Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-21

II of the first class he gets fee-simple
title to his land allotment and all of the
privileges Of citizenship. If of the third
class the government will supervise the
lease or sale of his lands as well as the
expenditure of every cent derived from
the transaction, and will exercise every
authority OF guardianship to protect him
from his own incompetency.
- A thorough course of sprouts has been
devised for each national ward of the
second class. He will be kept in con-
slant training and will be helped along
the trail toward liberty as rapidly as
government can speed him. His lands
will be held in trust. but he will be al
lowed to go out and find a leasee. and
VIII draw up the papers himself. Then,
having progressed further, his guardian
may sell his lands for him, IL a good
price is offered. and he will do the prac-
tical work OF carrying out this deal, such
as seeing to the proper drawing of the
deed, And although, unable as yet to
spend the proceeds as he sees fit. he must
go out and find the proper bank In which
to deposit TIA bonded repository for In
dian funds, and that paying the highest
interest rate. Then he must learn to
open the account and although allowed
to check his money out upon the super
intendents permission. he will be allowed
TO draw the checks before bringing them
to that official to be countersigned Next,
as he grows to understand values he will
be permitted to buy things for himself
under less and less restriction And
gradually larger and larger allowances
OF money Will be turned over to him for
less definite purposes. his self-reliance
growing all the while, until the great
moment arrives when his superintendent
can conscientiously recommend him. to
tent to hold property rights and citizen
ship unfestrained. And these privileges
that high official can then grant him
without further examination or ceremony
Such is the interesting process which
Robert G. Valentine, the new commits
sioner of Indian affairs. believes will 60
far toward solving the vexed Indian
problem" &~
Understand. first. that each Indian is
allowed to go out upon his reservation
or other designated lands and select
his allotment. much as the homesteader
selects his government land, but these
allotments have been held i'm trust for
him. generally for quarter century. dur
ing which time he has been unable TO
get final title. so as to DISPOSE of them
or the proceeds as he has seen fit. For
about twenty years the government
awarded citizenship to each Indian as
soon as he got his allotment, at the very
beginning Of this trust period, during
which il was to be held under govern
ment guardianship. In other words Con-
gress gave him the privileges of citizen
ship rights although 1t deemed him In
competent to even hold property rights
until q generation Of time should pass
over his head. Thus sad lot Of red
citizens and red voters were turned out
and Il was not uncommon for an In
dian agent here and there to throw"
the red vote to the party to whom he
owed his job. Theodore Roosevelt was
one Of those who was Mortified by these
conditions, which he observed during a
trip into the west with Herbert Welsh
of Philadelphia. the eminent Indian-lov-
at the head of the Indian Rights As
ISOLATION. Mr.. Roosevelt. who was civil
service commissioner when Mr.. Welsh
showed him this conditions Of affairs, sav