Show THE COLORADO UTES some booi gooi reasons why timpy should not be removed Remove 1 the following foll wing in antagonism to the removal of alie southern colorado utes to utah appears in the editorial of new york tribune somewhat less than two year ago congress directed the appointment of a commissioner to treat with the ute indians of colorado for their removal from the reservation TO another one in utah the lands chev now occupy are contained within a strip of country lying along the la plata liver miles long by fifteen miles wide they were placed there in 1880 in accordance with a treaty which promised them numerous advantages scarcely any of which have been received with these poor wretches as with their race generally our policy has been to give them just what they ought not to have and to withhold those things that would do them real and lasting good they have had plenty of beef blankets and ponies all of which chev should have been compelled to work for but no effort worth the name has been made despite conr solemn engagement to educate them or to place them on their own farma and to promote industries and thrifty among the tribe chev had not got well settled upon their colorado reservation before alie white people around them began to agitate their removal the indians under the existing conditions are always a nuisance to the white people because they are idle shiftless and hence they are inevitably more or less dangerous since they keep lands to waste and separate civilized communities muni ties that need to be connected and interfere greatly with all schemes of development THE KED MAV these objections bear with more than unusual force against the southern utes in their long and narrow reservation and finally after eight years of effort addressed to the authorities at dnton daring which time the indians were subjected to all the harrass ments short of actual outrage that a people among whom they were utterly unwelcome could invent three commissioners ners went out to see them and returned four months later with an agreement executed by the indians consenting to go to utah this agreement congress is now asked to ratify if it does it will approve bribery as a means of inducing the ute chief to sign it will announce the continuance of the deplorable policy of isolation and it will deal a serious blow to the new and noble plans odthe administration for alie improvement of the red race it was bad policy to place alie indians where chev now are and that alie shape of their reservation involves real hardships to the people around it it would be fai worse to send them to butali however as the exchange of land is an unfair one TUB INDIANS NERD EDUCATION the civilizing process now going on with good results would be postponed and an additional impetus would be to moreover and no public good is served by relieving one community of a nuisance merely to inflict it on another the san juan county in utah is filling up with settlers very rapidly whose rights are rudely invaded by that provision of the ute agreement which gives the indian the privilege of hunting beyond their reservation utah has already a large indians population to sustain and it is not right that a rich powerful state which has driven from its borders every of its original inhabitants except this little band of utes should not force them upon a weak territory which has already all that sort of burden it should be asked to bear outweighing these objections however is a fact that this ute agreement perpetuates a bad system the reason the colorado people do not wish the indians among them will apply as well to any other settlers they sav that the indians are worthless vagabonds lazy dirty thievish and ignorant but what permanent good comes of shifting a lot of worthless vagabonds hither and yon they arc equably undesirable they go so soon as the white come and the whites have now settled everywhere ever where there is no longer any cronier beyond to banish the savages to continue the policy of shoving them off here and there off yonder every time alio country around them becomes a little thickly settled maintaining them all the while in ignorance and idleness is a policy as extravagant trava gant and foolish as it is cruel and unworthy if congress will but have courage to resist the appeals of ness the president will substitute another policy under which all the reservations ions will be thrown open all the public lands released to settlement and the indians redeemed from barbarism to a condition in which they will be laborers and citizens then the utes will help and not hinder colorado |