Deseret Evening News | 1904-03-24 | Page 8 | Sioux Indians Only Smiled

SIOUX I X 1 D S MILn I Called Caled on Who Told Them How They Might Become Valuable Citizens LECTURED THEM IN GOOD STYLE lucy Tey Quietly Informed lm The Th Had Ponies and Same Number Of Cattle Catle Catte Washington March 23 Roosevelt soundly lectured n a of ot his callers today They were Ogallala la II Sioux Indians who It Is said 1011 are more noro oro addicted to horse mel racing and Bud gambling titan than they ore are Iro to the pur par pursuit suits suit sull of agriculture The Tho president endeavored to Impress upon hl hil hum visitors IAl rs Ideas Idels of ot Industry and an thrift While tho lecture was being In tn the tho Indians listened Isten d In II solemn silence As they the tho emerged from Crom rout time the tle executive offices emcee their faces Ices beamed with wih unities studios The Time callers who were presented d to the time president by Representative of or South Dakota Included several chiefs among them American Horse Young Man Afraid Arid mid fled nerl Hawk They Thoy Tho Informed the tho president that they thc owned ponies olles and amud tho the name number of cattle cuttle Itle Tho 11 president told to them they the ought to 10 dispose cl po e of ot at leant half of ot their unit und Increase their holdings of ot eat to lie 10 told toll them theta that If I they would stop and 1111 Ild gambling lovoto their energies to cattle mixing anti and mit agriculture n they tho snOut coon Io n might heroine valuable TIme Tho ho policy oC of the time government ho said was to take tako euro care cur of ct f the tho older Indiana but hut tho time Bouncer oun cr members of ot tho the tribes would soon intro hiva to 10 look out omit for themselves and laziness would not It be j