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Show TILE INDIAN POLICY. Tin- Itt-ttTt a I ion 1'luii I'ro-uuiiuecil I'ro-uuiiuecil a I-ail urc. ri.n m t:snos vm lJM Mill A NN" :!. OOU fur a " a Iirt liooC. Hi:i:i-::: City, Ftah, Aug. j '. Silt !.: Hera'-': I rnd.-r-tan-lin-; that it is the deter-mhvd deter-mhvd j.!iev of iho Indian d.-part-u , n: i.. o! , -.- .-il the 1't.s. Pah-van-t..-:.:d !..!.-d. -of Ftah !...; t..e ' V'V Clll" iJe!:'.-. if th'eV imi-t." I -.-k'v.-ur i.s.i . wm!- I .-all the all. ntion of l u- dep .rtm.-nt and of t':e t iinkim: men of the country La tiie Ibllowii.-j. n tactions, iuMions, -ii-"o-tirin- and f.M-ts relative to Indian In-dian alii.ii-. in neral and more es-pc-iallv in Ft ib. The d.-si-u- of the gove'i-n'mciil Iowa nls the ai-ongines arc uii.jiieslionably liumane, and no one will piesume "that there can bo auv occa.-ion or desire on tiie part of CliVislianitv to annihilate or exterminate extermi-nate the Indian as an individual, but to eliminate those traits of character which di-tineiui-b him fi'e.m the ordinary ordi-nary Ciri-tian, and to assimilate and place him upon the road of pii-erres-siou and enterprise with his fellow- man, a.- has been so humanely and eomiuenilably cndeavorenl to bo -iie-coinplis'iii-il with the Americo-Afru-an race. The great question is, what )Kiliev will most spe-eelily ami eilect-nally eilect-nally aeeomplish this oljecf.' Will exclusion from civili:ition have a tendency ten-dency to do it.' Ifa man wislusto extinguish ex-tinguish a fire will he huddle the brands together, and pile up the fuel and exclude ex-clude (he water'.' If we wish to perpetuate per-petuate Iho peculiar traits of the Indian In-dian character, can anyone possibly .-suggest a better method than lo remove re-move the Indian from the immediate inlluenee of civilization, assemble all his kind, give him a scope of country sullicienlly large and of that character charac-ter suitable to the unlimited exer-, exer-, eise of his predilections? Has not this i-oliey been repoatid'y tried and as repeatedly proved a failure? Has not the government been engaged lor years in establishing Indians upon reservations and endeavoring lo civilize civil-ize them by enormous expenditures of" means; and been as many years engaged en-gaged in blot uly, disastrous and expensive ex-pensive Indian wars? Is there to-day to-day one exclusive reservation that is a success? Is there not at the present pres-ent lime greaterdissatisfactiun among the Indians, and more imminent indications in-dications of a general and combined outbreak than at any previous time? Arc not the reports from all -juarlers, where Indians are assembled in numbers num-bers worthy of note, confirmatory of this, and that thedissatislaction is the result of the reservation and distribution distribu-tion policy? Is not the Indian a human hu-man being, endowed with the inalienable inalien-able right to lily, liberty, and the pursuit pur-suit of happiness? Are not the haunts of his forctathors, the graves of his dead, and the lives and welfare of his wife and children as dear to him as are similar relations to the white man? Is not the day of involuntary servitude, servi-tude, except for crime, past in this wasted land of freedom and equal rights ? Has life Indian perpetrated a crime by allowing himself to be involiintarilv born upon the unclaimed un-claimed aiid unexplored wilds of America? Is it a crime for him to desire to remain and make the bestbf it, sharing it uncomplainingly with the voluntary intruder? Does not the same generous and magnanimous feeling which burst the chains of slavery in the South, demand that the Indian be allowed, at least, an equal chance with the liberated slave ? Upon Up-on what fundamental principle does a wise and humane government base the right tn coerce an Indian to abandon aban-don tiie soil of his nativity ? Have the Indians of Utah Territory any ratified .treat stipulations by which they concede con-cede tho right to their native soil ? : None. Has Congress officially de-j de-j clareel and set rpart the so-called ! Uintuh Ke-servation as :i permanent and perpetual home for the Indian? No. Has Congress or the Department at any time made more than annual appropriations liable to be discontinued discontin-ued at any date? Xo. Does the agent have the remotest idea of when he may be dismissal. or of the amount he will have to distribute next vear,or whether the agency may not be discontinued dis-continued within six months? Emphatically, Em-phatically, no. To him all is uncertainly. uncer-tainly. And this uncertainty pervades per-vades his entire Hock. The Indian has unavoidably learned the oft-repealed "May be so" with the evasive circumflex so natural to a dubious expression. ex-pression. The Indian is honest in his iloubt : his sail experience has forced it upon him. Some years ago he was made jubilant over the Spanish Fork rest-ration. He expected to grow rich there and leave a home and perpetuity perpet-uity to his children. But, no a better bet-ter place was found for him in Straw-hern Straw-hern Valley. A friend of the wire-workers wire-workers owned a saw-mill there, and would sell it for $30,090, and did so. But there was no market for lumber, and the Indian v.as not successful as a lumberman. The mill was abandoned aban-doned and has rotted down. The Indian In-dian was taken to Duchcinc lii,r, wliere he was lo have a permanent home; S-'XLOOO was expended in erecting a building of eottonwood logs, liixlS feet in the clear with a dirt roof. The building is standing vet, and is a fair representation of what can be accomplished with -130,090 on a reservation. Here the Indian became disgusted and discharged dis-charged his agent. Another similar appropriation established the '"hub," around whieh the Indian was to revolve, re-volve, at Pock Creek .twenty miles further east. Here a log house and blacksmith's shop were erected, and a few squashes produced, and the Indian In-dian became so infatuated with his .sijU;L-bs1tee'r.-.-.thathedigg1drille-pils. and erected fortifications, expecting to live and die by his squash patch. But a new era dawned for him and he was destined to raise no more squashes squash-es at Kock Creek. A new El Dorado was discoveml sixty-five mires farther east, and to this place (the present site of the agency I, the Indian plodded plod-ded his weary way with the qiiizical expression, " where next '.' " Lest my comniuuicalion should prove too encroaching for yonr columns, col-umns, I will leave the record of the present site of the agency and the olivet of di-tributious Ibr next date. K VMIU.EK. |