The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-04-25
MURRAY AND THE
WAGE.WoRKERs

OhhAN AND TIE
WAGE.WoRkERs
There's bit of campaign doggcrel
going the rounds of the village quar-
tettes under the title Of "CoChcburr
BILL" Two OF the verses run as
follows:
Cookie burrs, cookie burrs. Oh, a
plenty there will be.
If William II. Murray gets the seat
In Gutheree.
He's singing low now. boys, but be
sure that without fall,
Hell put good warm cookie burr
under Union Labor's tail
Nov all you good tollers who fought
for laws you need,
And had your weary eyes filled with
cookie burr seed,
Remember how he did you when he
had the power to do.
And join in the chorus that will
make old Bill skiddoo."
Now, of course. this sounds very
rude and from the standpoint OF the
amenities and c1urtesjcs which We
believe should always obtain upon
the Pinafore ship of politics. We
would have been glad II the poet
had seen tit to have struck more
refined strain. Mr.. Murray, at whom
the verses are directed, is very
sensitive man. True, his early life, as
he tells us, was spent In the toll
of cotton fields and brick yards and
such things-but that was in his cm.
bryonic days. Now he talks Latin
like "A dago professor and quotes from,
English critics Of our American sys-
TEN of government Ike old Granny
Bryce, and tells MS about what SolJn
and Pythagoras and lot of those
fellows would think about the Okla
homa constitution. and he even oc-
casiOnally drops into French all of
which indicates that Mr. Murray is
now settng up to be man of conn
siderable intellectual refinement, aud
therefore. II ne Is 60 be celebrated in
verse, We believe that IL should be-
done in a decent and refined manner
and not in this rough-neck style
But, however that may be
unu1l gaatn from, M,,vvn,sf -.
fast-becoming-celebratod Atus speech
that IL the horny-handed sons of toll
did not have a kick against him be-
fore that fatal day when he mounted
the alfalfa bale up there. they Ger.
tainly have got a large and protuber.
ant one now.
Somewhere In about the center of
the first mile and a half OF the
speech, Mr.. Murray undertakes TO
sort out the population according 10
the political economy books that he
has been reading, and he rounds
them up into capitalists. "burgossc'
and "pro.etariats' Now, II you are
a burgess" as the Honorable vii
liam calls 'em, you are an right, be-.
cause you belong to the great mid.
die class that Mr.. Murray says Is
going to save the world, hut If you
are unfortunate enough TO holous
to what DC calls tho pro.oarla,s."
YOU are frty.fyc degrees worse or
than CONoyS army
The great middle class" says Pro
fcssor Murray "or which type the
average man is most representative.
in all ages OF the world, IN every
form OF government whatsoever have
been the stalwart prescrors OF civ.
i'izat!on, liberty and progress" Bully
for the "burgcssc."
But, alas, II you are one of those
"proletariat" fellows, according TO
Mr.. Murrays reckoning, you are a
tramp, a comcune, cormorant.
an unskillful, uneducated person, hay-
ing neither property, country nor
home, family or religious ties or sen.
timents.' In other words, you are
simply oncumbering the earth-merc
political fotsam and jetsam, or
worse.
Now, remember that this is Profes-