Show from the dally 0 october 8 OCR DUSKY CITIZENS the enthusiasts are getting new inspiration on the indian question it duty it 13 to deal with the nolle red man were as badly rattled over the problem as those who awn to be moat exercised over it ahe poor savage would be likely to live and die as much a monster as he is at present and a little more eo thiera is just one obstacle m the way of the civilizing of the indian it is not his scanty faculties or his savagery or his it ia too much consideration his muscles are as strong tor work and his mind for the directing of them in the ordinary industries as is necessary to a comfortable livelihood then why make him a special care his clannishness nish ness is his curse and it is the attempted consideration tor bis presumed incompetency aad helplessness that perpetuates this detestable sprit break down his linea of demarcation turn in upon him an avalanche of white settlers to break up his tribal councils and B atter to the four quarters of the nation his barbarian kingdom to work or starve ue would very boon begin to scratch not in the fashion of a little child doing penance at alie instigation of a parent but with a consciousness that liis life depended upon it forbearance with persistent idleness in nine cases out of ten makes vagabonds out of w hite men why should not the rule apply with equal force to the benighted savage the government has for over a hundred years been exercising its spare ingenuity upon li s case and it has accomplished nothing suppose now the nation turns him over to the philanthropist to practice on with the formers subsidies and councils and thieving agents to perplex and harass we would give the dieky terror just one month to live out his savagery the that his real helplessness and real destitution would call would be quite another sort from that now exercised with so much vehemence |