Show INDIAN TERRITORY PROBLEMS where the conditions of society are in need 0 probably nowhere else in the world since the time of the feudal barons has there been a condition of society demanding reformation equal to that now demanded in indian territory As might be expected the indian citizen landholders control the indian governments absolutely and no law can be passed in indian legislatures interfering with their greed and any law which they desire enacted for their benefit is secured either by appeals to prejudice by threats or by open bribery the land holder lias thus acquired his holding without cost to himself and is as secure in its possession under the present regime as if he had a patent from alie united states the full blood indian as a rule is poor shiftless and ignorant without ambition and without opportunity he cannot acquire any land beyond ii miserable holding of an acre or two in the mountainous country the opportunities for further development and civilization are absolutely denied to him while his patrimony is absorbed by the rapacious white indian or halfbreed half breed says a writer in north american review in every particular the progress of the full bood indian has been arrested he is not advancing van cing he is modern observation and thought have reached iho conclusion that allotment of land n severally and citizenship arc the indispensable conditions of indian proy ess neither one is possible while the present indian continue the share of common in lian lias been na stolen from him as if I 1 he bad been driven on the land by chite men there will never be a until congress shall take the matter in hand and compel it and the longer this is delayed alic greater is the probability that justice will never be done the indian |