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from memory my impression of the paper.  This business plan as you know grew out of the fact that bill giving their lands to the Omaha was was declared to preclude leasing.  The Indians derived benefit from the business agreement last year.  I can not recall the exact amount paid or [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] the number of machines bought with proceeds [[strikethrough]] but it was [[/strikethrough]] but it was quite a help.

As to leasing the land to white men.  The legal point whether or not it can be done may be set aside [[strikethrough]] while we [[/strikethrough]] in order to deliberate upon the merits of the question.

It is quite true that some of the Omahas have [[strikethrough]] in their allotted lands [[/strikethrough]] more acres than they can cultivate.  There are some families where the tracts patented to children, grandmothers or fathers, put the head of the family in practical possession of several hundred acres.  [[strikethrough]] This excess of land access work frequently securing [[/strikethrough]] On the other hand there are families where the allotment gives no lands to spare.  It is also true that the people are poor, that they are to a degree improvident, that many of them lack strong horses, wheat, the prairie that their houses [[strikethrough]] on lack [[/strikethrough]] often are without comfort [[strikethrough]] not to mention convenience [[/strikethrough]] and that their food is scanty.  [[strikethrough]] But [[/strikethrough]] It is also true that the people have had to meet a great change in the last many years.  [[strikethrough]] The [[/strikethrough]] Men, now in the prime life, and are the older