Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-14
THE MEEKERS NOT MEEK.
rigorous Card From. Young Ralph DO.
MOlnotn0 Some Eastern Editors.

rigorous Card From. Young Ralph Do
| mo"noin0 Some Eastern Editors.
| Denver News.
| The Neaos has been sent q copy of the
following card for publications:
! GREELEY, COL, Nov. 3, 1s79.-To the
Press and People of Colorado: MY mother,
Mrs. N. G. Meeker, her daughter Josephine,
and Mrs. Price wish to express their pro-
found gratitude to the people and press of
this State for the sympathy and hospitality
which have been so spontaneously and uni
versally shown them since their escape from
captivity. In Denver, Greeley, Colorado
Springs, Pueblo, Alamoso. Lake City, Ouray,
Los Pinos and ut all the stage stations along
the route of return for five hundred miles,
the most tender and respectful attention was
shown them.
AZ son of the murdered agent, and as q
Journalist, denounce the ignorance and dis
graceful incompetency of those newspapers
who are accusing my father of cruelty to the
| Indians. Their assertions and their argu-
ments are simply rubbish and unworthy true
journalism. N. G. Meeker was q graduate
OF Oberlin college: he was born and raised in
the western reserve of Ohio; be was conf
Dental friend and personal admirer of
Horace Greeley. He believed in justice to
all men, white, red or black-Christian or in
| fldel. But tho Chicago Interior disgraces
the Christianity it processes, trails its jour-
| nalistic pretensions in the mud by echoing
the malici GUS statement of Charles A. Dana.
that my father robbed the
Indians of their pasture-lands. These
are the facts: The old agency has just been
moved to a new and unoccupied place So
lectsd by my father as an agent of the gov
| eminent. 1t WAS he, not the Indians, who
moved there, though he went by their assist
ance and consent. They helped move the
agency and erect the buildings, and then
when he was established they pitched their
tents at his door, and the woman Jane dis
covered that the blowing might interfere
with the pasturage of the ponies. My father
at once called o council of the Indians and
accepted new conditions by which the alb
surd claim was relinquished. The Indians
said they were satisfied, and there was no
more complaint until the one man johnson,
came IN from the woods and began to find
fault. But for arguments sake I will
admit for ten minutes that I am liar, that
my father was an oppressor, that Douglas,
Jane & Co. were as immaculate as the editor
OF the Chicago Interl0r-while I ask this
question: Why did Chief Ouray denouuce
'Ao Ai1Oa1soACb WY OAA LID WIG IlSS up IL
the night and denounce the murderers as
the husband told me she did? By the words
of the noblest of all the Utes-by tho words
of his wife, Chepeta, who cried like child
over the agency butchery-by the words of
Henry jim and all honest Utes, the editor
of the Christian Interior newspaper Of
Chicago, and Charles A. Dana, of New York.
are branded as incompetent journalists,
because they malign the innocent
and despAe the truth. My
father was sincere man; and because be
sought to lead the Indians from barbarism
to civilization by the plow-because his
daughter taught young Douglas how to read
and use soap-because my mother nursed
the sick Indians, planted flowers around the
agency, and made the place beautiful, the
editor of the Presbyterian Interior abuses
my father, and makes himself the laughing
stock Of all intelligent Presbyterians in the
West and East. Iwould advise this editor
and Charles A. Dana to 60 West and start
little agency of their own.
RALPH MEEKER