The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-07

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the signing Of that treaty the rush Of
the lumbermen for pine lands had be-
come so intense that schemes were then
in embryotic existence intended to be
available for a conversion of the -eser-
walton pine timber also
PINE LAND STEAL.
Thee Moonslate, for August, of the cur
rent year. periodical published at Min
neapolis, describes in disguised terms
how two Minnesotahs concocted a scheme
to secure the standing pine on the Mile
Laos reservation. The parties to the
transaction are called GurgIe and Rish
one of whom held "a seat in the Tinted
States senate. AS 1t is noWs a matter of
history that the Mile Laos pine timber
was taken from thessIndians and convert
ed to private use, through the action
OF interested individuals, those who can
recognize THEIR own identity in the publ
cation mentioned are left to whatever
satisfaction they may find in an explana
tory position, or In, a course of silence
The object Of the present description 10
more toward a perpetual ton CT Indian his
tory In Minnesota sthan to condemn the
course or applaud1the action of those who
have deliberately drought about the
present deplerable condition of nearly a
thousands unsuspeeting and laW-abiding
confounded as they are being subjected to
the. process of an unwilling removal from
limited and curtailed personal right of
occupancy at the reserve where they
We're born and reared. The bones of
their ancestry are to be the fertflizing,
product-bearing feoncomitant at the
felds of superior race, held to the gaze
OF an admiring world as a people who
love liberty, justice and human rights.
THE INDIANS CHOICE.
The only action now possible for the
Mile Laos Ojibway is to decide upon his
course of action when he shall be finally
summoned to leave his home. He can
march on; walk into the lake and die; or
fight
Either course is one of obIiteratIon and
despair They are only Indians. and are
to be dispersed.
They doggedly speak to each other az;
determined TO occupy. the premises where
they now abide; vet assert that they shall
remain as heretofore. an old saving.
friendly tof the whites" When the
white man. was as sorely pressed. in
l776. he decided to, fight; and right then
made his cause Just one. The act OF
congress entitled an act for the relief ana
civilization of the Chippewa Indians
passed in 1889, under which Henry M.
Rice and others were sent among the
Indians to secure their assent. could have
been entitled an act to rob and demon
al1ze the Ojibway Indians, for it has de-
eidedly operated to that end
When the Rice commission reached
Mile Laos the following promises. among
others. were made ITO the assembled In
dams: S,,., 49, xrfs
Here Is the. acknowledgements of the
government that's yeu We're right, that
You have not forfeited your right to oc-
cupY the reservation.''
You are entitled. TO select for your all
lotments the lands called farming lands.
all that can be used as such: we do not
ask you to dispose. Of a foot of that. And
there will be nothing done with the lands
until you have 9Yonrsa llotments..
That you may understand It, I will fell
you that we are "a appointed to make the
allotments, and when We have done ii.
that Is the end of it.
The object is to senable you to better
your condition. We come here as your
friends: Your agent Is. here to see: your
condition. All we can say is that our
words will be true ard straight.
Shaub-AusheKung Where do Won take