Daily globe., 1878-05-21
SOCIAL SCIENCE.

Meeting of the American Association al
Cincinuati--An Interestlng Paper Read
by Gen. Pope ON the Indian Question
Plans Proposed for Remedying the Pres
ent Defects in the Management of Indian
Affairs, and the Absorption of Indian
Tribes.
CINCINNATI, May 20.-The American Social
Science association met this morning in Dexter
hall, the largest of the minor halls in Music
Hall building. After reading of the annual
report by Secretary Sanborn, q communication
was read from Miss Frances B. Coblie of Eng
land, on viyisection and from Madame Distria
of Italy, on the war spirit in Europe. Also
communications from Switzerland, Holland
Spain and other countries, on the study of social
science therein. Gen. Armstrong, of Virginia
sent series of sanitary tracts designed for cir.
culation among the freedmen which were laid
before the association. The principal feature
of the morning session was report and de-
bate on Homes for the People in Cincinnati y
in which many Cincinnati gentlemen partici-
pated. The building associations of Cincin-
natl, Philadelphia and Boston were discussed.
In the afternoon session Prof. w. l.. Harris
of st. Louis, presided, and delivered an address
on education as affected by division of labor
and by immigration. This caused an animated
Prof. Pierce and DR.. Hoyt of New York, spoke
at some length. Col. Geo. Ward Nicholas, of
Cincinnati. followed with an exhaustive paper
ON cart Education
At the evening session Prof. Pierce intro
duced Gen. Pope, who read paper on the In
dian question. He reviewed the present In
dian situation and its results, explained the
methods of making treaties with Indians, and
the purpose sought to be accomplished in
treating with them. He showed the difficult
ties in the way Of carrying out treaties after
they are made, and why, under the present
system, new treaties are necessary, while by
their operations, Indians are being gradually
| annihllated and whites murdered. He gave
the present Indians credit for better morals and
character than their predecessors under the old
system of appointments, but as they are men
unacquainted with Indians with Indian char
acter, and ignorant of the character and habits
of frontier whites, he considers them incompe-
tent to deal with either. Indians were starved
to death for want of supplies the government
was bound by treaty to furnish, and by the
rapid depletion Of the buffalo by hundreds of
thousands yearly for their hides alone He
said 1T appears to be the only function of the
army stationed near the Indian agencies, to
force the Indians to submit to suffering quiet
ly and without disturbance. Whether necessi-
ty results from deficiency of appointments
bad management of the agents, or actual fraud
he attributed the Indian wars to the encroach-
ment of whites, and the administration of
agents, and considered the army the victim in
these wars. His plan for the settlement of
difficulties is as follows:
First-That Indian tribes now on reserya-
tlons along the frontier, snd such as it may be
necessary hereafter to place, be transferred to
points far in the rear of advancing emigration
or In reservations in popvlous and well ordered
districts where no hostility to the Indian is
felt and where he is secure against want and
0InO cr1ffo rs11o
second-That thus, surrounded by good in
huences and in a condition the most favorable
to success, an honest and earnest effort be
made to civilize him by teaching him the pur-
suits and restraints of civilized life, so that if
incapable of becominga part of our population,
ne may become absorbed among us and dissap
pear as distinct race.
In thesdebate which followed Murray Ship
ley, of Cincinnati, and others spoke
Unsuccessful Effort to Compromise the
Mining Troubles in Illinois.
ST. LOUIS, May 20.-The committee of strik-
ing coal miners in the district embraced in st
Clair and Madison counties, Illinois, opposite
this city, held meeting with a number of
operators and owners in East st. Louis to-day.
to see it some adjustment of the present diff
Guilty between them could not be reached. At
ter long discussion the committee said the
miners would resume work at ~ cents per
bushel for the summer and 3 cents during the
winter. or 2M cents the year round. One of
the principal owners said he would give 21s
cents during the year. The committee said
tney could make no arrangement except for the
whole district, and as no harmony existed
among operators and no agreement among
themselves could be effected, the meeting re-,
suited in nothing. The miners assert that they
will mold out until final settlement is made,