| Show TUE INDIAN QUESTION SOLVED if I 1 had the settlement of the indian question I 1 would begin it with the dissolution of all tribal relations said kansas the other day to a washington correspondent ho says ho would abolish all the indian reservations put them up at auction and sell them to tho highest and best bidder and sake the money and buy farms for them in lots of a few families in the east whenever we begin to drop these people down in pennsylvania ohio now york and indiana on cultivated farms ho continued then we begin the absorption of the indian by civilization and in a few years the savage will be known only to history it sounds very well in theo it will never work well in practice just as well might yon take a boy without any experience put him alone in a blacksmith shop and tell him to go to work and make a living from the trade while all around him are blacksmiths of many years experience plying tho same trade this latter would be just as reasonable as breaking up the indian tribes and placing mem on good farms at the side of the experienced white farmers suppose however that congress plan were adopted the indian reservations sold and each indian family given a good farm in some old state it would not be two years until eveaj indian farm would have been sold under cortage or otherwise and then we would have thousands of homeless wanderers in their own country with no way for them to gain a livelihood all pro 1 lection now vouchsafed tham by the government would then be thrown off and the poor indians would end their lives in dungeons and poor houses far from from the beloved barnts of childhood though a western man must be a tenders foot unacquainted quain ted with the indian nature or he would not suggest such a solution of the indian question as we have referred to but still more remarkable is it that a member of western newspapers should advocate mr fux plans as something feasible wo must look to other means of adt the question |
