The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-23
OKLAHOMA DAY
Continued from Second Page.


L say God speed and extend to him The
right hand of welcome. But OF thai
other class who insist upon parading oul
streets, carrying red flags and banners
with anarchistic sentiments who insist up
on debating just how many hours day
another man shall work. and what pay
he shall receive who land in Castle Gar
den one day and begin to shout politics
the next, to the man who takes Ameri-
can Citizenship as the Democrat takes
Tariff, for revenue only, l say your room
is far preferable and less Objectionable
than your company. 1 believe that one
language and one flag is enough for any
country. for the man who can speak and
! understand nothing but German, have
great sympathy, but when I see people
who use it instead of good, pure. grama-
teal English. 1 think there is something
radically wrong with their judgement and
taste. We have millions of broad fertile
acres which are only waiting for the hon.
est, Industrious hand of man TO cultivate
No matter what land he comes from. l am
more interested in how a man behaves
/ himself after he comes than / am in
| where he comes from. We have an abun-
dance of room for the honest foreigner,
| but we have no room for any socialist or
anarchist on earth. We have no room for
the pauper and criminal classes of Eu-
rope. We have too long been the van
Dieman's land and the Botany Bay of
the World, too long been made the dump
ing grounds of Europe. This is a matter
of immediate moment to the people of this
! md INN Hate
We have too long been taking a Rip Van
Wrinkle sleep. on this subject, if contin-
ued in much longer it will be everlasting
ly too late. I want the time to come when
it Will not be an obstacle in the way of
preferment that a man was born here,
which is not true at the present time in
many of our large cities. AS a rule L
am not in favor Of an educational quail
fication for the ballot but / think some
education is necessary for an intelligent
vote. No man can vote intelligently who
cannot read the vote he casts. / do not
think in politics the blind should lead the
blind. No man should ever be allowed
to land in this country with a view Of
becoming a citizen unless he can FURNISH
some proof that he was neither a criminal
and that he comes of his own free will.
We know that the old stars and stripes
is the emblem of the most Cosmopolitan
Nation on Earth. Under it's protecting
folds the son of the Emerald Isle finds
that freedom from oppression that the
mother country will not furnish; Old SEQ
tias sons ever prosper. Merry England
is welcome, the honest Industrious Ger
man. who leaves his ancient home on the
banks of the Majestic Rhine the liberty |
loving Swiss. the thrifty Swede. and the |
sturdy Scandinavian all find congenial |
home with us in this grand aggregate |
citizenship of ours. We love the old flag |
today just as much, our veneration and |
devotion to it are just as great as in the |
days of Valley Forge and Yorktown. It |
was carried in triumph by the mighty |
Grant, Through the wilderness to Apo |
mattoX it was the guiding star of Sher- |
man in his mighty march to the sea, II |
cheered the heart of Sheridan in the |
Shenandoah. it was the inspiration of |
Dewey at Manila. it cheered the heart |
of Roosevelt and of our brave boys in |
blue as they marched under the blistering |
sun over the burning sands to the hills |
of San Juan and the Fortress Of San |
tiago 1t was the flag of washington and |
La Fayette. of Jackson and Lincoln. of |
Grant, Sherman. Sheridan and Logan. il |
is the flag of Dewey, Schley and HobsOn.
It gladdens the heart of every loyal |
American Citizen. II causes his heart to
beat quicker, it causees his blood to tin
gle in his veins it sends thrill of JOY
III
of his shoes whenever and wherever he
sees il unfurled. 1t purifies and enriches
any air and beauties any sky in which
it floats Let Us teach future genera
tons to cherish. honor and protect it as
in the future as our fathers
did in the past
PARTY UNITY
w. B. Harrison of Enid, one of the new
men in the territory, but one who came to
Oklahoma with reputation orator, |
spoke on Some Bonds of Party Unity"
II was one of the pleasing toasts of the
banquet and the ideas advanced by Mr..
Harrison in part are as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and fellow Republicans:
'Tis old, It's true, yet none the less the
truth. that in the bonds of unity alone are
strength and power. Marred only by
brief but fatal periods of national disaster
under the hating. impractical. if not
vicious policy of the opposition, nearly
half a century OF almost uninterrupted
success confronts US tonight, a magnif-
cent monument to the power of party uni
~. Whence arises this harmony of ac-
ton? Even our enemies are asking this
question, for they would fain learn the
secret of our success.
1t is very evident tonight that there
S another bond of unity in the Republican
q ~ Of lah nr, G,.v~ I
much maligned and belied by the opposi-
ion that we cannot too emphatically state
upon this occasion that we are a unit on
he matter of statehood. The Republican
party of this territory has striven con-
SANITY and earnestly toward that end
md its efforts are not relaxed today. on
he other hand, the opposition has done
nothing but oppose everything we have en-
ieavored to accomplish. both locally and
When did the leading publ
alton organ of the Democratic party OF
his city ever say word of praise for
quay in his fight for statehood? Never
amply because he was a Republican and /
must ipso facto be either insincere or ac-
uated by mercenary motives. When did /
hat organ give favorable mention TO the |
work Of the chairman of the committee 4
n territories. Mr.. Beverage. although he
trove TO accomplish everything that pa
'er claimed 10 be advocating. in spite Of
Is previous positive predictions that he
would pursue the contrary course? Again |
say. never. Beverage. like Quay is a |
republican and the policy Of that paper
5 simply the old one of 'agin the govern
nent; and If YOU We're TO ask its editors
ontsht 10 define their position on state
lood they would throw out a few columns
Z IFS and butts and wind up by stating
{ they answered truly that they oppose
he policy OF the Republican parfv what