other diseases, than one's imagination is staggered by the 

 bald statistics Dr. Murphy offers. We have permitted our 

 California, Oklahoma, Minnesota and other tribes to be swin- 

 dled out of such a huge proportion of their property that the 

 courts are clogged with entries of suits and cases. 



"What we need at Washington is a Bismarck at the head 

 of the Indian office a man of the blood and iron. A man 

 who will cancel false deals in Indians lands instantly and not 

 turn them over to the department of justice to drag along 

 three years, as have the White Earth cases. 



"We need a man who will turn upside down the ancient 

 order of things, who will cut the red tape, who will see that 

 the returning graduate and the old allottee alike are protected 

 even as is the white citizen of the East. A man who will 

 grasp the essentials know what the Indian needs who will 

 listen to Indians rather than to white people who live about 

 Indian reservations. And, last but by no means least, a man 

 who has the courage to say 'no' to the army of blackleg law- 

 yers who fatten on Indian claims and suits?." 



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