The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-03-25
NEp4RA77oN FOB INDIANS WRONGS.
On. Y. Freeman's Journal)

Fort Riley. my Band, of little ones
ask permission to double mp a.
they think Reparation for Indians Wrong
is not making enough headway! They
wish to zee longer list of aims, ana pray
ers! ~
We think these words, from an old sol
der of the United States Army, whose
duty il has been to peril his life in fighting
IndiaDe; a painful duty he may, any day
| have to perform again, arc more eioQuen
than any we can write. We make DO com
| meDt on them.
Causes, easily understood, have distract
ed attention from the coed work we invited
our friends and readers TO take part in. Al
| to onr pledge, by next October, to furnish
the Very Rev. Dom. lsidore Robot, Apos
tolic Project, with five thousand four bun
dred dollars, we are not all diequieted
Hard 90 the times are We will find waye to
keep our pledge-if we live. But the
thing we set out to do was far harder. II
vas TO try, against the custom, and almost
the nature, of our people, to get them, in
great companies, 70 agree together to do a
little pork regularly! This, as We planned
it, While doing great W ork for the Indians
would do a work even greater for their ben
efactnrs. "One Hail Mary day" We are
of the opinion of st. Alpbonsus, Doctor OF
the Church CatholIc, that no one who says,
with ordinary devotion one" Hail Mary u
every day will he lost eternally. Besides, the
wonderful habit Of clarity, of being willing
to give little, for every good object.
! Our collection, in Reparation Tor Wrongs
to the Indians in the United States, by tue
Confraternity OF prayers and aims, III der
the Patronage of ST. Michaers of the Holy
Rosary, has, thus far, amounted to over
sixteen hundred dollars. After last week &
announcement, We forwarded to Very
Rev. Dem Isidore, a certificate Of de.
posite to his order, making, with. former
! similar renittancee, the sum of che thou
sand five hundred and seventy Ave dollars
"a trihe more than we had received, at
| that date. This work costs Us something.
1t costs us what ia more precious than
money--labor and time. Oar Lord will,
most assuredly, reward us-in the other
world, We hope.
What we wish our friends to understand
is. that in this charity, none of it sticks by
the ray. Not any three cents, given for this
Every cent, all kind of impediments pro-
vided for, every cent contributed, goes to the
charity intended by the donors.
We think it was Mr. Proctor, genial
Lecturer" that visited this country u year
or two ago, that some friend, apropos OF
ing given comlcal account OF how some
so-called charities were run in England
The Grand Junction Ebenezer-S Society
has the qualification to report that, since
it's last account, it has received six thou
sand pounds sterling OF this sum five
thousand pounds have teen judicionsly
spent, on necessary salaries. Nine hun
drcd pounds have been spent, very judi
ciOusy, in magnifyiDg the work we art
engaged in. Incidental expenses hav
taken up fifty Tearing the CRAFTY
ing result ofJifty pounds sterling that hdr
been applied entirely to our blessed object :
We have a rare collection OF letters, ToG
F,I, boz
not, have occasion to publish. Theee iet
tiers are from all parts. They represent
, variety of urgent needs and sometimes {
f embarrasSments, from meddiDg lobbyists i
Washington.
3 One thing is palpable, and potent,
= and seen grow in favor and strength, froi
!. feeble beginnings, as Gods sendings d
a grow-or some better p,an-ought, wltho1
delay, to be taken in hand. There are Ia
diaus outside of the Indian Territory, ths
= have q valid claim on US. The plan W
r propose, drops like gentle dew from heave
b and Expresses no one sensibly. Were
: spread, were it to / Q taken up, advocated
9 encouraged, without touching any 9th.
;, charity it would prove not only soace, bl
u salvation. temporal as well spiritual to tt
'. whole remnant of the Indian Tribes.
d We take word of command from th'
It brave Orderly Sergeant, Daniel Coleman
vi L oIG 1SueyJ VINO HAS 30 OIteu uhu
r fight the misused IL dams, and understand
o their wrongs. We pass tue word alor
9 "dOuble up !" We do not mean double yo1
Individual contributions, but enlist othe
y in this good work-and, if you please,
/, this end, double your prayers
Mr.. McMaster, the learned and zealor
s editor of the Freeman'S Journal, keeps Il
g following explanation at the head of Il
j. column in which he weekly acknowledg
y contributions received
a The Confraternity. invoking Our Imm
IT culate Lady of the Holy Rosary. and Il
d Prince of the Archangels, St. Michael,
!, l., planned, as beginning, on the formati'
~ of one thousand Bands, of fifteen, or of f
"a teen and additional members, less thi
r another fifteen, each. One member of viii
N Band will see to the contributions of thr
8, cents month, each member-or if mo
10 convenient, for several months or year,
1t advance, aud will remember to stir up {
"a members of the Band to pray for the ohjeC
IN of the Cnnfraternity, at least to sayin
~ N each, one Hail Mary every day. This
- | ginning is made for what is the most il