The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-10-16
INDIANS.

The Chicago Tribune thinks the present
Ute war furnishes the Government one OF
the best opportunities it will ever have to
abandon the present Indian policy, and
PertiEently inquiries, show. msny more out
RACES, and murders, and expensive WARE
must we have before the Government will
see the fatal folly Of treating rowing tribes
of ssvages as foreign powers, with whom it
is to maintain treaty relations, especially
when these treaties arc deliberately violated
by rascally Agents and contractors with
perfect IMMUNITY, and even the Government
itself finds it impossible or impracticable to
cary out their provisions How much
longer will the Government expose the lives
OF peaceful settlers and miners TO the fury
OF Indians who have been robbed, cheated
and swindled, that ring Of scoundrels who
deserve the penitentlary, may feather their
nests The Tribune thinks there is but one
way TO efectually settle the Indian ques-
ton, aid that way it states as follows:
Corral the Indians as rapidly as possible
them to the Indian Territory, where, as fast
as is practicable, they shall be compelled 10
maintain themselves by farming and stock
raising. Once placed there, the Government
should prosecute with the utmost vigor any
white man who interfered with them or en-
croached upon their territory. This must OF
| necessity lie the outcome of the present war
with the Utes. Their defeat will inevitsbI
l l.aJ tn l,a AM IN no
ing up of western Colorado-in which they
| roam over an area almost as large as Iii.
nois- TO settlement, and 1t should be the pro-
gramme to be adopted IN the case OF all the
other tribes. The Utes are nearer to civiliza-
ton than the other tribes, being only about
l5O miles west OF Denver, and right in the
heart OF the newly discovered mining
districts; but all the savages now
prowling between the Canadian
| frontier and the Mexican border are in the
| way of emigration, and must get oht of the
way. 1t is foolish TO sentimentalize any
longer. The sooner 1t is done the less expen-
sive IL Will be IN life and money. There is a
constant and yearly increasing wave of emf
grafton sweeping across the great West from
the more crowded East. The stock raisers
| and ranchmen are covering the vast plains
| stretching rom Texas through New Mexico
way up 10 Montana and Wyoming, with their
herds, wherever there are grass and wafer.
Even the dry sterile tracts where nothing
now grows will soon be devoted TO the new
grain being introduced by the Mennonites
| which grows and thrives even In the driest
soils. Railroads are interesting the country
| in all directions. Miners are following their
| line north, south, east and west, and must OF
/ necessity collide with the Indians. Settlers
| are planting their farms wherever there is
| arsJl soil, timber and water. The great flood
| of emigration has only begun, and yet IL is
| even now spreading all over the Western
| Territories. Ii will rapidly grow year by
| year, a. the railroads penetrate farther
and further, and join the East and West
| in closer union. II is only temporizing, and,
rs Tilden would say, "a futile dallianoe'
with the problem TO move the Indians back
| from station TO station. The tide overtake,
| them almost before they can be moved, and
| involves dangerous collision and needless ex.
penditure. Unless the Government can
| check emigration, il cannot observe its sham
| treaties, and the only way IL can put the
question at rest is to collect the ssvages just
| fast as possible and get them out Of the way,
and to make the future secure by first dis
arming and dismountlng them, and then
civiliZing them as fast as circumstances will
admit. IL il the only policy which will Sc
cure the eInigrants and settlers from danger.
| Il will be Il lender mercy to the Indian, and
| relieve him from the depreGations Of the
scOundrels who are now fleeing HIM and
| goading him on to furious retaliation. 1t is
the only policy that can open up the Grea,
| West TO settlement IN a saIe and expeditions
| manner.