The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-12-22

known to each of them for the passage
Of the bill.
This will be done by letters. which
they win send. and in each letter viii
be enclosed a pamphlet consisting OF
twenty-five reasons why the restrictions
should be removed. These reasons are in
teresting and give the basis for all the
complaint whi>n has been made against
the present system of disposing of the
land.
Forty thousand copies of this pamphlet
have been ordered, and congressman and
senators viii doubtless be showered with
them. Some OF the reasons contained in
the booklet are as follows:
. First-Because alIottees, excepting a
very small per cent OF on-Engiish-speak-
ing full bloods, are as competent as any
body else.
Second-Because under present rules.
competition of bidders, except speculat-
ors. is destroyed and the great body of
anottees denied right of sale and thus
injured.
Third-Because twenty-five pieces
week. the present official limit of offer
ing would take sixty-five years to get
Fourth-Because. on the basis of half
the offerings resulting in sale Ia high es-
innate as demonstrated by results 10
date) it would take 30 years to give
each aiIottee his statutory right of sale
Fifth-Because the law of congress pro-
viding sales has been nullified IN its ad-
ministration. which has prevented sales,
instead of allowing them Seven safes
have been made up TO December 10, 1876
in two years and nine months from date
of act authorizing sales-February. lsOl-
Sixth-Because the sales made demon
strate that the bankers and spectators
are getting all land sold.
Seventh-Because driving out actual set
tiers, the most important, the most nu-
merous class of bidders dininishes the
average price of the whole of these lands
Ninth-Because spectators buying these
lands will not improve them and thus the
country will be retarded.
EIeventh-Because the ailottee ought TO
be allowed to choose his neighbor by deal
ing direct with actual settlers
Twelfth-Because the allottee should not
be made a victim of the speculator and
compelled to pay tribute to a man whose
sole service is putting up ready money
and complying with the very intricate
rules governing these sales
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the land under the
present method is kept unproducive.
Observation-Disclosures the present meth
cd will prevent the completion of the
work of allotting. and other details OF
closing the vast Indian estate of Indian
Territory.
Eishteenth-Because the present method
has made and will continue to make
vast charge on the treasury of the United
States to support a system injurious alike
to allottee. to the settler and to every IN
terest in the southwest.
Observation-Disclosures the administration
by large body of clerks in the Indian
department at distance of 1.5oo miles or
the private business of $500 people is un-
American and absolutely senseless.
Observation-Disclosures the present sys-
TEN means and must necessarily mean
that the people of Indian Territory are
absolutely subject TO the domination of
the large corps of employees of the Indian
Territory division of the interior depart
ment.
Twenty-second-B Because the huge ap-
propriations to maintain the present sys-
tenn serve no good use except to provide
salaries for the employees, who constantly
lay down the premises of fact. from when
the secretary's conclusions are drawn
Their enthusiastic advocacy of the Wis
dom of the present method Is the only
feature of the system that has sensible
foundation.
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