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Show Boston Man Emphatic J in Defense of Indians Based on years of life in the Far West among the Indians anJ cowboys. cow-boys. ( 'yrus 1 allin. a Boston sculptor, who has made a reputation for his Indian studies, recently delivered an address in which he scored the cowboys cow-boys and entered a plea of defense for the Indian. According to the speaker, the Indian has never leen treated fairly by the whites of this country. If they had been, he says, there would never have been the conflicts con-flicts which have taken place and which are blots on the white race. Mr. Dallln described early buffalo game laws, the mail delivery system among wagon trains and many other incidents of interest about the early pioneer days, lie cited the killing off of the buffaloes as the greatest blow to the Indian, for "with the death of every buffalo was sealed the death of the Indian." and he said the red man was not a "bloodthirsty savage," sav-age," but "a gentleman with dignity and majesty of bearing who practiced prac-ticed self-restraint." |