Show the indian question I 1 practically the whole question as to the treatment of the indians is not one of but of political economy the problem should be studied not in the rose colored atmosphere of sentiment but in the clear cold light of science and statesmanship and looked at in that light it is 13 evident that tiie the murder of gen canby and dr thomas was the legitimate result of the miserable no polie policy y which lias has always characterized our d dealings eail ns n s with t tile lie lle indians bouril no uniform R principle rin ciple haseker has ever been consistently applied to our indian relations the government has always played fast and loose with them alternately petting and praying upon poll them now jiow caressing and now cursing them at one time treating them as is au superior perlor beings and at another b hunting g them down as wild beasts to out outwit w it them in barg bargains aln ain 3 to rob them of supplies supplicate to steal their lands to meet their confidence with treachery and deal with them as tho though 1 ugh they llad had no rights white men were bound to respect have been the only points in our indian policy persistently adhered to from the first the indian has naturally come to look on the government with distrust and the white man as ane an enemy and the superior skill and arts of bf an adversary who exasperated him beyond endurance by treachery fraud and robbery and then tilen called in tile the soldiery to shoot t down the savage savage they pley had excited to violence left the indian at it their mercy our whole treatment of the indians has been a disgraceful graue ful fui blunder when not a erime crime we have dealt ill in modoc morality 1 from rom the outset and the tragedy 1 bea bel beds neds is repayment in our own bad com eom coin coln even allowing that our indian policy has been uniformly wise and consistently kind tile the order of general sherman would be equally inhuman and unjust A half laif dozen savages at the most demoralized by contact with the meanest whites and excited by sense of wrong and suspicion of still greater kill two eminent men in it mortally wounding one they looked bool ed upon as its a foe and robber thereupon the commanding general of or a great nation issues orders for tile tilo extermination of tile the whole tribe and the president approves of his act are we living iii in the tho t he nineteenth century r Is tl the ie p panic an 10 of the moment to efface r nce nee all ideas 0 of fj justice justlee ustice and turn declared intentions of the tho government topsy have the wo io docs does taken possession of IN washing ashing tt ton and seized upon all the tho departments when a burglary or murder is committed in new york do we set sot fire to the ward wara in which the thief resides or liang the whole family to which the homicide belongs and ana why should not indians be treated like human beings why should we disgrace ourselves and dishonor the nation and outrage dacre the moral sentiment of the civilized world by punishing th the e innocent iii lii for fon the deeds of the guilty shall wo we be savages because the have acted badly they have havo only bettered our instructions the whole indian bureau is a gigantic swindle almost every man who has ever had anything to do with the indian dep department has made himself rich every indian contract has been a wholesale steal every treaty with the northern and ana western tribes has been at their expense they had good reason for lookin looking on the white man as the indians indiana devil and ana even in this instance while carrying on negotiations I 1 d general norai noral canby had completely surrounded the tribe and was slowly contracting his lines the indians saw perfidy which excited perfidy in them but their cowardly anT anz and treacherous murders do not justify the government vern ment in yielding to a paroxysm of revenge which dooms the innocent and guilty alike to one common destruction the tile sober thought of of the tiie country will not sustain general sher mans decree it demands justice justlee but not sacrifice the day for tio modoc morality hns has gone by the arh tragedy edy at the lava beds should lead the government to review and i revise its whole policy of dealing with our indian population how is it that brigham Brig llam liam young planted a colony of half educated whites in the midst of hostile indian tribes and por for or t twenty e n y fi nive five ve years had bad no trouble i with an any y of them worth speaking of or A and d here today to day he be proposes to establish a new colony ili in the midst of indians our settlers can live with only by putting to death Ts the example of f william penn genii who kept the tile whole colony of pennsylvania in irl pyo profound found peace foros fords for eighty years by his lis indian policy utterly wasted on tile the authorities at washington Is our states mansh S p fco rudimental rudiment aiana alana and imbecile that it cannot deal deai with the tho few indians lai Ili scattered along our frontiers without perpetual broils and blood sheds allow that the indians must eventually give way before the tile white race grant gnant that they are incapable of a high stame state of civilization and must disappear in it time it does doea nott follow that we should disgrace ourselves by treating them like brutes perhaps were the tile government to deal with them like ilke human beings holding them individually amenable to the laws and responsible por for or their conduct like other citizens and punishing every crime ag against min 4 the their r persons and a lid iid property by whomever committed we should have fewer indian depredations to complain of and less occasion to imitate the tile eth ethics lesof of the noble savage was captain jaek jack the tile only one who was acting in bad faith falth to the careful observer it appears that the soldiers were slowly advancing 3 their lines and feeling I 1 their way t to 0 the indian stronghold while the tile peace commissioners were talking of an amicable settlement of affairs seeing this and suspecting that they tiley were foully dealt with the red men sought to kill the tiie lead leai ers erb of their foes hoping to gainal gain advantage or escape by the tile consequent confusion they made the sad mistake ofala of slaying ying r their best 19 t friend they tt roused aroused also the tiie worst spirit of our people no excuse will bo be listened to when the hour of reprisal comes it is curious eunous to note that at the tiie very adry hour wilen when the tile extermination of the is proposed brigham young 1 is making his home among the apaches tile tilo bravest bloodiest and most tr treacherous eachor ous of tile warriors f arizona he ho has lias no fears for bissi his scalp alp aap ili in the tiie twenty six years the mormons cormons have livoi lavoil in utah they llave have bad no trouble with the indians our people deride derido their civilization but their treatment of the red men was humane and on enlightened it might not be amiss to pluck a leaf from their management for our own guidance in border troubles oiher ther religionists claim that they tiley cannot live in in peace with the indians the mor mons have shown that they know how to do it mew yew york daily Gr graphic alMic |