The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1895-01-12
Or. Jelyl and Mr.. Hyde.

tIRef ny tHe lAoAOW, COIIlIlllttcS. we nave
watched with bated breath the agile Ozone
mans deep concernfor the whereabouts of that
missing book Of record that was spirited
away from the vaults f..the register Of deeds
office, in Bismarck. Burleigh County, last
summer. He noted with a depletion Of hor-
works fiasco with the usual netting up of the
innocent gudgeons who nibble at watered
stock, when baited in tempting ways. We
have rejoiced with our moralizing editor
friend as he laid bare the schemes of State
plunderers who had screened themselves be-
hind the burberry thicket of party fealty.
Now all of these efforts on the pant of our
Argus-ayed moral educator was commendable
enough. We found no fault and were glad that
he tuinbled oyer, the paste pot and allowed an
exchange grabbing fiend to su~rreptuously
pocket his shears. His pen found room and
the editor found subject matter for a lyzing
from. q moral STANDPOINT that taxed his fiery
energies. Thus.far,Sr editor. Wood in Doctor
Jekyls' clothes shapes up all right. They
fitted. his person" pretty well. But when he
stalks forth from .his editorial den in the
habi.. iments of Mr.. Hyde, our admiration
ceases. =. When this sanity appearing editor
unmasks" himself and appears as the chosen
defender of one of :. the most shame-faced
swindles-the most stupenduous humbuggery
- the most subtle, cruel, doublessdealings series
of wrongs ever inflicted upon.sa' helpless COM
1auntv. Upon a community of people men
tally our interiors, 'and wretchedly poor, cir
cumstancesT that had we hearts witlreven
the kindly feeling of many of the lower an
ina]s. We would pity these, tribes who have
passed through a %criciate Of terror in the last
100 wears" that few Of us can realize. That
these lingering remnants OF the Fort Berthold
bands should be Systematically robbed of
their just dues and.'rights by officers placed
over them by a great government is bad
enough, but that faithless agents should:.be
condoned and shielded;in their;rascaiities by
high prelates Of so called Christian churches,
%stagvers our belief and bewilders US in our
crude ideas of the divinity.
Since Editor Wood has been so anxious to
rush to the defence r;of these brazen-faced
public robbers-along side Of whom even
the methods of train OF u bank robbers would
be gel-tlemanly in comparison with their acts;
we will answer his last weeks TRADE by asking
him q few plain questions, or rather have him
ask some questions for us. We woald
have Editor Wood ask ex-carpenter wood,
(who by the..way was killing time and saving
money, with hammer, saw and chalk line up
on the Indian Reservation during the tearing
down Of the new Agency. these buildings
Icing: only a few years old and erected at a
cost of probably $75 900 taken from the In
dams annuity funds. would not these build
ings have well lasted for thirty or forty
wears vet to GOMEZ: Remember this was the
third Agency removal in thirteen years, and
each time at such tremendous cost from the
annuity funds of furnishing Indians. And
this last removal, the most causless and fool
ish of all, made directly in theface of the In
dams best interests, with money taken from
the sale of their lands. And we ask Editor
Wood to consult with ex-Clerk Wood who
was ciphering over the books after the Agency
was removed, if he can tell within thirty or
forty thousand dollars Of what the renewal
cost the Indians, coming as it did from their
land money and many of them dying from
actual want, while shameless bandits sat
directing the removal proceedings that were
burlesque were they not criminal. J.H. I.
From what we can learn from Legislative
doings in Bismarck, re-submission will be
the all engrossing subject by the. law
makers until it is disposed of either one