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trade and commerce were prohibited, the Indian youth whom you had educated found himself without the opportunities to make a living which all white youth enjoyed, and that the remedy for this difficulty was not to stop the schools as Mr. Holman had said, but to give to the Indian the same chance to make a living and make use of the education which you had given him that youths outside of the Reservation enjoyed. Do you mean to take ground against this position, and say that the Indians shall be put on a Reserve where there are no industries, and where there can be no industries until these intercourse laws are repealed? I have advocated the giving to the Indian the same opportunity to make a living that we give to every other person, regardless of who calls me a crank, I am rather used to that; I was a crank when I sued out the writ of habeas corpus of Standing Bear; I was a crank when I denounced the inhuman murder of the Cheyennes; I was a crank when I denounced the removal of the Ponkas to the Indian Territory, and I intend to be a crank as long as I live, if this is to be a crank. I am glad to have in company with me many other celebrated cranks, such as Mrs. Jackson, the members of Boston Citizenship Committee, and every intelligent man who has examined this question.

This letter to Mr. Davis will result in loosing a good many scholarships for Hampton; one gentleman who has been one of your most liberl supporters said he will never take another scholarship