The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-04-10

will not prevent him from selling. but
will only give him less money for what
he sells-much less The full blood In
dian Is a United States citizen, with
all the rights. privileges and immuni
ties Of such, and he cannot be d.priy-
cd Of his property rights merely be
cause the employees Of the Interior De
partment would like to administer hb
estate The property rights Of full
boods cannot be taken away except by
due process of law. under the consti-
tuition
Numerous lawsuits will grow out of
this legislation requested by the en-
. ployees of the government, and great
. harm will be done to the full-blood In
dian in his properly rights as well as
20 the development OF indian Terri
, tory. Sections 10 and 90, In so far as
they imposed new restrictions upon
full-blood Indians, should be repealed
| and all other laws imposing restriction
upon any citizen Of Indian Territory
, should be repealed.
Even the homestead OF the full blood
Indian cannot be protected by these
. pretended restrictions for the reasons
, first presented. He has the equitable
, estate, and can sell it. and II he wants
, to do II he will do IT, and nobody can
, oust his vendee and nobody will ever
- do It. The homestead of an allottee
b varies all the way from twenty acres
, Of good land in the Cherokee nation to
, over two thousand acres Of poor land
in the Choctaw nation. There Is no
4 uniformity whatever. and even If the
restriction should remain upon the
! full blood's homestead the maximum
= acreage should be fixed.
J. Under the advice of the Interior De
t. .partment, congress has occasionally
i done a thoughtless thing. one Of the
Il unreasonable things recently attempt
S ed to be done by congress was to eN-
p tend tribal existence after the tribe
T. by its own vote. had provided its own
It extinction. The Cherokee tribe. for ex
i ample. voted its own dissolution to
e take effect September. 1902. Upon that
4 date the tribal relation of individuals
n with each other ceased by their owr
1t vote under the Act of Congress o
e July l. 1902 No individual member o
" I, ,,ll
~ ed by any power on earth to renew his
IL tribal relation, without his consent o.
m to re-enter the social compact whicl
T. establishes a tribal relation. Neverthe
PC less. in 1906, on April 26, the Interio
'd Department persuaded Congress to eN
OF tend the tribal existence. with thu
H. probable purpose Of supporting the the
ID DRY of the Interior Department that
ly he'd right of supervisory control O
the individuals who formerly wer
ell members of these extinct tribes
ng The re-establishment of the triba
re relation was not necessary in order +
n distribute the property formerly be
|louElhh w All' Aiib'o on NiAbhi P''l
or erty of the Cherokee people when tn
d. tribe was extinguished, in September
TO 1902, thereupon became vested in tn
ry individual members who had compose
TO that tribe in accordance with the ro
made up as Of date September |, 1870.
Ia Such property was vested in the cit
en- zpns on that roll and its dispostio
op provided for with the United State
&c acting as trustee. Under the preteS
en- of protecting such property from tn
ne NJ. X. & T. railroad, the extinct trib
ie was dragged from the grave and re-iI
en- vested with the halrAments of lif,
e" without its consent. and without IN
es consent of the indivuals who forme
PSI ly composed It, The soul OF a soci,
'sS compact is the consent of those ind
III viduals who enter into II, not the di
M tum of congress even If done at the n
''' quest of the employees of the lnteriC
Department. | was Cherokee citize
BILE September / 1902. and ceased to be ;
We at that time | refuse to renew n
for tribal relations Who has the power
ort make alive an extinct tribe and
res make me a member of an extinct tril
without my CONSENT Who has the POI
II er to divest the individual Cherok,
is citizen on the roll of September
ing 1909, of their vested property righ
os- without their consent?
OF The ambition of government eI
ployecs.
led The restrictions on the lands of |
dian Territory, the great and involve
"a method Of rules and regulations bui
ur- up by the Interior Department al
-ic. the utterly msound argument in su