Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1879-11-07

long and persistently upheld the far
cical idea that the poor Indian has
ever been run down and prosecuted by
frontiersmen seem now to be awaken
ing to the true position Of affairs a.
facts not easily controverted come
home directly to them. The Ute In
dian war has developed glaring tiuhs,
facts that were common at other times
and among other tribes of Indians
who have heretofore on so many oc-
casions turned cruelty and most say
agely upon the very life and support
of their indolent existence and laid
old and young, matron and maid, III
FAINT and children in an unholy mas
sacrc. The cause is that the white
man has been urging upon the savage
the ways of civilization; but among
the Utes it was apparent that the
bright example Of modern civilization
received no encouragement on the part
Of the Indian and in the matter of
farming upon their reservation white
labor had to be used. Indulgencies Of
this kind begot in them a deadly ha-
tired which extended even to those
white settlers upon lands adjoining the
Ute reservation. These Indians seem
to prefer determination to civilization
or death to labor.
A correspondent Of the Chicago
Times writes that all the reasons as
signed by the Washington authorities
and eastern journals for the outbreak
are wide of the mark, 1t was not the
encroachment Of miners, reduction of
rations, failure to pay a treaty debt or
the sending in of the soldiers. The
sole cause Of the trouble was trying to
make farm laborers of the Indians and
force them into habits of civilization,
and the outbreak was revolt against
it. Under instructions from the gov,
eminent the agent had pressed upon
them this object 80 persistently that
they came to look upon it as persecu-
ton. Again, the middle and north
parks, though quite defiance outside
the reservation, were regarded by the
White river Utes as their hunting
grounds, and they were in the habit of
leaving the. reservation and going
there whenever they pleased. But the
whites began to occupy those localities
and that fact added to the irritation
Of the Indians confined to their own
domain and compelled to work for
subsistence. The agent began by hir-
ing white men to cultivate the land
for the raising of Indian supplies, but
even this produced disturbance. The
Indians grumbled about it, turned
their horses in TO pasture on the grow
ing wheat at the agency, and claimed
that it was the duty of the govern
mcnt to furnish supplies to them and
leave the reservation as a pasture for
their horses and cattle. Some time
ago the agent set a lot of them to Dig
ging bitches, and this Of course in
creased their discomfort. When they
saw a flouring-mill in course of cree.
ton at the agency and reapers and
mowers and cultivators baing hauled
in they concluded that to delay longer
was to incur the doom Of slavery; and
so through their chief they waited on
the agent and demanded that the
blowing should be stopped and the
whole system of work and improve
ments with il. When the agent asked
for troops he stated officially that
since he had stopped farming opera
tions all was peace, but that wher
they were resumed trouble would b,
repeated. This fear of life of labo,
should system of farming be fairl,
inaugurated, together with the de
struction Of the game in the park,
outside the reservation, followed by
the coming of soldiers to enforce ths
experiments Of the Indian department
led to what bids fair to be one, of tn,
most costly Of Indian wars, The sim
pie way out Of this trouble 100 push
on the army and exterlate thes,
Indians, since they rebel against labor
the first condition of human existenc,
and progress. Blessings on gunpow
der as civilizing agent for Ties,
lazy, dirty diggers, who want to b,
supported by the labor of better PEG