The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-01-19
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Of being United states citizen, gives
his warranty deed: gives power Of
attorney to a neutral party TO execute
any further deeds required; making
his will I'm behalf Of his veudee; gives
a long time lease ON the property; eX-
ecutes a contract. guaranteeing to
lis vendee the exclusive right of in
gress and egress thereto; gives him
bill of sale TO the standing timber.
which he has an express legal right 90
do. with the stipulation that the tim
Der shall not be touched by anyone
else until his yendee sees fit 20 re
move il: and various other Ingenious
and artfu contracts by which sttlt
property is hopelessly entanglcd so
that even If the theory were not true
that a United States citizen having a
limited state in piece of land sould
sell his equity in it still the incom-
petent having tied himself up in all
sorts of ways 80 as to give himself no
possible relief either IN court of law
or in court of equity. is forever di-
vested of a property right in such
land
Moreover, an incompetent person
being without money, without power
OF initiative. without knowledge 9f
law, is not mt all likely IN one case
out of thousand To uadeiSHts - re-
establish a title which he himFelf has
lawfully parted with. or set aside the
various acts and instruments by which
he has made the restoration OF title
impossible.
These restrictions do not protect the
incompetent Indian. They simply an
nny the competent indian and inter
fere with his development and the de-
se;npment of his land. They inter
fere with the farmers who would like
to cultivate such lands. They prevent
the development of the state. and only
the CRATER and government employees
are benefited.
The constitutional convention repre-
senting the entire citizenship of In
dian Territory and of Oklahoma. in
cluding a large number OF Indian dele
gates. passed with substantial unani-
nifty q resolution on January =, l9Vt
reoucsting congress TO Immediately re-
move these restrictions from cilzohs
Of the United States of Indian de-
scent.
on January 10, 1907 the constitu-
tional convention requested the presi-
dent of the United States, by a memo
rial. to set aside the forest reserve
order issued by the secretary OF the
interior covering tho lands in the
Choctaw and Cherokee country. ana
reUlesting congress not to confirm
such order because such order was
preiudieial TO the state and to the eiti-
zens OF indian descent
II would be a gross misconcepiloh
Of the so.called Indians of the indian
Territory to think of Them rs incom-
netent. dime novel Indians. They
have had excellent schools of their
own. conducted by their own people
for nearly hundred years. They are
educated. They are better educated
than the whites who live among them'
because they have bad schools and me
whites have not had schools. There
are probably not twenty thousand IN
dians of pure blood alive out OF elshty
thousand Indians who are so crossed
with the white as TO be indistinguisha.
HE There are but few of the tul
Hoods who are not sufficiently edu-
cated 10 read and write. The ilhteI-
acv of the whites who had no sehool'
there being no state or municipal gov
ernment i'm the past years.
One OF the citizens of the lnlieu
states of Indian blood when called on
ny an indian committee to know VINO
! ne was. renHod: "By the statutes oi
| Inc United States / am Cherokee IN
dian. but bv the grace OF God am
! Scotch lrishman.