The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-04-30
SUBSCRIPTIONS RITES:
THE PRESS WITH PRESIDENT IN
TOLLS QUESTION.

A study made by the New York
World shows that the Overwhelming
majority Of the leading newspapers of
the country are supporting President
Wilson in the Panama canal tolls con
troyersy.
In New York City only the Evening
Mail and the Hearst papers are oppos-
ing the repeal The World. the Even
ing, Post, the Sun, the Times, the
Tribune, the Herald, the Press, the
Globe and the Brooklyn Eagle favor
the repeal of the coastwise exemption
clause In the state press the per-
centage in favor of repeal is quite as
emphatic.
With three or four exceptions all the
leading southern newspapers are sus-
tanning the presidents policy. On the
administration side Of the issue are
the Louisville Courier-Journal, the
Richmond News-Leader, the Baltimore
Sun, the Charleston News and Cour-
Ter. the Chattanooga Times, the Louie.
vile Post, the Knoxville Sentinel, the
Savannah News, the Raleigh News
and Observer, the Mobile Register, the
Macon Telegraph, the Atlanta Consti-
tuition, the Atlanta Journal, the Flori-
da Times-Union, the Vicksburg Her
aid, the Now 0rleens States, the Co
saIifDia State, the Macon News, the
Memphis Commercial Appeal. the FIT.
Worth Record. the Galveston News,
the Augusta Chronicle and the San
Antonio Express.
In the east the Springfield Republi-
can, the Boston Post, the Boston
Globe, the hartford Times, the PRovi-
dence Journal, the Boston Transcript,
the Boston Advertiser, the Hartford
Globe and the New Haven Journal
Courier are on the side Of the presi-
dent.
Although some of the eastern Pro.
gressive newspapers, like the New
York Mail, the Philadelphia North
American and the Pittsburg Leader
are in favor of the coastwise exemp-
tion, the great Progressive papers OF
the middle west are strongly on the
side Of treaty obligations. These
include the Chicago Tribune. the Kan
sas City Star. the Detroit News and
the Detroit Tribune.
There are few papers in the mid
die west like John r. McLains Gin
cinnati Enquirer, the Cincinnati Com
mercial Tribune tile Kansas City
Journal, the st. Louis Globe-Democrat
and the Detroit Free Press which are
against the president, but most OF
them are on the other side The Chi
cago Inter Ocean, the Chicago Record
Herald the Chicago Journal, the Du-
luth News-Tribune, the St. Louis Post
Dispatch, the ST. Louis Republic, the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Illinois
State, the st. Paul Pioneer Press, the
Topeka State Journal, the Sioux Falls
Press, the Milwaukee News. the Des
Moines Capital, the Milwaukee Free
Press. the Nebraska State Journal, the
Omaha World Herald and many others
are firm for repeal
In the Rocky Mountain states some
Of the Republican papers like the Salt
Lake Tribune and the Salt Lake Her
aid are sustaining the coastwise mo-
nopoIy, but others like the Idaho
Statesman, are quite as ardent on the
presidents side
Most OF the leading Pacific coast
newspapers and some of the New
Orleans newspapers are protesting
against repeal Or the reputable and
prominent eastern newspapers that
oppose the president Philadelphia has
the largest perctange, but the Record
and the Public Ledger are upholding
the administration regardless Of Phil