The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-06-29
THE N. e. AS TRIP.
A FEW OBSERVATIONS BY A BRIGHT
e MEMBER or THE PARTY.

and it's best is by far the best in
the line OF entertainment the Ma
tional Editorial Association has
ever yet received. Hospitality
without limit bestowed on us by
the bravest men and most beau
tlful ladies that it has ever been
our pleasure to be entertained by,
bas been lavished upon us and
causes us to rejoice that our lot
has been cast in the newspaper
field.
An editor is something like a
Zulu belle, without much on 'er
in her OWE country but when
abroad the best they have is al
ways given the qurll-pushers.
Our party numbers six hun
dred, and we have had one death
in the cars since leaving Guthrie.
There has been numbers OF cases
of sickness on board, but none
serious; and at present we are
enjoying three square meals per
day, and always watching for the
next meal. z
At all places in Oklahoma ter
ritory oneis confronted with flags
and bunting-erying for adtnis-
sion to statehood. They ought
to have it; they need it, and in
traversing over their mites OF
we'll cultivated farms, their nu-
merous prosperous and growing
cities, one is reminded more OF
the old states OIL Illinois, Iowa
and Missouri than a new,terrtory
that has no voice in the govern
ment and no recognition save
that of q territory. They are en-
tertaiuers in the highest degree,
aud make q fellow think, who
might be almost unknown in his
own State, "what'if the folks at
home could see us now?"
We have visited the growing
cities of -Oklahoma-Oklahoma
City, Guthrie, Enid, Snyder
(where they had the great cy-
clone four weeks ago., Lawton,
Chickasha, Tulsa and Muskogee,
besides many others of less i'm
portance. We found them all
thriving, growing almost to
bursting, with paved streets, sew
ers, electric lights and every con
venience known to any city OF
the effete east. We find the pro
LESSONS pretty well filled, but
with each one making money.
In a town of 5000 people, the
lowest estimate we have heard of
is physicians thirty and lawyers
thirty five. The mercantile in
terests, it seems to US, offer the
best inducements, although we
are a firm believer in the survival
of the 4~ittest, and there is always
room for one more at the top OF
the professions.
They have a rich and fertile
agricultural country, and can
raise enough to feed one-half OF
the United States within the con
fines of the territory. This year
they are unusually prosperous.
Providence as smiled beneti
Gently upon them, and during
their entire history we doubt if a
more suspicious time could have
been selected for the meeting of
the National Editorial Associa-
tion, with the advertising that
such a meeting always brings,
than the present year. 1t will
surely rebound to their great
good, and the knowledge thereof
is one of the greatest incentives
to their generosity.
We are now doing Texas
proud, imperial Texas! An EN-
pire within herself, and the con-
Iqueror of Mrxico! The home of
Sam Houston, Crockett and Rea-
gan, whose fame is in~dissoluoly
connected with the Lone Star
State, who shed their blood that
she might live and become what
she is today-the greatest State
in the Union +; whose broad prai
RES are the homes of millions of
fine cattle and the proud ranch
owners. It's progress is an object
.Ilesson that shows the final domi-
nation of the Anglo Saxon over
other racial elements. The main
tenahoe of national independence
against Mexico, which was ac
complished by the great victory
Iof Gen. Sam Houston over Santa
Anna in 1886, hiss demonstrated
the superior manhood Of tn e
early Texans. Texas has been
the victim of many combinations
Of advantages. Her early settlers
were men and women of rare
ability and culture, and her many
trials knit her entire population
into a Homogeneous and kinship
community.
Dallas was our first stop in
Texas, and as in Oklahoma our