Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-08-30

scheme of taking few boys and girls
away from the camps to put them IN
school where they are taught English.
morals, and trades, has nothing repre-
hensible about 1t, except that il is sbso-
lutely of no consequence so far as solv
Ipg the Indian problem is concerned, The
few boys return to the camps With their
English, their school clothes and their
short hair. They know a trade also, but
hsve no opportunity TO be employed in
II. They losf about the forts for time
with nothing to do, spd the white men
talk pigeon English to them and the Wild
Indians sheer at them. Their virtues are
unspprecisted, and, as 4 natural conse-
quence, the thousands of years of bar.
bsrism which is bred in their nature
overcome the three little sessions of school
training. They go to the camps, 20 back
to the blanket, let their hsir grow. for
get their English. In yesr QUE cannot
tell school boy frora any other little
savage, and in the whole proceeding l see
nothing strange.
THE camp will not rise 70 the school,
boy, and so Mahomst goes TO the moan,
tslL. If 1t comes to pass thst the white
race desires to aid these Indians 10 be-
come part of our social syste IN ins esd
of slowly crushing them out of it, there
Is only one way to do it. The so-cslled
Indian problem is no problem st
all IN reality, only that II
hiss been made one By a long success
sion OF sets of which were masterly in
their imbecility and were fostered by
political sSarice. The sentiment of this
nation Is IN favor of no longer regarding
the sborigines of this country as con
quered race; and except that the great
body OF our citizens are spathetic OF
things so remote these wards of the Gov
eminent. the people who haze the admin.
lstration of these destinies would be call
ed TO account No one not directly in
terssted ever questioned that
the Indian Department should
have been attached 70 the War
Departments; but that is too patent a fact
TO discuss. Now the Indian affairs are in
so hopeless a state of dry-rot that practi.
sal men in political or in the militar nv
circles, hesitate 10 attempt the role of re.
formers. lhs reviews which | have on
the subject are not original, but are VERY
old and are understood BY all men who
live in the Indian countries. They aye
current among army officers Who have
speut their whole lives on the Indian
AipANiCl VI N'iV Tar west, UuH AEt NOV OFTEN
spoken, because all men reaNze the i'm
potency o. any attempt to overcome the
active work of certain political GIRO es
backed by pablo apathy and lot of
theoretical Indian regenerators. 1t any
thing is done TO -lieve the condition of
the lnoiau tribes it must be scheme
which begins at the bottom and takes the
whole OUTFIT as a western man would say,
in 2 - L.
are at all tsrdy, before we realize it the
wild Indian tribes will be, "a some writer
has said, Hoafers ard outcasts conteuding
with the dogs for kitchen soaps in west
ern villages They have ell ralss stock
successfully when hot interfered with or
not forced by iUsHtfioient ratious to eat
up their stock cattle to appease their
hunger, and have never heard that In
disns were not made of soldier stuff. A
great many western garrisous have their
corps of Indian scouts. In every case
tt ey prove efficient. They are n~'uraily
the finest irregular cavalry on the face of
this globe, and with an organization
similar to the Russian CcNsOckS they
would do the United States grsab good
aud become themselves gradually civil'z
ed. An irregular cavalry is every year y
more aud more lmpor tant branch of the
service. Any good cavalry officer, | be
| lieye. could take comm and of Indians
and ride around the world whoa having
piece of bacon, or cartridge, or a
horse issued by his government. SO far
| as effective police work in the west Is
! concerned, the corps of Indian scuU's
| do nearly all of that service now. They
all like to be enlisted into the service,
| universally obey orders, and are never
disloyal."