10 HEREDITY. 



attempt to bring thievish Indian agents to justice, he 

 says, "is very like catching birds with a brass band." 

 Poorly paid and miserably dishonest officials have 

 fleeced the Indians, and counteracted the effect of 

 our schools. The agent is there, the missionary is 

 there, your teacher is there ; and, if there cannot be 

 funds enough put into the hands of those who are 

 teaching and preaching, we may be sure that the 

 agents who wish to fleece the Indians will in some 

 way obtain funds enough not, of course, from the 

 Indians, but by taking the supplies that come to 

 them through the general government. For one, I 

 greatly admire the Indian- policy of our honored 

 Executive as expressed in his address to the Indian 

 chiefs a few days ago. If you do not, I shall make 

 no apology for being political so far to-day as to say 

 that better sense has not often been uttered to the 

 savages than President Hayes urged upon those 

 chiefs a few days ago in the East Room of the Capi- 

 tol at Washington. [Applause.] But that sense 

 needs cents behind it. [Applause.] 



THE LECTURE. 



It were a felicity, if, in opening the topic of 

 Hereditary Descent, this audience could assemble 

 on the Acropolis, and with the eyes of history and 

 science gaze abroad from the Parthenon upon the 

 transfigured landscape of ancient Attica. Let us 

 suppose ourselves standing in the Parthenon, behind 

 the pillars in whose shadows once fell the footsteps 

 of Pericles, Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, and Demos- 



