Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-11-10
RESOLUTIONS A AND 8.
A Retraction Demanded or n
Broadside Promised.

Mr.. EDITOR;-ln continuing the
discussion of the Vinita resoIu-
tions, | propose to put ex-senator
Bell ON the dissecting table as the
subject of my next article unless
he comes out in your next issue
with an ample apology for calling
the authors of those resolutions
traitors; we demand a retraction of
the language in his Claremore
speech, and unless this is forth
coming we shall turn our battery
loose on him in your next issue.
AS the ex-senator is lawyer and
understands the force and power
of language we presume that he
n ant what he said and said what
] meant. If not, then an apology
IA Al order. We had always rather
say something good of man than
anything bad; soft words turn away
wrath. We pass to the consider
ation of the 4th and 9th resolutions
of the Ninta series:
We are in the most anomalous
condition of any nation on earth.
We are now paying about S240, 600
taxes to the general government
without having word TO say
about its disposition. We are
taxed without our consent; we have
PAID in the last twenty years not
less than $500, 900 to the United
States government, to say nothing
of the taxes to oar own govern
ment. But whose fault is il2 All
our own 1t is not the fault of
the United States government; it
is not the 'iult Of our foreiathers,
for they p viled by '-eaty stipu
lation for Jour representation on
the floor of congress. The United
States have wooed and beseeched
you for fiity-seven years to take
your place in the American con-
gress in order that your rights
might be better protected, but you
have spurned your rights and re-
jected the teachings of your fore
fathers, and have suffered your.
selves To- be taxed without repre-
sentation and have spent millions
OF dollars to keep from doing what
your foretathers provided you
should do, by sacred treaty stipu-
lations. Your Rosses, your Adairs,
your Boudinots, your Benges,
would have adorned a seat in the
halls of legislation, but you have
recklessly thrown away your op.
portunities and sold your birth
right for a mess of pottage. 1t is
said that 1.-THE mills of tho gods
grind slowly but they grind ex-
ceeding fine" and "Whom the
gods would destroy they first make
mad" Let us then arouse from
our lethergy and avert the male
dlction-Gf high heaven for failing
to take advantage of our opportun.
ities; let us not be taxed without
representation. There are other
interests outside your own that
demand it; there are more white
people in the territGry than In
dians; their interest demands it;
our interest demands it, and il we
( do not move in that direction they
will. This territory cannot exist
in the very heart of the United
States-in the very gateway Of
commerce. with n population Of
over 100000, with all their multi.
piled iDterests-without represen
tation in congress. We must have
it; we cannot get along without it.
Our judicial system is AN outrage;
we are denied the right Of trial by
a jury Of the vicinage; in criminal
matters our citizens are transported
beyond our jurisdiction and tried
by juries of our neighboring states
for alleged oflenses; these things
ought not to be. 1t is reflection
upon our intelligence and advance
ment in civilization that it is so.
More anon,
! NUn RuNrtTN