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Show The Mlssioiiiirius nud Indians. Hartford, 0. At a meeting of the American board of missions to-day a paper on tho Dakota Indians was read. It held that tho whole treatment treat-ment of tho Indians had been wrong, and urged the .breaking up of the tribal relations. It provoked considerable consid-erable debate. Rev. Mr. Marsh opposed op-posed "i as being a criticism on the United States government. Hon. W. E. Dodge upheld the paper strongly. Dr. Leonard Bacon mado a long speech in its defence, holding that for the government to make a treaty with the Indians was as absurd as for a convention or mass meeting to make a treaty with tramps. Alluding Al-luding to General Custer's defeat he said : Custer's policy was wrong and his death was the result ot it. Custer had been reported as saying: say-ing: "There ought to be only one Indian In-dian war, and then no more Indians." It was this spirit that actuated him when he went to massacre and was massacred. After further debate the report was accepted, its acceptance not signifying its ndoption. Tho report re-port upon Japan was read. It states that great progress has been made. Hon. Alphcus Hardy of Boston gave interesting statistics, and introduced n Japanese minister of instruction, Tanaka and his wife, and secretary Idema. They are here to study our educational system. Tanaka made a ' speech, which was tranalated to the audience. He said he expected soon to see Japan a christian country. |