| Show HOKE SMITHS BRITH 18 opposition I 1 tt t in 18 announced in the dispatches dispatcher that this national administration has haa determined to dirlie the ute billor bill the antagonism to the measure la Is credited principally to the secretary of the in herfor hoke smith mr mf smith has haa considered carefully the condition oi 01 the indians indiana as a reported to him and on OD the examination made he be thinks it unwise to treat them as aa the ute bill referred to Is ia a measure booked backed by colorado congressmen and relate related to the of the southern uto ute indian reservation in southwest oui hwai ern era colorado it proposes to make allotments allotment in lev ralty to lh ih aage aT ge egi of a part of the land now embraced in the reservation and to 10 throw we he remainder open for settlement and occupancy by the he whitt meo med the ludiana affected are those who recently came over into san juau juan county and who are now returning by smitha direction the altitude attitude thieu by the boore tara ou win proposition should receive the unqualified support of all irlenna ui oi the indian race every ut of justice and ana humanity tieman dd that thai we ibe ute bill should be defeated it out nul a greater outrage it ilia is equally as aa great au imposition on tue the ludiana to aa was waa attempted on the hu hsu juan settlers lera by sending lending me ue into hat county and whatever malue u on utahn delegate De legale I 1 lu u congress Con grea cau bring br ing cj bear on the subject in tue the national legislature might be well directed to ward bringing the proposed measure to ignominious tal failure lure toe the indiana on the southern ate ute reservation are no do more fit to be sub BUD jested to 10 the provisions of the bill as an a law than to Is a five year old boy to be turned out and left jelt to make big own living the child might beg and eke out a miserable mie erable existence exle tenor but it would be a crime to require him to do it yet it would be no greater coff enve against humanity than to adopt the suggested measure mt acure it means simply death to the ibe indians indiana by a slow alow and painful process within the area of the present reservation there is a comparatively small email amount of agricultural land there considerable conald erable grazing country much of broken and aad mountainous district and probably a good mineral region the aborigines are thoroughly wild blanket indian Indi aDB they live by hunting a little stock raising ra laing and the be annuities which come from the government it if allotments allot meota in severalty aeve ralty are made the bunting and roaming will he stopped and the extent or of grazing country left to the indians indiana will be me ao limited that they hey cannot obtain sustenance for their sheep beep cattle and ponies they are unfitted tu to engage in farming or industrial pursuits because they are uncil and the result of the intended change would be to compel them to rither starve or be supported eup ported entirely by the government while at the somis time the restrictions necessarily neoe arlly placed around them by the allotment rule would be bead as injurious to their physical condition as ae it would be gos to a person to confine con floe him in a di diseases seass infected penthouse peet bouee the attempt of colorado lorado to get rid of the indians indiana by inducing them to invade the san juan country even at A the risk alek of having an exterminating war waged against them is ie not dot one whit abit worse than the present proposed leAt elation which might well be entitled a bill to provide for the be extinction of the southern utes in opposing the uto ute bill the he secretary of the interior to particular and the administration in general are interposing a barrier to the wholesale whole eale destruction of human life ito may this latest scheme to rob and destroy the indian meet with the fate it merits ina in a civilized vat foial |
