| Show AN IMIUX OX INDIANS Tor an Indian to discuss the future ol the rod man In ono of the leading magazines ot tile civilized world will not thought ol n few years ago but today It is dID b7 810100 lokIOD In the Forum lor AuguiL ADd he doessolnau Intelligent and forceful manner lie points out that when white men flrat came to America the Indian was to them kind and confiding confid-ing but Instead of being shaped Into a noble manhood by the clvlllzsd Ice the aborigine WAS Oftener booked lo pieces and destroyed Mr Pokagon goes ou to say 111 Is Usalogm to leDY Ibo charge that nl tlinos wo have boon goaded to Vindictive and cruel act home of iny ow n tribe however were moldlerain ng a Northern army during the ClTll War borne of them were taken and bld prhumor In tho rebel prlsoim anil the cruelty w It fell according to the taUn 1 they tell was witnessed wit-nessed there was titter outdone lu borders bor-ders with Ibo I tKAlpliiKltiiiro I I and touinhank And yet 1 believe that had the Northern 1 rpie b eon placed In the South under like circumstances their priconer4 wastwould ho been treat ml nllh similar cruelly It nan the result re-sult nf u temperate effort to move Oil ox Ilrlnu cause I believe there it no reasonable person wall grounded lu United States I hIlary who will not aj 011 that tborowere tell tlinalavinany bo plirlsbed OIIIobl III Southern 1 rrl now iu Imvolueii lilllml by our piwplo slncu the discovery of Amerlcu 1 recall thomi lacla nol 10 cenoure but to Allow that cruelty and revenge are the off pritig ul viaritocof race slid thattluturo has placed 110 lonpussable gulf between us and llrllluitlon Ihe point here made by ILe Indian Cannot be gIDIOI the favors Id mau has been no more cruel and barbarous thin fill aivsge white rather when Cooled by adverse con dlllont The fact that clvlllasd White men coma sa near the noclvlllztd IndlAU In his fluiusntss shows that the accusation ol duel bloodtulrstlneta against the aborigine Is not n bar lo the latter lelng raised to a high stood aril ol civilization through methods llmt will reach bit better nature and lead the nobler faculties to victory over the baser passions Jim the victory lu not to be attained by en ocuragln Idleness on Ibo tail ef the Indian and his children nt le being done In K part ol the government policy and ns taUn exception to by the Forum miter who sayi I I While I moat heartily ondnrto the preacnt policy uf the oTernuint In dealing with oar people I must admit to botrualoluylown l comlcllons tnstl am worried or the 1lon aymicni UII der iTblih ho many of our propli are IIolllg fed oil ho reficriations I greatly rr 11 may eventually vairabondia many of IbDI billie olld 14 10ulploo It bil-lie gathering 01 lazy Immoral White 0111 of tits nr1 1 Intel who spend their time In I Mont I Iud to I car settling Indian morality Thus the gboDdllm to ba feared Is I lent which comes from the Spindle Ion find Iclluenco of the lower classes of white me Trio future of the IlIdlo In Ho lately and pogr INS I 10 causing him to roallzi the necet oty ol his 1013f IDdopeDdnU moral I bJ 0111IIolh life dllor It above the whIt Olin support u n p uper or bit use at a corridor |
