| Show our attitude toward the indian the attitude of the government towards the american Amp rican indians is no loader longer one of the paternalism it is seeking to place the indian in it a position where lie he can become a citizen a worker president roosevelt has made a long study of the indian question and it ib has been liis his opinion that the indians have received too much nursing thov have been herded into hito corral so to speak aud penned in ill la 14 reservations S have been fed und clothed at government expel expense lse that such fiction action was rv v an in the early pioneer days there ii is no doubt today this seems no jio longer necess necessary ury in round nuIn bers there are indians in tile the united stales at the pre present preterit serit tinie time wo r have about agents and aad representatives looking 11 sifter them by degrees we tire are select ing indians for independent Ineth methods of living we say to them here is a plot jil ot of ground 1 jere here are garden seeds implement z and supplies on oil your youl own exert exertions iotis will depend your future 11 this establishes a chilt child of 01 nature us bs a tiller of the soil an indian makes one of the best f laborers the railroads can testify to that fact but take a white man and give him all lie he needs liow how man many y of 01 them would work hard if some one WHO was providing for them theat this is the position or of tho the ind ians i 11 s wo we have bave care cared fot for him an and protected him and allowed him to depend on the agent for av W 16 21 ho h aults uy this thia plan is being r doo done awo nw wit wilh 11 it II will be 11 gril dual iwo cess cesa ll it will not bo be loiis coite ii in chis Y year ear or the next nev but t the lie P ofick la is eit I ir nit 1111 v jowel roli fo owed outs out alad tile ilio lift li it ot ly deit it deot is being beau decreased evera ehnry viar yua and ami the work is lin ill done A watch is iri ex over fill all aur win r i S wile one olle ib 1 ouirl 1 I u t i I 1 I 1 v to look arter him toll i lie he is i expected to do jo ao we to lilakus tle tile wy way apy as V for alib llido hini to tons assert serl inri his lnla him to become an ii eit cil wn iziu midy the llie ability an aid power of development inherent in ut indian all hf needs is ii chaika acl nince |
