--episcopalpo lehman layman. drygoods, blankets, drygoods, drygoods. these are all people who represent industries that .enefit from indian confinement some of them are involved in railroads. these are all people who are wealthy philanthropists, many of them. directw of them had any experience working with tribal communities. all of them stand to benefit personally, in one way or another, from a continuing process of reservations and confinement. does that make sense? these men, involved in drygoods, transportation, they held a driving philosophy. philanthropist understood the best interest of the indian people, better than indians themselves. they worked to monitor the appropriations and rations purchased, to disperse and supplies, but they also push their own reform agenda which caused tension with parker. it was characterized by christian, coercive character. the key feature of william welsh was that he wanted to continue to dispossess indians of their land. it wanted to hold them on increasingly smaller reservations and undermine their sovereignty.