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Show " ' THE INDIANS. . J The President has . been waited upon j in reference to the Indian question. His , remarks upon the question were wise and i conservative. The Indian question is no ; v longer a question of how to avoid Indian it j wars and prevent border forays, for the I Indians are a subdued race, and on all , J sides they are surrounded by civilization. , ' What is now to become of them is the ' i great question. What is the best method f of civilizing them is what is now wanted to be known. The days of the chase are ; gone, and the Indian must depend upon the white man, or his methods, for his livelihood. Perhaps it would be best to give the reservations to the Indians in i ) severalty; but if this is done, there I should be a proviso in the statute I ; authorizing the holding of land in , ' ' severalty forbidding its transfer in fee. I I It might lie well to forbid any transfer of ' ' t Indian homesteads, for if there is not I , ' some limit placed upon the power of I ;) transfer, the Indians would soon be I despoiled of their land, and then they ! . i wumu oe outcasts m the land of their i forefathers. The slight degree of civil- : . ization which the Indians have attained - is not 'sufficient to guide them aright nor .; . . to make them jealous of their best inter- ' esta- Around the imagination of every ' Indian in the land there cluster the tradi- : tions .of centuries, and those traditions j are hostile to the civilization and life of the white man. He can never realize . . I those traditions, and so the question is, j ," f j How can he be made happy and con- ! tented with his present lot, and how can I I he be assimilated to the conditions which ' j surround him? The Indian school at I Carlisle has been a very successful exper- I S I . iment, and the Indians whose sons and , - ; 4 daughters have gone there,, when they ; I have seen those, sons and daughters j ' j I skilled' in the arts of the white man and I I able to read the mystic book, have felt a if;,; I pride that more than comjnsated for the lost chance to - earn fame and attain ? glory upon the war path or in the chase, j '; The experiment at Carlisle gives great , hope for the future of the Indians, but j : schools like the one"at . Carlisle should 1 ' e placed upon every reservation. This i I once done, the. Indians will more fully j realize their actual condition, and - will h then more readily take to the ways of . agriculture and commerce. In our own ' : ff Territory many of the Indians have made very considerable progress in agriculture, agricul-ture, although very few individually would, it is probable be competent to manage their farms; and . other affairs without the guidance and : assistance ,o white friends, J. On the Uintah Reservation Reserva-tion some of the Indians have very considerable con-siderable herds of cattle, and" do considerable consid-erable tilling of the earth. The Indian settlement in Thistle Valley is in every way creditable to the Territory ; so is the Indian settlement in Cache Valley on Bear river -a credit to the Territory. The Indians .on "Deep Creek haye done well, but now they are leaving there because Mr. Lee has gone to Grantsville. The condition of the Indians in Utah ia very satisfactory, all things considered,' and in the policy which has ever been pursued towards the Indians in Utah, the people of the Territory have nothing to regret. We are glad the Administration is in- teresting itself in the Indian question, and in the future all should be done that can be done to make reparation to the Indians Indi-ans for the wrongs which they have suffered suf-fered in the past. - |