The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-08-06

allow Crazy Horse TO return and tanta-
LIE the bafiied Cheyennes with stories
1 of the good time he had while out hunt
ing, ii viii be an intlnati0l that when
ever agency beef and blankets fail 70
satisfy the noble, ambitious red man,
be may take his rife and pony and REL
new the experiences of the Rosebud
river and Of the Little Horn, Whereas,
II We refuse Crazy Horses submission,
and leave him to he scalped by the Crows
or to be hung with becoming solemnity
If captured, and if we break up Sitting
Bulls whole force with agoodly slaught-
err of braves. hunt them through the
woods and over the mountains, kill their
ponies and capture their rifles, We VIII
have done as much as lies in our power
to secure a lasting peace. And II we
are to support the sayages of this dan
gerous and treacherous description, we
ought to lose no time In changing our
| system so as to protect ourselves against
q recurrence of this unpleasant ex-
p~erience. The agent is a civilian, con-
temptuously represented in the pictorial
autobiography of our aboriginal wards
as a man with a high hat; he has the
pay of q clerk, the responsibility Of q
Niceroy, and the authority of an assis-
tant door-keeper; be is in a false posi-
t;;en, and can have no other object but
to get rich as soon as possible and get
away from his odious Punishment. But
the army officer is secure of his position,
accustomed to command and able to
enforce respect and obedience. His re-
sponsibility is toward his own superior,
his duty is clearly defined, and above
all, his power and readiness to exercise
it are very well understood by the
treacherous paupers over whom it Is
proposed to place him. He embodies
arms and organized and disciplined force
and while he would dole out beef and
blankets quite as honestly as the agents,
he would be much more efficient If he
were clothed at the start with the re-
sponsibility the want of which he is
called on to atone for when it is too
late.
There can be no doubt Of what the
conclusion of the military operations
will be; wars between barbarism and
civilization have never had any other
than one termination and it is merely a
question of a few months, more or less,
when Sitting Bull shall follow the ex-
ample of all Indian chiefs from King
Philip to Tecumseh- But after an ex-
perience dating back fDr some two hum
bred years, it is surely time for the
American people to learn that, if they
wish to handle the Indians withAgloves
of velvet, they must be careful to have
the hand of iron beneath. We may be
kind, but we can not afford to be mad,
nor can we afford to overlook heredita-
ry traits and instincts, which are strong
er than all our teaching. If we clothe
and board the Indian, he does not need
a rifle and a pony, and If we try to keep
whisky out of the reservations for the
Indians sake, we ought to keep gun
powder out for our own sake. In a word
it seems that if we wish to deal proper
ly with the Indians, we have only to do
all the things we have left undone, and
to undo the things we have done, for
certainly there is no salvation in a poll
cy which leaves us equally unprovided
for an outbreak or for a surrender. [St.
Louis Globe-D Democrat.