Help on the Yakima Reservation has been extremely scarce during the
harvest season this year. A rancher came to Wapato and entering a pool
room saw two young Indians taking life easy. He accosted them, enquiring
if they wanted work, offering them substantial wages if they would help
him a few days. The Indians exchanged glances and one of them spoke:
"No! you white people came here, we did not want you. You made all this
work, all this trouble. You can do the work yourselves; it is your
business."
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"=Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren,
ye have done it unto me.=" (Matthew 25-40.)
But Matthew, like James was only writing the words of the Master long
before Columbus discovered America, before the Injun was even thought
of, maybe invented.
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