New-York tribune., 1902-10-23
INDIAN CONFERENCE AT uOHONK.
BISHOP PoTTER's OPENING ADDREss-THE
OTHER SPEAKERS


Monhonk Lake. y. y oct. 22-The twentieth
annual Lake Mohonk Indian cosference opened
here to-day. Samuel J. Barrows secretary OF the
Srw-York Prison Association. was elected president
Bishop Potter. Of New-York. made the opening
address
After a few words Of personal aIlusion his own
Quaker ancestry and to Mr.. Smiley a member
OF that body Bishop Potter said;
Some years ago. / said TO Mr. Froude. when he
W. need most YOU need most" he said "a gov
erning class a class educated 10 take I'm hand the
great republic"
In a larger sense than that In which he used the
phrase II may be used in reference 10 such an as
sembly as this. There are two kinds of govern
mcnt-goV ernm"nt by enactment, by tradition, by
organized institutions. and government by ideas
net ana the drag OF falling down To the level where
the new mechanism of government Is the finest
get the mechanism 10 go quickly and apparently
smoothly We have done everything that We can for
society. l do not believe H. l do not believe that
mechanism created by human hands can by any
possibility be OF divine authority and value and
submit with the greatest respect to the people of
which Mr.. Gladstone said-perhaps unfortunately
for us-was the cleverest thing devised by the wit
OF mani submit that the constitution Was not let
down from heaven was not perfect, and is not
above criticism. When YOU have created mech
to-day. IL needs forever to he qualified by free
gence and moral sense Of the community. Now II
Is for this purpose that think this annual AS
which disappear when you set the new mechanism
may arise when 1t is necessary To introduce into
the body polite Just precisely that element OF & dTG
finding and the disposition 10 criticise. which OF
course. Is a human disposition. but for the recog-
milton of the instinct Of justice.
In regard 10 the people in Hawaii and the Philip
pines the Bishop said
The final question is. Are you going To do fairly
by these people? Are you going to stand for JUS
which in of those Possessions shall not be
more partcular-have been pre-eminently the issue
want to be allowed II may should be TetuS -
J, Til 20 " t ny, - - & ht a. a.. 'ct Tor
him who adminFters tn" Philippines to-day
the great thing be done In the Philippine Islands
to-day is to make the United States of America
efforts in that direction find good men Of his kind
in cordial sympathy with us
General WhttIesey read paper reviewing the
work of the Indian Bureau for the present year.
a paper was read by ;. NJ Brosius agent OF the
Indian Rights Association on The Insecurity Of
Alotments," calling attention among other things
to the fact that allotments by government may be
cancelled by the Secretary Of the Interior before
the expiration OF twenty-five years. the time set
by law. thus violating the promise Of unquestioned
occupancy Of that period and the conferrins Of the
title in fee simple.
\ letter received from ex-senator Henry l..
Dawes. of Massachusetts. expressing the beher
that In the not distant future Indian Territory
would be admitted To the ssterhood of states. a
step that would be of 6reat benefit 10 the Indian
population.
An addres, followed by Mrs Amelia 5 Quint9n.
president OF the National Indian Association ut
scribing recent visit she made to the Indians OF
California and Arizona, She closed with an ap-
peal for the abolition of the Indian agencies AZ WV
earliest practicable time, aud favored the uitNiS
up of the tribal fund held in trust for the N,
The Rev. DR. Sheldon Jackson. agent Of the Bu-
reau Of Education in Alaska, made a speech ne uy
scribing the mission and educational work Nncn L
has been done in that territory where he mas 'eei'
active for many years.