Speech #520109961

Probable the proportion is even greater. So with reference to the 49.000 who are in the Choctaw Nation. They acknowledge that the great bulk of those white people are persons to whom they have given permits to go there. permits to cultivate their lands. permits to do business. inother words. while it is true that there are people there who are refugees from justice. the great proportion of the white people who are there are people who have gone there by permission of the indians under license by the Indians. They are there at work. cultivating the lands. or mining coal. or carrying on the various occupations of life. with the permission and with the entire consent of the Indians. In some of the nations they have leased lands and are herding cattle and raising stock. Now that there are refugees. that there are criminals there is undoubtedly true. It could not be otherwise. If you coilld find anywhere in the United States a Territory where people could go and not be subject to the local government. where the government of that Territory could exercise no power or authority over them. of course that would be a section of the country -.here criminal peopIle and desperate people would more or less go. but what I am talking about is whether this condition of things can continue there.