Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-09-04
OKLAHOMA HAS NOT.

Oklahoma boomers have exhausted
columns of space in newspapers telling
what that country has; tut the first in
timation that Oklahoma needed any
thing came from the Guthrie cOnven-
ton, last week, when, in the memorial
to congress, it declared that In the great
and glorious new land there is no pro-
vision by which the property of de-
cedent may be taken charge of, his debts
paid, and the fund remaining distribu-
ted to the persons properly entitled
thereto. There is no provision for the
solemnization of a marriage, nor for the
care or adoption of orphan children,
nor the protection of wards nor the ad-
ministration of their estates. There is
no provision for the making or anthem
tication of wills nor the probating
thereof. There is no provision for the
care of the unfortunate or afflicted, the
destitute, aged, blind, sick or insane.
There is no provision for the construc-
ton or maintenance of public roads or
bridges, nor for the establishment or
maintenance Of public schools, nor for
the experimenting of animals running at
large, or breaking into the fields of the
settlers, nor for the assignment of in
solvents, Or the application of their
property to the payment of their debts;
nor for the Incorporation or regulation
of banks, or savings banks, or rate of
interest upon money. There is no pro-
vision for the conveyance of lands or
mortgages, nor for the recording there
of. There is no provision for trusts or
powers, nor for the enforcement there
of, nor punishment for the breach of
trusts. There isno provision for cOrpO-
fations for the purpose of trade or bus
mess, nor for municipal corporations.
There is no provision for taxation for
any purpose, or for labor, material or
mechanics lien. There is no provision
tor the protection of the public health,
nor for the prevention or supervision of
contagious or infectious diseases.
In criminal matters, the laws at pres
ent in force in the territory relate only
to crimes against the United States,
and the primitive forms of violence.
such as murder or stOckstealing. There
Is no provision of law as to kidnapping,
child-stealing, attempted rape, poison
ing, abortion, libel or blacknail, arson,
burning woods or pralries, burglarious
entry of houses, trespass, ENLIGHTENMENT
altering or removing land marks, forci-
bic entry or detainer, forgery, rioting,
carrying deadly weapons, disturbing
public meetings, seduction, public in
decency, profanity, gambling, lotteries,
drunkenness, bribery, destroying legal
! process, official negligence or malfea-
sance, creating or maintaining public
nuisance, selling unwholesome, diseased
or adnlterated provisions or drink, in
Producing diseased OF infected stock
into the territoTy, swindIing, false
weights or measures, obtaining money
or property under false prstences. max
ing or using counterfeit labels, nor for
many other offences.
These are a few things Oklahoma
has not; Dnt it does not embrace all OF
the wants of that much praised land, as
we all know.
So, we ask, why will people insist on
passing by a country that has every con.
venience that Oklahoma has not /? VIII,
will they leave homes protected by Law
and orderin Barber county, for instance
to SO where chaos reigns? Why leave
better farms, better towns, better eli
mate, better society, for an experiment
tai country
The same amount Of labor devoted t.
quarter-seetlon of Kansas land thai
must be devoted to an Oklahoma home
stead, would pay for and improve The
Kansas farm and this done, it will bC
| worth FIVE times as much as the Oklaho
ma farm and the owner will be surroun
ded with every convenience and neces
sity that the Guthrie convention is ask
ing congress to give them.
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