The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-06-25


fairness between the parties advocat-
I Ing sales and those opposing Il Is.
4 a question OF such transcendant impor-
tance that the least deception is dan
gerous, and should not be attempted
I by either idea represented.
/ The opponents of selling should
state their case more clearly. If they
wish 10 defend the abstract proposition
lof a state benefited at the expense Of
Z the people OF that state. their case
I has grounds for adherents. but they
should explicitly lay that kind of a
statement before their friends eyes
for ex3minatlon.
II tkey wish to consider the state"
as being a separate and wholly disln-
I terested party from the populace com.
posing H. then their cause Is not only
ldefensible. but correct.
But to do this, the state must be
classed as having rights not in ac-
Ieordanoe with the taxpaying public;
| the taxes TO be piled In a state strong
box, the object being 10 wrest so much
more than required each year. each
I individual citizen paying all possible
that the organized power of state" be
made rich
But 10 a land organized as we are,
who viii reap the strong box reward :?
/ The state officials can not; the school
/ lchildren must not, for If we 30 10 pay
I Ing back this money to citizebs Of the
state, then we refuse to accept that
idea OF statehood and the ownership
1 of Tast bodies of land at once becomes
/ criminal and detrimental TO all.
In other words a free country has
no place for state controlled and state
profit paying Institutions Whatever
wrests from the public, the citizen, TO
enrich the corporate concern with no
lflesh-and-blood champion to benefit,
is of no value to a citizenship descend
ed from men who for seven years
warred against the state being pos
sessed of right to wrong its citizen
ship
In other words those defending the
right 10 make the state rich and the
ItaxpayiEg public poorer must stand
In the open as opposed to the righf Of
the citizen TO own his home and they
+. must admit they favor the old 1.-THE
system -ruinOus al best and damna.
bic when applied BY the authority Of
the INSCRIPTIONS,
The sale of the school land takes
from no child of this state penny.
The money obtained from that sale Is
the property Of the school fund and
the principal can not be expended. Tne
home owner secures possession OF The
land, and with the same ownership
as his neighbor, improves that piece OF
land as rapidly as the neighbor's, and
The money he pays for IL is as safe as
would be the land title. There can
be no other Interpretation, and the
men now playing TO the galleries and
shouting they are seeking TO defend
the rights OF the school children who
will be with rs ages hence. are in
realty but trying TO burden the state
lof oklahoma with a landlord system
as detrimental TO safe conduct OF af
fairs and progressive citizenship as Il
the whole proceeds OF all our labors
we're tlthed to maintain the state as
was true for the church IN feudal pc
riods
The same argument to hold the title
Of those lands in thd state was made
hy tho monks when Arst the dawn OF
Intelligence was REFLECTED upon the
visage of the Caucasian race And
stin, ages after that change was made
we see the church that was advertised
10 go to ruin when tithes were killed
and voluntary contributions became an
order richer by millions than Il could
lever noped TO have been under the ole
feudal systeml
n is not a new Idea nor question
lis but an old question garnod In new
Iciothes. and must be met as were the
matters of the olden times with ac
tion and by men who fear not 10 striI
a governmental proposition to the skin
that the surgeon knife of good govern
ment may know how and when 10 stal
the wretched sore on the body Of pro
gressive advancement
let as be fair and state our posi-
tions honestly and with that candol
which always should obtain IN a conn
try whore the Ideal Is ever sought an,
many times attained
If you favor making the state sol,
and only heir to wealth, say SO an,
defend that idea but do not IN an ct
fort 10 faster the octopus Of stat'
landlordism upon this people, Try e
hide behind the n0w-and-foreverto-be
cherished children OF our state.
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