The Mountain Park Lance. (Mountain Park, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 28, 1906 Page: 1 of 8
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The Mountain Park Lance.
Vol S,
MOUNTAIN PARK, KIOWA COUNTY. OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, lDOfl.
No is
M.G.Evarton, Editor and Publi.h.r.
Official City Paper.
Published in the Interest of Mt. Park and Vicinity.
Subscription On. Oolltr •
V.or in Advene.
TO THE CONGRESS.
Well, keep the Gift if ye grudge it? We are not eo lean and snail
That the puny deeds of your pudgy hands shall be for us all in all!
Ours are the boundless prairies whose sward has leaened to the plow;
Ours are the barren deserts that smile with their plenties now;
Ours are the kindly seasons, the brave hard tolls of might
That eonquer the wild and the barren, and fashion us homes of light!
We hear ye laugh in your leering, ye small of the little folk.
As ye clatter of trade and commerce, still blind to a people’s yoke—
Still de-.f to our prayers and pleadlugs, ye dull with the bsrgaiued ears.
Who g. >ner your coupon harvests to loll through the easy years.
It is only a little season, but ye have forgotten the sires
Who settled by ancient rivers and kindled their home-lit fires;
And ye are so long, ye changers, In the hireling halls of trade,
That ye have forgotten the empires your stalwart fathers made!
And bo far are ye from the conquest, the ooze of your stagnant thought
Has covered your hearts thrice over and hidden the great deeds wrought!
We banished from hill and valley the beast and the savage foe
And grew us a mighty people abreaat to the battle’s blow!
Raped from your bauds unwilling, the Land where the Promise dwelt
Hard-locked, swung free of our mighty arms and our hearts that fought
and felt,
Till smaller and smaller the struggle, and the battles found surcease.
And there lathe ancient chaos were the ordered homes of peaoe!
They conquered a deaert also! Your fathers—from whose deep loins
Ye slipped as a pigmy litter to nose at your greasy coins!
They builded their homes with labor, they oonquered and sweat as we
And asade of their blood and courage this Land of the Brave and Free!
And shall ya aay to the millloaa who prayers of a million bring,
“A BUI of Rlgbta la a useless rag, and Freedom a worthless thing?”
Ya whisper, “It matters HUleP Ah m, from the aona, In sooth;
Hut to those dead aims ont yonder these things were the Life end Truth!
But keep the Gift If ye grudge It! We have been dented before—
Been spurned as we knelt beseeching and crawled for the open door!
And yn bnllded yonr gilded platforms of promises good and wise,
But baited with honeyed nothings the traps of yonr sugared lies!
No more, no more shall we eotne to plead, to kneel or grovel again -
We who have oonquered a ravage land with the might of our free-born men!
No more, no more as the bond-man kneels shall wa show you a bond-
man’s faee,
For the Free Man's cro wn of manhood and a Free Man’s kingly place,
For the Right that is onrs wa have begged yon hard, but we beg you hard
no more;
We rise from the dost of yonr hated scorn as ear fathers rose of yore!
No pineh of your fetters bind ns. We’re gyred In no narrow ehaina,
For our aouls are as wide as our prairies and great as our boundless plains!
Still shivel In petty quarrels from stature of good men great.
And shrink still snaall in yonr pigmy strifes while these people wait sad
wait!
And keep the Gift if ye grudge it! We have grown as grandly free
In the worth that your little wisdoms can neither know nor aee;
And soon in a Greater Future when Juster Men shall live,
The Gift shall be own for the taking, bat not yonr Gift to give!
Stillwater, Oklahoma, April 18, 1#0«. FREEMAN B. MILLER.
Washington, April 23.—
The conferees of the statehood
The Lone Star Wichita Min-
ing company, of Cold Springs,
Kiowa county, has been in-
corporated with $2,000,000
capital stock. The incorpora-
tors are C. D. Parsons, W. N.
Habbell and George W. Ray,
of Roosevelt.
The News-Republican uses
the expression, “Bolter Ever-
ton, the P.-S. editor of the
Mountain Park Lance.” We
don’t know what Benny means
by “P.-S.," but Webster says
it means “post script,” If
we were to add a 4 ‘post script”
after Mr. Benedict’s name it
would be “D. F.,” which being
interpreted means damfool.
Ceelmct far Altaa Waterworks.
The contract to build the
waterworks and electric light-
ing systems for Altus has been
let to the McQuatter Plumbing
and Machine company of Hills-
boro, Texas, at a cost of #28,-
00b, and work on the construc-
tion will begio at once. Altus
will own the systems after com-
pletion.
WHI Fester Them With n Pemm
Jesse J. Dunn, chairman of
the democratic territorial com-
mittee, has had copies of Free-
man E. Miller’s poem, entitled,
“To the Congress,” printed for
the purpose of forwarding a
copy to every member of the
house and senate and also one
to the president. He declares
it is one of the best statehood
arguments yet produced.
Conditions are shapingthem-
selves for a vigorous campaign
against the alleged creamery
trust, now operating through-
out the territory, and the fight
promises to t>e an interesting
one. For several years past
J. B. Thoburn, former secre-
tary of the territorial board of
agriculture has maintained that
a creamery trust exists in the
territory, and has been open in
his attacks made upon it. It
is maintained, also, that the
existence o£ this alleged trust
operates against the establish-
ment of new creameries in Ok-
lahoma to the detriment of
both the farmer and the con-
sumer of creamery products.
There is a strong dairymen’s
association in Oklahoma which
it is understood will enter the
fight with Thoburn against the
alleged combine.
bill today decided to hear argu-
ments on the senate amend-
ment allowing school lands,
when mineral, to be taken up
by private citizens and other
lands selected for school pur-
poses. Governor Frantz con-
tinued his argument against the
amendment, as did Mr. Garrett
of Shawnee. A large delega-
tion from Oklahoma was pres-
ent in opposition to the amend-
men. There is a desire on the
part of the house conferees on
the bill to hurry its considera-
tion and preparations for daily
sessions and night sessions of
the conference committee have
been urged so far without result.
J. W. Martin, a prominent
real estate dealer of Pawhuska
organized a company at Law-
ton this week to build a $50,-
000 hotel. Stock to the amount
of $t8,000 has already been
subscribed,
Farmers ami Every-
body.
You all want to get your
goods right, but before you tie
yourselves up to give any one
concern your patronage take
the trouble to visit the “Red
Flag Store” and find that we
sell goods for less money to
everyone than your confiden-
tial friend merchant charges
you, even after he has taken
off his 4 4added-on” 15 per cent.
Yours for fair dealing,
L K. Rhodyback,
Manager R. F. S.
Remember our sales are still on.
Snffr>|tO|l lioat of unit I kirirks
Wiseonsin Citizen.
When the 14th amendment
was under discussion in the
United States senate a member
said, ‘ ‘Suffrage is a political
right which tne few may give
or withhold at pleasure.” ‘let
that idea,” replied Sumner,
“crystalize in the minds of the
American people and you have
rung the death knell of Ameri-
can liberties.”
Abraham Lincoln once said,
“No man is good enough to
govern another without that
other man’s consent,” and suf-
fragists say, 44No man is good
enough to govern a woman
without that woman’s consent”
The principle of consent un-
derlies all human and divine
government, In all the deal-
ings of God with the Israelites,
their right of consent was rec-
ognized. If they wanted a king
the established system was
overthrown to gratify them, nor
would Jehovah himself main-
tain a theocracy over them
without their consent * ‘Choose
ye this day whom ye shall
serve,” was reiterated constant-
ly in their experience, as it is
evermore in the history of each
soul. In this divine recog-
nition of individual integrity is
the character and justification
of all human rights.
Who weeps with you when
you are sad, and laughs with
you when you are glad, and
swears with you when you are
mad ?—the editor. Wno has
to be both kind and wise, and
never, hardly ever lies, and
when he does, creates surprise?
—the editor. Who owns a
heart as well as cheek, possess-
es a spirit proud but meek and
lives on forty cents a week ?-—
the editor.
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Everton, H. G. The Mountain Park Lance. (Mountain Park, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 28, 1906, newspaper, April 28, 1906; Mountain Park, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc853661/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.