The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-03-30
Ardmore. Tuesday, March 80, 1915.
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SOWING THE WIND

There exists necessity 10 see oui
selves, not necessarily as others see
MS. but as we really are. 1t Is OF Vltai
importance to properly measure Wha'
we have done, and weigh the results
in scales of honesty. When we nave
administered proper treatment to our
selves, we have been fair to all 9th
ers.
Within the past quarter of century
the southern states have made a most
wonderful progress. Smokestacks
rose high in our important cities,
railways have been threading the
country, our forests have given up
wealth of building material, the cot
ton factory has been placed alongside
the cotton farm, our sugar and rice
industries have been developed, inter
urban cars afford quick transportation
between centers of population, mines
have been opened, schools and col
leges built, rivers have been made
navigable and irrigation bitches dug.
While the south was studying the
primer in search of a new education,
when the country was struggling to
free itself from poverty. left by the
cruel foot prints of a fratricidal war,
men of other sections and of other
countries misjudged us. Our poverty
was mistaken for slothfulness, our. de-
Law in rising above want was mista-
ken for lack of ability. 1t was said OF
us that we were victims of climatic
conditions, that Intelligence could not
blossom and ripen into matured fruit
south of the Mason and Dixon line.
At time when our inability to
build colleges was taken for lack of
desire of learning, a friendly but a
misguided people sent teachers and
missionaries to our land to inspire us.
with patience and with courage we
had to struggle against, and overcome
the prejudice against our section.
The winning of that fight was an
inspiration to others. We had done
what others had. a few years back,
reckoned as an impossible task. We
had demonstrated that sunshine would
ripen the harvest without imparting
corresponding degree of sloth. In
discovering our own strength we were
found by others and the wealth and
culture of the northern states came
TO develop our resources and to live
with us as neighbors. One triumph
followed another, until the south and
progress were synonymous.
In the midst of this beauty of sur.
rounding, another war; gaunt and hun
CRY, and reckless with the happiness
and fortunes of the people stalks from
under cover.
1t is the war that withers the fruit
lu the blossom and blasts the rost
in the bud. The south in the name o.
self protection is waging this silen
yet destructive war upon itself. i
comes in the name of duty to our
selves, and We are giving succor L
our enemy
In response to sentiment which
found its origin in lack of understand
ing of others, We have waged war up
on men whose minds are developed L
that point in business where they cal
grapple and overcome obstacles ant
pave the way for success.
Mississippi is a fair average of tn
southern states. 1t has given to his
tory some of its loftiest men and |
has now in congress, men who woul
be a credit to any state or to any ma
tion.
This wave of antagonism to prC
gress has swept over that state. 1t
laws have resulted in closing the
door against progress.
In 1913 there was a reduction O
approximately fifty per cent In tn
organization of companies that cor
tribute to the development of tn
state. In 1914, the same results wer