The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-11-05
BUILDING
A STATE
WHAT WAS DONE, Why AND
WHAT TT COST.
CONCLUSION.

questions that had been encountered
An organizing the State Of Oklahoma,
"A the series Of ten chapters we have
touched briefly on dozen points that
the opposition have selected for crit
5elsfn speaking to the people from
the Official records and setting forth
facts and figures that the enemy dare
mot dispute In our presence or hear
5nk, and II is a we'll known fact that
every one OF them have declined to
meet US on the platform before the
honest voters of this state who are
anxious to know the truth. In brief
Oklahoma justly lays claim TO pro
fressiye government and to things
done Of which every honest citizen
may well be proud.
Oklahoma is the only state in the
union where the depositors in state
banks have not lost a single penny
since our banking law went into effect
two years and ni1s months ago.
Oklahoma is he only state as far
back as the year eighteen hundred
xIfty-six that has realized one hul-
ured cents on the dollar out OF every
ntate expense warrant 1t has issued.
Oklahoma is the only state in the
nnion that secured it's state capitol
buildings. including the carpets on
the hoors, the furniture in the Offices.
and the expense OF moving an admin
xstration. without dollars cost to
tho taxpayers of the state. Other
atates nave certainly had as good an
opportunity to protect their taxpayers
from cost and why none Of them have
done 30 10 a matter for our enemies
to explain.
Oklahoma Is the only state in the
union where the toiling masses on
the farm, In the workshop, In the
mines, and In legitimate pursuits, had
their views Of government written into
The state Constitution.
Oklahoma is the only state In the
union where capital and labor arc
each equally protected by the Con-
0titution and the laws.
okIahoms's state government is
conducted at an average cost Of one
dollar and forty-dye cents per capita
cf its population. There is not state
In the American Union from ocean
to ocean north OF Mason and Dixon's
1ine that runs its state government
ct less than one dollar and seventy
cents per capita Of its population, and
from that up TO California, another
Republican state. whose state govern
nent costs five dollars and ninety
ave cents per capita.
/ Oklahoma is the only state in the
union that requires it's permanent
school fund by first preference to be
loaned to the farmers Of the state at
. moderate rate OF interest on farm
mortgage.
he Federal census OF this year
haows that the population of 0klaho-
ma has more than doubled since the
lsct regular Federal census.
okiahoma's bank deposits in State
and National Banks combined were
Mfty-ave million dollars when our
banking law vas passed. The depos-
Its IN all 8dnks for the report date
NOW about to be published show over
ninety-tgo million dollars. being an
increase OF thirty-seven million dol
lars deposits equal to seventy per
cent increase In two years and nine
months. This conclusively shows that
the government Of Oklahoma has en-
couraged the bringing Of money into
the state instead of keeping money
out OF the state as the special inter
sst mouth piece claims.
Oklahoma has proven the stability
Of its state banking law by promptly
and successfully liquidating the fail
ure of the largest bank In the state
at a lower rate of expense than the
national banking Law has ever been
administered in either Territory and
HttHtat tHr ucpVrteoic VI the DuSihtoc
Of the community or the state suffer
ing the slightest embarrassment or
loss.
Oklahoma took its great school land
management out Of the chaotic condi.
tion Of Oklahoma Territorial political
ring rule where partisan friends had
been rewarded and other tenants pun
ished and placed IL on a business
basis free from partiality and where
the net results in cash to the school
children have been increased from
the rental Of the very same lands an
average OF over thirty-four per cent.
The money talks for itself. The
schools have drawn it through the
various county treasures in two in
stallments every year. The word Of
the reckless falsifer cannot stand
against what Is shown by the state
land Office receipts from your county
treasuries
Oklahoma has almost doubled the
number OF It's country school houses
in three years.
okI1homs dsyotes larger proper
tion Of iis entire cost of state govern
mens TO agricultural and mechanical
education aud 10 the promoting Of the
agricultural and lise stock interests
than any rfaf< In 4na union luon the