The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-11-20

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with Indian blood m his veins who !
advocates the removal of restrictions |
from the lands of my Ignorant people. |
apart from government regulations !
is only reaching for gold to ease his ]
Itching palms. and our posteriy viii !
remember him only for his avarice |
and his treachery
~. together with many fullbloOd !
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 in
tend for the remova' of retrictions
upon the leads of The fullhlood Creek
Indian kno' in his heart that he Us
Indifferent insensible and dead to
their best interests. And such con
tontion ha no more foundation to rest
upon than declaring from one, who.
standing ia the full MONDAY, points
TO the sun and asserts that It give
no light 70 is a fight between greed
and conscience with this great gov
ernment as arbiter, and upon It's de-
cision rests for generations the fate
of thee uututored children of naturS
Tile matter of the Udians' landed
rights in the new ste IS based upon
agreements and treaties solemnly
made between the government and
the Indians, and any abridgement or
alteration of these treaties should in
an Justice. be left to the government
and the Indians without any outside
interference of in@uenCe.'
Newelrs Address.
r. H. Newell. director of the Re
clamation Service told ct what had
been done I'm the way OF irrigation.
He said in part:
"A decided impetus has been given
to the rapid Development of the West
b ythe operation of the Reclamation
Service, which began In 1902 to sub
! iugate vast areas of the great Amer
| lean desert
In this brief space OF time nearly
/ sac. 600 have been expended on rs
great irrigation works in sixteen
states and territories I'm the con-
| struction of huge maonry dams, in
| broad canals and reservoirs OF enor.
nous capacities Several OF these
works are completed and are supply
ing today water TO thousands OF acres
of land In the spring Of 1908 more
than a million acres of land will be
watered by the government works.
end $1,000 families will be lit'pg on
farms in regions which only a short
time ago were covered with sage
brush.
"The present nlans Of the bureau
provide for the expenditure Of nearly
500 GOO 600 and the reclamation of
more than 100000 acres of land, an
area larger than the combined cult
waited acreage of Massachusetts, Con
necticut New Hamnshire and Flor
Ida Land values all over the West
have greatly increased since the be.
/ ginring of the federal work Of recla
mation.
"The expenditure Of millions OF
I dollars for irrigation by the govern.
ment Is proceeding under law
wholly unlike any other law govern
hing national work Under the recia
lluation law every dollar invested Is
ITO be returned to the treasury by the
1 settlers who take mp the lands re
claimed While the terms are easy
the entire burden Of cost falls Hpor
the people directly benefited
Under the wise provision Of tho
] law, the iccldlhltu itBluuh are VulNhlA
turned over TO bona tide settlers
whose farms are restricted In area
from 40 TO 100 acres insuring com
pact farming communities and inten
sive cultivation The land speculatoi
has small chance under this lay which
compels actual and continuous settle
ment and cultivation There is No
class OF farmers who ass a rule are
more prosperous or receive q large
share of profits from the soil thar
the successful irrigator.
"The creation of thousands o
homes out Of what was otherwise Z
desert ia the midst Of broad grains
j areas. or near great mining camps o
the west. insures ? stability TO the
commonwealth mich cannot ne oh
tanned I'm any other way Thes'
homes serve as an Offset % tbe ROY
, ing population on the grazing land
and to the restless miners who maxi
lno permanent habitauon."