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Show Ujinta Council, 80. to that paper. My friends, I am going to stay with you long enough so that every ©ne of you will be able to see that I am your friend and that I have a straight tongue. Inspector McLaughlin: My friends, I have listened attentively to the speech made by your Agent, first to myself and then to you people. The appeal that your Agent has made, speaking for you, for a timber reserve and a coal reserve, I regard as a very just appeal And when it is brought tfc the attention ©f the proper officials t and Congress, I am In hopes that they will see the justice of doing something of that kind for you. Everything said here has been taken down , and will show in the records of our Councils, and I promise to unite -with your Agent and do what I can, by proper representation of the matter, in trying to have such reserves sOt apart for you. My friends, your Agent's advice has been all that a father could give hi3 children, and no father will give his child counsel that is not for his best interest. y°ar Agent has advised you for your best interest, and all good children should look up to their father and listen and obey his advice. My friends, I repeat again, that I am very much pleased with your courteous treatment of me since I have been here with you, but before closing our council I am going to give jrou another piode of advice. Thi3 paper which I have read to you will ba at the Agency Office while I remain here, and I would like to see all of you come in and sign it, at least a sufficient number to make :'. it acceptable to the Department, so that I can have the required number ©f names attached to tha paper that will go forward to Washington, The Government at Washington is your best friend and does not wish to impose any hardship upon a?©*, you people, and dees that which is for your best interests, I have already told you |
