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Show I REPORT OF TNC COMMISSIOXER OF INDIAN AFFATP.8. V aie vic~lateda nd life and pr0pert.y destroyed, the blame is unreasonablg charged to a failure of the Bureau to enforce existing laws. From the best information I have been able. to obtain, it seems that our neigh-hors in Oanada manage this liquor qnestion amongst their Indians bet-ter than we do. The minister of the interiorin one of his reportssome tillie since uses this language : .- / Two act8 passed dm- . :ecent session of Parliament claim epccinl notice in oonneotion with Indian one of which "prohibits" the itnportation into or manufacture in tho north ritoriesof a11 intaxieatingliq~~orasn,d enforces such yroh~bitionb y the most at1 pmniaions. The other aulhorizesthe establishment o f am ounted poliee v i t h an. were to carry out the provisions of the l i q ~ ~loawr . After making this state 1t, he proceeds to say: The united operation of the% -o acts has already dons muoh towards the elp-preasion of the liquor traffio. Th, iqoor law and the mounted police have together soreeeded in stamping ont almosi 6 tirely the vice of drunkenness. If this can be done in Canada it can be done here, hut it cannot be done unless money is appropriated to pay tbe expense of enfbrciug the laws already on our statute books. I have repratecllr asked for this, and now ask again. An h~diani,n elwaking on this sul)ject, said: We don'l make r h i a h ~ou rselves, arid we tell ollr ~ - a n pme n ,cot to drink it, bnt we can't help it so long as vhite ulen sell it to them. We dou? know how to make the white men take the whisky %Tap, but the grert meu at Wnshington do. We hope t.hey will help 11s. And I now adcl my 1-oice to that of the Indian and urge upon the :'great men at Washington" to make it possible for this Bureau to de-teat and prosecute the wretches who violate law, and transform other-wise peaceable Indians into intensified savages by introducing firewater among them. Another aspect. of the whjeot. also demands attention. Moat Ird' will drink intoxicati~~lgiq uor whenever and wherever they can get it. It mill therefore be impossible to eradicate this evil 80 long as the law aotliorizes any Department of the Go r e r ~ ~meo~r ~ant ,y agent thereof, to introduce liquor on an Indian reserration on any pretense \i.hatever. Section 2139, Kerised Statutes? makes it a- Suffioieutd efense toany charge of ir~trorlnaingoar tten,pt,ingtojntrod~~eeliquorinto the Indian country, that the acts charged were done by order of or under auth=rity imtn t,he War Department, ur any oBeer duly at~thorized thereunto by the War De-partment. And section 2140 provides that- It shall moreover Le ihe duty of any person in the m i c e of the United States, or of any Iudisn, to take and destroy any ardent spirits or wine found in the Indian mnntq except 8ud a8 nay be introd8,eed them by the Wnr Deparhnmt. No one claims that. liquors thus L1int.roducedv are less pernicious in their effects than tbose obtained from any other source. These laws were passed when the Indians mere under the control of the War De-partment, and there is certainly no reason why this extraordinary privi- |