The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-11-20
THE MAKlNe oE 4 sTAIEE.

Nt"Ns AsHNA' t-N| itAtNAhNHf
The admission of Oklahoma to the
fan responsibilities OF American
statehood on Saturday. November l6,
1907, makes the date one of the most
memorable in American history
Something more than local pride
shows itself iu the fullmess with which
the people of the new skate itself dis
play their deep appreciation Of the
meaning involved Their professions.
their salutes of artillery their demon
strations OF oyerhowing enthusiasm
are not mere boasts OF their own
achievements i'm creating q new com
monwealth which in seventeen years
since the organization OF Oklahoma
las a territory they have built from
the ground up" into greatness aboye
that of some states which had hun
dred years the advantage of them in
the rights and privileges of member
ship in the Union. Deeper and higher
than any spirit Of local pride Is the
appeal they make to the United
States and 10 the world to recognize
that. instead of being enete. the prin-
ciples of American greatness, out Of
which their results come find in such
results their vindication on November
l6. 1907, as fully as IL could have been
hoped for at Philadelphia on July a.
I177t.
The country still remembers as If
it were only yesterday what seemed
to be the wild confusion of the first
rush across the Kansas lh into what
vas then a wilderness. II anyone
then did not understand that controll
ing all other motives in this confusion
was the impulse to be first al the
| front in using the last chance to build
!up an American commonwealth, that
impulse explains itself now in the
change of TIE wilderness into one of
| the greatest productive areas of the
country. with scores OF thriving
towns and cities, equipped for a grow
| ing civilization based on equal oppor-
tunity under the law and equal respon-
sibility before the law. Within Jess
than thirty days it was TO this that
the wild the ma gnincent the appar-
Icuty lawless rush had reduced itsell,
\ IlGd it is through this great eyolu-
luOuary fcrcc OF American progress
TINT ali subsequent results have been
rea he'd as they now appear in vim
/ idication of American impulses of CON
! lsTuctiyeness.
/ Having plowed out and narrowed
lOat these results from the bare ground
| IN half a generation the million and
"a half of Americans who are now i'm
| FUN control OF their own future appeal
/ o.. ,f
ent 70 more than eighty million other
/ Americans to put their fun confidence
for the future in the creative freedom
OF action for all good purposes which
makes this new state, the last built
up out Of the soil OF Continental
| America. great as an illustration OF
what the same impulses, the same
rights, the like energies mean for all
h the results OF the past as these
force open the way for the greater
reaalts OF the future
Missouri, which opened the frs
highway into the territory of the neA
Estate; Kansas. Arkansas Illinois
lIoWa. Texas and other states which
ppied 70 with the builders OF its
greatness can not fail 10 share the en-
thusiasm Oklahoma itself feels il
su a demonstration thaC the way is
still fully open for progress. A.
there has been no greater single
denomination yet given in American
sHtesmaking than this. SO there has
been mo- other o casion calling fo
fuller strength of confidence in IN.
principles of progress, the equal op
lportunity, the equal responsibility
; which, as they find standing room am,
working room on the bare ground
! build greatness ont OF IT,