Show m INDIAN the sioux indian is now quire amicably settled and the in deans seem disposed to return to the agency and bury the hatchet now that the are returning to their old ways wo hope the goven will not return to its old ways in the latter case it would be mean that indians would again suffer starvation that their rations would be stolen from them by unscrupulous agents and that they would be obliged to kill their game with inthe narrow limit the agency the government however is awakening to the indue tico perpetrated in the past and the commissioner of indian affairs writes to capt F E ngoat at pine ridge as follows 1 have ratified the sioux bill it will be practicably ablo at an early day for this office to carry forward the suspended payments and distributions authorized by congress for the benefit of the indians at pine ridge in each of thes your attention will bo invited I 1 am specially anxious that the work of education shall be brought forward with all practicable efficiency and to this and I 1 especially invite you to give personal attention to the present condition of schools under your control and ask you to recommend to mo any modifications or changes which the service may require I 1 am anxious also that you should have the assistance of persona in all the subordinate places at the agency who shall be found competent for their work As you are aware doubtless the question of politics does and should not enter at all into the matter of qualifications for services in the places at your agency and you ara hereby requested and instructed to make inquiry into the qualifications of your subordinates clerks and farms and report to me any persons whom you deem fit for teiei r respective duties stating specially your reasons for your belief I 1 am very desirous also that any who may have been wounded or otherwise injured during the mav receive such care and as is possible to extend to them I 1 cesire that you will forward to me a full statement of any complaint or com that may be preferred by any indian or indians under any charge resa ruing past treatment and re quest that they may make regarding choir future welfare in short let me say that I 1 repose full confidence in your ability and yon desire to promote the civilization and welfare of these unhappy people and I 1 extend to you the assurances of the most earnest cooperation and exercise of all the authority vested in this office to bring about as rapidly and as completely as possible the great object aimed at that contains enst such advise as wo would naturally natu rolly expect from ahe great government of the united states or the officers who it it is timely and logical and should be acted upon politics ought not to enter into the management of indian affairs all will agree furthermore none should bo employed on the anancy who are not frontiers men and well conversant with the disposition of the redi neo that abo wounded of the lato battles should be taken care of is but justice more than this we believe the policy of gen MILES which has proven so successful should be followed out ho treated the hostiles ho stiles with kindness and gained a greater victory than has heretofore been won with the rifle indians are children in their reasoning ability and largely so by nature they should therefore be treated with a spirit of kindness more suited to their disposition for many years uncle feam has been shooting them down when they bo came stubborn and ugly and it was found possible to subdue them only by killing them off but never yet have they been so complexly and humanely conquered as pine bidge |