The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-04-03
Reorganization Act
Draws Criticism
DR.. Hudnutt Says Few Who Know
Facts Think Indian Plan
Will Work

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money so loaned must be paid back
by the Indians to whom it is loan
ed. If it was impossible to repay it
because of drought, bad luck or
sickness, the Indian would have a
bad headache, like plenty of his
white brothers who can't pay their
taxes.
Why not let others experiment
first and see how they fare. Also it
is stated that those who do not vote
will be counted as voting for it. So
T. have spoken for my Indian
friends, as I see it. Now I wish to
speak a word Tor the white. The
government lured white settlers to
the South Half with this promise
in clause opening it, IL was pro-
vided that all lands remaining un-
disposed Of at the expiration of five
years from the opening of said lands
to entry shall be sold to the highest
bidder for cash for not less than
ST 90 per acre and at the end of ten
years the lands were to be sold at
auction with no price limit.
Now all the government lands
have been withdrawn from sale. j.
B. Wilkinson, a south half rancher
says, 1T years gone. We are the
ones who have had hole of II or
18 years cut out of the fabric of our
lives, and we have nothing to show
for the waiting but the meager
homestead acres which are now be-
ing deprecated in value by being
declared of a certain low class with
out either soil or condition survey"
Wilkinson's main attack was
launched however at the present
plan for buying up lands on the
reservation now held by whites. It
is the contention of the ranchers
that they are not being given an OPP
portunity to exchange lands with
the Indian department so as to
consolidate their holdings, but that
they are peing subjected to pressure
to force them to sell at low prices
land that they now possess.
Remember, the residents of the
reserve are as rule part Of that
great army of pioneers who made
the west. It was and is the last
frontier. During the years that I
was seeking restoration of my
health by the outdoor method as
advised by the specialists, came
in close contact with the life of the
Western pioneer came to know
their aims, objects, ideals and his
tory. I have slept by their campfires,
lived in the dugouts and sod houses
of the homesteaders Of the plains
and prairies. the log cabin of the
prospectors, miners, lumbermen and
stockmen of the foothills and
mountains.
have cured their mountain
fevers with the Mountain Sage, and
their malarial feverS and chills with
the Willow Bark teas and cayenne
pepper when 10 miles from the rail-
road, medicine, drugstore or doctor,
and they gave me all they had
many times their thanks, gratitude
and appreciation from honest hearts
of gold. We honor these people to-
day. We cannot place other than a
high estimate on their lives. No
matter what niche they filled in the
economy of life, all were industrial
people.
So to this great caravan and their
descendants, the homesteader, min
er, teamster, prospector, lumberman,
stockman, rancher, doctor, mission
airy, trader, merchant, teachers,
writer's, and their women, the writer
dedicates this part. Yes, the women,
for theirs WIS the greater hardship
and sacrifice. These men and Wo-
men, they of the sombrero and
sunbonnet" heard and needed the
voice of destiny calling to them. For
from the birth of time the pioneers
have been the architects of alb
human progress and development.
Not for crown and thrones did they
strive and toll and endure, but for
something greater and higher. The
building of a civilization of homes
and an empire in which should be
embodied in the highest degree
personal and national freedom and
prosperity. This was their aim
these blazers of the trail. These of
the dugout, the sod house, the log
cabin and the caravan. True con-
querors of the wilderness and the
desert, their brains and hands have
wrought the miracle of transforms
ton of the brown barrens into an
emerald green, filled with fruit and
flowers and grain around happy
homes. Their slaves were not human
chattles, but the years of all the
yesterdays.
We who have built our homes and
towns, roads and trails, say to the
government us, alone, keep
your promises.
DR.. F. O. Hudnutt,
Nespelem, Wash.