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Show r. Coleman of Meteor. Mr. Coleman pcys: 'The government promised $1,-500.000 $1,-500.000 to the Indians for the land taken. " Ja 1897 1300,000 was appropriated appropri-ated and a like amount the following year, but not a cent of this money lias ever been paid to the Indians," Incredlblo as this is, it is very likely like-ly true. Things far less credible happen hap-pen every day. We are experiencing, in the American republic today, the peril of bulk. No human mind could guarantee to exercise suitable supervision- THE PERIL OF BULK. A long, long time ago, tho Greeks knew ihat large nations face peculiar perils. Their philosophers prouounced ten thousand the largest number of citizens cit-izens who could safely agree to live under one and the 6ame form of government. gov-ernment. The Greeks were conclusive in their methods. Certain of their philosophic trains of thought have not since been attained and in nothing were they shrewder than In politics, says tho Butte Inter-Mountain. A dispatch from Spokane says "That a number ot Indians on the Colville i reservation are near starvation and i that great suffering will result unless J the government at once forwards money mon-ey due the Indians for lands purchased by tho government, Is asserted by R. |