Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-02-25


please let your readers have this
letter also.
yours very truly,
-. e. LOVE,
Chairman"
The mountain groaned, heaved
and labored, and 10! it brought forth
"a gnat-might well be applied to
Jacks peurile effort to combat the
News criticism of him; or perhaps
it might be termed Loves Labor
Lost" In any event it was about
what might have been expected from
the source from which it came. Jack
no doubt, felt sure that he had cut
our saddle girth and unhorsed us
when he hit us in the circulatory re-
gion, always country newspaper
mans most tender part. Jack, that
was the "most unkindest cut of all. ="
We could have forgiven you If you
had accused us of stealing sheep or
helping to tether an an incompetent
to Corporation Commission job;
but to poke fun at our circulation
Jack, how could you?
Jack says he is always glad to
reach 'The boys back home, espec-
tally along about election time; Eh,
Jack? But if we do not miss our
guess, the boys are getting wise to
you, Jack You may recall that Abe
Lincoln said: "You can fool all the
people some of the time. and some of
the people all of the time; but you
can't fool all of the people all of the
time"
We wonder If the "boys back
home" will appreciate Jacks wonder
full liberality since growing accus-
toned to hotel fare and free trans
portation, with fat salary attached.
He now talks about $4,000 being
mere joke; but it is a safe bet that
in the days before he broke into the
State corral he would have consider
ed it a fortune. Extravaganza dis
torts the vision.
It is a pleasure to be able to COM
mend Mr.. Love for one little flash of
wisdom. He is absolutely right
when he says that "it will take some
thing heavier than a straw to break
the back of corporation control and
regulation in this State" And he
might truly have added that it will
take something heavier than the
chaff of a demagogue or the bunk"
of a political ,mountebank TO accom-
plish the task. It is a big job: one
that should impel the voters of the
State to call for volunteers of a high
class of intelligence and breadth of
vision to handle it; one that is so far
beyond the restricted intellectual
vision of the ordinary time-server
and camp-follower as to make him
dizzy to attempt to scale it's heights
Yes, Jack, the State is in the right
in its fight to regulate the railroads;
and the newspaper editors of the
State know it; but these same editors
have brains enough to know that
there is a right way and a wrong way
to approach every task; and they are
well aware that plow-horse is sadly
out of place in a thoroughbred race
Let us see, Jack; you and Potato
Watson "made the run" and landed
in the Corporation Commission
strip" as soon as Oklahoma was
given statehood; and you're still
fighting" to get two-cent fare for
"the boys back home, and are will
ing to keep it up while the picking is
good; arn't you?
Jack, old boy. don't you see that
it is not the $4,000 appropriation
that is the joke, but you yourself?
Take our advice: Go back to the
ranch and give someone a chance to
get at your present job who has the
necessary equipment to handle 1t.
Surely you must have learned by this
time that there is a difference be-
tween bronco-busting and corpora
tion-busting, and that a man who
might be a success at the former
coud be a Joke" at the latter.