The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-12-06
CLEvELAND's SAY.
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the barracks were made availab bic for school pur-
poses. The good work contemplated has been
commenced, and the teachers engaged are paid
by the ladies wit h whom the plan orisinated.
am not at all in sympathy with those benevolent
but injudicious people who are constantly n
sisting that these Indians should be returned to
necessity If the lives and property OF citizens
upon the frontier to be at all regarded by the
government Their continual restraint at =
distance from some of their repeated and cruel
murders and outrages is still necessary. 1t IS u
mistaken philanthropy. every way injurious.
savages returned to their old haunts. They
are in their present location al the result
of the best Judgment of those having official
means lacking in kind consideration for the In
dams. A number of these prisoners have for
feited their lives to outraged law and humanity.
Experience has proved that they are dangerous
those who. ON the war path, have heretofore
been actually guilty of murder but OF their
kindred and friends who, while they remained
upon their reservation. furnished aid and COM
fort to those absent with bloody intent. The
prisoners should be treated kindly and kept in
restraint far from the locality OF their former
reservation, aud they should be subjected to
efforts calculated to lead to their Improvement
and 10 the softening of their savage and cruel
Instincts, but their return to their old home
should be persisteutly resisted. The secretary,
in his report, gives a graphic history OF these
Indians and reeites with painful vividness their
bloody deeds and the unhappy failure OF the
Ii will be amazing II q perusal of this history
will allow the survival OF desire OF the return
Of these prisoners to their reservation upon SEN
.imeutal or other grounds.
THE NAVY.
The report of the secretary of the navy DEM
onstrates very intelligent management in that
important department., and discloses the most
satisfactory progress In the work OF reconstruct
ing the navy made during the past year. OF the
ships in course of construction five, viz: The
Charleston, Baltimore. Yorktown. Vesuvius and
the Petrol have in that time been launched and
are rapidly approaching completion. and in adj
dition to the above the Philadelphia, the San
Francisco, the Newark, the Bennington, the
Concord and the HerreshoT torpedo boat are all
during the next year. The progress already
made and being made gives good ground for the
expectation that these eleven vessels will be in
eorporated as part of the American navy within
the next twelve months The report shows that
notwithstanding the large expenditures for new
The total ordinary or current expenditure or the
department for the three years ending June 80,
1888, are less by more than 20 per cent than
such expenditures for the three years ending
June so, 1854. The various steps which have
been taken to improve the business methods of
rebary. The purchasing of supplies has been
consolidated and placed under responsible bu-
reau head. This has resulted in the curt ailment
Of open purchases, which in the years lSS4-S5
amounted to over so per cent of the purchases
Of the department, to less than per cent. SO
that at the present time about 80 per cent CT the
Total departmental purchases ere made by con-
tract and after competition. As the expenditures
On that account exceed an average OF S2.OOo,ooo
annually, il is evident that an important i'm
proyement in the system has been lnaugurated
and substantial economies introduced