Hide Article Text (OCR)
CHEBOKHE POLITICS.A Review ol the Important Measures to Come up Before the Cherokee National Council.Teasing ol the Ciicrokcr .Strip unJ the UranMng at Right «f n«) te Hullway*, llte Knotty l’r«SI«K.Vb« Action nf (pvagreB* It. 1 nuking t'fiunth* I.Hnrt! IU Kiulniii lw„m«lu wilt Im ei.,mr*t,d,sparring of Hi.- lt;Utti-ft.li* U bc-Ins Indulged In. The Caerokees are »'ir-vi'Vlng carefully ami are not liable In glt; I Irtl 111 n*y ol llit 't' t’-d Tarlur•aid alert tbit 1’hli'uiiii.si t,mil* and Kao abb City Would watch with Intered the •ttl|i business »» ih„*» |iUc. o (-I nlne-icnins of tin trs.l- from ifeerc.enter ihh*vm*»i. to day SBldi '*T%1* Will hr till. h||lst*l contest over hold by the I to rohc* • I mean, raid I hr tide I, t**#! question,, ol tmpi.riance win have t» in. oct-d upon touching Which an* It*.* atrip, thit salt utsreh, the produce quretlon, a oil othera My mrr-age will show t!ilt;' work that tdutuid be annulled ami It win require elates mans hip. patriotism and foresight to deal with the question* «i a» not to endanger our eonuliv and to tall Into rota Hi Iht. htlN,KUS1 n tit ODVIttMlOK.»j-««lal 10 I tie Uussln.TaHHWsh, I. T . Out. an -Hon John M. Taylor, uno o( the shrewdest (hero Iter politic las* In thr ojrioo. accosted your nifmrUir tbU evem m and **td-*»ltt you know thr commu conncilwhU'S meet* urxt Week will be the must interesting ever held by the ('MrroUciit Jt will and I will tell you why In itm first plsee a New VorK syndicate is going to make a bis iiTTrr lor the whole of lilt CMrckve nttlj*. ttn-n the leasees o| the atrip who have it now arc going to apply for another term nf tbr**.lt; years. Snveral railroad companies will be t. presented brie asking lor right ol way through the naMun. Then after them- outside irrttes, Uieto la the new code nf I*# to be adopted or rejected, be*Ida* tbo regular routine woik that has to In done every year. I tell you many elate teglslalUfer kre now represented her* bullied our council and we standatrcoitn cini.y to cxmtmiu*In Importance with the uiimttoua to handle, end care will be requited to protect, tltu nation's lute rest Now, »« to selling that atrip outright, lor ttln band sum# tlguru oflered lor it, luta ol our 1 people oie III favor ol tt. mil Uie only . trouble 1 see In this, I# to dispose of 11 »„ aa not to p'.'psidir • ow prtgaw homes.I liaro jiiHte.omi'Inn. Inf nuaiion, ami 1 .Iiot It I rtita » reliable eoureufr that 009 *1 ,the largest »jult;t)c«t, s mat tv, r ivlstsd In tlt'n country In tun catilu Mj lnlt; *■ is lorulliiu to set up u cortur i n lilfilnu . lands by baying or Irastng *11 there Is to lie got hold I In the mate' and ferrite Hi s, and mayle tin men who are try Ins td buy our atrip waul tt lor turn vauv sTMdeare And should liny • v. r got bold ol It 'ty a ' lease, n-1 umiestly b.diev.i utov wain it that way an 1 not by nurd.a ., tin y would be loo Bttonc t..r our Jlltlo (p-vnrnmrnt to It audio should tiny lake n notion to euuulch its, and you know tftaatrhyudloaU r 1 and cot poratow tntvo vury tlitl* aout, and osj tclaUy for Indiana, for molt nf them are tike O'-n. Mliertdsn was wlien h« said the only roihI Indian m ft deud one. Till* Is the Scutch l.nud A C«nlc company i I allude Hi, nod should the; nuei.eed A' tuour A Co.'s little uornnr onbnetm would be hot n motU-llUo by thr side of a mountain. Then aflsln, 1 oppose nod I btslb-.ro a uiajurtly of our people oppose, the leas-lui; apaln at ihe same atnall price as hernlfiifore of Ij C«nts per acre, when gr»/lni( lands on both aides ol the strip ate leasing at front 4 to routs an acre Von Inr t It was rstt-mated that wri-rl tan men »tiiicom|s»e the Cherokee Strip l.lvn Stuck aaaocl ttun leased ti. lorn cuuMdewblo was payed, and wmm 1 our people *r« pn judlt'ed agalimt Um cumpauy Which ttow has hold of tbo atrip I’ucri! are panpld In the state whoWa.nt uRaKtSii tonlies I ilcs Um two cutnpatil'R now pulling lor It. There ta no Pilling what condos ton crnr ooaooll will rvaeti In regard to It, tnnugh the men who now hove It have been prompt In payment ami vigilant lu protecting our timber and thidr interests out there, and mny be willing to pay more than they have been paying. The .I tor one, would lit willing to entertain another proposlUos Iimu. them, nut they camiot cvuie In how an they did beloro ami lease It wPUoul npposlUott, and no on, else knowing that it la to be leaned I am confident tbkt we are now gelling, and wu ought to get, every cent we e .u, for the atrip is one of the lineal grating cjuntrb.a cm the continent. Well, now as to railroad companies wanting rights of way, and those having rights ul way granted them by cohgrest, you know our council U going tosiss * tiacaoao am a against litem. The congressional grants am so grotsly contrary to treaty stipulations that iburo Is no court In the liwd that will ttuaialn Lbsru when put to a test , •oil we propose to teet every foot oi t*i»-ground on this point. When wo get ready lor railroads then itc will hnVr them, and not brio re it wlt; ran help It, Thu Idea ol the govern meat holding '.hat the taking of our lauds and giving them to private* corporations 1*'eminent domain Why, tbi# Is not government laud, but belongs to nv exclusively, W* have a patent for it signed by Mai tin Van Bun n when be was president d perfncl but simple title, that Is nil them lit about it, and bow In the world can ooagfeM or any other power made euilui'iit domain oh lain here only by might, ami not by law of Justice?From all appearance*, (tot- Taylor ho* slated tt rightly and a big co«l*.»t Is sure, as the itotkrutiB ara already showing themselves on the grounds and a tittle
Newspaper Details
The Fort Worth Gazette
Fort Worth, Texas, US
Sun, Oct 31, 1886
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Georgetown P.
TX, USA 13 Aug 2024
Other Publications Near Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth Daily Skiff
Texas Oil Gazette
Texas Oil Ledger
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Fort Worth Skiff
