The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-04-10

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Remarks OF Senator owen to Bridge
port. Connecticut board Of trade April
10. 1908.
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the
Bridgeport Board Of Trade
Il gives me great pleasure to be
present at the industrial capital Of
Connecticut and TO participate as one
OF the guests at your annual banquet
Bridgeport Is known throughout the
world as great center of American
Industrial activity. q great center of
mechanical refinement. invention and
ingenuity. ] take pride in the dis
tingu'sbed attainmenss ~ bridegroom
typical American city of the highest
order, a chief factor and exemplar of
the strength and glory of the United
States
And while ! come from a state which
some of you may deem far distant, ]
call your attention to the fact that I
can leave my home in Oklahoma on
Saturday afternoon and transact lusi-
ness in Bridgeport on Monday after
noon.
have always felt as If had spe-
cial personal ties with Bridgeport-
Latham, married Louise Calhoun, the
daughter OF Patrick Calhoun of this
city. when was a child, and one of
my most pleasant recollcctions was ol
this beautiful and attractive 3 idge
port girl and OF her children-my ldns
men by blood
Although connected with Correct
cut families by blood Relationship ST.
strangely enough under the laws OF
the United States l am a Cherokee
Indian and by the grace of God an
a Scotch irishman.
A number of the leading nen OF the
Cherokee people. now a part Of Ok
lahoma, were educated In Connecticut,
and married Connecticut girls.
| come to speak to you, therefore. ct
Oklahoma-claiming to be your kins-
man.
For some of your people are not
only immediate kin TO me by hlood
but demand IN recognition on the
part of every fr..AMan on the part OF
every ScOtchman q of every citizen
of Connecticut who is o good Indian"
as one OF his immediate kin.
Oklahoma.
Those VINO have lived quiet Indus
trious lives. staying closely ar home
are often unaware of The magnitude
and Of the value of Oiher portions OF
our great Nation.
Oklahoma has over seventy thou-
sand square miles. and it is not re
garded as a large western state, yet
Connecticut has only 4S45 square
miles. and Oklahoma, is therefore, IL
area, about fourteen times as large as
Connection
It is country Of wonderful fertility
with an elevation of ahout 400 feet
above the sea in the southeast corner
and over 1000 feet above the sea level
in its northwest corner.
II has superb forests in the east
and magnificent alluvial plains in tho
west II has rolling hills and pleasant
mountain land in the east with beautt
ful springs ct water, and rich and fer
tile prairies in the west; its splendid
minerals vast coal fields, superb gran.
lie end marble, rich lead and zinc
mines. huge salt deposits, tremendous
beds of gypsdm, the greatest oil and
gas field In the United States Wit
four pipe lines carrying the oil 10
this state. and others in active con
temptation. natural gas on the eX
IRENE west. on the extreme north, on
the extreme south and on the extreme
east
Oklahomas rank IN the Union is
twenty-third in populations; fifteenth in
area. ninth in the production of horses
and mules, cotton seed products and
corn; seventh in the production of cat
tie and seventh in production of cot
ton and OF the first rank in the quality
of its people,
IT'S population Of 1,4ll000. by the
census Of 1907, is increasing faster
than any other portion of the United
States
With the solitary exception ni
Bridgeport Connecticut, it has the
best quality OF people on earth, and
speak this advisedly In America W
have taken the more resolute, the
more self reliant the more industri
Gus and the more worthy sons Of every
civilized nation in Europe and have
welded them together in the several
states OF our Union and have developed
in the highest degree the ideas and
virtues that these sons of other ma
tiOns have brought TO our shores
while their errors and faults have
languished on our soil. and become IN
a way almost a negligible quantity Sc
that each state in the Union has made
available the good which has beer
brought to our land and has thrown
aside the bad which our foreign borr
sons have brought Go these shores. II
this way Connecticut whose popula
tion IS more than half of foreign birth
or OF foreign born parentage, is iustl'
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