The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-07-24

with reference to the attempted en-
dorsement Of Murray by the Anti
Saloon League Of the state. From
Hobart Shawnee, Muskogee and sew
eral other cities in the state comes
the word from the BaptlsJs they
will not be bound by the terms oI
the attempted endorsement. The 'ap-
lists look upon it as meddling with
politics, they cannot see that pro
hibition is in danger They know
that if one governor cannot be man
damused to call an election on state
wide prohibition that another gov
ernor can be prohibited from doing
so by writ of prohibition. Statewide
prohibition has nothing to lose ~
the gubernatorial election. Although
Ross is running on a resubmission
ticket there is not an anti-prohib!
ZIONIST i'm the state but what krOws
Ross as governor can not do the
liquor interests any more good chan
Cruce or Murray would do them. Pro
hibition is not an issue and ~incc
that Is true there Is absolutely 20
cause for the League to become ac'
tive. The pity is that the League
has forever buried itself in the grimo
| and dust of partisan politics. Tno
/ League has before it a vast work
and that work does not consist In
retaining statewide prohibition
| that is fixed certainty, but the
duties of the League consist in rem
dering what assistance it can in en-
| forcing prohibition. County officers
| are largely depended upon in the
work OF law enforcement and the
| League can with good grace use it's
influence in helping to elect men to
office who viii enforce the law,
but it has seen proper to 90 after
bigger game, and in that it has
been completely sat down upon by
the religious element of the state.
1t is against the American prin-
ciplc Of government for the church
TO rule the state. The constitution,
written at time when countries
hal been ovcrridden by the church,
provides against it in America, and
the spirit of the law as well as
the letter of the law should be
lived up to-
But we started to say something
OF the Baptists. That church has
endeared itself to the Cruce people
in Oklahoma not so much by its
2 partisanism for Cruce but by tn,
] expression of sentiment of failhess
! They have rebelled against beina
j. dictated to by seven men whel
{ there are twenty-one members OF tn;
n advisory board; they refuse to allow
politics to come into their grea
| church organization and disrupt it
. they have dscredited the Anti-Sa
Il loon League by refusing it the us'
o OF their church to further their plan
= In the interest of politics. Tn
$ church is interested in bringing mel
= to Christ. and not in bringing polit
l. ical honors to men.
The Baptist denomination in Ok
/ lahoma has some very consecrate
men. The state is divided into di.
d tricts known as associations, an
n each Of these associations has on
e missionary. lie goes from place {
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o barian nation like Nicaraiua, We WI
# soon forfeit all right to the respec
/. of the nations of the world.
{ There may be some merit i
Q patience with a small artagon'st
> but the petty offender mast not L.
i given unrestrained license merel
e because he may be easily handled a
y any time
Great Britain has compelled r,
J. spect for her flag To wrong tn
Il least OF Great Britain's subjects is {
u make war on the British naticn. Thi
II is one reason why no people o.
J. earth are more loyal to their flas
America should follow this Brit
" ish example. There was never bet
ter opportunity to let the worl
y know that our flag is a real prote,
ton for the American citizen.
Nicaragua has been an outlaw 10
long already There is no power I.
Central America strong enough I
, restrain her. She has given the Uni
- ed States abundant ground for in.e'
vention.
-. The sooner this land of disorlc
:. feels the firm strong hand of UnCl
:, Sam the better it will be for III
>, peace of Central America. Sever
Il chastisement for those who hav
committed outrages on American eli
=, liens is apparently the only thin