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Show BUCKS ONLY SMILED Roosevelt Endeavored to Lecture Lec-ture a Band of Sioux Indians. Washington. March 2.1. President Roosevelt soundly lectured a partv of his callers today. They were Ognllala Sioux Indians, who. it is said, are more addicted to horse racing and gambling than they are to the pursuits of agriculture. agri-culture. The president endeavored to impress upon his visitors ideas of industry in-dustry and thrift. While the lecture was being interpreted, the Indians listened in solemn silence. As they , emerged from the executive offices their faces beamed with smiles. The callers, who were presented to the president by Representative Burke of South Dakota, included several chiefs, among them American Horse, Young Man Afraid and Red Hawk. They informed the president that they owned 40.000 ponies and the same number num-ber of cattle. The president told them they ought to dispose of at least half of their ponies and increase their holdings of cattle to 100,000. He frankly told them that if they would stop horse raring and gambling and devote their energies to cattle 'raising and agriculture . they soon might become valuable citizens. The 1 policy of the government, he sdid, was to i take care of the older Indians, but the younger moinbo-s of the tribes would soon have to look out for themselves. Idleness and laziness would not be tolerated. |