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The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1912-08-15
PUT THE CLAMPS ON EVERYWHERE"

The following is reproduction of interesting letter. which
fell into the stokade of the Bull Mooer speaks for ITSELF Oh
naughty Bull Mooses
Hay lauding his administration sky high simonpure,
yedthewoo honest and progressive He has been utng
around Whatcom County for about week lately The Bull MOosers
wondering whether the Lincoln trader showed that letter
any of the Nooksack Valley farmers.
"Oh, You Wolff"
WASHINGTON
February 10. 1910.
Coo F. Lamptns.
Seattle Wash.
Dear
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against
keep that If the
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reflection
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everywhere and
The National
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respectfully yours
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1912-08-15

We demand tariff revision. Primarily the
benefit Of any tariff should be disclosed
in the pay envelopes Of the laborer. We
declare that no industry deserves protec-
tlon which Is unfair to labor or which Is
operating In violation Of federal law. Fair
dealing toward the people requires an i'm
mediate downward revision of those
schedules wherein duties are shown to be
unjust or excessive.
We pledge ourselves to the establish
ment Of nonpartisan scientific tariff
commission. reporting both to the presi-
dent and to either branch Of congress.
We believe that this commission should
have plenary power to elicit information
and for this purpose to prescibe q uni
form system of accounting for the great
protected industries. The work of the
commission should not prevent the imme-
diate adoption Of acts reducing these
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26

membered, however. that men like
Senator O'Gorman can not do 1t all.
This New York senator has done much
during his brief service to bring the
New York democracy into good repute
Within few months he has, by his
patriotic efforts. won the respect and
/ confidence OF men of all parties in
every section of the country. II re-
mains for the rank and file of the New
York democracy to go to the support
of O'Gorman and to make it known
that the O'Gorman type is the kind OF
democrat they most delight to honor.
Mr. Eryan cares nothing for the III
natured remarks of the gentleman oc-
cupying the office of the chief execu-
tive of New York, but he would like
to see the occupant of that Office us
ing his efforts to the upbuilding of the
party instead of counseling and aid
ing and abetting in the surrender jf
party machpery to elements that ore
essentially antagonistie to democratic
principles
Democrats everywhere having the
interest of their party and their coun-
try at heart will heartily indorse the
appeal made by the New York World,
when it says: There is a new de-
mocracq in the nation, and under the
leadership of Woodrow Wilson it
ought to be more inspiring democ-
raey than the country has known since
the days of Jackson. 1t is time the
democratic party in New York put it.
self in touch with the militant pro-
gressive democracy of the United
States The first step is the oblitera-
tion of Murphy and Murphyism. The
work should not be delayed until the
laundering boss from Fourteenth
street has finished his plans for the
nomination of state ticket through
his control of the state machine -
Commoner.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26
LITERARY STYLE AND NEWS.
PAPERS.

Thomas Hardy, the novelist, is out
with an adverse criticism of the liter
ary style of newspapers. We are In,
clined to think they do pretty well con,
sidering the rapid fashion in which
they are produced. Wonder how much
literary finish Mr.. Hardy would be
able to put into his work If he had to
reel off his stories at full speed on a
typewriter. interrupted at intervals by
requests for information. questions as
to how long a story is wanted by the
city editor, or how long II ought to be
trips to the directory to look up a
name, constant Interruptions by calls
over the phone, and by callers who
stop you in the midst of your mad
dash to give you a story on some
thing else. or to ask questions about
something wholly foreign to the yarn
the writer is trying to get out of his
system.
The novelist writes slowly, takes
abundant time to rewrite parts of it
or trim it into most effective shape,
has hours TO consult authorities in the
event that he cares to make sure of
some doubtful statement and does
his work amid calm and with as little
interruption as possible. The news
paper man has to work in haste all the
while and has little opportunity for
extended revision, or for careful plan
ming to see just what in a sentence
will give the thought the most
strength and punch"
We venture to say that if Hardy had
TO work under the same conditions
that newspaper men do, he couldn't
get out half column of copy day,
and even that would not suit the read
ers. The newspaper man has to get
his facts on the run and when he gets
to the Office to write them he has to
fairly make a typewriter hum The.
novelist is a plodder, the newspaper
man a race horse. And even at that
the newspaper mans style suits more
people than the plodding, methodical,
machine-like "stuff" furnished by the
novelist-Joplin Tribune
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26

business of the city seems to be con-
Quoted in a manner that is superior
to the aldermanic form. While there
are number of adjustments yet to be
made and while the commission form
rot yet been perfected in Okla
homa City, the public believes that the
methods now in use are designed to
accomplish more for the people than
was possible under the former meth
DDS.
Those OF our people Who were alarm.
ed about centralizing our local govern
ment will be interested in learning
that an eastern city, Sumter, S. c..
has gone one step further and pro-
poses to place the management of its
affairs in the hands of ONE MAN.
This is not intended to establish a
monarchy in Sumter; far from it. The
people of that city simply came to the
belief that one man skilled in munich
pal management could get better re-
suits than a body of men could, as
suming that the body of men should
be elected at random regardless of ex-
perience in city business.
The plan was proposed by A. ".
Smell, secretary of the Sumter cham.
Der of commerce. Mr.. Smell formerly
lived in Oklahoma City and proposed
this advanced step in government for
the people of Sumter to consider. BY
vote of the people the plan was ap-
proved and an election will be held
next month to choose three directors,
corresponding to our board of COM
missioners
These directors will receive salaries
OF 5000 each; they will employ man.
ager of the city and pay him what he
is worth. If he conducts the business
of the city in proper manner, he will
be retained If not, then some other
manager will be employed
The plan is simply the same kind
that is in use in any large private bus
iHess. A factory has a board of di-
rectors. This board engages a super
intendent to operate the factory. If
he shows dividends to the stockhold-
ers, the board is quite certain to con-
tinue him in his position.
Sumter will try to manage its affairs
just as a private corporation will do.
The manager 0 fthe city will not be
influenced by ward bosses; he will not
be a politician; he will employ assist
ants who are fitted for certain work.
There will be no taking care of the
boys" who helped elect ticket.
1t is a new departure in municipal
conduct. Sumter Is the first American
city to try the plan and the results will
be awaited with great interest by
every city in the land No American
city is managed as well as our best
private corporations and Sumter pro-
poses to find out WHY.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26

The warm campaign between Sem
ator Owen and Ex-Governor Haskell
for seat nthe United States sen
ate promised so vigorously by the Has
kell forces a while back has never
matefialized. That is to say Senator
Owen has not INDUCED in the abuse of
his opponent, in fact has ignored his
mudslinging. Owen never did wiser
thing than he is doing in conducting
his campaign as a high-toned gentle
man. In all human probability SEN
ator owen will be returned to the
senate and the people of Oklahoma
will continue TO have two strong,
, clean, able men in that body. The peo-
pie of this young state are proud of
both Owen and Gore and they will be
able to stay in the senate as long as
they make good, which they are dong
in marked degree.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26

votes cast at the election, will hold
that if voters neglect to cast ballots
on measure, the fault is al ltheiI
own. Granted, yet would 1t be wire
to let down the bars and make 1t pos
sible for any class to amend the con
stitution by taking advantage of the
apathy of voters?
For instance, railroads are keen OBJ
servers of legislatures. They watch
every movement of the lawmakers fol
fear that laws will be passed which
will be unsatisfactory to the transport
alton lines. And the railroads ars
eager to have certain legislation pass
ed for their interest, protection and
benefit
The railroads of this state could
combine and could muster enough
votes to pass any constitutional
amendment which they desired if we
open the way by permitting amend
ments to pass if more votes are cast
in favor of them than against them.
1t would be easy for railroads to
propose one or more constitutional
amendments, ask for special election
and rally their employees and friends
to go to the polls, knowing that most
of the voters would take little interest
in the election.
At a general election any class could
propose an amendment and get more
votes favorable than unfavorable. Elk
perience has shown us that a large
percentage of voters forget to vote on
measures which are placed on the bal
lots. The forgetfulhess Of voters
would make it easy for the wrong kind
of legislation to be forced upon us
Let's continue to make it hard to
amend our constitution. The present
requirements constitute a safeguard.
1t will be best to let the present meth
cd hold; we have much to lose and
nothing to gain by making it easy to
amend the constitution.-Ok Oklahoman.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26

Every merchant in Vinita who sells
goods to the east side residents-and
they all do, ought to be interested in
rebuilding the Sequoyah avenue
bridge over Bull creek. In the first
place it is the best and most practic-
able place to build. There are good
approaches on either side of the creek
and sidewalks ready built to the
creek bank. A vast amount of farm
products come into town via Sequoyah
avenue, and the country along the
Frisco east is reached by this road to
say nothing of the rights and inter
ests of those living in that section of
the city reached by the Sequoyah
avenue bridge The people living
north of Sequoyah avenue and east of
the creek can reach town just as
easily and as quickly by way of the
old bridge as they could by one a
block north. Common justice and
neighborliness would locate the new
bridge where the old one was.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26

A bill has been filed with the seere-
tary of state which provides that the
state constitution may be amended
provided any measure has more votes
in favor of it than against it. At pres
ent our constitution can be amended
only by a majority of favorable votes
of all the votes cast at the election at
which the measure is voted upon.
The bill proposed does not seem to
be advisable for Oklahoma
There are about 500, 900 voters in thi
state. II an amendment to our consti,
tuition should be voted on at any cleo
ton when all of the voters went to the
polls and the amendment should re-
ceive 100 positive votes and 80 mega
tive votes, would ii be proper that
such an amendment should prevail?
Assuredly not
The supporters of the movement to
have an amendment declared carried
if it should receive a majority in favor
Of it, regardless of the number Of
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26
DON'T TALK HARD LUCK.

The following advice to agricutur-
lists is given in the current issue of
Farm and Fireside, well-known agri-
cultural paper published at Springfield,
Ohio
'Plan to do things this year. Don't
be content to raise just 25 bushels of
corn to the acre because that is United
States record for the past ten years
Don't stop at 25 bushels, the average
farm value of which for the past ten
years has been but 1896. Why, look
at fifteen-year-old Jerry H. Moore, the
champion corn-grower, whe produced
228 bushels and 8 pecks on one acre,
which netted him $130.70 Don't be
content to grow but IS bushels of
spuds to the acre because that is the
ten-year average of the country, with
a farm value per acre of $42.12 Why,
bless your old soul, Mr.. Sturgis of
Wyoming grew 974 bushels and AS
pounds of spuds on one acre, which
netted $714.00 after paying expenses.
Some difference, Ell? Well, l guess.
r. A. Chisholm and r. G. Nisbet of
Colorado produced S47k bushels on
one acre. One of the ranchers in my
county, here in Colorado, produced 624
bushels last year, Don't stop at the
average yield. Do you know that the
countries of Europe beat us all to
pieces in the average yields per acre?
And they have land that has been culti-
waited for ages in comparison with ours
Trouble is we spread ourselves out
over too much land Try to do too
much. While we average ~ and 13
bushels of wheat to the acre, Germany
has 2S, France 81, the United King
dom 33, and so ON. Why, Germany
grows on an average as many spuds
to an acre as we do on three Our
Dutch cousins pick up 200 bushels to
the acre right along And so it is in
everything. The slow foreigners
know how to farm better than we do.
We are too slow to catch a cold, too
SLOW to even keep the immigrants
from gobAling up our best land and
growing rich, while we highly civilized
Yankees howl about worn-out soil and
hustle off to the city TO become de-
Dendents, mere parasites on the body
and economical, and help
BOOST the cost of living by our very
to meet Mother Nature half
way and give her a square deal. Don't
ct the cold winds howl about an empty
,arn next fall after scraping around
'ver the meadow to get half-ton of
lay to the acre. Why, Mrs Harris of
Michigan grew 20 tons and 500 pounds
# silage-corn on one acre last year. No
Ise to talk hard luck. Get out and
low up some serimpy meadow Do
our part, Have you always done it?'
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26
WHAT A GIRL EXPECTS OF A MAN

In the August Womans Home Com
panion appears an article entitled
What a Girl Expects of Man" 1t
is written by Anne Bryan Mccall, and
an extract follows:
First, she wants strength of body;
not that strength of body which the
primitive woman demanded, by which
you could knock down an adversary.
but that better. more modern fashion
Of bodily strength which we call
health, the soundness of body which
bespeaks temperate living, clean think
ing, healthy instincts; not the strong
body that can break. SO much as the
healthy body which can bend to meet
and deal with the varied and difficult
conditions of modern life. 1t even
pleases her if you sail a boat we'll.
dance well, ride we'll, play tennis we'll;
not because these things are especially
desirable in themselves, but because
they express to her newly the old
strength of body in some gracious and
desirable form.
Then she wants temperatures,
and good sense, and trustworthiness,
and broad-mindedness and fair-mind-
edness. Here is the old strength of
intellect that she has always desired,
but refined and altered into something
better To understand what mean
by these things being manifestations
of strong intellect, compare with
such strength the mental weakness of
the man who is unjust, passionate,
dull, laundering. a slave to his tenn
per, led in bonds by his prejudices,
changeable. unreliable, variable, un-
fair, for every one of these things is
a form of mental weakness The man
strong Intellectually has none of these
Then, and this | would have you
note as her most persistent demand,
she expects strong will and honor.
moral strength that is. The man must
have the moral courage to do right.
10 overcome evil whether evil from
outside or evil within himself; a man
not weak to yield, but strong to resist
"And with honor shall include
courtesy. that thing so dear to the
leart of every woman. And | shall
all your attention to the fact that
courtesy true courtesy, is perhaps the
inest flower of all moral strength. AS
| mans moral strength deepens, his
courtesy grows. Courtesy is at the
'ottom. just kindness. and he is al
Ways most kind who has the strongest
ense of the rights Of others and the
eepest sense of honor toward himself.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26

Many who have signed the initiated
petition to locate the new Bull creek
bridge on Tahlequah avenue say they
did not know the purport of the petit
tion, in fact did not know what they
were signing, Undoubtedly a vast ma
jority of the residents of Vinita would
prefer to have the bridge rebuilt
where the old one was washed out
last spring. It is the rule rather than
the exception that people sign petit
tions with more or less carelessness.
However ridiculous proposition in
the form of a petition may be men will
sign without due consideration as to
its effects. The practice of signing
every sort of petition that is present
ed should be discontinued and more
intelligence exercised in signing. No
one should want to cut OFF from town
a whole community of taxpayers and
residents uselessly. Study theanimus
that is behind the removal of Bull
creek bridge and you will be slow to
sig a petition to move It.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26

The Chieftain has been repeatedly
asked to support certain local demo-
cratic candidates in the coming pri-
mary All good democrats look alike
10 the Chieftain before the primary
and when the ticket is made up will
support IL However personally we
have choices among the various can.
didates.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26

Those VINO seek to move the Sc
quoyah avenue bridge a block north
do so without good reason and are led
by those blinded by hatred and preju-
dice. The Sequoyah avenue bridge
was built by private subscription and
given to the town without cost. A
little reason and common sense would
be a good thing to exercise at this
time in matter that vitality concerns
the whole city Before signing the
petition it would be well for the peo-
pie to think a little.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26
DEMOCRATIC PRESS BULLETIN.

l. l. Z
Several years ago the people of Ok
lahoma City decided that local affairs
could be administered to better ad-
vantage by placing the management
in the hands of five commissioners
instead of eleeting sixteen aldermen
to legislate for the city.
The sentiment favored such a plan
and the election indicated that there
was little opposition to the plan now
in active operation What little oppos-
ition that developed was based on
claims made by persons who were
fearful that Capitalization of govern.
ment was about to be thrust upon an
unsuspecting public.
But the fears didn't develop and as
the commissioners become more fa-
miliar with the expert knowledge re-
quired to direct municipal affairs. the
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26

The primary election will take place
two weeks from next Tuesday after
which the campaign may be said to be
really open. The democrats of Craig
county have an abundance of material
in the field for splendid ticket and
clean sweep should be made this year
from top to bottom of the ticket Don't
fail to register and vote.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26

This is essentially a picture cam
paign Williams of photographs Of
candidates have been printed and
placed in public jlaces or scattered
broadcast But after all it is pretty
good way TO get an introduction to
all the people. And there are some
good looking men running for office,
strange as 1t may seem.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26

It now transpifes that a voter can
register Independent and vote any
ticket he pleases at the primary It
is good TO know that there are few
sensible things in the Oklahoma cleo
tion laws.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26

There will be general hegira Of
candidates to the northwest part of the
county at Mobiles ford on Big creek
Tuesday where picnic and barbecue
is in progress.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26

The three congressmen-at-large can
only serve one term as the state will
be redistricted long before one term
expires. But the three will still be
at large.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26

tf Governor Dix of New York has
any real concern for the triumph of
democracy he wonld better devote
some of his attention to the separation
OF the party in New York from the
powers that prey rather than to the
elimination Of Bryan" 1t is strange
that Governor Dix can be so wrought
up at the mention of Mr. Bryan's
name while the names of the bosses
who have grown fat upon the tax
payers of New York. through the med
ium Of the democratic party, draw
from the New York executive exlaca-
tions of affection.
The New York World gives a yalu-
able hint TO the democracy of the em-
pire state when it says that men like
Senator O'Gorman should exert their
power and influence. 1t must be re.