The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-09-09
HORACE GREELY JR
BREAKS OUT
lBy Horace Greeley JAP

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o,o.t;o, If npr,her of nnblio bufld.
- ~ tl,or, ~ ho psod far
.d,,catfo,a1 ,u,rnosoe for tba teaching
os i,,+o.,ri+,. ord ga,d morals +o the
hors ond gir1s of Oklahoma The
,,.,.;+or hoe no+ coon all tbeeo bnildings
t,,t 10 bas scan number Of them. and
,,.;tbo,,t ovoontion those he saw we're
.,,.u,on4o - +ho iroor,netancv if
49, aa,r,,n+;o,, of those who were
a,,orood With eooiro that the taxnay-
80 do11or for dollar for tho monev
i,noatod con1d imaoina nothing
,r,ono ao,nora1i7ing to pood standards
,,-,tt nth hove and oirle sbonld meas
,,ro mon in nuhlic life than to gaze
,,nor thosa hni1dinos and know that
a,,oh ,bon,a,aso nrocticae were hermit.
I'D h., mon who had sworn on oath
foi+bfrllv +o nerform their official du-
80, ~ rro+onting +ba nnhlic
II +ino +bo hove and girls must
1oorn that those things are the result
- ,ooobino ro1itics and that ---bat was
s+oIo, from, the naonle either through
incomno+nacv mr. crookedness was
+ol,on FROM, tho naonla that elections
MIGHT ha maninulated. that the eS\
penses of personal campaigns might
be paid; that blood money might be
given to political thugs who threaten
ed violence unless rewarded for their
services, and that the countless selfish
schemes of men in power might in
secrecy be carried to success, while
the people were made to believe that
they were being sryed by patriots.
There is one public building in west
ern Oklahoma that is such a mon
strosity that those responsible for it
should be punished. And that structure
will stand there cracking and sinking
and crumbling year after year while
those who fathered it will range the
state prating of their loyalty to its in
stitutions and invoking posterity to re-
member them as puDllc penegacIors.
Drop down INTO the south cehtrai part
of the state and the RUNS OF announcer
viii be found. What the outcome at
that place viii be NOBODY can guess
Travel in still another direction. Go
to Vinita. The writer has never seen
the buildings for the asylum for in
sane persons now under construction
at that place. He has talked to repu-
table men. however who have seen
them. First of all. let it be said that
the taxpayers of Oklahoma are grew
iously burdened with public debts.
Every cent that is spent should bring
full value The state. practically, is
without am asylum for insane persons.
1t is true that it has an asylum at Fort
Supply, but even if the title were un-
clouded. no reasonable man should be
willing to saw that what Oklahoma now
has at Fort Supply is adequate, eco
nomical or desirable.
The annual per capita cost of main