OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL LAKE MOHONK CONFERENCE ON THE INDIAN AND OTHER DEPENDENT PEOPLES OCTOBER 18th, 19th and 20th, 1916 PUBLISHED BY THE 1916 WILLIAM L. BROWN, The Ontario, Washington, D. C. Business Committee WILLIAM F. SLOCUM, Colorado Springs, Chairman LYMAN ABBOTT, New York EDWARD E. AYER, Chicago J. W. BEARDSLEY, East Orange, N. J. S. M. BROSIUS, Washington WARREN K. MOOREHEAD, Andover, A. C. PARKER, Albany H. C. PHILLIPS, Mohonk Lake, C. S. ROBERTS, Lakeville, Conn. Sub-Committee on Platform WILLIAM F. SLOCUM, Chairman CHARLES F. MESERVE GEORGE VAUX, JR. WILLIAM S. WASHBURN Press Committee GEORGE ROGERS, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Chairman WILLIAM B. HOWLAND, The New York Independent FREDERICK LYNCH, The Christian Work, New York MALCOLM MCDOWELL, Washington DELAVAN L. PIERSON, The Missionary Review of the World, New York EDMUND PLATT, The Eagle, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. W. E. STRONG, The Missionary Herald, New York. N. H. VAN ARSDALE, The Christian Intelligencer, New York PREFACE The first Lake Mohonk Conference of Friends of the Indian*, was held in 1883, when Mr. Albert K. Smiley, a member of the United States Board of Indian Commissioners, invited a number of persons to a meeting at Mohonk Lake to confer regarding the interests of the Indians. This was the first of a series of October conferences which have since been held annually. On the death of Mr. Smiley, in 1912, his brother, Mr. Daniel Smiley, succeeded him as host of the conferences. Previous to 1904*, discussion was confined largely to Indian matters; that year, however, the scope of the Conference was definitely enlarged to include the peoples of the Philippine Islands, Porto Rico and other insular dependencies of the United States. The Conference seeks to clarify public opinion on these great questions through free discussion by those having firsthand knowledge of existing conditions. The thirty-fourth Conference was held in the parlor of the Lake Mohonk Mountain House, October 18, 19 and 20, 1916, on the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Smiley who maintain a permanent office, in charge of the secretary, through which the annual conferences are arranged and a continuous corrrespondence conducted. The management of the Conference, while providing opportunity for free discussion of matters not foreign to the purpose of the meeting, assumes no responsibility for individual opinions printed in this report. One copy of this report is sent to each member of the Conference, and several thousand copies are mailed to individuals in public and private life, to libraries, and to other institutions. Distribution of current reports is free to the limit of the edition, and libraries and public institutions can obtain back numbers without charge except for transportation. Applications for reports, and other correspondence, should be addressed to the Secretary of the Conference. *The name of the Conference was changed in 1904 to "Lake Mohonk Conference of Friends of the Indian and Other Dependent Peoples," which in 1914 became "Lake Mohonk Conference on the Indian and other Dependent Peoples." |