The purpose of this exclusion is to restore the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in all respects to the status existing prior to the said proclamation of March 2, 1909, as though the inclusion of the lands within the Trinity National Forest had not been ordered, and said Indian reservation is hereby fully recreated and restored to that status.
Executive Order 1480—Restoring Lands to Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation
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We believe that this benefit is best accomplished by popular government, because in the long run each class of individuals is apt to secure better provision for themselves through their own voice in government than through the altruistic interest of others, however intelligent or philanthropic.
It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands in Pinal County, Ariz., be, and they are hereby, reserved from settlement, entry, sale, or other disposal and set aside as an addition to the Gila River Indian Reservation, Ariz.
In other words, the resolution approves the admission of Arizona with the judicial recall, unless the voters themselves repudiate it.
It is easy in cases like this to take the course which timidity prompts, and to do nothing, but such a course does not inure to the public weal.
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