Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-05

Ter most from continuance OF the etils should
complain bitterly, and accuse the Government OF
inactlon without ineuirihg very closely whether
the evil is not the result OF previous wrong on
WSSr iS S
not the waves OF storm that is over and past but
1t Is the duty Of the Government to act in the
bhosophic TEMPER bsn Is to be saew more
who are actually smartns families snUsd snd
aasrp fhsr propsksg from The seo91gs of Indian depre
have been fully justified in their fruit. The main
body of rowing Indians have with good grace or
with Ill grace, submitted to the reservation sys-
behavior certainly give little encouragement to
Iurtnef ferbearanee, The numbers OF actually
hostile and defredating bands Of to-day probably
these K s.1s sss %
principally the Tolcno Apaches, the Quehoda, the
Comanchee and their confederates of the -Staked
fialns west of the Indian country, and the greater
portion Of the Kiowa nation. It would be impos-
s1ble from the large Number Of tribes, great and
small Known to the annals Of the country to select
wrongs to justify their present hostility as these
three tribes, which commit practically all the out
RACES properly to be charged against the Indians
The depredatious of the Kiowas and Cofnanthes
are utterly without excuse, An example made
here would do much to strengthen the policy of
at large well to free the borders of Texas from
seourge that has become intolerabe. 1t is say
ing nothing against the course of the Government
toward the semi:peaceable tribes 10 alege; as is
evil. Temporizing. as an expedicnt in govern
ment, may be either sign Of weakness and folly,
or it may be proof Of the highest wisdom When
an evil is manifestly the increase and tends to
go from bad to worse, to temporize with it is cow
ardly and mischievous. Even when an evil cannot
be said to be on the increase, yet when-not being
sef-limited or sef-destructive, and having, there
fore, tendency to expire of inherent vices-it
cannot be shown to be transient, the part of pru-
dence and of courage is to meet and grapple with 1t
without hesitation and without procrastination:
but when an evil is in its nature self-lmted and
tends to expire by the very conditions OF Its exist
ence when time fights against it and the progress
of social and industrial order by steady degrees
circumscrbes its field, cuts its dimensions and saps
its strength, then temporizing may be the highest
craftsmanship. 1t belongs not to the sanguine, but
to the sober view of the situation, that three years
will see the alternative of eliminated from the
Indian Inc % os and the tsn m0na ne
Indeed. promises of two years mora, if not
another summer, the Northern Pacific Rail
road will itself completely solve the great Sioux
problem and leave the 5000 Indians ranging be-
tween the transcontinenta lines as incapable OF re-
sisting the Government as are the Indians of New
York or Massachusetts. Columns moving north
from the Union Pacific and south from the North
ern Pacific, would crush the Sioux and their con-
federates as between the upper and neither mill
stones, while the rapid movement of troops along
the northern lines would prevent the escape of the
savages, when hard pressed, into British America,
which has heretofore afforded convenient refuge
on the approach Of military expeditions. The day
of deverance from fear OF Indian hostility is not
distant. It is not too much to expect that three
summers of peaceful progress will put 1t forever
out of the power of the tribes and bands which
at present disturb Colorado, Utah, Arizona and
New Mexico to claim consideration of the coun
the national bounty. The railroads now under
construction or projected, with reasonable assur
ance of early completion, will multiply fourfold
the striking force of the army in that section
Little riffs of mining settlement now found al
| through the mountains of the Southern Terrific
ries will have become self-protecting communi
ties; feeble, wavering lines of agricultural occu
patton, now sensitive to the fantest breath of In
dian hostilities, viii then have grown to powerful
reserves to lines still more closely advanced upon
the last range of intractable tribes.
The assistance duo to the Indians from the Gov
ernment in discharge OF these obligations whiei
have been adverted to- should not much longer b.
receptive of their own efforts; just so soon a
these tribes cease to be formidable they should b.
brought distinctly to realization of the law; tina
if they would eat they must also work; nor shoult
it be left to their own choice how miserably the.
will live in order that they may escape work. A
| over them rigid reformatory discipline to saw
| them from falling hopelessly into condition o
pauperism and petty crime. Merely to disarn
| savages; to surround them by forces which it
hopeless in them to resist without exercising owe
them for series of years system of paternal con
troll, requiring them to learn and practice the art
of industry at least until one generation has bee
fairly started on the course of fsef-improvement,
| to make it pretty much matter of certainty tina
by far the larger part of the now rowing Indians vii
| become yagabonds in the midst OF civilization
forming little camps here and there over the fac
| of the Western States. which will be festerln
| sores on the Communities near which they are lo
Gated, the resorting for living to basket max
| ing and hog stealing, the women to fortunetell
ing, etc. The reservation system affords place TO
thus dealing with the tribes and bands without &C
| cess of influences inimical to peace and virtue
| 1t is only necessary that Federal laws b
| judiciously formed to meet all the facts OF tn
case. and enacted in season. before Indians begil
| to scatter, shall place ali members of this rae
| under strict reformatory control by agents OF tn
| Government. Especially is it essential that tn
the reservations assigned to them and to arres
! and return them whenever they wander ava
| should be placed beyond dispute.
| / have purposely divested these remarks OF wha
| is commonly known as sentiment, and have re
Trained from appealing to higher considerations O
humanitarian charity, not because have not re
| spect for such considerations nor because sentl
ment is out of place in dealing with such ques
| ton, but because believe that the Indian polio
of the Government, past and present irrespective
can be fully justified before the country by argu
| ments addressed solely to self-interest, and be
| cause it has appeared to me that certain classe
and communities have wearied of appeals in be
half of Indians to the sentiments which are
| perhaps, rather too fine for popular daily use
There is nothing that the Government is doing to
ward the Indians but can be vindicated on tn
grounds of practical usefulness and economy a
| completely as expenditures of our American com
munities for the education of the young.
EEw CONGRATULATIONS.
| The Indians within the limits of the Unite
States, exclusive of those in Alaska, number, az
| proXimately, 800, 600.
They may be divided according to their gee
graphical location, or range, into five grand div
sions, follows In Minnesota and States eas
of the Mississippi river, about 50 500; in Nebrasks
Kansas and the Indian Territory coo in tn tn
| Idaho, 65,0C0; in Nevada and the Territories 9
| Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona, "a, ,00(
| and on the Pacific slope, S,0G0
| In respect to the three lines of railroads-bui
| or projected-between the States and the Pacif
Ocean, VIZ, the Northern, Central, and Souther
siding east Of Minnesota and Of the Missouri rive
| South of Dakota, follows: Between the prt
posed Northern route and the British possession
| about 81, 600; between the Northern and Centr,
routes, $4,000; between the Central and the prt
posed Southern routes, $1,000; and between th
| Southern route and Mexico, $1,000, making tot
| of 274, 900.
| As regards their means of support and method
| of subsistence, they may be divided as follow
| Those who support themselves upon their ow
F.! reservations, receiving nothing from the Cover
! ment, except interest on their own moneys, or al
| nuities granted them in consideration of the ce
| sion of their lands to the United States, numbt
about 10000; those who are entire-y subsisted b
| the Government, about 1000; those in part sui
| sisted, Sf0e0--together about 1900; those wh
| subsist by hunting and fishing, upon roots, nut
berries, etc, or by begging and stealing, about IS
coo.
They may be divided again, with respect I
| their connection with the Government, as follow
There are about 150, 900 who may be said to renal
| constantly upon their reservations, and are und'
complete control of agents appointed by the Go
ernment; 95, GOO who at times visit their agenci'
|
generally roaming either on or off their reserv
ton, engaged in hunting or fishing; and $50
who never visit an agency, and over whom tt
Government as yet exercises practically no col
troll but most of whom are inoffensive, and con
init no acts of hostility against the Government.
Again, it may be said that of the SOC, ,00O Indial
of the country about 10000 have treaties vii
the Government; 40, GOO have no treaties with Il
United States, but have reservations set apart /
executive order or otherwise, for their occupanc
and are in charge of agents appointed by IL
Government; 25, 600 have no reservations, but al
more or less under the control of agents appointe
for them, and receive more or less assistance fro
the Government, the remainder consisting of Il
same 55 ,0c0 already twice described, over who
the Government exercises, practically, no centro
and for whom there are no treaty or other pr
visions.
As to civilization, they may, though with
great degree of assurance, be divided, accordil
| to standard taken with reasonable reference
what might fairly be expected of race with SUI
antecedents and traditions, as follows: Cviizo
$4,000; semi civilized, 125,OOO; wholly barbaror
7S,000.
Here follows a detailed description of ca
tribe and important band in the United States.
Report of the Commissioner of Inte
nal Revenue.
The renort of the Commissioners of Interr