The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-06-23
LET Us HAVE PEACE.


commendation of our editorial OF a
few days ago in regard to the need
Of a pull together and get together
spirit among the towns and cities OF
Oklahoma.
1t is surely logical to suppose that
the spirit of unity and mutual helpful
ness which builds up the individual
town is necessary in the larger work
Of building up the state, and the re-
verse is equally true, that knocking
among the citizens will impede the
growth of a town and among the dif-
ferent towns in the state will impede
the prosperity and growth of the
state!
We do not know that it is necessary
or practical to effect an organization
of the towns to this end, but 1t Is
practical for the citizens and news
papers of the different municipalities
to give heed to these truths and work
together.
Let us read no more in the papers
of eastern Oklahoma of the arid
western part of the state and on the
other hand let us read no more in the
western papers of the rough and
worthless eastern section And We
trust the attacks made by one city
against Gnother will cease.
The best way to get up cooper
alton and kindly feeling between the
cities would be to write and speak
good things of each other and there
are good things to be said of nearly
every city and town in the state.
1t is painful to the good men of
Oklahoma City to hear people of other
towns in the state make unCompl-
mentary remarks of our city. Let rs
have peace and good will. Let us pull
together for the future of all and the
upbuilding of the young common
wealth-Oklahom City Times.
We have read the foregoing edito-
rial with feelings of the keenest in
terest and approval. Here is our hand
to tine Times. Eve-- word in the
foregoing is replete with truth and
every sentence and paragraph is chocli
full of good, hard. every day business
sense.
Just the same principle that de-
crees that political party that is
disruptedf will fail of success, appleis
to communities, cities and states. In
other words, "a house divided against
itself will fall
The christian religion endured the
prosecutions of centuries and fostered
and spread civilization from pole to
pole because, in spite of lions denS,
and rack and screw and faggot, those
of the faith of the NaZarine clung to
that faith: chung TO il through years
of jibes and jeers and fanatical per-
secutions and at last carried civili-
zation beyond the smoke of burning
monasteries and past the shrieks OF
the rack tortured defenders of faith
and victims of bigotry
And the same faith, the belief that
things were as they We're made, en-
abled the hardy pioneers landing on
an inhospitable shore, and battling
against all manner and kind of obsta-
cles. to make of this the most power
full country the world has ever known
Faith in the country, faith in them
selves and stick together spirit wrest-
ed the Wilderness from the American
aborigine and planted the roses of civ
ilization where the "nightshade Of
savagery had bloomed for centuries.
This same spirit OF brotherhood car
ried the handful of revolutionary pa
triots through the seven years war
of independence anO made the Amer
lean people the people for all time
This same spirit has guided the
advancing footsteps of the sons of
the army OF Washington and opened
up state after state. 1t has wrested
desert after desert from the cactus,
sage brush ana sand. from the coy
ote and the prairie dog. leaving peace,
happiness and prosperity in its wake.
The great bond of American broth
erhood has made all this possible, but
while as a nation We have been en-
abled to accomplish the seemingly i'm
possible. vet as individual state build
ers we have been grossly unpatriotic.
it has been the tendency of the people
of one state to speak detrimentally of
the soil, the climate or even the per-
sonnel OF the state which was her i'm
mediate neighbor And il has been
the hbit of those living in one sec
tion of state to do the same of those
living in another section. This is most
radically wrong United We stand,
divided we fall" applies just as truly
10 the citizenship OF state as 1t does
to that Of the nation. If Cimmaron
county be not blessed with the boun-