| Show INJUSTICE TO THE INDIANS it is a thought which grows withe continuance that the blame resting upon the two greatest civilized and on en lightened nations for the justifiable fusti As content among their dependencies ill ie because of the power with which government invests their agenten nd ind the laxity with which is maintained the peasantry of ireland are landlord ridden and the outrageous treatment to which they are at times subjected has baa been heard of BO so frequently that it falls fails to attract the attention which undoubtedly it 18 would receive if one or 1 6 few cases were thoroughly and analytically reported up ty by which it might appear that the agents of the c rown crown were more or less in collusion with those who hold bold the legal but not tue the equitable title to the moll in like minner our governments government s indian policy while intended to be pater paternal and helpful has in reality been the he innocent cause of more of the outbreaks of later years than anything else this is the fault of those who have been entrusted with the responsibility lity of looking after the in diana although the government itself cannot be entirety relieved from blame by means of the system so lone in vogue good deeds on the part of the native americans american whose soil we have usurped are board beard of at the indian bureau while misconduct becomes an outrage and a misdemeanor a high crime in a letter in yesterdays tribune from virginia city nov nev dan do de quills quille speaks kofold of old johnson sides the noted pints interpreter Inter prete who rejoices refo icea more in ID his title of the peacemaker than in anything else it to ia shown that ho be has bas on several occasions averted what must have proved bloody and destructive uprisings and once prevented a great war with the bannocks Ban Bao nocks at the time of the great messiah trans he be traveled graveled rave led day and night for weeke week preaching preach log peace among the tribes that were preparing to go upon the war patti path he has given months and year yeam of his big time has traveled thousands of miles at his own expense and saved the government millions of dollars dollar not to t speak of having prevented the shed ding of oceans of blood he has say the writer worn himself out in journeys tolls and troubles in bis big capacity of peacemaker and is no longer able to work therefore he thinks the government ought to make him a small a allowance low anoe he says as millions mil liona are appropriated to carry on ware wan against indians that are out on the war patai something should abound be given to togamau a man who prevents such bloody and hostal outbreaks the writer thinks think the government might make a much worse me of its money then than by giving poor falth in ful old johnson a afew bem fem dollars but he be probably will never got get a cent for anything be ever did la in the times of indian troubles we are disposed to con cicur ur to la this conclusion but it is a most shameful baleful bame ful state of affairs affair not dot because the old fellow is poor and needy but because the nation is according to every sense sec ee of justice and instinct ot of dionor deeply indebted to him |
