The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-04-27
The Governors Address.

ITO welcome 10 our doors an Or
ganization whose purpose is for a
greater nation through a greater
south is a pleasure. The south orig
inally developed through the power
of slavery, in an industrial sense,
was paralyzed on account of 1t.
Other portions of our country, on the
contrary, were developed through gov
ernmental favor. Fifty years after
the greatest fraticidal conflict in his
tory, the south offers an inviting
field for development. This oppor-
tunity should be met with a con-
structive grasp.
That this organization should meet
within this new state is appropriate.
The great controversies resulting in
the civil war historically and geo
graphically, revolve around this part
of the Louisiana purchase. The Mis-
souri, compromise line runs across this
state. less than 100 miles to the
north of us. In addition, the Five
Civilized Tribes, the Cherokees from
North Carolina and Georgia, the
Creeks from Georgia and Alabama,
the Choctaws from Alabama and Mis-
sissippi, and the Chickasaws from
Mississippi, until recently exercised
a limited governmental jurisdiction
over a large part of the territory en-
braced within the bounds of this state
and now comprise a large part of its
citizenship. Further at different
times, France, Spain, Mexico, and
the republic of Texas exercised sov-
ereignty over different portions of
this state.
"Our cosmopolitan citizenship pro-
gressive not only in government, but
also in every branch of business. has
demonstrated TO the world how to
build a Rome in a day. Cities have
sprung up almost over night: oil
fields have been brought in as if by
magic; and the soil has responded to
cultivation by man as if it were by
the touch of Midas. Though having
been state less than a decade Ok
lahoma ranks third in winter wheat
production, being surpassed only by
Kansas and Nebraska, and fourth in
the production of all wheat, both
winter and spring. North Dakota,
Kansas and Nebraska only excelling
in that respect; twentieth in corn, its
low rating as to this cereal being
largely on account of kafirs. No sta
tistics are available on the kafirs.
Obviously, however, Oklahoma grows
more kafir corn than either Kansas
or Texas, the only other important
kafir states In the combination of
corn and kafr, Oklahoma is led by
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa. Mis-
souri,, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas. !
D"'"hoiH" - twenty -IllilJH III OdlS, |
thirty fifth in potato production, and |
ninth in sweet potato production: |
twelfth in hay; fifth in cotton. being
surpassed by Texas, Georgia, South |
Carolina and Alabama; tenth in
horses, seventh in mules: fifteenth |
in milch cows and tenth in all other
cattle and eighteenth in hogs. Okla
loma is second only to Pennsylvania
n mineral productions. including oil.
Il leads all the states in the value of
is oil output. California outstripping
I, however. in quantity. but not in
'alue. Two-thirds of all the broom
'orn produced in the United States
5 grown in Oklahoma The lumber
pine and hardwood industry in this
tate, is also valuable.
Extensive School System.
Oklahoma expends annually for
he maintenance of its common
schools right around eight million
iollars, and for the support of its
normal schools, agricul-
ural and mechanical college and 9TH
II subordinate institutions, a million
lollars.
In development, however. we are
lot confined to the standpoint Of the
Within our borders and