The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-09-12
WHY OUR PEOPLE
ARE NOT WELL OFF
THINK THEY LIVE
AT HOME, BUT IN REALITY, DO
THEY?

ours cannot be her own manufacture
of her own products, of which the Al
mighty, in his wisdom, has given he
in abundance? We have abundance
of glass sand, the finest that can b.
found anywhere. We have mountains
of granite and marble as fine as can
be found in any country. We have
great pools of oil and thousands OF
wells of natural gas-oil and gas to
supply the millions. We have gravel
pits and asphalt, extensive enough to
make all the highways and railroads
of the entire state.
We raise enough cotton to keep
many mills running the entire year,
working up the raw material furnish
ed them by the farmers Of the state.
We raise words of corn, wheat, oa
and alfalfa, to keep our mills running
day and night, and to fatten thousands
of head of cattle, hogs and sheep.
We use enough leather to support a
number of tanneries throughout the
state, to supply lis with boots, shoes,
harness, saddles and many other
things; if We mad the factories to
work up our cheap raw material, put
in shape for their use.
Oklahoma can beat any sta.e in the
United States raising good old Irish
potatoes, with her two crops a year
without irrigation. There is no coun-
try, not excepting Ireland, that can
compete with her on the potato rails
ing question.
Oklahoma has many rivers with
strong currents that would furnish
cheap power for the entire state, if
the people of the state would only
put them in harness, which could be
done at nominal cost, and the pow
er would last for all time when once
controlled. The rapids near Weleet-
ka on the North Canadian river Is
one of the best sites for a power
canal in the state, and the neck OF
land on the north side of the Shaw
nee is almost equally as good for a
power canal. Put them to work and
furnish power and light for cities
within radius of 100 miles from the
power canal.
You may we'll ask why Oklahomans
are poor The average Oklahoman
imagines that he lives at home, but
he does not. He gets up in the
mCning and puts on a pair of socks
made in New York, shoes made in
Boston. pants made in Ohio. Then he
slips a pair of suspenders over his
shoulders made in connecticut. He
dips some water from Missouri
bucket with Chicago dipper and
puts it into an Illinois pan and washes
his Oklahoma face, using cake OF
st. Louis soap in the operation. He
! dries his face on a Rhode Island towel
and reaches his hair with a Vermont
comb Then he drinks Cuban coffee
from an Indiana cup and saucer
sweetened with Louisiana cane sugar
and stirred with a New York spoon
His knife, fork and plate were made
in the north, and his table cloth also.
He eats a piece of Chicago ham, fried
| in Kansas lard, sOps his st. Louis bis
, cult, seasoned with Boston soda and
/ Michigan salt in Louisiana molasscs.
He wipes his whiskers with a Yer
mont napkin, and seats his family in
Michigan chairs around a table made
in the same state.
His meal was cooked on ST. Louis
stove, with wood chopped with st.
Louis axe and hauled in an Indiana
wagon.
The citizen tnen puts on a Boston
bride on Missouri mule, gets out
a Georgia plow and works field en-
numbered, in all probability, with a
New York mortgage.
He returns at night, satisfies his ap-
petite with an imported meal fills
/ his Indiana lamp with Pennsylvania
oil and lights it with a New York
match. He then fills his pipe with
/ North Carolina tobacco and settles
/ down for oomfortb.e smoke.
When bedtimes comes he takes
down his family Bible, printed in Mas
sachusetts, and says a prayer COM
posed in Jerusalem. He then retires
to his bed and sleeps under import
ed covers, and is kept awake for two
/ long hours by the bowling of his
| Oklahoma dog, which is the only
home product he has on the farm
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