Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-21

f gone. He lived up to his T a convictions and died by his con + :. victfons. He was q true man, ss' s, d good husband. good father + .3' to his children, and q neighbor S' z. witohut rcproach. Rev Sam r. s' '2' Jones. s
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 #TGe#.\:tuta 5oarlal @saBda. co4ataias Ml4#t. Ha@. .psolabiE Inc la published article o. Rev sam JoHe+ whose death fsar i,itrle Rock q few da.s ago on Choctaw tra.n startled the whole country. Tlo ar- tcle fs with reference to his GaFei= iH= =tha middle west and is as follows: To the Atlanta joafudl;
 Accompanied bz=lnS wife aad two daughters and eo-HorkeFs, we arrived hefe oa the morning of September 20. Brothers F,xcell, IIolcomb and Smoot. with myself have been holding three services day ill this city in a large unfinished department store, which seats about oo0o.
 Oklahoma City now claims a popula
 ton of about 10000. Ii is a typical western city, with all the good and all 1 the bad necessary to make up such a city ShreWd business men, wide awake merchants, teachers, etc, most all too busy to serve God much, or mo- | tiee the evil doings of those who would corrupt and debauch the city. Okla ohma City is no better and no worse than Wichita, kas., or Waco, Tex, or Dubuque, la Of course this is no compliment to this city, but in spite of all this lack of moral tone the city grows in leaps and bounds. They add one addition after another and build splendid homes, with a splendid street car system and tWenty-Seven miles of asphalt pavements, the end is not in view of the growth and development of this, the city of Oklahoma and h. dian territory. This city is in the very | Oklahoma territory, about half way between the black lands of Kansas and the black prairie lands of Texas, with all the products of both sec tions, for here they grow corn as lux uriously as Iowa or Kansas; cotton as luxurious as the best of Texas 1oy, l Kansas or the Panhandle of Texas; alfalfa equal to the irrigated lands Of Colorado; watermelons. cantaloupes, fruits and vegetables in all varieties are grown here, as well as anywhere If there is Godfavored or God-en- riched country in the world, surely we are in the midst of it now
 The constitutional convention, whose delegates are soon to be elected to make the fundamental laws for the government of this state, will also soon assemble. The act of congress making this state made Indian terri tory prohibition for twenty-one years. Oklahoma is free to act on that ques- ton for herself, with the help of h. dian territory delegates to their con- stitutional convention. It is gener- ally conceded by most of those with whom have talked, that Indian terri tory delegates will be solid for prohi- bition, claiming as the reason that they don't want to give Oklahoma ad- vantage. if there be advantage in the liquor business, and perhaps large minority of the Oklahoma delegates To their constitutional convention Will he in favor ot prohibition. Incident ally, am throwing ill my best llcks in favor of the prohibition of the liquor traffic in this great country. Giving them the sum of my candid opinion on the subject, l have said :: That . delegate to q constitutional convention who was in favor of the licensed saloon and the debaucheN of the state, was not fit to represent a dos kennel in hell, and this is as far as could go without cussin&. l said to them tha1 as the issue was made before came, that coadn' | be silent on that subject without being i poltroon; that could not take the
 side of the saloon without being a
 hypoclite and chat must take the
 side of sobriety and decency from
 sheer necessity not to save my life but to save my character
 am sure the experience through which Nlauta has gone for the last
 few days has helped the prohibition
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