The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-12-19

Ia luminary Of the he1yaes-as fixed
as a planet in the uaiysrse---we do
rot want to be a trembling. aickering
tushlight. a glow worm or lightning
tug.
There is something Ia circunfer-
ence. Area should be 90 sidered ms
well as resources. We wan. 20 rise
TO the full stature OF a trans -Missis-
oippi commonwealth We want to be
western empire-we don't want to
be classed among the dwarfs and
runts and pigmies of the union why
with The entire area of both terri
tories combined We will even then be
the smallest but one of all the states
west of the Mississippi river. It
pays to be big. Who ever heard of a
Texan who wasn't proud of his ma
dive state-who didn't swell up and
| lvity2 Who ever heard of a RhoGe
Islander or a Vermonter who wasn't
ashamed of it-Who didn't evade the
question or shrivel and look small
and mean when pinned down to it.?
Texas. love II. The very name
implies majesty and strength Tex
as, in whose soil the seeds of liberty
were sown and watered by the blood
of Travis and Bowie and immortal
Dave Crockett and glorious old Sam
Houston rexas-that imperial com
monwealth into whose broad domains
you could move the population Of the
civilized earth. and then when they
were all transplanted there the jack
rabbit would lope away unscared and
the COY ote would set up his lugubri-
Gus howl in the chaparrel rolitudes
And yet Texas, after she had the
earth fought for poor little Greer
county with all the money and the
best LAWYERS snt could coc,mlnl and
only cult In the ditch OF the last tech
nicaity. Why, its possession would
not have increased her size appreci
ably more than adding mustard seed
to mountain But Texas wanted
Greer county because she knew Il
paid. Because her statesmen knew
It is an axiom of state craft that just
in proportion as you increase taxable
area under one government Nou de
crease per capita tax o its people
No one has ever urged any valid
| legal objections against throwing
state lines around the Indian terri
tory. II is true some have suggested
such an obstacle, but IL you will no
tice they are the ones who are at the
same time trying to create a separate
state or territory at once from the
Indian territory Hence their actions
belle their words. If there are oppos-
ing treaty stipulations thA would
apply with equal force against a sep
arate state or terri. o. ial government
here as against union with Oklaho-
ma If they argue those ancient
treaty provisions we answer those
treaties were written when present
conditions were not contemplated or
even dreamed They are outlawed By
p. .ogress. They are repealed by the
subsequent enactments Of civilization.
The five tribes are not standing on
any such impediment. The real in
dlans are the ones who have a griev.
ace, If any-not council made or pay
roll Indians-certainly not some leech
with a government protected graft,
with a drop Of Indian blood and an
ocean Of gall In HIS anatomy-nor a
federal official who draws his opin
ions with his salaIy from Washing
ton. No one could find objections
to immediate single statehood in the
treaties who wasn't hunting for them
The work Of the Dawes commissinn
could go on as well under state goy
ernment as without And let us say
right here we have nothing against
the Dawes commission, as such The
personnel. we are told, are all
excellent and honorable men. But WI
do say d-n their business method
Just as we might esteem most highly
our friend who Is sick and at tht
same time haze the disease which hal
him. You know they used to burn
wiches in order TO dlspossess them o.
the devil-not that they had any,hins
against the poor women.
For fifteen years. at an expense oI
millions OF dollars, the Dawes com.
mission has dragged its weary lengtl
along. / do not think It could hay'
and can move faster do think tha