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Show The removal of 3000 Choctaws from Mississippi and Louisiana to the Indian In-dian Terrltoiy, which is now in progress, pro-gress, need inspire no eloquence about red men's wrong and "palefaces' broken ticatlcs." '-he treaty-making was on tho other side; these members of the trlbe'are descended from those who failed to move "West In 1800 as tlioy agreed, and they are exchanging a precarious and hard existence for comparative allluence. Our Indians do not now fare badly. Far from dying out, they are Increasing Increas-ing In number. The census of 18U0 reported re-ported 248,000 of them; Secietary Hitchcock's recent report shows an lnci ease no 260,000. Allowing for Indian In-dian admixture In men reckoned as whites, theie Is moie Indian blood In countiy today than when the 1'IIgrlms landed. Then the tribes weie decimated deci-mated by disease and wasted by wars; great tracts of tinirilt ibltcd forests lay between them, and they could not hold land so much w lder than they used. Now their descendants mainly dwell In compact communities, usually usu-ally civilized and prosperous. New York World. |