They have been unfairly dealt with.

I am glad they can be educated and improved.

They seem to need it.

After reading "Ramona" and Mrs.
Jackson's touching article on the "Mission Indians in California," and then looking over the opinions of honest writers of a previous generation regarding the Indians, it is more puzzling than ever.

The following criticisms apply exclusively to the Southern Californian tribes.
Mr.Robinson, after a twenty years' residence among them, said: "The Indian of California is a species of monkey; he imitates and copies white men, but selects vice in preference to virtue.