St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-02
VOICE OF TETM PEOPLE.

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| VOICE OF TETat PEOPLE.
1t is never pleasant, but often pain
full, duty to undertake to correct wrong rep
reservations, and it is even more so when
| they have been made by persons whose Of
| fetal position gives them weight. and whose
reputation is considered to be honorable
Still, if persons occupying such exalted sta
ton take advantage of it to injure inno-
cent, inotfensive and suffering people they
must expect equitable correction and COM
mensurate chastisement. Maj. Gasman has
made statements which are widely distant
from being truthful. Few persons around
| here who intimately know Mai. Gasman
believe that he would Intentionally misead
| the public mind in placing before it figures
| which are not, neither can they be, SubStan-
tiated by facts. But whether with or with
out wrong design he has, nevertheless, by
Endorsement and retailment borne false wit
ness against his neighbor. Maj. Gasman
says, speaking of the settlers on the Grow
Creek and WmnebagO reservations in his
| recent letter to the Indian bureau: Il am
confident that there are not at the present
time 400 settlers on it, In making such
statement Maj. Gasman either tells false
hood OF has been lied to.
Now for my proof, which is from gen.
tleman i'll our city, who is United States
commissioner, and who has held that posi-
ton with honor for several years, who is a
disinterested party in this matter. Now what
does that exemplary officer say2 Il have
taken at1davits of PA actual settlers on
Grow Creek reservation in the immediate
r,ai,, n2 Te1 of3I
cOrOborated by two creditabie witnesses.
Said affidavits show the following, to-wit:
Within the above-named district they repre-
sent population OF 593 persons, 1875 build
ings dwellings, barns, etc., so wells etc,
which gives total valuation of improve
ments aggregating to $50, 1858. These aft
davits also show several hundred acres Of
breaking and large amount of stock, with
farm machinery, etc. The lowest valuation
for any settler is $50, and the highest is
81, 400. The affidavits likewise show that
the former homes of the parties to have
principally been in the Eastern and in the
Central states" This is signed by John
r. Stearns, United States commissioner
Second judicial district of Dakota Terri
tory.
Further comment is needless, except to
say that the area named by Commissioner
Stearns only covers about one-eighth of the
land which was opened by President
Arthrr's order. 1t will also be seen by
statements made under oath, and each one
confirmed by the testimony OF two wit
neSSeS, that Maj. GaSman was equally mis-
leading in his statements that ''the improve
mentS made by settlers outside OF the addi-
ton to the town Of Chamberlain (some
thirty or forty houses), the shanties built
will not average SO or SIS in value"
Such assertions not only attest their own
falsity, but show an utter disregard for the
Divine ethics, which uniformly aver that
Whose oppresseth the poor reproacheth
his Maker" But notwithstanding these
unmerited insults and even the threatened
pending assault, our people cannot be
goaded to even retaliate or rebel, but will
leave their righteous cause in His hands
who says, vengeance is mine and [ will
repay, saith the Lord" and its infamv, if
carried out, to disgrace government which
by such d giant wrong cannot prevent
sudden and mortal collapse, and which
future generations will never desire to see
arise from its mathematical ruins.
WILLIAM 3. AFFLECK,
Pastor NJ. E. Church. Chamberlain, Oak i
Sunday Shaving.
To the Editor of the Globe:
An article appeared i'll your last Sundays |
edition headed: 1.-The BARRIERS Sunday |
Move" | am an old barber, and know |
what it is to have to work Sunday morning, |
and l would like to see the workmen gain
their point as to having all the barber shops |
closed on the Sabbath day. 1t would give |
the workmen chance to rest and attend
suits of life.
Now, sir, it is all unnecessary for the
barber shops to be open any more than
grocery store or a rum shop, or any other
line of business. A man who cannot get
shaved Saturday night ought to shaye HIM
self or wait till Monday morning \ few
hours growth of beard on a mans face
makes no difference to his personal appear
ance except he be an uncommonly hard,
black bearded person, and to have all the
barber shops open to accommodate those
few is simply unreasonable and ridiculous.
Your article states that there is state
law prohibiting unnecessary work on the
Sabbath day, and in justice to the work
men the mayor and city council should see
that that law is enforced.
Now | would like to ask those who are
getting up q petition to have the barber
shops kept open, who they are? would
wager that they are a few sporting charac-
ters OF few brainless dudes who have to h
have an artist to dress their craniuns so
they will be presentable. Such men as
these are no use to city like ST. Paul, ex-
,ept to demoraliZe society and assist young
men on the downward path.
By all means let the BARRIERS have Sun
lays. AS it is now the iourneymen have
10 work from Z a. N. to S p. IN. and Sun
lays till noon. If your paperfwill agitate
The closing of the barber shops on Sundays
YOU will gain the good will of every jour
1eyman barber and Seven-eighths of the
posses and the respectable portion of the
KNIGHT OF THE RAZOR
Minneapolis, May 81.
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