The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-25
THE INDIAN QUESTION.

From the Guthrie Capital: 1t may be
that Major WoodsOn's plan after all
the systems of attempting TO civilize
the Indians will succeed in saving the
sace as a permanent element in Ameri-
can civilization. Heretofore it looked
inevitable that the Indian would be an
initiated. The hope that he would be
bred out even was credulous, as his
civilization would not make il possible
to merge with a white except in in rare
cases. 1t Is the history of all animal
life that a change from the wild state
habits to demonstration proved fatal to
80 per cent. The sudden restraint I'M
der civilization TO the Indian, cheating
of the full exercises OF life according
20 his ideas of the aims TO be pursued.
dwarfs the spirit, and falling to com
prehend the white mans pursuits and
struggles, he droops off into a common
sloth, having no purpose Of HE own to
live tor
The civilizlng process IS a long one
in which a hundred years are not a
drop in the bucket The civilization
of Europe by the Latin races was a
struggle of fifteen hundred years, and
the barbarians when found were fur
ther along than the Indian when found
by the white man Major Woodson's
plan of gradually making the some
$500 Cheyenne and ArapahOe Indians
sef-sustaining.b by giving such as will
work government assistance as an en-
enlargement and taking the rations
away from the idle may bring out the
desired effect and save a permanent
element Of that historic race the Anleri-
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to future civilization. The New York
Times IN the following review OF Mrs
d. b. Dyer's book on these tribes has
some doubtful and some good things
TO say:
The Indian question ? appears 20 be
everlasting II viii certainly continue
to be discussed until the Indians are
eXterminated or merged "a the white
population Of the country. and under
the present system OF government care
OF them neither issue seems within The
realm Of tne possible. Il IS a siEuf-
cant fact thar every person Tho has
gained intimate acquaintance with the
typical agency Indian OF our western
reserva tons forms precisely the same
opinion % him He IS al ignorant. Ia
zy. low. cunning. treacnerous savage.
The aim % ms 5ifs Is % Est au the
without paying for them IN either labor
or money. \ refusal 70 support him IN
tndolence and kee2 nm comfortably
intoxicated Is an Insult u his dignity.
and that must IL WIPED out b. pa1eface
s,pre. There are 70 words . express
the fuii measure % dislike. dis;rUst.
and Contempt with witch The agent IT.
dian inspires IN unpretudtcei wh.ts
man. Army officers are unanimous 81
the-r c-ournen datfon. and they Heve
hen supported by verv Close observers
from Henry n. Stanley. Who went out
.z-.,h TIE graf peace commission thirty
--ears ago. - me writer y The volume
before Us.
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study q M resuts = q system which
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