sota. In their present home they seem to have reason, at last, to fecl sccure, to anticipate permanece, safety, and suecess. Their lands have been allotted to them in sevèralty each head of a family has his patent for eighty acres, They are, in the main, self-supporting.

IIow des the United States Governnent welcome this suc- coss, this heroic triumph of a obstacles and sufferings?

In the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for 1876 the Secretary says: "As a matter of economy, the great- est saving could be made by uniting all the Indians upon a few reservations; the fewer, the better." He says that there is land enough in the Indian Territory to give erery indian-man, woman, and child-in the country seventy-five says, "The arguments are all in favor of the consolidation." lfc then goes on to enumerato those arguments: "Expensive paticnt people over disheartening acres apiece. He agencies would be abolished; the Indians themsclves can be more easily watched over and controlled; evil-designing be the better kept away from them, and illicit trade and barter in arms and aminunition and whiskey prevented. Goods could be supplied the Indians better tanght, and friendly rivalry established among themthose most civilized hastening the progress of those be low them; and most of the land now occupicd verting to the General Government, would be open to entry and men at a groater saving; the military service relieved; as reserves rc- sale."

Here are nine reasons given for removing all Indians to Indian Territory. Five of these reasons ostcnsibly point to benefits likely to accrue from this removal to the Indians, The other four point to benefits likely to accrie to the Government; the first three of these last are, simply, " saving;" the fourth is the significant one, "gain ""most of the land reverting to the General Government would be open to entry and sale."