Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-01-31

country. Tn tno contrary, all Jnc
money is on the other side The Five
Nations, through the white leaders in
control OF affairs In that country, have
available cash to dump into the fight.
They are, OF course, backed by the cat
tie interests operating in the leased
district, as well as In the Five Tribes;
also by certain syndicates operating
mining leases i'm the Choctaw and
Chickasaw countries. 1t is common
talk tonight among the Indian lobby
that they have I'm sight 100000 to be
applied to Congress by way OF prevent
ing any legislation along the line sug-
gested by the Dawes Commission.
They also insist that they can raise
more should IL appear that it Is need
ed. IL is the confident boast OF some
of them that they have quite enough
money on hand to prevent any legisla-
tiOn by Congress. They declare that
II China is able TO buy up treaty with
the United States and the average
Chinaman can go about this country
boasting about having bought up the
United States Congress they ought to
be able by like means and methods to
preserve their autonomy.
OF all the people In town tonight
the Five Tribes lobby are in the best
spirits and confident OF their power
through finances showed at cheap out
going Members and Senators.
These men come here clothed
with authority to represent their
tribal government with the money
they have 20 wantonly filched from
the poor and uneducated natives.
Those who are guilty of this con-
duct ought 20 meet the condemna.
ton of all honest men and be
spurned from this Capitol and sent
back to an injured and outraged
people whose interests and whose
integrity they do not represent.
The insinuation against the in
tegrity of outgoing members If this
House is a libel aud SANDER that
deserves the contempt of honest
men everywhere.
These people that are thus con-
nected with these tribes do not
want to break up their condition.
They do not want to give up these
ill-gotten fortunes; and it is for
this country aud the President to
say whether they will take
back ground or whether they
will stand by the faithful services
Of those who have been the friends
of that country until they have a
territorial government, and until
homesteads shall be given to all
these people, and allow no con.
tract to be made with them that is
not under the supervision of the
federal courts of the country. Let
these hundreds of men who are
absorbing this country restore it to
the Indians, and let congress give
them a system OF judicious laws
and you will have nation of peo-
pie then standing with outstretch-
ed hands ready to receive it
Many OF these Indians are in
telligent and ready to-day for
statehood. OF course many of the
rank and file of them are not fully
equipped for citizenship The
white people are, most of them,
law-abiding orderly people. We
want congress to place its protect,
ing arms over these people and
take the government of that coan.
try out OF the hands of those peo.
pie who are running it and retard.
ing progress and civilization in
that country, and when you have
done that you will have secured
these people their remaining rights
under the stipulations of these
broken treaties. .n their talb
about the poor Indians these dele.
gates, with their pity, their tears,
and their sorrow. remind me o
the story of the crocodile, which
runs as follows:
There was q erockodile lay on the banks o
| the Nile;
He screamed and cried aud exclaimed, m,
| hearti my hearti
Oh II doth break Of pity for the little fishes
! Atei'
That is the condition of the mel
who urge opposition to those wh,
are for the good order OF that coun
try. They cry, "let us alone 70
a little while longer; for a few
years, until We eat up the wealtl
and prosperity of that country.
| say strike off their hands and re
store that country to the people Il
whom it belongs naturally, SO tina
every man, every woman, ant
every child living there of naliv,
blood shall have an equal, equit
able, and just proportion Of tn
country granted and ceded then
by this nation
Aud beyond this, Mr.. Chairman
let the rights of the industrious
, law-abiding white people VIII
have gone into that land and open
ed farms all over that country anC
have erected school and churcI
houses in the more populous pOr
tions he protected in their person
and property.
Allot these lands and let a por
ton of the allotment be leased I
these people, under the supsrvis
sion of the courts. Bring the race
together in schools and churche
and the generation of Indians lha
are now children will grow int
an intelligent womanhood an
manhood that will make gla
the declining years OF the
unfortunate parents as the
see their children enjoying tn
blessing of civilization under tn
benign influence of a just govern
ment, afiording equal protectio
and equal rights to all person.
with one citizenship, one tongue
one government, and one God ruI
ing supreme over all the people
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