The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-24
THE OLD MAN IN AN OPTIMISTIC
MOOD YESTERDAY MORNING.
REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS
Means That a Great Deal Of Money
viii Be Spent in This Section
by Prospeetors and by
Investors.

Good morning, young man, | am
glad To see you this morning ! am
really delighted that you came up
to see me without my having to send
for you as was my intention to do
had you not come up
Colonel, never miss calling 10
see you when | am on duty, espe-
cially on Saturday, and as TO-DAY Is
Saturday you should have expected
me-"
"Yes. / was expecting you, and
want to see you on several matters.
We have number of matters 90
discuss and one subject in partic-
ular, that is prosperity. We want
you to spell prosperity with a cap
ital =. Why, because | believe pros
pcrity is here. that is the messon-
ger for prosperity and old man pros-
perity will be here within a short
time"
The colonel was looking his best
Saturday morning, and seemed as If
prosperity had already struck him.
The kind old gentleman "as attired
in new tailor suit of clothes, and
wore dark red four-in-hand tie.
in which was carefully placed his
diamond stud, and new Panama
straw hat was on his rack in the
office. When we looked surprised at
the appearance of our friend, he
smiled and said: what are you
looking so surprised about, my red
tie and new suit of clothes?'
Yes, colonel, We are surprised
to see you wear red tie
My boy, | am going to preach
you sermon on prosperity, and
believe in practicing what you
preach. | have been prosperous in
more ways than one.- | have been
feeling so prosperous, until am,
happy. | am happy because | have
| the best wife in the world, and
because | firmly believe that We
/ should be preachers OF optimism and
not pessimism. You know, my wife
/ fixed some waffles and We had honey
/ for breakfast. The honey remind
| ed me of my childhood days. long
ago. | had to give the old lady an
| extra hug and kiss this morning
/ was feeling so happy and good.
had better get back to my text
before you kick on the space this
sermon will occupy in your great
/ paper.
you have been reading the pa
pers lately where prosperity club
was formed in ST. Louis. and will
make tuor of this section OF the
country preaching prosperity. The
cry of prosperity has been taken,
up by other cities and everybody
is crying prosperity from the house
tops. What is most interesting To
Us is the prosperous condition OF
this section OF the country. For the
+. past TWO years we have made poor
crops. but that did not stop the
people from enjoying good times
You see very few idle wurklngmer
here or m any other town IN this
section, be'l,se a.! can iGh some
thing to 90. TIL n the two great
mercantile agencies, Bradsueet anC
Dunn, in their publications state
that trade is looking up. This sec
tion of the country should have g
higher wave of prosperity than any
other section OF the union withir
short time, and why?
"Our prayer has been answered
and within the next few days tn,
bill for the removal of restriction,
on the sale of Indian lands will
have been signed by the presiden
and become law. We first pray
ed for the boon of statehood ant
after years of praying and laborinl
We secured the gift which we nov
enjoy. Immediately after securinl
statehood, we wanted restrictions re
! moved. and began to petition 70
that gift At times it looked darl