| Show I 1 AN INDIAN WAR A AN indian war is is a part odthe of tilo tile reg mcg ular sensational newspaper talk every spring and summer tile the miserable modoc bu business bushless culminating in the late treacherous in murders u r and the escape of pheband the band into the tile mountains this kind of talk just now it is presumed that an in extensive war will result with the northwestern north narth western tribes and bands from this modoc difficulty all the tile indians in that region appear to know of and understand uie ule matter kansas papers represent cepro ent that the tile ara Arapaho P aldoes cs and ud are preparing for a lighting fighting ca campaign M the old chiefs who have visited washington advise peace but bu the tile young men are restive and spoiling 10 for a fight being bajer eager to go on tho the war path jn n discordant accordance with tho the proverb oid old men for counsel and young men for wan war yar tar tho the government I 1 is a reinforcing the tile forts and the papers think there is I 1 is every evory r prospect of indian trouble troubie on the frontier this spring which may or may not bo be morely merely sirl siri singing 0 lilg the old annual son song 9 As pr president resident grant is pr credited edited with having determined on the extermination of the as an act of of justice and not of revenge it may ay be fairly concluded that a len ien lengthy t thy indian war in oregon and parts adjacent a d is very likely but the modoc extermination even will not igo on without protest atter alter the news of the tho canby cauby massacre was received receive d lil ii vasi basl washington a meeting i was held in the congregational Congregation a 1 church churell iii hi that city for the purpose upholding of the indian policy of president grant at which general howard hoard spoke of his experience with whites and indians in florida arizona and a u d new mexico he believed that the indians could be saved from extermination only b by 37 placing them under the law for protection and punishment the same as the whlter whiter and the blacks mr smith late agent in minnesota 3 strongly advocated a fair trial of bt the present humane policy arguing that the indian ha had been heretofore treated with cruelty and injustice by g government overn ment and people alike that the agents and employed emp loyes sent among them have never until now been representatives of benevolence or christianity and that never till now have the tile promises sanctified by treaty been kept or t the e money voted by congress applied P e I 1 honestly to their benefit commissioner smith gave a glowing picture of the indians on his 0 own agency ency eney I 1 reclaimed in a short time al by y tr truth uth and justice from the war to the cow path and raising the thatch on a comfortable cottage in J lieu eu of lifting the hair of the settler he gave a brief statement of the cause of the modoc band being removed from a genial fruitful country to a bleak and arld barren mountain reservation and the pittance of 1 I 00 promised them discoverable only by ly the vou vouch chers filed in the tho treasury department to show the pretended manner of its disbursement rederick frederick r 1 douglas attributed the florida war to the determination of the georgia slave owners to break up at any sacrifice of blood treasure and humanity the refuge and find safe asylum which the tiie negro slave ft found aind cind among the india indians ns theist the gist of the arguments is represented to be that the modoc massacre mass acm was W als ILS the natural outcome of I 1 ing ng policy and prevailing treatment of the indian irom from the settlement of the colonies to the present time and that in giving up captain catain jack and his band to the popular vengeance as they are willing willin to do the tho christian people of the country live llave the right to insist that the cry try for blood shall not be permitted to fellmy follow those rho aho vho are now unoffending anding and whom the prel dent general howard and the tha peace commis commissioners are endeavor ing to put to a better use ett ing them up as targets for the soldier and the settler I 1 C |
