Life — November 25, 1897 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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ALONE AT THE RAILROAD STATION.—THANKSGIVING DAY. A Happy Thought. tions. It exactly meets the requirements of the situation. Scalping is not yet a feature of the game, but a slight HE experiment of en- revision of the rules would permit of it. rolling Indians in the yy regular army and thus pro- viding a legitimate outlet for their warlike spirit has proved a lamentable failure. They are not amenable to discipline, and civilized warfare is altogether too tame for them. What the Indian wants is some place where his individual thirst for gore can get inits fine work without restriction and without limit. With the failure of the army experi- ment there scemed no place ~ for him in modern civiliza- tion, and the only thing it seemed feasible to do was to let idleness and Agency rum carry out the work of the utter extinction of America’s native races. A solution to the Indian question is the introduction to the inter- Ties ; 7 p 1 KNOW WHY YOU HAVE No ROOMS, collegiate football game of “why 2” Indian schools and reserva- “YOU DINKS I'MA JEW."