Show Congress to Be Reminded Indians Still Stall Are Robb Robbed d By Dy RODNEY DUTCHER N NEA EA Service Writer WASHINGTON The WASHINGTON The jolly old oldport sport port of robbing the Indians was long lenS ago go abandoned according to popular impression cither either because th the Indians had nothing left t to I bo ho stolen from them or because be none w were re left to b be plundered Tho The Seventieth congress however howo how o over ever r will be told that the Indians ar are still being robbed not only of property but sometimes oven even of th their it lives t through rough the neglect t of th those se wl who o are supposed to take tale care of or them It will vill be be- told that they have also b been n robbed Of liberty lib erty and the right to ent enter r productive productive productive pro pro- industry and the pursuit of happiness Although America h has s' s almost almost- unanimously forgotten its original Inhabitants and has left them to th the mercies of the bureau bureaucracy r cy of th the Indian bureau they have a 3 few good friends down here who arc are willing to fight for them Every I so often someone not too busy discovers making- making money or votes what he considers the real plight of the Indians and flies files into a 3 permanent permanent per per- r- r manent rage at the injustice of jt tt Congressman Clyde Kelly of i Pittsburg was one who had that experience when he became a a member of the house Indian affairs committee back In 1920 Ho He has been working for r the Indians so hard ever since despite the ti fact I that there isn't one one in his district that when an Indian thinks thinks' of the 1 Great White Father in 1927 he is apt to think of ot Kelly or Congressman Congress Congress- Congress I man James A. A Frear of Wisconsin K Kelly and Frear are fighting in inthe tho the house for abolition of the tho Indian In IndIan Indian In- In dian bureau while white at the other end of the capitol Senator Burt n K Wheeler Is expected to demand an investigation of bf the bureau Kelly and Frear incidentally are leans There were other congressmen congressmen congress congress- m men n who fought the the l bureau under the last Democratic administration administration admin admin- but who now support it it I I found faund Indians under a little central bureaucracy which dealt with them in arbitrary and autocratic fashion Kelly says Indian property to the amount of withheld from from its owners wa was waa handled handiest by this bule bu bureaucracy bu- bu le often t often cracy-often often wastefully and sometimes dishonestly The Indian IndIan bureau gets away with Uh its high handed activities bf be because because be- be cause of the general lack lack of of interest in the Indians It will take some s mc public pressure to abolish it Wo We We are now now trying t to lop off ort Pone pome Eople of its activities and Congressman Congress Congress- man Frear ar and I hope to obtain legislation which will take the health and education out of its bureaucratic bureaucratic bu bu- bu- bu hands Kelly eIly credits Secretary of the Interior In- In In Interior Work Vork with a a. a desire to to- rem to-rem remedy remedy rem rem- edy the tho situation He and Frear apparently the only two men in the house who have made a study of the problem are arc trying to produce a 1 bill 1111 which Work will approve and which Kelly says will begin the overthrow of ot the bureau Fifty years ago Helen Hunt Jackson Jaclson wrote the story of ot the u white ma mans mails s 's treatment ot or the tho In Indian Indian Indian In- In dian In A Country of Dishonor It Kelly KeUy says But tho the last fifty fitly years ears kayo hay been the blackest of all aU Even liven the Indian World war veterans vet vet- et erans ot of of whom th there re were have havo been pushed back bacle onto the tho reservations and kept there thero under penalty of losing their land if they leave r leave land incidentally mortgaged by the tho Indian bureau which spends r of Indian funds a year yearn in n addition to in appropriations appropriations v The Tho bureau of pf naturalization has half I naturalized and made citizens out I of more than persons I while the Indian J bureau with nearly e one one to every eight families has families h has s kept the tho In Indians Indians Indians In- In from becoming modern Americans The bureau has kept them In hi bondage and ignorance ri a while wasting wasting wast ing their their It t Itis is slaying the tho life ot of ofia a a people is Our treatment of the Indians the sorriest tale that has ever been I written In the history of this re republic re- re public C Copyright 1927 NEA NEIL Service Inc |