The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-02
THE INDIAN, PITIAsLE AND OTHERWISE.


For the history of the nation the interest OF
Indian the interest of the white ident
ical 1t has happened in the Creek country. The land
companies which leased the aenable alotments
indians and subleased them heavy advances the
white man are responsible
plea of the Indian Rights association that the In
has abused by this government is specious.
The Indian really had ownership this continent
The Indian wanderer. With the exception of the
New York tribes and family, the wichtas,
the Indians advanced beyond the The tribal
boundaries were indefinite and constantly changing Land
held by them valued The given by William
Penn for his tract blush for Penn to this
day On valuation basis the Indian lands of the Indian
Territory today would be assessed higher figure than
all the continent previous the advent of
the white man. 1t part of natural economy that
the white should shove the Indian back The
made the weakness of certain administrations
the subject which led said administrations to
ridiculous treaties which, amount of foresight must
have pointed couId be kept One made with
the Indians in Georgia in Andrew Jacksons time.
other was made in 1857 in which the Indians
sured that they could have the lands assigned them
States needed man the ground at that moment who
knew nothing about poetry but who did have good
sound practical of the probabilities of development
in this country.
Only serious coherent national Indian resistance
has been ever made to the advance of the white
That by Tecumseh and his sgnally failed
him and proved itself unequal TO his design.
The recession and retreat of the Indian has al
been the advance of the poor ambitious hardy
pioneer white man. nearly much a child of nature
the red himself. The single exception has in
scandal fer it in the intermediary land company be-
tween the white farmer the Indian that members
of the Dawes commission involved.
The Creeks the first receive their allotments.
member tribe receiving acres of land of
which forty bis homestead inalienable
tyone years The remainder can be sold by an adult
Indian FIVE years after the Of his allotment deed
earlier the sale should approved by the secretary of
the interior department In the interval citizen is
authorized to lease his entire allotment without consult
ing the secretary for than year for grazing
purposes than five years for agricultural pur
poses.
Knowing that there would be great demand for agri
cultural leases by outside states
these farmers possession of lease would seek
ultimately purchase the aenabe land spectators be-
planning get in the ground floor ahead of the
farmer. Politicians capitalists Illinois
Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania became wonderfully in
teresed in Indian Territory. The proposition organize
companies which should lease aotmens especially
der the five years agricultural clause rdiculousy
prices suitcase the lands profit buy
aienabe land before the end of five years
auring that capitalists opened their money bags as
quickly possible tribal land investment COM
panies Operations begun first in the nation
for the that the Creek lands first allotted
but of these companies standing beside
Indian receiving his allotment in the Cherokee
Choctaw and Chickasaw nations
The Indian has been moved around pillar to post
until the government finally has him its hands down
in the territory In the of the fulbloods they are
completely wards of the government and any policy
which seeks to make them sefdependent is truly pitt
able and pathetic In the case of the man who merely
has stain of Indian blood in his veins and whose In
dian origin is matter of vague tradition and
there thousands of these no sympathy what
ever The fiction that he is Indian is udicrous
WERE THE JEWS TEUTONS?