Show I TWO VIEWS FROM ONE SIDE f The cattle question continues to engross the attention of the public and the various vari-ous views expressed by the leading journals of the country are eagerly sought for by all Yesterday morning the Tribune I Tri-bune published an extract from the St Louis GlobeDemocrat making no comment com-ment upon the extract but this There are two sides to the cattle troubles in Indian In-dian Territory Here is the extract Some of the best informed Eastern papers are terribly disgusted at what they call the outragethat has been perpetrated upon the poor Indians by the designing villains who leased the use of the grassfrom them for a term of years at a certain price per acre Thus the Brooklyn Union sets forth its sadness sad-ness saying Nearly 11OOJOJO acres have been leased for less than 214000 an average aver-age of less than two cents an acre 1 The writer of that awful phrase evidently knows nothing about land and its values save what he may have picked up in the purlieus of New York or maybe on a fortyacre onion farm For his information it may be stated that when the terrible leases were made there were millions of acres of land in the market that could have been purchased for from 50 cents an acre upwards and that 2 I i cents represents 4 per cent on a 50cent investment in-vestment about what Uncle Sam pays in interest to his creditors He may also be properly informed that the money already paid to the Indians on account of these leases amounting to about 640OOJ up to dates so much money found That but for the cattlemen and the leases the Indians would not have got a cent out of the lands I Moreover when the cattlemen leave the Indian In-dian lands as it is now clear they must do taking with them their herds and other property it may be as well to ask how Lo the poor Indian is going to be fed and clothed and kept in a state of contentmenti These points may as well be considered before be-fore our Eastern friends go into hysterics again It is almost needless to say that the GlobeDemocrat IB i a rabid Republican paper The Chicago InterOcean of the 6th instant has the following editorial concerning the cattlemen and the President Presi-dent I dentThe The question of the removal of the great droves of cattle from the leased lands in the Cheyenne and other reservations in Indian Territory has come to a focus Tho cattlemen in their interview with the President made a strong case The delegation was composed of men of influence in-fluence and of men well informed as to all the points at issue All that can be said in favor of allowing the cattle to remain in Indian Territory was said by this delegation and it may be presumed that they put the case as strongly as it could be put They virtually admit that the cattle ought to be removed but they claim that there will be great loss if the time for removal is not extended ex-tended beyond the forty days mentioned in the order The difficulties in the way of removal re-moval are undoubtedly great Under favorable favor-able circumstances the loss to the cattlemen will be heavy and it may be that the cattle trade itself will be injured But admitting all this the President made a good point when he said that he was called upon to decide whether the interests of the cattlemen should suffer somewhat or whether the interests of the public should suffer a good deal through an Indian war He declared de-clared that with these two interests in conflict con-flict with public peace public security and the safety of lives on one side and the interests of the cattlemen on the other that the latter must give way This is the correct position and the President Presi-dent deserves commendation for the clearness clear-ness and force with which he stated it His reasons for not granting extension of time are that further delays will increase the irritation irri-tation of the Indians and increase the possibilities possi-bilities of an Indian war on the Kansas frontier fron-tier It may be some hardship for the cattlemen cattle-men to carry out the order but it would be a greaterhardship for the people of Kansas to endure the horrors of an Indian war General Sheridan in his report placed the responsibility for the leasing Indian lands on the Indian agent and advises a reconstruction recon-struction of the reservations General Sheridan Sher-idan it is well known is no sentimentalist I on the Indian question He believes in heroic I he-roic methods in treating outbreaks of savagery sav-agery and he now recognizes the fact that there has been wrong on the part of the Indians In-dians as well as on the part of the whites but he declares that the only way to preserve pre-serve peace is to remove the cause of irritation irrita-tion or in other words to remove from the Indian country the whites who went into the Territory with the cattle The admission admis-sion that the Indians have been mistreated coming from General Sheridan means a good deal more than would a stronger declaration coming from the advocates of the peace policy pol-icy Putting aside the whole question of right or wrong in the issuing of the leases it is clear that only by decided action can the present difficulties be settled and the President and the Lieutenant General seem to have taken the right course |