The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-06-12
yliT POLICY SHGgED EE r;I.
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Oar caption and question refers to The
lndisn Territory and Its future. We stand
by the common sense Of right in applaud.
ing the Administration Tor preventing The
land piracy that has b.en recently at.
tempted. We shall DO 20 sgsin if it be.
comes Necessary. Yet when all Is said and
done on that score, there remains the cues
tion-what is TO be the future OF the Indian
Territory? 1t is no answer TO say Let it
alone. The railroad tentacles are encircling
it on ali sides. The hum of new civilizs-
uoa grows louder in The drowsy ears of the
settled lndian. Ol every flank our ma
terial ciyiliz ltion is pressing-Briarcus-
armed. In the midst Of this activity, the
fat land below us basks lszily in the sun.
Ole rosd passes through 1t. Not over ., 200
persons are located along the 2i3 miles of
its traffic. Problbly not 5000 persons are
directly contiguous thereto. There are but
six small villages On The route Yet the
eastern half of the Territory-that il, the
settled portion contains about 10000 in
habitants, Of whom G5 900 are citizens, nav,
subjects even, of what are in spirit, essen
TALLY, foreign principalities, alien communi-
tics. II during the nine 10 ten years of the
railroads existence. 5000 Indian passen-
gers have travelled on the road, we should
feel surprised
Yet it ia fact that when, in 1866, the
United States suggested in the wise and
humane treaties then formed, the policy OF
organizing a gu0si or special territorial
government, and OF ultimately allottiDg the
Common domains Of the Indian Nation 10
the individual members thereof-that pur-
pose was hail,d by the chief representatives
OF the Indians as every way oompr. hsnsive
and sts;esmanlike. Some OF the men mos,
vigorous 10 day in support of plans of ex-
clusiveness and isolation were then most
prorolpcsd in favor of that of merging in
American citizenship. A change has come |
over the spirit OF their dream and the
course they have pursued and the ideas
they have formed are seen in acts of I'M
friendliness like that of the Cherokee per-
nit law, which requires the payment of g
tax Of $50 Ter annum for every white
labJrer employed by an Indian citizen,
or that OF the confiscation laws
OF the Chcc.aws and Caicassws,
which attempted to fieze the property of
white men renting ard farming lands of
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fast decided spiri' of brutality to the
white msn. Itexhibits itself in very msny
ways. An examination Of the India an iaws
will prove what We say.
SO far as We see there is an increased
clannishness, which incurs - the bereft Of
& special clique in all these Nations. They
the fact that the smaller the COM
munity, if separated from it, fellows,
the more arrogant and exclusive it becomes. |
The Indian Nstiors, subject as they are TO ,
the United States, never require an oath of |
allegiance 10 the government thereof, from
any Of their officials or people, but on tie
other hand practically provide for abjuring
i, whenever, as in the case Of whites adopt
d by marrisge an cath is required. The J
,5liga:ors are compelled 10 swear that no
appeal will be taken TO the United States
n event of any controversy. The negroes @
If the Choctsw and Chicasaw Nations are, Z
L is proposed by PENDING bill, before he
rg admitted to rights provided for BY h
resty, TO swear that they will not ap- s
zeal TO the UHited States to
edrsss sny grievance or sup-
,ort any cause. We nention these .,
oints as illustr iipg the alienage e1hib- a
led. a
Ii is not possible that such an anomaly l
$ are these essentially foreign communi. \
les can much longer exist. Somewhere s.
I'd somehow these people, quite civilized Sc
nd well-,rAined as they are, must be ~ a.
lerged in the great body Of American =
t;zenship. i, is time they themselves
the how ard its results The +.
,aders who refuse this are blind leaders Of
he blind, except perhaps it be true that fr
le managing men have their weather eyes ea
pen to main chance 1t looks ike l.. al
ne thing is certain that with large debt, 20 20
'creasing taxes, diminishing funds, and e.
taxes, the only way to cell tn. lands Il,
bis enriches the ring end imp, ,ysri,hes tri
e Indian-ss an individual. Why, we 40 40
K, is the remedy not to be fonrd from 'e'
ihin' Why not sllot the whole eastern
1T Of the Territory in severalty, making
Iotments inalienable on Is years.
lis would solve the problem and =,
rich ten individual Indians. oct
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ELECTED. r.