Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-05-14
The Wolf at the Door.

, Under the heading of "Tbe Wolf At
the Door, the Meaivi.le Republican
OF recent date says: We have al
ways felt kind Of curiosity abou; wha,
Al Iudisn would do with his money,
providing he should get sufficiently civ
iiized to earn more than enough to buy
/ fire water ana blankets. Ne have
| found cut. The annual distribution Of
annuity goods al Lac Court Oreille res
ervaiioD has just been made to 1000
/ Indians there. TIE Indians Of this res
ervation have besn extensively engaged
IN logging during the pas: winter, aud
have banked about SlS0,000 worth OF
logs They are vel! fed aud we'll cloth
ed, some of them having realized from
! $4,000 to $4,000 from tue sale of their
timber All have been al work And
how do thoy spend 1t! First shi,ksy,
and second let the sgent's descrip-
I tiOn answer: They came up in broad
cloth and kid gloves, with gold watches,
chains snd seals, to receive their dole
Of tea pounds VI -four aud three pounds
OF pork per capita" This is progress
with a veEgesnca-but it i tho prog
rsss tlat, next 10 the beer glass, keeps
, the uios. OF ou. istor'ug .o!ks pO0r-
There is a B.uiiIiude OF railroad men,
ana mechauics, sud carpenters, in this
country who york hard, get good pay,
but nJyer have soy thing ahead Ii is
nothing under The Sun tut their ''brOsd-
cloth and kld glove" policy which causes
it. In our neigabOrisg oil regions men
arc earning as driilers and engineers
big pay, but dFiiier with anything
ahead is as rare as speculator who isn't
gray headed They build a shaDty
and put Brussels csrps; on tho from,
room and jug d piano. They don't al
wsys have Two sheets Ol the bed, but
they are pretty su!s 10 have bed
stead as high as the ceiling. The chill
dren don't always know hoT 10 read,
Dat 8, Iosst oue OF them tskes music
lessons. Everg dril!er carries gold
watch, while his employer generally
carries silver ono. Let these msn
lose work aud they would not have
enough ahead TO keep the family in
| iahnnycake for week. Over In the
Ohio mines a week ago there was s
strike. The men bad 40 WORK for q
month. They had beea earning So. 90
ard S400 per day, but two weeks al.
ter the work stopped, nearly avery fam
/ ily had 20 be furnished iood. They
| had heed 1t ou; uot in fne clothes
or fancy furniture, but had actually
eG!en il up. Why said the owner
of The mine, as he trundied pork and
bsans aud potatoes around 70 them, Il
can't set such table as these fellows
DO. They buy straw berries at seventy
Eve cents a quart and eat lettuce 10
January. They won't be bothered
with pig, and have TO raise drove
to keep them frou. starving to death
when out cf work" Ii seems pity
that the poor Iudian'' should be
taught 9hisEey drinking and extrase-
geDco st the outset. That when they
do rlnks strike, as in the Lac Court
/ Ore,lie reservation, there should be 40
more sensible to follow than those Of
extrsvsgant show. Tba; the uex.
thing they learn after drinking is throw
Ing away their money, but 1t Ia the ex-
ample that most of our eieillzed lsbor-
ers set, so what can we expect fron the
upcivi!izedi ''Lo, the poor Indian,
and 10, the POOR white man"
! There will be grand cake waIk sel ID
in the Friendship Heck and Ladder
house in Patterson, on Saturday eveu-
,nf, May IL 1891 Ice, cream, cake,
lenonaie and ether refreshments will
be served. The boys are making an ef-
fnrs to get new uniforms foF Ibs CONF
! ing Fourth Of July.