| Show INDIAN HEREDITARY TRAITS There has bas been a horrible murder in California Mrs Platt teacher in the Indian school on the reser reser- reservation reservation in Riverside county declined to comply with the demands of a Indian for money to pay his railway fare to and from a place he wanted to visit That night ht she was killed in her ber home oak wood plied piled around her the building fired and her ber body cremated The first thing the neighbors knew of ot it was when her ber year old year 10 niece who bad had barely es- es escaped escaped es escaped from tram the burning building gave gae the alarm The circumstances are such as 88 to justify the claim that the dastardly deed was wa the work of one or more Indians Indiana Upon this thil c condition of affairs the theBan theBan be beBan Ban Francisco Chronicle makes a gen geo- general general eral assault upon apon the Indian race race and does I it in truly style Speak Speak- SpeakIng SpeakIng Speaking ing of the it U says that while as s a rule the natives are harm harm- harmless less lell and peaceable none the less leu are thy they I Indians and possessed of ot the hereditary traits traUs which make them bem as dangerous as a sleeping rat rattlesnake e nake It then goes on to assert ert that it iii Is to no exaggeration to say lay that all the education education tion that can be bestowed upon the American Indian as al a class will not oot breed out of him his bis Innate In Date cruelty lust and aDd savagery and that sooner or later hJ his hereditary traits will assert themselves at the expense ex- ex expense ex expense pense of those who have bave labored for tor years yean to make him something better than he is capable of becoming The barbarism of the assault made can oan be determined on our arys ary's ary arys ary's own statement batas a rule Indians Indiana are harmless and peaceable Why Why- then should an exception to this rule be seized upon poo as al a pretext to accuse the whole race of possessing hereditary U traits w which hleb make them themas themas as dangerous as 88 a sleeping rattle rattle- rattlesnake rattlesnake snake unless it be through the Innate cruelty and savagery of ot the accuser himself that the suggestion is made Because the evidently malicious assault as assault sault upon the Indian race to is made by bya bya a white man Maa would it be proper roper to say that it i is the the breaking out of hereditary heredi heredi- hereditary hereditary tary traits in lD the Caucasian make them as dangerous as ae a sleeping rattlesnake And when it comes comel to crimes of the truly horrible ot of the one ODe referred to how boW often are they discounted by white men meni meDI Not only are there awful crimes committed by Caucasians on some slight or fancied provocation or even on OD no DO provocation at all but there are several instances of on record in the West where men have been housed and fed ted and clothed and have bave rewarded their benefactors by deeds of almost almo t similar detail to the reservation atrocity Not only w was the motive of revenge absent but the sense of ot gratitude gratitude gratitude tude would have bave precluded the com com- commission commission mission of ot such a deed even by the or ordinary or or wild Indian or by any except the most mOiS depraved d wretches am amont amon of white m men D et Yet to take tate these nd charge th tb them in to 0 the th he b hereditary TY r traits of t the th white race raca would be cruelty despicable bl and savagery gery In io a mo most moat t ble form There are ar among mong the white men arm In inthis this o country some om of the most mOlt vicious and nd depraved individuals In to be found anywhere but the great majority ot of the people are of ot another claw class entirely There r are also alao among the Indians Indiana some lome of ot the tb worst rascals that ever went but the bulk of ot the tb aba abo- abo treated kindly and nd fairly present one on of ot the highest big best types ot of manhood And as ai all aU the education that can be bestowed upon some white men cannot breed out of ot them their Innate cruelty lust luet lu t and savagery so 10 o it Is la with the Indian But because this Is ia the fact in individual cases to accuse the whole of either r race with being pos possessed of ot like traits is ia an out outrage rage such uch as ai no minded broad person would be deliberately and intention intentionally ay ally guilty of We in Utah know of at the Indian character by experience and andIn andin andin In the line of fair and friendly dealing with the race do not bold hold second place to any community on the globe We also know that that fair and lId friend friendly ly Iy dealing has hall ha been taken laken improper advantage bythe of ot proportionately less leu by the Indian than by the white man Therefore we can state from knowledge that by proper education there can call be bred out of the Indian IM as a class his Innate cruelty lust luat and savagery if Indeed be he ever possessed them except as a matter of ot education Schools and civilization do not present to the Indian anything better than in a reasonable time he Is capable of ot be- be becoming becoming be coming |
