Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-03-24
MIXED BLOOD IN NEVADA.
What the Eureka sentinel" Has to
say ON the Subject.


Mr.. R. L. Fulton contributes timely ar
ucle to the Enfryfrise on the subject Of
mixed blood in Nevada. While Mr.. Fulton
wades into deep water, the article is a credit
TO both his head and his heart. He declares
that NOR than half the Indian children in
Western Nevada are half breeds and pre-
diets that when they are grown to manhood
and womanhoed they are destined to form a
vicious and dangerous element in our society.
He argues that these half.breeds will inherit
all that is bad in both sides-the degraded
Indian neither and the still lower white
father. Mr.. Fulton is probably not far out
Of the way in his deductions. But what are
we going to do about it9 He thinks that
education may improve the situation and
contends that inasmuch as State and county
governments have nothing to do with the In
dian we must look to Washington for relief.
In assuming this view Mr.. Fulton takes the
position that the race problem is a political
rather than moral question to be treated by
political rather than moral forces. In this
he is wrong, as have been many illustrious
men before him. The question is as old as
the world and as deep as the earth. 1t is
simply the doctrine Of cause and effect. A
natural cause cannot be eliminated by artiic-
ial means; it may be temporarily stayed, not
wholly eradicated. The primary cause in
any affecting sction is the point to be asSail-
ed. The way to stop the propagation Of
half breeds in Western Nevada is to raise the
standard of morality on both sides Of the is.
sue. This is the work of preachers and
teachers and does not belong to politicians
or lawmakers. In Eastern Nevada there is
no field for such missionary work. There is
not one halfbreed cut this way in thousand
Indians. Whether or not there is more vir.
tue in the races in this section of the State
we shall not attempt to say, but it is never.
theless true that there is but little mixing Of
the blood. Or why not assail the evil by
the other route; by encouraging still great.
er mixture, by raising the half. breed to a
quarter breed and so on until they are COM
pletely bleached out. This may be easily
done on the theory that the greater absorbs
the less. There is more white than Indian
blood in Western Nevada, and besides the
Caucasian blood is supposed to be able to
stand any strain that may be placed upon it,
and at the same time walk of with it in good
shape. The diffusion or thickening which it
is to undergo in the years to come may test
it severely for time, but philosophers pre-
dict that it will come up smiling in the end.
AS none of US will be there to see, we may
dismiss the subject without bothering our
heads much about it; but all the same there
will be no distinctive races, or race prejudices
in America q century or SO hence. The lit
tie Indian blood that may be injected in
Western Nevada will not have an apprecia.
BILE effect on the general conglomeration.
But stop the business if you can, Brother
Fulton, by either the moral or political pro.
cess. 1t is big job on either line, for the
"animal" is abroad in the land and getting
more abroad every day. 1t spares neither
the tutored nor the untutored