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Tous les autres exemplaires originaux sont fllmt^s en commenpant par la premiere page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustration et en terminant par la dernidre page qui comporte une tolle empreinte. Un des symbolos suivants apparaitra sur la derniAre image de cheque microfiche, seion le cas: le symbols — ^ signifie "A SUIVRE ', ie symbole y signifie "FIN". Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent §tre fllm^e d def! taux de reduction diffdrents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul clichi, il est filmd A partir de i'angle supirieur gauche, de gauche d droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant ie nombre d'images nicessaire. Las diagrammes suivants illustrent la mAthode. 1 2 3 4 5 6 OF A III |_q| LEADlW CONSERVATIVE IN THE NORTH-We^T ON THE LATE REBELLION. At a buuquet given in liouor ol Mr. Jackson of ^Ju'Appeile, a member of the J^orth-Wesfc Council ia January. 1886, and [as he says in hia «j>eech] a follower of Sir Joliu Macdonalil for Twcnty-flve years, he iave utterance to the following severe denunciation of the policy of the Administration of Sir John MacdOUald, in connection with the North- West " The Indian Commissioner (Mr. Reed) has taken every opportunity— and he took an opportunity in his recent speech at the Council Board— of twitting the people of Fort, Qu'Appelle with encouraging the File Hill Indians to give the Government trouble, or to cause a disturbance to keep the soldiers here. (" No, no," and " It's false.") You who knew the danger there was of an Indian uprising throughout the country ; who knew the means that had to be used by men of in- fluence to keep the Indians from rising, know how dastardly false such an asser- tion is. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Nothing of the kind was ever done. He be- ■ came very anxious about the File Hill Indians. What has he done with them be- cause of their turbulency, because diey showed a disposition, perhaps, to rise up 1 and join the Indians of the North in fighting ? He has reduced them at the present ; time to that daU tfiat in tJie case of one Indian (I am prepared to prove this, and f to give the name of the man, too), within hvo montlis seven of his children died < because iUy had not the necessaries of life. (Cries of " Shame ! ") 1 tell you what I know to he a fact The Indians on the File Hill reserve believe that if one of their number fall sick there is no use in trying to make him get well, they have , not mffijcient nourishing food and they mu^t let him die. The man I speak of came down to the fort the other day absolutely in rags, with his two squaws, ■ and said to a man in Fort Qu'Appeile (I do not mention hia name now, but at the : proper time, if necessary, I can produce this man) :— " What can I do for any- j thing to eat ? We are dying of starvation." He was told :— « You had better go | to Kegina, ana xne iJieui/.-vjruvuiiiui maj »jc =,Lrx« vu uv ,,...., ..■„..,..^ ... ^ — ,^ — . Oh.") The old squaw had an old piece of tea-ch£8t wrapping, which you could FOE- 16.] t^^*»- ■throw hailstones through, to serve aa a blanket. These are the wards of the Oot- ■ amment ! The man was so thinly clad that he was H FROZEN BELOW HIS KNEES, ■ and yet he was going to Regina to try and move the heart of that man who«e I , ^f '" «;^ne-to move the heart of that man to give something to keep life in him I . .. "J!f • ^ """"^ *^^ P^'^P^'" '^''^''''^ °*' *^® "^^^^ ^^o has charge of the wards ■ of the Government. Why. he deserves to be hooted and hissed, and driven out of ■ the country. (Loud cheers.) I charge further, that the Gommiaaioner had c Mkncvledge of the Indmn upHeing, that he knew the Indians of the north were ■ discontented. In August last, when Big Bear had a pow-wow at Duck Lake, he I siud he would make the people of Canada suffer through the settlers of this conn- l^.and make the settlers suffer through their children. What did that mean » ■ That they would commence a war of extermination; that they would strike at ■ the white people through the chil-iron and make them feel the power of the Indian. ■ And why ? Because I THE TREATY OBIJQATIONS HAD NOT BEEN CARRIED OUT. I I charge that Hayter Reed knew about this at that time or soon after ; he knew I that that statement was made, and that can be proved on oath. Notwithstanding ■the Indian Commissioner comes down and reads a number of letters from Mr. ■Quinn, Mr. Gowanlock. and others, I can prove to you by letters that were wnt ■down on August 8th, when Mr. Reed came ; on the 12th when he held a meeting • ■on the 14th when roundmaker and some of the other Indians were present • ob ■the 21st and 25th, September, 3, 5, 7, 24, 25 October, 6. 9, 17, 25, 27, 30 November, ■December, January, February, March. In the month of December, Supt. Gagnon, ■Major Crozier, Sergeant Keenan, Inspector Deacon, and other members of the N I W. M. P. continually warned the Government of an uprising ; still the Indian Com- ■missionei comes down and says :—" Everything is quiet, there is no danger." I ■•ay, that if the Indian agents were not in a position then to teU what was I THE STATE OF THE INDUN MIND I at that time, then they were unfit for the position they held ; and a stronger argu- jment that the Chief of the Department was not fitted for his post, I do not want ltban\hat he allowed his Indian agents to persuade him that everything was peace- lable and quiet while the whole thing was a seething volcano, ready to burst forth jat any moment, and Mr. Dewdney was the only innocent man in the country. iThat shows that things in thi Indian Department are rotten to the core, and UJtouU be weeded out (Hear, hear.) Had he exercised his proper functions and Idone what was expected of him. the Govemmfint wnnlrl ha^r^ >«.^r. i^A a v. |cause of the gravity of the situation, to deal with the matter, and thus have avert- ed this great rebellion. He failed to do that, and if the Government care anything i «tallf which : tzi I th« QoT- lan whose life in him Ihe wards ven out of «r had c )rth were Lake, he bhia covn- ht mean ? strike at lie Indian- he knew [standing rom Mr. rere sent meeting- )sent; on ovemher> Gagnon, fthe N. an Com- iger." I fer argu- ot want uspeace- rst forth country. >r0, and )na and «t all for the feelings of the people of this country they will sweep away thai I which is I BOTTEN AND DESPICABLI ■ *nd place 01% }wm^ man, who will ftdfU his duties, in iha potition of Litut.-Ooyer' | nor. (Cheers.) I have shown you that he had neglected his duties - tamable. In addition to the $8,000,000 or $9,000,000 it wiJl cost the Government, he has raised a bitter feeling that will not be eradicated for gonoiationa ; lu- iia» taught the Indina to fight against the Government ; /w }ui.s prostituted both ponition »nd power. The Winnipeg' Times, speaking of Mr. Dowdnoy, once said : For i^^e fvrst time in the history of the British nation tfui reprefientative of the Queen is known to the savage as a liar. I say that in addition to the cost he hu^i incurred. he hoii cast a reproach and an odium upon public officials for whom we should have respect. Throughout the Territories, where he should receive the respect due to a representative of Her Majesty the Queen, lie is held in tlie supremeM contempt, and in some places v^here he goes he i.s met with aimoHt open insult. Sliould tliore bo anything more in the way of emolument coming to Mr. Dewdney, /or tite salce of ihi future peace and prosperity of the country let them give it to him out of tJu public cJiest, and rid the North- West Territories of him. (Loud and prolonged cheers.)" That speech was delivered by a gentleman residing in the territory, having a personal acquaintance with the facts, and uttered with all the responsibility attached to the representative position which he occupied as a member o^ Ithe North-West Council. In the face of the bold charges |formulated and proved by Mr. Jackson, how can the Dominion Govern meut claim, with any regard for decency, Ithat their *' cruel and calous neglect" had not tended towards dissatisfaction and rebellion in the North-West Terri- tories ?