Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-11-23
= Whom the gods would Destroy they first
make Mad

TO task for a criticism published several weeks
ago Of MIR. Kcnlall'> ln@lI-handcd u<urpaiiou
of authority over the Agent in charge of the
SINCE. reservation. and his discourteo,,s treat
men. Of Father Wilbur who had been coniin-
u,,! in the service by the Agent, Mr.. Bancroft,
rs superintendent ofin>irucion among the lnii-
ans on the reservation. Instead Of b,in;, con
WINGED hy the CLroaisi,'s article tia, ~clad.
by the publication of the article alluded TO- or
our own comments, done Mr. Kendall injuS-
,ic.. i, has confirmed H. in IN, opinion hong
since. f,r1n.d,-l,u, which W. did hot care ("
express until ". WEI placed III i'vss. sSion o.
und,niablc proof to supper, the charge,-'liat
there never has been l~rPc,ratrd hv Gov
.rlim-n. officer since the organization of the
Indian department. a more wicked. r,ekl'ss'
and unrrovokcd outrage, than was committed
by Mr.. Kendall during his Late visit TO the
>imc"r Indian reservation.
We had supposed that Mr.. Kendall or his
Democratic friends, would have been able 10
have pleaded something in eAtcnuaiion Of his
assumption Of power i'll his intercourse with
the Agent on the Simcoe reservation, and to
furnish some plausible reason 10 justify his
ABRUPT and insolrmt dismissal of Mr.. Wilbur
and other suLordinatcS, who had been selected
or rather continued in the service, by the
Agent in charge Mr.. Bancroft.
The direct and Immediate results of his I'M
partial mc,lllig of what he has no right in
equity or justice to touch has been to break
up the school and drive away from the .\gcn-
cy employees guaranteed to the Indians by
treaty stipulation, and thus seriously rndan-
gering IN ludian outbreak, SO much dreaded
by us alItor the past few months
The Chroniclc says that Mr.. Wilbur and
family were receiving three thousand dollars
year from the Government, and tries to Gre
ate the impression that it was without the au-
thority of law, when the editor of that paper
ought to have known that the one thousand
dollars which was promised Mr.. Wilbur was
stipulated by treaty with the Indians lie
also intimatcs that his having this enormous
salary stopped was what constituted the out
rage on Mr.. Wilbur. We are aware that both
Mr.. Kendall and his friends have laborcd
most ind,,strously since his return to this
place. to create similar impressions upon the
minds of our citizens. But what will be
thought of him and his INSCRIPTIONS strikers
when we assert, mhat IRE khom to bc true, that
up to the 18th of this month Mr.. Wilbur had
received from the Department only sos 81
and he had advanced the Department over
$780, and that having been suddenly driven
from the reservation, (whcrc he asked in vain
tobc allowed to remain and instruct the sava-
ges, WithOMt cost to tie GOreyamcnt,) without
home and shelter, or of means to support
himself and family, he was compelled i'll his
extremity to seek employment in Dallcs City
as day-laborer in order to obtain livelihood.
The people of Washington and Oregon, who
have known the Rev. james ii. Wilbur for
the last ten, fifteen, twenty years, yea, from
boyhood up, and have noted his sclf-sacrifc-
ing devotion to the welfare of his fellow men,
will very naturally inquire what he could
have done to justify such cold-hcarted cruelty;
and what Mr.. Kendall expects to gain from
his relentless persecution Of this man of God,
who never did, and could not now be induced
to harm hair of his head.
We cannot now be surprised by anything,
however presumptious or vimlictive, which
may be done by Mr.. Kendall during his Lrief
career of wickedncss and folly. We expect
to see part of the Agents suspended for III
competency after he has by an arbitrary ex-
ercisc Of power deprived them of their clerks,
in violation of common usage and long estab-
lishcd precedent, and the other half at open
war with him in resisting his attempts tomakc
of them mere automatans to do his will and
pleasure in all matters connected with their
agencies, about which he knows comparative
~ nothing; and to compel them to give en-
ploymcnt to men Of his selection, who will be
expected TO spend most Of their time in max
ing capital to mid him to get to Congress in
place Of our present worthy Republican Del
egatc, not by Republican bm by Democratic
sOfcs.
II is an old saying that Z" Straws show
which way the wind blows" The zeal man
ifesi.d by Democrats and D.lnoriaic jour
mails in heapinS inl,A'me laudations "n the SUI
p.rini.nd.ni is certainly oninous. and should
pu, all honest Republicans ON their guard;
while the support If that secession organ. the