| Show MRS LEASES THEORY the people who prayed for rain ought tw tv hivo have hn been H n building an anark ark topeka may 3 mrs mary ellen lease in an interview here discussing the recent disasters in oklahoma and the political and social history of tho territory said the people ot of el reno who prayed dail daily y for rain rain ought to have been building an ark I 1 believe in prayer but what mockery such a prayer is in oklahoma the curse of the almighty rests upon that land that was the last laats spot pot of ground round left for the indians they had been driven there from every quarter of the continent but the greed reed of th the e white in man n prompted pro apted him to possess it for his own use and the indian was forced to go look at the crime that has been committed in oklahoma look at the drought look at the disaster at chandler chamdler look it at the deluge at guthrie el reno keno and elsewhere do you doubt that the hand of jehovah is in these things if lie has been pleased with avith the people would lie have washed their homes with an angry flood when they asked for a shower to save have their crops |
