Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-11-02
HASKELL WRITES
MR.. ROOSEAELT
(cOninaed from FIRST PageJ

NOoAAASCa AARAAA Ea6C-g
fiicted the injury Of signing such a
leads me TO acknowledge it's receipt
The substance of the Communication
preclhdes any further official notice oi
it.
Very respectfully.
(Signed): ELIHU ROOT.
Il regret that my duty forces me,
Mr.. President, to decline TO have this
gross injustice to two thousand citi-
zens of our state disposed OF by side
stepping or evasion.
Your secretary of state says i am
insolent BIr. President, ii honest
adherence to my duties is iasolence,
then let it be insolence, but that alb
surd statement from your secretary OF
state will not be accepted as substi-
tute for fifteen or twenty million dol
lars due to the Usage Indians.
Mr.. President, your secretary OF
state says my demand is a device to
attract from the president for the
purpose of a personal controversy a
degree of notice which could probab'
ly not receive personally
Mr.. President, it is immaterial to
me what construction your secretary
of state desires to put upon my de-
mand, in his attempt TO shield you.
do not seek prominence, but l do
seek justice for the Osages, and shall
not permit Ethe Standard Oil com
pany to benefit to the extent of fifteen
or twenty million dollars honestly due
to the Osages simply because it is a
friend of yours.
Indeed. Mr.. President, this expires
sion from the secretary of state is
ludicrous In view of the fact that you
some two weeks. ago descended from
the dignity that your predecessors
had established for the high office OF
president and sought to carry me
down with you to the level of petty
precinct politics.
This effort to fuctuate from the
highest respect in the land to the low
est practices has never been equaled
in the extent Of its fluctuations of his
watered stock on the market 1t is
possible that your astute secretary of
state might have advised you at that
time to your own advantage, as his
tw enty-six years experience at his law
office in Wall Street, where he has
guided the greatest corporations of
the land with his advice. would doubt
less then have saved you from the
humiliation that your reckless and un-
reliable political associate, Mr.. Hearst,
led you into.
But aside with political discussions.
The question of whether the Usage In
dams shall have the ordinary value
Of the oil upon their land, as adjacent
land owners acting upon their own be-
half are able TO obtain, or whether
we shall permit you to make the
Standard Oil company a present of
the greater part of these oil values is
a business proposition
II represent the personal rights and
interests of the Osages because they
are citizens of Oklahoma You are
simply the chief guardian Of these
particuler lands. Justice to the Osages
requires the cancellation of the lease
which you have made without their
knowledge. or consent, and with re-
spect to your high office and the most
on your act would be that that lease
was made through ignorance of con-
ditions or undue haste at the solicita-
ton Of the agencies above referred 10.
let it be considered as settled
generous construction l could put up
you will either cancel that lease your
self or the authorities of the state Of
Oklahoma will present the matter to
congress as soon as it assemblies, and
see If that body will be deaf TO a
righteous demand for justice.
Sincerely YOURS
(Signed:) &c. N. HASKELL,
Governor"