The independent-reporter., 1910-07-21
|. /. HOLT SPEAKS
SUNDAY EVENING
Says Prohibition Works
In Oklahoma
Same Law Fills Maine Banks With
Money.

At the Bethany church Sunday ey-
ening the Rev. L. II. Holt, formerly
of Oklahoma, gave talk on condi-
tions in the state and city OF that
name. We give below a synopsis of
some of the wonderful facts stated
The Congregationalists have given
more money and built more churches
in that state than any other denom
nation but the Baptists have taken
hold heartily as we'll. | presume
never a state in the Union has grown
s. rapidly 1t has been twenty-one
years since it was opened for settle
ment and now it has one and a half
million people while Kansas which
has been growing for a little more
than fifty years has only one and
three-fourths million. In comparing
the growth of the two states account
must be made of changed conditions,
increased facilities of transportation
and available money. In the days
when hduSdS WIS Stllltd ptlOlC AllN
prohibitory law Maine was the poor
est state in the Union; now there is
more money pro rata in the banks of
Maine than in any other state Kan
sas was settled by men from Maine
and other New England states and
they were poor men. When the
hni1t hiC K1nC9S
home he had no nails and only the
most primitive tools but when Okla
homa was opened to the public there
was railroad into the southern part
and car loads of lumber and other
building materials were shipped in
there.
1t was not wonderful that a house
should be put up in ninety DAYS, the
wonder was that one thousand should
be built in that time and five thou
sand people should live there in com
fort with hotels and electric lights
and policemen to protect them from
the dangers arising from twenty sa-
looms. Oklahoma also had young men.
| You could go a days journey there
without seeing a bald head. There
were real values there and no booms
! like that of Wichita Kansas where
land worth one morning,$100 square
foot the next was worth cents, with
the $99.95 gone somewhere and where
! l Il,
the Baptist church which mortgaged
its church building to get money to
Guy land before the bursting Of the
( bubble and afterwards found the edi
flee gone, it's land worth nothing but
the mortgage still good and il mem
bers possessed of only an organ and
two or three hundred chairs.
In Oklahoma there was no boom
Men, with Baptist ministers among
them, have invested money and
haven't done thing but stand around
and see values increase. The ma
terial wealth lies in undeVeloped re.
sources, however. and while they have
much resident wealth, great manu-
featuring interests and as good an
agricultural district as anywhere in
the West, one-third OF the population
are living in dugouts and log houses.
But when you send your money TO
help the work in Oklahoma you arr
investing your capital where it is
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tor every dollar you send we will re-
turn ten for other missionary enter
prises in the West or to help YOU
With the foreign population which i
is prophesied will oyerwhelm YOU.
We have more kinds of mineral
and more mineral of kind than
any other state: Vast quanti-
ties of oil gas, coal, salt as
ahalt enough to pave the streets Of
Oklahoma and New England; gypsum
for plaster enough to keep one hun
dred mills turning out 100000 barrels
day, busy for $4,000 years; noun
tains of limestone; marble, granite,
leG. white. and brown sandstone. Cot
ton enough can be raised to keep al;
the mills in New England busy; corn,
wheat and hay to supply Oklahoma
and New England.
The moral conditions are as good
ae the natural advantages. We have
the finest endowment from public
lards for schools of any state =
State University on par with that
of Michigan and six normal schools.
Everybody believes in education ant
we have crops of boys and girls there
thicker than blackberries, to fill the
schoolhouses. We care for our boys
We do not wish them to grow up
criminals and for one thing we have
law forbidding boy offenders to be
imprisoned with those older in crime.
Churches predominant and we have a
majority of men at the services. There
is spirit of harmony among the
churches of Oklahoma city and every
summer we hold mass meetings in
CUR park. Many people believe in
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