The Princeton union., 1893-06-29
The Shillyshally Indian Policy of.
the Government Severely
y Criticized.
No Relief for the Business Inter-
SIS ests Of the Country Need
be Expected.
Major Baldwin Of the Sixth Dis
trict Will Make a Good
Working Member.
Would be Glad to Trade Ignatius
DOnnelly for Hall and
s3s BOen. In II

Minnesota Fortunate in Having
Wasllburn and Davis in
the Senate.
Special Correspondence. .-.- =.
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 26, 1898.
The United States government will
probably continue to err in the man
agement of the red skins under the
Democratic administration as it did
under the Republican administration,
although it must be said that the
necessary effort was made on the part
Of the government to carry out the
pledges made to the settlers and to
the Indians to remove the Chippewas
to White Earth reservation. The
Democratic administration has begun
all wrong about it, for it begins with
removing the chairman of the Chip
pewa commission and appointing a
Democrat to his place. Thatwould have
been all right in any other class except
dealing with the Indians and it would
be far better in handling these red
skins, especially when the government
has given it out that it intends to
handle them peaceably instead of by
force, to keep man in Office as long
as he is going ahead and doing some
thing. Perhaps the time will come
when the United States will deal with
the Indians as it ought; be firm where
frmness is needed and avoid rashness
1 where rashness will get people into
|Sbronble ThesWay it is backing and
! filling about the handling Of the Chip
pewa Indians and the delay which has
| occurred in removing the vagabonds
from Mile Laos county to White
Earth, shows that if a little force was
used these Chippewas would have
more respect for the government and
for its officers. The Leech Lake cpl
sode shows how much they can be
trusted and further the Importance a
handful of United States troops are
|
when Indians are to be dealt with.
The people who expect any great re-
lief from the Democratic administra-
tion are going to be wofully fooled.
The Democrats, with the house, senate
and the presidency all elected upon
the great platform of free trade and
tariff for revenue only, will do abso-
lutely nothing for the benefit of the
government and the people to whom it
has made so many promises. If the
tariff is removed from the protected
industries it must fall upon the neces-
saries, or else some other mode of tax
alton which the people will have to
pay, will have to be enacted. Every
body has recognized that the tariff on
foreign imports is the simplest and most
expedient and bears with less burden
upon the people, than any other
method of raising revenue. It is the
Republican policy to turn the raising
of revenue into benefits which will re-
dound to the prosperity of the country.
The Democratic party, the party OF
retrogation, will now take the reins OF
government as it backed our manufac-
turing industries ten or twelve years
ago and upset the commercial condi-
tions of the country and the only bene-
fits that will be derived from all this
disturbance is the filling of offices by
Democrats instead of Republicans.
X s .se 49,
4 Minnesota had a comparatively weak
. delegation in the last house. II it had
not been for John Lind the Republican
member from the Second district, the
State would have been as good as un-
represented. In the next house Min
nesota will have some good Republican
members but they are all new to the
business and will have to take consid-
cradle time to get acquainted with the
ways of doing business with their asso-
i ciates.
Major Baldwin, of the Sixth district.
Iought to make a fairly good member.
i He spent two or three months in the