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to Mexico, as was the deportation of Apaches to 

 Florida, and the American war of extermination 

 against them. The Indians of all nations have 

 rights, but if a race of Indians expects to keep 

 back the natural intellectual evolution of a great 

 nation for the simple purpose of enabling them 

 to use the land to support towns of mud huts, 

 and to live in ignorance, poverty, and vice, they 

 are mistaken. No modern government will per- 

 mit it. Every opportunity has been given the 

 natives to become citizens, to work as every white 

 man works. If they do not do it they must go 

 to the wall. It is a case of the survival of the 

 fittest, justified by the conditions which hold 

 to-day among all civilized nations. 



