The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-05
THE REAL TULSA


fore the bar of Christian civilization
this day, and, with head bowed, the
mantel of shame upon her cheek, and,
we sincerely hope, with deep regret
in her heart, asks that she be par
doned the great offense some of her
citizens committed during Tuesday
night and Wednesday morning.
Thus wrote the editor of the Tulsa World
on the day upon which red ruin ruled and
riot held sway in that city, the day upon
which Tulsa was arraigned at the "bar of
civilization"
And, as the story of the horrors of race
war was flashed over the wires by the news
service corporations, there was not city in
this great state that did not feel deeply for
the law-abiding element of Tulsa, the class
who ever have to suffer for the sins of the
lawless.
Tulsa is the principal city Of Northern
Oklahoma, just as Ardmore is the Queen City
Of Southern Oklahoma. Just as Ardmore is
the trade center, the commercial and finan-
cia hub of the great southern plains of this
state, so is Tulsa the financial center of all
that vast region which is found cornering
with Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas. Sepa-
rated from Ardmore by over two hundred
miles of hills and dales, of mountains and
valley lands, yet linked together by the bands
of railways STEEL the two cities, Ardmore
and Tulsa, are sisters in point of commercial
Importance, while the fact that the citizenship
of both cities are made up, in the main, of
that great class Of progressives who have
done so much to make Oklahoma the wonder
state of the union should make every inhabi-
tant of the two cities joint members of the
great brotherhood of man.
When the news flashed over the wires
the news which carried to the outside world
the story of Tulsa's horror and Tulsa's shame
the good people of this community felt in
their hearts the deepest pity, the most sim
cere commisseration and mourned with the
people OF Tulsa, even as they would have
mourned with some near and dear friend
upon whose home the blighting shadow of
disgrace had fallen.
Yes, the people of Ardmore felt keenly
for the people of Tulsa, knowing that blow
dealt the good name of that city was blow
launched at the good name of each and every
law-abiding citizen of the state of Oklahoma
But
Tulsa boasted that she was not
Ardmore. And now negligible num-
ber of men have plunged the reputa-
ton Of the fair city into the depth of
infamy. Language is incapable of
painting the wrong which has been
committed against the community and
its peaceful law-abdng citizens or of
expressing the indignity one inevitably
feels towards men incapable of con-
trolling their passions and their pref
udices.
How, then, do you suppose the better
element of Ardmore people felt when they
read the above lines in an editorial which
appeared in the Tulsa World, part of tn,
same editorial which forms the opening para
graph of this article?
Do you not think that the man who pennet
the lines above quoted is possessed of a hear
whose every throb spews forth wormwoot
and gall in place of brotherly love and tn
Christian spirit of which he prates?
He prays in his editorial (Which was re
produced in full in Fridays edition of TIL
Ardmoreite) that the members of the supe
rior race may be forgiven their sins commit
ted against the people of race inferior. H
raises his voice in lamentation against tn
iniquites Of the world, in one breath, an,
in the next breath gives birth to utterance