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to them. The Soc. should lift its voice against idleness and drink, not here or any other city but on the reservation.

I do not wish to appear to be ungrateful to the citizens of this city who have shown much interest and sympathy in this movement but I must look at all these things from a practical standpoint and from actual conditions which I have seen with my own eyes.

When I sat down a man arose, he was a man with white skin and gray eyes, and was a kind of a preacher. He said: "Mr. LaFlesche says that the Indian is lazy. I have lived among the Indians and I know that the Indian is not lazy." When he got through I jumped up quickly and said: "The Reverend gentleman does me injustice when he says that I accuse the Indians of laziness. Never by word or implication have I said that the Indian was lazy. From the struggles that the Indians