The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-04

Noul hbHlet dHu Noul NoAhAhuhAeA ~
fore helping out the real estate
boosters of 0klahoam City?
And Your Schools, Too
i How about your schools? Have
4 you a comfortable, comomdous
school buildipga with proper equip
ments Are you able TO hold eight
or nine months school each year? Do
your children have the education and
advantages they should have?
Why not have better school build
ings and better schools and give your
children the kind Of education they
should have before you load yourself
down with taxes to build a state
house that is not needed except for
the purpose of boosting real estate
schemes?
1 Pennsylvania Example
Pennsylvania built eaPitol build
ing with a commission similar to the
one provided for in the present Ok
lahoma bill When returns were all
in the state had a $4,000, 900 capitol
building and $9,000,000 worth of fur
niIure to pay for They have re-
Gently sent fourteen or the grafters
connected with this deal to the pen
itentiary, but this does not help the
taxpayers any in paying the bill.
Does Oklahoma want to have a sim
liar experience? She will unless the
large majority of the people vote
mo on June llth. /.
Not Politics But Business
! A desperate effort is being made
by the grafters back of the capital re-
moval bi llto divert the attention of
the people from the real issue By
pdragging in politics., Circulars have
been sent to all OF the leading Demo.
rats of the state urging them 10
stand against Guthrie because, as they
allege, II is a negro town,
| The people are not to be fooled
however The question at issue Is
one Of taxes, and every man who
examines the bill will readily see
that its enactment into law means
graft, higher taxes and more debt.
DO II Now"
+ This is the slogan of the Oklaho-
ma City grafters Their motto, how.
ever should really be DO them now,
for that is their undoubted intention
as regards the tax payers.
! When Il. ] Giddings. the offS~iai
! Representative of Oklahoma City. was
speaking at the re ent Shawnee
meeting and telling of the great things
Oklahoma City would do with the
peoples money one of the audience
interrupted him with the question, ,
What about the tax payer?" Let the
tax payer take care OF himself" was
Mr.. Glddings answer, and that is the
sentiment of the whole Oklahoma
City crowd
The tax payers of Oklahoma must
take care Of themselves and do II
now" or they will be loaded down
with taxes and debt in an ncon
ceiyable amount by the gang back Of
the proposed state capital location
bill.
Get busy, Mr.. Taxpayer, go to WORK
at once do It now and keep or
doing it until June llth See thai
your vote and the vote of every tax
payer in your community is mo" OF
that day
Read The Bill
/ The precinct election inspector in
every voting precinct in the state ha'
been furnished sufficient copies
the proposed state capital location
bill, together with the official argu
ments for and against it, to supply
'one copy to every voter in the pre-
| cinct and it is his duty to call meet
ing of the voters and distribute these
bills. If you have not seen copy
of the bill. call on your inspector fol
pne at once. Read the bill carefully
and also the arguments.
THE BILL WAS ORIGINATED BY
PETITION BY OKLAHOMA CITY
GRAFTERS, THE SIGNATURES or
THOUSANDS OF THE PETITION
.ERS BEING SECURED BY FRAUT
] AND DECEPTION. AND HAS NEV
ER BEEN BEFORE THE LEGISLA
TURE IN ANY WAY If 1T RE
/ rEIvES A MAJORITY OF VOTES
ON JUNE 11TH 1T IMMEDIATELY
BECOMES EFFECTIVE WITHOUT
ANY ACTION OF THE LEGISLA
| lTURE.
You will notice that while the argu
mentS against the bill are signed b,
committees OF citizens OF Guthrie anC
Shawnee and by the President OF th'
/ Oklahoma State Tax Payers league
the only argument in favor of the bill
is signed by W. A. Lenbetter, witt
does not In any way designate wher'
he is from or who he represents.
Taxpayers Must Act
The farmer will be very busy Jun'
Filth.
That is why the election was cal
cd then as
II could have been held at the tim,
'of the primary in August and 500
200 saved TO the tax payers, but tha
would have given the people NOR
ZINE to investigate the matter am
they would have been out In full fore
at the primary and overwhelming,
voted II down.
The schemers hope TO catch IN
farmer mapping aud load another bur
den OF taxes on his shoulders.
Wake un. Mr. Tax Payer
I Get busy
Arise in your might on June lit
and kill this bill.
Show these grsfters that you arr
no longer easy prey
II Announce TO the world that YOU ar
+ ahle IN take care of Yourselves ans