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Show Uinta council, 24, I was on the Kiowa and Comanche reservation last Winter and the Indians have started just as you are going to start here next year. Those people were just as much opposed to the new order of things in the beginning as you are,but you could not now get any of them to voluntarily return to the old conditions. They have railroads bringing markets at their doors for everything they have to sell. The same order will obtain here as soon as whites begin to settle in the country and your lands will enhance in value, Some of my friends here said if you take small farms you will have no land on which to graze your stock. Remember if you accept your allotments you have the choosing of your own location and yon can select land having water; a field of ten acres of alfalfa will subsist more stock than five-hundred acres of these barren lands of yours. You could raise all you want for your subsistance on your farms,and remember that besides this Congress gives you 250,000 acres for grazing. How my friends,from the life yon have led In the past,I do not wonder that you look unfavorably on this proposition because you do not understand it. I am plaased with the frank manner in which you have expressed yourselves in opposition to it,for it enables me to try and convince you by discussion that the acceptance of the provisions of the Act is for your best interests. How knowing your attitude in the matter,a3 expressed by your speakers,it Is ray duty to try and convince you by sound reasoning, so as to bring you to understand the importance of your accepting allotments. Nearly all of your speakers said that you wished to do what Washington says; that you do not want to do anything against |