Show INDIAN PROBLEMS whre the me Condl llon of A are la in presslye Press lne need feed of reformation 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 cither by appeals to prejudice by threats or by open bribery the landholder has thus acquired his holding without cost and is as secure in its possession ligion under unde r the ilia present regime it as jf ff hie he anda patent from the e full blood indian aai ralef and ignorant ant wi without ambition lon and ina without lla he canno acquire any land beyond v miserable tise table hold holding tog of an acre or two in the mountainous country the opportunities for further development and civilization aro denied to him while hia patrimony is absorbed ky by the rapacious Tapi aLfous white indian or halfbreed half breed says a writer in north rth american Americ afi review in every particular the progress of the full bood indian has been arrested he heis is not advancing van cing lie he is retrograding modern observation and thought have reached the conclusion that allotment of land in in several citizenship ar are the indispensable conditions of indian indian n progress neither one is possible while t tte the e present indian governments continue the share of the common indian has been as stolen from him as if he had been driven off the landby land by white men there will never be a divis division i on until congress shall take the matter in im hand and compel it and the longer this is ii ad delayed efa fed the greater is the probability that justice will never be done the indian |