The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-17
"ON TO FORT SILL"
The Boomers Organizing to Secure the
Opening of the Reservation.

CoMANCHE, 1T, Dec. Especial. l.
An organization Of the citizens of Com
anche and the country adjacent thereto
has been effected for the purpose of pro-
noting the speedy opening of the Fort
Sill country TO white settlement. At a
meeting held here the committee on or
ganization made a report, which, though
not adopted. on the ground that it was
really plea for statehood, is interesting
as statement of the condition of affairs
in the Indian country. The report is as
follows:
This organization shall be known as
! the Comanche Homeseeker's Aid society. "
1.-The object of this organization shall be
to use earnest eudeayors to forward the
opening of unused Indian reservations TO
settlement by American citizens, to the
end that homes may be secured for the
homeless; that equal rights and privileges
may be extended to the people residing in
this section-rights that belong to and are
sacred TO every American citizen aud are
enjoyed by all except those residing in
these territories We are, to use the Ian
guage of one of our contemporaries in
favor OF babies VS.. calves We are taxed
without representation; we have no school
system, ami our children are growing up
in ignorance, and. OF course, accompanied
by its natural offspring-vice; we are gov
erned by martial law and are dragged
from home to unwarrantable distances to
be tried for pretended offeuses the diff
culties thus attending the administration
OF public justice IN some cases producing
burdens grleyUus to be borne, and Causing
in many cases oil her violations of law to br
winked at or overlooked, thereby reiard-
ing the course OF justice. Our cities aud
towns, subject 10 no municipal or
corporate law. are left to the mercy of the
lawless and uuruly element, and, with no
sanitary or hyglenic regulations, become
fruitful sources of disease aud distemper.
thus feeding the hungry jaws or death
with our people, without rival aud with
out restraint. Our public roads and high
ways. receiving no attention, become
almost impossible. and in consequence n
fruitful source OF danger to life auu prop.
erty. With no asylum for luuatics, those
unfortunate people are left at the mercies
of a cold aud frendie>s world or at the
mercies Of the people at large, which is
little better WIKI no penitentiaries or
prisons at home, our criminals must be
sent into distaut lands for punishment.
State rights, the doctrine made SO sacred
loevery American, are totally denied to US
Being subject TO the arbitrary dictates OF
tue general government, more distAutiy re-
moved, and IN consequences not So much In
Sympathy with nor cugnizant of our wants.
what are we or what can We expect bul
the tyranny and oppression which we daily
experience from petty and incompetent
officialss
We ask our friends and fellow-citiz~ns
ID Texas, Kansas aud Arkansas and other
aoJolhinS states To aid Us la bringing these
matters 10 the notice of Congress, aud
especially CO we ask the representatives o!
those states IN cungress 10 labor for us
when they are assembled 70 enact laws for
tie goTeGnMeei OF fais mighty nation
All this. not 10 De;igion the io5 al absence
ui Jaws goveruiH- rea! property. with 40
existence poii1l 1lcsllg suG almost uene So
ciaiIE, emphailcal5y demand "A speedy ann
efficient remedy at the hands OF our gov
ernraent. Justice demand, II: the laws OF
nature and iaiure's God demSud it; five
hundred thousand peopie domand it. and