The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-03-20


the Register thinks have been detri-
mental to the interests Of Chamber.
lain. We quote from the article as
follows:
IF we mistake not the signs OF the
times indicate that the day has come
when the government will do what il.
ought to do by these aboriginies, not
what the sentimentalists of the east
want them to do; not what some
dude of a missionary, with eye.glass.
es and Ask umbrella, suggests it
ought to do, but what an intelligent,
far.seeing business man, who has
i;yedeupon the frontier, and has seen
the effects of commerce, trade, imita-
ton and copy upon the Indians, says
should be done. Public sentiment
demands this of the new administra-
ton. Every Indian agent and clerk
Of the Indian department, from Hi
ram Price down, has. always fought
the reduction of every reservation;
they have fought all intelligent poll
Ges, they have cloaken themselves
up and intimated that all policies OPP
posite to their own, mean stealing
from the Indian, mean that the Indi-
an must still immigrate further west
and leave the home of his fathers,
and give up his lard for nothing.
This is not 50. The intelligence Of
the west says to treat the Indian fair
y, give them each a piece of land,
give them a start and protect them in
their rights, wipe out reservation
lines, build school houses, insist upon
educating them. Take off the leather
belt with fifty rounds of cartridges
from their bodies. Take away from
them the gun that they laaily tramp
up and down the river with to shoot
nothing. Disarm them, take them
off of a pony, and put them to the
pillow. This can all be done, and
done well. As the Register has of
ten said we are their guardians, we
must be their friends. We cannot
afford 10 be small with them, we
cannot afford to cheat them. But we
can afford not to let missionaries and
philanthropistt, SO called, fatten off
Of them, and Keep them in idlcness
and ignorance all the days Of their
lives
In all Of which the GRAPHIC agrees
with the Register exactly. As long
ago as October goth 1888 the OZARK
lc contained a lengthy editorial on
this subject which closed as follows:
eve know we but echo the senti-
ments of every officer, private and
individual who has lived upon the
frontier and had opportunities of
Witnessing the present Indian policy.
The Indian is now in the hards OF
men who want to keep him as he is,
fe: confined upon reservations, and So
Hong as these men have control Of
Indian affairs just SO long will the
Immense reservations remain
Yes, the GRAPHIC agrees with the
IRegister's views exactly notwith
Winding the l%atter's criticism of Maj
@ ssmann, ct hoe genus ona'ae, wa
prompted wholly by selfish interests,
and not from a desire to benefit thu
1nlians or inangurate a more immac
ulAte Indian policy. Major Gasman1
Would prefer the Indians and til,
Crow Greek Reservation kept as they
were because it is bread and butte
I'd him. Col. King would drive tn,
! Indians back and fill the few acres 0
land contributive to Chamberlain witt
VOTERS for that struggling town an,
! with subscribers to the Register, be
cause, forsooth, it is bread and butte
. to him. a man up a telegraph pol
! would therefore wonder if Col. Kin,
was editing q newspaper in a tow
remote from the hauuts Of the nobl
). red man would lie have the sam
wild desire to ~civilize poor To.
Col. King seems to have lost sigh
! of the fact that the same power the
created the present outrageous India
policy with its horde of hangers OF
{ swindllng contractors and agent
who have bled the q. S. Treasury I
Z the extent of millions of dollars; wit
its adude missionaries and hypocrit
e cal philanthropists' he complains o
7 was the SAM power that made hi
: postmaster, the now defunct 6. o.
q He should not aensnre 'seYery India
IS agent and clerk of the Indian depar
: ment, from Hiram Price down. sim
~ because they do not care to releas
their hold Of the public crib and hel
him to put money in his purse, an
g demand of the new administration
, change in the Indian policy alon
: There have been other and grave
! abuses perpetrated upon the people /
j this country which have sprung I'M
i existence and been nourished ar
: f@ostered By Republican rule bcsid'
: which the. Indian policy pales I'M
q insigniicapcc, and which the Regi
ter has helped to maintain with j
support. Tie editor Of the Regist
= now seeks to destroy that which !