Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-04
THE INDIAN PROBLEM.

THE INDIAN PkOkLEM.
The citizens of Chadron got together
the other night and did one OF the most
sensible things we have heard OF since
the Indian scare commenced. They
passed set of resolutions that should
meet with the unqualified endorsement
OF every one living within range Of the
scalp lifters. Read:
Resolved, This allowing of thousands
OF savages to be armed to the teeth in
the centre OF a sparsely settled agrarian
state, is condition improvident and un-
reasonable.
Resolved, That the leaders and instiga-
tors of criminalities in savages, should
receive at the hands OF the government
the punishment the law provides for
traitors, anarchists and assassins.
Resolved, That in our Judgment the ex-
igencies of the occasion demand nothing
short of the complete disarming OF the
Indian, and making it a crime for any
person to furnish him with arms or i'm
plements of war; and we respectfully
suggest that the shortest route to the
satisfactory settlement of the question
would be to deprive the sayages of their
horses, substituting therefor oxen trained
to the pillow.
~
Under the head of "How to Make
Good Indians the the Minneapolis Tribune
of the 9th ult., comes out very plainly
in calling the attention OF the govern
mental powers to the farce that has been
going on for years in handling the cop
per-colored coffee-coolers. The Tribune
speaks understandingly Of this question,
and when prominent, influential journals
discuss the subject in this manner, that
philanthropic nonsense will soon lose
its influence with the officials at Wash
ington. The Tribune says:
The army has the Indian situation
we'll in hand and any band of savages SO
foolish as to show fight now would be
promptly whipped into submission. The
Indians themselves are beginning to re-
alize this, and it is reported that there
are some alarm among those at Pine
Ridge agency. But suppose there had
been an uprising and general massa-
ere, as Sitting Bull evidently intended
there should be. Judging by the gov
ernments previous policy, what would
have been the result? After the mis-
chief had been done-after hundreds OF
settlers and perhaps regiment of sol
diers had been butchered- Sitting Bull,
Short Bull, Two Strikes, Kicking Bear
and the other leaders and instigators oil
the massacre would have been captured,
treated with all the courtesy accorded by
civilized nations to distinguished and
honorable prisoners of war, taken to
| Washington to have little chat with the
"Great Father and then turned loose
again to plot more mischief. Such has
been the policy heretofore pursued and
there is no good reason to believe that il
has been abandoned. When General
Candy was treacherously murdered by
the Modocs in the Lava Beds Captain
Jack and three others were executed
But that was fifteen years ago and con-
tinued immunity from punishment has
taught the noble red man to believe that
the government has come to fear him
since then. Geronimo, the Apache fend,
is fattening at Uncle Sans expense
somewhere in North Carolina. He was
teaching a Sunday school class when last
heard from. Sitting Bull, who planned
if he did not personally lead, the Custer
ambush and massacre, has been an hon.
ored guest of the government ever since
and making his fellow savages believe
thai the whites let him alone because
they fear him. He should have been
hung higher than Hannah and with les!
ceremony than is observed by Texas
lynching party toward horse thief. /
there had been in the past at least three
hangings for every uprising hundreds o
valuable lives would have been saved
, As it is the Indians are taught to believ,
that their chiefs are mighty warriors, th'
very mention of whose names inspires
terror at Washington.
The Indians of the Dakotas are in
humor for war and an overpowerint
force is all that checks them Lenienc,
now will mean an outbreak in the spring
They should be disarmed at once peac
IDLY if possible, forcibly il necessary
and il fight is precipitated, the frs
] business after the rascals are whippe.
, should be wholesale hanging bee il
which Sitting Bull and his fellow muir
derers should be compelled to indulge il
} ghost dance on thin air. There woul,
!, be peace on the frontier for long tim
! then.
II The Washington Post of the 25th say
that the voting on the question Of th
I admission Of women to the general con
j ference OF the M. E. church indicate
that the mind of the church, while NC
| fully aroused TO the Importance Of th
) question, favors the election OF women q
i delegates wherever such an election ma
y Ibe desired. The vote has been light, bu
/ summation OF the returns thus far n
! Iceived indicates majority Of abos
IL ], 800 churches in favor OF the admissio
/ OF women. New England and the mi6
pie states are against the women, whil
D the west is practically solid for their ai
Z mission.
B The weather has been cold and storm
J for 4 day on two past This will ALA
!. the Messiah fever to some extent.