The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1905-09-09
REMoYING OBJECTIONS.

It's an i'll wind that blows nobody good" Farcical
as the constitutional convention at Muskogee was be-
cause Of the hopeessnes Of the cause represents its
net results can scarcely fail to be Of real benefit to
the cause Of immediate statehood
The separate saters and staters Of Indian Territory
who are all practical purposes six Of one and half
dozen of the other have when put to their wits end to
find valid objections the union Of the two Territories
always insisted that Indian Territory could better afford
to paddle its own canoe for at two important rea
sons First and foremost they objected to amaga
ton because the Indian unprepared to assume the
burdens Of selfgoVernment and second the ground
that union would involve burden Of taxaton in
auence of our alleged excessive tax rate which wold
make the same intolerable
The press of both Territories outside Of the two
three phosphorsscent exceptions whicn standing
sponsors for the folly Of the Muskogee constitutional
convention has pointed out the nvaldty Of these OBJ
jections from time time in the hope Of removing the
same but to no avail because ayaleth naught
among the men who leading this hopeless twostate
move Now that their movement has assumed concrete
FORM however, they have disposed Of these objections
themselves in a manner least expected
The participation of the Indian in this movement
and the addition of his voice to the demand for statehood
eectua dsposes Of the st while the adoption Of the
fortyeigh county plan forever the second The
adoption Of the report creating ortyeght counties in
the proposed state Of Sequoyah in the place OF the
twenty-five recording districts provided by congress-
which were eventually be made counties demonstrates
beyond peradyenture that this second objection was
equally as invalid as the first.
1t clearly stands that the maintenance OF
forty eight countans involves almost double the load OF
taxation as the twenty-five proposed by congress These
county must all be supported by taxation
the same as all counties are and the there are to
support the higher the the people composing
the same.
If then objection to union with Oklahoma on the
ground Of excessive rate in consequence Of the add
tion Of her twentysix counties valid, what shall be
said of the attempt to impose intoerabe burdens upon
the people Of Indian Territory by the creation Of forty
eight counties in the place of the twenty-five proposed
by congress Where does the force Of the objection lie
in the light of the action Of the constitution makers
at Muskogee?
AS matter of fact, both objections are invalid and
always have BEEN They have been urged in the past
NOT because they were well founded in any sense but
merely as an excuse for nteposng obstuctions to egs
aton designed to bring about kind Of statehood
An So after ALL farcical as the Muskogee "constitu-
tional convention was in the light Of conditions it still
not without its compensating advantages as means OF
removing the objections of the grafes lobbyists dupes
and real estate BOOSTERS who largely composed and dom
mated it.-Oklahoman