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Show Senator Veat, in the course f his re-i re-i marks on the Indian appropriation bill i in the Senate last weelt, paid this feel-I feel-I ing tribute to the Jesuits: "Mr. President, Pres-ident, the Jesuits have elevated ths Indian In-dian w herever they have been allowed to do so without interference of bigotry and fanaticism and the cowardice of insectivorcua politicians, who are afraid of the A. P. A. and the votes that can be cast against them in their district and States. They have made him a Christian, and, above even that, have made him a workman able to support himself and those dependent upon him. The Jesuit has no family. He has no ambition. He has no idea except to do his duty a,s God has. given him to s;e it; and I am not afraid to say this, because be-cause I speak from personal observation, observa-tion, and no man even went among these Indians with more intens3 prejudice preju-dice against the Jesuits than I had when I left the city of Washington to perform that duty. . I made my report to the Secretary of the Interior, Senator Sen-ator Teller, now on this floor, and I said in that report what I say hTe, and what I would say anywhere and be glad of the opportunity to say it." . |