Chadick is here now. He is the superintendent of the Choctaw Railroad. He says that if we will back up that statute law of ours by authorizing those Indians who may become citizens. whenever persecuted in any way. or whenever their property is about to be taken from them. to take a change of venue from their cotrts to ours. we will have practically solved the question. and he says. after living twenty years in the Indian Territory. he is of the opinion if we pass such a law that in two or three years twothirds of the nation will become naturalized. will cease to be Choctaws. and will have become merged into the great body of American citizenship. I have here the certificate of the judge of one of the Choctaw courts. and the sworn statements of a number of Indian police and others. who say that in the case of Fritz Sittel. he lost property shown to be worth $50.000. simply because he preferred to be an American citizen rather than to continue any longer a Choctaw.
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