Show THEY DESERVE TO HAVE IrA YI PENSIONS There Is before congress a n bill providing for the pensioning pensioning pen pen- of oC men hero In tho state of oC Utah who fought In Inthe Inthe I the Indian wars And it should hould become a law In tho early days of the tho states state's settlement when distances seemed so much ranch greater reater than now the tho people o of Utah had not only onh to defend themselves but by hy that tha action had to defend and keep J safo tho the highway hl hwa across acres the continent From 1810 19 until tho the final subjugation o otho or of ortho tho the Indians perhaps Indians-perhaps perhaps in tho the seventies seventies tho tho people o or of Utah were undefended b by th the the- national government And yet ret this was a n territory of or tho the nation an and was held to the usual obligations of other territories Wisconsin was defended and tho the war Avar ended In hl tho the death eath of tho the chief who l led the tho revolt and anti the national government govern govern- mont ment furnished tho time soldiers who put tho the quietus on that tha savage warriors warrior's activities Troops were volunteered li In Wisconsin and in Illinois and tho limo men inch who enlisted In those commands are to today cia drawing pensions from the tho government go Tho The men who marched from Illinois with Abraham Lincoln dl did their duty to their neighbors and to tho the government and they are today toda receiving the tiO reward reward re re- re- re ward of a n grateful g people It would have ha cost the government g millions of or dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars to have transported troops ntH and 1 munitions across the plains in the tho sixties an and tho the government was far too loo seriously occupied at the time to gl Sho o the men and the lighting fighting material Yet in those times thero there was an In Increasing Increasing In- In creasing sing community here in the territory of or Utah that had the thc same samo claim on tho government as had hall tho the people I of or Wisconsin fifteen or twenty years rears earlier carer And AmI the tho people of Utah thrown on their theil own re resources resources re- re sources made mado tho the fight light for lies The They handled the Indian question well As a rUle the they fed the Indians There was a no general g sentiment hero at the time time and and It might ml ht have been adopted elsewhere with good g results results- that it was cheaper to feed c Indians than to fight light them And in ht ever every case where it could coul properly bo be done dono that policy was was followed Where There raids of at redskins made a harsher course necessary the men of or Utah took their guns and went wont out on tho the war path And they always taught tho the Indians Indians In In- a salutary lesson Sonje Sone were killed in these battles battJes for self defense dereme an and nd for the defense of or the soil of the nation Many were wounded The lighting fighting qualities of or these men now oMand old oM and nd feeble mado made the transcontinental highway fairly safe safe Increasingly Increasingly safe saCe These men arc are now old Many of or them need the little money that would be expressed in a pension In fairness and justice they should be pensioned b by the government g We Ve trust tho the bill may bo be enacted into a ala la law w b by the present congress |