The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 2, 1903 Page: 2 of 6
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THE GRANITE ENTERPRISE. THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1902.
&he Granite Enterprise.
Issued Every Thursday By
THE ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO.
T CLEPHONE NO. 20.
J. W. RYDER, Managing Editor.
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FireworKs and Firewater.
THE annual occurrance of the glorious Fourth is the small boys delight,
the doctors glory and an occasion of dire dread to nervous mammas
and skittish horses. As near as we remember the event which we
commemorate day after tomorrow was pulled off at Independence Hall Philadel-
phia at 27 minutes and nine seconds after four o'clock on the afternoon of July 4th
1776, when such men as John Hancock, John Adams, Robert Morris, Benjamin
Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Harrison signed the immortal Dec-
laration of Independence which contained such never-dying but sometimes half-
forgotten principles as these: "We hold these truths self-evident; that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
rights: that among these are life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. That to secure
these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed, that when any form 0f government becomes
destructive to these ends it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it
That these Umted Colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent
States and for the support of this declaration with a firm reliance on the
protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives our
fortunes and our sacred honor." (and to them honor was sacred), and that little
document caused King George many a sleepless night and changed the history of
all mankind. J
It seems difficult of credence that this world stirring rumpus was due to the
?^rge SOt t0 monkeyinZ with Yankee Doodles favorite tipples but
. f1s.the facu the pasfiage of the Importation Act of 1733 which laid a heavv
import duty on rum and the operation of the Stamp Tax on tea in 1774 which sent
several ship loads of that popular beverage to the bottom of Boston Harbor and
ing George who didn't happen to have a cyclone cellar, crawled under the bed
wondering what was going to happen next. It happened on an average of once
every 20 minutes for the next eight years and that soft-headed and hard-hearted
sovereign learned to his sorrow when King or commoner monkeys with fire-water
h, geta a taste of m-e-works. For the man who won't fight over hi, whiskey and
tobacco is mighty scarce and the whack at the woman's tipple started "a temoest
,n a teapot," cost Britain a mighty s.ice other mighty empfre and foreverSt
ed to her the love and respect of eveiy American who loves either tea or woman
No matter how much we are prone to "cuss the country," wail at the rottenness
our government and bewail the fact that even a represenative form of govern-
ment is subservient to money, trusts, boodle and other corrupting in-
.ZZ r 7 StiI1^°,tS °f r°°m t0 thank G°d that il is not worse "nd to appre-
ciate the force of an old line which runs; "If you want a man to appreciate heaven
just give him five minutes in hell." You never miss the glorious gift of liberty
until you try some other flag.
It was the fortune, or misfortune, of the writer to at one time spend two years
Oueen vtc Qnei'h KingGe0rge" "" "» °' th.VlaJnS
Guel?h 111 a country governed as the Phillipines (which are now getting
benevolent assimilation) are today-by a provisional, provincial, pseudo,
fniHi 6 of «overnmen*- whieh was in reality the most arbitrary
torm of martial law: where the will of the post commander was law and no man
dare say him nay. At last came the day of the homeward journey. As the big
bou'nd^rvTinp8^)1"^/"10 ^ CUrrent and turne(l her head toward the American
tZtrZI lin"'80m;lesa^y. amighty cheer from 300 home-sick Americans stirred
he frozen echoes of an Arctic land. When the steamer tied up at the wharf of
^™ncan P°rt wh'ch marked the outpost of the domain of Uncle Samuel the
i ish fiag which flew at the mast-head was run down, and up to the breeze went
^ ^rty: tHe StarS and 8triPes: 300 howling Americans
greeted it with bared heads and two hard-headed "Cannucks" who refused our
ic^Yukon °r courtesy went overboard into the whirling depths of the
80 dead> h'R heart does not pulsate with quickend throb
at the thought of the blood-bought blessings that came to us through the princi-
ples embodied in that never-dying document given to the world 127 years ago day
after tomorrow, ought to be compelled to live 199 years in Siberia, Mexico or Yukon
ern ory and come to his final finish by an overdose of triple extract of carpet-tacks
and fire-crackers commonly known as sheep camp whiskey.
THE ACME OF HEROISM.
isHI
wmm.
\ eli O. Dog—They talk about the hero
lsn» of the man behind the gun. Why, he
ain't in it for heroism with the dog in front
of the firecracker.
name ought
note: The Italics are the editor's and this and other references to the Phillipines are onlv made
to point a moral and show the shoa.s that liberty .ovln* Americans must avoid
He Wai Proud of It.
Mrs Goody-Good—Aren't you ashamed,
lttle boy, of tying a tin can and a firecracker
to that poor dog's tail?
Little Boy—No'm. He'« an English bull
pup and this is the Fourt' o' July.
H® Liked the IVolie*
.u V?U enJ°>'ed hearing the man reading
the nMaration of Independence, Johnny?"
tv, u ^ roared it
through a megaphone and made a deuce of
a racket.
Hobart Pointers says R. E. Rainwater
was nearly scalded recently in taking a
bath.
Serves him right. That
to keep him freshened up.
The Oklahoma Republicans want
statehood for Oklahoma with the Creek
and Seminole nations (the negro nations
of Indian Territory) added.
W eli if we must annex the nigger let's
take him it homeopathic doses.
; Jim Duffy, all around athlete and the
most versatile and veracious newspapei
rtian in Oklahoma, is running Isenburg's
paper, the Enid Wave during the boss's
absence.
"Isey" is some on the snake order
himself but it's dollars to doughnuts
that Duffy out-Isenburgs Isenburg.
Last Wednesday night Cordell was
visited by the worst storm ever exper-
ienced. No lives were lost. Several
buildings were blown away and others
unroofed.
At Clinton people were badly frght-
ened. It is stated that Frank Rickey
and Elmer Slocum ran six miles in eight
seconds and hid in the round-house at
Bessie. The cloud was pjainly seen here
and we don't know until yet whether it
was the cyclone or the dust from Rick-
ey's heels.
J. E. TERRAL,
...t-AWYER...
HOBART. OKLA.
T. M. ROBINSON,
Attorney at Law.
OFFICE IN CITY HALL.
KIUMTK. OKLAHOMA.
H . B O A M,
"Thk O. K. Tailor."
. Suits and Pants Made to Order.
Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing a
Specialty.
LEGER, OKLAHOMA.
CITY BARBERSHOP
McMtJRRAY A WINKLER. Propm.
NEWLY EQUIPPED. NEWLY FURNISHED.
Agency for Wichita Steam Laundry.
We Would be Pleased to See Our Old Friends
and Customers.
goooner's old stand, granite, o. t
THE CITY BAKERY,
J. B. NORMAN, Proprietor.
tine Confections, and Fruits
cigars, and t08acc0s.
Fresh bread and cakes always on hand.
Dr. W. P. McREE,
.Office: Room No. 1, Over Orar.lteState Bank.
Give# Special Attention to Diseases of
W omen and Children and
Rectal Troubles.
Res. l*t house west of college, Granite, O.T.
\ *
H. B. KINSEL,
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW.
Real Estate and Insurance...Collections
a Specialty.
granite, oklahoma.
The Sun-Monitor says:
Lawyer Frank Mathews' farm ad-
joins the farm of Parson Finley and each
was at his respective home during the
storm last Sunday night. Mathews is a
lawyer, a bachelor, a member of the Ok-
lahoma legislature and a democratic
politician, while his neighbor, Finley, is
a preacher of the gospel and a father in
Israel, and yet lightning struck the
preacher's house and passed the politi-
cian's by. There are many strange and
unaccountable things happening every
day in this rare old world of ours."
Old Boreas probably thought the par-
son was prepared while, Frank is too
heavy for the foather factory for quite
awhile.
THE ENTERPRISE,
SI .OO Per Year.
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Ryder, J. W. The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 2, 1903, newspaper, July 2, 1903; Granite, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc404217/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.