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Show I I W hat Is Expected. j Epoch. What is perhaps the most irrational and unsatisfactory of all our so-called Indian "wars" is drawing to a close. It ought to be the last of the series, but it will ouly lie so if its lessons are ! turned to good account, and the light of public opiniou is let on in the secrets ! of Indian mismanagement. These se-j se-j crets ought lo be laid bare without re-J re-J sped to whom they may hurt or help, i The publics mind is in a more receptive I mood for instruction on this subject j than it has ever been. aud. as between the humanitarian and the. military ; theory of Indian administration, there i is a good deal to be said. Hut, in dealing deal-ing with either, it must be remembered that the country exnects u imlom I enough from those entrusted with the ! duty of Indian administration to render impossible any such outbreaks as those ; which of late have had such tragic con-i con-i sequences. |