Show II r He Carries the White Mans Man's Burden I I By Ily OltEr Burke Is glad lad the claim Jumper weakened The Tho claim Jumper had a along along long Jong handled shovel and an abusive law in and Burke had a agun agun gun You ou wiggle an eyebrow said Burke and down goes your meat house tIe lIe went to pieces the pieces the claim jumper did did did-as as though some one ha hac had 1 turned off the juice Ills His knees suddenly bent and kept on bending unexpectedly unexpectedly tn tn in an emotional fashion Burke k talked to him as a youngster of ot 22 21 would talk to the thet t bully l who 1 had jumped his C claim Burke e had haC sunk I 15 IT ic It That TV WIlS as what the 35 15 with which he had left his York state otate home hoire had iad grown I Into Before he got through the Claim Jumper was calling him Mister Mister Mis Mis- MiS-I MiS ter Burke It was as a e. triumph th the Jumper ben beIng beng odd forty-odd j years ears old oldan an anti and han halo It Its B a fI good thing good thins thing I T didn't kill hIre him says Burke Burko tho thOI Id ha hats hae e been leen bothered all the rest of ot mv my life Ufe lIe He EIe has hag a I story etory book way of ot re regarding regarding regarding re- re garding that Incident of course He lie tells It as It should be told to get geta a 11 proper emphasis on the moral Eventually he ho gave up the fight tight In Incourt incourt I court against the Jumper because the claim wasn't worth the candle I lie Ie could not afford the time and i money even If he could have won the case ease in court against a gifted pErJurer Then he went to work and ultimately ultimately ulti ulti- became a fairly rich man and commissioner of Indian affairs That Is the moral But the real low down on Burke Is to be found In that earlier sen sen- senj j tenCE I J would have nave been neen bothered all the rest of mv coy life Ufe Tho The man who more more or less Jess directs the destinies of our Indians is a fighter He lIe has hIlS the round hardeY hard hardey ey eye and the square Jaw and the Up lip smile of a fighter He lie wanted to kill that Jumper and the tha Jumper knew It But he Is practical and he heIs heis heis is a J politician No politician Is benefited benefited benefited ben ben- by bv the recurrent story that on such a day as shown by hi the court records he killed a family man Voters are apt to forget torget that thea the deceased a was a claim Jumper and h only remember e r that he was a lather father lath fath er Maybe Bur Burge e did did- not know that he was wis a politician But he Is of old st style le unshakable regularity He lie ha has never b been en anything but re regular regu regu- u- u lar Jar lIe He could not be He lie was defeated defeated defeated de de- de- de for tor election to tho the United States senate from South Dakota because he forgot that Progressives are by their very nature not regular regu regu- lar tar There was an an- understanding he said Raid Our fellows voted for tor the Progressive candidate for governor the Progressives did not vote Tote for us UP AG ST AGAL TIlE TUB PROGRESSIVES So theres there's s Burke Burk Burke Burke-a a fighting man coldly practical always re regular ular Ho He did n not want to RO go into p politics tI He lIe was s Just married rl with t no money and with good prospects ahead But Pierre and Huron w were ere fighting to tobe tobe tobe be the capital and his fellow tellow citizens citizens citizens citi citi- zens of Pierre insisted that the aggressive aggressive ag ag- ag- ag hard headed perhaps turbulent turbulent turbulent tur tur- bulent young farm loan agent go to the legislature to protect the city city's B Interests H He planned to quit at atthe atthe the end of the first term but a I f rn at atHe neighbor rg oc trod on the tall tail of his coat He cant can't go back said eald the neighbor neighbor neigh neigh- bor That Burke Durke So Burke went back after a fight tight He lie did not want to go t to congress r but t people o f opposed s t his s so going o and he ho of t the went party arth The machinery Progressives later got on hold bold end o offered to him He had been too long in the game to befooled befooled be bo fooled that way They would have turned me ice out after one term he explained They had the machinery I 1 would have 1 been een helpless He preferred erred to run against the Progressive who had been elected to his seat and beat him hini Ills His e eyes eres es light a. a little at the telling Burke fooled the Progressive chiefs who sought Bought to make a fool tool of ot him It was afine a afine afine fine fight and he regained his seat When he left congress in 1915 it was of his own motion Nobody said eald he could not CO go o back Everybody wanted him hIre to stay So O he quit He lie Her had had enough star of It He Be was well e 1 sa r to do and de no longer at as strong 0 as he would have liked to be He lie did not care caro to be bo a a. candidate for tor the senate sen sen- cen- cen ate His HIa friends took the tho liberty of misunderstanding a II telegram and he hA was nominated Then Tf en Then you ue ve read Zead what the Progressives ala mo or Jr what they thoy did not do Maybe this Is tf too wordy P But I doubt It because became It t helps one to understand Charles H It Burke In Indian Indian In- In dian commissioner of ot Indian affairs as we say In our verbose modern way No office holder bolder I. I Ismore more moro widely damned than an Indian commissioner We Ve are all ashamed of ot the manner In which we have treated the th Indians It could not i be helped of co course they being uncivilized un uncivilized un- un I Jd ag civilized 1 nr aO and d unsophisticated p and d therefore fair game But we are ashamed So we take It out on whoever whoever who who- ever happens to be Indian commissioner commis commis- to the tho Indians Indians' f fu future tu- tu I Then as u ture there are two schools chool One Ono I broadly speaking would like to see aee seethe the Indians I kept as museum pieces a The ee Io other wants r th them m made mada citizens overnight with all the tho rights duties and risks appertaining to citizenship citizen lUzen- ship Burke thinks they are both wrong nong lIe He has known Indians for forty years During r g his s fourteen years r In congress he gw w was a member t of the tho house committee on Indian affairs During the latter Jatter part of that time he was its chairman lie Ho does not believe that we will con consent Bent to maintain the Indians indefinitely on rations no matter what may be their sentimental claims lie He does not believe the kept Indian profits by the keeping The are the richest In Inn Ina In- In diane n in the world l Last j year ear t their thi hi fl oO o. o per capita a t Income n was 11 1 n Oil of course He lie thinks the are degenerating The rationed Indian who who gets the money due from the government In little dribs Just jurt enough to live on and not enough to KO JO to work with with goes goes to the devil The best Indian works for forI his living I I bellev believe In making the Indian take his chance Just the same as white folks do But not the unfit Indian Burko does docs not believe in ire turnIng turnIng- an Indians Indian's In Indian In- In dian dlan's dian's s property over to him unless he Is declared competent which can be done under the Burke law There Thero la Is an old Osage Indian whose income In Income In- In come last year was something like He and his wife were al allowed at- at towed lowed only lie He does not want to have that th money saved for tor his heirs He does not care a hoot about about his heirs He wants to spend it it as white men doThen do Then you you'll 11 go o broke and live Jive on rations said Burke I I don dont don't t care care said the Indian Ive lived on rations rations' before But I want my money I TJ UNDER DEn THEIR It Is objected that the Indian who gets his inheritance is apt to waste it it Burke says that white boys who get t their re i inheritances br very often waste their too Some of ot the best but Indians are those who threw their money high wide and crooked when they ree f got nit It and being br broke set net tied down s successfully Sf to make more He lie thinks the Indian is pretty pretty pretty pret pret- ty nearly as apt to make malte good as the white if it he is 19 not poisoned by his environment He Me knows an old squaw barefoot dirty blanketed who strain Caucasian Raised liaised Indian He lie knows an Indian who was a a. member of a a. war party at lb 11 and who could not speak a word of ot En English at 17 Today he is a pro pro- man of high standing Raised white Do not the Indian graduates go bad 1 Not any more than white gradUates graduates grad grad- of ot colleges says sas Burke In In proportion They used to come back to wickie ups and blankets Now they come back to real homes very very often often homes homes built by their fathers who were wre wrea graduates a l Dont Don't fool yourself T The Indian makes good I when he ho has the chance Give him the chance to get out and make gO good I Burke e supported the Bursum Dursum bills through which something not clear clear- clearly ly Jy defined d but unpleasant seemed likely to happen to the Pueblo In Indiana Inh In- In diana He lie grits I his teeth at the h tt thought of those who attacked ke them Every slate on the roof root fell off and hit Burke Durke during that fight tight but he did not abate an inch Yet man many manyi who fought the Bursum bills toot tooth j and nail do n not believe that t In his I rr heart Burke e favored v i them Being I attacked he fought back as usual Also they were urged by Albert Fall then secretary of or the Interior I and Burkes Burke's a boss Burke is regu regu- p lar tar all the way It did not oct oct-i to him to desert his party chief l It could not occur to him He Ha has hag no I machinery In which to register such auch a thought We Va are not even yet b bring being square I with the Indians We Vo are stealing land t from some om m of them depriving some ome e of Th them of t the het ie without fl i which they must starve making p drunkards drunkard and loafers of ot others Twenty rive thousand children must grow grO grOup up in blanket blankets to breed another an nn- other generation of sava savages es because be because be- be cause we have not kept our promIse prom- prom I ise iss to educate them Congress ap ap- millions for doubtful purposes and arid refused to pay the tho I I thousands due the Indians on old old pledges Yet the Indians are some how making headway Two thirds of them are now citizens Many tribes are an increasing in number The death rate la is 22 2233 33 per which Is la not quite double the rate in tn Gre Great Gret jt Britain third One-third are no longer wards of or the government The Indians own property worth The chief Indian trouble nowadays nowadays nowadays nowa nowa- days says Burke la is Is the mean WHITE Colliers Collier's Colliers |