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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-31
THE JAP IN FLORIDA

Times-Union: The Times-Union
sees no reason 10 fear the coming of
a few thousand japanese TO Florida
nor is il willing that those who fear
them should deprive the state of
such advantage as may accrue from
the coming of quiet and industrious
Immigrants merely for the gratifica-
ton Of a personal prejudice. but it
is unwilling TO deprive these alarm
lists of their right TO present opinions
and to secure a decision on the sub
ject from all the people. We believe
the provisions of our constitution
are wise and proper, and We would
dislike to see it narrowed in its vel
come or imbued with unnecessary
racial prejudice. but we do not insist
that such view be imposed on the
state-we only state an opinion.
But when the facts of history are
cited as evidence. even where they
apply with very little force, We enter
a protest in no uncertain tone, be-
. lieving that a duty to the public is
discharged in SO doing Here is an
observation offered as good evidence
to the people of Florida, taken from
, the Birmingham Age-Herald:
1T is the experience of white men
that they cannot live, in peace and
amity with the Japs in large num-
bers Wherever the latter go among
/ the Caucasians they comprise an in
digestible mass Of population. They
are thrifty, industrious and exceed
ingly clannish. Florida, perhaps
would profit financially by having
some of its now idle lands settled by
/ expert japanese farmers and truck
| ers, but this probably would not be
worth the price that would have to
j doesn't want Jap colonies, and
neither does the south: it has
enough troubles of it's own"
| Now to what chapter of history
! does our contemporary refer? Until
few years ago no foreigner lived
with the Japanese in large numbers
except in their own land, and there
it is our boast that our relations
have been most cordial and friendly
1t is true that the Japanese massa-
cred thousands of Christian converts
and many European priests in their
own islands, but the war was po-
litical and grew out of attempts OF
the missionaries to control their
government.-we do not believe that
Americans will charge this as q
crime to them that should endure
while like crimes are forgotten
when committed in Europe. 1t is
true that our missionaries were
harshly treated in Korea, but ou1
government made protest and de-
clared its satisfaction with the repair
alton made.
The experience in California is
still in doubt; her example should
not be accepted as conclusive in
Florida, where the conditions are
very different. Here the japanese
have been welcomed and invited
it is somewhat humiliating to recall
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-31

haps than the Asiatic ever can COM
prehend. Meantime, if the japanese
are admitted into our country in
masses, they will inevitably raise
their standards OF living, and as in
evitably lower ours. Their compare
tive economy and industry will stay
with them as long as necessary, no
longer. Some of the same race the
japanese belong TO are among the
LATEST and most slovenly people on
the face Of the earth. As for the
people of California, whom the
Times-Union sneers at, they are our
own kind of people-our blood
brethren. They have had a better
chance to try out the Jap than any
other people-if they have found
him incOngenial, We are safer in TAX
ing their advice than following that
of theorists who have had no per-
sonal opportunity 10 study the sub
ject.
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our pledges after they have been &C
cepted in good faith.
Thousands of Europeans and Am
orleans are living in Japan today
they are free to return and remain
willingly, so that their example re-
flutes the supposition that We can
not live with them. 1t would be
easier to show that others find it i'm
possible to live with us in peace and
harmony when once we have colon
lied in large numbers: all history is
full Of instances to support this
proposition. and the Japs could cas-
lily make out a strong case against
us if they desired to keep US out as
some Of US seem determined to keep
them out.
Thousands of japanese laborers
issippi valley; are they offensive or
iinharmonious? Like opposition was
once shown to the coming Of Irish
men; like arguments might be. found
for closing our gates against Italians
or Poles or Szechs. Perhaps it would
| be we'll to stop all immigration to
this country for twenty wears-cer-
tainly they are coming faster than
we can turn them into fit American
citizens, but we fail to see that dis
elimination should be made against
the japanese. 1t is said we already
have our racial prohlem-do we de-
sire to get rid of that?
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-31

One of the errors that the people
who are engaged in the insurance
business are liable to is the idea very
prevalent among them that it is
something akin to sacrilege to crit
icise the actions of their companies
They consider their calling a magno-
liza blossom in the garden of finance,
and fear that the least touch of
newspaper criticism will leave an in
effaceable scar. This opinion, which
was widely impressed on the country
at large, was much responsible for
the great insurance scandals of eight
years ago. 1t is true that the insur-
ance business in this country has
been conducted with an honesty and
efficiency superior perhaps to that
shown in any other business. How
ever, it is carried on by men and
wOmen-the same kind of men and
women who carry on the government.
railroads and banking, and every
other great public utility. The men
and women liz these callings deserve
and receive newspaper criticiSm-it
is universally conceded that they
serve the public better on account of
the criticism. The people who deal
in life insurance must get wise to
the truth that they are carrying on a
business, not administering a relig-
ion. As a matter of fact, the Amer
lean people have been much more re-
spectful to insurance than they have
been to religion
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-31
AN ERRONEOUS IDEA

Tampa Times: Newspapers out.
side of the state-and- some few
inside-the former perhaps ignor-
antly, but the latter designedly are
attributing what they call FLORIDA s
japanese scare" to a silly fear that
the japanese will plant colonies in
this state that will prove dangerous
in the event of a war between Japan
and the United States.
The Times has had more to say
editorially in opposition to the col
onization of Japanese in Florida
than any other paper in the state, or
out of it, and we have reproduced
more matter from the columns OF
other papers on the subject than any
other paper, and neither in our own
original matter nor in that quoted
from other papers has one word been
said conveying the purile folly OF
physical fear Of Japanese colony.
Devoting space to the printing OF
arguments against such fear and the
taking time to write them are silly
wastes of space that might be more
profitably and sensibly spent than in
setting up men of straw and knock
ing them down again.
There isn't an editor in Florida
who is such fool or coward as to
harbor the fear alluded to. The
Times has on several occasions given
editorial expression to its reasons
for opposing japanese colonization
Those reasons were racial. economic,
sociological, moral and religious and
in our opinion were overwhelming
" sufficient for such opposition.
They are shared in by the tremen-
dously preponderating majority in
numbers and influence of the news
papers OF the state. Those that en-
terrain the opposite views are con-
spicuous by their isolation
The matter would certainly be
.unspeakably funny" when viewed
from a miIitry standpoint-but we
have yet 10 see the expression of any
such view. We are at a loss TO i'm
agine whence the idea was derived
that there had ever been such an
idea put into words.
We agree that there is time
enough 10 enact the necessary legis-
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-31
STEADY GROWTH
IN ANSHIP

Lakeland Telegram: No Southern
public man during the same length
OF service has brought himself into
more honorable and useful promi-
nence that Senator Duncan L. FLEET
cher of this state. He carries the
weight and influence of a genuine
statesman in Washington, wise in
counsel, strong in debate, and he has
personality TO give added emphasis
to his public service. He is far be-
yond the calibre Of the mere success
full politician and he has given dis
tinguished service outside his purely
senatorial duties to the cause of
Southern advancement in some very
important directions. We note with
much pleasure that he has just been
reelected as president of the South
ern Commercial Congress, that big,
virile organization before which
President Wilson spoke the other
day in Mobile and which is a perma-
nent and growing factor in the ma
terial uplift of the South. Some men
shrivel in great places, some are
hopelessly commonplace, but some
steadily grow with increasing serv-
zee until they become public servants
of the first class. Among the latter
Senator Fletcher is a conspicuous in
stance.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-31

Some people are wrathy because
it has been said that Sulzer looks
like portraits of Henry Clay, and
comfort themselves with the remark
than IN looks the resemblance ends.
II the same people will take the
tro53le to look up the biography OF
Clay, they will find that that bril-
liant statesman drank heavily and
gambled considerably, that he had al
least one shady affair with a woman
and that he died heavily in debt to
MS friends. However, he was a great
statesman, and did noble work for
his country. Perhaps if Sulzer lived
IN Kentucky or some other state that
Tammany cannot boss, he would
make good record himself
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-31

The Star presents today the views
OF the Tampa Times and the Times
Union on the Japanese question.
These two papers may be considered
the leaders in Florida on the oppos-
Ing sides of the controversy The Star
has studied the question as carefully
as possible and agrees with the
Times. 1t takes an Americans view
and a white mans view The Times
Union argues from the natural
standpoint of people who consider
the cultivation of land now waste
and securing efficient labor more i'm
Dortant than preserving the rights of
the people We now have and keeping
the land for the use Of the same kind
OF people who will come after us.
There is much more than the pres
ent to consider in this issue. One
thing is, that the qualities Of indus
try and economy for which the Jap
aneSe are so highly praised are not
inherited by any race of people. They
are always the result of circum-
stances. The japanese come from a
narrow and barren country: it is
natural to them TO work like slaves
and be stingy The American lives
In a large and generous country-he
IS large and generous in his ways
Time and circumstances will force
on him a. broader and more useful
thrift than the Asiatic has ever prac-
ticed: broader and more useful per-
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SOuthbOund

SOuthbOund
No. 50 leaves Jacksonville at $3.50
a. m, arrives Gainesville at ~: 80
a. m. arrives Ocala at 2:40, arrives
ST. Petersburg at $40 p. m.
No. leaves Jacksonville at $40
D. m. arrives Gainesville at 6:53 p.
M. arrives OcaIa at S:45 p. m. ar
rives at Leesburg at 10 p. m.
No 81 leaves Jacksonville at $50
D m. arrives Gainesville 12:3l a.
m, arrives Ocala 2:1S a. m, arrives
ST Petersburg a. N.
Northbound
No. SO leaves St. Petersburg $50
p. m, arrives Ocala at 2:20 a. M,
arrives Gainesville 3:5S a. m. and
arrives jacksonville a. m
No. 10 leaves Leesburg at 4:45 a
m, arrives OcaIa at Cos a. m. ar
rives Gainesville at 1855 a. N. and
arrives Jacksonville at 1885 a. N.
No. 40 leaves ST. Petersburg at
$50 a. m. arrives Ocala 1854 p.
m. leaves OcaIa ia p. m, arrives
Gainesville at $3.50 p. m, arrives
Jacksonville al $50 p. N.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-31

Several of our friends yesterday
mark that there are two sides to ev-
cry question. The Star would hardly
know what to do with a question that
had only two sides. All it is &C
quainted with have all the way from
six sides to thirteen, and there is
right and wrong considerably mixed
on each
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-31

The acquittal OF Mrs. Eaton was to
be expected. The evidence would
have hung a man, but the jurors
probably thought the lady was justi-
fable in poisoning her husband
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-31
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD

Font King Camp No. II meets IN
Ionge's Hall al p. II. every second
Friday. Visiting sovereigns always
welcome. J. F. Thompson. c. c.
Chas. K. Sage, Clerk. AID
Next meeting Friday night, Nov. IA.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-31

That ritual murder case in Russia
is drawing the unfavora bic comment
OF the civilized world But Russia is
imperyious to criticism.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-31
(DoDestic)

The experiment station at Gaines
vile is worth millions of dollars to
the farmers OF Florida
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-31

DIR. w. X. LANE-Specialist, Eye
Ear, Nose and Throat. Office Law
Library Building, Ocala-Adv.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-31
COMMITTEES OF THE
CITY COUNCIL

nce-Carmichael, Helyenston
and Weathers.
Light and Water-Taylor, Weihe
and Weathers.
Street-Weathers Weihe and
Bennett.
Fire-Weihe, Helvenston and
earn.
Police-Weihe and Bennett.
michael.
Building--Bennett Carmichael
and Taylor.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-18
SCATTERING SMALLPOX CASES
Good Fortune of Carter County Due
to Activity of City Physician.

While there are a few scattering
cases of smallpox over the state,
Ardmore and Carter county still make
the boast that it has not had case
Our good fortune was NOT due to luck
but was brought about by the good
Judgment and quick action of CITY
Physician DR.. Hargraves. He did no.
wait one moment but called the city
commissioners together, made his
recommendations, they accepted
them and gave the city physician the
support of the police force with the
result that the rigid quarantine was
effective and not case of the scourge
developed here. This city owes DR..
Hargraves a greater debt of gratitude
than it will ever be able to repay.
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CARTER NAMES PosTMAsTERS
J. T. Holley Selected for Postmaster
At Stigler

Washington, ID. c., April Isl. u.
Bennett, postmaster at Finley, Push
mataha county, fourth class Cffice,
has resigned his office upon charges
of negligence of duty being preferred
against him by democrats in that
community. Congressman Carter
has endorsed first and second choice
d, ,mocrats to succeed him. Thls is
the first case of fourth-class post
master resigning in Oklahoma s,ute
Wilson's inauguration. Congressman
Carter will today nominate j. r. Hol-
'ey to be postmaster at Stigler, Has
Fell county. There was a hot tisht
fo, this nomination, the district dem
ocratic organization and the pa,rons
of the office being almost equa y
divided between two candidates for
the office.
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More Oil Men Here.

Jacob Turner arrived in Ardmore
yesterday afternoon and went out to
the Oil City anG Wheeler oil fields
this morning in company with Sam
G. Wood, the real estate dealer. Mr..
Turner is an oil operator in the 81 Ids
at OkmulgHG an states that great in
terest is being awakaned in that sec
tion in the Carter county oil pros
poets. The gentleman states that
now that the news has gone forth
that Carter really has wells which
show a production Of more than ten
to twenty-five barrels per day OF
men from all sections are beginning
TO make carefu! Investigations and
study Of the conditions h,rc. The
seems to think that in
very short time a systemativ develop
Tent OF these fields wiH begin.
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SERIOUS CUTTING
AFFRAY LAST NIGHT
L. T. COYLE is DANGEROUSLY
STABBED BY WIFE'S FORMER
HUSBAND.

Shortly after eight o'clock last
evening w. f. Warden cut and pos
sibly fatally wounded L. T. Coyle,
The encounter occurred on A street
northwest, between Main street and
Broadway.
Warden, who claims Dallas, Texas,
as his home, is a former resident Of
Ardmore. A number of years ago his
wife and himself separated His wife
secured divorce, together with the
custody of her children, and later
married Coyle. Yesterday Mr.. and
Mrs. Coyle were served with pa
pers in a suit wherein the former
husband Warden, is seeking to re
cover possession of a daughter.
1t seems that Coyle, his wife and
the little girl came down Main street
about eight o'clock yesterday evening
and stopped to chat for a few mo-
ments with some friends standing in
front of a drug store near the cor
ner of Main and A street, northwest.
After chatting short time Coyle,
accompanied by the child, started
north on A street. About midway
of the block they met Warden, who
spoke to the child and asked her to
come to him a minute, saying he
wished to tell her something Ac-
counts differ slightly as to how things
happened Immediately following this,
hut it was stated at the sheriff's
office this morning that the account
which was probably the correct one
was to the effect that upon the faith
er accosting the child, Coyle
struck him blow with his fist Fol-
lowing this Warden stabbed Coyle
three times with iarge-bladed Bar
low knife. The most serious wound
and the one which it is thought may
prove fatal was inflicted in the back
and under the right arm. The knife
blade opened up a wound about six
or seven inches long and entered to a
sufficient depth to penetrate one lung
10 a depth of one and one-ha!f
OF two inches.
After the cutting Warden went up
the stairs into a second story room
of the building in front of which
the affray took place and sat down
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-18
Program.

Program for the workers meeting
of the Enon Baptist association to
be held at Lone Grove church begin
ming Tuesday night April 20, and
continuing over Wednesday, April 30.
Tuesday s p. m.-Sermon-Rev. Fry
"Wednesday $40 Open Board meet
ing and associational missions, led
bv G. w. Whitfield.
II a. m.-Sermon-Rev. Il. y.
Pugh.
2 p. m.-Devotional services.
2:3O p. m. Home and ForeiGn NJ S
sions, led by F. NJ. Masters.
p. m-Ad4o L l'nent.
All the pastors in the aasotia'icn
and board meml er5 art expected to
attend.
COMMITTEE
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-18
Personals

County Surveyor l.. f. Eddy made
a business trip to the Springer COM
munity yesterday.
Carl BuerDaum is in the city to
day from Dallas, Texas.
o. l.. Lasher was called to OIL
City on legal business this afternoon
W. T. Straush Is here from Scran
ton, Pennsylvania.
l.. ii. Cullom came in from Wich
ital Falls, Texas, this morning.
John W. Forney arrived in Ard
more from Tulb last night and went
out 70 the oil fields this afternoon.
], E. Cunningham is an Ardmore
business visitor from Dallas.
W. II. Grain arrived IN the city
from Houston this morning.. & & IS
ordon Fryer, ap rominent attor-
ney, is here today from Atoka.
Byron Drew went to oil city this
afternoon.
Mrs. A. w. Speake was in Ardmore
this afternoon from Woodford.
Fred Haynie and Ben Stephens
are business visitors to the Oil CITY
oil fields today.
Willard Bleakmore is trying to Sc .
duce the fish of the city lake into
leaving their watery homes this af-
ternoon.
pr. Dow lay Ior vas in the city
yesterday a!ternCoI rom WooTorL
Ardmore visitor yesterday.
Simon Wcstheimer, merchant n
Marietta, was an Ardmore business
visitor yesterday.
Mrs. /. l.. Lowe of Tullahoma, Tenn
is in the city visiting her parents
Mr. and Mrs. G. r. West.
G. S. Hubbard of oklahoma City
is in, the city in the interests of the
Royal Typewriter company.
John Richter, the land dealer of
Muenster returned to Texas last
night.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-18

calmly and awaited the arrival of
the sheriff's officers. Coyle and the
child returned to Main street and
joined the group-of which his wife
was one-whch he had left only d
few moments before. Walking up
to Sheriff Garrett, who was standing
near, Coyle said, well, he got me
this time" Garrett called cab,
seeing the man was badly wounded,
and had him hurried to the Hardy
lSanitarium. While he was being as
sisted into the cab Coyle repeated
the statement, "He got me this time.
When his wife remarked that he
had been dangerously wounded before,
had been shot through and through
he is said to have replied, yes,
but | did not feel then as | do now
He got me-"
At the sanitarium it was given out
this afternoon tffat while Coyle is
dangerously and perhaps fatally
wounded, yet his great and almost
perfect physique may pull him
through unless pneumonia or other
kindred complications set in.
Warden is held in the county jail
without bail awaiting the result of the
injuries which he inflicted upon
Coyle He has nothing to say of the
trouble.
Officers at the police station say
that trouble between the two men
was narrowly averted when they
chanced to meet in the station ear
lier in the day.
All the parties are we'll known i'll
this city Warden, who now claims
Dallas as his place of abode, has been
in Ardmore, it is stated, frequently
since leaving here. Coyle, who, owing
to his great height and extreme slen-
derness, is known as "Slim" Coyle,
is the discoverer of a most successful
hog cholera cure which he has intro
duced into all parts of Oklahoma,
Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas,
and parts of Colorado.
Mrs. Coyle, when seen by an Ard
moreite representative this morning
stated that her husband had made
up his mind that he would recover
from his present wounds, as he had
recovered from other wounds inflict
ed in the past-that he seemed cheer
full and that she hoped for his re-
covery,
The attempt of the former husband
to gain possession of his daughter
seems to have been the cause of the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-18
THOMAS NEWcoMs INJURED.
Horse Falls Upon Street and Pain
fullv Injuries Rider.

Master Thomas Newcomb, the sew
en-year old son of ]. w. Newcomb,
while horseback riding Thursday af-
ternoon, met with very painful, and
for a while what was feared to be a
serious accident, when his pony
slipped and fell with him, precipita-
ting the little fellow to the paved
street, striking upon his forehead
and face and rendering him uncon-
scious. The accident happened on
McLish avenue, in front of the home
Of ]. A. Madden, to which place he
was temporarily removed and given
medical attention.
This morning he was said TO be
resting fairly we'll, and the attending
physician expressed hopes that the
injuries were not serious, though his
face is badly lacerated and swollen
as result of which he will be con-
fined to his room for a number of
days.
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Broadway Baptist Church.

Regular services throughout the
day Sunday.
The Sunday School will meet a,
9:45. Prof. c. w. Richards, superin
tendent
Regular public worship at II a. n.
and p. III. Morning theme, AN
Immediate Task Before Us" Evening
subject, "The' Christians Ills and
How TO Cure Them"
,The Junior Union will meet at
p. m., with Miss Pearl Moore az
leader.
The Womans Aid and Missionary
Society will meet Tuesday afternoon
at 8 o'clock.
The pastor will preach at the Con
lederate Home Sunday afternoon at
5 O'Clock. The public invited.
f. NJ. MASTERS, Pastor,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-18
First Christian Church.

Sunday school GAS a. m, |, RMason
Supt.
Seven new classes will be organ
lied at once. We are holding our own
in contest with Lawton. Keep the
Ardmore banner aloft!
Preaching at II a. m, subject, "A
Preacher Who Moved the Multitudes."
Everybody invited,
NJ. S. JOHNSON,
Pastor.