Show GEN brook ON tiie yhu indi IT jollay PF menal crook has made mado himself ramous famous as ag an indian lighter his hame bame J Is a terror to many of the iril irli tribes bribes es of the plains tirom fro m the teats feats eata he has performed and the powers he has exhibited exhibit edi it miky may be thought bethought that he has a belie heror the work in which he has hats been sol successful and that he is an indian hater bater but this is not the caso ase case the general has e ex pressed his bra views on several ocea occa p pretty treely freely and has 1 I himself opposed to the policy jbf pur sued towards the red skins anid arid adverb averse ei to the bloodshed and de stroe tion which it occasions in conversation with an ah in reply repty to the rv ree must be a hard thi thing fc soldiery ers erp to peril their lives in quarrels brought thieving contractors and r ascal ly a agents konta i general crook said 1 I will tell you a harder thing it la Is to be forced to tight fight and tind kill the indians wilen I 1 they are clearly in the right this thia from sueh such a man who cannot be accused either of ignorance or undue sentimentality volumes berei here la is what the the general has to bay bay eay about the indian situation the indians have no redress against law leba leaa whites eyen dyen when ghen agents are honest and the interior department de appropriations 1 are AM clem the whites s selza seize indian property and the tha owner has only a shadowy hope of recovery jn in the courts As affairs are now theann the indian has has bas no encouragement to be thrifty when his horses and catlie cattle aie aio aro are big enough to be of any service services they are driven oss off in herds heida by white rene renegades gades when hib his wheat at corn and nd vegetables are arck almost ready for them thom arliet ma his hia feb fes reservation er tr is changed were nvere we wd to treat some of our oui foreign immigrants in such a manner it would nott not take a ke long to turn the them minto into pro vagabonds vagabond living by robbery and assassination this is qui quite teas tess as severe as anything that has ever appeared in this paper in regard to the course pursued towards the unfortunate savages and in reference to the only right method for the solution of pe indian problem gen gee crook says the true the only policy to pursue with the ind indian fan ian la Is to treat him just as one should a white u naan ian if he makes wan wac upon our frontier settlements punish him but after he has haa been reduced to submission protect him in life and property white thieves from plundering let him see that peace means progress that he has a market for every pound loudd of bout beut and every hide an and d every sack of grain and my word forli be he will make rapid advances self belt interest will impel ini im to imitate ua us to send his children to school to adopt our bur clothing perhaps our language and to devote his hid at attention lention to raising cat tie thi and horbes and eventually to qualify himself tor for citizenship these sentiments are identical with those which ha vo always been advanced on this subject by the DESERET and we are pleased to note that they are entertained by celebrated an on indian agthe aa tue the general crook a |