Show THE INDIAN QUESTION Indians Should Be Recognized as Individuals In-dividuals and Not as sIn s-In my Judgment the time has arrived when we should definitely make up our minds to recognize the Indian as an individual In-dividual and not as a member of n tribe Tho general allotment act Is a mighty pulverizing engine to break up tho tribal mass I acts directly upon the family and the Individual Under Us provisions some sixty thousand Indians In-dians have already become citizens of the United Suites We should now break up the tribal funds doing for them Wl mat allotment does for the tribal < S lands that Is they should be divided Into Individual holdings more will be a transition period during which the funds will In many cases have to bo I held In trust This Is I the case also with the lands A stop should be put upon the indiscriminate permission to Indians In-dians to lease their allotments The effort should be steadily to make the Indian work like any other man on his own ground The marriage laws of tho Indians should be made the same as those of the whites EDUCATION OF INDIANS In the schools the education should be elementary and largely Industrial The need of higher education among the Indians Is very very limited On the reservations care should betaken be-taken to try to suit the teaching to tho needs of the particular Indian There Is no use in attempting to Induce agriculture ag-riculture In a country salted only for |