Snap Shots On the Midway of the Pan Am Expo Including Characteristic Scenes And
Snap Shots On the Midway of the Pan Am Expo Including Characteristic Scenes And
Richard Barry
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Then the mimicry of it sinks home. The uncouth grandeur of the red man and his pitiful history are painful with these real specimens of a giant race so identified with painted scenery and gaudy tinsel. But behind artifice is candor, and in a circus ballyhoo are manly men, childlike in confidence and with the quick, receptive minds of children, and so tainted somewhat with the Midway's brass, but true in fibre and wise in observation. Their condition a mockery; their presence a rebuke; their exh...i- bition a falsehood. Such is the conclusion, but listen to American Horse, the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the Sioux nation. President Schurman of Cornell University had expressed surprise that so noted and upright a chief should consent to degrade himself enough to join a Midway show. "American Horse would be deeply grieved at the White Chief's slur were he not an Indian and so accustomed to the ways of the white man, " wrote the chief. "Such a show as the White Chief will find here is not degrading to the Indian; it is an education to him.
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