St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-09
idea Of its general scope and tenor. The
following is from the Times.
BIG INgUNs.

BIG INJUNs.
When 4 bald headed gentleman-natur
ally bald and not made so by the aid Of a
scalping knife-cane upon the stage OF
Brooklyn Music hall, last night, be found
quite goodly audience assembled 70 hear
his lengthy Introduction OF the public to Mr..
Acknowledgements, better known by the trans
Iation Of his name, Sitting Bull. The bald
headed gentleman was Major T. NJ. Newson,
who was formerly a New England newspaper
man. He has lived among the red men for
some time, feels sort of affection for them
and is not afraid TO tell the white people of
the country that their way of treating the
Indians is a BANKED outrage. He recalled
the circumstances OF the scrimmage between
Gen. Custer and Mr.. Bull, when the general
assaulted the Sioux for peacefully marching
toward Canada, where Indians are decently
treated, and when the United States army
was violently and UNEXPECTEDLY sat upon.
for it was engaged in contemplate business.
The Indians, he said, did not want money,
tracts, store clothes, candy. and all that kind
of thing; they wanted a chance for life; they
wanted lands in severalty; they wanted TO
be taught agriculture they wanted TO be put
on a level with the ignorant, unwashed
European rabble that yearly pour across the
sea and are i'm mediately transformed into
full fedged citizens. He thought il an out
rage that this government should do for
foreigners what it would not do for the real
owners of the soil. When the Major was
through with bis preliminary dissertation the
Indians, who had been tanning themselves
and cheerfully regarding the audience from
the stage, sang and danced
The Union says: Major Newson occupied
most Of the evening with an eloquent de-
Is,n a.. Ia
ing Custer. He also claimed the tour Of the
party was to raise money to help the tribe
He claimed the system of caring for the In
dian was a mistake. They were placed on
reservations, under care of farmers who
were too few TO teach them anything about
agriculture, and with one hand on their ra-
tons and the other hand on the soil, were
told to be good Indians and rise. He hoped
the people would demand that congress
should give the Indian a right to own some
land by warranty deed. He could not call
foot of the land he occupied his own. and
yet il was decided him from the Great Spirit
Any native Of other lands, by becoming a
citizen, could secure a fee of 100 acres, but
an Indian could not. Indian agents had
risen from poverty TO the possession Of $780,
600 in few years, not by robbing the gov
ernment, but the Indian. Good -four be-
came hard in transit, pork grew musty and
rusty, coffee changed TO pole beans and
other mysterious changes daily went on.
There would be no need TO send them rations
if they were taught how to support them
selves.
The Brooklyn Eagle remarks; ''The enter
tainment given by the aborigines is decidedly
unique and highly interesting, accompanied
as it is by an explanatory lecture from which
much valuable information is to be derived
AS the speaker addressed over 100, 900 PEG
pie during his tour, it is fair TO presume that
he has won the warm regards, of the wild
children of the plains.''