The school physiology journal . of a superior race is tohelp an inferior. If any be great among youlet him be your minister. At the present time there are 8,000,000 col-ored people in the South. There are about250,000 Indians, mainly in Indian Territory andthe Rocky Mountain region. It is claimed thatidleness and vice and consequent disease aredecimating their ranks at an alarming rate. It SCHOOL PHYSIOLOGY JOURNAL 131 is an indisputable fact that the system of dolingout rations to the Indians without requiring anequivalent in work is a fatal mistake, and isrobbing them of their self-respect a
The school physiology journal . of a superior race is tohelp an inferior. If any be great among youlet him be your minister. At the present time there are 8,000,000 col-ored people in the South. There are about250,000 Indians, mainly in Indian Territory andthe Rocky Mountain region. It is claimed thatidleness and vice and consequent disease aredecimating their ranks at an alarming rate. It SCHOOL PHYSIOLOGY JOURNAL 131 is an indisputable fact that the system of dolingout rations to the Indians without requiring anequivalent in work is a fatal mistake, and isrobbing them of their self-respect as well as?rapidly vagabondizing them. It is true that many colored people mortgagetheir crops for food to last while the crops are growing, that they fritteraway their earnings andresort to petty dishonestyto make up the all do not. As the problem is oneof brotherhood, as it isone of assimilation, so itis one of education. Wecan help and assimilatethese two races only byeducating them. Evenmore than in the case of. the illiterate foreign imtrue migrant this is true ofthe Negroes and the In-dians. We must educatebefore we can legislatethem into self - reliantmanhood. No attemptto enlighten the South ?Copyright, 1891. by Mary Sheldon Barnes, qj-j J£g dutV tO the COl indian boy on arrival at ored man will ever secure Hampton* what we want. . There is no power in thenational government to effect it. . Itmust come through the Negro himself. The Indians unless they have been subjectedto most unfavorable conditions are self-respect-ing, noble-minded, and responsive to all rightfulappeals to their better nature. Mr. GeorgeBird Grinnell, who has had a long and intimateassociation with them, says : There is probablynot an Indian tribe in the United States whichcould not under the direction of the right kindof man become entirely self-supporting withinten years. If the philanthropist or the patriot is inclinedto be discouraged because that which will surelytake many generatio
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