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ONE INJUSTICE AFTER
ANOTHER
J. S. Ball, a Klamath rancher,
told the investigating Senators
of mony injustices. One was the
permitted destruction of much
timber by a beetle pest. “This
was discovered as far back as
1918, and there has never been
any effort to subdue this pest. It
Las resulted in the loss of 450,
920,000 feet in five years,” he
said. •
Several Indians described a
wist irrigation project, foisted
on the Indians despite their pro
test, which was supposed to ir
rigate 6,000 acres of land but v \
irrigating less than 400. The!
system is defective; it lacks
drainage canals; hence the wa
ter stands on the land and turns
it alkaline. Another irrigation
project, built wholly out of In
dian tribal money, serves lands
owned entirely by whites. The
white people a>'e to repay the
Klamath Indians at 85 cents an
acre over a period of 20 years.
Good business for the whites!
Put for the Indians it means the
lending of money—$25,000—
without interest for 20 years.
Thomas Lang described, next,
bow he repeatedly examined
trains of logs being removed
from the reservation to the saw
mills, and found in every bunch
c l logs four or five big logs that
had not been scaled. Meaning
that the Indians would get noth
ing for that timber. Lang hur
ried Vvii.b his information to the
superintendent, urging him to
investigate.
“Those are reliable companies,
and they would do nothing like
that,” was his evasive reply.
Finally Wade Crawford, a col
lege-trained man and chairman
of the business committee of the
council, stated on the witness
stand some of the injustices he
and his wife had told me in their
home a few months before. He
told of the building of an un- I
v anted, unnecessary hospital
from tribal funds against the
protest of the tribe. He cited the
building of unnecessary roads at
Indian expense. He complained
of the total lack of any law en
forcement on the reservation, al
though the Klamath Indians are j
annually paying $4,500 for law,
enforcement.
At last he pointed to the extra- ;
vagant, steadily increasing!
amount taken from their estateJ
every year merely to administer j
tl>eir agency. To administer the!
affairs of a little group of some j
twelve hundred Indians! He de
clared it was impossible to ob
tain from the local superintend
ent or from the Indian Bureau at
Washington two estimates that
agreed showing how the enor
mous sum appropriated from
their tribal funds for agency ex
penses was used.
“In 1922,” said Crawford, “they
took $75,000 of our tribal funds to
administer the agency; in 1923,
they took $75,000; in 1924, $100,
000; in 1925, $110,000; in 1926,
$149,000; in 1927, $164,000; for
1928 they took $164,000; and for
1929 the appropriation was $185,
( 00. In addition they took 8 per
cent of all our timber sales is de
ducted each year for timber op
erations and maintenance of
forests. In 1928 this was about
$80,000. So last year we were
charged $260,000 for running our
reservation!”
Crawford pleaded against the
continued existence of the In
dian Bureau. “The Indians real
ise today the condition their es
tate is in. They have no voice
in' the management of their
money; and it is being eaten up
in overhead expenses that are
coming right out of our princip
al. The Indian Bureau is taking
advantage of its wards. A thing
no government should permit!
There are employees in the ser
vice of the bureau who have been
there for a lifetime. They in
tend to perpetuate the bureau
1 and stay in it. They don’t in
sponsibility on them or teach
them conservation and business
methods.
“Our money is being scattered
I think the Congressmen and
{Senators do not realize that this
thing is going on. The Indian
Bureau has taken advantage of
i he situation. Taken advantage
l of these helpless people, the re
stricted Indians and their child
ren, who are not able to protect
j themselves.” j
His final words were; “I want
| co thank this committee. I don’t
mow how to thank them too
much for giving me so much
hme and consideration here. I
vill t«'y to repay it in some way
at some time. And' I wish to
Gratitude—gratitude from the
neart, for even the smallest
Kindness! For any indication
that the all-powerful, absorbed,
indifferent white race cares even
a little about the Indians’ plight!
This is typical of Indian charac
ter, as I know. It is the thing
that has touched my heart most
in the past months while hear
ing Indians’ recitals of wrongs,
it is the thing that would touch
yours.
I have found them the gentles':
f people. And they are ardent
patriots. They love their flag.
Thousands of them volunteered
during the World War. After
all, this was their country before
it was ours. Yet they have seen
ic stolen from them ruthlessly,
inch by inch.
I marvel at their sweetness of
spirit.
Editor’s Note: Next week “In
dian Patriotism Persists” will
conclude this article as publish
ed in Good Housekeeping, last,
Epril.
INTERESTING IF TRUE
“There is at present an organ
ization at Ketchikan, Alaska,
known as the Alaska Historical
Totem Society, managed by Her
bert Knox, who writes to The
Timber man as follows: “This
society was organized for the
purpose of perpetuating the lor:
of: the Alaskan totem and restor
ing to the natives their birth
right in the manufacture, sale
nd exploitation of their pro
duct.
“Much interest is being dis
played and many inquiries re
ceived relative to totems of vari
ous sizes and heights, most of
which are to be used by enthusi
asts as donations to golf links
city parks, or similar uses. Ev
ery totem supplied by the soci
ety is made from Alaskan red
cedar, the work being exclusively
done by Alaskan natives. Each
totem produced has a number
carved thereon and is registered
in the records of the society,
each with a corresponding sized
bronze plate bearing the name ol
the town, its characteristics, the
name of the donorv&hd authent
icated by the Alaska Historical
Society. A totem may be had f.
o. b., Ketchikan, Alaska, or, if
desired, will be delivered to its
destination, erected in reinforc
ed concrete foundation and an
elaborate and impressive cere
monial unveiling participated
in by ten full blood native bands
men tutored through govern
ment agencies together with a
native orator whose subject is
usually a message of gratitude
from his tribe to the American
people for deliverance from Rus
sian invaders to American citi
zenship and protection.”—The
Timber man.
Thinking and Stopping
Speaker (at dinner): “Gentle
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I ask you again, did you ever stop
to think?
Weary Listener: “Did you ever
think to stop?”
“Did you ever realize anything
on that investment?
“Oh, yes.”
“What did you realize?” _
“What a fool I had been.”
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