Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-09-18

Territory are not conducted after or by vir-
tue of am law, but rather, contrary to law,
and after or in conformity to "a policy"
And by that Payne and his followers are
actually not violating any law, but are seek
ing to seize lands the present administra-
ton does not wish to have settled, or per-
haps desires to reserve for to be used if
needed in the solution of the vexatious In
dian problem.
The assertion that the cattle men have no
houses and other improvements except tenn
porary ones is wide of the truth. Indeed
many of the houses are frame structures of
than one story high. Grain bins, stables
and ware rooms are found at every good
ranch. Indeed the improvements will ex-
ceed in value and permanence the average
Sedgwick county farmers Improvements.
Again many of them fence and cultivate
a garden of two to ten acres. The idea that
a man who wants to use the natural produc-
tons of the soil to feed long horned cattle
should be winked at by the interior depart
ment whilst man who desires to use the
cultivated products of a part of the same
soil, to nourish family of human beings,
can by the same interior department ar
bitrarially arrested by the military, refused
the protection and processes of
the civil law, inhumanly treated,
dragged over 500 miles of rugged
county, and held for thirty days longer than
the law allows the military to hold a civilian,
and then was turned loose without any
charge being put against them, three hum
bred miles from home, the idea that all this
| can be done is so abhorent and unAmerican
that il arises the indignation and right too
| Of the people without regard to party, such
was the "Oklakoma Indignation meeting"
held at the rink. Politically the chairman
was not Bourbon. the vice president is
venerable, respectable gentleman, a radical
Republican. The orators billed and called
TO speak, were three Republicans and one
Democrat. How any man instructed to get
| a fair report of such meeting could so mis-
apprehend its tenor as to report ii ga Demo-
| cratic pow-wow' is past accounting for, UNI
less such report was thought to be the
means OF counteracting the righteous indig-
nation aroused and expressed, possibly his
faculty for misapprehension is like that of
| the reporter sent to report the sermon Of an
| eminent devine, who read for his text
| Moses was an austere man, and made at
| tenement for the sins of his people" The
| reporter got il that "Moses was an OYSTER
man and made ointment for the sins of his
people"
No one else understood from my plain
statements that was employed by the gen.
eral government to collect grazing taxes
from cattle men occupying the strip, but
/ understood that it was the Cherokee govern
ment backed by the Interior department.
Never until this Oklahoma business began,
was il considered here in Kansas a crime TO
be poor, and a disgrace to have held a feder-
| al position and to have vacated it without
having plenty of money, but Payne held a
position under different party, and at an
| other era in our country's history when pub
lie servants gave their attention to public
duties rather than to seeing channels where
they could be useful to corporations. How
ever lazy Payne may be, one thing is sure,
it cannot truthfully be said that in the
boomer business he is "deadhead." II
fellows as you depict them would not Wich-
tia be better off without them and wouln't it
be to the city's benefit to allow them to colon
ize the unoccupied portions of the Indian
Terri tory