The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-06-29
GOVERNMENT PETS.
Red Tape as Bad as Hostile sayages-Past
AID Present Policy the Same
Johnny Bull Don't Want
Sitting Bull.

For one hundred years our Govern
ment has been fighting Indians, and
to-day there seems to be no such thing
as proiting by past experience in this
respect. Since the suppression Of the
rebellion, we have had no other enemy
to contend with. The policy pursued
has been one stupendous and continue
GUS blunder, resulting In massacres by
Captain Jack and his Modocs, murders
by Sitting Bull, the sacrifice Of Gen.
Custer and his regiment and now by
Salmon river, in Idaho, by the chief
Joseph, in command Of the non-treaty
Nez Perces. Under a wise and Just
system Of Indian management these
atrocities would not have occurred.
But the past cannot be changed and it
Is unnecessary now to do more than
refer to the stupidity, indifference and
greed which have made our Indian
policy q disgrace to the nation. The
government is now confronted with
the stern fact of another war, which
threatens to end in 4 massacre as ter
rible as any which preceded 1t. Idaho
is almost ut the mercy Of a tribe of
savages who have already murdered
scores Of white settlers and who boast
their ability to overcome the troops
now stationed in that part of the coun-
try. They have issued their defiance
to the United States government and
have thus far been fully able to main
tain ii.
As usual, the government meets the
rifle Of the Indian with red tape. The
Indian is in earnest, but the admins
tration is not, and has persistently un-
derrated the dangers of a savage upris-
ing this summer. The mutilated bod
les Of the settlers along the Salmon
river and the condition OF their fami-
lies, spared for the time only to meet n
worse fate, furnish an answer to this
folly; still nothing is done. Gen. How
ard, whose command embraces the
scene of the outbreak, is concentrating
all the troops under his control, and
has appealed TO the government for
further aid, only to meet with the re-
spouse that there is no authority under
the law to furnish it. Thus the lives
OF our citizens are sacrificed to the cir
cumlocution bureaus in Washington,
and the red tape Of the department is
as fatal as the bullet of the savage. 1t
is indeed ven more dangerous, for the
men who so forth to the frontier under
the guarantee that they will be protect
ed by the government, and in full faith
that the pledge will be kept, find them
selves deserted and betrayed. There
are not troops enough in Idaho now to
save the women and children from
fates worse than that, and if another
massacre occurs, as is probable, 1t will
tapeism of the government as to the
cruelty OF the Indians.
JOHNNY DuLL DON'T WANT SITTING
BULL.
The British government, moved by
lord DufTerin, Governor General Of
Canada, respectfully requests US to
take back our own Sitting Bull, who
has become as great a nuisance in Can
ada as the Mexican cattle thieves are in
Texas. We suspect Secretary Evarts
will tell Lord Dufferin to hang Sitting
Bull on the nearest tree, If he can catch
him; or, If he does not want to hang
him, then to turn him over to us. He
has committed enough murders OH our
side Of the line to entitle him to a very
speedy execution.
Sitting Bull is simply q border cut
throat. He evaded the pursuit Of u
troops and fed into Canada, where he
is stealing from the peaceable Canadian
Indians and melting them to war or
the whites. We respectfully make Lord
Dufferin welcome to Sitting Bull, and
trust he will either catch and hang
him Or authorize Il troops to cross
the border and do it for him. There
are some cavalrymen and miners out
this way who would be very glad Of
the Job.
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