The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-12-18
DISTURB CONFIDENCE
AND PANIC ENSUES
Old Morse Legend Of Thor
and the Cat Has Moral
Attached

W AfetA9 AfcAuNla
Tulsa, Okla, Dec 1S-The advent
of Oklahoma into the sisterhood OF
states has been at rather an inauspi-
cious time When the people of ire
entire United States are suffering
from the effects of monetary strin-
sency, that might almost be denomi.
mated panic. The people of this
state have faith in the wisdom and
integrity OF the men now representing
them in the legislature assembled at
Guthrie, and believe they will do all
that lies within their power of finite
Judgment to counteract and lessen
the Injurious effects OF the present
panic.
II errors are made they will be of
! the head. not of the heart. and no
man, nor body Of men is infanible.
The legislators viii be compelled To
enact legislation in regard to many
matters OF which they possess only
the most Curcory knowledge. and care
Eust be taken that it be not Injurious
TO the states best interests, and the
welfare OF great Industrial enterprises.
The great German poet Goethe said.
ES list NIGHTS schrecklicher ais cine
thalige unwisenheit" A free tran. Ia
tlon OF which is that there is nothing
so dangerous as energetic ignorance.
The results o. some of the presidents
ungUarde1 rantngs end demagogic
utterances are apparent in the present
financial conditions and il would be
well for our Legislators not 10 put
IL S~1selyes in class with those who.
h. YLg eyes see not and having ears
hear not. the STILL small voice that
would. in the south benefit and safe
uard the peoples best interests.
resident Roosevelt says there are
God and bad combinations of capital,
5hile the new senator from Arkansas
lasses them as from worse to bad,
nd says there is none good, no not
ne
The railroads Of the new state have
ehmselves largely to blame for the
ntagCniSm SO generally manifested
gainst them. Heretofore they seem
to take for their motto Vandeibilt's
xpression in q moment of excitement
The public be d-d," and acted up
n Il. The inhabitants of the terri
cries. ruled automatically. at long
ange from Washington We're helpless,
inable To assist themselves, and could
MY iitdnNtt NN IhtHlOllCh vi blllti
wrongs, too long endured. Is II to be
wondered a. that in the first dawn OF
heir new round freedom. while still
marting under the wrongs and hunil-
ations so long inflicted upon them,
hey, conscious of and eXulting i'm
heir new found strength, should turn
to thoughts of revenge
Revenge rs said 20 be sweet. but
0fttimes leaves bitter taste IN the
mouth and regret In the heart htat
has enioyed II to the full It is not
Chrictian, neither Is IL generally
profitable.
The wild Bushmen of Australia. or
the Fuegian dwarfs shiyeriug on the
ice bound coast OF Terra del Fuego
can afford TO crafty that passion.
nut not enlightened, civilized human
beings
II is not revenge that Is asked for
by the people but relief and that
can easily now be secured.
The people need the railroads and
more OF them and the railroads are,
10 a certain extent dependent upon
| the people. Their interests are in
separately blended and intermixed, and
what benefits the one viii helm the
other and vice versa. u would be
well 10 Let the dead past bury its
dead" and legislate for the future
IL is Well TO make haste slowly in
legislation designed To win popular
applause, and 20 remember We would
often essay less did we know "a little
more
The old Morse legend of Thor and
the lcelandic Cat has moral at
tached. Thor. the second god in
Morse mythology. by the continuous