Show TIIE THE TREATMENT OF THE RED MAN W r b have we recel received ved a ab pamphlet p thil this et containing conw the speech of hon 8 g ben font h delegate from idahoan idaho in the house of representatives on the aa pit the gentlemen dav favors ors the thle bill will for th the a t transfer rans bei fei af pf of the indian bureau bure nure a U to the war D department part ment in the tho counse course of his hs remarks he gives many particulars of fraud on the patt part of agents and the shameful indignities endured by the red skins lee he jee also presents evidence of the evil effects of alv giving ipg the nomination of agents to certain re denominations he d de e n ounces the practice aa unconstitutional for instead of allow allowing Dg church authorities boname to name and select the agents all public officers should ace aee according to the constitution be nominated by the president and al appointed by him aeby seby by and with the consent of the sen ben ate under the present men 11 ar are 0 selected who know bothme ing of the indian character nor of frontier life and mr fenn maintains that the bigotry intolerance and sectarian bias blas of such agents have been the cause of a great many outbreaks and of driving e peaceful indians into implacable hostility he gives great credit to themo thebo man Cat catholic holic hoJic missionaries who ho baye haye accomplished much lood good good among the savages but shows that thai their efforts have in many instances been peen annulled through methodist and presbyterian antagonism and the villainy of denominational agents the thie nez perce force war ho lays to the charge lof agent 1 B monteith and supports the ther accusation by very strong evidence mr fenn a advises the abolition of the reservation system and the abrogation of tribal authority the extension le of the laws to indians in common comm on with the whites and the encouragement of the for former merto to be come citizens and owners of the soil boll under the provisions of the homestead act hesayo wie fie says your our system of farming out the indian agencies to different religious denominations in order to bring the indians under christianizing L influences aa as a means ri eans of civilization ati liza ilza tion has only resulted in de populating r reservations and pro makao isa IN INA Va lao lag kAo A willie your religious agents aud aua ies CA ws 1 teachers have plundered the indians plunder plundered ell eil the government and produced naught but discord and disorganization by attempting to force their peculiar reli rell religious glou faith upon savages and barbarous or partly civilized people but the idaho delegate does doeg ilot liot wish to ignore the influence af religion upon the savages esi esp nor to banish the church or orthe the schoolhouse from their midst one clause of the bill he supports provi provides des Oes I 1 see sec bee see 9 that it is hereby i vided aided thal thai all religious reli gibus denominations shall enjoy a free and equal right to elect eject and maintain church and school buildings on any auy and all indian reservations reservation sf and shall not bo molested in their religious philanthropic and efforts to advance the indians iu in moral religious or literary culture but shall equally and alike be perfectly free and encouraged cou raged inthe in the prosecution of their civilizing and educational efforts this he considers will remedy one of the greatest ra test teat evils attend attending the present system under which he SAYS most of the denominational authorities prompted by WV their greed and love of power have havo striven to ta secure the control of as many agencies as possible and cliber tools have often de populated the reservations by their endeavors to coerce coerce the untutored indians to adopt the faith of the denomination in charge this is a very bad condition of indian affairs and a radical change in the policy of the government is considered ne necessary by the best beat minds in the country brt but will the remedy proposed the turning over of the indian bureau to th tho the P war Var department be any guara guaranty ay that the evils complained of will bo remo veu veti of them shem would be no doubt the provision taking away denominational control of the agencies is calculated one oue good thing and the arrangement giving all religious bodies equal opportunities for fon missionary n f ilu tiu fc ihl work Is excellent but are there no casa case of fraud in connection with f he army y A are y 0 t hero there no belknap Belk beik napa I 1 in n thae the war ar D department e p a r ameni Is 18 peculation confined to the indian bu reau and when steal ipg log are un id covered and light la is thrown upon official darkness ia Is any difference made in the coat of whitewash that la 13 brushed ovet over the doings of mill rain tary and those of elvil civil mr fenn makes one statement in support of his position that is i singularly incorrect he saye theary Th etry otry chavit la Is better to feed than fight the indians has produced its legitimate fruits of murder and devastation Is the there reany any evidente evidence in favor of this statement we think not the st cry has been the result of experience per peri fence lence ence in this territory the feeding policy has been demonstrated to be better and cheaper cheape than the fighting method and murder and devastation are not its legitimate fruits but the natural consequence of agreeing to feed and failing of making contracts acts acta and breaking them of promis promising liao ilag certain things in payment for ian iau landser ds et as us a reward for certain concessions and then violat violating nig the promises and thus cheating instead bf offee feed fl ing the lildia indiana ns mr eonni shows lne the truth of this ana disproves his hla own proposition through all his relations of facts it ia is plainly portrayed that the indian troubles which have amen arisen la in his territory and the country adjoining have been the result of starving aad si swindling instead of feeding the tho awards wards of the uhe government me n t if fhe flae agreements and treaties made with the reds had been honorably fulfilled if the rascally agents who have grown rich on their robbery of the savages had chad been adequately punished hed hod for their crimes if as much care had be been en taken to keep keen faith with ble bbb he indians u as to pursue and punish them when hen driven into hostility bosti hosti liti by bi repeated injuries the tho indian problem would not offer today to day so many difficulties and per mr fenn truly bays bayst A bidgie single indian or body ot of them when wh entreating treating with an individual of the white race if they are impressed with his superiority if they find he never makes wakes a promise in express terms or by implication that he does not fulfil fulfill and e especially never makes a threat he lie does not enforce not only obtains their respect re antl anil confidence but ha ht retains I 1 it as long as ai his hia conduct their appreciation of his hia character 11 avery man who has had any experience perl peri ence enee with the aborigines knows this to be true it was this that ga gase gave T e the late president brigham young hig his great influence with them they said he never spoke with two tongues what he agreed to do whether by promise or by threat he be accomplished and alid they counted him their superior has the in dia hany reason to to reckon the average white man from twe lwe the tho palo tace face he has learned to break bis his ma V weid gid eid to lie and nd to cheat to gamble and arb didrik fite fife firewater water 11 1 1 even his cruelties cruel ties tiei have been but the counterpart of the atrocities of some white soldiers who have scalped scalded B ipe the be fallen braves outraged d thet the squads squaws beat out the bra brains ns of osep burned lodges and fought with nire fire as well as the rifle and the howitzer the destruction oj of an au indian village in sold soldiers lers parlance la s victory but the de eal eat of a company or regiment Is massacre 1 the indians have havo rights right sas aas as the primal poss possessors assor of thestil tho the soil andla a part of the human family those tights should ho he hui hut have not been resl respected L the ther government rovern govern mentis nn ier ler der 0 obligations to god and humanity to regard those rights lights and secure th them Q ni it has been beon demonstrated as mr fenn fenna a speech speech shows in the history of the we rei perce perces the Bp kines and the cour calenes dA lenes that the bavage savage 01 can be reclaimed and the roving red od skin by proper treatment nt can bo be transformed 1 into a land tilling and nd landowning laa land owning citizen ini z have hate also proven this fact satisfactorily to feed instruct and care caro for thell t then U until antil they become self seif bus sus ajar ajan bett better et policy than to fight and destroy thea thena and as the financial reports of the disastrous indian wars wara have bho sho showie wm it 13 is is 13 aiso also much cheaper treat the indians indiana a as human beings fulfill fulfil the obligations whid which the nation is under to them pas pay them for their lands as a agreed reed reeo 8 appoint honest men if they thy can be t i ii found to trana transact act business with the them in and punish instead of apologize for those who swindle or ordial mai maltreat them if justice requires chastisement to be inflicted attend to tu it thoroughly instead of making a farce of it in the begin beginning bing hing and a tragedy in the ending make the indian understand that the whites 4 are superior in honor and truth as well vell as in force and power and the tho indian trouble troubles will fast disappear and n no longer bo be a burden mrk mst rrt ft vexation and a burning 41 dis disgrace mice 1 to the bation nation and 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