Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-03-14

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handling OF these from the moment when
the first furrow is turned for the corn or
wheat to the deposting OF the garnered
grain in the elevator at the railway sta
ton. Modern methods on the farm have
reached n far greater perfection In the
North than in the South, and never be-
fore has the contrast come in direct OBJ
servation so clearly as in the development
of the agriculture of the new Tettitory ",
the Southwest.
One reason for the long drawn-out ses-
sion Of the convention was the effort of
the delegates to frame n constitution that
should suit Southern ideas yet would be
satisfactory to tho Northern censors who
must pass upon 1t. 1t was announced
from Washington directly that II the
"Jim Grow car" provision went into tho
constitution the President would not APP
prove the same and would not submit it
to the people of the new state. Congress
in making it n precedent to the submis
sion of the constitution that it should
have tho Presidents approval enjoincd
upon the convention the strictest care IN
keeping within bounds in racial and social
matters.
The westerner, be he OF the North or
South, Is eager to incorporate into the or
ganic law things that the older settled
States arc content to fix by statute The
middle West States vote every year on
/ numerous amendments to their constitu-
lions, some of them concerning trivial
practices that are scarcely worthy the
expense and effort. So the delegates Of
the convention tried to put into the con-
stltution matters and provisions that
should have been enacted into law If made
part of the States government
Along with this racial difficulty camo
the matter of dealing fairly between the
east and west Of the new commonwealth.
The Indians have been allotted certain
tracts of land, one-ffth of each holding
being homestead not to be disposed of
! for q years. 1t is also provided that there
shall be no liquor sold in the Indian Ter
ritory lands for that period Oklahoma
has saloons with the high license system.
The temperance element desired naturally
that the same provision should be applied
to the western end of the State as to tho
eastern. The possibility of state half
prohibition and half under thellcense sys-
tenn Is novel idea. The problem is one
that can be settled only through the cor
stitution.
/ The neople of Oklahoma arc among the
most con,netent In the nation. The litter
ocv &c lose than : nor cont and is com
Grod 70 old sIavos Indians md a few
foroipnors rvan the vounper generation
Of nerroos is able to road and write. Tn,
Irdiore b,vo l. scbooIs and f., tho Terri
+orv ord tho 1rdiare havo had tnuch bet-
for school facuitioe tba, tho whites who
-,.oro ,,,ot, 60 eo.,,-o s,,nnor, for ,,a;,
s.boo,s o,oon+ h.. r,,,ota s,,becrintion
,rbis ,,,c,rs tb,, +bo ,rov,sions r,ust he
or tho ,,,oet nrooroee,,o sort or they will
mot rooei,.o fa,.or ,rb, framing of co,-
e+i,ut,o, for such noon,e with tbeir
orio7 ,,,od ro.o,,,or,o ro.i,.i,y and
.o,,,o-, r,e,,+ ,s ,,o s,i,rb+ tool,
Tho ctot. M, o,i,. IN hotb , Nortbor-
and contbor, c,i,,o+o WITH snow s+orn,s
o,d cotto,, orors h,t - &c ,,ti,ted frop
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,.,si,, 20 ,on,,,isn, To- ,ho U-o.t In N,
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,hout 800, ,,,,,.,.r, - az o,.a,,+ tho. :,
,,n,,,on.r II tho ,,o,o ,o+hor,,ic soc.,o,,
r,oa, CO., ,o,.o, = ho Iooo,,o fosbio,
- r+,.s,o,ons 10 ,,rasori,,a trins - N,
Cron. I,o,,as or 20 +ho Atlantic so,sid,
far ,,or,.o,,s rot,or,s 90 +ba r,idd1o vyoe+
7, {, ho,,o,.od ,bo+ .ho 1ou.or o1t,tudo wi,
horo sodot,,.o osoo+ =, ,hor, ond "
,,or,. ;,s+oroos +ho diogrosis ,s rioL+
The mountains with the,r tendenc,
.or.ora h,ob ,.r,,, ,or,ae o,d acute ca,
eotinrs booo,so no tho bigb altitude arr
,ot oIr.,,s bos+ for tho dwo,,or on m
oroo+ n,oirs Tbosa neon,o of Ok,abom,
, have hoo, living IN tho hipb altitude unit
tbo,. bo,o tho ouicl. eeneotior. and M
roryo,s ort,ool, of tba ro,iva Iyasternor
ord tn consequence arc in+o,erant ~ ad
,,,oa no. +ords IN cbor,o THAR nIare I
r - ,,t,a ponder that tbav have found
di@or,+ 70 decide irs+ what sort n, law
, tbo,, would have a,d a+ tho sorpa tin,a h