The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-07-15
HIS BEST FRIENDS ARE THOSE
WHO HAVE KNOWN HIM LONGEST
CRUCE HAS SOME GOOD REASONS FOR
ON PUBLIC QUESTIONS is
ANGE AS OFTEN AS THE NOON
Loco, Okla, July II, 1910
Editor Ardmoreite:

Loco, Okla, July Il, 1910.
! Editor Ardmoreite:
/ believe that every honest man n
Oklahoma, who knows Hon. Lee
( CIuce will say he is one OF the clean
est strai shtforward, high-minded men
within our great state. Mr. Cruce is
one and always the same dignilied
gentleman, a man that believes in JUS
tice TO all and special fayors TO none.
Mr.. Cruce is not one thing this or
last year and something else tomor-
row. He is a man that looks well to
| business in business way, man
who has made a success OF his per
sonaln business. This | know 10 be
! fact for | have known Mr.. Cruce from
the time he first landed at ArdmOre.
MI Cruce is the ideal man that all
good law-abiding citizens should want
at the head of our government in the
great state II Oklahoma. MI Cruce
| believes in all Unrestricted Indian
lands being taxed at a fair and equiL-
able value, the same as yours or
mine that the Indian landlord pay his
part OF building school houses, good
roads and bridges. He not only be-
lieves so, but he has favored such
since We first got statehood. Mr..
Cruce also believes that Indians,
VIII Sc restrictions have been remoy-
Socialism Unmasked.
(By j. X Smyth, \. b. b. Lit, Lone
Grove, Okla
Since my debate with Judge (?) Z.
5. Hurt at Bunker Hill school house,
on April 16, the socialists have been
Wanting their speens, and being un-
able to procure representative man
to meet me in debate, have resorted
20 abuse and misrepresentation. !
therefore propose to take the mask
-ignorance-off it's face, that its
identity may be made manifest unto
all people; because, through ignor-
ance and deception, the socialists
have beguiled many. who, when the
mask is removed. will drop 1t as they
would hot potato Many have
regarded it as mere bread and but
ter proposition If so, the politicians
get the bread and butter. and give
the people an empty proposition. So
cialism is compound-the compon-
ent parts being politics, religion, in
fidelity and free-love-lsm. | will now
cite a few extracts from their own
writer's and speakers.
First, as politics, Dick Maple, their
phrophe,. says that it is all politics,
and has nothing to do with religion.
See Powell-Maple debate on social
ISM page Al
Socialism does not advocate nor
dencunce the Bible, as socialism IS
nothing but bread and butter prop
osition and when that problem is
solved. socialism will have no further
mission 1t is a rule in logic, that
system that contradicts itself is
false, therefore, it is false Notice The
following contradictions;
Socialism further proposes to es-
tablish the religion of Jesus Christ
and usher in the millennium Powell
Maple debate page IA First, Maple
says it has nothing to do with re-
ligion. On page "a, Powell and Maple
debate, he says: Again let me say
that socialism does not pertain to
the bible, nor to religion" See the
contradiction? 1t does not pertain to
the bible nor religion, and yet to pro-
poses to establish the religion of
Christ, and usher in the millennium
Well may socialists sing: 1ln the
Cross in the Cross, Be My GLORY.
Ever" for the system crosses itself
hundreds of times.
Having briefly noticed the political
and religious sides. ! nov proceed to
review the infidel side. In better
world philosophy, page 125. it is said
man came from the gorilla. THE
gorilla. that formidable and noble an
cester of man"
In "Merrie England" by Robert
Blatchford. socialist of England, on
page 126 OF his book We find this
language: Il take the scientists
view thar man is an undeveloped
creature. That he is being risen from