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Show J - The Indian' seems to be having a hard time of it r evefl ffJ tT:& Indian Territory, according to" tho state- ments made by Gen Whittlesy of the board of In-I In-I dia commissioners at the conference held at tik? fr Mohawk this week, in part he saidr. v pearly 4500 leases of allotted land have fceea mAdff witUn the year, aggngatmg 2,000,000 aeres,. at rate varying from 3 cents to f 3 an acre. - Under the? law" authorizing the sale of inherited lands, the Indian is parting with his inherited estate at the fate ef about 8000j acres a morithv- Over 16,000 acres- were disposed of in fifteen months ending last Jun stt aa average of. nearly 17 per acre. Tht tend are bought by speculators rather than by those eeeking homes. While the- prices secured are reasonable, rea-sonable, the purchase money, by one wile or another,-ISC another,-ISC rapidly transferred to the white man's pockets and more often than any other tray by the'route of dissl-pationv dissl-pationv .'.The condition grows 6erious, for after March, 3 9CMr tribal governments must close, tribal buildings must be disposed of, tribal funds distributed and tribal tri-bal relations cease, but Indian lands will be non-tax - ; able. What will then become of the 15,000 Indian chitdreir for whose education $450,000 of tribal money mon-ey ia now 'expended T n , It seems impossible for the Government to protect pro-tect the Indian or for ,the Indian to protect himself. Aa & tribesman he has been fleeced and when tribal relation are dissolved he will be without protection. i - Burvtvat Of the fittest is as true bow" as it was in the stone age. The race that shows the highest form of so-called civilization in any age is the race that dominates and absorbs. We may theorize and sorrow sor-row ver the Indian, but we cannot save him. As a ! race the Indiana hate long been doomed, and as individuate in-dividuate their time of existence seems comparatively compara-tively shorts - , |