The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-16

conhrled 20 their agencies on the Missouri and not
allo'~ed 70 hunt on their ample reservations. The
ROAD rom Cheyenne to Bozeman ought to be
qpenel again and the abandoned l0rts reoccupied
u was foolish policy 80 abandon anything. Tpe
tnHtah must submit 60 the government, ana y -
folly TO put on the test OF strength II It must come
las ruin0usly expensive folly to try to purchase
throw down the gage OF battle the government
shOuid never step till 1t Is the acknowledged masteI
CoRKEsP0NDENT-Are the Indian agents any
better under the new system OF churcn appoin''
mentsY
CORRECTIONS IN THE PRESENT SYSTEM.
DELEGArE-NO, sir. as general tning mum
worse. Few good men apply Tor agencies Many
pad men JOIN the Church ana oecoe a,ter 90
course, these OF the worst class o men, luly As
corrupt as political app9intees aney nave nd less
their tenure OF Office Is generally very snort,
they steal with more INSCRIPTIONS andaclty
than did their predecessors. In one agency
in my locality four agents have been APP
poin ted and removed under the Church rule during
It's short existence. Every one OF them was dis
grace to the religion he pr0lessed, and each retired
under cloud, out with considerable spoil SO
long as the man who is next to and deals directly
with the Indians is not honest no amount OF abil-
ity or honesty at Washington can detect aud pau
be tie temptation the chances Of detection or
punishment iurCher than removal are very slight.
And these men. who are after money, are deter
mined 10 get rich and while oppor tunity lasts to
make the most OF 1t. In my opinion the Indians
appropriations under the present system.
ARMY CONTROL OVER THE REBELS ADVOCATED.
CORREsPONDENT-What is your remedy
DELEGArE-Iurn the care and control OF the In
dams over to the army and make the army
sponsbie. Let your policy be the most peaceful,
humane and civillzing that experience may sug-
gest, but place 1t IN the hands or an organization
which will not corrupt IT but carry out justly and
nrmly. Army officers, from education character
and interest ought to be honest and generally are
and when the honor OF the army Is at stake the
superior officers viii soOH ferret out and punish all
Irregularities. Their positions are Tor lie, and
Is a guarantee OF good behavior They are humane
the interests Of Se ndans Of the settlers and Of
the government would be safer In the hands OF
tins organization than OF any other known to our
APPREHENSION OF SERIOUS POSSIBILITIES.
Senator Hitchcock, OF Nebraska expresses the
belef that there Will be serious trouble with the
Sioux Indians, ana he attributes 1t IN great
manner TO the miserable reimbursement OF the
Indian Department. He says 1t Is all very fine for
the Peace Commissioners, safe in their Eastern
homes, 70 declare that the Indians are peaceable,
and that II they we're properly treated there would
be difficulty with them; but those OF US who live
the frontier know that war Is the chronic state
or the Indians and has been from time imme
II they not fighting the whites they fighting
each other. The young men are taught that to be
narn ana br,na SaeK scaIns L is cFve, talsehuod
to say that the frontier people ncite Indian wars
Ii brings to them the destruction OF their farms
and stock, and death perhaps to themselves and
wives and children. II IS the want OF firm hand
on the part OF the government which causes all the
HOW THE SIOUX ARE ENCOURAGED IN THEIR saw
AGE TRAITS,
These very Sioux Indians who are now threat
enng hostllties encouraged to 1t by the belief
that the whites are afraid OF them. They reInem-
being punished the whites came TO them and gave
them blankets and other presents and withdrew
the troops from Fort Phil Kearney and other posts
on the road 10 Montana to please them.
HOSTILE INDIANS NORTH OF THE PLATTE
The Senator had recently received letter rom
he says the Indians north Of the Platte River are
nearly all hostile. The supply OF beef for the In.
dians at Fort Laramie Is nearly all out Many Of
the bands not close 10 the agency when the issue
was made are on. now raidlng on the cattle ana
tons being committed.
COUETENANCRD FRAUDS.
1t Is reported that from the loose manner IN
which the issues of beef and nOur are made large
quantities are lett to rot on the ground and con-
ment to the Indians sold by them Tor arms and
ammunition. with the approval OF the agent. War
parties start from the agencies and no reports OF
! them are made to the military commander or the
department.. No action whatever ia taken by the
agents to prevent them. Some action ought to be
held by the Peace Commissioners last TALL ut the
Red Cloud Reservation says that the Commission
Indians, and asked, what did you come here
| fer?" and they were afraid to say what they
object Of their talk-that is, that the Indians
should cOnhne themselves 10 the reservation north
! GENERAL SHERMAN ON THE SITUATION.
General Sherman does not anticipate general
Sioux war He thinks the marauding parties are
by Red Cloud and she other chiefs The fact tgat
Red Clouds son has been killed IN endeavoring TO
stop some OF the Indians from plunderinR shows
that the Indians divided among themselves,
and that there is party Tor peace as well as for
! war. The restlessness OF the Indians has been
| known for the last five months at the department,
but the Indian Bureau took no steps to check it.
THE PRESENT MANAGEMENT AN ABsURDITY.
The present management OF Indian affairs is
absurdity. There VIII be no end OF trouble unti 1t
properly belongs Put military post at or near
the reservations let the agent be under the SUI
pesvmlo on. o. tue commanding onic cn. when
see that the Indians get the rations anu
supplies promised them, no rations to be issued
mil lSf no tG N Honn
them. II any OF them go OF the reservation on the
hunt make them report before starting. Then
they are doing The only way to cheek their muir
dering and robbing propensities Is TO keep close
General Sheridan, General Sherman supposes,
VIII send about 400 men up TO the Red Cloud
catch them the perpetrators OF the recent out.
RACES When they get 10 the agency they will
plan would be, when they caught these Indians, to
take them out and shoot them, as warning, but
, the Peace commissioners Will want TO turn them
over to prayer meeting and then let them go.
ADEQUACY oP THE ARMY ON THE PLAINS.
II there is to be a war have on the Plains as
good set OF officers as any army Ia the world can
furnish. Most OF the colonies and majors have
been generals during the late war, some OF them
commanding corps Of $4,000 or 10000 men. They
have haa the experience OF several years among
the Indians, and would know just how TO fight
should be Worried aud sadsered in ' the way Il is
being done by this continual tlnkering with the
say that before the war we protected the frontier
with 5000 men. They forget that since then the
line OF frontier settlements has been increased
tenIold, and is advancing into the Indian country
In all directions from the Pacific coast, as wen
the Eastern side 1t Is not true economy to cut
down the army. We would find it SO to our cost If
we should have an Indian war.
The Southwest-War Parties OF Savages
Numbering and Ravaging in the Upper
Red River Region.
Recent dispatches from the Southwest indicate
a growing war cloud among the Indians along the
Upper Red River War parties OF Kiowas and
Comanches are reported committing depredations
along the Brazos and the Colorado, and have ex-
tended their operations to the head waters of the
Nueces, a distance Of nearly 400 miles from their