Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-05
A Practical Study Of the Indian
Question
TO BE MADE BY coMMIssIoNERATKlNs
, An Easy Lesson in Foreign Trade
Does Protection
Protect?
MORE ABOUT The WOMEN CLERKS.
Spseial 70 tAs RsciSis.

ject being a practical study of the Indian
question. Congress last year authorized
committee consisting Of the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs and halt dozen members
OF Congress to make long trip through
the country for the purpose Of studying the
conditions Of the noble red man and
deyising WAYS and means for his improve
ment. Mr.. Holman, of Indiana, is to be
chairman of the committee. 1t is to meet
in Omaha shortly and proceed on long
trip and examination into the affairs of the
Indians in all parts of the great west. The
inquiries will first be directed toward the
Indians of the far north and northwest,
hen to those toward the south. I'VE ex-
2ect to 20 as far north as the line of the
British possessions, said Commissioner
Atkins, talking about the trip to your cor.
respondent, "as tar west as the Pacific, and |
as far south as the line Of Mexico. The trip
will occupy about three months time, and |
we expect 10 make the study q thorough |
one"
This certainly seems a practical way of |
studying the Indian problem. The Com |
missioner was for such long time q mem |
Der of the House Committee on Appropria- |
tions that he was when he come to the posi- |
ton of Commissioner pretty well acquainted /
with the subject he has now. been studying /,
:, from his position ss Commissioner for a
number Of weeks, bringing to bear all the !
Information which the talent of the office |
esr furnish, and by the time he has made /
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,uopg them, talked with the chiefs and the |
eOple and with the agents who have been !
auCrg th,m for years, and had at the same |
tine the advice Of such careful and'experi- /
ercsd men as Mr. Holman and others he /
ought to come back pretty well prepared for
his work.
An Easy Lesson in Foreign Trade.
Consul Frank II. Mason, of Marseilles, |
writes some very sound advice to the man
ufacturers of this country through the State !
Department, and puts it so tersely and !
pointedly that it is worthy their attention. !
Here il Is: When the same energy pre-
sistence and foresight, which are now dis
plsyed in the manufacture Of American
Goods are turned 10 the work OF selling
them, there will come the crisis of competi-
ton which Europe Will have cause to dread.
When American merchants establish sgen-
cies in the new countries where Germany
GRANGE and England are now competing
for commercial advantages, when young
men are sent TO these agencies to learn the
language and study the habits and wants of
the people; when American goods are made
paCked and marked in every way adapted
10 the peculiar notions and requirements of
he people for whose use they are destined,
aud when the foreign service Of the United
States is placed upon the secure and sus-
tsined footing that has been found most
advantageous by other nations, then It will
5e found that the people who have created a |
great nation within acentury are merchants |
"a well as manufacturers and farmers; that |
they know how to sell as well as create |
There will then be heard far less than now
Of strikes and crises in American indus |
try"
Does Protection Protect?
After all, il does not seem that the almost
rrohibitory tariH-as it was supposed.
placed on Suuatra tobacco a couple OF
years since has had much effect IN keeping
i out of the country, or is to have such
effect in the future, though perhaps It may
priCe which American growers OF wrapper
tobacco got tor their ProSucts, Wlth "nicn
this Suma "a tobacco was such rlgaL AT
least il seems that the amount imported
does not decrease because OF this increase on
the tariff. Corsul Eckstein, Of Amsterdam
.itess to the S;a:e Department under re-
cent dates . Ii would not seem to me- TO %
quite likely that much larger quantity OF
s. rma,ra tobacco will find its way to our
markets than ever did during any previous
twelve months The so greatly reduced
purchases OF the article and the shipment OF
the same to the United States in lSSi were,
as is explained TO ne chiefly the result OF
the tobacco offered that year being less suit
able for the American market on account Of
most OF it being TOO light colored.
More About Women Clerks.
The remarks made in this correspondence
sbort women clerks few days since, are
corrobors,ed b7 some remarks ot chief OF
= division in one of the departments, who
has had loBg experience here. 1T IS
fac" be said, that nine chiefs OF divisions
rpt NJ ten would never select lady to DO
6ntv updar them if they could help II
That sounds harsh. doesn't 1t? Under the
oI5 PATRONAGE system women were pitch
iorked into this department without tne
slightest regard to their quahhcationS, IOr
the duties they were to perform nov,
With the men 1t was different 4 man OF
influence could not have the face 10 strongly
recommend q man for position IN the de-
partment unless he was able to sno" tus'
be was qualified in some way tor the Posi.
ton sought. That wasn't necessary, though
in the rsse ot a woman. She could reaen
the sympsthies of the man who could get
the appointment, or the Secretary who couio
make il. and nothing more was rSlulEeu
Women were more successful IN securing
nositions for themselves than men, lhey
seemed 10 have no hesitaney in showing taeir
distressed condition, and if they could sstisiy
the proper persons that theirs were cases OF
necessity, as they generally could, the ngn!
VAS over, Thus Il was that the department.
WAS crowded with women, more thsn WeEs
needed and they had to be gwen employ
nent The heads of bureaus preferred 70
get along without them, but they eoulan
suit themselves in the matter. They won
tell Won so but nearly sn Of them Will &C
KNOWLEDGE among themselves that women
clerks as a general thing are nulsanSeS. S.
Now. | will tell you why one reason IS thS'
they can't manage them. IL oi'en nSPHG;nSs ~
that one has strong backing: hT ~ Ia
knows il, and she knows 1t; She tAAeS a.
vantage of her position and does IuS. va -
she pleases, and her chief sekno"lel - ~
himself that SIZE has the best OF II ana ~ YSs
Lot auemp. TO get the upper hand; IS 9Sa
even If there is no strong influence IA Sne
case, the chief often fails IN enforcing H.GP
er discipline. he makes up bus mina Inzs -
he viii deal with the woman under a nlm
exactly as with them, but when tne iuS -
comes he cannot divest 6lmsen y,
the IDEA that they must be treaTSS ne
diteIeLtly bsesEse they are women, e
champions ofths womsn's cause say U1Gs =
this is he case. it is the fault OF me cnrsa sa