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| | The Ishmaelite of Oklahoma. |
 | | Four hundred years ago the race to which this Ishmaelite of Oklahoma belongs was an independent, self-governing nation–citizens of a sylvan republic, with laws respected throughout their wide domain–a nation crude, but child-like in its working, but capable of high-development, courageous, virtuous, heroic in endurance. |
 | | But the farmer of Oklahoma today, as he looks [Page 386] across his broad acres and sees his shocks of golden wheat, his fields of waving corn, his cotton with its bursting bolls; when he gathers peaches from his orchard and grapes from his vineyard, forgets the labor and privations of his past four years. |
 | | The white man had again told the Ishmaelite of Oklahoma to "move on," and as, like Dickens' little Joe, he had been moving on and moving on ever since he was born, he obeyed. |
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