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testimony. A business man who has spent his 

 life on the frontiers wrote, recently: &quot;If the May 191G 

 Indian is depraved, dishonest, deceitful or im 

 moral, his depravity, dishonesty, deceitfulness 

 and immorality have been learned from the white 

 man. Look around in any part of this country 

 and you will find ever-increasing examples of 

 the degrading influence of the white man upon 

 the Indian. Drunkenness and the worst forms 

 of vice and immorality have been introduced and 

 practised to a degree that is nothing less than 

 appalling and brings us face to face with a con 

 dition that if permitted to continue will not only 

 mean the complete ruin of the Indian; but the 

 introduction into the very life of the people of 

 this new country of a cancerous disease that if 

 not stamped out will prove a menace of hideous 

 proportions to coming generations.&quot; 



All this gives one a good deal of sympathy An Indian 

 with the Indian, who, being addressed by a white Reply 

 man, as &quot;brother&quot; inquired how they came to 

 be brothers, and receiving the white man s reply 



-&quot;Oh, by way of Adam, I suppose&quot; answered, 

 &quot;Me thank him Great Spirit we no nearer 

 brothers.&quot; 



Well! my disgusted white reader what do you 

 think of it all? I imagine, in the first place that, Summar y 

 I hear you answer; &quot;Oh, but after all is said 

 these acts, hideous and atrocious as they were 

 and are, represent the deeds of individuals and 

 groups beyond the control of custom and law.&quot; 

 &quot;Very well! but surely it is the first duty of or- 



