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Show have recklessly assimilated the traits and qualities of the savage, adopted his methods in war, his shifts for a livelihood, his tricks aud cruelties; and the red ma,n has been an apt pupil of the degraded vhite inan with whom he has familiarly consorted, catching his English curse words, his whisky habit. his frauds, and his foul and debasin.n. dis-eases.' so t'atnlly s ~ l ) l , ii~h~r glif e of t l ~ ena tive saves. .\ ~niscellon~tlrlr~rwi of outl;lws.ndvc~~t~~erxr.rpsr,i soners-;I lnnrley Iur-has g.e~l~:~dlleldy the w ~ iyl l :~d\.nllceu f ~ ~ I I I I ~ I IsIe! t tl~l.s. T h e s ~ ragsaad 1:lrtt.u t , i hun1;nlity frillginguln.wesl~~sbl,ll .der nro suctll snp- ~ I I ~ I I I ~ ClI~Io. ~vvvrtr~, y8 trung, ri~.tunn<s,t !If.reli:t~~nrl ell w110 eo111et olay t l~vf ~ul ld~l ioolfl uwv State*. Rut ro overcolne tllc rvils uf tllr ~ L I I I type who flrst invaded andvitiated the lifeof the red man is theheavy task. The evil influences of degraded whites, whose whisky and vicious examples clog and destroy the beneficial effects of the good influence of schools and ~nissionai, s a great disadvantage. Contending with the savagery of the Indians when fostered by the vices of the whites, is like writing beautiful sektiments on the sands of the seashore to be obliterated by the iocoming tide. There are many noble examples of men and women who, as teachers and missionaries, Protestant and Catholic, have consecrated their lives to the uplifting of the red man. Whatever may be said of the politics or theology of these workers. whether souud or nnsound. Oath- &lip ur ~~ou;Catli~'siio; ,l,o l~g;I S rl1r.v irrivr I,? purr lives alld psecepr\l ru r.,~ i..+.. t b r ~ e~ 111t~ri~ito1 1>eI 1s1 igIlt.rp lm~er,l tey are ~ n t i [ l e1~0l d ne rrt,tlit. ever\, aid ~tossihlcs l101il11b t, given t1lr111LI!. the Goverlllnenr. 011 m<ny frontiers the l)opolar>ra~e alnong"most people, even those of influence, is for wealth. Where this spirit dominates, the best type of society is not developed. Political, social, economic, and educational qnestions resolve themselves into this: the prodoction of wealth, not of a noble race of men. If the aim is chiefly for the former, the latter mill not be produced. When James Anthooy Proude visited South Africa he f o ~ u ~thde whole talk among the people to be ( 1 about dia-mond fields and gold fields;" but l( diamonds and gold,!' said he, "never made the Inaterial of a nation and never mill." Mr. Proude also said: Let menltll be the fit~blituee nd of onr existence, and no new English nntiou wiil be born in the Cape dr iuhstralia. Rnglaud bereelf will be a large pr&zi:ing farm, lunnngetl ou eeonolnic principles; and the people, however rich the)- may appear, will be ateadilg going down tu what nsed to be called the Deril. These are strong utterances, but Mr. Froude certainly will not be acc,used of "evaugelical cant:" and the uoint I wish to emuhasize is that a stronger inksion of llldral sense ind eveu of iutelligent senti-inent, on all the frontiers, will greatly help to advance the red men into the hixher tvues of character so ~nuohd esired. I'eople e~lco~~r:iii tl l. did lrues.. I I I Z I I ~ ~a, ~ td( l i~*ipat i:oI~I ~~1 1 0t likely to exert tl~c~nst!lrrcbir grnl~inei ~a~pn~r c~ne\ n\ -ti. t h ~ ~tl~~o~.;ct i ~ighrr ounliries ( d ~ r l ~ i1r hi~ n\.cn l~okrnn, l;lns eunlltries lnailr b.v ili~tnrr1 0 be covered with thriving homesteads aud happy, prosperous communities have been given over to barrenness and desolation. In order to true elevation of character some authority must he recognized which will exert a wholesome control over dissolute elements. Without this such conltnn~~itiwesil l bei j~i lpeyn doge~~;htn,t l nor rile intelligent, nl~barnntial moniciu;~liricso t'n s t r o ~ n~:c~ tion. Iied nlt!rl will t ;~k rt lleir I:IIL* fron~ |