Show A NEW DEPARTURE IN OUR INDIAN SERVICE the provisional agreement between the secretary of the interior and the representatives of the ous indian tribes is not only remarkable because it furnishes the foundation for a favorable treaty but also because it treats the indian question from quite nw i eints of view it is an essentially new departure an advantage is afforded by the new agreement because after iti confirmation fir by congress on the one hind and the indian tribes on the other we will be the indian war which would otherwise bo almost inevitable and this with very trifling concessions the lutcs who offered a nearly insuperable resistance si stance to the progress of civilization and were a constant danger for their white neighbor now ceda voluntarily a territory of acres which although only partly adapted or agriculture is rich in mineral treasures of all kinds and hoi long kieen the prospective goal of aspiring miners the utes are to receive an annuity of to be divided among the different tribes emits the annuity of which had been promised them in former treaties but had never been paid is promised to them again and moreover to each head of a family apo acres land ln severally in biffer ont parts of the west the total expenditure pend iture accruing to the united states from this treaty would amount beides tho and grant and the annuity to a sum required to cover tho costs of the trans surveys of lands etc this is certainly no large sum considering the incalculable benefits which the state of colorado and with it indirectly u great portion of the west would derive from the new arrangement but the chief point is the imbor tant innovation not to assign to the indians a new reservation in common as wa the case before but directly to give to each head of a family a quarter section of lind in severally just line to any other settler it has long been the endeavor of authorities to render the reservation indian an agriculturist and tho present i secretary of the interior has always taken especial pains to bring the indians nearer to this end but in all former treaties the different tribes were considered like so many who were kept together as an integral whole and received a certain defined region of land assigned to them as a reservation the result of these tactics was that the indians always remained the wards of the nation that their helplessness against the white invaders was not diminished but in teased under tho old order of lings they were on the one side furnished urnis hed powder and lead were ed like children pacified like a dangerous belligerent party by concessions ces and deceived by honors and solemn ceremonies in the conclusion other side they were cheated by the Ei gents persecuted and driven by the settlers and by the united states they were often defrauded instead of civilized the indians have been accustomed to expect everything hoy needed from their great faher in washington but on the ong road from washington to their homes on the plains most of the con was lost in the capacious pockets of rascally agents and then they shot undo sams blue soldiers down with the same powder and lead which tho great father had turn dished them then he government seeing that tho indians would not behave well on one reservation or that their white neighbors wanted th land for themselves would simply taka them and transport them to some other reservation this policy has cost much blood and more money without effecting any noticeable advances in the civilization of the indians but it was a real gold mine fora whole army of agents butlers sut lers contractors etc it was lauded up to the skies as highly humane supported by pious and hypocritical philanthropists aad there have been not a few n tho indian shop herds fold to all cheso people the new policy of the secretary which intends to put tho nations wards on their own feet is highly objectionable the contractors and agents will deplore the los of their ill gotten spoil and enthusiastic philanthropists will protest against the cruelty of ing the helpless indian to take up the hopeless struggle with civil iced life yet this is the most just secure and humane solution of the perplexing question give every indian ft certain area of land teach him hovy to work it and give him the loos to work with but then let him shift for himself mako him under stand that he who wants must work that he who teals or robs out of will not be treated as ft member of a belligerent nation but simply as thief and robber have him realize this the of ibe went will ere long lo 10 at jesuit va a lavel with the negro of the south |