The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-12-05
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ROOSEVELT ON INDIANS.

- i'oANehh ho'aNNSili speaking (
Q on the subject OF Indians. says c
Q IN his message. c
10 During the year just past, the c
0 phase Of the Indian question c
0 which has been most sharply c
20 brought to public attention is the c
Q larger legal Significance Of the G
Q Indians induction into citizen G
9 ship. This has made itself mani G
Q fest not only in a great access Of G
G litigation in which the citizen In {,
Q dian figures as a party defendant @
Q and in a more widespread dispo- Q
@ sition to levy local taxation upon 9
@ his personally, but in decision G
o Of the United States supreme G
Q court which struck away the main @
o prop on which has hitherto rested @
@ the governments benevolent ef g
. fort to protect him against the @
@ evils Of intemperanne. The court @
Q holds, in effect, that when an In @
@ dian becomes, by virtue Of an al G
Q lotment of land to him, a citizen G
@ Of the state in which his land is @
@ situated, he passes from under @
@ federal control in such matters as @
9 this, and the acts of the congress @
Q prohibiting the sale or gift to him @
Q Of intoxicants become substanti- @
Q ally imperative 1t is gratifying G
Q to note that the states and mum. @
@ cipalities of the West which have G
@ most at stake in the welfare of Q
G the Indians are taking up this c
Q subject and are trying to supply G
9 IN a measure at least, the abdica- @
9 tion of its trusteeship forced upon G
g the federal government. Never O
Q theless, I would urgently press @
9 upon the attention Of the congress G
9 the question whether some amend G
Q ment of the internal revenue laws @
. might not be of aid in prosecut- O
9 ing those malefactors, known in G
9 the Indian country as bootleg @
Q gers" who are engaged at once in @
o defrauding the United States @
9 treasury Of taxes and, what is 6
Q Far more important, in debauch- G
O ing the Indians by carrying c
. liquors illicitly into territory still G
@ completely under federal jurisdic- @
c ton. C
Q Among the crying present needs g |
Q of the Indians are more day G
Q schools situated in the midst Of G
@ their settlements, more effective c
9 instruction in the Industries pur- @
@ sued on their own farms, and G
. more liberal extension Of the @
Q field matron service, which means c
O the education OF the Indian wo- o
o men in the arts of home making. g
Q Until the mothers are well start @
Q ed in the right direction we can c
Q not reasonably expect much from @
Q the children who are soon to form G
9 an integral part Of our American G
g citizenship. Moreover, the ex- G
Q cuse continually advanced by G u
9 male adult Indians for refusing Q
o Offers of remuneratiye employ G
@ ment at distance from their C
@ homes is that they dare not leave @
. their families too long out Of their c
Q sight. One effectual remedy for G
Q this state Of things is to employ G
Q the minds and strengthen the G
o moral fiber Of the Indian women c
Q 1.-The end to which the work of G
G the field matron is especially di- c I
9 rSeted. sgast that the congress G /
Q win make It's appropriations for O
Q Indian lay schools and field ma @
G irons as generous as may consist o
o with the other pressing demands @
Q upon its providence cl
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