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The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-11-22
PURSUING THE w1sEsT COURSE

posted in regard to Indian matter
in this country are wondering VIII,
the Creeks failed to ratify tn,
agreement with the Dawes com
mission; and why the Cherokee
council does not pass bill provid
ing for a commission to treat with
the Dawes commission. There
are many reasons and some o.
them are of sufficient force to war
rant the very course these Indians
have pursued.
In the first place the Creek treaty
was not fair to the common Greek
Indian, but had the ear-marks of a
SCENE to boom the towns and to
place Indian land upon the market
at the ridiculously low price OF
$1.25 All acre. The Creeks were
not allowed according to the pro-
visions of that treaty to allot ali
their lands among their people,
but were only allowed 100 acres
each, or about one third of what
should have been their prorata
shares. Among the reasons why
the Cherokees are not willing to
enter into an agreement, is that
they do not believe the United
States government would carry out
the provisions of such agreem ent
when entered into. When the
Cherokee commission was nego-
tiating for the sale of the strip, the
Cherokees were promised as part
consideration for the lands that the
intruders should be removed from
their country; also that the money
due them from the United States
should be promptly paid alter a
careful accounting by representa-
tive of the Cherokee nation and an
agent appointed by the govern
ment. 81, 100000 was found due
the Cherokees. The strip has
been occupied by white settlers
for more than five years, and not
one single intruder has been re-
moved; and not dollar of the
money due the Cherokees been
paid. The Cherokees performed |
heir part of the transactlon to the
etter and the government showed |
bad faith from the beginning:
Is it strange that these Indians
should hesitate to make other
agreements with representatives
If the United States? The Curtis
,ill with all its inconsistencies and
wrong to the Indians is not to be
lreaded any more than an agree
nent more favorable with no pow
II on their part to enforce its full
lllment. The title to the land is
he only tangible thing the Creeks
nd Cherokees have left and it
hould be guarded with scrupu-
ous care, and if need be, go into
he courts of the country to defend
l.. The chief and those who are
oudest in their demands for an
greement are unsafe leaders and
hould not be followed.
Let the Cherokees and Creeks
band Aloof and leave themselves
the hands of the government,
rmed with their treaties and with
,e patent to their lands, and con-
snt to no allotment that does not |
i've them all their land, divided !
qually among their people. !
The hearing OF Dick Karr, Clar-
nee Gibson and Clinton Ogan, set +
,r the Odd of this month hefora e
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-11-22

The United States government
will never allot the lands of the
Creeks and Cherokees without
their consent. This is a great
truth and the attention of the
Cherokees is especially called to
it.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-11-22
Unpr0fifabIe Innocence.

Mrs. Matchmaker-How old is your
daughter?
Mrs. Goodwin-Only Is.
TOO young to be engaged. Why.
she wouldn't know doublet from a
diamond. Jewellers Weekly.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-08-11

then existing. Let's see; it was in Au-
gust, l believe; yes, August, '96 Moth
ing on earth, according to your notion,
would ever bring up the price of cattle
and hogs and corn and wheat but the
free and unlimited coinage Of silver at
the ratio of 16 to 1; commodities and
silver went up and down together"
At this my Populist friend jerked off
the other boot, threw it in the other cor
ner, said not word, but listened to his
wife, who continued:
Il told you that what was needed
was employment for the then idle
hands; that wages for the workers, so
that they could buy beef for their fam
lilies, would help you and me; that so
long as our country bought it's goods of
other countries our laborers could not
be employed making them and could
not have wages with which to buy
what we have to sell. You voted for
silver, but in spite Of you the men Of
the East voted you down, voted for en-
ployment and protection to the workers
of mill and mine and factory. voted to
give them q cIallce TO earn money Will
which to buy the beef of the steers that
we fatten and ship to market But
where is silver? What has become Of
the yoke that hitched the white metal
and the steer together? Cattle are up
in price; silver down."
but l really thought McKinley's
election would make money scarce" he
answered, plaintively.
Il know you did. You're honest in
whatever you do, honest in blindly fol-
lowing the demagogic leaders Of your
party. That's what irritates me. Did
it make money scarce?" she asked.
'tSince election haven't we been both
cred beyond endurance by agents who
have wanted to loan us Eastern money!
Aren't farm loans easier to get!
Haven't rates of interest been lower?
Aren't prices better?
"Oh, don't know as you need crow
so much about cattle prices. It is not
home demand but foreign prices that
have helped us out" asserted my Popu-
list friend, as he commenced pacing the
floor in his stocking feet.
did you say that you saw MI. Birk-
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Cheating q Bull.

A Connecticut sportsman relates in
Forest and Stream an adventure which
must have been exciting enough to
save his day from monOtOny: | was
hauling my boat across Eley's meadow
to the creek-a hard pull, with decoys,
gun and ammunition. l was about
half way across, and had sat down to
rest, when | noticed that one Of q large
herd of cattle was coming my way. l
looked again. 1t was a big bull, and
evidently meant business.
| knew he would overtake me if l
IAN, so l turned over my boat and
crawled under it. The bull seemed sur
prised that / had disappeared, and af-
ter shifting around while went off.
waited until he was nearly up with
the cattle and then started again. But
the old fellow was no fool; he had his
eye on me, and | had hardly started be-
fore he came back on the run.
To do my best, couldn't make the
creek, so under the boat l went again.
This time the bull was mad. He bel
lowed and paved and tore up the sod
around the boat with his horns; but
held the boat down.
Finally, when | was getting tired, he
got tired himself, and went so far
away that this time l made the creek
and launched my boat.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-08-11

can MS he unlocks the bedroom door.
''JaInes-dear James, do let me come,
too"
His answer is TO throw her violently
from him in the center of the room. Her
tied hands prevent her being able to save
herself in the slightest degree, and she
falls, first against the table and then on
the floor, striking the back of her head@
and hurting herself considerably. AS she
rises, confused and dizzy, she hears the
key turned again on the opposite side of
the door, and finds herself a prisoner. She
rushes forward and kicks with her feet
against the panels.
"James-James!- James!-fo the love
of heaven, come back and take me to my
boy"
But all the answer she receives is con-
veyed by the sound Of the slamming and
locking of the bedroom door, and she feels
that further appeals to his pity would be
in vain.
She hears Willy ask for her again and
again, and the same order to him to be
silent reiterated by his father, accom-
panied by threat of punishment if he is
not obedient.
The mothers suspense becomes agoniZ-
ing; her brain seems almost to turn with
the dreadful fear that Expresses her. She
beats her body against the wall that di-
vides them, and screams to her husband
to administer the remedies for the child's
relief. The effect of her vehemence is
that Mr.. Moray, in a loud voice, threat
ems to thrash the boy if he disturbs him
again. The feeble complaint is neverthe-
less repeated, and-what sound is that?
The inhuman monster is beating his sick
maybe his dying child.
Delia's senses seem to forsake her. She
beats, with her pinioned arms, against the
WALL the door, the window, in her mad,
indignant horror, until desperate at her
impotence, and worn out with conflicting
emotions, she sinks unconscious on the
| floor.
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MY POPULIST FRIEND.
POLITICAL ECONOMY ExPOuND.
Ed BY A FARMERS WIFE.
Was 1t the "Crime of '73" or the
B1under of '92 that Precipitated
Low Prices and Hard Times Upon
the Country?
He Cried Enough !"

YOU'RE the most eXaSperat1ng WON
an l ever saw: you're mulisher than
any critter in the feed lot" said my
Populist friend, as he planked himself
into the chair with such force as to
burst the cane seat. Then, jerking off
one boot, he threw it in the corner,
missed the stand and hit the cat For
getting the other boot, he continued:
Aren't you ever going to let up? Must
you continue world without end? Am
to hear it forever and day on this
side of Jordan, and must l have it
dinged into my ears as / go sailing
through the pearly gates? Do stop!
Enough is enough, and I've had
enough"
With that he ran his long, bony fin
gers through his disheveled hair, set
tied back in the chair and raised his
bootless foot high in the air.
The meek little wife sat quietly be-
side the table, on which was lamp and
n $50 bill, and darned away at her hus-
bands stockings, unruffled, undisturb-
ed, unmOved.
My Populist friend is Il big-hearted,
Qui.k-tempered, honest, whole-souled,
uncouth man, who learned to trough
it, in the war of the sixties, and ever
since has fought life's battles bravely.
His wife is gentle, meek, kind, forbear-
ing, devoted, patient, shrewd and tan
talizing. They live in Kansas, and that
day he had been to the Kansas City
market with a carload of fat cattle.
Tenderly had he cared for them, regu-
larly had he fed them, with feeling
of supreme satisfaction had he watch
ed the market rise as the cattle gained
in flesh, joyfully had he contemplated
the time when he could bring home to
the good wife portion of the profit.
The time to sell had come; he expected
much, but sold at the ''top price Of the
market and got more.
"Who would have thought" he said,
after figuring it all over, when l
bought those yearlings less than two
years ago, that they would bring that
price now? There is a bit of it for you. "
And he placed the crisp bank bill beside
the lamp.
The little woman glanced at it quick
ly; the old, familiar mischievous smile
began to play about her lips, and turn
ing to her husband she blandly asked,
whats the price of silver?'
1t was this innocent little question
that caused the storm cloud to burst.
But when it had spent it's force she
said, with mild manner and placid
tone: "Your reference to the time OF
buying brought to mind the conditions
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-08-11
All Enternrise Stimulated.

Perhaps prosperity was never more
welcome to any class of people than it
has been to American farmers, after
four years of Cleveland and low prices.
The best possible use is being made Of
it in the cancellation of mortgages. The
whole country has an interest in that
feature of the change, not only because
farmers have been made better custom
ers and more enterprising and hopeful
workers since the mortgage incubus
was removed or made lighter, but be-
cause the capital thus released is find
ing it's way into commerce, manufac-
lures, railroad building and mines. In
fact, there is hardly an American en- Ter
prise which has not been stimulated by
it in some way, directly or indirectly
San Francisco Chronicle.
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Natural Mistake.

Defective vision, "mannsh" cos
tune and an ambiguous name-these
were the elements of recent bit Of
social comedy.
'Mr. Brownsonby,' said the host at
an evening reception, presenting to the
principal guest rather strong minded
Young woman who wore collar, neck
lie and shirt front of decidedly mascu--
line appearance, ''let me introduce
Miss Terhune."
Mr.. Brownsonby, who was somewhat
near-sighted, turned to acknowledge
the introduction.
"Ah. Mr.. Hunev' he said, extending
his hand cordially. "Glad to see you,
sir Youths Companion.
There is $500, 900, 900 more invested In
British railroads than the national debt
amounts to.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-08-11
Money Expansion Good Times.


Mr.. Altgeld, who appears to be about
the only one of the Spanish
financiers left who has the hardihood
or the energy to speak up loudly for the
16 to / cause in the face of the dis
couragements it is meeting everywhere,
charges that the Republican promise OF
good times to follow the party's sue
cess has not been redeemed. Mr.. Alt
geld is a brave man to stand up against
all the facts and he may be an honest
man if he believes what he says, but
he is a very mistaken one.
His assertion has the effect of calling
attention to the failure of certain free
silver predictions to meet their dates.
For instance, Mr.. Bryan claimed with
the utmost earnestness that the times
must grow harder as the result of Re
publican success and the consequent
establishment of the gold standard. 1t
would bring with 1t, he declared, con-
tinual contraction Of the currency and
a constant fall of prices, with the effect
of grinding the toiling masses, the pro-
ducers of wealth, into the ground I'M
der the iron heel Of the despotic money
power. Well, the predicted currency
contraction has failed to arrive. The
people have an increasing sum of
money to do business with. Since the
day Of Mr.. Bryan's nomination, there
has been added to the circulation about
$3.50 in gold for every man, woman
and child in the country. The people
rather like Mr.. Bryan's gold monster.
1t has passed the Endurance stage
with them. They are anxious to en-
brace it at every opportunity.
Mr.. Bryan and all the free silver ora
tors contended that expansion of the
currency was the one and only essen
tial to good times. We have the eX-
pansiOn, and it is of the best sort. In
stead of nominal imitation of cheap
money we have an actual expansion Of
good money. What becomes of their
contention, then, that the people are
in distress when we have the precise
condition which they urged as a neces-
sity of good times?
Are we to understand that good times
are only the effect of flood Of poor
money? That the only good money is
bad money Sioux City Journal.
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CHAPTER III.

L
"Well," he commences insolently, land
so you have chosen to insult my best
friend. have you? and in my presence,
too"
''Your best friend, is he? For my part,
l should be ashamed to be able to call no
better man friend than one who pander-
ed to my vices, and yet did not consider
me good enough to associate with his
family"
She is crying bitterly now, with her
face hidden in her hands, but her tears
have no more effect upon James Moray
than they have upon the table.
Il won't have this sniveling" he says,
coarsely; stop it! do you hear? It's all
put on. An actress can pretend anything
she chooses. Whether l struck you or
not, you had no right to tell William of
it. What concern is it of his? And
you've spoilt, maybe, the best days bust
ness ever did in my life, by blabbing of
me in that way
All this time it has never occurred to
Della to ask why her husband and his
brother took the unusual trouble to drag
out her delicate child, in such inclement
weather, to accompany them on their
round of pleasure. And she catches at
the last words of her husbands address
eagerly. They seem to contain a glimmer
of hope for her.
"How? by what means? has your broth
err offered to help YOU get workT'
Work! work. I'm sick Of the word
YOU never seem to have an idea beyond 1t.
I'd have you know that my family We're
not brought up to labor, whatever yours
were.'
The more shame for them, if they
leave their wives and children to starve.
And l may slave on forever to keep you
in drunken idleness, while your brother
stands and looks on and sneers at my par
entage and my profession. But he shall
not have the opportunity to do so much
| longer"
what do you mean by that insinua-
tion?'
Il refuse to say. You will find out in
time for yourself"
by Jove! she shall tell met exclaims
James Moray, striding across the apart
ment to her side and grasping her by
the wrist. Now, what is it?'
But Della clinches her teeth and is 81
lent.
Then take the consequences of your
cursed obstinacy."
The uplifted hand comes down heavily
upon the side of her head, but she does
not resent it further than by closing her
eyes as it descends. But when she re-
ceives it she draws long breath, and,
springing up from her seat, confronts her
husband.
What do you think of that?' he says,
jeeringly.
II think, as / have always thought, that
YOU are a coward and a bully. | think
what l was fool enough to. deny to-day,
when it was suggested to me-that the
best thing you can do is to drink yourself
to death, and that the sooner it happens
the better for all connected with you
At this moment there comes cough-a
single hollow cough-from the next room.
Della hears it and makes a spring for
the door But it is locked, and the key
is in Moray's pocket.
Unlock the door, James! l must so
to Willy"
His reply is given in tone of perfect
GOODNESS, although look of his eyes be-
trays that he knows his power.
II prefer your remaining here!'
She comes up behind him as close as she
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-08-11

EFT at market?' asked the wife, SEEM
ing to change the subject.
mo, saw him on the train"
"That Is Mr.. S. Birkett, Of Eureka,
down in Greenwood County,"
YES"
Had he been to England again"
AS the little woman put this question
to him 14y Popu'ist friend paused be-
fore the chair and seemed undeter-
mined whether 70 sit down or to con-
tinue pacing.
''Well, moo, not this time" he an
swered, hesitatingly.
He had the other time, though,
hadn't he? That was before the Pres
idential election, if | remember correct
ly, about August"
Yes, he was going over with cattle
then"
'Why not this timer"
''Well, you SEE and by this time
my Populist friend was seated and was
squirming uncomfortably in the chair;
mfr. Birkett says that prices are not SO
good over there now as they were
then"
''And you found them better here,
this time, than them?
''Y -e-e-s."
Lower over there in '9S than in 90;
higher over here in '9S than in '96; and
yet you say the advance here is caused
by demand there. Really, now, what
caused it-demand there or demand
here? Who are the beef consumers
Why, the workers, and you know it.
Why this increased demand and the
better prices here? Simple enough.
More work and more wages here. Why
more work? Easy again. The Dingley
law set our own rolling mills and foun'
dries and mines and factories to going.
Honestly now, husband, was it the
crime of '73 or the blunder Of '92, the
election of tariff reformers, that gave
us the hard times, which are upon us
no more"
ooh, you never would argue
straight" he growled, and piked off to
bed.-E. G. Pipp, in the American Econ,
OmiSt.
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courage his dissipated brother in his vices,
but never ask him to his own home or
stretch out a helping hand to aid him to q
better life, prepares to return to his vul-
gar, thriving home at BriXton.
But Della will not let him pass. She
places herself before the door and glares
at him like tigress.
"You shall not go until you have heard
me speak," she says. ''You come here
and encourage this man in his drinking
and his idleness; you know that he lives
upon my earnings and ili-treats me in
return; you know that you are ashamed
to ask him to your own house or intro
duce him to your friends, and yet when I
a woman-appeal to you for protection
and help against him, you smile and turn
the subject, and say you'll take your
leave. Well, then, / defy you both
there! Keep your drunken brother, since
you are so fond of his company; support
him yourself, for l am sick of it. My
money is my own-not his-and l refuse
any longer to keep him in idleness and
vice, while 1 toll and slave. Go home and
tell that to your wife, or / may take it
into my head some day to tell her myself.
Between you both you have made me des-
peratew =
She looks so as she stands there, with
the fire of Indignation cleaning from her
eyes.
Most ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS heard of
such a thing!' mutters William Moray,
as he slips past her down the stairs.
Then she is left alone with her hus-
band, and fear succeeds to desperation.
Her vehemence has almost sobered him.
He looks as though he were about to
speak.
She puts her boy into his little bed with
many a fervent kiss, and returns to the
sitting room, inwardly trembling, though
outwardly calm, to collect his scattered
clothes Poor little Willy has but one
suit. II she does not hang it before the
fire to dry he will have nothing to wear
upon the morrow.
Della chances round suddenly and meets
her husbands eyes. The semi-intoxicated
look has faded from them; her daring has
dispelled it, She knows now that she has
to encounter man sober enough to be
dangerous, and sufficiently strengthened
by liquor to feel his power. Her first i'm
pulse is to secure the weapon nearest at
hand, and that is chair. She puts it in
front of her and grasps it tightly, as
James Moray, with his cffeminate, puny
face and evil eye, advances toward her.
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Ito be continued.l
The Lesser of Two Dangers.

The Lesser OF I WO DanEeTs,
"They talk about the horrors of war,
but it's good thing in its way, after
ALL
How do you figure it out?'
"Well, / know of at least seven fel-
lows who enlisted instead of going to
the Klondike, as they had intended.
Now, they'll stand something better
than an even chance Of getting back
alive"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-08-11

A life merely Of pleasure. or chiefly
of pleasure, is always poor and worth
less life, not worth the living; always
unsatisfactory in its course, always
miserable In its end. Theodore Parker.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-08-11
The Trade of Two Countries.

For the first six months Of 1898 Brit
ish trade statistics show an increase in
imports of $53, 1852, 525 and a decrease
of exports of $24,511, 800, as compared
with the same months in 1897. The
balance Of trade against the United
Kingdom for half year, measured by
the excess of imports over exports,
amounts to $617, AT $3.50, or 100000
more than the favorable trade balance
of the United States for the year end
ing June 80, 1898. 1t is by striking con-
trasts such as these that the American
people may perceive at a glance the
value of the American policy of in
creasing exports and diminishing inn
ports.
War has upset all calculations; but
the lesson of the figures and the testi-
mony of Treasury experts is that the
tariff of 1897 is producing enough rev.
enue to pay all the ordinary expenses
of the Government in times Of peace.
The deficit of the four years under the
tariff of 1894 was over 100000, 000.-
Kalamazoo Telegraph.