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ment.—Tillamook, Oregon, December 14, 1905
When the bath is ended a cloth is
tied round the baby and he is hung
upon the branch of a tree or a sapling
till sun and wind have dried him
ran TREATMENT WHICH INDIAN Then he is packed in his basket and
PAPOOSES RECEIVE PROM
trundled on his mother’s back home HIOKI CALLS IT A MYTH. ISLAND
NATION'S EYES NOT ON
ward to the family tepee.
SQUA IF MOTHERS.
PHILIPPINES
Death for Weakling Babies.
Indian Redskin Very Seldom Crles-ls
Nearly all Indian children that one Japan Stands for Open Door and a
Strapped to a Plank, Washed in the sees are hardy and well formed This Square Deal to All-American Aid
Creek and Hung on a Tree to Dry s because only those of robust ¿onstl- welcomed.
tution survive the trials and exposure
Out.
Japan is inclined to resent the re
In the Indian papoose child nature of their babyhood. It is desired that currence of allegations in the news
only
the
naturally
strong
should
eur-
is essentially the same as in the Cau
papers of this country that she has
18 a CU8tom In most of designs upon the Philippines. In an
tion babe, though there is a strik '¿ve* ,f,or
ing contrast in their manners, due to the tribes to wilfully expose, suffoea e address before the members of the
maternal treatment, or as a student of or drown born weaklings or deformed Cleveland Chamber of Commerce,
child nature might say, to environ babies. Death is the lot of the un Hon. Ekl Hioki, First Secretary of the
ment. The chief differences, really, happy little baby whose health and Japanese Legation, expressed in no
between tbe little Indian and the little physique are below the tribal standard. uncertain terms what is believed to
The Albino child, and these are more I m * a definite statement of the policy
white is that the former is less a cry
baby than the latter. The reason for common among the Indians than might of the Mikado with reference to the
this 1« that the white baby usually gets be supposed, is certain to perish soon
what he cries for if It be within moth after birth, because the coming of such
ers' power to procure it. Learning this a child is regarded as evidence of dis
from experience, for every mother pleasure of the Great Spirit.
The redskin babe is released from
knows how wise and shrewd the baby
is, whenever he feels that a certain ar his lacings and swaddlings as soon as
ticle would conduce to his content he is old enough to walk, and then
ment, he forthwith howls. Now, the his real child life begins. He has
papoose, so far from being encouraged great freedom. When it is warm
In this vocal exercise, is repressed. His enough to go without clothes, and the
mother is unresponsive and the baby Indian child Is Inured to cold, he tum
not achieving what he weeps for, soon bles and romps naked. His pets are
learns that tears and walls profit not. dog« and ponies and Is as fond of
Perhaps if the white mother dwelt these as are his blond cousins. As he
In the deserts or the mountains so that grows old enough to run he takes an
bab*”s crying would not disturb the interest in the athletic sports of the
neighbors even she might let him cry tribe and the usual young Indian games
till weariness brought sleep, and per are deer and hounds, hide and seek,
haps if the redskin mother lived foot racing, pony racing, bow and arrow
among sensitive neighbors she might shooting, spear throwing, wrestling,
[reek to pacify the crying babe with and follow the leader.
JAPANESE YELLOW PERIL
Developing the Brave.
The child is given every possible en
couragement to play and is never
whipped by his parents, because it is
the Indian’s philosophy that whipping
breaks the spirit of the child and the
Indian ambition is to be brave and
self-reliant. It is a fact that though
the Indian child Is not subject to cor
poral punishment and the ruder forms
of discipline which white children are
often made to endure, they are rever
ent, obedient, docile and extraordina
rily respectful toward their parents
and seniors. It Is the Spartan quality
which the mother and father strive to
develop in their boys.
HON. EKI HIOKI
Secretary of the Japanese Embassy,
attitude of that nation in her future
industrial and commercial life. Mr.
Hloki lays special emphasis upon the
frank and authoritative disavowals of
the frequently-reported) ambition of
Japan to absorb the Philippine Islands
for her own people.
“For the sake of argument.” said
Mr. Hioki, "laying aside entirely lor
the moment consideration of the mo
tive of Japan regarding the present
subject, let me ask you a question.
Can you believe that this great Amer
School of the Indian.
ican
who glory in their national
The Indian lad of the wilds is not spirit iieople
in their gigantic strength, in
oppressed with book studies. He is their boundless wealth, in their mar
taught his nature lessons in the for velous development, and look forward
est, among the rocks or on the plains. with proud and confident anticipation
He learns by hunting, and camping to the time when they shall lie the
with his elders, and every Indian lad first in the race civilization has set
tiies to win the prize of commendation for man to run, would allow her flag
by proficiency in those nature studies to be lowered, be it in the Philippines
which the Indian holds is the highest or anywhere else which legitimately
form of knowledge. It is around the belongs to her, by any hands but hers?
camp fire, or the fire in the lodge, that No, most emphatically no. That is
the youth learns the traditions of his the spirit with which you cling to
your new possessions in the Pacific
and that ought to be the spirit of the
people who respect honor and justice.
Would Mean Gigantic War.
“Ami who can bet <*r understand
that spirit of the Americans than the
Japanese? Therefore, if Japan har
bored such a sinister design as is at
tributed to her, she must be prepared
to plunge in a war far more gigantic
than the one just ended against a na
tion to which alie owes much that
she is to-day and to whose people she
owes that moral and financial support
so unreservedly given at the most
critical period In her history. No,
the Philippines are not worta the sac
rifice of such a valuable friendship as
that of America and the enormous
losses In men and money which such
a war would necessarily entail. Nor
is Japan in a position to carry on an
other costly war, but for self-defense.
For Open Door in China.
“The increased prestige of Japan
turned the eyes of the world toward
the problem of what influence Japan
will wield over China. Some people
go so far as to assert that Japan
will control China, proclaim the Mon
roe doctrine for Asia, and drive out
from the East all the white devils
and exterminate the Western Influ
ences witliin its borders.
_______ _ either _ the
“Without questioning
value ’of” theMprin« ipies’ contained in
«o éîilled Monroe doctrine or its
the ” so-called
NAVAHOE PAPOOSES INI THEIR LITTLE CRIBS,
applicability to the Eastern situation
The Little Redskin Not Achieving What He Weeps For Soon Learns That Tears at present, I can simply say that such
an idea has not entered into tbe Japa
and Wails Profit Not.
nese mind and such a policy has not
race. His mental food is composed of seen even th«* symptoms of formation.
tharS
the oe'Khbors might not
For the maintenance of the integrity
j .J*e her with neglect of maternal stories of warfare, and the chase.
Independence of China. Japan
The education of the Indian maiden and
tj.ller baby with an evil dlsposi-
lolned hands with Great Britain. I-or
another reason for the calm Is conducted by her mother, who teach securing equal opisirtunitles in ( Inna.
Bar 11 acld habit and orderliness of the es all the domestic arts which the Japan lent her eager efforts to th«
United States to make the open door
Co?Se,a8 compared with his fair Indian maid should know.
.. 8er ls that the darker little sav-
policy effectively operative.
aaa no cra<H®. crib or go-cart to
A New Planet Discovered.
Competition with America.
narv./1’11 gambol In, but ls either
“It la absurd,” continued Mr. Hioki.
Be sure to read this week’s story,
to » k J Rhtly ,n a basket or strapped Nebula a recently-discovered <>rb, “to say that In the course of a few
kiti,i„ r<1 lb this position he finds within a hundred inilea of the earth. years American goods will be crowded
an<J squirming uncomfortable The story is told by the historian of out of the Chinese market by Japa
».i,’88 lnt0
ani1 hab(t
hlg enforced repose
de- th?
tbe exploring 'party
party which made the nese competition. The main ground
—
.___ olr-shin
most remarkable
air-ship voyage on
o upon which rests this apprehension Is
of .11118 stoicism and the taciturnity
that Japan has cheap labor at com,
re
ord.
■nand. Hilt labor In Japan •
"ot
jont/.v dlan are nurtured in early
remain cheap. The effect of the ( I I-
th, uj-
°l course one reason for
na-Tannn war was to double th<
Had Great Powers.
li th., i n 8 'ac'c °l fluency in speech
price of labor, and the war with Bus
not ,h n 11,8 llfe and thought he has
A justice of the peace for the Maine sfa must raise it much higher. In
Lrlmni. n'‘o<J of many words. The woods, addressing the judge as Mos
sliite of these disadvantages Japan
Dve white man was not voluble. High.” was reprimanded and told th
must develop her commerce and Indus
there was bht one Most H.gh H tn-, and she will have to «’"■I*«;
Bath Day of Papoose.
who
had
created
the
whole
world
out
with afl the world, friend or foe. Her
Hes »J1!?008* haR no nursery luxu-
«... 8 “tt-le Pale-face babes under- °f“wén "judge.” be answered, “you cre commercial war will lie fought just
as falrlv and aquarely as the r«al war
lt»fd hat Phrase. He has no soft and
She asks no favor from China that I»
Si Sewell justice of the
filth»,,f atel; Prepared for him by a ated
granted to the entire world Hhe
h
? or a fond mamma. He If that Isn’t making something out or not
stands for the open door an«L in the
•otn
,a,hered o’er with perfumed nothing, what is 7”
words of your great I resident, a
Po»d<*^r du8tefl with sweet-scented
square deal.”
three q
intervals, usually two or
Song of a Dakota Biitaard.
American Capital Welcomed.
th,
a week, the mothers of
Ye that have steers, prepare to shed
“Japan welcomes capital and n>a’ r
the nre Or band take their babies to
lai from any country. Tbe United
,,r»p th7’n,f,reek’ 1,001 or aPrln*- un' them now.
Stat«*» Is supplying materials for Im
'»tn «>,.» “*• onea and tumble them
portant Japanese Industries, why an
i ,Di,.?'low water, where they have
An
the
election
of
Henry
Addington
not she supply the capita .
t»lD
time while the mothers
there not be a commercial alliance be
inu, '7 Kosslp of the tribe, for
in
1789
the
salary
of
the
’
^
aker
tween
Japan and ♦'je I nlted States.
of
8re very feminine in their love
In. m7nal "cws and chit-chat in zolv- fixed at 6,000 pound« (ISO,XX)) P* We are willing to divide a fair share
Qer squaws, bucks and braves. annum.
of the profits wherever gained with
any people. The United States has
been, is, and will be Japan's best cus
tomer.
Future of the Orient.
*'The future of the Orient is great
and
---- the
::.J greater it is the better for the
world. With peace guaranteed by the
Anglo-Japanese alliance, anu equal op-
portuuities in Korea und China se-
cured by that treaty, as well as by
the agreement of the policies of tlie
__
three great Pacific powers—Japan, the
United States and Great Britain—an
important era has dawned upon the
Orient. During the last quarter of a
century all the great events of the
world have transpired in the East.
For years to come the East will still
lie the center of the world’s great
happenings.”
PRESERVING THE FORESTS FROM
DESTRUCTION.
CRUSADE HEADED BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO PREVENT
FOREST FAMINE AND FLOOD RAVAGE.
RICHARD HAMILTON BYRD.
Reserving forests in the west from
monopolization for private gain is a
government policy with which tlie ; h - o -
ple have become somewhat familiar,
our national forest reserves amounting
now to nearly sixty million acres; but
the idea of applying tills principle to
the older forests ill the eastern states
may be new to some people and yet
is becoming a prominent one. Noth
BLACK WALNUT NUTMEGS.
ing ls giving it popularity and import
ance so much as tlie great interest ’
Bishop Potter Was Sure That He manifested by the I’resldent In the
subject.
Was Tasting the Real Article.
There are proposed great national
The power of suggestion is not reservations in the Southern Appala-
merely a phrase; it really is a power. chlan forests, in the White Mountains,
It has the strength to deceive men in
the matter of cigars, wines, whiskeys in Minnesota, and in other eastern
states, entirely separate and apart from
and what not. It is a force in medicine the
great reservations in the west.
as every doctor knows. It is an agent President
Roosevelt is an arch disci
in therapeutics. The power of sug ple of forestry
and the great promi
gestion and the force of example are nence into which
the subject has
intimately related. But to illustrate Jumped may be indicated by the
the pranks which suggestion may play growth of the Bureau of Forestry
with one s palate the following story Is from a small office, a few years ago,
told on Bishop Potter, a reverend gen employing half a dozen people, to an
tleman of ecclesiastic note and recent institution with annual appropriations
Subway Tavern fame:
of half a mllllion dollars, employing
In the course of his diocesan ram hundreds of trained foresters in the
bles he called on an old friend from field, and having the supervision, ac
the South. It was evening, and the tual and tentative of nearly a hundred
bishop was invited to supper, not din million acres of forest.
ner, for as people of the South know,
If there ever was a national ques
the appropriate time for dinner Is mid tion it is forestry, and the people of
day and the meal after candle-light is the country are wise In waking up, or
supper. One of the dishes served was fortunate In being wakened up, to Its
cottage-cheese or as it is more often overshadowing Importa nee before lr-
called in the language of the olden ' revocable damage shall have been
time “smear-case." This is often eaten j done.
The largest of the proposed eastern
under a plentiful dressing of cream
reserves is that 111 the Southern
and sugar. The bishop elected to have forest
Appalachian
Mountains and that its
a “mess” of “smear-case" but his ap
establishment
is a matter of national
petite craved a little grated nutmeg as concern was dwelt
upon with empha
a flavor. This was embarrassing to sis by President Roosevelt
in his ad
the host’s wife at the foot of the sup dress at Raleigh, N. C., on October 20.
per table, but she said to Aunt Dinah, He pointed out how vitally southern
who waited on table, “Aunt Dinah, forests
affect
southern
indus
bring the bishop some nutmeg.”
tries and thus the entire coun-
"Dar ain’t no nutmegs in de pantry," [ try. Tbe entire south—the territory
whispered Aunt Dinah.
east of the Mississippi and south of
“Well, ask Mrs. Tomlinson, next i the Ohio rivers—is affected by this
door, to lend me one.”
I proposed reservation of some four
“She ain’t got none. She done use million mountain acres lu which rise
de las’ she hayde in makin’ egg-nog,” I all the rivers which water this area.
reported Aunt Dinah.
! The President said:
“Well, then, run down to Miss Bat
“I want to say a word to you on a
sy’s and see if she's got a nutmeg.” special subject In which all the coun-
said the troubled hostess, who talked : try is concerned, but in which North
with augmented vivacity and anima Carolina has a special concern. The
tion to make the time pass quickly till preservation of the forests ls vital to
that nutmeg should be brought. Soon the welfare of every country. Cbinu
Aunt Dinah came in, her black face and the Mediterranean countries offer
wreathed with triumphant smiles, and examples of the terrible effect of de
placed before the bishop the mess of forestation upon the physical geogra
and therefore ultimately upon
“smear-case” generously sprinkled phy,
the national well-being of tlie nations.
with grated nutmeg.
One
of
the most obvious duties which
“Ah,” said the bishop, speaking with our generation
owes to the generations
that tone of complacent assurance, that are to come after us Is to pre
coming from a consciousness of a per serve the existing forests. Th«* prime
fect familiarity with hia subject, difference between civilize«! and un
smacking his lips and beaming with civilized peoples is that in civilized
Flood Damage to
Railroad Bridge on
Nolic hucky River,
East Tennessee.
A Fallen
Appalachian
Giant.
FOREST DESTRUCTION ON THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN KIDOES.
beatific expression, “what a
a most
—
grateful flavor nutmeg does add to
smear-case. This is the paragon of the
season.”
The supper dishes cleared up and
the bishop gone, the hostess said to
Aunt Dinah, "Be sure and get Miss
Betsy another nutm-'g at the store in
the morning."
Miss. Miss Betsy didn't had no
nutmeg. I jes' took a piece of black wal
nut from de ole window sill what dat
Yankee carpenter was repairin' to-day,
and done grated It over de cheese.
peoples each generation works not on-
ly for Its own well-being, but for the
well-being of the generations yet un-
born, and If we permit the natural re
sources of this land to tie destroyed ao
that we hand over to our children a
heritage diminished in value we there
by prove our untitness to stand in the
forefront of civilized peoples.
Forest Wealth a Creat Heritage.
"One of the greatest of these heri
tages is our forest wealth. It is the
upper altitudes of the forested moun
tains that are most valuable to the
nation as a whole, especially because
of their effects upon the water supply.
Neither state or nation can afford to
turn these mountains over to the un
restrained greed of those wlio would
exploit them at the expense of the
future. We cannot afford to wait lon
ger before assuming control, in the
interest of the public, of these forests;
for if we do wait, the vested interests
of private parties in them may lieeome
so strongly Intrenched that it may be
a most expensive bisk to oust them. If
the Eastern States are wise, then from
the Bay of Fundy to the Gulf we will
see, within the next few years a policy
Copyrighted, 11. L. Dunn.
CHARACTERISTIC ATTITl.DE OF THE
PRESIDENT IN NORTH CARO
LINA ADDRESS.
set on foot similar to that so fortu-
nately carrled out In tlie high Sierras
of the west by the national govern-
uient. All the higher Applneblans
should be reserved, either by the
states or by the nation. I much pre-
fer that they should be put under na
tional control, but It is a mere truism
to say that they will not be reserved
either by the states or by the nation
unless you people of the South show
a strong interest
........................
therein.
Would Prevent Floods ard Create
Water Power.
“Such reserves would be a paying
Investment, not only In protection to
many interests, but in dollars and
cents to the government. The lm
portance to the southern people of
protecting the southern mountain for
ests is obvious. These forests are
the best defens«* against the floods
which, In the recent past, have, during
a single twelfth-mouth, destroyed
property officially valued at nearly
twice what it would cost to buy the
Southern Appalachian reserve.
“The maintenance of your southern
water powers is not less important
than the prevention of floods, because
if they are injured your manufactur
ing Interests win suffer with them.
Tne perpetuation of your forests,
which have done so much for the
South, should be one of the first ob
jects of your public men. The two
senators from North Carolina have
taken an honorable pnrt In this move
ment. But I do not think that the
p«*ople of North Carolina, or of any
other southern sbite, have quite grasp
ed the Importance of this movement
to the commercial development and
prosperity of the south.”
The President’s Message to
Congress.
<•
The special message sent to Con
gress by the President on the Routh
ern Appalachian Reserve reads like a
story. It touches upon the interest In
the subject of the scientists and the
lumberman, of the geologist and the
farmer, the meteorologist and Hi"
fruit grower, the business man and
the engineer, ani the steamship Phot
and the homeseeker. The President
"
transmits with his message a report
I
of the Hecretary of Agriculture, . pre-
pared In collalsiratlon with the De-
partment of the Interior, upon the
forests, rivers and mountains of the
Southern Appalachian region, anti up-
on Its agricultural situation ns affect
ed by them, and says in part:
The report of the Secretary pre
sents the Arial results of nn investiga
tion authorized by the last Congress.
Its conclusions point unmistakably. In
the judgment of the Secretary and In
my own, to the creation of c national
forest reserve in certain parts of the
Southern States. Th«* far-ts set forth
an economic n«*erl of prime lm|s>rtance
to the welfare of the South, anil hence
to that of the nation as a whole, and
bulldocsuspenders
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