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Show atic gratuities of food and clothing continuecl beyond a present emerg-eltc: g, but by directing these people to new pursuits which shall be con-sistent with thc progress of civilization upon the oootine.nt; helping them over the first rough places OII "the white man's road," and, uieao-w.~ ilc.~ lrp{)lgi~~ ~I :I :~ sI ~J ~ h;istcnetI.S is ab.;olutr~lgn ~~:t'hnr.(r1 11ringt he ~..riod of i11itiati011R I I e~x l)erimt~~~t. A LEGALIZED REFOR3IATORY CONTROL NECESSARY. The assistance due to the I n d i a ~f~rosm the Goveriment in the dis-charge of those obligations which have been adverted to should not muclt longer beirrespective of their own eEorts. Just so soon as thesc tribes cease to be forulidable, they should be brought distinctly to the rei~lizstiono f the law that if they wonld eat they must also work. Nor sl~onld it be left to their own cboices how miserably they will live, in order that they may escape work as much as possible. The Govern-ment ehould extend over them a rjgid reformatory disciplii~e,t o save them from f~l l ineho uelesslv into the condition of panperism and petty erill~r. ?.lw-ely to clis:trm i l ~ es; n~npcaa,1 181t o s11riw111;t<h1u ur l8.y ion-;.* wl~ich it 1s 1 1~~p~iIl lt t.hse~u i to resist, \virl!ont rxrrt.ising over tlleln ti,r a series of vr:trs 3 svst~rn(1 1' ~i t t r r11(:~o1nf roI, re1111irinpt1 le111t o 1ri1r11 and practicethe arts "of industry at least untii one generation has been fairly started on a course of self-improvement, is to make it pretty much a matter of certainty that by far the larger part of the now roving Indians will become simply vagabonds iu the midst of oivilieation, forming little camps here and there over theface of the Weatern States, which will be festering sores on the communities near which they are located; the men resorting for a living to basket-making aud hog-steal-ing; the women to fortone-telling and liarlotry. No one who looks about him and observes the numbers of our o m race vho, despite our strong constitntional disposition to labor, 4he general exenlple of indns-try, the possession of all the arts and appllcauoes which diminish eEort while they multiply results, and the large rewards offered in the consti-tuGion of modern society for success in industrial effort, yet sink to the 111ost abject condition from iudoleuoe or from vice, can greatly doubt that, unless promptand vigorous measures are taken by the Goyernment, somethi~~ligk e what has been described is to be the fate of the now roving Indians, vhen they shall be surrounded and disarmed by the extension of our settlements, and deprived of them traditional means of subsistenoa through the extinctiou of game. Unused to manual labor, a11d physically disqualified for it by the habits of the chase, un-provided with tools and ilnple~nentsw, ithont forethought and without self-control, siugnlarlg sosceptible to evil influences, vith strong animal appeziten a ~ ~IIOd i1 itel1ectna.l tastes or :rspiratious to hold those appe-tites in check, it ~vould be to assume anort, than would be taken for g ~wt e dof any white race under the same conditious, to expect that the w~l dIn dians will become industrious and frural except through a severe collrsv of i~ltiustrinli n ~ t r u ~ : t:iIoI ~I ~c~ x erc~.ie,~u~F~c~sltmi*iru t.. The lea-c, rv~r ioJ~ys~re lu utli>rdsr ile plnc:r l j r tlros cle;~liugw ith tribrj uotl I J R I I ~ ~ , witlto~~rlt~ ea ccrss of iutlueuces illiluicnl ru I)$-acae1 141v irtue. It is onlv necessary that Federal laws, judiciously frawecl to meet all the facts of the case, aud enacted ill season, before the India118 begin to scat-tor, shall place all the members of this race under a st,rici reforma-. tory controlby the agents of the Crovernment. especial!^ is it esseu-tial that the right of the Goverrru~ent to keep Iudiuus upon the reser-vatious assigned to they aud to arrest and return them wheuever they |
