The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-28
one OLE THESE sCHoOLs

In full blast,n that is, the officers draw
their .'uucats'' from Uncle Sans surplus,
and dwell in rich tents. But
the Indian .-Lo, The cometh not" but
turns in haste to the rude tepee OF his fond
parents.
1t is u well-known fact in this quarter,
that they send out men to the new Ute
reservation. and leave no stone unturncd
to induce the Indian children to return
with them to Grand junction and enter
school, and often when the roll is called,
silence is the only answer that comes to
back them: vet they are forced to keep up
appearances, and make their reports III
order to receive the reward of the faithful
Let US go deeper. / say Utah has been
robbed of d large area of fertile land, and
the government is called on to pay for this
infamous transaction. What else can be
made of it! Colorado has greatly increased
in wealth by having her lands thrown
open for settlement while Utah has been
retarded and her lands uniustly taken.
And no voice has been heard in protest.
While petitions have multiplied and &C
cumulated at our national capital i'll endless
numbers and many vital and important is
sues and measures pigeon-holed that these
miner matters might be properly attended
te-at the earnest solicitation OF Colorado's
most diligent representatives-and while
with agile eye upon the palladium" net q
thumb has been reversed.
THE MuFFLED DRUM OF SILENCE
alsn Eloat the requiem of departing acres.
Colorado has taken cream, milk pan and all
while Utah got the redskins.
But, says the objcctor, these people
should not be blamed and exposed, when
they are engaged in such laudable unGer-
taking, diffusing knowledge to the Ecble
red mans progeny. This may be true, but
mind you this is not an individual enter
prise. Had the citizens OF Colorado taken
this matter in hand themselves, and paid
out of their own pockets all these expenses,
there would have been no one more ready
or willing to give them "God speed" for
PHILANTHROPY, but to be at no expense, and
benefited by an act of aggression and in
Jury, their lands returned, an appropf7a-
ton made for their exclusive use and i'm
provement, looks too much like being re-
munerated for robbiug your neighbor, in
stead of that other word ''love" which is
entirely ignored.
What was that thunder, smoke and noise
about that shook this part of the country
| from centre to circumference, and sped DER
the land like a hungry Kansas cyclone some
time last year! Why, Colorow:.and few
of his followers stepped across the mys-
FERROUS border line into Colorado and killed
| few deer. Think of it. A great hue and
cry was made; an immense mob was
rendezvoused, and war, cruel war, was
waged against these aged veterans of color
who were driven from their old hunting
grounds, and the resting place of their fore
! fathers back to their new lands
"CHILDREN IN ARMS ADMITTED"
Uncle Sam pays US for training the tender
minds thereof, but no deer hunters moi
aged male Indians need apply. This is the
policy adopted by our eastern neighbors
which is strenuously carried out, and now
another scheme is up, and train laid u
sweep La Plata county, Colo, ''clean'
of her ''manly (originaD Aueri-
cans'' and dump them out another 800 miles
on tract OF Utah lands whose mountains
and mesas are rich and verdant with graz
! ing facilities for thousands OF cattle an6
horses to flourish on, and whose valleys
for climate and fertility, are unsurpassed
b. anything in the territory.
| Arc we to sit quietly down, fold our