It was before this necessity of opening Indian lands "to en try and sale" that the Winuebagoes had bcen flecing, from 1815 to 180S are no safer now. There is evi It secms they dently as mueli reasou for moving them out of Nebraska as there was for moving them out of Wisconsin and Minnesota.

The Seeretary goes on to say: "As so0on as the Indian is tanght to toil for his daily bread, and realize the sense of pro- prictorship in the results of his labor, it cannot but be further to his advantage to be able to appreciate that his labor is ex pended upon his individual possessions aud for his personal benefit. The Tndian mnst. be made to see the practieal ad- vantage to himself of his work, and feel that he reaps the full benefit of it. Everything should teach him that he has a home; a hearth-stonc of his own, around which he can gather his family, aud in its possession be entirely.

The logical relation of these paragraphs to the preceding is striking, and the bearing of the two together on the ease of the Winuebagoes is still more striking.

In the same report the Commissioner for Indian Affairs says: "If legislatiou were secured giving the President author- ity to remove any tribe or band, or any portion of a tribe or band, whenever in his judgment it was practicable, of the reservations named, and if Congress would appropriate from year to year a sum suflicient to cnable him to take advan sceure and independent." one to any one tage of every fayorable opportunity to make snch removals, I am confident that a few years' trial would conclusively demon- strate the entire feasibility of the plan. I believe that all thc Indians in Kansas, Nebraska, and Dakota, and a part at least of those in Wyoming and Montana, could be induced to re move to the Indian Territory."

He adds "that the Indian seutiment is opposed to such removal is true," bnt he thinks that, "with a fair degrece of persistence," the renoval "can be sccured." No doubt it can.

Later in the same report, under the head of "Alotments in