in 1795 and the United States Government breaks promises as then, and with an added ingennity from long deftly now as practice.

Onc of its strongcst supports in so doing is the wide-spread sentiment among the people of dislike to the Indian, of impa tience with his presence as a "barrier to civilization," and dis trust of it as a possible danger. The old tales of the frontier life, with its horrors of Indian warfare, have gradually, by two or three generations telling, produced in the average mind something like an hereditary instinct of unquestioning and un- reasoning aversion which it is almost impossible to dislodge soften

There are hundreds of pages of unimpeachable testimony on the side of the Indian; but it goes for nothing, is set down as or partisanship, tossed aside and forgotten sentimentalism or

President after president has appointed commission afler commission to inquire into and report npon Indian affairs, and to make suggestions as to the best methods of managing them The reports are filled with cloquent statements of wrongs done to the Indians, of peridies they counsel, as earnestly and unperplexing expedionts of telling truth, keeping prom ises, making fair bargains, dealing justly in all ways and all things. These reports are bound up with the Government's An nual Reports, and that is the end of them. Tt wonld probably be no exaggeration to say that not onc American citizen out of ten thonsand ever sees them or knows that they exist, and yet any one of them, circulated throughout the country, read by the right-thinking, right-feeling on the part of the Government; as words can, a trial of the simple men and women of this land, eampaign document" that would initi ate a revolution which would not subside until the Indians' would be of itself a " wrongs were, so far as is now left possible, righted.

In 1869 President Grant appointed a commission of nine men, representing the influence and philanthropy of six leading