The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-11-28
OKlAnOMA'S THANKSGIVING
WHY WE SHOULD RENDER Rem.
DER THANKS IN THE
NE WSTATE.

The cycle of time has once more
made the course Of a twelve months
Journey and today the people of the
new state OF Oklahoma and the cit
liens OF the city OF Ardmore are
gathered together in their various
houses OF worship to render thanks
to an Almighty Jehovah for the bene.
fits derived this year
What have we to be thankful for
in the new state? Many things, and
especially the people of the state who
are citizens Of that section known as
the Indian Territory. For the past
eighteen years the man with his
family treked 1t across the frontier
on the east and south came to vii.
derness TO carve for himself and fam.
lily a home and eventually have this
section come into the union and join
the great sisterhood of states. He
labored early and labored late. He
worked in season when congress was
in session and out OF season when
that body was not in session for
the boon of self government. This he
has attained after many years OF
labor and work. No longer has the
settler here to wait until ball OF
red tape is unwound at Washington
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he to fear that some night the In
dian police with his six-shooter strap.
ped around him will wait on him and
drag him out of his bed and tell him
to go beyond the borders, and at the
same time confiscate his cattle and
other property, and when perhaps he
has reached the borderland be shot
down like dog No longer has he
to fear the INSCRIPTIONS deputy mar
shal who would take life on the least
excuse 70 add another notch TO his
pistol. He Is allowed TO live in peace
with his neighbors. The early settlers
of the Indian Territory side of the
new state was OF the same blood and
sinew that helped to carve an empire
out Of a few struggling colonies
along the water front OF the Atlantic,
and pushed on westward into the
wilderness TO the Mississippi. The
man that carved the new state out of
the wilderness, the land of manhood,
Is Of the same blood that suffered the
tortures of hell along with his fore.
| father az Valley Forge, and fought
beside Stonewall Jackson and Marse
Bob at Bull Run, and Gettysburg.
/ 1t is a blood that knows not failure
| and will never die. 1t is the same
blood that wrung from King John
| the Magma Charter and made Eng
land country worth living in.
The people have reason to be
/ thankful for the constitution that
! was written by the delegates sent tc
Guthrie. The organic law of this state
It the most modern Of all constl
tutions, and gives equal rights TO al
and special privileges 10 none. II
protects the weak in his weakness
against the onslaughts of the strong
and protects the capitalists as wei
as the laborer. 1t suppresses the in
roads that have been made on tn,
liberties of the people by the hydra
headed monster the trust. II gives
to the children of this state the
assurance that they will not hav,
10 grind out their lives in mill work
The farmers of this country shoul,
he thankful or the bountiul crop
that have been made, the ull graz
aries, the bountiful crop of the Fl aec,
staple the good crop hogs an,
other arm products. Though We ar
ar present laboring and living unde
difficulties with money tied up, Y,
the farmer can live at home an,
board AT the same Mace. He has su