The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-10-24
WHY RUSH IN WHERE ANGELS
FEAR TO TREAD?

Ages ana ages ago an erudi-e writ
er penned the words which formed
the statement that only those Of un-
sound Judgment were won't 10 rush
in where angels feared TO tread
were wont to bIindly and luJllsssly
imprint their footmarks upon the llo-
raj beauties which wiser md more
learned ones had planted along LIES
highway for their guidance.
From generation to generation,
from age 10 age, by word Of mouth
and by printed text, the teaching Of
the ancient and Godinspired sage
who advised the children Of men, who
were then upon the earth, has been
handed down and inculcated 10 and
Of each rising generation In earliest
youth We were told at our mothers'
knees that only those who were mad
with ignorance would rush in where
the angels Of learning and Of wisdom
stood in awsome fear OF softly tread
ing: as the years rolled on. we were
taught from the pulpit and the lee
ture platform, from the class loom
and in the great school of life, this
self same and all-important lesson.
And as the years Of our life haye
rolled, one upon another, we have
seen the truth OF this teaching re-
poatedly and automatically demon
strated: while We have held our
breaths in dread as some unwise Pnd
unthoughted ones have rushed tcross I
the bright landscape, scattering de-
yastation and ruin and uprooting the !
work which the learned ones had, in
their infinite wisdom, spent years .
and Years Of time and incalculable /
mental labor in bringing to sue
cessful elimination
Perhaps, at different times in our
own lives we have demonstrated to |
our own selves and to others that
We were among those who were lack
ing in mental acumen, and have rush
ed blindly in while angels, fearing |
20 follow, have stood by and wept.
When the great young state of Ok
lahoma was admitted to the Union,
the wise men of this country, the !
statesmen of this country, remarked |
almost as one man, almost as a
unit upon the strength of our consu-
tuition. Leaders of both parties, DEM
ocrats and Republicans, made the
statement in the halls of congress
that never had state been admitted |
to the sisterhood of states, backed .
by so strong a piece of statecraft as
was Oklahoma backed in her cOpsh- |
tuition
In drafting this constitution the
ablest men, the most learned law
ycrs. the most eminent jurists we're
called upon to lend their learning
and their wisdom to this great state
paper Working conscientiously and
with the interests Of the entire peo-
pie at heart, the trainers Of the con
stitution of Oklahoma gave to US a
guiding rule of action, the superior
of that Of any other state-gave to
us this rule of action, this rule
whereby our laws should be drafted
and our legal existence as state
made possible.
Unfortunately this rule Of action,
this constitution has not been held
as holy. as sacred, as inyiolate as it
should have been. Almost every ses-
sion Of the state legislature finds
some one or more embryonic states
man who has permitted the idea to
tester I'm his brain that he is more |
learned than were those who drafted /
the constitution. And this embryonic |
statesman, either through ignorance