The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-06
LAND LESSEES
WILL HOLD
BIG MEETING
In Oklahoma City Latter Part
of This Month.
AIM AT UNITED ACTION
Their Desire Is the Right to
Purchase School LanGs.

Oklahoma City. o. T., July 5-on July
Is, in this city, there will be meeting
called by some of the school and public
land lessees of Oklahoma. The iessees
favor movement 10 bring about the
right of purchasing the lands they &C.
cupy. II united they would be great
political power Saturday a meeting OF
the lessees OF Lincoln county met al
Chandler and H c. Norton, secretary OF
thee Union League of Lessoes, in speaking
of it says
We believe that the move made at the
meeting Ak Chandler last Saturday VIII
ultimately result in uniting the lessees
throughout the territory. But there Is
stln work for us to do. Those who were
present at the meeting of course received
some inspiration from the enthusiasm and
will doubtless be ready and willing 70 as
sist in pushing the matter along Les
US then line up and endeavor TO pass
us then line up and endeavor TO impress
upon all who were not at the meeting
the Importance of a united effort being
made IL is the duty OF every lessee Ola
school or public land to get his shoul-
der to the wheel and send it rolling
along until it shall have passed over the
necks OF everyone who would fasten
upon US the letters of serfdom. In the
little book on school land published BY
Prof. Elder we find the following Ian
guage; Have you ever fully realized
that these lands are ours. mine. our
children's and our childTen's children
even unto the last generation?
Fellow Iessees. do you fully realize in
this proposition that We and our children
and our children's children, even unto
the last generation. are to become serfs
of the state2 Is It possible that we have
become so dead to the principles Of
American citizenship to allow system
such as this to be fastened upon us? Tho
advocates of this system tell US that II
we purchase these lands a. price that
we are wronging the generations yet I'M
born. So they suppose that our sense
of duty to our posterity is so blunted
that we are going TO passively see the
letters of slavery fastened upon them
The advocates Of this theory claim, and
justly too, that the buIwark of our free
institutions is the education OF the ris-
ing generation; but who ever heard OF
the principles OF free institutions being
supported or pillars of slavery. We be-
lieve that the idea of holding these lands
in perpetual leasing is foreign 70 the
intention Of the general government In
granting them for educational purposes. |
We do not believe that the state IS en-
titled to anything but the proceeds Of. the
sale Of these lands Now fellow lessees
let us become solidly united for a sys- /
tenn that will permit us to purchase I
our homes at a price and transmit to
our children and our children's chill /
dren that sacred privilege OF being free I
men owning homes OF our own This Is /
the feeling that prevailed at the 1
meeting Saturday, and we are satisfied /
il IS the sentiment of a large number or /
the people OF the territory not lessees /
Of school land.
Now let US see to It that a meeting /
Is called in each township and delegates /
elected to attend the territorial meeting /
to be held at Oklahoma City. July IS Il 4
IS not only the privilege OF the lessees /
10 send delegates TO this meeting. any /
lessee or any Of our friends may attend /
and thereby give strength TO the cause"