The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-08-10

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bipartisan newspapers on the face OF
Gods green earth commend US to the
lankton Psess and Dakotaian. 1t says:
There has existed a silent suspicion
that the Democratic administration of
this nation did not desire the confirm.
alton of the Dawes Indian bill. This
suspicion has not been dissipated by the
operations at Standing Rock. 1t now
appears that the administration has en-
tranched itself behind the clause in the
act which requires the signatures of
three-quarters Of the male adult Indiana
before it shall become a law. A COM
mission of ordinary ingenious polite.
ians. or servants of politicians. could
readily make a failure Of an effort to
procure the required signatures. A fail
ure would come as the natural sequence
OF events unless a determined effort was
made to accomplish the other result.
That such an effort has not been made
is the evidence of the Standing Rock
conference, where not one of the bar
barians was converted to the cause of
civilization by the emissaries of the I'D
ministration.
All this in the face Of tho fact that
the submission clause met the approval
Of both houses of congress, and also in
the face Of the fact that the commission
selected to treat with the Indians has on
all sides, by men of all parties. East and
West, been universally commended as
being the best that could have been Sc
lected to do the work. The Press aud
Dakotatan's political capital must be get
ting very low indeed to be at such petty
business. 1t would please a certain
class OF newspapers, a certain number of
spectators, and a few towns in Dakota
If Cleveland would ignore congress and
the reservation bill entirely and call ON
the war department to take the lands by
forcc-but, pshaw! even her they would
damn the administration for something
which would not just coincide with
their bigoted ideas. No one desires
more than the GRApuIc that the Sioux
reservation be speedily opened to settle
ment. No community would reap
greater benefits from the change than
this. But it becomes disguised at times
with tho kicking emanating from certain
Dakota quarters because things don't 20
just 80. 1t would all be very nice to
have everything pertaining TO the In
dams and the reservation fixed to the
liking of certain residents and certain
localities in the territory, butt is silly
to expect it. A few townsitc boomers
in Pierre, Chamberlain, and the. Black
Hills have SO often solemnly affirmed
that the reservation would be open on a
fixed day and date that it's getting quite
common for to condemn the government
because the said boomers don't deliver
the goods. This reservation either be.
longs to the Indians or to the United
States-you "a figure it either way you
~choose-not to any individuals or desig.
mated localities. In all matters pertain
ing to 1t every state in the Union has u
voice. The present administration at
Washington has inaugurated no new
policy IN this matter. The GRAPHIC has
it from John H. King personally that so
far as the president is concerned he has
all through acted in the most favorable
manner. The whole trouble lies in
sticking to the Indian policy. Of the
past. If the Democratic party is party
OF reform it would do we'll to knock out
that policy along with high tariff. 1t
has come to a point where q treaty OF
arbitration between the government Of
the United States and a few dirty, lazy.
shiftless Indians is q ridiculous farce and
worthy Of ridicule by the civilized
world. The obstinate refusal of the
Indians at Standing Rock may possibly
lead to what will be a proper solution of
the Indian problem for all time to come,
and that solution:-a new Indian policy
which will do away forever with ali
treaties. the breaking up Of the reser:
vations, the taking of land by the In.
dams in severalty, and the compelling Of
Mr.. Lo to work or starve.