The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-10

done any more than ! would try to ex-
plain other cures we have heard Of.
simply know that he did wonderful
things. 1t has been argued and talked
about time and again, but ! guess no
satisfactory conclusion was ever reacheo
The emotional theory does not apply
for there are people living today VINO
were cured either by or through soma
ter and they remain cured A llNlnS
witness to a thing Of that kind is hard
to overcome by the emotional theory
When SChlatter left Albuquerque where
he was a shoemaker and in his dress
affected the conventional appearance OF
the Lord, he went to Denver where ne
had a three months mission under the
orders of the Father. as he sala-
went up to Denver during that time ana
[ never saw 50 much interest and eN-
element as he was creating 1 DeneNe
that he was insane, but he seemed TO
have some strange power. he was noe
in ii for the money, for he never took a
penny for his services or allowed any
one with him to do 50. When ne lelt
Denver he went south although commit
tees from many of the eastern cities
went to Denver and attempted TO get
him to go with them It was in NoNem-
Der, 1895, that he left Denver ana Went
south He was seen several times on ms
Journey which he made on white morse.
The last that was reported concerning
him was in southwestern Texas Where a
cowboy gave him food. After that noth-
ing was heard of him. There have been
east claiming to be Schlatter, but they
have always been found out in a short
time There was something remaikaple
about the man and if he should turn up
there Is no doubt but that he would be
known for no one could successfully
initiate him. They say in Albuquerque
that his bones lying by the side OF
his horse were found on the banks OF
The Rio Grsnde. and there is also a
story to the effect that he IS now IN
Mexico living as a hermit in the noun
tains. The first story is probably correct
as the description of the dress ana the
man. as well as the horse found on the
Rio Crande. tally exactly with Schlatter
and the animal he rode
THE eastern people who get notions
about how to civilize the Indian make
me ache" said a gentleman who hal
served a time in the department OF the
interior Eastern people VINO nave 4 a.
the money they need seem to put IN
their spare time worrying over the ne
gro in the south and the Indian IN the
west I don't know much about the
south and the negro question, but ! DO
know that if the eastern busy bodies
don't know any more of the negro than
they do Of the indian that their knowl-
edge will cause their reason to topple.
People in Kansas. those who have lived
here for 30 years or more, know what
lot of trouble the philanthropic eastern
pedantic idiot caused by poking his nose
into the Indian question. The same con-
C1IfQn EAlSLA III <AIlLAllA AO4ag lIdN EN
listed in Kansas years ago. I see that "A
Miss Somebody. who is superintendent
of an Indian school insists that teach
ing home-making duties TO every Indian
girl is OF vital importance to the civili-
cation Of the tribes, and that it is more
essential than the teaching of trades to
the boys. This makes a western man
ache all over for he knows that the In
dian viii be Indian as long he is an
Indian. When ne mixes with the whites
then he begins to be somebody else and
not until then. The CherOkees would
be no better today than the Yumas or
Noouis if there was not more white
than Indian blood in their veins. There
is only one way to civilize a fullblooded
Indian and that is to let him grow old
and die. Imagine a fullblooded Indian
girl taking a two years course in home
making and then going back to the
camp to teach some buck how TO sleep
in bed with sheets on il. or how 10 act
at the table when there was company.
Everyone who has had any experience
with Indians is acquainted with the fact
that the squaw. even if she is a gradu-
ate Of Carlisle, has about as much infiu-
ence with the bucks when she gets back
to camp as the German vote has on the
displacement Of the noble redmans ap-