The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-12-04

among tho living Americans what gal
axies Of intellectual spiendoF audi
powerl Edward Eggieston and WIN
Carlton and Mark Twain and John
Kendrick Bangs and Marion Harland
and Margaret sangster and stockton
and Churchill and Hopkinson smith
and Irving Bacheller and Julia Ward
Howe and Amelia Barr and Brander
Matthews and Thomas Nelson Page
and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ana VII
liam Dean Howells and a score Of ofA-
ers, some Of them fxed stars and some
meteors.
Some Marvellous Changes
How things have margalousiy
changed We used to cry because We
had 10 go to school Nov children
cry il they cannot 60 Many Of them
can intelligently discuss political top
les long before they have seen q bal
lot box or. leased BY some poetic muse
can compose articles for the newspa-
pers. Philosophy and astronomy ana
chemistry have been so improved that
he must be a genius at dullaess who
knows nothing about them. On one
shelf Of a poor mans library is morV
practical knowledge than 10 the 800
600 volumes of ancient Alexandria
and education IS possible for the most
INDECENT. and no legislature or con-
gress for the last fifty years has as-
1.I hoe 80 HaH = I'm
splitters and farmers and drovers or
men who have been accustomed 10
toiling with the hand and the foot
The pen which Moses dipped IN tho
light Of the first morning and Jere-
miah filled with tears and Ezekiel
thrust IN visions Of fire and Matthew
touched with the blood Of cross and
ST. John dipped In the splendors az
beatihe glory-that pen has wrought
marvels for all classes OF our people
Today your libraries and colleges and
schools and publishing houses and
churches celebrate the ever growing
conquests Of the American pen. and
our prospects are all the time bright
ening
The Glorious Prospects.
The grainhelds have passed their
harrests above the veto Of drought
and deluge The freight cars are not
large enough TO bring down the grala
20 the seaboard The canalboats aro
crowded with breadstuns. Hark 10 the
rushing Of the wheat through the great
Chicago corn elevators Hark 20 the
rolling Of the hogsheads Of the Gin
cinnati pork packersl Enough 20 eat
and at low prices Enough 70 weav
and Of home manufacture n some
have and some have not. then may
God help those who have 70 hand oven
TO those who have not Clear the
track for the raii trains that rush on
bringing the wheat and the cotton and
the rice and the barley and the oats
and the hops and the lumber and the
leather a1d everything for man and
everything for beast
Lift up your eyes. o nation of Gods
right hand. at the glorious prospects,
Build larger your barns for the har-
vests. Dig deeper the watts for the spoil
Of the vineyards Enlarge the ware
houses for the merchandise Multiply
galleries Of art for the pictures and
statues. Advance. o nation of Gods
right hand. but remember that nation
an wealth. II unsanctided. Is samptu-
Gus waste. Is moral ruin is magnid
cent woe. is splendid rottenness. Is
gilded death Woe to o. Tor the wine
watts il drunkenness walloWs Ia them =
Woe 70 us for the harvest if greed
sickles them Woe 10 rs Tor the NOR
chandise Il avarlee swallows az Woe
TO ms for the cities II misrule walks
themi Woe to the land II God defy.
ing crime dehauches itl Our only
safety is IN more Bibles more church
es, more free schools. more good men
and more good women. more conse-
Grated printing presses. more Of the
glorious gospel Of the Son of God.
which viii yet extirnate all wrongs
and introduce all blessedness