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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-01-15

new power, organized on a basis that
and backed by resources and energy
that enable it to carry the war into
Africa" Is it not natural that Ger
many should be alarmed when Amer
lean manufacturers force their way
into the German home market? Is it
surprising that Great Britain, stagger-
ing under the burden of huge naval ex-
p%enditures and trying to hush up her
starving unemployed by doing out
pensions, should try to reach an un-
d~erstanding with Germany?
The United States has NJ law of
primogeniture, no orders of nobility,
no law of entail. 1t does not set apart
a class of the people to rule over the
others. It's rulers are chosen by it's
own people, and they are set aside at
will. 1t has no kings and courts to
support. The general welfare of all
it's ideal, and this general welfare Is
secured through development and COM
merce. The new tariff and the cur
rency law are moves made by the
United States to secure the welfare of
it's people, without regard to Europe;
indeed, these laws are a challenge to
Europe, a warning that the United
States Is preparing to enter the world
field of business and battle for its own
advantage. The aims of these laws,
in President Wilson's own words, are
ito put our business men and pro-
ducers under the stimulation of a con
slant necessity to be efficient, econom-
ical, and enterprising, masters Of COM
petitive supremacy, better workers
and merchants than any in the world"
He speaks of effective competition,
the whetting of American wits by con-
test with the wits Of the rest of the
world"
Hand in hand with the domestic
preparations for this commercial strug-
gle is the foreign policy Of the United
States. The Panama Canal was built
for the benefit Of Americans, and Eu-
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-01-15
A PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION

Sioux Falls this year has secured a
practical demonstration of the benefits
of good roads. The weather preceding
the holiday season has been fine, and
the roads have been in excellent con
dition, not because of the attention
given them, but because nature has
been kind. The result has been the
biggest business yer done by the
merchants OF this city. A large per-
centage of this trade has come from
auto patrons. These have driven into
Sioux Falls from towns ten, twenty,
thirty, fifty and some from points 100
miles distant. Whole families drive to
Sioux Falls by auto from towns many
miles away, spend the day here in
shopping and run home for the same
evening, combining a pleasant ride
with an easy days business. 1t gives
the business men of this city some
little insight into what would result II
the roads were always kept in the con-
dition that nature has put them dur
ing the last thirty days. The biggest
business asset that a town like Sioux
Falls can have Is good roads leading
into 1t from every direction. Make it
easy for people to visit your town and
they will come.-Sioux Falls Argus
Leader.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-01-15

Europe would break down the Mon
roe doctrine If it dared, and is deter
mined to do so if it can. They go
into the fray eager and unafraid, with
a century of success behind them, and
with immense advantages in their
favor. In the struggle for commerce is
involved the bigger struggle between
monarchism and republicanism, the
wal between hereditary privileges and
equal rights for all. Americans well
come this fight. They glory in it. And
they will not be merely on the defens-
ive.-Washington Post.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-01-15
ROBBING THE DESERT OF ITS
MENACE

"The n thing of supreme import
ance in the desert is water" says
Lou Westcott Beck in an article in the
January Popular Mechanics Magazine
describing his work in placing water
signs in the American Sahara" The
inexperienced traveller quickly learns
this fact. To the experienced pros
pector who has spent the greater part
of his life in the desert and has en-
dured all it's hardships, who has en-
countered on numerous occasions the
dead bodies or bleached bones of men
who have fallen victims to heat and
thirst, a realization of the greatest
menace of the desert-lack of water
is brought home with terrible force.
The so-called American Sahara" in
which hundreds of men have lost their
lives, is a great desert region cover
ing about 10000 square miles, located
mainly in southeastern California, but
cAlcuulu6 luIO 4~CNdod, <AAiLOhdp III
Mexico. This region includes Death
Valley, the Funeral Mountains, Fur
mace Creek, the Cactus Flats, and
many other less known but equally
desolate sections. 1t is not the gold
hunter alone that is lured to his death
in the desert. The g~eologist and lover
of nature find it a fascinating treasure
vault. Adventurous men will continue
to go into the desert, and they will
continue to die of heat and thirst un-
less a way is provided for guiding
them in Ease of necessity to the scanty
supplies of water that exist in these
barren wastes. 1t was with such real.
ization of the deserts dangers as came
from sixteen years Of prospecting, and
following a nerve-racking experience
of his own, that the writer undertook
the task OF placing in all parts Of the
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-01-15
AMERICA AGAINST EUROPE

The fact that Great Britain and Ger
many have combined their financial
and diplomatic influences against the
United States is viewed with surprise
by some American newspapers, and
with incredulity by others: But what
is strange about it? What is more
natural than such a combination?
What have the United States and
those nations in common where for
eign trade interests are concerned?
1t Is to the mutual interest of Great
Britain and Germany, and perhaps
other European nations. to enter into
combinations against the United
States. Not all of them will combine,
for there would not be sufficient in
ducement on the part of smaller ma
tons, and conflicting interests would
keep them apart. But it Is perfectly
plain that the interests of the United
States are not those of Europe, and we
must face the fact.
The vital interests of he United
States require the enforcement of the
Monroe doctrine. The interests of
Europe dictate the violation and break
down of the Monroe doctrine. Europe
is evidently determined to break 1t
down. No one nation can do this. but
they hope to accomplish this by power.
full combinations, working in secret,
and stirring up animosity against the
United States throughout Latin Amer.
lea.
The United States must look out for
itself. The maneuvers of certain Euro.
pean nations cannot go ~unheeded.
Combination is a game at which two
can play. Instances are not lacking in
the history of the United States in
which this country has taken a hand
in combination with its friends in
order to check the moves of its op.
ponents.
Why should Europe look with q
friendly eye at the rise of a gigantic
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-01-15
DOWNWARD COURSE
Fast Being Realized by Brookinss
People

A little backward at first.
Daily increasing till the back Is
lame and weak.
Urinary disorders may quickly fol.
low;
Dropsy and often Bright's disease.
This frequo4tly Is the downward
course of kidney ills.
Don't take this course. Follow the
advice of a Brookings citizen.
B. C. Tolliver, Brookings, S. D..
says: After | had derived such great
benefit from Doan's Kidney Pills some
years ago / gave a statement for pub
LEGATION praising them. I am now
pleased to confirm that endorsement.
For years I suffered from kidney CON-
plant and was Frustrated at times by
pains across my kidneys. Doan's
Kidney Pills cured the pains and made
me feel better in every way"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no other.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-01-15

Creighton university and Nebraska
Wesleyan. Yankton college won the
intercollegiate first honors, State
ranking second, Huron third, Mines
fourth, Normal fifth and Wesleyan
sixth.
Without exception every institution
in the state will put teams in the field
for 1914 which will excel those Of the
past year..
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-01-15
LET US HELP YOU PLAN YOUR
TRIP TO CALIFORNIA

We will gladly quote you rates, sug-
gest routes that will satisfy you in
every particular and prepare timer
aries including the most scenic at
fractions and renowned winter outing
places for a tour to and through Cali
fornia, where Summer Makes Her
winter Home, via the Chicago and
North Western Line and connections.
For further particulars call on or ad-
dress ticket agents, Chicago and North
Western Ry.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-01-15
The Dissenter

people, and the coat ofarms of the Goddess of Lib
erty should be: "On a field bloody the kicking mule rampant"
We W u national freedom to a number of dissatisfied gentlemen who
held a nonconformist tea party; and or British friends W theirs to a bunch
offs urefooted hybrds who did not approve oil King Johns plan of running a
government by verbal messages.
A restless fellow discovered the New World, and a prudent person who
had become tired of paying 1878 to send a letter from Philadelphia to New
York started the postohce.
The Dssenter, the Rebel and the Insurgent have been the foes oft tyranny
since the world began; and the hard kicker who is able to pull a heavy load
meets death and calumny while he is alive and becomes saint and hero when
the world has become old enough to understand him.
The mere complainer is a nuisance, and the pessimist who has nothing
world are its Chrsts, its Luthers, it's Cromwels, it's Edisons it's roebels
to propose is not worth the cubic space he occupies; but the saviours of the
its La Folhttes, who are able to kick and pull at the same time.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-06-19
Seems a Plain Matter

Secretary Knox's point in the Pan
anna canal controversy was that,
through a series Of calculations as to
the volume of coastwise and foreign
trade, allowance had been made In
fixing the amount Of tolls 80 that for
eign nations would not pay more than
their share of the expense OF upkeep
and interest on the cost Of construc-
ton. The British still contended that
this was a discrimination against for
eign vessels and therefore violation
OF the treaty, which declared that the
tolls should be lust and equitable"
" that view was wholly right. the tolls
exemption Ia a discrimination and
therefore violation Of the treaty. II
Secretary Knox was wholly right, It
was objected to in many Democratic
national platforms. including the last.
II both we're partly right, It was both
q subsidy and q violation OF the treaty.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-06-19
Measures Should Pass.

There may be some excellent rea
sons for hurrying the adjournment OF
congress, but none of them is good
enough to justify ending the session
before the conservation measures now
reported from the house public lands
committee shall have passed. With
all Difference to pet features OF the ad'
ministration program, the opinion ia
ventured that more people are com
cerned in behalf Of these conservation
bills than in behalf of trades commits.
sion and antitrust acts.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-06-19
WHEN PENROSE FELL
fragrant Wrongdoing Really
Dates Back to 1912.
Supported the Wrong Man Then, In
the Opinion Of Colonel Roosevelt,
and Must Be Cast Into
Outer Darkness.

Colonel Roosevelt has discovered
that there is crisis in Pennsylvania
All good citizens must stand togeth-
er" for the election to the senate OF
the Hon. Clifford Pinchot.
Crises come up" the colonel says
when 1t is the duty OF all good citi-
zens to sink ordinary party differences
and to stand up either against fragrant
wrongdoing in public life or against
policies fatal to the welfare Of the
nation at home and to the honor OF
the nation abroad"
Evidently the Hon. Boies Penrose
has been guilty OF fragrant wrong
doing in public life or stands for fatal
policies, domestic or foreign.
As to Mexico and as to canal tolls
repeal, and as to Colombia and so on.
Mr.. Penrose seems to agree with the
colonel in the main. In home policies
he is pre-eminently a high protection
list. Has the colonel been otherwise
since his salad daysI
The crisis to be met by the union of
the good on Mr.. Pinchot must be.
then. the fragrant wrongdoing Of Mr..
Penrose in public life.
Here, indeed. the sin Of Penrose 10
beyond forgiveness. He supported the
wrong man in 1912. That made him
a reprobste. Whereas by making the
right choice then Bill Finn became
purer than the unfallen snow and
sweeter than the memory of the Just
We like the colonel. when he's rea-
sonable. but possibly the colonel may
notice later that the Pennsylvania Re-
publicans and other Republicans are
not sentimental or romantic this year.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-06-19
RIoht Man for the People.

The president employs no press
agent, and he never condescends to
answer the press agents OF others. As
Agassiz had no time to make money.
so Woodrow Wilson seems to have no
time to root" for public applause.
And the public, having had some ex'
perience with press agent heroes,
shrewdly decides that the man who Is
too busy doing his work to collect
credit for 1t is a good man to have on
the Job.
He is a man OF policies, not Of pat.
ronage.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-06-19
Lawyers Lose Capital Fees

The money appropriated by the
fourth legislature for the building of
state capitol building is now avail
able for that purpose since the peo-
rle Of Oklahoma City have complied
with their obligation by paying into
the state treasury $53,57S.50, accord
ing to nine-page opinion by Assist
ant Attorney General Claude ]. DAY.
export. In the same opinion Daven-
port rules out the claims of w. A.
Ledbetter, c. B. Stuart, B. F. Bur-
we'll and M. Fulton for a $4,000 at
torney fee for their activity in help.
ing to locate the capitol at Oklahoma
City.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-06-19

The People and the Canal Subsidy.
The self-governing ability of the
American people is showing strongly
in their unanimous refusal to be de-
ceived by the advocates Of subsidies
for the coastwise shipping trust.
Never have the Establishments Of de-
signing politicians fallen on more UNI
responsive ears.
The American people have remained
constant in their opposition to chip
subsidies. They have not been hood
winked by the subterfuge OF canal
toll remission.
They have understood all the time
that the coastwise ships not only
needed no government aid to pay their
few owners large dividends. but they
have understood equally we'll that a
subsidy-stimulated increase In the
number of coastwise ships would be
OF no value whatever to the nation
Chicago Tribune.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-06-19
Two Paroles Granted.

Two paroles were granted by Gov
ernor Cruce to prisoners who had been
sentenced to serve long terms for
criminal assault. Everett Brooks
term, counting good time, had almost
expired and who was sentenced from
LeFlore county, to serve five yearb,
was paroled upon recommendation OF
the trial judge. w. H. Brown, and sew
eral others. The parole was granted
to Herman Webb, sentenced to serve
ten years from Cherokee county in
September, 1912. There was some
doubt Of Webs guilt.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-06-19
OIL Assessed At 81 a Barrel

Notwithstanding the fact that Irv-
ing C, Allen, chief chemist of the
United States bureau OF mines, in a
report to the corporation commission,
says that oil in the Healdton field is
worth $3.50 barrel and all other
Oklahoma oil worth $1.7O a barrel,
the state board of equalization refused
to place the value of storage oil at
more than 81 barrel.
The board met for the purpose of
hearing complaints from public SER
vice corporations aggrieved at the
valuation placed on their property by
the board several weeks ago.
Governor Cruce, Secretary OF State
Ben F. Harrison. State Treasurer Rob-
ert Dunlop, State Auditor Joe McClel-
land, President G. T. Bryan OF the
state board of agriculture, and State
Examiner and Inspector Fred Parkin-
son were the board members present.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-06-19
Unusual Damage SUD Filled.

The Oklahoma Refining Co. is named
defendant in four suits aggregating
$4,000 which were filed in the district
court by M. e. Coleman and his wife
The Colemans allege that as result
of an explosion of can of oil in
March of this year. one child was
burned to death and Mrs. Coleman
and two other children were seriously
injured. The petition states that Cole.
man bought coal oil from store at
Frederick and when he touched a
match to quantity Of 1t 1t exploded.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-06-19
Work Before Democrats.

) The currency system OF the nation
has been wholly recast. This bids fair
to prove the most important legisla-
tive achievement Of the quarter CEN
fury. Meanwhile, the usual appropria-
ton bills have been passing in the
usual way. 1t is now time for the
Democracy to overhaul the system Of
haphazard expenditure Of public
money inherited from the wasteful Re-
publican administrations Of the past
with the same unsparing hand which
It has laid upon the tariff iniQuitiaI
and the archaic currency laws. !
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-06-19
Places a Value On Oklahoma OIL.

Valuable information concerning the
relative values of Oklahoma oils was
given the corporation commission by
irving G. Allen, chief chemist, Of the
United States bureau of mines, who
has made a number of chemical tests
quest of the corporation commission,
The conclusions Of Mr.. Allen, which
he bases on different analyses he has
made with Oklahoma oil and other oil
Is that the average Oklahoma oil is
worth $40 barrel, and the Healdton
oil, which was given special attention
In the tests, is worth $3.50 barrel,
The information given by Mr.. Allen
will be used by the commission in its
Investigation OF the quality and prices
Of oil produced from the Oklahoma
fields.
Mr.. Allen represented the govern
ment at the natisnal petroleum confer
ence In Germany and is said to be
Dne of the highest authorities on this
subject in the country.
After giving a full and complete an
alysis of the various oils in Oklahoma
and the average oil in Oklahoma, he
said in his Judgment that the value
Of the high grade Pennsylvania oil
which now sells on the market fol-
50 per barrel is not more than 10 pei
cent Of greater value than the Gushing
oil in the Bartlesville sand and Its
value is not more than Is per cent
greater than the average oil in Okla
homa and rs per cent greater than the
oil in the Healdtpn held. This would
make the Bartlesville sand oil in Okla
homa on the basis of the Pennsylvania
oil, worth $3.50 per barrel; the average
oil of Oklahoma $1.7O per barrel, ant
the oil in the Healdton field $3.50 pc.
barrel.
1t had been claimed by the Magnolia
Pipe Line Co. that the Healdton Of
was Of asphalt base and would no
make good lubricating oil. The exper
says 1t is of parafin base and will
make good lubricating oil; that It doe
not have an excessive amount, of sui
phur that could not be eliminated b.
any ordinary still.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-06-19
CAPITOL Money Ready.

Governor Cruce is making prepare
tions to turn over to the state treas
urer the 100000 bonus money raised
by citizens Of Oklahoma through a
bond issue as guarantee of good
faith in connection with the location
Of the capital here, and he probably
will ask the attorney general for an
opinion as to the exact procedure he
shall follow in the matter. Governor
Cruce is acting merely as a private
citizen in the capacity of trustee for
the bonus money, which he has held
for many months.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-06-19
To Name Streets For Indians.

At the annual meeting of the Okla
homa State Historical society at the
Carnegie library last week resolu-
lions were passed relative to the Sc
curing of proper quarters in the new
capitol building. Other resolutions
included one to be presented to the
capitol commission providing for the
naming Of the new streets and boule-
Yards around the capitol grounds foE
prominent Indian chiefs of Oklahoma,
as a means of preserving Oklahoma
history and tradition.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-06-19
Swat the Rooster.

It is estimated that more than one.
third Of the egg losses during the hot
months OF the year could be prevent.
ed by the timely separation Of the
ROSTERS from the hens. The time to
make the separation is early in May,
and the rooster should not be turned
with the hens again before time for
setting more eggs for Matching.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-06-19
Increased Acreage.

II the counties Of Oklahoma show
an average in the increase Of tillable
lands over the state as is shown In
Hughes county for the present year
there will be a big increase in the
volume of agricultural products from
the new state for 1914. Within the
immediate vicinity of Calvin there Is
an increase of about 5000 acres in
new ground. In some sections the
new ground will amount to so to 100
percent and 1t is estimated that the
total increased acreage of open land
In the county will reach 10000 acres.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-06-19

Jos. w. Morris of Oklahoma City
is the new secretary of the state cleo,
ton board. When the supreme court
decided against Ben Riley last week,
Ned Mcdaniel became secretary. He
at once resigned and Morris was ap-
pointed. Morris has for many months
been in the employ Of the state school
land department. He served one term
as a member of the state senate. He
is well known in political circles. and
bears a good reputation for honesty
and efficiency of service.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-06-19
Economic Importance of a New Food Stuff

y Frank Baackes Vice President General Sales Agent
American Steel & Wire Coz
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miles
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over six hundred million people Kafr,
The United States is Just beginning kahr
Kafr introduced probably
In connection with the the United States
with made from sorghum
Because its ability
OF nationwide interest that enables successful develop
ment Of our great southwest
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kahr should grown
In composition dgestblity
has flavor all