Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-04
further valuable information and timely
 recommendations ask the careful attention of the Congress of the secretaFy's report

tbeir reseryation in Arizona followed the capture of those of their number who en- gagged in bloody and mnrderous raid during a part of the years 1885 and 16S6, are now held as rrisoners of war at Mount Vernon barracks, in the State of Alabama. Iney numbered on the 31st dsy of October, the date of the last report, 83 men. 170 Wo- wen, 70 boys and 59 girls; in all SS2 persons The commanding officer states that they are in good health and contented, and that they are kept engaged as fully as possible In the circumstances The children, as they arrive at a suitable age, are sent to the Indian schools at Carlisle and Hampton Last summer some charitable and Rno peopfe asked permission to send two teachers to | these Indians for the purpose of instructing | the adults, as well as such children as should be found there. Such permission was read iiy granted, accommodations were provided
 for the teachers, and some portions or the
 buildings at the barracks were made avail
 abIe for school purposes. The good work
 contemplated has been commenced ana the teachers engaged are paid by the ladies with whom the pla, originated. lam not at all in sympathy with those be- nevolent but iBjudicious people who are con stantly insisting that these Indians should pc returned to their reservation. Their removal was an absolute necessity If the lives ana I property of citizens upon the frontier are to l be at all regarded by the government Inelr continued restraint at 8 distance rom tne
  still necessary It is 8 mistaken philanthropy every way injurious which prompts the de. | sire to see these Indians returned to their olo haunts. They are in their present location as the result of the best judgment ot those ! having official responsibility in the matter | and who are by no means lacking in kind | consideration for the Indians. number of ! these prisoners have forfeited their lives to
 outraged law and humanity. Experience has l.proved that they are dangerous and cannot
 H .TJ1-s- r1<NffN fNV1I IVy 1f
 ! who on the warpath have heretofore actually
 been guilty of atrocious murder, but of their
 kindred and friends, who while they remain
 ed upon their reservation furnished aid and
 I comfort to those absent with bloody lntent:
 ! These prisoners should be treated kindly ana
 I kept in restaint far from the locality of their
 \ former reservation. They should be subject ed to efforts calculated to lead to their 1m- nrovement and the softening of their savage and cruel instincts; but their return to their old home should be consistently resisted. ,l THE OTHER INDIANS.
 The condition of our Indian population \ continues to improve, and the proofs null tipIy that the transforming change so much 3 | to be desired, which shall substitute Tor par t ! barism enlightenment and civilizing educa-
 I tion. is in favorable progress. Our relations
 with these people during the year has beer
 | distnrbed by no serious disorders, but rather marked by a better realization of their trut | interests and increasing confidence and gooc e will These conditions testify to the value - of the higher tone of eonslderatlon ana n9 @ manity which has governed the later method - of dealing with them, and commend It's con 8 tinued observance. Allotments in severalt1 - have been made on some reservations untl t \ all those entitled to land thereon have hat l. | their share assigned, and the work IS sth d continued in directing the execution of thi @ duty. I have made as much rapid dispatch "a so as to secure just and fair arrangement Y | which shall best conduce to the objects or tn e law by producing ratification with the re !, sult of the allotments made. No measure o d | general effect has ever been entered on iron d | which more may be fairly hoped if 1t shall b l. | discreetly administered. It pEoHers oppor J. tunity and inducement to that independenc
 of spirit and life which the Indian pecuiari!
 ! needs, while at the same time the 1nalienab1l
 | ity of title affords security against the risk IT \ his inexperience of affairs or weakness o is character may expose him to in dealing wit .- ! others. Whenever begun upon any reserve > tion, it should be made complete, 80 that al e l are brought to the same condition, and, l. ! soon as possible. Community in lands shoul ,- | cease by opening such as remain unsliotted t d settlement.
 !, COMPULSORY EDUCATION.
 y Contact with the ways of industrious an' 2 | successful farmers will perhaps add health a E Amulation. which will both instruct am ,- stimulate But no agency for the ameliora ,- tion of the people appears to me so promls1n IF as the extension, urged by the secretary, Q m snch complete facilities of education as sha le at the earliest possible day embrace a ,6 tsachable Indian youth of both sexes an is retain them with kindly and beneticer .h hold until their characters are formed an 1e their faculties and dispositions trained to th t. sure pursuit of some forms ot useful indus
 try Capacity of the Indian no longer need ,e dsmonstration- 1t is established. Itremair e- to make the most of it, and when that sna ,e be done the curse will be lifted, the India ds race saved, and the sin of their oppreseio
 redeemed. The time of it's accomplishmer
 depends upon the spirit and justice VI, If which it shall be prosecuted. It can not
 too soen for the Indian, nor for the intere ss; ! and good name of the nation. The averai ng attendance of Indian pupils, in the schoo ti increased by over 500 during the year, ar ne the total enrollment reached l5,2l2. Fl us cost of maintenance was not materially raj mt ed The number of teachable Indian you he is now estimated at 70, 900, or nearly thr he times the enrolment of the schools It oh ! believed the obsticles in the way Of 1nstruc ly. ing are all surmountable, and that the nect les | sary expenditure would be measure of eco at. omy.
 ne GRANTING OF PENSIONS.
 .e le, After detailing the expenditures of the p' oae year for pensions, the President continu' s7, am thoroughly convinced that our gene
 
 nt. to meet as far as possible, in the light Of c ast | experiepce. all neritOrious cases. The fl 'ar- that 1O2 different rates of pensions are p' ing cannot, in my opinion, be made consist' ow- with justice to the pensioners or to the gt
 ernment, and the numerous private pensi
 hills that are passed, predicated upon act imperfection of general laws, while they on crease in many cases existing inequality 8 oO' iniustice. lend additional force to the reco t tne mendation for 0 revision Of the g ,n.s n. eraI laws on the subject. The laz lm- of ideas prevailing among large nu at ber of our people regarding penai' [ur- is becoming every day more mark ases The principle upon which they should iore granted are in danger of being altoget 'een ienoted, and already pensions are ot -s .ns claimed because the applicants are as m a entitled as other successful applicants, rat Soo than upon any disability reasonably attrl ntll table to military service, if the establlshm 1ns of vicious precedents be continued If Aseo granting of pensions be not divorced II en- partisan and other unworthy and lrreieV pre- Considerations, and if the honorable nam' CI,- veteran unfairly becomes by these means ipai another term for one who constantly clam !eio for the aid of the government, there is dan lme that injury will be done to the fame and
 1ne triotism of many whom our citizens all snce lipht to honor, and that prejudice will per l aroused unjust to meritorious applicants
 P;5 pensions.
 paid The President then reviews the work asse aesHse the department of agriculture for the oo'- year and comments its efforts to cheek pc spread of contagious diseases of farm tne mals. The adjustment of the relation
 by tween the government and the railroad c plus panies is briefly alluded to and in conclui "as e ! the President says:
 s or The consciousness that have preser 'ss was but an imperfect statement of the condl nam of our country and it's wants occasions noer , fear that anything omitted is not known iaWs appreciated by the congress upon vi s .e ,t rests the responsibility of intelligent le 2 s. a1 lation in behalf of great nation and 'tlne fding people. As public servants we 8 oIin- rl do our duty well if we constantly guard
 the rectitude of our intentions, maintain
 per sullied our love of country and with UT nds, nSn pun p0'' GRoyER CIEyELAN Ooo. WASHINGTON, December 3, 1888. ,n is Hospital Ala SOciety's November d to port.
 onds ! Tba foIIovincy ia the report of the Hosl