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No argument that their simple minds can conceive justi- 

 fies the white man in depriving members of their band 

 of their liberty for doing their duty as patriotic represen- 

 tatives of a dwindling tribe." 



What right have we to interfere with the religious 

 beliefs of these people, when we believe in the same creed 

 ourselves? Christ believed in it and practiced it, and we 

 believe in Christ. Only a few years ago, we, the intelli- 

 gent citizens of America, burned our mothers and sisters, 

 in the belief that they were possessed of the devil. 



In accordance with the Bible quotation, "Thou shall 

 not suffer a witch to live," thousands of women were 

 burned alive. Such highbrows as preachers, judges and 

 statesmen were the people who directed the work, think- 

 ing that it was the best thing and the fight thing to be 

 done. Three-fourths of the people of the United States 

 are just as silly today as they were then. What has man 

 to boast of, in the way of reasoning powers? 



We find no such preposterous and foolish actions in 

 any animals as we do in man. There is of course prac- 

 tically no difference in the mind of the animals and man. 

 This fact has now been well established on the question 

 as to the origin of the human faculty. Mr. Romanes 

 states, in substance as follows : 



"All the emotions such as fear, surprise, affection, pug- 

 nacity, curiosity, jealousy, anger, play, sympathy, emula- 

 tion, pride, resentment, emotion of the beautiful, grief, 

 hate, cruelty, benevolence, and the emotion of the ludi- 

 crous, are found in the animal mind." 



This list exhausts all the human emotions, with the 

 exception of those which refer to religion, moral sense 

 and perception of the sublime. Romanes states that: 

 "The emotional life of animals is so strikingly similar to 

 the emotional life of man, and especially young children, 



