amount TO more than the vol
ume OF business in all lines twenty
years ago. -
There win be some chance OF having
the departmental affairs attended TO
next year. For several years we have
had bear hunts and junkets and had
no time to attend to the trivial items
of busbandipg resources or paying our
deets. Weshave done well with the
Nttleshhi exhibit To the rat esters
and snipe shootersi6f the Orient, but
or domestic Affairs are going in the
red side OF the ledger to the tune OF
N,eOO,C0O per day, Sundays included
In the enumeration
Congressman Murdock, OF Wichita.
Kansas. is a reformer in postal com.
mittee work. The congressman is
thorough IN every respect. having
spent $341 .23112 l-3 trying to get a
correct method of Weighing malls
passed around the opposition to a Re
publican anarchist by the name of
10 Cannon. The saving to the gov.
ernment under the Murdock measure,
would amount to $3131 per annum,
and because Mr.. Cannon is opposed to
the idea OF spending third of
million to save $3l.41 annually, Mr..
Murdock belaborsi the Illinois states
man unmercifullyl
But OF course. 1t fakes time and
brains to get hold OF a reform OF such
magnitude and moral force. hence
Mr.. Cannon, who Is alleged to swear
and smoke expensive cigars, can not
get astride the reform charger and ride
him to the gait of Kansas glorifica-
tion.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-17

II isn't so difficult to strengthen a
weak Stomach II one goes at IL cor
ectly. And this is true of the Heart
md Kidneys. The old fashioned way
Of dosing the stomach or stimulating
the Heart or Kidneys is surely wrong
Dr. Shoop first pointed out this error.
Go to the weak or ailing nerves of
these organs" said he Each inside
organ has its controlling or inside
nerve" When these nerves fail then
those organs must surely falter. This
vital truth is leading druggists every,
where to dispense and recommend
Dr Shoop's Restorative. A few days
test viii surely tell! Sold BY wallace's
drug store.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-17


]. T. Brooks, of Tennessee.
G. r. Hightower, of mississippi.
J. z. Greene. Of North Carolina.
L. H. 0. Martin, OF Georgia.
l.. H. Morris, OF Alabama.
J, w. Boyett, Jr., of Louisiana.
New Orleans Progressive Union
Charles JaHvier. President Sun Ins
Co., and vice president Canal-Louisi-
ana bank.
John M. Parker Gotten factor, cot
ton planter and banker.
G. H. Ellis, banker and manager OF
United Fruit company
S. p. Waimsley banker and cotton
merchant. 81
K. s. Naunseli, vice president lPeo-
pies Bank & Trust company end
state manager Mutual Life Insurance
company.
J. G. Duncan, spot cotton buyer.
Walter Parker, editor and special
writer on economic subjects.
M. B, Trezevant. secretaTy-panager
Of the Progressive Union. viii be sec
retary of toe Joint committee.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-17
Nv WaIdIng. Kinnan & Marvin.
REFhECroNs OF ! sAcHsLos
anon The New York Press.l

'H Gtrom the New York Press.)
The more a woman has birthdays,
The less they count IN her age &
Y 10 a lot Of people the only thing
that y more unsatisfactory than life
Is death. = 100 aLt'
The dissatisfaction a man gets out
Of having hn election 20 wrong is he
cant blalpe' his wife for i'll 5..s, :. +,
woman's Idea OF respectablltty Is
the kind of letter paper she uses: "A
mans the kind OF cigar he SMOKES.
The reason a girl likes TO hsve her
father bring her flowers Is she can
say one OF her suit0rs sent them.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-17

The Convention hall will be ready
'or dae legislators IN time and the
,apital city will be able 10 give an OF.
icials splendid quarters. At this
snort legislative session we will nave
luch work to do and Guthrie pr poses
hat such work be done with comfort
% the workers while serving the state
Few nicer structures viii be found IN
the Southwest thaB the Convention
All, and perhaps In the swset after
while we may still improve on the
adlfiee, VII knows?
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-17
! 'gSnSzsHGHSEsEsEsa aBrSxB .
NEWS OF THE i
RAILROADS !
,z3z9N9ncsEIs-E EsEIzSmSnSHSEs Z

Conductor Dan C. Conway is here
from Newton.
John Peters Is taking Engineer
Billie" Wag ner's place on the East
ern Oklahoma passenger run this week
Wagoner is suffering with an attack
of Ia grippe.
Conductor John Fogar.y OF the
Eastern Oklahoma passenger run, Is
laying cff this week and moving his
family here from Arkansas City. Com
d,tctor Piper Is on in his stead.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-17
HoW's THls7


We offer One Hundred Dollars Re.
yard for any case Of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrb
Cure.
f. J. CHENEY a CO.. Toledo, o.
We, the Undersigned. have known F.
J. Cheney for the last Is years. and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
olsiness transactions and filanclally
able 20 carry out any obligations made
by his firm.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken inter.
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces OF the system
Testimonials sent free Price 75 cents
per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti
patton.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-17

jlDnDcE GuFS0; auieie Fensg; s0mOvss
ullUf VI all swelling IA 20 20 days:
80 TO so days effects permanent curt
Trial treatment given free to sufferers
nothing fairer. For circulars. testi
monials aud free trial treatment writ
DIR. II. II. Green's Sons. Box q. A.
lanta, Georgia
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DANGERS OF AUT0MOBILING

Birmingham. Ala. Nov. 17.--Forclne
ne Renault car to a speed of more
than sixty miles an hour In an effort
TO lower the tweniy-fou- hour automo.
bile record, Emi'e Stricken was almost
instantly killed early today on the fair
grounds track here, when a tire ex-
ploded and wrecked the machine.
Leon Barrows, OF this city, in tae car
with Stricken. was seriously but not
fatally injured.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-17

Notice is hereby given TO anyone
who puts any Improvement or any la
Dor or material on any OF my property
Known as Sic, avs and $50. South Vine
street. 5Eall not 9eeeive one cent pay.
mept from owner unless notified by
sfah IN person ~
ETHEL WALKER. -2ls S. Tremont,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-17

/ 9Irs, HesterI Greepa me wealthy
Hulpan OF eeeeniric habits. says many
wise things. She, recently fegutDed to
1obpken, New Jersey, to resideSvhere
lfe has a flat rented for period OF
Wme gponths. When asked why she
itedAH fiobOken, she reDli<d, because
do not live elsewhere Her state.
nent was undr ubtelly correct.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-17

Chief Justice Williams is not only a
urist and scholar. but he wfelds an
exceptionally faeile pen. His Gross
ng the Jordan" In The Leader OF yes.
erday has created widespread com.
nent