"If there had never been an Indian
reservation," he said, "and if we had
never had an Indian bureau, the In
dians of the United States would to
day be a thousand times better off
than they are, and this country would
not now be called upon to appropri
ate $10,000,000 yearly for the man
agement or mismanagement of the
bureau.
N "I* say without hesitation or res
ervation that the true policy of the
government should be to permit the
Indians to attend our schools and to
eliminate the purely Indian schools
altogether. I would have Indians
enter government employ, and I
would assist them as far as possible
in entering business Jife. That will
accomplish far more than reserva
tions will."
What General Pratt says' is good
sound sense and applies to all other
nationalities and classes.' The plan of
segregating any class of Americans Is
both morally and economically wrong.
The white Americans who insist
upon jimcrow cars, jimcrow schools,
jimcrow libraries, jimcrow public
parks, etc., etc., for colored Americans
are traitors to true Americanism and
the colored Americans who accept,
without protest, the indignities and
degradations forced upon them, have
descended so low in the scale of hu
manity that there is no word in the
English language to describe the
depths to which they have gone.
MIXING THE RACES.
The South, that is the white South is
not opposed to racial admixture, but
being at heart thoroughly immoral it
insists that the mixing be done in an
illegal manner.
