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Show tho difficulties, and then he very promptly agreed with the othors who had already reached the opposite conclusion. On its moral side. I think the arrangement for sending them home by their own means of conveyance will be very effective. Nothing impresses ignorant people more, when some of their number have attempted to be smarter than they and have gone off on a wild goose chase, than to see these same persons come back in just the same way that they left, only considerably v/orso for the wear. It docs not require ridicule or sarcasm to drum the lesson home on the returning prodigals, and in the same v/ay it does not require a lecture to impress the stay-at-homes with their wisdom. The bedraggled return tells its own story, both to the returners and to those who have never left home. But, apart from tho moral phases of the question and tho impression thi3 picturesque ending of tho escapade would make, we had to consider a vory practical objection to tho use of transportation by rail, namely, the fact that the absentees could not, without enormous expense, transport their live stock, and they will not part from thoir ponies. All that matter was looked up at the time wo had the conference, and the money side of it wa3 fully canvassed,with the weight of the logic apparently on the side of letting the Indians ride back on thoir own steeds. The army will lend thorn some wagons to transport some of their stuff and to pick up the weak and helpless, but in tho main they will come back just as they left. The decision reached with regard to the mill wa3 the |
