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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1910. K PROHIBITION HUGE JOKE IN OKUHOMA We announce the appointment o "Bootlegger" Against Saloon Real Issue to Be Voted on Tomorrow., LIQUOR IS SOLD OPENLY II i , : ' : Cease V K V Bii'inrn Men Strongly Believe taw Will Not Be Kn forced Fl g-a res thaw Increase or Arrests for Drunkenness. OKLAHOMA CTTT. Okla.. Nor. . (SpacUl.) Overshadowing the election of a Governor, the uffra lssua and the aelectloa of a new set ot ,lte of!lcr" to tha prohibition qae.tlon In Oklahoma. Oklahoma win decide Tuesday whether the slate sh!l cava the licensed saloon or the "booileiriter." The question will he decided In iho from of an amendment to the constitution, known aa the local option and hlsh license ,ndB Three year, of so-called prohibition, which hss utterly failed to prohibit, to man and larae cities alike. has been the tl of the "dry"' w- . . Prohibition came with statehood, and as the records will show, was made part of the oritinl: laws of the commonwealth because the Federal Government believed tt a "protection-' to thousands of In diana. ho. with statehood, reaped fold In abundance for their rich lands. People W ill Hare Liquor. Aik a prohlblUonUt how the Tote win t m-xt Tuesday and bis reply U1 b 2i.0 aialnst the smendment. And ih wnt fiim re thst the amendment will carry will come from an anti-prohl-bltloniat. Whether the amendment wins er kwes. Oklahoma will have Its liquor. It has been demonstrated that money cannot keep It out of the state. What th people those who rule want, they will in-t. say the anils. Threa years un der the -dry" law has cost the stats and Its people Jl.I5iJ.00 and today there are three times the number of bootleggers' In Oklahoma City, the biggest city In the stste. than there were saloons whan the saloons were allowed by law. Prohibition has been a huge joke In Oklahoma, especially In the larger cities. TVtth Ita cosmopolitan population, people flooding the new country from every corner of the globe. Oklahoma has had more than the ordinary problems to con sider. With abundance of natural re sources, the need of railroads, highways and civic necessities, prohibition, even Its enforcement, has r.ot received a sem blance of the attention it deserves, even to be enforced psrtlally. The reason Is plain to the average citizen, if not to the many who " belleva liquor la a curse, whether Its sale Is regulated or not. Oklahoma wants Its liquor. At least those who Indulge want and will get It. The bootlegger Is everywhere. Joints Run Openly. Broadway, the main north and south thoroughfare of Oklahoma City, has ten Joints within three blocks and this Is the most traveled street In the metropo lis. No peepholes In the doors are reeded. Those who wish a drink of liquor merely have to know where to get it. There may ho a watch at the door, but to even bid hlra the time of day Is unnecessary. These establish ments are operated under the nose of the law. there being a patrolman for every block. The officers get a per cent from the sale by the stte of all seised contra brand goods. The stuff Is customarily sold st Gainesville. Tex., organized for the purptwe of handling ail liquor con fiscated In Oklahoma. Some assert the shipments sre merely rebllled- to those who seil liquor In this state, but no bdv has rven tried to find out. Like Broadway. eery principal street Jias Its quota of "tigers."' Tou might hava to go throuch a poolhall. a candy tore or p.-rcluiTice a real estate office tn r.arh te bar. but thev are easy to find. In fnct. If you don't see a place thai lr..;ks I'Ke a joint, meet a policeman an.l he a 111 no doubt direct you. I rdrral Licenses Numerous. However, the liquor dispenser has to rave a license. The United States Gov ernment must he contended with, and It riea a side-line saloon business In Oklnhoma. In fact. In this city there are t-i Federal license holders, and surely th-v all do not handle all the stuff for "m-1 i- al" purposes. From statehood In 1!"7 to June 1. 1910. the count v records In II counties In this mute shnw more than 8000 criminal cases whl.-h have grown out of the 11 nunr traffic under prohibition. It Is estlma'.ed that IJS:.0i0 has been spent tn pros-ecu ting them, and the ratio throughout the stato would show that more than $1,250,000 has been spent In llonor cse. The Internal Revenue TVrvartment re port shows that Oklahoma has IS"1 re tail llouor deiders who have paid tha Internal revenue stsmp tax: that It has :2 mnoleaale liquor dealers: 1T retail dealera In malt liquors and 3S wholesale desl.rs In mait liquors. This takes no account of the hundreds of illicit dealers In liquor who do not pay the United FtaieM Internal revenue tax. Ti e fleiirea show that In the first 11 roomys of prohibition there were 10. ;irrets fr nil offenses. SI1S of them r-elrc for drunkenness. In the second 11 months there were IT.SilS arrests In all ni'.d 1 of these were for drunken ness. Rulnc Men Sker Ileal. That the business man does not care whether the prohibitory law is enforced Is Indicated by his failure even to criti cise the officials a ho fall to perform their dutv. In. a majority of cases, the merchants are the strongest believ ers that "prohibition will never pro hibit." Next Tuesday's election will be a fight between the churrh and Ita thousands of members and the bootleggers on the side of "prohibition" and the brewers and business men standing for high li cense and local option. The churchmen want a 'dry" state because they think l'qucr is tha world's great evil. The bootlegger wants the same because with saloons he goes out of business. The sntls believe the license plan means a better city, county and state. The rrewers want saloons because they can sell more liquor at less cost with them than throush the Illicit local agents. WANT HIGHER TAXES? Annexation of fSS square miles from Clackamas County will - more, than double the road mileage, which Port land will be taxed to Improve and maintain. Vote It down! (l aid adver tisement). Take the normal school business out of politics. Vote Tes on No. J1S Mon mouth Normal School, and give your children the benefit of trained teacher &PU4, adTartlsemant-A Northwestern Representatives for the Weber Piano Steck Piano Wheelock Piano Stuyvesant Piano Vocation Orchestrelie Steinway Pianola Piano Weber Pianola Piano Steck Pianola Piano Wheelock Pianola Piano Stuyvesant Pianola Piano The Technola (J These celebrated lines of instruments will be handled exclusively in this territory by Kohler & Chase, the oldest and largest music house on. the Pacific Coast. Gf In making this appointment we were influenced by the high standing of the house of Kohler & Chase, ranking as it does among the foremost music houses of America -by its unequaled record extending back over a period of 69 years by the sterling business principles which govern the enormous activities of its vast selling organization. (The position of Kohler & Chase in the music business of the West has been one of un questioned leadership. Cf Accordingly we have appointed Kohler & Chase our selling agents over a larger area than any other music house in the United States controls over a territory extending from South ern California to British Columbia, from the Pacific Coast to the borders of Montana. Weber Piano Co. New York City Steck Piano Co. New York City Stuyvesant Piano Co. New York City Aeolian Co. NewYork City Wheelock Piano Co. New York City Vocalion Co. . New York City Technola Co. New York City . : i SV2S.H won 1 1 v miimiL i liu am 1 1 au j.wudu L ber. 1008. FLURRY NOT FELT Usual Pre-election Disturb ance Absent From Market. , MONEY DEMAND IS MET Low Rate for Call Loans. Howevrr, May Presage Dearer Fonda for Lonff-Tlme Operation. Later. Prices Resume Rise. NEW TOHK. Nor. . The facility with which the November requirements were met In the money market relieved the situation In securities last week. Apprehension on that score was abated and the developments encouraged a re sumption of the operations for the ad vance which had been Interrupted. Tha week passed also without the flurry In the financial markets sometimes In cident to election. The good promise said to be dis cerned In the steel and copper Indus tries was advanced as a primary mo tive for the fresh advance In stock prices. Banking; opinion is not agreed as to the clarity of the outlook. The com parative ease-of the call money market Is regarded as partially fictitious, from the deslra of tha leaders to hold their funds subject to recall In the belief that higher rates will prevail later. Time Money la Dearer. The rising quotations for time loans are corroborative of this view. Dis counting f commercial paper la siug- KlTbe fact that tha Michigan Central waa driven to the Issue of one-year notes because of inability to place a bond Issue was accepted as a result of the fall tn British consols to the low est price since 1S47. the flattening out of the September activity In the bond market and the growing exceaa of loans orer deposits in the New York banks. The various phenomena Join in tha indication of a strain on capital. Reports that orders for steel rails were coming In from the railroads and that copper was being bought for fu ture delivery and on a rising scale were Instrumental In holding the prioa of securitias firm. It waa assarted also that the stock market was anticipating the passing of the unsettling influence of the political campaign. The election period Is supposed to fix some Intended resumption of demand for materials of railroads, and corresponding revival la looked for In other industries. Railroads Order Cars. Thus far there has developed no In crease in the volume vof business for finished steel products, but the mills are encouraged to expect an Improve ment In the placing of contracts for railroad equipment before the month Is out. This refers more to rails and cars than to structural work. Orders were placed last week lor o.a cars, mainly by Industrial roads, and provision Is being made for building 4S5 more at the shops of the railroads. These will call for about 10.000 tons of structural material. Buslnes Is In sight for about 10.000 cars. Orders were placed for 13 locomotives and 10 more are In the market The Erie has reserved space for 30.000 rails for 1911 shipment and the mills have prospective contracts for several hundred thousand tons more for next year, possibly before the close of I10- ... In structural lines business was light and the prospect Is not favorable for an Increase In tonnage In November or December. AUTO RAGE TO BE FAST COCKSE AT SAVAXXAH IS BEST OF KIND IN COUNTRY. ' INFLAMED KIDNEYS Medical writer declare it Incurable after the sixth month whether album enous or not. The average man prefers to think of It as "kidney trouble" and lets It go. but the census shows this appalling fact out of S3.000 deaths from kidney troubles the last census year overnlne tentha of them (68.000) took the form called "Brlght's Dieease" although it is quite probable that nine-tenths of these cp to the last moment thought of Is as and called it "kidney trouble." when as a matter of fact the only pos sible hope laid through a specific for Britrht's Disease. There never was one nntil Fulton worked out his Renal emollient (Ful ton's Renal Compound). Since then, inflammation of the kid neys whether albumenoua or not or whether called "kidney trouble" or -Bright'! Disease" or whether six months or six years old commonly yields. If you have had kidney trouble over stx months no matter what you call It It la the only hope. Efficiency 87r. where patients do not wait until bed ridden although some of them recover. It can be had at all first-class drug gist. We desire to hear from and advise with patients not noting the usual im provement by the third bottle. Litera ture mailed free. Write John J. Fulton Co, 112 First Et, Eaa Francisco, Cal. Contests for American Grand Prix Is Expected to Make New Speed Record for America. SAVANNAH. Ga., Nov. . Over a course probably the best and fastest of its kind In this country, with state mili tia to keep it clear of obstructions, the second American grand prix automobile race will be run over the roaas oi Chatham County November 12. It will be the longest road race ever run In America. Practice runs already Indicate that the American road record of 69.6 miles per hour, made by Chevrolet at Rlverhead, I. L, Is in danger. Better than 70 miles an hour has been clocked on a single lap of the 17.-mlle course, while much high er speed has been maintained on the three almost straight stretches which form the major portion of the track. The present course Is nearly eight miles shorter than that of the 1908 race, the turns fewer and the straightaways long- er. The total distance ior me raco is 416.2 miles. The start and finish is a four-mile straightaway Inside the city limits, where a grandstand with a seetlng capacity of 40,000 has been erected. Over the same course on November 11. the day before the big race, two light car contests will be run, one 17 miles and the other at-9.6 miles. The first is for the Tiedeman cup, named in honor" of Mayor Tiedeman, of Savannah, and a prize of $1000. and is open to cars of 161 to 230 cubic inches piston displacement. The second to open to cars of 231 to 300 cubic Inches piston displacement. Both races are sections of the International light car race, the first running of which New Nampa Theater Opens. NAMPA, Idaho, Nov. 6. (Special.) The new Nampa Theater was formally opened last night, a capacity audience greeting the . musical comedy, "The Goddess of Liberty." The new theater places Nampa in a position to ask for conventions for the first time in Its history. It was promoted and built by R. B. Elvers at a cost of $20,000, seats more than 1000 persons and Is fire proof and absolutely modern throughout. Underwood Standard Typewriter Original Visible Writer Light, easy, elastic touch "The Madune Yob Will ETentaally Baj" UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITER COMPANY Incorporated. PORTLAND, OREGON 68 Sixth Street 60 Years of Square Dealing Behind the Name Kohler & Chase SEE PAGE 5. MR. VOTER ATTENTION What do you know about the Pro posed New County of Deschutes? NOTHING! Then Vote NO. BE CAUSE if it was left to a vote of the local people.it would be defeated 5 to 1 No, 351 X NO (Paid Advertisement) . S i ED io4.o