Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-21
THE NDIANS.

Strong Appeals For the flights of the
 Red Men-Senator Dawes Encourages
 Efforts to Make Them Self.Support.
 ing.
 Many people interested in the rights of h. dians were present at each of the sessions of the Indian Rights association held at Center church yesterday. At the morning session Mrs. AS. Quinton of Washington, secretary of the Women's National Indian Rights associa- tion, was present and made an eloquent ad- dress, appealing to the women of this city to start a branch of her association here and to do something towards aiding the poor Indi- ans who are without Christian teaching. Mrs. Quinton during her address also said: There are still more than eighty tribes with out Christian teaching. The missionaries of our society are not expected to remain long enough among the tribes to build churches or teach creeds, but to do the preparatory work only. The feeling is now among all friends of Indians that there is enough work for the government to do in rectifying the in- justice that has been made in treaties. "The Woman's Indian Rights society,"" said the speaker, 'task to-day that the government give the Indians land in severalty. We do not think they are babies There are lovely, noble characters among the savages. I have seen the delicate sense of the pure and of courtesy in savage dress. have heard them pray as if they stood at the throne and I felt as could learn much from them and have . deep respect for them. found the Indians better and much more worthy of respect than I expected. Their faces are all sad. There is record of sorrow and hopeless ness upon the faces of all the worien which wrings woman's heart to see. They will go to work if they are we'll equipped for work. They are more intelligent about their own affairs than the public has any idea of. Our society is a union of the women of ten different denominations, and so no denonhi- national work, but simply that preparatory work which goes so straight to the hearts of the Indian women."
 Miss Alice Fletcher, who has spent the greater part of her time among the Indiana, made sho-t address, during which she said: "The Indian woman appeal very strongly and needs your help. She stands waiting for you. I have lived with them, day in and day out. I know what tent is with the thermometer at 300. The Indian wo- man is very faithful creature. I can tell you stories of blizzards where a child has been saved by mother who was frozen stiff. It is a marvel that Indians are so faithful do not think there is as much marrying for money among the Indians as among ourselves, but the power and tenscity of the Indians is 6 terrible thing. don't wonder that the ewomn's faces are sad and the mems faces stolid. Christianity, the law. and land in severalty is absolutely necessary for the improvement of the Indian"
 In the afternoon Professor w. H. Brewer delivered very interesting address on the ''Indian Question" which was warmly ap- plauded. The speaker said during his ad- dress in regard to white savages; ''An the whites have not yet shown their ca- pacity for civilization, even after cen turies of education, and our civiliza- We have some right here. We have to keep local standing army to keep them in check even in this city of colleges and culture. This army we call police patrols the city night and day to protect our lives against this horde of savages. It costs New Haven $1O0, 900 per year. doubt if any of these about us who have seen much of the h. dian have ever seen more brutality among the so-called savages than the papers chron- icle every day in these centers of culture called cities"
 MT. Herbert Welsh gave very interesting account of his recent trip among the Indians of Dakota, during which he said that the of the poor savages was through the Indian agents employed by the government.
 THE EVENING.
 The first speaker in the evening was Sen ator H. L. Dawes, who spoke on "The En- couragement to Continued Effort to Make the Indians Self-supporting Citizens"
 He said In the beginning want you to bear in mind the relation you bear to the Congressman. He is to consider not only what ought to be, but what can be. He has got to look at both the concrete and abstract side of the matter. The Congressman of to- Indians, nearly all savages. For nearly two hundred and fifty years about the same number of Indians have been in contact with civilization in this country, and hardly any progress has been made. Now the Congressman of to-day must look into this and first find out why no progress has been made before he once thinks of beginning to act. He must know what the dealings have been with the Indians. In the past they have been radically wrong When our fathers mingled with the Indians they thought they would fade away, but they nave not, and so this theory must be abandoned and the question is shall the Indian stay as he is, as he must stay anyway, or shall he be civilized and enlightened? To-day nearly three hundred thousand Indians are depend ent upon the United States government for their food. Senator Dawes went on to de- scribe the cruel manner in which the Indians had been treated during the past 250 years and closed by stating that the first thing that must be done toward civilizing the Indians was to convince them that you intend them no harm, thing very difficult to do as the only dealings they ever had with white men were when the latter cheated them or defrauded them of their property.
 Professor c. O. Painter, who was to speak on ''The Mission Indians of Southern Cali fornia and Sketch of the Work of the l. R. A. at Washington" said but few words on the subject owing to the lateness of the hour.
 Rev. Dr. Smyth also made few remarks on 'Our Duty to the Indians" and the con- vention then closed.