Show END OF THE INDIAN WAR indian war appears to be at an end the ho hostiles stiles have acome in they are to be disarmed in a manner likely to be inoffensive and with present food and promises from a mill mili tary officer of redress of wrongs ajol W the fulfilment fulfillment of neglected contracts the red men are pacified while the advocates of bloodshed and extermination are correspondingly unhappy we retain the opinion we expressed at first there was no necessity for this indian trouble the red men had as much right to their religious exercises as had the whites so long as they did not injure others the ghost dance as the white people please to call it is no more absurd than the shouting jumping and falling down extravagancies of spiritually intoxicated white enthusiasts who imagine that these gymnastics are religion and Plea pleasing to deity if the soldiery can lawfully be turned loose on a band of half frenzied indians indiana ho think they are dancing to christ by the same rule troops may be ordered to attack or disperse a mob of excited revivalists reviva lists shrieking and clapping and jumping their way to glory what seems nonsense to us ull appears devotional to them and in free america ought to be tolerated to the line that marks the rights of other individuals and of society general miles seems to be taking a consistent course he is listening to the wrongs of the red men as well as enforcing the policy entered upon to quell the disturbance orders to this effect lave have doubtless reached him from washington these have been prompted by the voice of public opinion expressed freely through the press it is in encouraging to see the change that has come upon the views of leading writers in this country on this Import important avA question the position taken by the DESERET NEWS on the indian question years ago was scouted by journalists who now occupy the same ground the indians indiana have rights which ought to be respected all agreements with them formal or info informal ought to be fulfilled they should be dealt with according to their peculiarities and grade of intelligence peace should be encouraged cou raged red bed men as well as white men should be protected in their guaranteed privileges and when it becomes necessary to chastise them they be being ing in the wrong it ought to be done thoroughly leaving no ground for them to expect hesitancy or retreat clit it is cheaper to feea the indians indiana than to fight them was a saying of a sound statesman the late Pre aiden brigham young and there is more in it than many people at the same time he advocated stern jus tice lice in punishing the villainy of the savages when the due claims of mercy bad been satisfied we hope this cruel war la Is really ow over and that a wiser more humane and more consistent policy will henceforth be pursued in the nation treatment of the primal owners of american soil boll |