Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-09-02
A FULL-BLOOD CREEK on THE PASS.
ING OF THE RED MAN.
CALM, PATHETIC EL0QUENcE.
NO LONGER A PLACE FOR THE IN
DIAN As AN INDIAN.
WyHe Mcintosh Urges His Race 10
submit Gracefully 10 the IneVit-
abIe-Says 1t Is Better That
the Old Order Should
End.

Claremore l. T., Sept. 1.-(Special) The
speech recently delivered by Hon. Wylie
Mcintosh. full-blood Creek and member
of the House CT Warriors of the tribe. 10
political gathering, near Muskogee. upon
the subject uppsrmost in every Indians
mind, the Dawes commission and its work,
has created a sensation throughout the
tribes. 1t is considered one of the bright
est oratorical efforts ever made by a red
man.
Mr.. Mcintosh is essentially an Indian in
every fibre. He has constantly stood for
literal fulilment of the treaties, and the
best interests of his tribe. But he recoS-
nizes the writing on the WALL and openly
announces to his people that their race is
run. His reference to the agitators is con-
strued by some TO be slap at the non
treating Cherokee commission. Mr.. McIn-
tosh spoke as follows:
1T is now going on among US. The pres
ent campaign of troops. for the purpose Of
clearing the last home of the Indian at
the presence of unbidden whites, is the
beginning of the last struggle that will
ever be witnessed within the bounds of the
United States In the effort to check the
ever increasing sway and rule of the
white man.
From small and separate colonies of
English, French and Dutch settlers on the
borders of what is now called the Amer
lean union. the white man has mingled in
blood, strengthened in policy and spread In
conquest, until now this race has con-
quered all opposition of arms, and is TAX
ing peaceable possession of the widest
known civilized domain. The last armed
enemy who opposed his on-coming has sur
rendered, while the territory fought over
for 300 years is being portioned out to the
white race as an abiding place for him and
his children forever.
No more will be heard the whizzing of
the feathered arrow. met in its fight by
the bullet from the white mans rife.
'The war song is hushed for eternity
and smoke of the council fire hovers no
longer over the children of the forest
These are gone. The white man now goes
unarmed.
'.rhe white man now goes unarmed
among the remnants of his once terrible
foe. seeking everywhere to plant his vine
and fig tree and rear civilized home.
Outside of the domain of the five civilized
tribes of Indians there is no resistance Of
fered to his taking possession, and he only
waits for the peaceful signal of his own
government to enter and possess.
Here within the alien country of the
five tribes alone is he yet forbidden. Here
SIS the last opposition-here the final stand.
Here is the last struggle in opposing the
battle for supremacy on the continent.
Here now is the terminating contest in the
long war between savagery and civiliza-
tion; between progress and barbarism; be-
tween the white and the red.
And to what strange end have we come
in the struggle. when diplomacy takes the
place of the tomahawk. and a scrap Of
writing paper replies instead of the rifle.
The Indian relies on treaties and diplo-
macy to rid the country of white men. and
the white man depends on lawful rights
and written permit. The struggle is the
same. but the methods, are new: and the
I, result? Can there be any doubt as to the
final result?
: rs the terminus of the whole matter not
already Il foregone conclusion. seen as
plainly by the Indian as by the white man?
In the end the white man will win in the
contest. as when the bow and rifle played
their part. -
1t must be so. Progress cannot be
stayed at the petty demand of civilized
d. hate, aided and abetted in the work by
schemers, who seek nothing but private in
terest in stirring the honest antipathy of
The red man against the white, knowing
II is done to the red mans destruction.
Over the whole wide Union no other
place exists where the white man owns
nothing. and is successfully withstood in
his efforts to gain a foothold. The domain
of the nve tribes is the last alien land,
and the fight is now on to decide the fate.
1t is useless TO mnce matters or TO evade
the true issue. Beginning in the Chicka-
saw nation Ito extend to the rest of the
tribes), the last battle of the races is be-
ing fought 10 determine n final supremacy
over all of this land 1t is the last struggle
OF dying nationality before passing out
of existence such forever.
No one with justice in his heart can
effcrt and Yet no one with Judgment can
predict anything but disaster for the at
tempt to preserve Indian autonomy. The
time for it TO disappear has come and it is
now better for the Indians that it should
disappear and with 1t all that remains of