Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-27
HE TH|RSTS FOR
REAL knowledge
MIN HAVEN RESIDENT WRITES
TULSA BANklR FOR MUCH
INFORMATION.
A KS ABOUT The Indians
Inquiries CONCERNING Moral Status OF
People iirre--Do Indians
Marry White Women?

J p. Dyer OF New Haven, Conn
wants 10 know OF Indians in Tulsa
intcrmarry with educated white
women
lie would also Ike to know the
morals Of Tulsans.
There are several other bits of
knowledge about Tulsa and Tulsans
that Mr., Dyer Is anxious to acquire.
lie has written T. W Bryant of the
Central National Bank here letter,
In which he asks the aforesaid ques-
tIons, along with EoHlc others.
"Posstbly you, as the cashier Of a
bank, reads the opening paragraph
I'm the communication, may be able
To gIvo me the Information want"
First the Connecticut man would
be enlightened ~ 10 the extent that
civilization has gone in this city. lie
wants 60 know about our educational
advantages, churches, library opera
house on theatre ana about the sta
tus or morals Of the people"
Then ne propounds the court
query; Are they oulurod?"
In particular" he writes u am
anxious to know il there are many
Indians there, either Of the fall
blood or half blood, ana do they in
termarry with educated white wom-
EN- and II so, are there any race pre-
JUDGES and do they meet socially and
equally with the white people,
And then this explanatory SEN
tencc:
"Of course am asking about the
educated Indians and not those who
may live in reservations"
Mr.. Dyer says that he has been
told that "there Is no prejudice
against the Indians and that the
children OF one white parent and ono
Indian parent are intelligent and
meet on equality with the children OF
the whites"
Mr.. Dyer is apparently laboring
under the same halluclnation that is
burdening many casterners who look
upon Oklahoma as the same wild
and woody" western country that II
was forty years ago.
Mr.. Dyer does not know that Tul-
ga IL city of $4,000 inhabitants,
with two street railway systems, one
ten story hotel six buildings over
1--WE stories in helghth, sixty miles of
paved streets and more milionaires
TO the size than New Haven can
boast Of. There are Indians here to
he sure. but they don't wear blankets
and have scalps dangling from their
belts They lress and act Ike other
people and the majority Of them are
college graduates. Some OF Tulsa's
most successful business and profess
slonal men are either Indians or have
Indian wives
The only prejudice that the white
people in Tulsa hold against the In
dams is that the Indians are some
times SO much shrewder than the
white men that they get the best OF
the business deals.
There is II lin crow" law in Okla
homa that forces negroes to travel
apart from white people, but there
liz no law or recognized racial obll-
CATION that prevents the Indians and
the white people from mngllnS to-
sethcr freely The same applies to
children OF mixed blood.
Tulsa has an opera house and sew
en- theatres. Mr.. Dyer, n public IL
brary. one Of the states leading col
lcgeS, and the second largest public
school system IN the state, with over
4 0OO students enrolled The morals
Of the people here are on an equal
with those of any other city in this
land and the residents of Tulsa. most
Of whom came here from the east,
are as cultured as the most effete
easterner.
For further information Mr.. Dyer
might address the cashier of any of
Tulsa's eight banks, the suporintcnd-
ent Of the public schools the secre-
tary Of the Commercial club or
Mayor Wooden.