Speech #570019158

If not. why did he give these two rich men fine agricultural lands on Red River and leave the rough. stony grazing lands in the Wichita Mountains for the poor homesteaders to settle upon? It is one of the beauties of our republican institutions that no man is above criticism. and this high autocratic official. who scarcely deigns to consent to an audience with a representative of the common people of this country. can be called to the bar of public opinion and unmasked on this floor. and if the President permits him to remain in his Cabinet his Administration will greatly suffer thereby. This autocratic Secretary of the Interior has arrested without trial or warrant many white American citizens in the Indian Territory and deported them from its borders. thus plainly violating the Constitution of the United States. To prevent these highhanded outrages and to protect the citizens of this Government from the tyranny of this modern Nero. it was found necessary by the committee to insert in this bill a provision to the effect "that it shall be unlawful for the police of the Indian Territory to deport any person from the Territory who is in the lawful possession of any lands or parcel of land of any town or city in that Territory that has been designated as a town site." On what meat hath this our modern Cmsar fed that he has become so great? Is it because he has command of a police force in the unfortunate Indian Territory and desires to show his brief power that he causes free American citizens to be arrested and deported? I think not. but in my judgment these arrests are made to extort unjust tax money from white noncitizens who live in that country. These outrages only exemplify the dangerous tendency of imperialism. If this Secretary will at our doors thus trample our Constitution and laws under his feet. what must be the fate of the poor Filipinos. thousands of miles removed from our shores. where there are no newspapers to expose the tyrannical actions of our Government officials?