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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-03-06

Mrs. W. II. Rogers of Marietta
spont Friday and Saturday with
friends aud attended the meeting of
the District Parsonage Home Mission
Society OF which she is president
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country would bring to terms for the
time being any combination that ex-
isted, but the boycott will not become
general, because consumers cannot
be organized to maintain a Spartan
front to the packers. Moreover, the
labor unions, which alone could expect
to enforce a boycott among consumers,
are not all agreed as to the wisdom or
humanity of the pledge TO abstain from
eating meat. The Central Trades and
Labor Council Of st. Louis rejected on
Sunday a resolution calling for boy
colt on the ground that it would entail
unnecessary suffering. In the long run
it would play into the hands Of consoli-
dated dealers, who could regulate sup
ply and prices. Some other remedy must
be found to check monopoly than vows
not to consume it's products, vows that
will be taken only by a small minority
of the people, who will be the sufferers
by this heroic measure.
The sun., 1910-01-25

From Daily Consular and Trade Reports.
The italian colony of Eritrea Is largely barren.
and with the exception OF q small portion near
Suakln produces little OF value. The population
which numbers about 100000 including about on
Italians, 800 Greeks and 10 or IS English and Ger
mans, is quite poor and would md Il dificult 20
pay for imported goods. Consequently the chief
Importstions are foodstufYs. cotton goods and
oil. A great portion OF the cotton goods imported
are reexported TO the Sudan. The chief exports
are coffee drom AbyssiniaD. palm nuts. hides and
mother OF pearl
Massowah. the chief port, a city Of about Sooo
Inhabitants, has . very good harbor capable Of
accommodating vessels drawing twenty seven
feet. Its only industry. besides being port Of
call and entry. 10 the manufacture OF salt. Its
climate 10 good. although extremely hot from
April 20 October. when the rains begin The chief
disease 10 be feared Is malaria.
Frem Massowah q railway runs thirty three
miles 70 GInda, q small station st an elevation Of
3ii7 feet where 10 Is necessary 20 have recourse
70 horses 70 reach Asmara, the capital OF tho prov
lnce situated about 7.2lO feet above sea level It
10 hoped that the railway will be constructed 20
AsmaFA In two years. although the engineering
difncuitles are great
There are three gold mines ~ work In the colony.
but Il Is impossible TO Eet any data In regard to
them. Traces OF coal and copper have also been
found. hut not In workable quantities.
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The Immunity OF the Innocent.

IL is just twelve days since the Ameri-
can Sugar Refining Company published
This bold asseveration OF belief in the
Innocence of the higher up:
No attempt whatever has been made to shield
any one. and your board has no reason to believe.
and does not believe, thAt any executive ofneer
pr director Of this company had any knowledge
N or participation in this fraudulent under
weighing
The report containing this paragraph
was signed by c. R. HEIKE, an'executive
officer Of the company.
Since then Mr.. CHARLES r. HEIKK has
been indicted for conspiracy TO defraud
the Government in the matter Of this
fraudulent underweighing Of sugar and
he has been brought to the bar Of
Justice TO plead.
The special plea Of Mr.. HEIKE, re-
ported this morning, is to claim immu-
nifty from prosecution because he has
eiven evidence to the Grand Jury in the
matter Of the sugar frauds. This plea
b unquestionably within the constitu-
ejonal rights OF the innocent.
The sun., 1910-01-25
"The Green Duck"

The pleasure OF the millions of man
kind in the spectacle of genius in un-
dress and of greatness at ease is too well
established TO require any apology on
our part for presenting, through auto
biographical medium, an intimate view
OF the Hon. THOMAS MoTT OSBORNE,
who as a Public Service Commissioner
in fact and Democrat in theory enjoys
Statewide fame. The autobiography
whence we derive our information bears
the inspiring title of The Tale OF the
Green Duck This bird is not, as might
be thought by the careless, the subject
Of the autobiography, but the craft
which is bearing the eminent public
servant down the Susquehanna in re-
gion hitherto known for the exploits Of
the Deer Slayer"
Most interesting to us is the evidence
in this literary effort of how admirably
adapted to all phases of life is the scien-
tific mind, which makes Public Service
Commissioners great. Thus at the out
set the distinguished author and his
fortunate companion, who is described
as Tramp, we assume to give a rail-
road touch, are disclosed as hungry and
hunting for breakfast in a grocery:
"A couple OF lne specimens OF the Cuourfs
MsIo soon rewarded our search; the Prunus or.
dtnarius and the PsTseum Amerteanum were not
unwelcome additions; while t will be generally
admitted that no larder would be complete with
out those homely and useful standbys the BIs-
eura 4nOieferra and the CdSeus Bosentis."
Who but Public Service Commits
sioner inspired by that genius which
drives railroad magnates TO madness in
its demand for statistics could thus off,
hand, in the happy hour of leisure, in
stantly fix upon a classification of the
prune, the cheese. the cracker which
would endure the acid test of time? The
Tramp" a common sort Of person, we
Judge, objected to the happy turn OF
language we have quoted. He is thus
properly rebuked
81 also point out TO him that every respectable
traveller In relating his adventures drops occa-
sIonsIy into the language Of the country in
order to impress his readers My young
friend I remark In conclusion. ~ you should
say that In going across neld your foot struck
against a Sympioedrpus F9tdus people would
sit up and take notice but they would simply
laugh at you n YOU said II was skunk cabbage"
A little thing, a simple incident inef-
fably trivial. yet it is 80 wonderfully
symbolcal Of the character Of the great
man who thus speaks. More than
that, 10 us, we protest, ii is the ultimate
revelation in authentic words OF the
source of the grandeur OF all Public
Service Commissioners. Who but
member OF this honorable body, tripping
over 3 plant IN q meadow, failing ia
the damp and ncisome naislI. 0o4|d
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why DO Not the states Punish "NSenoDe'
Mes'' which Tney Created7

To rHH EprroR or TEE SUN-Sir: Why
did not the recent conference In Washing-
ton Of Governors Of States take up and
consider recent declarations by President
Taft In respect 20 the monopolistic con-
duct OF State corporations doing an in
terstate business2 And why does not the
legislative, judicial or executive power
Of each State chartering the corpora
tons thus charged with guilt bring those
corporations TO punishment and possibly
take away their franchises?
Il is not TO be rashly assumed that
either the voters or the officials In the
States approve restraint Of interstate
trade, sitting OF competition and conse-
quent monopoly.
Each corporation doing the alleged
forbidden things has been chartered by
a State. The State may be Q Republican
State. Only the chartering State can
visit the corporation, inquire into its
conduct, punish il and revoke ito charter.
The Federal Government cannot do 1t,
even although IL can discipline the cor
poration for offences against the Federal
Constitution committed in interstate
commerce.; but the chartering State is,
unless the State Constitution forbids,
supreme over it's creatures Illinois can
for good cause cut of the head Of the beef
trust. And 90 can Utah annihilate the
Union Pacific, Kentucky put an end to the
Southern Pacific, and New Jersey give
the coup de eTdce to q multitude OF So
called trusts" Each State in which the
trust" does business can expel the guilty
one from its jurisdiction.
II the things denounced by the Chicago
and Denver platforms and generally by
Office holders and ofice seekers in regard
TO restraints OF trade by trusts" are so
hateful to the voters in the chartering
States, why does not each state in which
monopoly exists bust" il straightway?
Congress cannot lawfully visit and
destroy State corporations. even IL they
restrain interstate trade, but the creating
State can put an end to the life Of its
creatures and to the rights. privileges
and immunitiee derived therefrom. II
Republican voters in Republican Statee
creating the corporations denounced At
Washington by their President. their
Congress and their party really wish
monopoly stopped, they can insist that
the Legislature. courts and prosecuting
officers do little trust busting
The contracts; agreements, conspira-
cies and contrivances in violation Of the
common law and State statutes in Re
publican States to increase prices are a
serious and cruel menace TO the public
welfare.
| hope I am not to be driven to think
that the current written and spoken speech
in Washington condemning restraint Of
trade and monopolies is all uttered solely
for use in nominating conventions.
MAN IN THE STREEr.
NEW YORK, January "a.
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rs THERE A HELLP
A Doctor OF Div1nIty"s Assertions Called
Too Sweeping.

TorHI EprToR or TEE SuN-.Siy: Is the Doctor
Of Divinity" In 10 days Sun seriousr Ne says that
there Is scarcely a clergyman OF any note who
believes In a never ending punishment" This Is
q very sweeping assertion, and like most sweeping
assertions II Is very inaccurate. tits not too much
TO assume that there are many clergymen OF note
In the Catholic Church. yet sll Catholics believe
In such q punishment. they hold that any per.
who dies stained with the guilt OF grievous sin
incirs II; but a. II Is always possible that even
the worst sinner may have repented o, The last
moment OF life. when apparently unconscious.
they never assert that any particular individual
Is In heli-with the possible exception OF Judas.
Catholics believe, however. In the existence Of
temporal punishment IN the next life, IN purgs-
tory. for those VINO are not wicked enough 70 he
condemned forever yet pure enough n 60
straight 70 heaven, belief consollng 70 the mem
bers OF the reformed churches, though Il was one
OF their reasons for separating from Rome In the
sixteenth century.
don't see why Almighty God should punish
creature with eternal punishment just as there
are many patent facts that VIC cannot account
for. as the existence OF human misery which
God. who Is Infinitely kind and powerful, could
have eliminated and yet attained his end. We
cannot say why lie 50 elected. and yet we have to
admit the fact of such misery.
Coming 10 the question OF what the Bible teaches
In connection with the subject. II would throw
little light on the problem perhaps n Doctor OF
Divinity" would take up seriatim the proofs Of
the existence OF everlasting punishment drawn
from the Scriptures set out In a standard Cath
olic manual OF theology and reply concisely TO
the arguments set forth therein. But the doctor
must he careful 10 avoid sweeping and conss-
quentiy Inaccurate assertions In his solutions
NEW YORK, January "a. PATIENT.
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may observe that no such soft hearted
Judge has been found thus far. Fur
thermore the action Of those who have
refused TO release THAw tends strongly
to confirm the correctness OF the ver-
dict of the jury 10 the effect that he
was insane when he shot STANFORD
WHITE.
The reference to the supposed influ-
ence of counsel persona 0rdtd" in the
passage we have quoted from the re-
port is a slur upon the Judiciary OF the
State which we are sorry to see in the
official proceedings of an organic alton
which has enjoyed so high standing as
the New York State Bar Association. A
of this character ought TO
weigh it's words more carefully.
The sun., 1910-01-25
Discipline at west Point.

Secretary DICKINSON is a very able
and accomplished gentleman. He has
won laurels in the law and has made
mark in cognate occupations and en-
ployments; but is he not making haste
too swiftly when he undertakes to pro-
mote or at least to patronize a move
ment intended to relax the discipline
established at West Point in respect Of
hazing?
Whatever Mr.. DICKINSON may have
heard in the premises. the existing laws
on that subject are the result OF long
experience and dispassionate study by
men both observant and responsible.
He is hardly warm in his seat as Secre-
tary of War, and yet we are told that he
is in sympathy with an effort TO intro
duce elasticity into existing legislation.
either by modifying the laws or by
liberalizing the functions Of those who
administer them. The active, working
officers of the army are almost to man
advocates Of the present regulations ana
their strict enforcement, for they know
what hazing really means and are in a
position to appraise its evil influences.
That the politicians are Of another way
Of thinking is Ineligible enough, but
Just why a man of Secretary DICKTN-
SONS parts should incline 10 their view
is a conundrum we shall not undertake
to solve.
Politics and political influences are
already powerful enough in army and
navy affairs Members Of Congress
appoint young men TO the academies on
the strength Of their standing before
local examining boards, and that should
satisfy them. They offer TO everybody
an opportunity on perfectly equal terms.
After that they should leave details to
the military authorities, who have had
military training and know what is best
for the youths destined to command.
To follow the average boy through col
lege, protect him in his indiscretions and
release him from the consequences Of
his more serious offences is beyond the
power Of the ordinary Senator OF Repre-
sentative.
The restoration of hazing az IL is
now projected. under a more alluring
name perhaps, can lead TO only one of
two results: either the youngsters will
become victims again Of the browbeat-
ing and barbaric processes Of the big
boys or the example given by one
BEAUMONT B. BUCK of Texas many
years ago will be followed by other
robust cadets BUcK declared openly
that he would not be Inundated. and
when the hazers broke into his room
prepared to put him through he shot
the leader OF the party, shot him through
and through. He was never hazed
again, and has served ever since as an
officer Of high character and enviable
achievement.
Secretary DICKINSON should leave
military discipline to military men.
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makes II q criminal offence to contract for
marine insurance without posseesng an
insurable interest.
A somewhat similar practice OF taking
out small funeral policies on the lives Of
strangers IL forbidden In o compphensive
act. which consolidatss and amends the acts
OF 1870. 1877 and 1907. regulating Industrial
life assurance and Employer liability In
surance. It also regulates the practice OF
issuing bonds or endowment certificates IN
return for instalments paid at short inter-
walls. the party OF issue contracting 10 pay
a sum at future date. 1t places domestic
and foreign Industrial insurance compas
nies on the same plane. but requires All
to furnish bonds OF 500. 900 and provides Tor
rigid inspection.
Besides these measures several OF minor
Importance were passed. regulating the
potrvrs of local educa atlonal authorities. pro-
vidinR for greater safety at cinemRtograph
exhibitions and regulating electric light
companies. with the creation OF commits
sion 70 see that public buildings, parks or
gardens shall not be injured by the smoke
nuisance. the use OF smoke consumers be-
ing made obligatory.
These statutes constitute pretty gooo
record even for an abnormally long session.
The entire number of laws placed on the
statute book was forty-nine. The total
number passed during the Liberal Minis
try's tenure OF of''ce was zlz.
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The Futile Meat Boycott.

II there is a combination of packers
that regulates meat prices and If il is
true that the demand for meat exceeds
the supply, an assertion often made in
the interests of the packers and middle
men. il is plain that the consumers boy
colts reported will not alarm or perplex
such a combination. II could send its
products where it pleased and restrict
the quantity Of them. Thus the meat
supply of Cleveland, where the boycott
started and is robust, has been adjusted
10 the diminished demand and prices
remain about the same. We quote from
nC1eveland despatch:
ff Although a canvass Of all the retail butcher
Snops IN the First ward, a representative middle
eiSss section Of the city shows n falling of IN
trade of from ne-half to three fourths In that
locality. the exceedingly small receipts Of live
etock here have operated, according 20 the butch
srs, to keep prices up. The decline on beef has
Rsen but i5 cents the hoof and on lamb 10
tgnts"
The retailer apparently is the only
sufferer; he would be ruined il the sup
ply OF meat TO Cleveland continued 10
be small as a result of the boycott, and
the combination, assuming that there
h one, would divert the meat which
cleveland did not want to other large
cities where the demand for it was
normal Logically, prices if under
control would remain the same for
M meat eaters.
A general boycott including the whole
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The Right Place for the Right Man.

The choice of Mr.. CLIFFORD PINCHoT
\to be president and active manager of
the National Conservation Association
will be universally approved. His
knowledge. his zeal and the undoubted
honesty of his purposes and methods
make him the proper person to direct
the popular movement for conservation.
The assistance which he will be able to
give to Congress and to the Executive
will be not the less because unofficial in
the governmental sense.
President PINCHoT will have strong
following and great opportunity, and
THE Sun sincerely hopes that he will be
able to do much good.
The sun., 1910-01-25
Home Rule,

To THE EDITOR or TIE sUN-Sir: Why
should the irish hone OF home rule depend
upon Liberal success7 The Tory strength
In the new House OF Commons Ia likely 10
he equal to that OF the Liberals and Rsdi-
calls combined.
A bargain between Balfour and the Ma
tionalists for n moderate irish bill would
be perhaps the best move for ireland al
present, for the Tories can control the
House OF Lords and thus carry out their
bargain speedily and effectively; besides
which the Tories would not expect the
Irish members In return to help them In
their various doubtful experiments.
ALFRED 3. CRUIKsHANK.
NEW York, January 20.
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1ar. Choate and the Eighth Decade


Yesterday was the birthday of the
Hon. JOSEPH HODGES CHoATE, a son of
Massachusetts, and citizen of New York
for more than half a century. By the
oonventional and the least significant
1psthod of measurement his age appears
- be seventy According to the
Gkandards Of vital endurance, bodily and
mental power, unblunted interest in
kbe world around him and undimin-
Hhed faculties for public usefulness Mr..
JosEPH H. CHoATE is anywhere in the
Kplden prime
IL is a fact perhaps worth mentioning
that at the present time the Senate Of
fIne United States contains not less than
xhirfeen members who were born, like
Mr.. CHoArE. in the prolific sos OF the
hast century. This is almost exactly
tne-seventh of the entire Senate, a no.
liable proportion. Three Of the Senators
belonging 10 this class are the seniors
&bf the distinguished jurisconsult who
Stands at the head of the American bar.
Two Of them, indeed. are his seniors
By three years in each case. And Mr..
tHoATE, we must observe further. is
bot two years older by the family Bible
fhan the Hon. CHAUNcEY NJ. DEPEw,
who, IL we do not mistake the usual
eynptoms OF continued political ex-
bectancy, is now beginning an active
'<ampaign to promote his own election
10 the Senate for the six years from
the fourth Of March, 1911.
NJ We're we 20 venture 10 congratulate
Mr. CHoATE upon his status in life ac-
rording to that truer chronology which
does not depend wholly or even chiefly
Tppn arithmetical computation, where
.tould we find a more felicitous formula
.tiian IN the remarks which he himself
sddreesed at Lincoln's Inn TO Lord
HA1aBUBY3
He is the very incarnation, said Mr..
CHoAIR, -of perennial youth. Time,
like an ever rolling stream, bears all its
tons away, but the Lord Chancellor
seems to stem the tide Of time. In
sfcad of retreating like the rest of US
before its advancing waves, he is actu-
ally working his way up stream. He
demonstrates what ! have been trying
70 prove for the last three years, that the
elghth decade Of life is far the best, and
4 am sure he will join with me in advis-
ing you all to hurry up and get into it
rs soon as you can.
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A Vision OF Government.

Statesmen in Washington who are
smitten with the idea that the country
cannot be saved from decay unless Mr..
ROOSEVELT is elected Speaker OF the
House OF Representatives seem to have
forgotten that the Speaker doesn't
speak, or speaks only to recognize men,
bers and put and pass upon motions.
IL is true that he can take the floor, and
occasionally does, to make a personal
statement, but his real business is to
regulate the speaking and not to speak
himself. Even his gavel is silent most
OF the time, a mere symbol of Office, how
ever large and flexible his biceps is.
To discharge his functions well he must
be not only letter perfect in parliamen-
tary law but a model of reticence,
patience and self-control. Have the
promoters OF the Speakership boom
considered how Mr.. ROOSEVELT would
like to adjust himself to the conditions
the Office imposes? But there is another
view Of the case: that Of Representative
JAMES KENNEDY OF Ohio, who has been
long enough in Congress to know what
he wants. Says he:
Bring ROOSEVELT back from Africa, elect him
10 Congress and make him Speaker. That's the
programme for me- With TArr the biggest ana
strongest constructive statesman. IN the White
House 70 direct legislation. and with ROOSEVELT,
the miracle OF energy, AZ the other end OF Penn
syivania avenue. we would have the greatest and
best Government the country has known"
Apparently Mr.. TAFT and Mr.. RoosE-
WELT would have the game between
them under this scheme Of government.
Mr.. ROOSEVELT would legislate, and
Mr.. TAFT would sign the bills and send
his messages to Mr.. ROOSEVELT. There
would be no more vetoes. Congress
would sit at the Speakers pleasure and
rise TO gallop across country to Virginia
OF scale the precipitous sides Of Rock
Creek when the weather was most un-
propitious. Mr.. ROOSEVELT would be
the majority, and the minority wouldn't I
matter. The Senate would automati-
cally cooperate with him, and it would
not be necessary 10 appoint conferees
TO reconcile differences between the
House and Senate. Thespeeches would
be made by the Speaker, and he would
appropriate. The gsvel would be used
only TO enforce silence.
Mr.. KENNEDY's proposal is not sus-
ceptible of any other realization. He
desires joint Government admins
tered by Mr.. ROOSEVELT as Speaker and
by the President of the United States.
II would be -the greatest and best Gov
ernment" not 80 much because Mr.. TAFT
is constructive "A because Mr.. RoosE-
WELT is mighty destructive. Mr.. TAFT
having to deal with a miracle Of
energy" would necessarily be in a sub
ordinate and responsive capacity, and
the greatest and best Government would
Of course partake Of the supernatural.
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rise triumphantly exclaiming, Sym
ptOcdrpus F9tidVS"? For ourselves,
we confess il would have been skunk
cabbage or nothing.
II is these little things that teach us the
value Of great men and institutions.
Henceforth we shall understand both
Public Service Commissions better,
knowing that genius which can impart
dignity and something Of majesty to
the humble meadow plant can soar
and sweep when traffic and transit
problems claim its august mind.
The sun., 1910-01-25

From fhe kent0n Herald
When Joseph Brown OF Mineral left Oklahoma
City for his homo the only thing he left behind
thsthe wanted was his dog and his pipe. Imagine
his surprise when one day last week the dog o.
peared at the Mineral post once and scratched
on the door 70 be let In. The dog. 90 we arc in
formed. had the pipe In his mouth and Q note In
Il from the home folks He had travelled the
entire distance. more than four hundred miles
carrying the plpe In his mouth. making the trip
In four days