The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1891-01-16
THE KlMBALL RAP
CLATE II. T1NAN.
official PapaT Of the City and County
e rHE INnIANa

Col. JOHN II. KING has succeeded in
getting interviewed by the Washington
Post on the Indian situation. The Col
onel says that the Sioux Indians are the
the hest 4ed people on earth and
that they onsuine more meat per capita
than any manufacturing city in The
world; that the Indians can be civilized,
no military is needed, and that the story
that they are being starved is absolutely
false, no matter how high the authority,
nor from whence it comes. He says the
present disturbance if the result Of a re-
ligious craze. lie thinks that neither the
military nor the eastern philanthropist
should have the management of the
Sioux, but plain, practical business men
of the West.
All, Colonel, a little knowledgei s dan
geroas thing sometimes.
Col. king has lived for some years at
Chamberlain, and By force OF circum-
stances is mere OF less familiar with the
condition and management OF tile Grow
Creek and Lower B,uie tribes. But there
his knowledge OF the SOAK ends, except
in a superficial way. These Indians con-
sii.Ite but 81 small petition OF the great
Sioux nation. General MILES says the
Indians have been cheated AMI starved.
So says every maG WHO has visited Pine
Ridge and maae anyiavestigation during
the past year. So scy tbs missionaries
Who have been located there. All who
have had an opportunity OF learning the
truth in the matter agree in the assertion.
But Col. KING Knows better. Fiddle
PADDLE!
Major ANDERSON, WHO was but recently
agent at Crow Creek, and who. it we mis-
take not, Col. KING greatly adnifes, says
to a Sioux City Journal rsi,orte. that the
CHEST dance is a hoax and that the Mes
siah craze is not the Il of the trouble.
For five years the government has been
violating the Sioux treaty Of 1876 by Civ
ing the Indians only Il fraction OF the re-
tons agreed upon ut that time. The VIC
latisn OF this treaty, he says. 10 the raa,
canse of the trouble, and that the Messiah
craze is a piece of strategy on the part
OF the older and wiser heads among the
indians to excite the young bucks to as
sist them, The cid Indians, he says, do
not believe in tho Messiah at all.
When asked why the indians had not
resented the violation of tho Treaty be-
fore THIS time, no said that until two years
ago they had had good crops and had
manageable get along well,with the short
%rations. Two years ago the crap failures
came and. with this he says that the In.
dams commemorate stirve.and he here
cited many.instances Of This own knowl
edge Where.,Indians had been in q star v
ing condition. He said that he knew OF
them going two or three days witlou,
fcoi, and eating The carcasses Of horses
burned in g fire at Chamberlain to keeI
from starving.
But Col. KING knaws better. Rats!
What il tie Indians DO consume more
meat per capita than any city in thu
world-tl,ough itwould he interesting t,
know how the Calcnel got his statistics
that's no sign OF a ducks nest. Every
body Knows thut knows anything abou'
it that meat is their main ration.
The GRAPHIC Dies not poee as au In
dian sympathigsT, as tho term is usual,
applied. 1t has 10 seforth TN lona-liairet
philanthTopist Of the East. But it hate.
to see a dog misusea. II the government
makes q treaty or agreement with the In
ais,i5 it should be rightly carried out. |
detests this using the Indian az cat's-paw.
to rake oiileia! faydrs ou: OF the fire. All.
then cussing the Indiaa If lie rebels whel
he gets scostlieA.
There is one class of men WHO want t
keep the Indians under the control CT tn
: Interior. department, with its Ibdial
agents, its official patronage, its hoodl
and genera! rottenaess-either from
mistaken idea or fer the money there i
in it. Then there is another class of NE:
of whom j.. II. KING is a striking ex
ainplc-wil0 want each, of the Indian
given q farm on the reservations, tt;
balance opened to settlement, school
built by the government for them "a BIZ
one at Chamberlain, die Colonel wants
and then make Lo root hog or die. BE
tween the two extremes God help tn
Indian.
There is DO white man who can max
} his salt farming on any part OF tho Stou.
reservation. This being the fact it j
pure nonsense to expect an indian to &C
compiish whatssno white man can do, eyel
were he disposed to try-which he ISM
The land in severaity idea is q scheme t
: make money out Ct the Indians, whic
would prove as disastrous to them as tn
sentimental interference Of the easter
philanthopist. There is only one wa
that the Indiana can hemade self-suppor1
: ing to any extent. That is to divide theI
into small communities and scatter thpI
!. on small reservations purchased by til
. governmental thicSly settled states. The
would then mingie SO closely with tn
whites as to absorb some of their mode O
living and nave opportunities oil maxim
a dollar now ana then. Either this
they should be turned over to The war q,
partment, fed and clothed as they al
now, and half of them turned into soit
iers to watch the other half.
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Recently Coz. 3oiEs. of Iowa, made
speech at q political banquet in Ne
York i'll which he took occasion to dive
largely upon the depressed condition
agriculture in the United States and Il