The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-03-06
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= The RED NOaAg


I occur in regions SO widely separ
: ated as to Indicate that the mixeG
Il system of Cancellation and tight
!, ing works awkwardly. From the
Rio Grand to Manitoba there II
scarcely any point where the ust
Of troops can be dispensed with
! and as fast as we coneiliate one
. wretched band of Indians some
IEeighboring tribe breaks out into
I hestilities. 1t is sometimes said
that the good treatment accorded
, to one set of Indians begets the
jealousy of another. It is quite
certain that ours is the only gov
iernment in the world that CON
ltentedly pays rich tribute to mis-
Eerable bands of savages to induce
! them to refrain from murder, rob
berry and outrage.
4 Our worst troubles seem to be
nom with the CheyeRnes, Arapa-
hoes and KfoWays, who claim the
couatry in eastern and southern
| Colorado as their hunting-gronnd
1and are determined not to submit
ito ani INTERRUPTION from white
tsettlers, travellers and buffalo
/ hunters. As an excuse for their
own outrages they complain Of
the useless slaughter of buffaloes
and other wild game BY white
hunters, out OF mere sport. Eng
lish gentlemen of fortune travel
all the way from England to the
plains to participate in this sport,
and all the Americans who cross
the plains take q crack at the buff
faIoes and antelopes. But the
truth is that the Indians themsel-
/ yes have wasted the game more
, than the whites. They sell buff
falo robes for firearms, powder,
balls, knives, etc, and these In
dians are now armed with the
best quality OF arms our country
can afford. They see that the
herds of cattle raised by the set
tiers in Texas, Kansas and Col
orado far exceed the wild game,
and they only want an excuse for
stealing what they need.
Reservations have been set
apart for all these tribes, and in
deed all the others that We can by
any means manage. But living
on a reservation demands work,
which the Indian hunter deems
degrading and Womanish, and SO
he would rather steal and murder
than to stay on his reservation
and till the soil and raise cattle.
If the whole Of the wild Indians
in that region were collected to-
gether they would not equal the
population Of the single city of
Denver, while if the Territorial
government of Colorado were left
to deal with them, and the nation
al game of fast and loose were
stopped, the Indians would expe-
rience q terrible punishment.
Perhaps the policy that has been
pursued may have been wise, since
the dread OF the saYages keeps
our pioneer settlers together in
compact bodies for mutual assis.
lance and defence, and thus the
mighty waves of American civil
cation roll steadily and resis.less-
" on. The settlers cling to the
| railway routes because the troops
protect those lines and are always
within easy reach, and thus we
find that all the railway trains run
regularly through these wild re-
gions.
The efforts TO collect the In
dams together upon fixed reserYa
tons, to t2ach them the arts of
civilized life, and to wean them
of their nomadic and predatory
ways, and creditabie to tho human
spirit of the Republic, but when
VIC consider that more white PEG
pie are killed in our dealings with
the savages than the whole red
race numbers, it Is o grave ques-
ton whether our humanity for the
Indians is not barbarity for the
whites. If we admit all that is
said of the wrongs done to the In
dians, how can they justify the
butchery of q settler in cold blood
and the carrying OF Of his wife
and children into captivity? The
Indians Of the plains occupy q
space between two Territories that
are rapidly increasing in popula,
ton, Kansas and Colorado, while
on the south lies Texas with 6
population lar tougher and more
desperate. II, therefore, they
continue this predatory. mode Of
life, the end must be that the PEG
pie of Kansas, Colorado and Tex
, as will wage 3 merciless and indis
eriminate war upon them, and il
an open contest the Indian neve
was q match for the white man anC
| never will be.
i. If, therefore. our friends of tn,
8 peace party, who have labored sc
earnestly to domesticate the sava
ges, want to save these tribes the,
must make haste about it, 70
There is NO time to lose. 1t vii
! not be possible for the govern
!. ment to prevent the people. O
: Texas, Colorado and Kansas pro
: tecting themselves in their owl
4 reugh and desperate way; an
should the government itself wag
open war on the tribes let the fat
. of the Seminoles, ShaWnees, Nsvs
I joes, Modocs and . hundred othe
q tribes say what must be the result
,, When the United States govern
J" ment took the Navajoes in hand tn
q latter had dominated New Mexic
o for centuries and crushed two sui
}. cessive civilizations and nearl
q ruined third. Yet the System
l. attic military operations 5of OF
g troops reduced the indians to Ii
d. verge of starvation, and beate
and Inundated they were glad
Is make peace upon Any term
of who can wonder, then, Shat to th
y New Mexican the ga nericano'
= . superior being, or 4 hat far ava
az among the mountain9 in Arizor
= the Wild tribes speak ef the gre
d power that crushed the Nayajo'
and Apaches as the rude-AH1z0l
b. OF central Asia once spoke Of in
eslperial Rome.
II, One: thing seems to be clea
p Since the construction Of railroaS
e. through the western wildS, Il
~ operations of our troops ha'
been more systematic and success
fui. We have ef5ectually proteC
ed the whole route Of the UniC
- and Central Pacific, and also th
st of the Kansas Pacific. Whe
nj lthe Nomadic tribes still CONN
tn their depredaticns there are
d. railroads. If the rails of +
ct, Northern Pacific we're torn up
all would in Q few years cost t
government immense sums for t
af- transportation OF troops, mul