The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-18
The Genesis of a State.

Office. He will certainly leave no legiti-
mate means untried to win success.
The Genesis Of a State.
Less than five years ago there was not
a white landowner in Oklahoma. Within
years time it is probable that Okla
homa will be clamoring a. the door of the
Union, claiming a population of $500 or
more citizens, a total area of $4,000
square miles, and farm area of 10000
900 acres.
In 1889 Oklahoma was set off, with an
area of about ., OOO,0OO acres. Since then
about 100000 acres have been added to
it, and the opening of the Cherokee Strip
will add 100000 more.
These lands are nearly all irst-class
agricultural lands, so that most of them
become farms as soon as settled.
| One year after settlement the census
! gave Oklahoma population of 81, OO0
! Since that time it is estimated that 100,-
| 900 people have been added to the popula-
ton. And it is estimated that $4,000 or
| 6O, 600 peOple-maybe mOre-wil become
| citizens of Oklahoma through the opening
| of the Cherokee lands. Thus, western
candidate for statehood accomplishes
in great leaps what it took the older east
ern states years and years to do.
The new and enlarged Oklahoma is just
a little smaller than South Carolina and
a little less than half the size of Georgia.
1t is a fertile country, and will probably
soon take rank with the older states as a
producer of wealth.
The addition OF the Cherokee lands and
| their thousands of settlers to Oklahoma,
however, will probably put an end to one
scheme that was recently doomed in con-
nection with Oklahoma statehood-that
of making it a negro commonwealth.
Whatever progress the promoters of the
scheme may have made towards securing
a predominance of blacks will be more
than Offset by the number of white voters
in the Cherokee Strip.
The silver senator's have taken especial
| pains in the course of their speeches in
| the Senate to vilify thenewspaper press
in the abstract, and charge it with per-
| jury bribery, conspiracy and about
every other crime in the catalogue. A
week ago Senator Teller devoted a good
part of a very long and very sloppy speech
| to an attack upon the newspapers, and
one day this week Senator Stewart en-
deavored to duplicate the libel. But he
slipped up" Instead of making his
charges against the press as a whole, as
Senator Teller had done, Senator Stew
art went to particularizing, making the
assertion on the floor of the Senate, that
the Washington Post had been bribed to
print certain article. Frank Hatton,
| eX-postmaster general, is editor of the
| Post. As soon as he had learned of Sena-
tor Stewards speech, he sent him a letter
denouncing him as an "unmitigated SLAM
derer and liar" and telling him some
other things that brought him to his
senses with round turn In the Senate
the next day the senator made an expla-
nation and apology and begged to with
draw the remarks he had made about the
Post. The incident is significant. AS
soon as a silver extremist forgets him
self and begins to specify the persons or
papers that have done the wicked things
he alleges, he gets himself into trouble
And there is no more truth in the charges
of the silverites against the press at large
than there was in Senator Stewards
charge against the Washington Post
Five years ago nearly every mill and
factory in the Pittsburg manufacturing
district was operated by union labor
Last week, according to the statement of
a prominent member of the Amalgamated
Association some forty of the sixty-four
iron and steel mills in the district We're
being operated by non-union labor. This
morning the great Wayne iron works will
resume work on non-union basis. The
association man further said that his
| union had become merely a skeleton of its
former self, and that reorganization on
different lines would have to be effected
at an early day. There is only one plan
upon which to make a labor union sue
cessful, ana that is to avoid politics, sit
down on agitators and work with capt.
tai instead of in antagonism to it,
When the will of the late John Stephen
son, the pioneer street car builder, came
to be probated it was discovered that his
estate amounted to only about $4,000,
when it was thought that it would be at
least 81 100000. 1t seems, however. that
Mr., Stephenson during his life time was
his own almOner and that he gave away
much more than Sl,OOO,OOO to various
public works, charities and institutions.
One of his principal benefactions was the
building Of ten miles of good roads in the
| neighborhood of his town, New Rochelle,
n. Y, "a cost Of $685. 900 Another was
the building of system of drains and
I sewers for the town, at his own expense.
a costquite as large. He made vari-
GUS large donations to churches and
schools, but the money he spent on road
building was among his best donations
for the public good. His example in this
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