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Show The Red Man's Burden Charges involving neglect and cruelty to a whole race : within the borders of civilized America ought to arouse 1 one of two things, admission or indignant denial from those L Such charges have been made, documented and authenticated, auth-enticated, against the Indian bureau. Such an authority as Dr Haven Emerson, professor of public health administration administra-tion of Columbia, declares that within the past four years the death rate among American Indians has risen 48 per cent that the lands and moneys belonging to the Indian wards of Uncle Sam have shrunken proportionately, that blindness, tuberculosis and other diseases are making horrible hor-rible inroads into the once-healthy tribes within our borders. The Indian bureau is silent. - , . , . "The department," said the secretary of the mtenoi "refutes nothing, admits nothing, denies nothing." Congress is to be asked to make a thorough investigation investiga-tion In view of the serious charges of the Indian Defense association, backed by a general impression that they arc true the investigation should be made at once. It the, Indian bureau declines to delend the presumption of guilt should be sustained or removed by the people representa-' representa-' lives This is due both the bureau and its unhappy wards. |