Show I THE INDIANS CARL S HURZ has also come out with a i good word for the Indians who in his opinion have been driven into the antagonistic antago-nistic position which they now occupy Mr ScnuRz says If Dr McGiLLicunnr who was the Indian agent at Pins Ridge while I was in the interior department wara therj now I dont think this trouble would have been precipitated He had the confidence of theIndiaas Ho treated them honestly and humanely He gave them what was theirs and saw that they always got justice and fair dealing Little acts of kindness invited the Indians confidence They looked up to DrMcGiLLicuDor believed in L him and were willing to listen and hear his advice Nobody who has kept track of this Indian trouble and has the courage to b3 honest will say that the aborigines were at fault at the outset however vicious they may have become latterly They were starved Land L-and nagged into the position which they occupy They were made mad that same sort of excuse might be found for shooting them down The whole affair has the appearance of a conspiracy to got rid of the Indians and it begins to look as if the conspiracy would be u successful in the highest degree Those of the poor fellows who escape the bullets of the soldiers and cowboys will be dismounted dismount-ed and disarmed and an Indian without hi Sand gun S-and his pony is as useless as a cigar sign If in the great hereafter nations shall be judged by the rules which are popularly pop-ularly supposed to be applied to individuals I individu-als it will be a fearful reckoning which the United States will have to make on account of their treatment of the original inhabitants 1 inhabi-tants of this continent |