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Apaches, and the government pays yearly to the army 

 that takes care of them $2,000,000. We spend now 

 about 85,000,000 a year in gifts to the Indians, or in 

 the support of soldiers to keep them in order. Offi- 

 cial statistics published lately show that the Indian 

 war in Florida cost $50,000,000 ; the Sioux war of 

 1852 and 1854, $40,000,000 ; the Oregon Indian war 

 of 1854 and 1855, $10,000,000 ; the Cheyenne war of 

 1864 and 1865, $35,000,000 ; the Indian war of 1860 

 with the Sioux, over $10,000,000 ; the war of 1867 

 with the Cheyennes, $40,000,000. Gen. Sherman says 

 that the cost of caring for the Indians of New Mexi- 

 co by the army, from 1846 to 1860, was $100,000,- 

 000. Thus the fact stands out beyond all contro- 

 versy, that, for the past forty years, the military 

 operations of the nation against the Indians have 

 cost on the average $12,000,000 annually. 



Do you say that, after all, the Indian is dying out? 

 The President of the United States reminds us that 

 the American savage is not on the verge of evanes- 

 cence. The statistics that I have before me, from 

 official sources, assert that in 1864 the number of 

 schools among the Indians was only 89, and in 1873 

 it was 2,600. In 1864 the number of scholars among 

 the Indians in the United States was 261 ; ten }^ears 

 later it was 9,000. In 1864 the number of acres 

 farmed by the Indians was only 1,800 ; in 1873 it 

 was 297,000. In 1864 the number of bushels of 

 wheat raised by the Indians in the United States was 

 44,000 ; ten years later, 288,000. The value of their 

 animals in 1S64 was $4,000,000; in 1873 it was 

 $8,900,000. 



