The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-04-14
TAXPAYERS REQUIRE FACTS

TAXPAYERS REQUIRE FACTS
What farmer residing on a farm
containing half or quarter section
Of land with farm Improvements
thereon when he purchased ii, would,
to find what he considered better
site, tear down the Improvements and
go to expense for new. to say nothing
OF the inconveniences while the trans
fer was being made, OF only twenty
feet?
Still, that would be proportionately
greater move on S20 acre farm
than for the people of Oklahoma to-
move the capital from where it is
now located 10 the Oklahoma City
site selected by the realty boosters.
Getting down to plain facts, elm
mating all the elaptrap about this or
that city having Extraordinary advant
ages and therefore entitled to have
the people spend a few millions on
elections, capital sites, etc, what pri-
sale business concern would be so
ridiculous as to make a change Of
business OF the nature proposed in
the capital removal scheme?
Between here and heaven could be
found no capitalist who would finance
The scheme on plain business pre-
sentation of the case Git is under
stood incidentally the real estate
boomers care nothing about location
they want to do a little town lot
stunt back East when the thing gets
to grinding.
Anent that scheme TO. the state to
huy lands cheap and sell them to the
people for an enormous profit-there
are three kinds of believers in that,
viz: =,
Those who wish il to happen
Those who have not considered the
proposition
Those who know less after consid
ering proposition.
II shonld not be construed. how
ever, those are all who tell the Won
drous realty town lot story.
Not by great many,
Those who wish to sooth feelings
for those taxpayers who can not be
made TO see the expediency of paying
s2,000.000 for removing our seat Of
government from Capitol Hill TO
Rritton, about twenty miles. relate
the state real estate speculation with
great gusto and frequency.
There has been a propaganda. writ
ten by an Ardmore attorney. TO the
effect that Oklahoma City is so large,
so splendid and so important the
people Of the state are STAYING awake
@ nights. crying because the capital
can't be moved from Guthrie prior to
the election June II, Sensible voters
viii not likely consider that propo-
sition worth much consideration: es-
pecially when they must consider the
real estate speculation the state is
to plunge into will be miserable
failure and the taxpayer will paw for
all the Oklahoma City town lot fid-
din the state contracts for
Farmers g. artisans. merchants and
professional men must consider the
case from the standpoint of what is
right: what will be best for the aver
age citizen: the expenses incurred
and what good purnose will he served
How many residents OF this state
norain thes cities mentioned care
which city has the seat of govern
ment2
There is about sixty cents differ
ence in railroad fare between Guthrie
aud Oklahoma City to every citizen
of this state Under the census OF
fs07 more than half our people were
residing closer 10 Guthrie than Okla
iloma CITY. But some have to pay
the sixty cents additional 10 reach
Guthrie. the other half hevins to paw
the additional 10 reach Oklahoma
C.tv.
Tremendous amount Is Il not, TO
cause a humn of s2.G00090 in taxes
TO our neoDle?
Moreover. there is one system OF
railway which enters Oklahoma City
rot entering Guthrie--likewise one
enters Guthrie which does not have a
line into the state metropolis
II could be added, II there be any
difference that the Mountain. Val
lev and Plains road west from Guth'
rie will enhance our railway facilities
twenty per cent, and that road is be-
ing built nov
None Is being built out of the me-
troDolis
There isn't an accommodation to be
had in one city not to be found IN
fhe other, save the recreation ad-
yantaees Guthrie has by reason OF
her boals which carry visitors out to
the kaHyx Cimarron, FLYER, the only
slgskI ~ .a skin in, the M,.sllsISl inland
II basin 4 Ac :,
No taxpayer of the state should
take the simple statement of the
metropolis committee. to effect that
there will be no cost II Is ridicul'
.,,o Tho @Yronnefffon IN ito first call