| Show indian major randlett in charge of the indian reservations m utah has long had a scheme which he has boight to mature with commendable love for his deaky wards he has contended that they should not only be given land in severally ant they ought to be firmly established on their allotted homesteads before placed in com with their superior neighbors the whites and the secretary of the interior hoke smith adema to have become thoroughly converted to that plan allotments should be made lung before reservations are opened the secretary says in his report and each indian settled upon his homestead and become Belf supporting before citizenship is upon mentioned in this connection that according to the present law an indian becomes citizen upon receiving his allotment the plan as it is now called is being commented on anite wildly by the press of the country the st lunia globe democrat believed it a h mistake to thus care for the luciaus and says truly the task of trying to civilize them by treating them as wards and pension era having a legitimate claim upon the treasury for a living has been going on now for a lifetime and is known to be a practical failure there has been no progress worth mentioning except under compulsion the vast sums of money appropriated for their benefit have been virtually squandered they remain as lazy and shiftless bloodthirsty and depraved aa they were at the and they will never be otherwise until they are given to understand that they work or starve there is DO denying tho fact that reservation life has a vicious tendency on the indians and we do not believe that major or any other agent with government officials and public money at bis buck cau make of the indians self supporting citizens after hn hag spent five or ten years in establishing them on farma to the exclusion of white settlers from the benefits of the reservation landa the indians will still be unable to cope with the whites they will not be advanced as far as the indianola indians who have gone to work alone with only a lit tie missionary help and no public money we believe the reservations should be opened as the law provides and not be delayed for tho working out of imaginary whims on the part of government officials if the reservations are not abou declared open it would be a good thing for congress to inquire the reason why |
