Show THE Tit CASE OF THE INDIAN I There is an aD a u echo of or the history ot of o oI i I I SOO 00 years ears in the tho e statement oC or Chief I t I McCurtain of ot the tho Choctaws Cho before the I 1 congressional committee investigating i 1 J tho tiro Gore bribery brIbe charge that his bis pea peo people t ti I isle lle had Ind lost confidence In tho the prone prom f i ot of o the government sovern ment to lo sell their I lands and had become the tho prey of at attorneys ati attorneys i who agreed to do better by br I I them says saje S 6 the Indianapolis Star It lifts been Indian experience o from Crom tho the beginning with here horo and aud there thero re reo reI o l I I I deeming d exceptions that the govern government 7 ment mint did not keep its Us ts pledges pledge and that individual white men mon robbed them I No wonder the red men have 0 little I I faith f In the powers vers at Washington History and a experience afford no nolI lI basis for confidence nce that they will be Je Justly jull treated Fortunately If this In ini i Destination 1 does docs nothing more l it will 1 save save them front fr m being victimized h by hy bythe y yi i the tire McMurray scheme The Tho govern attitude toward tho Indian Is 13 p right In these Joys days It H undertakes es to t I l I give him hint the square deal and is t merely a little i I slow IO and al d unintentional unintentionally lul I Ij ly j neglectful n tin Ills UR transactions with him hint i r iSo ISo So Sn much has had been b en said shout about the Ito twi i fence ncr and acid n d civilization of the tho In Indians of Oklahoma i that an tin 1011 prevails that they the are tre fairly well educated and fitted lo to cope with their white follow Collow citizens but this io in not the ease case There are uro tinny many educated Indians it ILIa Is true but there are aro many mallY moro more to 10 whom modern business moth meth methods OdD oda aro moro more or less of a n mystery who Iho are easily victimised Ired by Jy tho ho de der designing signing grasping men who are arc nl al s 8 to bo ho found in their thell neighbor neighborhood neighborhood 1 hood The rho Oklahoma Indians have hlll I offered offer cd an nn unexceptionally exceptionally inviting field I Ifor for tho rho operations of oC these rascals because be because e cause of o the value aluc of their Posses J II C lions Ions Fortunately the flue government whoa it admitted them to citizenship and granted them permission to sell their allotments of or land retained the privilege of giving the final word In Inthe InI inthe the sale salo Had thie trot not been heen he en the case casen n goodly pot portion lion of ot them then would probably probably I ably obly have been cheated out of both bothI lands land i anti money by lI this time With I 1 I tits tuo light turned on their lh h rights will willbo henceforth bo be lie Iho hotter bettor protected I I |