Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-23

has no rights which the army or I'M
,ienaitment of Justice Is bound 10 res
meet We are told that the court ma
been Instructed not to give us near
ing. and to wear us out, whiie thos'
lordly gentlemen hold exclusive anc
absolute sway In Oklahoma. IN
blessed department of justice ana ~
seryile courts and the lord,
of Oklahoma have. complained
against us, and come |,
Washington to appeal Tor rellei am
simple Just ice TO the representstiSes VI
of the people. These LORDS OF ok'aiio'
ma whose edlcis are executed oy tne
army under Pope and by me cuutls
that do the bidding of Brewster Know
inp no other law, will soon nave
eomnaet lobby here and fill newsra..
pers with lies. They have money ana
can niislead the public. but viii have
n hearing. or satisfy the people,. OF the
United States that the republic no
longer exists and that this central gov
ernmept, rs 1t Is now administered, y
an internal lawless despotism IN which
a moor man has no rights which lorus
of'bonds and rails and banks are bound
TO respect.
BOGUs TITLES.
"Why SIR continued ~ nc,
of those fellows, who have appropiin,
ted Oklahoma, have accepted
lease.holds from Cheyenne anu
Arapahoe Indians VINO h"se
az perfect rirht to execute leases to
lhe Blue Grass region OF Kentucky as
IN The broad acres of Oklahoma. The
report of the secretary Of the INTERIOR
ex,doc. ~ of the Forty-eighth congress
shows that the district thus approprl-
atpd by the rich land pirates Is part oil
the ffty-seven mile strip OF country
originally assigned to the Cherokees.
From the Cherokees 1t was bought,
the Cherokees having agreed, by the
treaty of 1887, not to occupy IL.
'But in the report of 1888 the com
missioner of Indian affairs, referring
to Intriders,' as he terms the com
mon people of the country, as contra
distinguished from the great specula-
tors, would mislead congress and the
country, 10y stating not only that we
are 'intruders' but without proper
w. great crime in the eyes of the
Country's present masters, lie says
we have therefore little fear of fines.
We are not mlliOuaires, but this
secondary underling Of power has
never tested the question of poverty or
riches. He has never appealed to the
courts. He has never obtained u
Judgment against any OF us. lie has
never sought TO do so. Why not sue /
ils and recover judgment IL he can,
under section >, las of the revised stnt-
utes The law we are and have been
ready TO obey, but not the autocratic
sentence Of this profound lawyer ana
admirable officer OF government who
chooses to omit the execution OF the
law because somebody has Informed
him that we are poor people. IL any
one of us has violated this law, why
not enforce the penalty and impose
the fine of 81 900 rs provided by the !
statute! when Pope's savages were
sent down upon us, even when we
were guilty of no ofenFe and contem-
plated the iufraCtiGn Of no statute or
treaty, they found us with horses,
mules, wagons and all the usual Incl !
dents OF Immigrant trains. But this |
same government underling states II
another place that we had with us n
wagon. load of whisky and cigars. II is
also true that fifty of these col0nsts
lad "pooled their issues and deposited |
$50 600 in bank to defend this whisky
vendor. Hu Eas thus induced 20 90
into the disputed territory In order
that suit might be Instituted against
him. by this means the question of
title TO the country would he raised
and determined by law and not by the
bayonet or department OF justice. II
the land belonged to the Indians the
whisky dealer would be punished; IL
not, We had the perfe,t right 10 take
possession under the homestead laws
But we know, as did the redOubtable of
fetal referred to, that the tract OF com
try on which the whisky was sold was
not Indian property ana therefore the
failure 70 sue This question determ-
ined under sections 9liT and 2llS of
the statutes has been fully eXpounded
by the supreme court OF the United
States in The case of Bates VS.. Clark,
10, United States Rep, pg.
2Od. Judge Miller then declared
that the term Indian
country means that the
title to such district is in the Indians
aud that 1t ceases to be Indian coun-
try when the Indian title is eXtin-
guished.n
OF course the powers that be knew
this and of course they did not pro-
pose to have the questions involved in
the arrest of the whisky vendor adju-
dictated by the courts. Lawless power
prepared an appeal to Pope and his
bayOne.s.
rRoGRESs on OUTRAGE.
During all these arrests by Pope's
myrmid0ns, and in the midst OF all
these lawless cXactions of despotic
power, the courts were open. Their
functions We're never suspended and
their DEGREES, such US they saw proper
10 make under restraints, imposed the
invaders of the district and 10y the de-
partment of justice, were everywhere
executed. In other words. because we
We're alleged to be poor white people
the bayonet WAS made 10 supplant
the courts power, usurped the
throne OF justice, and poverty robbed
us of legal rights. The facts
were no more infamous than the theo-
ny of this official report OF this under
ling of the department of the interior.
THE INTERNAL pEsporIsM.
Not only has our form of govern.
ment been wholly perverted by this
recent latltudinarlan construction of
constitutional power as defined by the
supreme court in its concession of the
flat money-making power to the feder-
al government, but all the facts and
forms OF an absolute despotism are OPP
erative upon me and the people | rep
resent. Section 10 ofthe supplement- 10
the revised statutes provides "A penalty
interdicts the use of the army as Il
posse coniitatus. Soldiers cannot be
sheriff. or marshals or policemen. The
law 80 declares, and Gen. John Pope,
ii the law were not farclcal, rs admins
isierediby the bureau of justice and its
lll.