The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-09-09
rms LAND OUR HOME.
The Last Great Undeveloped Section
on Our Continent.

on Our Continent.
The ARDMoREETE takes pleasure
in presenting to its readers the fol
lowing address delivered by Hon
Momon Pruiett at the Old Settlers
picnic, recently held at Hulls
crossing on the Washita. near
Pauls Valley. Mr.. Pruiett SAID:
Ladies and Gentlemen: 1t fills
my heart with emotion when L
look over this sea of humanity,
gathered here from every state OF
our glorious union; gathered here
to celebrate with feast and good
cheer, with song, story aud remln-
iscence, our coming together into
this unknown land a few years
since for the purpose of founding
a new commonwealth.
The sons of Japhet have heen
moving westward ever since their
first migration from the highlands
of Central Asia, When thu fierce
herds of Huns, Cloths, Vlslgoths
and Vandals poured themselves
into the valleys of the Danube and
the Rhine; then as now, they were
impelled by an irresistible impulse
to rule, to govern, to conquer. to
communicate the principles and
practice of self government. to or
ganize society, to make history, to
regenerate mankind Their genius
for empire for government, for all
that goes to refine, ennoble and
make men better has never been
approached, much less equaled by
the offSprings of either of the
other sons of Noah. To them it
is given to claim and possess the
earth, to build s1rines and mOnas
teries to establish governments.
and above all they have been
chosen as the sacred medium
through which the revelations of
Gods will to man should be made
known; that such is true. Behold
our four hundred years Of settle
ment, when Columbus landed at
San Salvador, his was the first
white mans eyes that had ever
gazed upon this splendid waste;
today we have a republic. the only
republic that has ever existed,
with $4,000, 900, souls with the most
perfect form of government ever
established by man, with education
without money and without price,
at the hand of every child; ma
tion whose wealth surpasses that
of any other country, whose pro-
duction of gold and silver, iron
and coal is more in one decade than
has ever been produced by all the
world for four hundred years in
the past, a nation whose armies
eclipse that of any other nation on
earth, and whose navy from Paul
Jones with the Bon Homme
Richard" to Dewey at Manila, has
been the pride and envy of every
power on earth. In the past three
years our exports have exceeded
our imports by more than one bill
bion dollars; we are the store
house and grainary of the world,
and in my humble opinion we have
but commenced that splendid work
which God has set before US and
which will ultimately bring all ma
tions together under the cross of a
Christian civilization.
My friends this is truly a mar
velous age in which we are living,
/ sometimes think the gifted
author of the Arabian knights
was endowed with a super natural
power and ken, and in some way
Aladin's lamp was intended as
prototype of what man was ulti-
mately to accomplish in this age;
for we have not seen transforma-
tions in the material world about
us greater, more powerful and
more lasting than anything pie
tured by the fiery Imagination of
the author of these enchanting
stories.
When the battle of Marengo