St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-09
A Murderous Assault Made Upon q
Mulatt0 Girl by a Fiendish
Negro.
He Shoots Her and Robs Her Of Ten Dollars
Stolen Property Found-Other
Crimes.
The Governors Action Regarding Two Bills
Anxiously Awaited-Yesterday's Work
in the Vineyard.
The Amusement Record-The City to be
Redistricted-Some Sayings of the
Street-Notes.
THE INDIAN CAN LEARN.
A Man Who Has Been Among Them Vouches
for the Fact.

A Man Who Has Been Among Them VOuches
for the Fact.
The large auditorium of the House of Hope
church was well filed last evening to listen
to Rev. George L. Spinning of Cleveland, o.,
deliver an address on the subject of The
Indians. The meeting was under the auspices
Of the st. Paul branch of the Woman g
National Christian Indian Aid society, and
from the speakers long service in Indian
missionary work there is perhaps no one
better qualified to handle the subject
understandingly. Eulogistic comment was
made upon Chief Joseph, the gentleman
characterizing his retreat of 1880 miles as
one of the most mastery ever made, and
criticising the government severely for its
treatment not alone of the Nez Perces but of
the Indians generally. With nearly 1000
people this chief had conducted the cam
paign and had surrendered upon the assur-
ances that they should not be sent from the
homes of their fathers. Their condition
now as witnessed by the speaker and re-
lated by him, is narrowing in the extreme,
Less than 200 OF them remain now in the
poverty stricken reservation on the Arkansas
river where they are held by the government
as prisoners of war, and scarcely twenty-five
of these are warriors capable of bearing arms.
In the seven years they have been
held here in violation of the
pledges made to them, scarcely a
child born has survived the malarial
surroundings.
For the faith broken with them, the brave
officers who conducted the campaign against
them were not responsible Brave men re-
cognize brave men, and these officers who
engaged in the war had testified how distaste-
full it was, and had borne evidence to the
mastery skill shown by the red man in this
warfare and to the effect that he possessed
some excellent characteristics. The whole
Indian problem was not the Indians, but
the white mans problem.
Fifty years ago the savage occupied ter
ritory 500 miles vide by 1900 miles long;
to-day he was restricted to few reservations
and not allowed to hold his lands in sever
atty. This was asked for by himself, too, in
many instances. His vices were the white
mans vices. Treat him as savage and he
would continue savage; treat him as man
and brother and he would quickly become
civilized.
Our doors were open to the oppressed of
! welcome to those of other shores; but right
here, whiting twenty-four hourssride of us,
were those who were here before us and were
distinctively American, who were the objects
of shameful injustice. The gentleman
showed number of photographs of Indians
who had been taken from their degradation
and sent to the schools at Carlisle and Hamp-
ton, and OF the same persons after resi-
dence of some years; also articles which had
been made by them, and asked anyone
skilled in the making of the several objects
if he could improve upon them. A number
of essays were shown, written without other
suggestion than as to subject, and presented
without alteration, and when it is remeD
bered that these Indians had the language tc
learn, their efforts will compare to advan-
tage with those to the manor born in point Of
composition and penmanship.