Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-08-29

son. There arc among the OSaScS no
pcniless people, and none in want eX-
,ept that Unsuitable want that always
wants more.
On recently meeting senator who
Sas unexpectedly dropped at the last
home election, and who it was well
known had lost his law practice during
ais twelve years service here, | asked
aim what he was going to do now.
Well" he said, II don't know ex-
actly, but l am working up scheme
hat am sure it will pay if can fetch
It. 1t involves a change of occupation,
and even of residence, but it promises
big results. l may slip up, though"
This elaborate and confidential utter
ance excited friendly interest. and /
asked, hesitatingly, ii there was room
Tor any more on the ground floor, and
lfhe was letting his friends know what
The rifle was
Room enough he answered, medi-
tatively, but am not certain that ]
ran get in myself. The fact is | am
trying to induce the Usage Indians to
adopt me as SON"
Lucky, indeed, it is to be the son of
the Osages--no joke about that--for
The poorest baby that First opens his
eyc through a skylight dim on the
tight of the sky" is worth thousands of
dollars at birth, and is as lucky as
Miss Kilmansegg
"Of whom, according TO poets wont,
Plutus, as sponsor, stood at the font,
And Midas rocked the CRADLE
or as the slightly paraphrased Miss
Mcbride, who
slept in a cradle of gold
With Fortunatus to rock it,
Before speaking more specifically of
this opulent and pampered tribe, let
us consider the present attitudes of the
the indians to the government
Our copper-cOlorcd orphans have
changed their great and good stcp-fa-
Their.
Indian Commissioner Obcrly goes
out of Office to-day and Indian Commits
.Bioner Morgan comes in.
Gen. Thomas j. Morgan is said to be
good man. He was brave soldier.
He is an educator He has strong
philanthropic Rhode Island intuitions,
which have taken him repeatedly to
the Mohawk Indian conference in New
York, where his speech and demcanor
ingratiated him to the favor of the best
and most honest friends of tho aborigi,
nal fragment on our frontier.
1t should be added that the official
bearing of Commissioner Oberly has
made him very solid with the same
people, and that his removal to give
place to another good man who lacks
official experience is the theme of much
discussion, democrats and civil service
mugwumps alleging that this we'll
enough ought to have the proverbial
letting alone, and the president assum-
ing, as Mr.. Cleveland assumed, that his
Indian policy could best be interpreted
by one OF his own party. Either con-
clusion is right, according to the point
of view, and. as the profound Bunsby
remarked, the bearin's of this obser-
walton lays in the application on it."
The Osages always keep a top eye
open for the intentions of the great and
good step-father at Washington, and
this benign relative for the next four
years will have triangular personii-
cation in President Harrison, Secretary
Noble and Commissioner Morgan.
What the Osages want to know of him
especially is whether he will let them
have any more money.
What they Immediately want is 500
900 for a Catholic school and $50, 600
for a Methodist school. The local
council has voted these two appropria-
tons, but Uncle Sam is their banker,
and whether they get the money for
these Proposes depends on his cashier,
H .rison.
- The whole Usage nation consists of
just sol persons and the number OF
children of school age is about 400.
But they already have two schools,
supported by magnificent school fund
Of $4,000 yielding regular annual in
terest of Sc, 900, or $l5 for each school
able child-a larger fund than any 9th
er community in the world. So it may
possibly be thought by many that $l2O,
900 more, entailing annual appropria-
tons for sectarian schools, are not in
the nature of Indispensable wants.
Let us see what is the actual wealth
OF the Osages.
There are 1,501 of them according to
last years census.