Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-11-16
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disposition and charactes, considered
our comments upon the appointnen'
sf that gentleman IS unjust isasmueh
as he had TO, vet catered upon the d.
tie. Of his cfiice. and no o6ical act had
leen accomplished. good or had.
We acknowledge that under ordinary
circumstances tia, would have been the
proper course TO have pursued; bot we
take it A. al infAliible guide thu; the
opinion held by community N which
Mr.. Kendall has resided for pericd Of
eight years cannot be far from correct.
AID this, taken together with the
marked I.eculiarities Of temperament
uf which we ourseli have had ample op-
porunity TO lear witness, dictated tie
article which APPEARED several months
ago. OF the correctness Of our stric-
lures we now ask the public TO judge.
They. and not Us. are 10 render yer
diet UPON the high-hanied outrages
penetrated N Simcoe reservation.
Ii j. said. and currently believed. tina,
Mr.. Kendall has announced TO his few
friends and others that lac intends to
make all the appointments of su'ordln-
ates upon the dliieren. agencies and
reservations himself. and not al ow the
Agents appointed by the President to
have any control over them. This
policy may be said to be fairly inau-
gurated at the Simcoc reservation. If
our information from that source is cor
rect, and we do not doubt 1.-THE dis
charged every man the Agent wished
to retain, and retained every nan the
Agent wished to discharge, leaving
him in the awkward position Of being
under heavy bonds for the faithful dis
charge ofhis duties as Agent, while he
has no control over those for whose
conduct he is responsible. Can it be
possible that this is in accordance with
instructions Of the Indian Department
at Washington If 80, is it not at var
lance with the common custom and
with common sense!
Under this arrangement the Super
intendcnt has an immense amount of
power placed in his hands. If we were
convinced that he was using it in such
manner as to best advance the inter-
ests of the Indians and of the Govern
mcnt, the "bricf authority" as cxcr-
cised by Mr.. Kendall, might be borne
in silence; but we cannot think that
any impartial man can believe that the
Superintendent was looking alone to
the interests of either the Indians or
the Government, when he made the
changes to which we refer. Mr.. VIII
bur, who was removed. is better known
throughout Oregon and Washington
than almost any other man. lie has
been laboring in the cause of education
for the past fifteen years on this coast.
Two of the most fourishing academies
in Oregon (at Portland and Umpqua)
were built mainly by his efforts and Ia
Dor, and his whole course shows tina: he
was deeply interested in that cause.
lie went to Simcoe at the urgent re-
quest of Mr.. Geary, the former Super
intcndent, and for fifteen months has
been engaged rs teacher, devoting his
we'll known industry and energy in the
work of educating and civilizing the
Indians at that place. His whole heart
and soul were engaged in the cause, and
when the public are made aware Of the
work he has accomplished in the short
time he was there, We arc sure that it
will be seen that he has done more than
has been done ut any other agency in
this Territory towards accomplishing
the object which the Government had
in view in establishing such schools
among the indians. Not only this, bu,
his disinterestcd labor for their good
had eDdeAred him n all the Indians,
adults as well as children, and he was
possessed If their confidence in . re-
markabie degree matter Of muck i'm
porsance when we consider that the
Yakssnas were the leaders and ;sstigs-
tors Of the late war Such MAS the
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