Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-15
IN BEHALF Or 10.
Bishop Hare Tells About the Red
Mans Virtues.
Good Result of Religious Work
Among the Sioux,

But the whites Seem to Have Forgotten
1t and Only Think Of the Exaggerated
Reports Which Have Recently Come
from the Northwest--Issues Which Must
| BE Guarded Against.
NEW YoRK, Dec, 10. The following
from Bishop Hare has been received by
the Niobrara league;
Nine Sioux Indians, nobly working
in the sacred ministry. about forty
Sioux Indians helping them as licensed
catechists; forty branches Of the
woman's auxiliary among the Sioux In
dian women; / ZOO Sioux Indian COM
municants; Sioux Indians contributing
$4,000 annually for religious purposes.
But what impression have all these
facts made upon the public as compared
with the wild antics of the heather
Sioux Indians which have excited the
attention and stirred the feelings Of the
country, and daily occupied column
after column of the newspapers for the
past two past two weeks? Alas as we
have written elsewhere, wickedness pre-
sents more vivid contrasts than vir-
tue does, its history is more pic
turesque and has more of the element
Of the unexpected. The final outcome
is yet to appear. But two or three pos
sible issues ought to be guarded against.
First, the ringleaders of this disturb
ance, which has alarmed the whole
northwest covered the better Indians
with shame, brought scorn upon their
essays in civilization, robbed many of
them of their hard ca ned possessions
and exposed them to personal peril,
should not be left at liberty hereafter
to repeat the baneful operation. Had
several Indians, whom we could name,
been consigned to Fort Marion or Fort
ress Monroe shortly after the Custer
affair, we should not have the present
complications to untangle. Not to speak
Of alarm and losses, suffered by the
whites, it is not satisfacty after years Of
patient labor to read as is credibly re-
ported from Pine Ridge reserve:
Much destruction of property and
cattle has been going on for days. All
the houses of the quiet Indians on the
two branches of the Medicine Root, Por-
cupine Tail and Wounded Knee creeks
have been broken into, entered and
robbed Of all contents; the school houses
the same. Everything else which was
of no use to the marauding Ind ans was
destroyed and scattered in every direc-
ton. The catechists houses met with
the same fate as the rest.
Second, in dealing with these evil
doers, let there be no more revenge,
much less indiscriminate revenge This
has been INDUCED in in the past, and it
will he noticed that Mr.. Ashley, in his
narrative reports that the friendly In
dians have already fear OF its repetition.
He writes: They fear, however, that in
the event Of any trouble their ponies
will be taken from them, whether inno-
cent or guilty, as was done once before,
and they ought to be assured of pro-
lection.
Years ago indiscriminate punishment
might be apologized for, on the ground
that the Indians were not individually
well enough known to make discrim-
ination possible. No such pretext can
have place now. The names of all In
dians are down ON agency lists. Dis
elimination is therefore quite practica-
BILE. It will be an event in Indian life
of vast. and far-reaching influence for
good If the power which bears the
sword will do it for the punishment of
evil-doers and for the praise of them
that do well.
Third, let good sense and Christian
charity arrest the tendency which this
outbreak Of wild passion will naturally
have to dampen interest in Indian mis-
siona,y and educational work and to
produce the feeling that such work has
been in vain II is surely fact Of vast
import that. as is said elsewhere,
Settlers have fed not SO much because
of real dangers as because of their fears,
and while they have been fleeing some
white women in Indian camps have
been pursuing their work without
molestation and without harm. have
visited several Indian agencies and have
late news from the Sioux Indian coun-
try, but have yet to learn q single
case of insult, much less of violence,
offered TO any teacher or missionary in
any of the fifty odd stations scattered
all over the disturbed districts in South
Dakota.
And so far as we have information the
Indian clergy and helpers have stood the
revival all about them Of wild life with
out flinching Their terrible trials and
faithfulness in them is surely graphic
argument that we should do more than
ever to sustain them. The testimony
which comes from the Pine Ridge re-
serve shows that there is something in
the work of the church which the wild
Indian, even when bent on plunder, re-
spects.
"A curious and suggestive features of
this universal plundering and destruc-
ton, . writes the Rev. c. s. Cook, lis
the evident intentional sparing of the
chapels and the adjacent mission houses:
not one Of them has been touched
SATURDAY IN CONGRESS.