The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-10

ton Will Drlng upon the OnurCn IN france
will be set forth with vigor and clearness,
and Che majority will not hereafter have the
excuse that they were not warned. The same
arguments which will be used in reference to
Frances will also be applied to the case of Aus
tria; so that the Pope will fud himself in
danger of a rupture with the two great Catho-
lie powers of Europe at once
RED CLOUDS PLAIN TALK IN WASH
INGTON.
From, the n. y Herald.
The oratory of Logan has evidently left
germ in the bosom of the red man which, at
this day, fructifes. The spirit of Red Jacket
and the obstinacy of Billy Bowlegs are not
extinct The last of the Ogallalas-as he
described himself-chief of the Sioux tribe,
Red Cloud, united in his speech in Washing
ton on Tuesday, before the assembled digni-
taries of the Indian Department, a good deal
of the logic and pathos of Logan with the in
domitable pluck of Red Jacket and Bow
legs. When pleading for the rights of his
people, Red Cloud asked, "Whose voice was
first heard in this land?" and he answers the
question-''It was that of the red people, who
used the bow" With this intimation of inhe-
rited right to the soil he proceeded to put into
q nutshell the grievances of his people. He
says, in substance, the Great Father may be
very kind, but his officials rob and maltreat
lu6 luulhllI JueJ udN6 l6lJ ulll uOIuluR DuJ
an island upon the vast extent of country
which his father and his mother told him be-
longed to him. They-these white marauders
steal the goods sent by the Government all
along the road, so that but handful reaches
his starving nation. We fancy that the red
chief is not mistaken in this statement; for
''Indian annuity goods" whether composed
of blankets, bacon, flour, sugar, or ammuni-
tion, are considered common property for the
pilferers who infest the frontier, and are not
very scrupulously handled after the goods
pass beyond the lines of railroad. 1t might
be interesting to know how many larders of
Indian agents, suffers, and contractors are
enriched by the material which should reach
the lodges of our wards, the red men.
But the Sioux warrior, the last of the Ogal-
lallas comes plainly to the point as to what
his people want when he emphatically pro-
nounces against the maintenance of Fort Fet-
terman and the continuance of our garrison
on the lands. Il want no roads, he says
Through my country. For the railroads you
are passing through there have not received
SO much as brass ring for the land they oc-
cupy." He will have no soldiers or railroads
upon the land and the removal of both seems
to be the ultimatum of peace or war in Red
Clouds region. Now, the meaning of all this
is simply what we have stated many times.
The Indians are defrauded by Government
agents and others to such an extent that they
are worked up to a state of evaporation.
Promises are freely made to them and are
fagitiously broken, so that it becomes
question often whether it is not we, rather
than the Indians, who are the aggressors. 1t
may be necessary at times of absolute warfare
to use harsh measures with the savages; but
it should be considered whether the bad con-
duct of our own agents has not provoked the
difficulty in nine cases out of ten. We be-
leve that the cause can be traced to this
origin.
The fact is that we want thorough reform
in the management of our Indian Department.
We must be honest with the savage if we
attempt to control him by peaceful means, We
must not be driven by the misconduct and
avarice of our employees to the hateful
necessity of cruelty and determination. The
Secretary of the Interior must have learned
something about the questions from the plain,
bold words of the chieftain Red Cloud. He
must be convinced that palaver has very little
effect upon the Indian character. He must
have learned, too, that faithlessness on our
part in the matter of treaties, and gross
swindling of the Indians by our agents and
their tools, the contractors, are at the bottom
of all this Indian trouble.