Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-20
Monday Morning. June 20. 1881.
TH So RED MEN.

Although Carl Schurz is out of the Depart ment of the Interior, he has not lost all in terest in the Indian question which gave him so much trouble when he was dealing person. ally and directly with it. He contributes to the North Anaeriea7a Reoteao an article on the subject, which will, of course, receive much attention. He has not nor was it to be ex- pected that he had, arrived at any important modification of the views he held while in authority. He argues that there are three things to be done to fit the Indians for their ultimate absorption in the great body of American citizenship, which he thinks to be their destiny unless they are exterminated. They should be taught to work by making work profitable and attractive to them ;'' they should be- educated; they should be indiVidualized in the possession of property by settlement in severalty with a fee simple title, after which the lands they do not use may be disposed of for general settlement and enterprise without danger and with profit to the Indians" The whole argument of the essay is summed up follows
 CD The greatest danger hanging over the Indian race arises from the fact that, with their large and valuable territorial posses sions which are lying waste, they stand in the way of what is commonly called ''the de- velopment of the country"
 CD A rational Indian policy will make it it's principal object to avert that danger from the red men by doing what will be most ben eicial to them as well as to the whole peo ple,-namely, by harmonizing the habits, oc- equations and interests of the Indians with that development of the country"
 (3) To accomplish this object it is of press iner fo fba Tn1ionc fo yUorI to educate their youth of both sexes, to make them small proprietors of land with the right of individual ownership under the pro- tection of the law. and to induce them to make that part of their lands which they do not need for cultivation profitable to them selves in the only possible way-by selling it at just rate of compensation, thus open ing it to general settlement and enterprise.
 The ex-Seeretary believes that the Indians should certainly have that standing in the courts which is necessary for their protec- tion," but he does not declare what kind of a standing this is. Indeed, he says, ''I do not intend to go here into disquisition on the legal status of the Indian, on which elab- crate treatises have been written and learned judicial decisions rendered without raising it above dispute. The end to be reached is un- occasionally the gradual absorption of the Indians in the great body of American citi- zenship. When that is accomplished, then, and only then, the legal status of the Indian will be clearly and finally fixed"
 While all the friends of the Indians will agree with most of that which Mir. Schurz says many will differ with his opinion con- cerning the legal status of the Indian Many believe that it is possible to fix the legal status of the Indian clearly, if not finally, while he is being absorbed into the great body of American citizenship. Moreover, they consider it a sin and shame that that status was not long ago fixed