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

which, we are told, makes all man kin.
He depores the fact that Tulsa, the pro-
fessed abiding place of righteousness and
justice, the home of virtue, the sanctuary of
holiness has at last come out from behind the
camouflaging cloud fallen angel fit only
to be classed in the same list with Ardmore.
Yea, Tulsa, the mighty Babylon of modern
times, is fallen, overtaken in its sins, found
out in its iniquity the veil of its sel-righteous-
ness rent asunder, its depravity exposed to
the light of day in all its grisly, unchaste
nakedness.
Tulsa, the wolf enfolded in the cloak Of
the lamb; Tulsa, the Pharisee proclaiming
from the housetops, Thank God, | am not
as Ardmore;" Tulsa, young in years, but
old, so old in sin; Tulsa, flouting the
vermllion encrusted brazenness of the cour-
tesan and seeking to pass it off as the
blush-manted cheek of the innocent, the un-
defiled, the virtuous Maiden Tulsa, parad-
ing the streets with all the effrontery of the
evil doer of ancient times; Tulsa, nestled in
the Usage hills, the Babylon of Oklahoma.
And in the face of all this the editorial
writer of the Tulsa World, his pen dipped in
the vitriol distilled from an inborn and unjust
hatred of Ardmore of the law officers of
Ardmore, of the citizens of Ardmore, that
pen guided by hand actuated by brain
warped either by some ulterior motive or an
unholy desire to show that the hireling is
worthy the wage paid him for prosttuting
the gift of intellect with which an unwise
Providence endowed him, seeks to carry to
the world the impression that "a negligible
number of men have plunged the reputation
of the fair city into the depth Of infamy" into
which Ardmore had already sunk.
The writer of the Worlds editorial must
be man with mind so warped and
biased that he finds it impossible to deal
justly with the people of a~sister city, the
people of Ardmore who, before his editorial
was blazoned to mankind were willing to
try to believe that the Tulsa horror was per-
petrated by negligible few
If this writer would tell all the truth about
the matter, would expose all that led up to
the commission of this great crime against
civilization, he would not state that meg
ligible number" were alone responsible. He
would not make this assertion even while the
blood of murder drips from the fnger-tips
of the rioters of both races, while the smoke
continues to curl from the torch of incendia-
rism, while the ruins in the burnt sections of
the city shoulder and the means and cries of
the dying undulate and murmur through the
pulsing air.
The writer of the Worlds editorial pos
sesses a brilliant vocabulary He knows the
English language, knows how to round SEN
tences into beautifully symmetrical form,
knows how to come to periods which roll and
thunder and reverberate with all the power
that rhetoric may bestow.
But, unfortunately, he is also possessed
of a mind which is too narrow to function
min xyh
weave any pattern save that wherein the
warp of factional hatred comingles with the
woof of sectional bias
He belongs to that class of writers who in
ante-bellum days, in the days before the Civil
War, phrased sentences which burned with
the eloquence of Demosthenes as they told
stories of fancied deeds of frightfuness COM
mitted by the people of the South against
the people of an inferior race, stories inter-
woven with the calumnies which brought
about the greatest fratricidal strife that ever
blasted nation and caused the gentle Dove
of Peace to fly, affrghted, from scenes of
bloodshed, vandalism and red ruin.
Vandalism has taken the homes and
savings of thousands of people. Tulsa
must restore that which has been taken.
The sins of comparative few are thus
visited upon the whole community. But
1t is cross that must be shouldered
willingly and heroicaly. Not else
can the wounds of passion be healed
or the scars of intolerant hatred be
soothed. In this moment men of Tulsa
stand at the crossroads in the cty's
destiny. One way leads to greater
and more glorious future; the other
certainly leads to retrogression and
decay. There must not, there can not
be any hesitating.
Unquestionably the people of Tulsa owe
it to the people of all other sections of Okla
homa to rebuild the destroyed section, the
Little Africa" which was wiped out by the
torch. They owe it to the people of this
state to rebuild the homes of the negroes, in
order that those negroes be not sent forth,
unprovided for, burden upon the citizens Of
other parts Of Oklahoma
But why the alusion to "Intolerant ha-
tired ?" What uroupdc hoe +ba World', aJ;