The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-12-09
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The present attempt to choose can
ddates from the imaginary East ol
West sides Of Oklahoma will avail
no one anything There are. TO be-
sure. many people of old Oklahoma
who have long resided on that slide
of the state who are prone to con
vince themselves the people who live
on what was once the Indian Terri
terry side OF this present state aye
different and those who were once
Of what was Indian Territory may
feel there Is a distinction but fully 8
third OF the residents Of the state a
this time came here since delegates
aere elected TO The constitutional con
vention, and they are simply resi-
dents of Oklahoma, and they carr
not a whoop fos the old boundar,
lines.
That cosmopoliAnism which mus
prevail IN progressive common
wealth obtains in Oklahoma fai
more than is found Ia any other state
There is, of course. Biographies
east and west side. but the sam,
high citizenship found in one ohtaint
IN the other all struggling TO brinl
This vast empire into a high state 0
civilization and enlightenment Thf
same high purpose which upbuildi
one community will upbuild others
With room for more than three mil
lion people and our resources bu
barely touched there is certainly III
tie occasion for one who lives on on,
Site Of the state to be Jealous OF som
person who resides in another portion
Of the great commonwealth of Okla
huma.
The same theory applies TO wha
some are pleased to call north o.
south Of The Choctaw II the South
eIn cotton raiser finds the broom
corn Of the Illinois farmer pays bet
Ter than cotton. he will raise broom
corn: likewise the Northern farme
win produce cotton II the profit ap
peals 10 him-with both taking kino
III to the dry belt alfalfa In Ger
tain localities
we have the man of the South. th,
old Southrun and the man who blaz
cd trails in Texas: the Ohio agIicn
turist and the man from The Gran
berry patches from Wisconsin al
came here 10 better their conditions
and an OF them find the state is pro
ductiye and a place where The bes
returns in Older and highervaluet
communities are inferior 70 what cal
be done here In the blessed land o
oklahoma The agficulturlst froh
cimarron county will never desps'
what he aseertains is good for the
man in pushmataha The citizen from
one end 80 the state who wishes 4
exploit a policy or eypound a GOV
ernmental principle will ascertain h
mav be heard as vell on the Other
side Of the state as where he ma,
happen to have chosen for his place
Of abode
+ Oklahoma is simply Oklahoma tn
land Of opportunity and The place
where energy and faithfulness counts
TO the fullest extent All the 'bosh'
because one person lives on one sid
Of the state comes from those VIII
arc not well.fllled with The true Ok
lah0ma spirit We are all Oklaho
mans. We all came here 20 bette.
our conditions and the vast najo 81
are glad Of that coming, II rs non
sense of the lowest type TO preten'
to believe the matter Of location
important, just so we are up and do
ing for the great state that bas whit
bur short in sovereignty rights L
long on those products Which brin'
about wealth and happiness
There is no political dividing line
he place of ones birth is unimpari
ant We are lust 0klahomans, strup
Cling TO make state already grea
still greater and grandcr.