Show t BRIGHAM YOUNG ii SALT LAKE CITY may bray 8 1873 editor of the herald yesterday your correspondent in compan company y with colonel caine of the salt lake daily herald called on president young at his residence on account of the abrupt treatment shown to several newspaper men who have lately called to see and converse with president young we were considerably agitated and somewhat confused but upon entering the presidents office and arid seeing him seated in an easy arm chair dressed in an a stilt suit of black cloth cioth and looking the picture of ease comfort and comp complacency acenoy our self possession came back and soon wo we felt natural and quite at home homa As we were presented to the president memary carried ua us baek back over the tile past twenty five years arld and the picture of this man leading a little band of men women and arid children over the deserts and arid mountains enduring and sundering suffering all ail the privations and perils known in the category of human exposure and dire necessity simply to escape from the persecutions and opples of the tile christians came vividly I 1 y before us though president young is in lii his liis s seventy second year yet ago age sits lightly and his body as well as his mind seems to ti bave have succumbed not in the slightest degree to iron strength of time and ono one would never guess his age from his appearance at more than fifty five years neither his hair nor his beard are gray no nor i his face wrinkled and yet from the liard ilard hardships ships he has endured d the exposure and privations lie has suffered one would woul be led to believe him decrepit decre deere pid and anile we were received courteously and seated when your correspondent opened tho subject of his visit by asking president young his opinion of flie the indian imbroglio which seems to agitate the country at pro sent seat president young replied that for the greater part of his life he had llad seen and had experience with the indians and that when he settled in utah in 47 with only one hundred and forty souls the country for thousands of miles around was infested by hostile indians bub but by honorable treatment and the avoidance of dishonesty and dl dessem assern blan bian blancehe celie celle had acquired their friendship shi and kept it W the e indian nature he said was formed by traditions and teachings just as we the whites have been educated and reared to our mode of h living iving our beliefs i and practices so had the indian been reared in his present channel of eife thought and action and it had been his experience tut when an intelligent idea of the dlf dIf merence difference between tho the life and marinero mariners ma of the two races was presented to the indians they invariably listened attentively and arid wished to become as their white brothers were that the indian from education had been taught taugh t to regard the whites as their worst enemy treacherous deceitful and dishonest and that when once oneo convinced vinc edof of the fallacy of their belief by honorable arid and kind treatment at the hands of the whites and establishment of friendship they abandoned their malignant purposes became friends kept the bond sacredly until the rapacious practices of their white allies proved dangerous and threatened their rights when they were forced to break their compact in self def defenso defense emse that had the tilo government been more careful in the 0 selection ofin of indian agents and instead of appointing unprincipled favorites political demagogues men who accepted the appointment for the perquisites antl anil entered upon their duties with the intention of accumulating a fortune by the tho most unscrupulous and dishonest means and nefarious practices rac there never would have deen been any trouble with the red men but these practices have been carried on and winked at by the government ever since there h has w been any connection between the two races and it is questionable whether friendship can ever be established between the two races and a gene ral war may ensue owing to the relative positions occupied by the whites arld and the led men it was the duty of the tho former to retrieve the latter from their miserable condition and exalt them to the standard of intelligence of he 0 iv whites hItes hitos true this has been t the 11 cry and continued expression of the government but it has been only a deception strange that the veople people of the country should so long bo 0 hoodwinked into the belief that the agents were making their money by stealing from the indian when in reality it was the treasury rV the very pockets of the people that weme were we re being filched by thele these mens cupidity Se reporter porter president young is thero there not a danger dauger to your people who are aro about to establish themselves in arizona may not the tire indians in im this wild frenzy which seems to be spreading over the west reach that loca locality 1 I ty and prove disastrous to your project brigham young the indians the apaches and other tribes in that locality sent us word to come and the tile chief said to tell brigha Brig llam liam in that wo we want them to give us is I 1 nothing but that if he has work to do we will work for him and earn what we can these indians have long been acquainted with us and we nave have spared no effort to civilize them and in a great measure we have been successful for some years past these indians have maintained themselves have adopted agricultural pursuits raise corn and other grain vegetables grow sheep and are in in a state far in advance of indians in general they will remain our friends as long as we prove true to them and violate none of the principles of honor and honesty which wo we have inculcated and lead them to believe we possess in a high degree the innate sense of honor in the indian is of the highest order and it only re requires mures to come in contact with its like ilke like ilke iii ili in others to be brought out and faithfully practiced but the moment it airov proves es a delusion and they see that it is only an assumption and does not in reality exist in the whites then they are angered and become re fe vengeful revengeful their wild nature asserts itself and the fear of further treachery drives driy q them to rashness the tho cannot be excused but their action netlon is attended by pal hating rating circumstances they have lave for so long a time been treated with contumely robbed and reduced to starvation by those who wiio professed friendship and goodwill which when once proved false only assumed for me mercenary reentry purpose their faith was destroyed and they did just what they tiley anticipated was being endeavored to be practiced on them thern by the commissioners themselves they the mo alo docs does finding the whites false for so long a time reasoned in their darkened and illogical way that the destroy theland the mand cor consequently ns u n ti y made mado up their minds to figat night fight and die like men it may be too late and useless yet we should use every endeavor to make peace with them their position is strong and irwill cost the government thousands of lives to accomplish their destruction while their action and heroic conduct conduct may may excite the passions of other tribes and a general war wat ensue which must necessarily as in the past prove disastrous to the country the th e we west st from the missouri river elver to the pacific coast is in such a condition that an indian war would retard settlement and commerce destroy capital and set the tile country back twenty years and arid this alone would bo be a great din disaster uter and prove tho the utter foolishness of bringing on an indian war Itis it is asad a sad picture to contemplate and I 1 sincerely trust thac thada a perm permanent nent peace may yet be obtained we are in the tiie wrong and fighting to maintain it I 1 would rather work to support two persons than hunt to support one and when this is shown to the indians they will see isee it and have sense enough to practice it reporter orter president young are you going to remove to arizona zonay zonal president young youny 11 no yo sir J but I 1 shall take an active part 14 in the tilo successful establishment of our people peopled poo peo plen pien an that country 1 I ha have 61 labored abord faithfully for oon years yeara and have havo ac acquired a comfortable home and shall endeavor to en enjoy i oy it for the tile remainder of my days my y future action is substantially as telegraphed to the new york some somo time a ago 0 11 thanking president young for his kindness and courtesy we bade him good day president young is one of the most successful men of tho the age and certainly possesses ability of the h highest g h est derand or order dorand and while vituperation tio n and condemnation may bo be heaped upon him yet will vilt his success prove a living monument of immortality when his calmun calum nia a tors are re laid in the cold carthand eart earth hand and no more mention of them ever bo be made to express tilo the thanks of the jyerald to col caine of the salt lake daily herald for his kindness it has seldom leen teen been our pleasure to meet a more inte into intelligent igent agent I 1 accomplished and agreeable gentleman some day we hope to see him in omaha and reciprocate the courteous consideration we e have received atliss at his hands LANCASTER omalia herald |