Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-23
those Immediately contiguous thereto.


boundaries above mentioned. Never
theless, said politicians have so manip
s ulated matters for years past that hun
dreds and thousands Of brave and har
DIV pioneers who have sought earnestly
honestly and calamity to make homes
there for themselves, their wives ant
+. their children, have been driven by
bsttalions Of soldiers from their Lawful
possessions, and have been time ant
again compelled to witness
, while shivering in the cold
or suffering from heat and thirst, tn,
destruction of their property by mill
tary force that could not be reached by
law. To all who have any doubt as t.
the truth of the foregoing facts,
would re p ctfully refer them 10 The
statements and reports almost con.
stantly before the people for the last
five years Of brave old Capt. Payne
and his fellow pioneer settlers OF
Oklahoma. To all who have been &C.
customed 10 having social and com.
mercial intercourse throughout the
great Mississippi valley and the \ orth-
| west, it is a well-understood fact that
the opening of that territory to civili-
zation will greatly increase the popula-
| ton of st. Louis, Kansas City and
| Chicago, and also many more cities
and towns of the Northwest, which
cities and towns are the best customers
and greatest consumers of two of our
greatest Texas productions, viz, beef
and mutton, and 1t Is further equally
as well understood that the cities and
towns above alluded to, and others
yet to be built in the North.
viii for many years be called
upon by the mei chants and people of
the gulf states, for large portion of
the agricultural Implements, factory
machinery, fine building material,
furniture, etc., etc, too numerous to
mention, that they will need for many
years to come; and furthermore it is
well understood that the same grand
results will apply to all the cities along
the course of the Mississippi river,
from Cairo to New Orleans. and of all
of our cities and ports on the Gulf of
Mexico, especially Galveston and
Houston.
All business men with whom ] have
had the pleasure of couversing appear
to be impressed with belief that the
time has fully come when this OBJ.
struction to commercial and social
intercourse should be removed, and
that the people of the great lakes of
the North should have free communi-
cation with people of the gulf states
and of Mexico. 1t is further believed
that, by proper legislation, that
country can, in very brief
period, he made to contain
hundreds OF thousands of intelligent
Inhabitants, and TO TEEN with all the
valuable productions common to the
surrounding states, which would add
hundreds of millions of dollars to our
national wealth and many millions to
the carrying trade of the steamboat
and railroad lines of all the adjoining
states.
1t is also believed that all of the
above desired results can be obtained
without cost to the general govern.
nent, by dedicating reasonable por.
ton OF the land, anywhere from 50 to
100 acres, to each and every Indian
man, woman and child, found by
actual enumeration to exist, as an in
alienable homestead, to be assessable
but free from the collection of tax.
alton of any kind during the lifetime
OF the person to whom 1t was originally
assigned, but leaving the personal
property of said Indian liable to tax
alton the same as that of other inhab
itants. Said homestead would take
from one to two tenths O
the territory above named, and would
leave from fifty to sixty thousand sec
tons subject to settlement by civilized
people, which might be sold upon Ions
time at low rate of interest, at al
average of two dollars per acre. to ac
tual settlers only, and would amoun
to the handsome sum of from sixty. fiv,
to seventy-five millions of dollars
The principal should stand equally di
viued between permanent schoo
iund, the interest Of which should b.
used for the education of all the scho
iastic Inhabitants, irrespective of pre-
vious condition-and permanent In
dian annuity fund, the interest to b
used hrst in the payment of fair pr
rata FOR the Indians-of all taxes as
sessed by the territory and future state
and authorized to be assessed, by tn
counties, townships and districts upor
real estate. Second, the remainder t,
be used for the erection of buildings
fences, the purchase of cattle, and 9th
er necessary articles LIBERALIZATION an,
, comfort.
Should such policy be adopted /
1850. W SiSa. lhoNc III Tie ulTecUlO
OF taking the Indian question out c
national Jurisdiction and politics, an
placing 1t under the control of tn
states, of which the Indians may be-
. come permanent citizens, and woul
, have tendency to reform our nation
al affairs. To attain this grand r,
suit, 1t will be necessary 10 surye
into townships and sections all of sal
, territory, ana to distribute the Indian
\ upon choice, selected, alternate Sc,
tons, In well dispersed settlement
: thereby destroying the IL petty nation,
and tribal relations, and enabling IL
9 adult portion by contact wit
d the whites to learn q,
y civilization and habits of indu
y try, while the public schoo
VIII be teaching their children Il
knowledge OF books that all American
and Europeans 80 highly prize.
From the general course pursued /
the Republican party since it obtaine
I'D control OF the government toward II
South, the belief Is Justified that al
party Is always willing and ready
load 1t down with every barbara
tribe that they can possibly induce
q migrate thither, and the only ho
n now OF the South for relief In this
n. In all other national matters IL In II
! success OF the great Democratic part
III appears reasonable to suppose In
10 plank put in the platform of Il
d Democratic party TO assemble in co
81 vention In the city OF Chicago on ii
- 9th prox. looking to the accomplish