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Show COMYISJIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 'r in which the Indian can be carried across that line is by letting him learn from experience that the stomach filled to-day will go empty to-morrow unless something of to-day's surplus is saved overnight to meet to-morrow's deficit. Another sense lacking in primitive man is that of property unseen. Yon will never implant in the Indian an idea of values by showing him a column of figures. He must see and handle the dollars themselves in order to learn their worth, and he must actually squander some and pay the penalty of loss before his mind will compass the notion that he can not spend them for foolishness and still have them at hand for the satisfaction of his needs. A further charge will be hurled. against my programme-that it is premature. Such an objection is enough of itself to prove that the objector has sought counsel of his timidity rather than of his obser-vation. If we do not begin now, when shall we? I believe that the whole trend of modern events, to any mind that studies it sincerely, will commend the plan I have tried to sketch out. One day must come to the Indian the great change from his present status to that of the rest of our population, for anomalies in the social system are as odious as abnormalities in nature. Either our generation or a later must remove the Indian from his perch of adventitious superiority to the common relations of citizenship and reduce him to the same level with other Americans. I, for one, prefer to start the under-taking myself and guide it, and I am ready to take my share of responsibility for it; for I do not know who may have the direction of it a t some later period-whether a friend of my red brother, or an enemy, or one who regards him and his fate with indifference. Perhaps in the courses of merging this hardly used race into our body politic, many individuals, unable to keep up the pace, may fall by the wayside and be trodden underfoot Deeply as we deplore this possibility, we must not let. it blind us to our duty to the race as a whole. It is one of the cruel incidents of all civilization in large masses that some, perhaps a multitude, of its subjects will be lost in the process. But the unseen hand which has helped the white man through his evolutionary stages to the present will, let us trust, be held out to the red pilgrim in his stumbling progkess over the same rough path. IMPROVEMENT, NOT TRANBFORMATION. I have spoken of the mistake of assuming that the Indian is only a Caucasian with a red skin. A twin error into which many good people fall in their efforts to educate the Indian is taking it for granted that their first duty is to make him over into something else. If nature has set a different physical stamp upon different races of |