| Show WILL HAVE GOOD RESULTS THE late indian trouble was appalling in many of its features this thia phase of it ft is to some extent compensated bythe by the wider information obtained regarding the whole status of the indian question the difficulty has stimulated inquiry and investigation has to a large degree uncovered important facts facto the most horrible incident connected with the late disturbance was the wounded knee massacre the more this bloody affair is ia scrutinized the worse it appears for the officer who conducted it so far as the common soldiers were concerned they but obeyed the orders of their superiors they could not well do otherwise to have refused would have been mutiny much as this terrible tragedy is ts to be deplored there can be but little doubt that it hastened the pacific jacif solution of the trouble it aroused public sentiment all over the country in favor of the indians and brought out many statements of the outrageous treatment to which they have been subjected the rule having been to break faith with them instead of keeping it it to is creditable to the nation at large that so many champions for the poor indians have appeared at a time when their existence in this country was seriously threatened threat aed eBed so long as a host of men can be found in a nation who are ready to champion the cause of the weak against the strong the salt has not lost its savor the indian question continues to be agitated books are being published regarding it giving statistics and arrays of fact that do not exhibit those who have hau the management of the aborigines in an enviable light the government has evidently leen grossly deceived by officials who have worked their positions for the purpose of making money the unfortunate wards of the country have in consequence been victimized in every conceivable shape it is to be presumed that the expositions of facts in this ane that have been given to the country will lead the government to render such frails araudo as have been perpetrated upon the red men as far as can be impracticable in the future if this shall be done the late difficulty will have a gratifying result although it was in itself intrinsically horrible in some of its phases |
