Show GEN CROOK ON THE INDIAN QUESTION A reporter of alin cw york has interviewed general crook in re illion to the indian question and received aiom him which in the generals familiarity tin long experience in do ailing with alic wadei ara val nalle to alio country though no grait friend to lie Indi ini ho it ft disposed to treat them fairly and is too inucci a collier to endorse alio eiert cution entertained toward them ly people general crook thinks eliat lie recent bloody an air wa wat t from the inocent they decided to die rather than bo sent liok to alio reservation it waa only anid le what nil alio are with alie indian character would have expected after alio biad decided not to return there wax not military forca in alio department to linao taken them bick general crook thinks eliat kind of desperate bravery i not peculiar to alie aliey annc but tho indian nature assuming aliu view to bo correct it ia clearly lopuh tribes into state of de gemeril Ge crook thinks alic sioux would unquestionably leavo acted liko the under similar circum and wo can venturo ft step furt lier and ay it u our belief eliat abnot any of indians would liuio done M etli all their barbarity and an tom fitch puts it to civilization alio red men home instincts of humanity in common alio race and kiive u fair understanding der standing constitute good and bal all its to us ies uninviting characteristics te alio roaming alio in diali it liis biome rest ii death in lingering torments to him and to confine him to alio prescribed limits of a ro and subject him to alie tender mercies of thieving lying agents alio liim alie scapegoat s for all shortcomings aind bivs is in of course alo sioux would leave acted as did and like bliem would have received quietus after most approved civilized fashion alic up the situation time there Ls another point in tho interview which dc erven attention the power ottlie indians and bonfi deuce ill ii greatly in creased by alio of loading rifles alio time when it could lift said eliat one soldier wai equal to several indians lia lias s bonu bv alio revor sto is now alio truth the problem has changed within alio llio lait tivo or inix years and it is to go blindly on in alio old methods |