The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-11
WORKING FOR 10
THIRTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
BEGINS FOB HIM TODAY.

MIR. Smiley to Entertain the Good People
with Wrong Indian Notions at Lake Mo
honk, Ulster County. New York--Mr
Smiley will Preside HimseIf-Many EN-.
inent Sentimentalists from all Over the
Country will be Present - Something
How it has Progressed.
New York, Oct 10.-The thirteenth
annual conference Of the friends of the
Indian will be held, upon invitation OF
Hon. and Mrs. Albert K Smiley. at the
Lake Mohonk Mountain House, Lake
Mohonk, Ulster county, n. Y, on
Thursday and Friday of this week.
These conferences are unique in every
particular. They originated through
the kindness of Hon. A. K. Smiley, one
Of the Indian commissioners appointed
by President Grant at the beginning of
his first administra ton. In his first an
hual message, December. 1869, the pres
ldent said:
From the foundation of the govern
ment to the present, the management
of the original inhabitants of this con-
tinent, the Indian, has been a subject
of embarrassment and expense, and
has been attended with continuous rob-
berries, murders and wars.
From my own experience upon the
frontiers and in Indian countries. l do
not hold either legislation or the con-
duct of the whites who come most in
contact with the Indians blameless for
met as we now find il.
In order to protect the Indian as
much as possible from the greed of the
white man, the peace commissioners,
or board of Indian commissioners, was
appointed. 1t was to cooperate with
the administration in the management
of Indian affairs, and there was no SAL
airy attached to the office. Two meet
ings were held yearly-one in New
York and one in Washington. Mr.. AL
bert K. Smiley, proprietor of the fam
Gus Quaker summer home at Lake Mo
honk was appointed commissioner in
1880 in place of Mr.. John D. Long, Of
Vassalborough, Me, who died that
year. Mr.. Smiley Immediately invited
the commissioners TO hold one of their
semi-annual meetings at Lake Mohonk,
and included in his invitation the wives
and daughters of commissioners.
GROWTH OF THE CONFERENCE.
The success of that meeting was so
apparent that Mr.. Smiley concluded to
hold yearly a conference of the friends
Of the Indians under the auspices of the
board of Indian commissioners, and
consequently every October since 1882
from one two hundred men and women
have congregated beneath the hospita-
bic roof Of Mr.. Smiley, and for three
days discussed the Indian problem, in
the morning and evening sessions; the
afternoon being devoted to riding, driV-
ing, boating or walking.
Here was discussed the Dawes land
In severalty bill and other means of
lettering the condition of the Indian
On the last day of the conference a
platform is proposed, and accepted, US
nally after many corrections This is
sent to the administration, and has
been the means not only of shaping
public opinion, but the policy of the
government toward its wards.
AN EMINENT MEMBERSHIP.
On the roll of membership are such
names as Rev. DR.. Macarthur, Rev.
DIR. Lyman Abbott, Rev. DIR. George
Dana Boardman, Bishop Huntington,
Bishop Walker, Rev. DR.. William Hayes
Ward, Rev. DR. Howard Crosby, Bis
hop Hare. Bishop Whipple. Edward
Everett Hale, Rev. DIR. Joseph Cook,
Rev. DR.. Cuyler, General o. o. Howard,
General Thomas ]. Morgan, Senator
Moody, South Dakota; Captain r. H.
Pratt, Carlisle, Pa; Rear Admiral Car
ter, Edward l.. Pierce, friend and BIZ
ographer OF Charles Sumner; Senator
Dawes OF Massachusetts; Hon Philip
c. Garrett. Philadelphia; Hon. John A.
king, Great Neck, l.. l.; Daniel Hunt
ington, President Magill of Swarth-
more; President Taylor of Vassar;
Hon. ]. II. Oberly, Francis Wayland,
President Gates of Amherst; General
John Eaton, President Dreher of Roam
oke; DR.. McCosh, Arson d. Morse, j.
b. Thayer, Andrew D. White, General
c. w. Christensen, General E. Whit
flesey, Captain Wetherspoon, CAPTAIN
John c. Bourke, Colonel Thomas Don
aldson, General James Grant Wilson.
DR. Lucien c. Warner, Judge Arnoux,
Hon. Darwin r. James, Russell w. Nc
Kee. Warner Van Norden and John ID.
Rockefeller.
Among those whose voices no longer
respond TO the roll call are General
Clinton 3. Fisk, Hon. Erastus Brooks, 1
whose last speech was made here in /
October, 1856; DR.. James E Rhodes.
Prof. c. c. Painter, General S. c. Arm |
strong, John g. Kinney, General ]. F. (
Marshall. Rutherford b. Hayes. Law
son Valentine. Rev. DR.. L. c. Seelye, |
Hon. William H Strong and Hon. H. !
.. Houghton.
Notable women and missionaries |
from all parts of the Indian field are |
also invited by Mr.. Smiley, and the I
views of the fanatic or the visionary !
are tempered by the actual experience |
and knowledge of the men and women /
in the field
VALUE OF THE CONFERENCES.
The value Of these conferences in the
solution of the Indian problem" and
its humane settlement Will form a
large part of the history Of our coun-
try. In the words of Erastus Brooks:
The American people need but TO see
and feel this injustice of man 70 man
10 change ii at once and forever" And
these conferences have opened the ewes
Of the American people and taught
Them 10 feel, and they have been quick
TO respond; and, by force OF public
opinion, have opened the way for hon
est treatment of this race. too long IN
justly dealt with, on the principle of |
whatsoever hath not, that also which !
he thinketh he hath shall be taken
away from him"
No DELAYS FOR CATTLE
santa Fe Will Use a Wonderful Weighing
Device for Live stock and Cars.