Jan 14, 1919 - The Indian's Rights: The heroism and loyalty displayed by the American Indian on the battlefield..
and on the ships at sea calls impressively upon the American people to grant the red men full rights of citizenship. It is an absurdity to assume that there can be the most remote danger in extending these rights. No class of Americans have supported war activities at home more generously, no class has shown greater gallantry in the midst of shot and shell. Posing as we do as the champion of the rights of man and peoples, it is not easy to explain even to ourselves now why the race that we drove our by conquest should be longer treated as slaves. 1919 Jan 14, The Fort Wayne Journal