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Show since 1872, the Ofiice has no means of making a comparative statement oftheir condition, but there is abundant evidenoe that socially they are in a transition sbate. They feel the pressure of the white man on every. side, and, among the. full-bloods especially, there is a growing apprehen-sion that before loug the barriers will give way, their country he over-run, and themselves dispossessed. To the more intelligent amongthem, and especially the mixed-bloods, who are able to see that close contact rrith the civilization of the whites will heln forward rather than retard their own civilization and prosperity, t l~i so utlook is not so full of an~rehension. Indeed, it is roba able that if the question were left ia thi's class among the ~ndtauiw, ith primary refer&ce not only to their own interests, but to the common welfare, they would regard the settle-ment of families of respectable whites in such numbers as to f'dirly popn-late the country as a contribution to the prosperous condition of the Indians, rather than otherwise ; provided that before the pressure and competition of white neighbors is permitted, the Indians themselves n.l-lo.1~ 1~1-d~ b~ are firs.t~ c- ~o me- into individual ownershin of a homestead. with-out power to alienate the title, aud wit11 a fair ~ y ~ a i u t aby~ h~xpew i-ence of its value as a home. In other words, this ueo~>laer e now a t the point in civilization where the next lesson can be kiven, not in councils or in continued isolation, but in the living example of a neighbor, who, by his skill and industry in cultivating the same soil from which t,hey procure a scanty aud precarions livelihood, comes rapidly into comfort and wealth. The time has not by any means arrived for throwing this country open to settlement, but the fact is before them, and should now he embraeecl in their nlans for tl~efutnret.h at i t is trot r~ossiblef or them and would by no rncahs be well for them; if it were po&ible, by perpctu-atine their Indian nationalities, to live a lwa ~osu tside the pale of United stat& citizensbin. and that no Indian countrv can exist ner~etnallv ~~ ~~ within t ~ b~oucnii riea of this ~ < ' I I I I \ I ~ ~ I\:r ,iti~nobt eonminx iu i11A s r u t i i ~ narticul~~ar sp :wt of the V11ite11S tates: i ~ r ~ at lb r ~sb oultl : ~otn ce b e ~ i u to s h a ~ teh ei;a@airs with reference to thisfact. by takine their landsin severjlr.~,a nd hy usiu): :111 pousihle ulrnns of &.inC the6 ebildrt!u such cducntio~a~s wi l l .pr ep.a re 1he111I'o r contact ~IIIL(!Io 1111)etitionw ith nhitc men. GOVERNJIENT FOIL TFIE TERRITORY. In oriler, however, to render such preparatory steps possible by the lndiaas, a long-neglected duty of providing adequate means for protec-tion of life and property and punishmeut of crirl~e among 71,000 people who are practically without law or meaus of justice should at once be undertaken bv the United States. 1:orther rffirt I I ~ JO een nlacle IDl?e.i l~l i~m~eg11 among thrae difterent tribes ill t l ~ e11 1di11'uI' err~toryt o 11n1c11rteh e est;thl~sI~~notf~ an te onsoli. clat,ed aovernment of Iudiins bv Indians: but it has not succeeded. aud thi'i large popolatio~b~e corn& nlore ; ~ h dr rlore hvlplrss n~ldcrt h6 iucl.easing l;~nlt.ss~~nemsao rlg t11e1nselv1.sa ~ t~hed al ;~rnninin~t rnsion of ootlawed-white men. - The nearest United States court for t l~i sw hole Territory is that of the western district of Arkanlras at Fort S~uitb. The expense of making arrests hv marshals, and seourine the attendance of witnesses over the great diitanvw of the 1ocli;~u'C t.;ritor)., ~uakest ile court 11r;actieollgo f little ar;lil tor pn>t rct io~or~ p unishrue~~t.3 lr;111ehilt.t he countrg con. tiuues to ;itford an itsvl~lnlf or r r fu~ei*f?r or~in~s rice t i o t~he~ S~tat es and to invite the immigrition of the r&y nrosst ilass of elen t.hat iufest an Indian border. The need of this Territory to-daay is a government of |