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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Continued from page 8.
The whole tendency of intoxicating drink is to de
grade one's manhood, sear the conscience, weaken the
intellect, dull the senses, 'destroy the will, corrupt the
mind and defile the soul.
The bar-room is a place where criminals are born
and paupers bred a resort where vice is cradled and
anarchy hatched.
Its path is stained with children's blood and the
money it receives is blistered with widows' tears. It is
the disgrace of civilization and the ulcer of a nation's
life.
"But the white man drinks and why not.I?"says the
Indian.
Let me tell the Indian why : The vices of civiliza
tion are the vilest known 1o the race.
Imitate the white man's virtues, but discard his vices.
You have perhaps heard the story of the man who was
so mean that he lost all his friends, so that when he
came to die he left his money to a charitable associa
tion with the understanding that they would furnish
the mourners at his funeral.
So they hired three Irishmen with bowed heads, and
on no account to lift them u
As they were passing through the city one of them
said: "Mike, I smell something I am going to look
up."
"What's that to you?" replied Mike, "you will not
get your money if you look up. Don't you do it. Keep
your head down." But finally the smell became in
tolerable. Pat looked up, and to his astonishment found that
in passing through the crowd they had missed the
hearse and were following a swill cart.
My Indian brother stick to the hearse, or what is
belter, never consent to march along with your eyes
shut.
Don't follow the swill cart, even if it is drawn by a
pale fa-e.
Now, my friends I ask you not lo overlook the fact
that the Indian has been driven from Plymouth Pock
to Poker Flat and cuffed from Yipsalanti to Yuba Pain.
He has been forced through thorn and and ihicket,
through fog and fire, over plane and mountain, until
to-day he is scattered amidst forests and ferns, gorges
and gulches, prairie dogs and poverty-stricken coyotes,
jungles and jack-rabbits, cactus and cowboys.
But this will be so no longer. He is entering the
twentieth century with the imperial crown of the age
upon his brow and the sceptre of the Infinite in his
hands.
And I have sufficient faith in God and man to believe
that this mighty transition means a reorganized world
for years of peace, liberty and brotherhood upon earth ;
years of plenty where no ragged child, white or red
shall wonder in the streets and cry for bread ; years of
learning when the paths of knowledge shall be opened
to all alike; years of love, where man shall be the
helper of man; years of hope, when above the tombs
of time shall shine the skies of the eternal.
THE END.
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In the Arrow, Carlisle, Pa., we found
the picture of our Comissioner of Indian
Affairs, Hon. Francis E. Leupp
The March number of the Pharos from
Provo, Utah, has just reached us. It is a
fine paper and it has about as much
space devoted to ads as to reading matter
but we think it would be better to
separate them.
The Comet appeared with a cut of the
Reno High School on the cover.
From the cartoons in the Orator, of
Spokane, Washington, we judge that they
must have aver7 good cartoonist as there
are always some new characters found
in every issue. .
Teacher Johnny, for what is Switzer
land famous?
Scholar Why m'm - Swiss Cheese.
Teacher Oh, something grander, more
impressive, more tremendous.
Sehol a r Dim burger ? Ex.
The Ciomawa American is a very
well written weekly and never fails to be
on time.; Nugget.
WHAT IS THE BEST EDU
CATION? THIS seems to be one of the questions
of the ages. Some enterprising person
asked it of Plato many centuries ago and
lie replied: "It is that which gives to the
body and to the soul all the beauty ami
all the perfection of which they are cap
able." Chkmawa American, as a. weekly,
compares favorably with anv of our ex
changes. The Troubador.