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are wholly unlit W dir.lk•rge the ins
ant duties that devolve wpm them,
that these mea ',mkt to have been
mimed free their positions by this
era.* mit Leant many years •gu,
tediaos, Sir, have no faith in Co.
stoner D.wdney, they have faith in
few of tbe officials in the North
Territories, but none in Comm
D•wdney, they know hum too well,
have teen dimmed by him too of
He hes been charred, and ow
charged, with being doteit.eeri°g,
gent. tyrannical, unfair, untrutbfu
his twist; with the Indiana
such a OOmWlsetuuer, and with a aim
c w of officials, we ouuld toper nut
e ss than uneasiness, diesetistact
discontent, and ultimately reboil'',
the Northwest Territories. The aha
1 have teed* Wailed the Admiaistrs
arid the otlicial& of the Adminiatratp
the Northwest Terratenee, I propose
establish out of the blw books &obeli
t • Parliama,t and by the teatime -to
independent roan, and of journals
pouting this Administration The W
nipeg Tunes, an urian of hon, ger
men .ppusite, • Cunservate pater, p
laked in the city of Winnipeg, t
describes Lieutenant -Governor De
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"But the dross of gold is not
Dewdnej s god. He is eminentl
philanthropist. His delight is to
waexa the interests sof the savage
promote the welfare of the more caret
ed white man under his sceptre.
example, when Long Ledge, chief of
Assiaiboinea, who were camping
summer near Indian Head, comelei
that the contractor's Wean, mating
Canadian taxpayers nineteen cents
pound, was not suitable to the Ind
palate, the ledian foaling always
filo meat ; when Long Long* o
to swept half a pound ef steer
cortins a York shilling a pound d
weight, is place of a pound of bacon
"barring he' people bootees it was
their food," Mr. Dowd°q laid
Iodises ehoeid sat the Woos or die,
be d—d t. thein." This was not
in haste, bot at his honor's leisure.
did not ea it because his friend the eon -
trader, who happened to be in a land
eradicate with him, bad 90,000 pounds
of that bacon to dispose of, but because
Its wished to indoctrinate the matters
with the tastes of the average white
man. Mr. D.wdney, let Piapot wit-
ness, is the Indiaa'a friend To the
whitewall also h. .eta a noble example.
He torches the raw settles a new code of
morals. H* shows him by precept and
.sample that in these devenersted days
it is not necessary for a mon busting a
trust mot to abuse it. Hs illustrates is
his his own walk and life the Modern
principles that every man should fight
for his own wallet. He is, in this great
eo.ntry, the moat signal exemplar of
seisms of how to get along regardless
the means or methods of locomotion
]let. Dswdsey, therefore, deserves
at oar heads and at the Indians of these
Territories. It would hardly be •ppro
priate to present him with a homestead
for he had several, alt, pre-emptioos i
abesdance. Monet would also be tot
place, inasmuch as while Sir Leonard has
a surplus and Sir John remains in power,
be will not want. Could anything be
were •pproprt•te than to present hien
with a petition to leave, to get oat, to
lt• ebewhere and teach .other Indiana
and other whitemen the ethics of gib.
greed and shamelessness which he has
introduced here t"
That extract, sir, u from a paper pub-
lished in the interests of the Govern-
ment, and was published three years
ago, and up to this hour this Indian
Commissioner, so described by an organ
of the Government, still retains his
place • Commissioner .f Indian Affair
in the Northwest Territories. The Ot.
tow• Sew, another paper not unfriendly
to this Administration, speaking of the
officials in the Northwest, says :
"The country has been earned with as
unscrupulous and tyrannical officialdom,
and to this cense may be traced the
origin of the present trouble. Officials
were selected purely front political re•-
s.on•, withont, regard to fitness, or, in
Many ewes, character. And the last
thing to be considered has been the
wishes or it/tweets of the settlers, who
have no repre•entahve in Parliament,
and no recourse against the tyranny of
these officials. Aiwost every official
made it hi. business to gat rich by specu-
ting in the lands which the interests of I
the country required shoold be adminis-
tered in the interest of the actual set
tler. Land wads have been in part-
nership with claim -jumpers, and used
their advantages to rob honest settlers
by treacherous teichioicalities fcr the
benefit of the land sharks. Junius tells
as something about public men who sud-
denly became rich, which may he pro-
perly applied to Lieutenant (;lovernur
De+dney. That, gentleman, when he
came to Ott*ws in 1872, was practically 1
a pauper. Today he is a wealthy man.
He did not save his wealth out of his •
i•lary. When he personally drove of k
the settlers from the county of Kiosk
who had gore in tinder very ,treat die- m
cultism at • trying season of the year, N
built bosses, and stetted to break land M
for cultivation—when he insulted men h
who went in mistaken confidence to him 01
for pr.'teetion against the oetrate per-
petrated by Major Bell—he was at the
time. it is altered. in rem eipt of s present
of 810,0(1() in the stock ut the Hell Ferm-
i/1f Company. '
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be despair by mienoaennwwt, and by
the aids uI inoowp.teot sod diabolism
QuveewgsNt oNesels
Mr. Jarmo, a member of the North-
west Cleanest, • Iifel..ng Commutative, a
wan who bosom that he We 0..s an un-
swerving and faithful supporter of the
First Minister of this D.winion for a
period bt tweaty-lve years, u. • spew&
delivered by him M Qw'Appelle in Jan-
uary last, thus speaks of Lieuteaa•t•
Governor Dewduey and the officials of
the Nurth.eat Territory :
"Everything is grief, there is no dan-
ger. 1 say that if toe Indian agents were
not in • p 'eitin :hen tell what was the
stats ur the Indian mind et that time,
then they were uu61 for the podium
they held ; and a stronger &rgom.ni that
the chief of the Department as not
fitted for his peat I do not went than that
he showed hie Iutist& •gents to persuade ti
his that everytbio, was peaceable and
quiet, while the whole thing was &seeth-
ing volcano, ready to burst forth at any, i
measent, and Mr. Dewd0ey was the on-
ly innocent nun in the o,untry. That
shows that things is the Indian Depart. I d
sent are rotten to the ogre, and should
be weeded out. (Hear, hear.) Had he
*cermet bis proper tunctions, and done
whet was expected him, the Govern-
ment would have been indexed, boomse
of the gravity of the situation, to deal
with the matter, and thus have averted
this great rebellion. He failed M do t
that ; and if the Government oars any- 1
THE HURON SIGNAL, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1886.
Hua. Leases. Clarke, formerly a setts.
ber of the Northwest Ouwaeil He pe►
• "Lets oornmiawwter be appointed or
a Cagsgsilds. of Parliament, amid I *dire
myself to show to the people of this Du-
mmies sash a picture out taps as will
make them wonder h... it is tam robot -
hue did not break out yeas ego. Had
mot t b. tediums been nosier yd the
ensue ad swistees, the farm iwytreo-
ture and other paid puWtemae appointed
over diem, would have bees killed long
Archbishop Tooke, in his r•saif.d.,
speaking of the Indian troubles, say* :
"There were ems* well gadilsd Mee,
but impurtaut poets were assiga.d to
men totally unqualified for the position,
while other prem. perfectly apt have
been dismissed or left aside bemuse cow,
hem, or twenty yeas before they went
political opponents.
Mr. Jacks.., in his •peach at Qu'A lee,
roes which 1 have just quoted, said
"A white man meter believes in bis.
The Italian thinks of him as s man who
nes not tell the truth today. but might
tomorrow ; but that tomorrow never
comes. (I.ughter,r-
The Winnipeg Times, speaking of trout-
ewnt-Ge►ernor Deerdaey, said :
„For the first time is the history of
the British cation the r•yr•••w cativo of
he Queen is kaewa to the .ado e a
sr.
thing at all for the feel s of th. people 8
of this country, theyI sweep away et
that which i. torso and despicable• and
place an honest moo, who will fulfil his
duties, in the position of Lieutenant• u
Governor. (Cheers.) I have shown
you that he had neglected his duties, and
prostituted his position as Indian Com-
missioner ; that be has allowed people to •
starve to death. I can show you that he it
said at Qu'Appelle statim that the In-
dians of the north might give troobls, el
but that he felt sure Iodises of Treaty
Na 4 would giro no trouble to the vow -
Minimal. If that is the het, ant if he
allowed sea, women and children to go t
to their death without a warning, that
man was aoosssory Were the fact 1
(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen. these are •
rah are the opinions et the frieade of
hon. g•ntle.wa oppuute ; wok are the
opinions of the press supporting bon.
gentlemen opposite, as to the ehsrscter
f the officials appointed by this Govern-
ment to administer Indian affairs in the
ortbweet, from Lieut.oaat-Goveirtior
Iewdo.y down to the farm iaetruetoes
ppointed by this Admtnistrstioa. I say
s a marvel to me, not that the Iadians
took sap arms against the sovsreigs power
this country, but the marvel to me is
that Wag year ago the Indians did not
protest is the Daly way known to them
against the mieo•odrot, maydminiMn-
•on, irespaity and culpable neglect of
this Adaetdtdration. Iso still further.
say the Gever°ment sod the Marais
ppointed by this Government have net
y broken faith with the Indians, bat
rawest
Terrttorie• have debased and degraded
Indite character, seta now, Sir,
ere is °*thio/ left but the bare memory
what wee once the noble red man of
e plains. An ocean .f the Govern.
ant, three years ago, called public at -
tion to the foot that one of the agents
this Administration was living en •
reserve, beneath the shadow of the
ethodiet missies, ie open adultery with
o young ega r& The Government
ere aware of it, bat the Government
ver mowed, never enquired, newer io•
i*ated, and op to this hoar, this un -
all facts. At the session of Parliament, sal
WW1 of the ot8cisl. is the We
I think 1882.83, or 188384, when Sir
John Macdonald, whom 1 have followed
for tweet, gin years, and who. bas al- the
ways found toe an active supporter, sot th
op in his place as Premier i f the Derain- of
ton, and said that Mr. Dewdney was th
one of the best appointments M *ser m
made. 1 winless it completely kneeked ten
the wind out of sue. !Larabter.)" • of
I de not mauler that it hawked the
wind out of this member of the North- )r
West Caned. Th. extracts I have reed tw
from the rethe
e eorgans of the iatioos I shall fr_t, and "
drake before I
vest
the some my meet, together with the Matti-
;
of seat made by the First Minister with
well respect to Liieeteasat-Governor Dew -
dewy, will peeve mouth to knock the
- wind oat of an The Mail -
n
paper of 2nd Ftrbreary, 1886. reports an
interview which ahs oorrespoud.nt of
that paper had with • portion by the
manse of Mr, James Grier, who lives in
the neighborhood of Old Mao's River,
and was a fernier re•ii•trt of the comity
d Grey and had been reeve of the tows -
ship in which he resided for 15 years.
Mr. Jamas Grier says, on this subject:
"Aatlter great grievance in the North-
West u the importation of carpet -bag-
• to fill official position. This is not,
however, so eerioasiy felt now as it been.
But on all sides but one opinion is **-
premed—that the North -Wed new has
men capable of filling the offices, and
that they should he chosen, all other
thinge being blue, for the vacancies
that occur."
Let me now give the opinion of .largy-
Mea :
"At the Presbytery meeting at Bran-
don, Manitoba, Rev. Mr. Cam.ren, who
man syr aweeg the Iodine's
weekended that " In -
&at epnteg instil a great mothers des
to Lb* character et the instructors and
agents appointed by the Government
If the Gevernsnet officials had been the
right kind of men the uprising would
never have taken place, In malty cases
their treatment of the Indians was ma-
culated to have a mood injurious effeet—
•ovte of them treating the Indiana like
dogs—never speaking to them without
an oath, and paying no regard whatever
to their word.' The rev. gentleman re-
marked that it would spoil good Indians
to make them tike some of the Indian
Department officials who are over them,
and supposed to be civilising them Mr.
C•aaeron's statem.nte were ooa6rm•d by
Rev. Messrs. Robertson, Flett, and oth-
er Indian misaioitaries, who wai°ained
that the Indian revolt was is • great
measure doe to the character of the
Government officials sent amongst
thew"
say that is an extraordinary condition
of affairs. Those people are on the spot
ad know whereof they speak, sod M
vowing whereof they speak, they so d. -
scribed the officiate tient by this 9.rr.rn.
tint to adminiaee ladies affair in the
orth west. Mr. McDougal', one of the
etb•dist missionaries, who devoted his
fe to the service of elevating,sdDoti ing,
rilimng and christianising the Indies,
thus speaks of the officials : seven
"Mr. McDougall points out the great - stent
difficulty of ,governing firm Ottawa, and were
says that 'laws were. enacted whish coni men,
not be enforced; furthermore simoly unfit ohm,
men were appointed to o1gee without any 10ere
knowledge of the nature of the work •:-
uo
peered of them, the Indians and the fit.
country, and Government having to rev tones
the risk in the meaetime of brine .z, o/ di
perimented upon.' "obwhich
Hon. Lawton Clarke, at ase time a .Sr.ieo3
member of the Northwest Corned, thus ( 30th o
speaks of the class of mon who were seat tervie
by this (lnvervnment tuad.inister iodise
affairs :
Now, you must hear in mind. Mr
c;nicker, that this Commissioner Dowd-
n"y, so demented by two organs of the
Government, is the official who lies
had charge of them for • series of years
The attrition of the Government bas
hen drawn b. the conduct of this man,
t•• 'hs setions of this man, yet up to
this hoer the first step has not been taken
t,• remedy the wrong that is alleged to
hart been perpetrated by him. The
Farmer' inion, • body of respectehle
men in the Northwest, thou speaks of
the okareet.r of the officials this Admin-
istr•tioe mit to the Ncrthweet to ad-
1ektier Indian affairs id that region:
"We pnint with a eirvowful pride to
feet that while we are trying to .seas
ennsid.r tion and j omit iso our sons and
brother hap left their forma to grew to
weeds while they are away in the North-
west Territory, Askint mid I•yi doves
their line like of Omaha to
defend the swprw.esy.f the of Mr
44. lbele heft the ennfaMinating
worthy representative of Ottawa official-
dom administers Ilia° affairs in that
particular locality. A young English-
man, unfit to do anything in his native
country, was shipped off to Canada, eoa-
dared to the care of the First Minister
of this Dominion. He was provided foe
in the Indian s.ntre ret the Northwest
Territories, and he hat been living then
for three or four years revelling is the
aminal enjoyments of a western harem,
plentifully implied with asl.et outlines
from the western prairie lowers. W.
aced miwiesarie• of the Cr... t. the
Northwest to educate aid elevate, to
civilise and christianise the Iodises. We
send missionaries, official miesiosaries,
to the Northwest Tactile/ion to humil-
iate, to lower, to degrade and debase
the virgin daughters of the wards of tito
ratios, and yet we find people ezpres.
iog their surprise and astonishment that
the Indians do not take kindly to the
ways of modern civilisation, and that
after the munifieent donations which
Parliament votes every year G. feed,
clothe and keep in comfort the wild Io -
diene of the plains. they are still dieters -
fled, still disoontended, still rebellious.
soy again that to my mind the marvel
that yore ago the Indians did not gas
• tomahawk and scalping knife end
can oat of the Northwest Territories the
y, indolent, ineompdantand immoral
of officials who hart been appoint-
hy this AdmialetratilM to administer
un affairs in thePiortbwnst Territo-
The .tatelfaMq I make may be
megidesed t enetehet extravagant, but I
perm I ury one of them before I
am* my, seat by official documents
mittd by this Government to this
'lament, and a rte of ind.peadent
imony that, to my mind, is simply
rwheiming. If you refer to ono of
reports of one of the Dep•rtm..ta
ught down last year, you will God
t 46 per cent of on. class of officials
the Northwest were under medical
moat for a peculiar bind of disease
etre year. That yes wilt ad.it, Sea
raordinary allowing for s claw of mon
by the people of that country to
rol, manage and set an example to
Indians of the Northwest Territories.
that tinier* speaks in unmistakable
.f the eeeiditioa of those guardians
ubl-fot trent amid pablie morals. At
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station it polies out that there were
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13 M 1$ setas hate been partly taagkt is
ear shed. ; ad others before these
Sold to moo for from $10 to 1 Whore
are the ohddrea 1 Ituaoitrg &beet the
reserves wearing r ! Whose the
women themel,es f They are prostitutes
hoagies amend tbs towns. 81up the
wale ut Iodise Idris to white teen and
soother great step is taken."
Dhow, Sir, I ray that .story taalw•,tboegbt-
fel, Winking teas will unclad, that
this j• an exttadi coeditor ut again.
This mistaasry tells we that the very
ohilde.s fres the Mission schools are
absorbed into this population for the
ghees fwd most unholy purposes Mr.
ifcDuuy•ll, who is the mt.stuaary to
whet I have alluded, in the woe inter-
view when sulked to expiate the tru.cun-
dition of aIIalrs, said :
"He urges a ehan,fe, and the Indian
goes a fair chane. ; he wants the Gov-
ernment's Indian polio --to make the
bidets a responsible einem—carried out
in its true spirit. To do this he ..ks fur
employees of the Indian Departnt.at
who wilt be true to their country it not
to their God, who will retrain from
licentiousness, blasphemy, drunkenness'.
and laziness, who will have force of char -
sitter enough to oumausd g.neral re
weft, •ad who will by p --so pt and .z -
am le teach the Iodise. industry, thrift
and obedienoe to i1. law."
The Mail newspaper of the 2nd of Feb-
ruary, 11!86, publishes an interview with
Mr. James Grier, to whom I have Urea -
alluded, in which the following occurs:
"Then the oonrersetion drifted beck
to the Indians, and I asked him if he
knew of any frauds that bed been oota-
Mitted no the.. He answered : 'I know
any amount of corruption exists in the
Indio. D.p•rt..ot, and I know that
many of t4.. officials have one squaw or
two. This is • Matter of pebble noto-
riety'
I ask yea, after hating heard this e,i-
denes, whether I am me amply justified
is the charge I have made against this
Government, that they appointed to
positions et public trust in the North-
west Territonea, from s.oag their army
of carpet -baggers sod camp followers,
some of the meat unfit mem that ever
occupied public positions. I say this
condition of es is well known to the
G.vernwwt, and has been well knowa
to the Government for a number of
leas. I say that it is a seandnloes ova.
ditlou of affairs to exist in say country,
and a disarms to the Government that
would tolerate it for one hour. I sat
that they have not only been guilty of
e.adiet this class of people to the North-
west T.rritortiee, but they have been
guilty of breaking faith with the Indians.
The solemn o.reaants entered into with
the Indiana have been shamefully, opeo-
ly, persistently and systematically broken
by this Government. The confides*
which the Indian usually has in the
Sovereign of this Dominion, has been
shaken. He ear) no longer rely on the
faith of the Crown, and the result has
been • rebellion in tb. Northwest Terri-
tories, in which all Indians took ac un-
important part, and the mutt is that
today I aeleenaly believe, from the testi-
mony that roses frogs the Northwest,
that this Dominica is standing on the
briak of a toteam°,which may burst firth
at any moment The evidence upon
this point of broken faith, violated trea-
ties. onfel611ed obliaatiors e' .o clear
that it is almost unneoeamry to discuss
it, But in order that the matter may
be pot beyond peradventure, I propose
to establish it out of the Wee books web -
reined to this Parliament during the
last four or five years ; I propose to
prove it by the testimony of the weans
and friends of hon. gentlemen opposite.
The Mad new.pape of the 13th Jan- !those supplies that they were dumped off
e•r7• p another interview i in the mud and filth, and left there to
with the Rev. Mr. McDougall, tet. Me'- rot. And we are surriried and aeWund-
sionary from Methodist church to_ the , e,d that the Indigo is not satisfied with
Stoney Iden• near Calgary. In that I with the attention he receives. Mr. Me -
interview Mr. McDougall says
Psrliawet or dearlters. I go further.
I my Net the reports ut the Department
e atatitialk mill mute dearly that broken
promisee and related treaties have char-
n uterteed the dealings of the Goverment
with the Indiana fur a loos somber of
Tears. k McKay. so Iodise agent at
timid Rapids, in hie report states that
the taperer of Indies wears premised
to supply them with all they might re-
quire, ani diet thy were urged by that
ggwwnist.esaan to make their 4e. seek uo the
D.g.rtva.st fur the *•one, whack they did,
bet they were nut eu .plied welt Mr.
McO..11, inspector of ladies& ageneise in
the Northwest, writing of the Sae
Lithe bands, says that ■gtgoeu were pro.
wined[hem, and that he u apprehensive
of straws oun•eguenoes unless their
claims are recognised. lir. McDonald,
an !adieu suet gilder Treaty No. 4,
publshee s letter from Puunlmak.r, iii
which Poeudwaker uses the following
language : —
"It is Poundmsker who takes the
liberty of seeding you • fain hos. We
entreat Your Huuur 4i send hies the grist
mill with horse power you kindly pre-
sented him at Cypress. We expected it
last Bummer, but m vein,"
These had been promised to the Indian
chief by Commissioner 1)ewdney, twe!re
months before this complaint was made ;
but up to that hour the pledgee of the
Crown, made by Commissioner Deed -
my, had not been 6ulfitled. Potted -
maker says further :
"Let me have the 22 oxen you prone'
ed fur my band."
J. McRae, an Indian agent at Car
tweaking of the Oksusaie band—and
Tompkins corroborates the state
says that Inspector Wdswertt prom
him a large lumber warren last f►11,
he did not get it. G. McPherson,
dims agent, says :
"The clothing for the chiefs and on
.sopors wee good, except the trousers and
shirts, which were inferior and worn oat
in three or four days."
Now, I .k yet, Mr. Speaker, e' not that
an extraordinary condition of affairs? If
you refer to the s000unts of the contrac-
tor for suppGe% to the Indians, you w111
fid that they were bound to supply ar-
ticles of • re•eu°ably fair quality. In-
stead of M doing they supplied the In-
dian chiefs acd the Indan 000ncil4rte
with &n article that lasted them but three
days ; tad yet we as .urprived that the
'adman are dissatisfied and discontented,
and that they have broken out into re-
volt, as they may break out into revolt
&Rain. J. W. Herch°ter, Indian agent,
•peaking of the Salteaus bend under
South Quill, my.:
"Hunting having failed in theirneigh-
borbood, the band have been obliged to
sett most of their bores to buy supplies,
and are now miserably peer."
Miserably poor ! With the munificent
dotation voted by Paris/meat, and ex-
pended last year. of some 81,109,000.
Miserably poor ! And why 1 Blaine,
that Government negligently and care-
les.ly permit their count -tura to supply
these Indians with an article of wearing
apparel that lasts the Indians only three
days. A. McKay, Indian agent, says of
the Indians on Che- Ina- wha- win re-
serve :
"The harrows and ploughs were lying
partly buried in mod and weeds in dif-
ferent plums. Some of them have nem
been used or pot together yet, and are
spoiling for want of care."
We have an army of officials in the
Northwest; we have Indian agents, sub -
Indian sgeote,farm instructor, all kinds
and ramose( men there to look after
the interests of the Indians; sod yet we
find that se little attention was .4 to
"The `Government it fates to the
ty, the white men hove lied to
ars damned,' the Indiana
required the services of loyal old-tito point out to them why, through
avoidable delays, lack of speedy t
port, .fie , the obloaatiors of the Go
rant were sometimes unfulfilled.
Mr. McDougall says : 'W. could
lad, nor did we try to find, any ex
fee the promisees made but not fulfil
i Coil, the Inspector of Agencies, says :
tree- "I also notice in the same reenrda that
us, we nearly all the bands within this agency
end i1 i have received more axes than they were
men entitled to under the treaty, and that
no• only two or three bands have received
rani- their complement of b .., spades and
Gov
scythes, notwithstanding the re
P Pre•enta-
But tion made to the ootdrary to the Depart -
nut meet as well am to the Indiana in don-
ee.. .res too that matter."
the ant-tttrwat poiisy .flee sahib
mid r ee o1>Icials
std "Notwithstanding the representations
f made to the contrary, to the tot
as well as to the Indians in Merano* to per
this matter." In other word., oar agents to b
in the Northwest, in charge of the In- „
0
the Indian Department, for the shame-
ful and immoral lives of many of the
employees of the same. Some of thin
were a disgrace to the lowest barbarism
Then yea me ►ow a portico of the
food •hash perha.eel voted was ea-
peaded. The euotreetees walker did not
supply the stamina at a11, sr.rppijsd as
of an inferior gealiiy; yet on entwine.
taro was made, M..Otgesry wades and
»sallow "as drew. Mr. Horsham,
speekiug of th. $least hands, says :
"A great deal of Makers lin visited
them lately, gamed by the want of fresh
meat..'
W. Puakliagton, spiekieg of 81.0.y
Ii.diaos, says:
"During lest winter there wee • great
deal of distress a.". them ter went of
clothing, elan' of them sot having a
blanket to outer their nsk.dveaa'
T. P. Wadsworth, speaking
Day Sar band, says that of the
"They oomplaID.d that they did not
get the treaty pigs, and asked for more
taint, tool chests. moccasin* and silk
Pan• -
Ne reports u to Miatow•sis band :
"They complained that they did rat
get treaty pits, and Wadsworth romps.
meads that Me'to.asis and Ahtabkto
Meow get them."
Mr. Wadsworth says of the Bob Tail
baud
"I'hey complain that still din them,
under treaty, • cow and a bell"
And further :
"The Ermine Skin hood complain of
the want of • mower and some ort* "
These are not the only complaints that
the Indere here been making fora num-
ber of years. We promiesd, and were
under ubligadiosm to supply the Indians,
just fresh trona the pities from whisk the
buffalo had disappeared, with fresh beet.
But instead cf fresh beef tee supplied
them with salt pork, thaw! w. potty
get fresh beef .t from 8 to 15 teats • Ib,,
and had to pay fur the pork, some of
which was rusted at that, front 1D le 28
cents a pound. The table I submit,
culled from the vouchers in the India&
deportment, shows the fulbwise rates:
"At Fort McLeod, is 1883-3, beef
was worth per lb. 8}c sod basun 200 ;
in 1883.4 beet was worth per ib. 141.,
and bacon 234c ; 1n 1884-5 beef )bo and
town 18c per 1b. In the 8sekatc0waa
district in 1882-3 beef visa worth 1Ge and
bacon 2fic ; in 1883.4 beef foo amid theca
22+)c per lb. At Battleferd i° 1tlS33 bast
w,. worth 124c and Wenn 23c ; and
1883 4 beet 17e and bacon foo. Is fla-
gon in 1882-3 beef was worth 8 std bo-
om 214c ; and in 1883-4 beef 4}e sad
bacon 24}e per lb."
And this, although the department
was made aware ut the feet by tte went,
Mr. Herebmer, in bis report for 1883.
Mr. Hsrehser there say. :
"A Brest deal of sickness has visited
them lately, mimed by the want d fresh
resat The Indians ander, treaty 4, re -
wilted in 1884-5 815,290.92 worth of
'pork, and 81,288.45 worth of beef, al-
though it ie known that best is life to the
Indian; .bile soh putt is disease and
death to him."
This bountitul, humane and latenttve
government, whose duty it uvea to leek
after the interest of the Indians, *applied
them with twelve pounds of digest's std
death to one pound of lift Ad
this, although the reports of the Dm
perrmeat are homily tesaiog with
warnntgs to and remoa.tr:noes easiest
the Government for the inhuman treat-
ment the Indians ramrod at their
hands, by supplying them with pork in-
stead of fresh meat. Agent H.eeh..r,
is his report dated 24th July, legt
speaking of the types of disease •
the !patens, says :
"To these might b. added, I think,
the sadden change rrom fresh meat em
the prairies to dour and barna in ...par-
amine ennbnem*et "
And again on page 61 he says
"At Oak River .leve mea bare died
out of 88 heads of families, and seventeen
children under three years old. This is
very distressing and a hard to vr000ant
for—the change a Met owing to the fail-
ure of hunting, and serutals, being prob-
ably the cause."
It e' very distressing, the await pa-
thetically remarks, while all the time
these agents were doing what they knew
they ought not to have done, namely,
supplying these men with salt pork at
25 cent" per 1b, when they 000ld
have bad fresh meat at front 8} to lSc
1h. Mr. Magna Hogg, Indium west,
is roport dated 28 July, 1885, syn:
During the month of April there fir
siderable sickness on the Stony r e
e, an -1 it was thought favorable to is -
beef, which was doom, and with esti,-
ry result.."
Oise Department, were so indolent, s.
en con
seri
nee
facto
let alone eiviliestiom. Nor how could 'indifferent and so artless, that
w., when earnestly trying to teach h- I they delivered to some band. of Indians
diens habits of industry d thrift, h. (far more of one elses of tools and imp's-
--
expected to excuse the laziness - and in- i mental than it required, while to oth-
eosp tency of w.any sent into the eosin- i ors they acre none at s!L The .ogee in
try to teach the wards of the Govern- speetor further repine :
Meet those lessons we hate been w.akieg '..Irh. Potatoes and barley recelred last
for there to acquire for some yeas, spring were half rotten.'.
Moreo.ero weld we he blamed when we New, 1 ask the Acting Minister "f In -
felt strongly that something was limier/ dian Affairs if his attention was ever
in the system which allowed such men drawn to that report 1 Is that the kid
in its branch of the asrtioe The inonr- of treatment we ought to mete out to
sisteney has oftentites* appeared app.ar- the wards of the nation, to
ad to a rery glaring Ratio".looked mit whom above all thin mem with
eight case. iu one year ; .t another a department claimi.R le bars i certain itt e ' [s' ins ate in infant
inn there went forty at; caves an ob in view se things,
and w. sup )
et have, whosetet aside ii i mtirtry are pay for these things, sad we n 7
medical treatment in ten months ; at ►R servant it is to obtain them, but when theIndies/1e
supply
hind station there in seven mottth1 thio ebjaot, .red pot within i1. own stamp j they are wholly unfit fureitseth 7hedsstae
and power doing time things and adopt inspector wain say.
•
ty-f•wr oases ands medical treat-
; at • fourth station in 1884 there
sixty eases ander medical treat-
. In a division of the force in
n months there were twenty-one
° aggregate oho... that
were at least 45 per tient. of this
of officials in the Northwest Terri-
• • d the
who wore suffering from this class
..seat The Mail newspaper, to
f *oppose hon. gentlemen will not
as a witness in this part of the
scion —the /Weil newspaper of the
f January. 1886, publishes an in
w with one of the missionaries em -
"Bridal ruffians were •pp ointed as
farm instructors over the Indians, who
maltreated the poor people in the least
brutal nor, answering them with
kicks sre nws. aeeomp•nied with show -
es of ity and disgustingepithets ;
of the farm iw•treetor killed by the In-
dians two were universally known to be
brutal wretelkes •welt as I hese mention -
id, and the priers low their lives in at-
temptiwg to sap them frets the pent -.p
wrath of the .vas.,..
Mr. Mitehatl. Whose report is that 1
Mr. P,. a (Haran). Teal of the
ployd
of the
anise
said .
"Bu
are
bend
epp 0
119•9 :
found
some in
let a
&top to
mg those methods which are defeating
their object
The Ret. Fatter Soolien, • missionary
priest for twenty-four years among the
Indians of the Northam Terri
"That the councillor enmpltins that
the oloality of the hats, trowners and
shoe• received by him were inferior."
H
eir and now, or at all events noway. in ' one of the councillorsofthenCusmbbeerr-
.erre of this Administration, speak as l land bead, corplains that the
by the of er treatment :ewt of the Indians sal 14p1•nteets forwarded by the Cumber-
follows
the Government : — .mit their use wee. rammed b a
That the lalfbr,.ed rising hes sot We were under obligations, we were is
nee••earily been the armse of the Indigo thing.;
bound to bo the India. shoe
rising, from the feet that the Iodises had throws: they .ere &ought add
yet when the P+M tet,
been prepared to rise loot before was. wise f sashed their istietsaiee,
haltbreeda had made any sovesp,t et spent of the Admieistrstiero
wash! sot hand them over to the In-
diana W.. an enquiry trade hien this 1
in se far as 1 tun able to gather from the
reports, nose was made. C. r Deeny,
mother Indian agent, speaking et the
brume of contract by the •ontr>•etor,
eye :—
by one of the sanding churches all. Tear had been prepared to take the
Ditaiww.n 4, esus
the Indians. That missionary
Ties and ehrut- Gret oppowtensty no matter .hot it w..,
If any other parties had got into triable
with the Government, or tamed the
Government trouble, the Indies would
bare taken advantage of that jest as they
did the halfbeeed riming They bad
known, and they know trader, that they
weld not fight the whit. Mon, bon.s
they bat been watching sit ooppowturity.
One mase for diesatiefacti.,, among the
iodises ked Wen the fed that the treaties
had net Were esrried net on the part of
the Governsstat agnate."
f what we want in our reserves
marred ren as enrpl and • few
tends dollars se mond in putting
ores for thew would pa in the
And,m
let e sal, net pay
thank God there are suet* to be
; sad do wl .spiny • man heeares
fleeMi•l man down oast wants to
siteetu,g for him. Again, pet •
whites ee Bring with ids
women
to theta
mneme they an lawfully married l Reek is the ta•tintney of Own mon h
erre
the Where
yens" girls of evidence oann+t bur taoatrove,t.d in this
w ••e.
"i sent • messsnaer to Fort Beatnik
to I. G. Rohr & Co., infnrvei.>R that
Aver was needed, and to ship at now. i
had ni ten nominee to pashas* settle
frau others than the overawes/ e, as
they
failed to beep ate eeppils& and beef
Imola liars ren riot no the 8leekfe.t wad
ether ee ; to had 1 not done ea i Midi onlyte pay •
Waters he/ore tallsad settled w I+ tallies( the step." Avid
hood,
In other wort, we fed the Indiana on
salt pork until they became sick onto
death, and then we fed them on fresh
beet to restore (0.ei to health
Gm the Government of the' etueery,
has the Commissioner of Indian Affair,
in the North-West Territory as eotesid-
emed that au ounce of pretentious is
worth a pound of cure, that it would be
better to feel the Indian ea fresh hail
to prevent dime's, Whet.t
him out froth 0.e w a ar
*t -_
ally as froth Meat "ea he
et
a much lower rate it the gbg lf,
salt pork. The reports, with few MOW
lions, of the & nts of the Dep.Nemset
for the I.st fuer or five revs, show dim
have beet constant goi•pk•inls sande to
the head of this I)ep•ttm.tt of the inhu-
man treatment received by the Indium
at the Wilds of the officiale of this Gov-
ernment. Thew oottpl•itts have bees
renewed from y..r to year ; thugs 40011"
plaints hare not bees investigated. I
charge that this Government, Mttt
these eOnplainta have been amide
their own sweet a bats amt le
them, and where the troth of the
gee was hrnggkt booty to theb of
.. haun
the Department, thewbeen dismissed as they went* have not
Mr. Wadsworth, thopshoera hoe. been.
Indian affairs, in hie roper too 18 2.
speaking of the Riv• sgiii ror 18In-
In-
dians, ►•s• qui Barre it-
"The Hour and bean rewired as sup-
plies waser had, and the finreceived by
the Imbue aT R•tll.ford, had beeetas
letapy. "
Mr
speaking Wadsworth, 1
n hi. repof the ldiw ort
for ei -
koola terve the 8kr
Wye
"The f gee rse.is.d be tame iediens
•fteged 93 pawls per amok"
opeathir of Pn.inakr`e
"The lour wee Inferior and
weight."
A. McKay, Iodine agent, in is
for 1884, stye tic the Iaspact,
dies •g•w•iss promised to sues
with all they Meld ralatr,
they went urged by that anent
their oesanda o. the Depart
the same; that they did so, but
plies were MK ant. 1:. MoCul
report fee 1862, aye :
'Waggon* were premie•d t
diem, sad that he was apprebt
serines ouoesqueno.s, unless do
wen rwsegsised '
Mr, T. P. Wadsworth, in his re
1884, speaking of Day Star.
goys .
91P' "Tie thief oemplair ed that h
•t1 yet his treaty pigs, and he
share oxer, a tool chest and Milk
Abse that :
°Jlistawar•' brad ->lad_ Ah
hoop's band did a.A Ret their
pigs, and he reoommeoded that t
them.
He further reports that :
"Bobtail's bend complained the
was din thus under Nu treaty a
and mase tarts. "
Freecis Ogiltre•, Iodise agent,
report, dated 14th October, 1884
in sp.skiag of the Sandy Bay bait
are r.ry 90110u0 to Kot t
tie they an entitled to, as well as
of the Mots."
Anita McIntyre, Indian agent, in
pert, dated 6th October, 1884,
reference to the Lto des Mill
band :
" The band is still" entitled
cows."
And of the W.begat sad Eql
bands :
"I took an inventory nt all the
and impletasna, odd find they
el • good many fur which I hay
rtgaisitton."
And of the Mattawa and English
band :
"This bawd asks for one
tar harrow, twenty grubber,
-tifep;piak, ens single yoke,
news still iirre due them.'
And of the Fish River Reserve :
" They amnia ask for a steel
They *leo rtgGest to bat super
two brush breaking plough*, t
harrows, and fuer sets of air
totem as these previously furnish
worthies. "
I have shown not only that we h
bad agents too administer Indian
in the Northwest Territories,,
we hare broken faith with the 1
many respects. I now propose
that we hare by ver neg6gtees
conduct spewed the Indiana, in
of plenty, to be fresco to d
starved to death. I hays shown
have allowed them to be rub
died and cheated out .of what t
-entitled to by the •genre and the
awn, that we gave them liftl
eletbing, and, to cap the elite
eriminality ere allowed them to
and starved to death. Let us
far this is proved by the mords
ted to Parliament :—Mr. Me
diem agent, under Treaty No.
1is11ed a letter from Puundmake
16th November, in which the u
ways :
"The -re is today • great dist
Used. Their ration* are now s
fltrdl day., and, of course, r
is homy roving about and huntin
imp•o triol. to work un on em
C. B. Denny, Indian agent, in h
her 188`1, says :
'•I found the Blackfoot willing
had they received assistance,
had been Welly neglected and. i
quince, wore wild and uts.ttl
Commiuioner McLeod, in be'
1879, says :
"I have ezoerienoed Brent
(with the distress and wffertwa
Lions for relief being constantly
me by the starving bands of I
Again the commissioner says :
"A Stent' Indian and his fa
been without food for many da
eat Walsh, in hi.
"Huniter and guttering prey
some places persons became so
u to be unable to help thorned
want of food followed by di
an epidemie, which marked its
the many graves now to be
Mountain."
Was there firer such a piet
painted by the taut skilful art
there ever such an indtatment
against any Government 1
ver such an indictment pre!
this incompetent thiverum
franked in this report of
owe spats in the Northwest 1
het the weakest'. the nom
Administration mold ha
ted this condition ol affairs
istod oh* boor after It was
to the Gevernment, but w
kuowleatie of all these facts,
knowledge oe their part, on t
the Superinteodent-General
Commissioner Deeds'', n.
atep wee tekmi to rectify the
to the Indiana The breech
violated promises, the broke
the freed and misconduct of t
robbing and cheating all
rgenee and inane"
iatration, an al noir
graves of the Indians on
Wood Maintain t. Still the
never moved, never stirred,
Opted. Tbe Gomm
Affair. in the Nattiest"
&ever moved, rimer stirred,
tigated. No; lie lezeriated
(Getable quarters in Ravine,
thane, wheel we are
might Marrs te death esti
death so far as he was
me establish this atatemert
toisinioey that easeth be
*sib, Wu; ineamenessiaMeanyneabh:
heretine, tie the 14th
ins of the eandities of
"1. this esitheOila the
Luba imam is thie
ars age, wee gives Io
disitb bed bees hi their