The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-01-09

, will cause a great deal of comment
on both sides Wright and Kelsey
and the Indian sentimentalists will
bring every pressure to bear to de
feat it, 1t may be expected taat
the Oklahoma delegation in congress
will be bitterly attacked bat those
attacks, it matters not of what ma
ture they are, will arouse the people
to activity in favor of the measure.
Charley Carter IS faithfully repre-
senting his people. The Indians want
a settlement, the white people want
settlement, everybody wants a set
tlement except the man who will
lose his fedetal berth when the set
tlement is made and the eastern In
dian sentimentalst who has acted
from pure motives but who has done
more than all others to hold tAe
Indian and the country back by a
false idea that the Indian is being
robbed.
The one thing that has robbed
the Indian has been the methods
pursued by those in office which
have rendered the lands worthless.
So much red tape has been neces-
sa'y that lands could not bring
their fair value, the Indian felt that
he had nothing in his estate, his
lands have been cheapened in his
own opinion because he could not.
dispose of them.
A new organization of the Indian
bureau means that the Indian will
no longer be land poor, surrounded
by his broad acres the Indian is.
d,tRed in tatters and shiyers in cold
because of departmental domination
The new freedom of democracy
means the freedom &C the Indian as
well as that Of the white man The |
Indians homestead will be made |
less, the education of his children
will be looked after, his surplus .
lands will be placed in the hands OF
farmers who need them and the
value of the lands will be placed .
upon the homestead of the In
dian to equip him to earn his
own living. The red man will
cease to be a beggar at the door of
the white man. The Indian senti-
would keep him there for
ever if he has his way. The stur-'
ly Indian Of today is net put upon
his own resources. He looks upon
the white man as the one who holds
his property and the one to lCok to
10 be doled out small sums of mo-
ley the value of which he does not
The Indian too often
gets his pay in sums of ten and
.wenty dollars at time 1t is not
'nongh to invest, it is not enough
o improve his farm, it is not enough
20 buy farm equipment or live stock
t is only enough to spend for pres
mt necessities and when the farm
S gone, the money is gone. The
Oklahoma Indian needs the break
ng of a new dawn in his affairs.
When the shackles of departmental
ule and domination are once broken
nd the Indian placed upon his own
esources he will become an indus ,
rious, law abiding citizen. The
lew freedom will see that his money
S invested in better homes, better
better teams and he {
'ill be given a chance to make his {
wn way and the Indian boy will be ,
aught the lessons of industry and 5
elf reliance whereas today he is I
aught to lean upon the white man. J
he limitations of the Indian must
g thfown into the dust if he is !
YER to be made a self.reliant, pro- {
ressive citizen which he must soon {
o. Present methods are resulting r
! the frittering away of the In t
ian's wealth He is taught that his e
luds are without value. The In .
ian sentimentalist who has sought d
. save the Indian his lands has {
obbed the Indian of his self reliance. h
he old methods have taken from 1
he Indian the most vital forces of a
seful citizenship. Wrapped in this I
detection his hands have been tied h
gainst progress, his limitations have il
ED him where there is no hope t
,r himself and children t
The Indian is as intelligent ae the p
hite race He has demonstrated e