Omaha daily bee., 1907-11-20
CREEK CHIEF TALKS
Aboriginee Welcomes Transmississippi
Congress to Muskogee.
INDIANS SHOULD HOLD LAND
He Objects to Removal of Res :, ,ns
to its Sale. ~
PRESIDENT L0vELAND RESP
He Asks that the Northwest Be NJ
Overlooked.
MANY QUESTIONS TO COME UP
Improvement of Waterway, Drain
age Irrigation, Parcels Post and
Public Lands Are to he
Discussed.
MANY QUESTIONS TO COME VI

MUsCOGEE, Okl., Nov 1s-The eight
eenth annual session OF the transmits
sissippi Commercial congress was begun
In this city this morning The delegates
listened to addresses of welcome and af-
fected organization for the transaction of
business. On Wednesday the congress will
begin the consideration Of resolutions,
Matters OF vast Importance to the west
are to be taken up. including parcels post
deepening Of the waterways. sale Of pub
lie lands, irrigation and drainage Of sub
merged lands
At this mornings session former Gov
ernor David r. Francis OF Missouri well
coined Oklahoma into the union. Chief
Maty Tiger OF the Creek nation delivered
an address Of welcome to the congress and
spoke against the removal Of restrictions
from the lands OF the Five Civilized tribes
President II. D. Loveland said, in part:
Address by President.
In the broad and comprehensive spirit of
President Roosevelt let us say to the peo-
pie Of the Mississippi valley and to those
who are striving to improve and are i'm
proving the great Missouri the Ohio, the
Cumberland, the Yazoo the Big Sunfower,
the White and St. Francis and levees Of
the south, God speed you in your noble
and will try to see that our representatives
in congress are with you with their votes,
reciprocity. Don't forget that out on the
Pacific coast we have the second largest
river IN the United States. That IT flows
down from mountain ranges whose mineral
wealth Is inexhaustible and on for thou
sand miles through vast stretches OF grain
and fruit land In Washington and Oregon
and finally through magnificent reaches of
splendid timber land to the ocean. Along
its banks and on the banks OF its chief
tributaries, the Willamette and the Snake,
are some OF the principal cities of the
htacino northwest The population Of
rapidly increasing Irrigation is contrib
of electricity by water differ in matters OF
general application; but when we shall
have thrashed out these differences when
narrow, selfish interests have been taught
that here broad patriotism and loyalty to
all tho Trananississippi region must pre-
VAIL when the final result OF our dellbera-
tions is expressed in the resolutions which
VIII so forth to our constituents and to
the world as the sentiments of this con-
eress may We find that we have wisely
betsi guided by that most righteous prin-
SPlerthe Greatest good TO the greatest
a1oty Tiger Opposes Sale of Land.
Moty Tiger, principal chief of the
Creek nation. spoke against the removal
of restrictions from the land OF the five
civilized tribes. He said In part:
All 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 l6O-acre home owners. In
the light OF this teaching and truth,c why
should my people be encouraged to sell
their lands.
The polished and educated man with
Indian blood in his Veins who advocates the
removal Of restrictions from the lands Of
my Ignorant people, apart from govern
ment regulations Is only reaching for gold
win remember him only for his avarice and
his tfeachery