Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-11-20
Fifteen Hundred Join in Open
ing Proceedings of Trans.
mississippi Commercial Con-
Vention.
CHIEF M0TY TIGER
WELCOMES WHITE MAN
President LoveIAd Tells of the
Work of the Congress and
Points Out Brilliant Career
That Lies Ahead.

IBy Morning journal Special LEASED Wire ]
Muskogee. Okla, Nov. 19.-Over
! 500 delegates were present here to-
day when David Il. Francis, former
governor of Missouri, called the 18th
annual meeting of the Trans Missis-
sippi Commercial congress TO order. In
a few well chosen words he welcomed
Oklahoma into the union and declared
the meeting formally opened. Moty
Tiger, one of the delegates of the Five
Civilized Tribes, delivered an address
of greeting TO the congress. Moty
Tiger spoke In his native tongue. He
said i'm part:
CAN citizens of this government
have been and are encouraged to buy
and hold lands, and we are told that
the best citizenship is made up of the
160-acre home-owners. In the light OF
this teaching and truth, why should
my people be encouraged to sell their
lands?
The polished and educated man
with Indian blood in his veins who ad-
vocates the removal of restrictions
from the lands of my ignorant peo-
pie, apart from governmental regula-
tlons, Is only reaching for gold to ease
his itching palms, and our posterity
will remember him only for his aVar-
ice and his treachery.
II, together with many full-blooded
Indians, am capable of caring for and
protecting my property rights, but a
decided majority of my people are
merely crawling children I'm the white
mans business world. The man i'm our
midst who, here or elsewhere. intends
for the removal of restrictions upon
the lands of the full-blooded Creek
Indian, knows in his heart that he is
Indifferent insensible and dead to
their best interests. And such conten-
ton has no more foundation to rest
upon than a declaration from one,
who. standing i'm the full MONDAY.
points to the sun and asserts that IL
gives no light. II is a fight between
greed and conscience with this great
government as arbiter, and upon the
decision rests for generations the fate
of these untutOred children of nature.
THE matter of the Indians landed
rights i'm this new state is based upon
agreements and treaties solemnly
made between the government and the
Indians, and any abridgement or al
teration of these treaties should. in all
justice, be left to the government and
the Indians without any outside inter-
ferance OF influence"
President H. D. Loveland then de-
livered his annual address. dwelling at
some length upon federal Improvement
of waterways.
The Opening Address.
President Loveland, in his annual
address, said in part.
Agitation based upon final acquies-
cence i'm the will of the majority. and
in the last analysis having for its OBJ
jeCtiye the greatest good to the great
est number is the Keystone upon which
rests the arch Of human liberty as IL
finds its best and noblest expression
in this and other republics. In other
words, consent of the governed does
not mean1he ideahst's dream of unan-
imous consent but rather that con-
census of opinion which is the ripened
fruit of the tree of knowledge brought
to its best development in the soil of
thoughtful consideration and in the
sunlight of public discussion.
at is in this spirit that l feel we
have assembled for the eighteenth an
nual session of the Trans Mississippi
Commercial congress to represent
twenty-five millions of the best peo-
pie of our land. and with the authority,
which they have given us to take heed
of the present and plan for the fu-
ture to the end that we and those who
come after us may realize and enjoy
to the fullest the surprising greatness
Of this wonderful Trans Mississippi
empire which we are proud to call our
home. We are here TO make history.
Let prompt recognition OF responsible |
ity and conscientious discharge of duty
bt ouI inolto az tht9 nave pV'h ~ Nit'
past.
What Congress Has Done.
we have much to he proud OF I'm
the past. The influence of the Trans
Commercial congress in the
great work of irrigation and the re-
clamation of our arid lands from the
inception Of that work, is freely and
thankfully Acknowledged. Deep water
way for Galveston harbor. the i'm
provement OF the harbor at San Pedro.
Cal, the department OF commerce and
labor, the preservation of our forests,
the proper safeguarding Of sale OF
public lands, the Improvement of the
Columbia and other rivers. agitation
looking TO the establishment of "A de-
partment Of mines and mining, con-
ferring upon territories the rights OF
statehood, the Improvement OF public
highways. the proper regulation OF in
terstate railroad rates. the develop
mcnt and fostering OF foreign com
merce by promoting friendlier rela-
lions with other countries especially
Canada and our sister American re-
publics. all OF these and other impart-
ant matters have received the thought
ful and helpful consideration Of this
congress; yet our work is just begun.
Our field OF usefulness is continually
our deliberations and the
resulting conclusions as expressed in
our resolutions command the respect
of our national congress and Of our
great executive and his cabinet. why
should we not be encouraged 20 fur
ther and greater eff0rtsg
The Work Ahead.
Much indeed. remains 10 be done.
Many Of the meFitorious propositions
which we have advocated In the past