The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-20
OUTBREAK IS INEVITABLE
Determination Of Europe to Partition
the Empire Believed to Be al
Bottom Of Present Agitation.

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the general public knows nothing of.
This concentration of troops is one
of the settled policies of this v
ment that the United States must not
be caught asleep when what is now
regarded as inevitable, a terrible war
in China, is inaugurated for the par
tition of the fowery kingdom. So
quietly is the war department moving
in the matter that the people Of San
Francisco and Seattle have come to
look upon the returning and depart
ing of soldiers as a matter of change
of base. While 10000 troops are on
their homeward way, having served
the appointed period in the tropics,
there are going out to take their places
$4,000 men, and it is in this proper
ton that the government of the
United States is strengthening it's po-
sition in the Pacific seas. Among
those who have watched the trend of
affairs in the last few months, and
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nese situation. there is but one opin-
ion. that revolt is in the air in China
and that those who are abetting the
movement against the present Chinese
dynasty are actuated largely not for
purposes of personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT
but to carry out pledges made, to Eu-
ronnon VIC m nwnftNyn o~N1~~
have been issued by the navy depart
lnent to push the building of the bat
tleships now on the stocks at navy
yards throughout the country. The
marines are strengthening their arm
Of the service, while the United States
regulars who have not seen foreign
service are on the qui vive to en-
bark for the orient because they
realize that something will be doing
shortly in the country of the dragon.
There is repressed activity everywhere
and the government Of the United
States is determined to see to it that
American interests are protected
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Break Up Indian Reserves.
Senator Stewart of Nevada, who is
chairman of the committee on In
dian affairs. is an avowed advocate
of the policy of breaking up every
Indian reservation in the country.
Among the first movements along this
limo to hn inoJ,o1 10 tod h, }ho corotox
in the policy which he has laid out
for his committee is one which pro-
poses the, abolition of the Indian res,
ervations in New York state and the
distribution of the lands held by the
Indians there in severalty. With this
end in view the senator will take sew
eral members of the committee on
Indian affairs to the New York reser-
yations some time this summer, so
that each of them may have a personal
knowledge of conditions which exist.
Right in the heart of the civilized
portion of this continent said Sena>
tor Stewart, there exist several thou
Xiv IN AN CIlS Ii 1 ~ Oil
intents and purposes alien to our in
situations and no part of the body
polite. The whole system of Indian
reservations, in my judgment, vas a
bad move from the outset. Mexico
and Central and South America never
had the trouble with the Indians that
we have had. and if, instead Of put
ting them upon reservations and al
lowing them to live upon the funds
thai may be supplied from time to
time by the government, we had
taught them useful arts and indus
tries and then compelled each man
to earn his own living, the Indian
problem as it exists today would
eve have BEEN" !.
would you not have given each
Indian a portion of land that he might
follow agriculture?" vas asked the
senator.
mo; l would have given him just
the same rights as the white
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tering a quarter section of land un-
der the homestead law and should
have been able to make good his title
just as the white man must make his
title clear. 1t is too late, of course"
continued MI. Stewart, ito change our
policy in such a RADICAL manner, but
the quicker the Indian is taught that
he must ear his bread just as his
white brother does, the sooner we
shall see the solution of the so-called
Indian problem, which is a source of
continued and constant annoyance to
the people of the United States"