The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-17
A COMM ERclAL VIEW

In industrial development lies the |
road to future greatness. II is no /
longer controverted that a people ever
striving for Industrial supremacy in
he end attain their desideratum: fol- |
lowing must come that cutuie and !
pride of intellectual and moral sta
tus TO be secured by reason of an un-
diminishing and ever present prosper
ity That is exempiified in the great
centers OF industrial wealth, such
cities as Brussels, Berlin, New York, !
Boston and London being also seats
of learning, furnishing the capital
which adds TO their already far-reach-
mg terrific les, until each has become
werld-famed and world-important.
Oklahoma has all the natural re-
sources to be found in the great
Flains' possibly insufficient
lold to be accredited with the pro
duct, but il has the coal, iron, lead,
zlnc, oil, gas, kaolin, barytese, mag
nesia. marble, granite, gyp, girolea,
etc, enough to build a fire p,oof wall
litty feet high and e mile wide around
tie entire world, and then have suf-
ficient left for five hundred genera
tions of Oklahomans.
He who so much as manages to-
start institutions to prepare any OF
these for immediate usage, has com
menced something that Will endure
&ith our civilization.
What matters it, then, il here and
There some false teacher has his III.
re play in the arena OF today? His
win be but short-liyed glory; the
esil he does but the temporary stop.
page of energy misdirected because
| OF his agitation and creed This is
destined TO be a great, throbbing cen
ter of industry, and If we preserve
our organic law and march with
steady tired and faithful purpose on
ward. seeking ever to increase by the
| law of right and purposetul enc gles,
we have naught to fear in the After
while.
Oklahoma is almost in the celitei
of the United States--there is no
border state having fifth OF our min
eral resources: no surrounding COM
monwealth with the half of our sur
Iface products.
We can raise more corn and wheat
than Kansas: have not the boil weeVll
ihat layishes the growing cotton OF
Texas: we have better beet and can't
aloupe areas than Colorado and can
.lnt Arkansas and Missouri to shame
ON fruits Il is case of having what
ltne other fellows have and then some.
10 add to our agricultural empire, I'M
derneath that fertile soil lies SUI
lf.cient mineral products TO handle all
surrounding needs and make much Tor
Al. and more than we are capable oil
handling in short order.
Seven millions of people can live
in Oklahoma and not be as crowded
as in New York; can engage in fifty
Enterprises not to be thought OF in
the greatest populated state OF the
Union. and our climate is unsurpass'
Ell on the Western Hemisphere,
Let us keep these facts foremost,
make OF them what they should be-
our greatest asset. We need no agi'
liatIon. none of the dreams and the
lTalaver of the misiniormed. We want
ieetion--immedlatc and well calcu8at
ea. That will drive our wheels in the
right direction; will make of US what
we ought 70 be and shall be. The op
poItunity of the present must be KEEP;
forward and through taking advant
age of our natural resources and the
nylendid geographical and climatic adj
iantages, our movement to attain q
front rank ought never to be seiious
~ hindefed, never retarded.
Ten years is but a moment in the
cycle of time--yet in two decades our
state has passed from the wlds to be
best known of the whole Southwest
Ian aided by nature has worked won
ders; yet the story has but commen,>
led With each addition TO the army
Of workers, comes added strength and
new opportunity, each bulwark to
the other
Factories are being built; room for
more: products of the field are added
10 each year, consumption greater
Transportation TO consumers improve
and must yet be improved.
Perhaps we may never reach the
goal OF the dreamer or that class
4 which seeks to solve problems With
Eout fundamental base for the original
4 thought. But we can achieve a
4 mighty victory in the commercial
world, and commerce has done more
toward the enlightenment of the world
than any other one thing. II has con
anered the wilderness. driven ships
into strange seas and forged the fet-
ieYs of peace with willing and power
ful mastery Of spirit.
/ Let us make Oklahoma supreme.
To do that the spinning wheel Of com
merce viii be the basic and the
llalghtiest factor. Keep that wheel
bsplnning and success Is ever with W..
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Getting Oklahoma into shape for
me usual year Of progress has been
considerably impaired BY town lot