If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

It undermines his constitution; it strikes at the foundation of his being.

"Sir," I said, "the time has come when blood-curdling cruelty has become necessary.

Inflict soap and a spelling-book on every Indian that ravages the Plains, and let them die!" The Secretary of War asked me if I was a member of the Cabinet, and I said I was.