The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-02-24
WE ARE SLEEPING ON OUR pc.
LlTlCAL RIGHTS.


:. gate desert lands In the west. II ii
. true that the money rs really lent tC
e the land owners, bu. the fact that
these lands are being irrigated and
when irrigated produce fine crops. Is
advertised all over the world. and
people come all the way from Eu.
rope to buy the lands at s2j TO S75
an acre These lands are far from
any market, and not desfrably located
in any way. Yet the advertising and
the pictures are so attractive that
men 20 out into those deserts to
build homes, plant trees and create
la neighborhood, create schools and
churches.
Here in Indian Territory we have
lands better than those irrigated des.
crts. Here God has not forgotten to
send rain and sunshine for all the
centuries. II needs no irrigation, 1t
only needs the pillow and hoe to pro
ducc better and to produce Il better
variety than any Of that irrigated des-
Iert. Oklahoma land will produce a
bale of cotton to the acre, sixty bush.
els of corn and seventy-fve bushels
of oats. II will produce the finest
kind of wheat I'm abundance and all
the vegetables. fruits and hay and
cattle feed that any barn will need.
There are thousands of acres of land
in Indian Territory that is beautiful
with grass and trees and flowers, that
would be wonderfully attractive to
foreigners. and still more attractive
Ito those thousands of people who are
Igoing to the wilds oC the west look
ling for cheap lands. They know OF
ours. But they don't come here. Our
congress is to blame. It doubts if |
our Indian citizens are capable OF
managing their own affairs. It pre-.
tends to believe that. Really it does.
MT believe it. But it keeps our |
prosperity involved in politics by |
Keeping up restrictions on the In
dams land. The Indians have appeal |
ed for the removal of these restric- |
tions. but in vain.
If Indian Territory had these re-
strictions removed many thousands |
of the people who have immigrated |
to the west would have located here.
They are people able 10 buy land and |
willing to till the soil with their own |
hands. They are educated and they |
want schools and churches. They are
just such people as We want because |
they can be assimilated in genera.
tion.
a trip through indian Territory |
shows how sadly the land needs peO-
Pile, and all through the north, east
and west the people need the laud.
II we are active in our politics, es-
pecially in selecting men for congress
sional seats, we will gain a trcmen-
dous advantage. 1t w)lld mean re-
moval of restrictions. And soon we
would have an influx of people who
would come to get permanent homes
and that would make our lands as
as those of Illinois and Iowa.
We are sleeping on our rights, and
We might AS well recognize the fact
We can take advantage of the gifts
Of nature only by sending dclega.
,ion to Congress who will enter upon
a crusade for the removal of rcstric.
tions. We can not possibly give
stronger reasons than these for The
Ardmoreite's support of Hon Chas.
ID. Carter, himself an Indian capable
of speaking with great force and ef,
feet for his own race, for the Demo. |
cratic nomination for Congress. This |
is not time to pull down, but the !
time to build up. Vote for Carter
lie favors removal of restrictions.
Work for Carter.