Show THE rim LATEST INDIAN X OUT OUTBREAK Philadelphia Inquirer It will surprise surprise sur sur- prise price man many persons that after so many years of oC quiet there should be another another an nn- other Indian uprising In the tho West West West- especially in Oklahoma As a matter of oC fact tho the astonishing thing Is that tho the present trouble has be been n averted so 80 long This is not a great tribal uprising at alL nIL It Is a sort of oC which may easily be bo suppressed and it Is a a. natural result of oC the governments government's governments government's govern govern- 4 ments ment's policy as well a as an incident I 4 In tho process of or evolution Every Everyone one familiar with the status oC of the tho small reservations in the West est which are aro near civilization knows that S there the In Indian lan reaches his lowest status There IB Its inevitably a a. I of oC blood that is 15 bad for Cor all concerned and In addition these reservations have long been the resort of criminals criminale crimin crimin- als ale and men of oC tho the lowest type who have become human derelicts In such reservations negroes and de degraded do- do graded whites live with the Indian In Ina ina a a. despicable condition Tho The latter are utter utterly unfitted for tor citizenship and have lo lost t much of or the this pristine virtues of or the Indian The government has realized this to an m extent and has Insisted in insisted In- In slated upon dividing lands in and letting the new owners shift for themselves under tinder certain restrictions which are arc intended to prevent the alienation of the land for a a. generation genera genera- tion or so o. o Now tho the Indian Is not as a rule an agriculturist At his worst he isn't good for much of oC anything It seems vet very hard to say cay 3 so but there Is a a. a cla class s of oC Indians of or mixed blood who I do not seem fitted for any niche In civilization Inevitably the they must go just just Is not certain The Tho best hest of oC our civilization has its weaknesses but the great bod body of people in this country have tho the restraining Influences influences of oC tradition and a 0 love lovo of oC prop prop- erty Tho The Indian has given no hostages hostages hostages host host- ages to fortune which are of ot value to him now It Is with him a a. plain case coso of oC root hog hOK or die and he lie doesn't propose to do much rooting All this Is painful It is a strain unon upon our sympathies It is a reflection reflection tion upon our past treatment of oC the Indian problem but it is In accord with experience and ond the great law of or evolution The line of or least resistance leads the white man to work that he hemn mn may get got the things without which life lite is worthless t The Indian dont don't work as the whites want his to do because life under such conditions is worthless to him The Tho great law of at the tite survival sur of oC the fittest is in Iii operation and all we can do is to use Ufe some Intelligence some patience and some sympathy but it is painfully apparent that we wo shall shan not use these factors In a large Jarge way to the benefit decadent portion portion portion por por- tion of or the Indian race |