Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-06
TEE COLORADO Ute REMOVAL

published in this city has been airing
Its ignorance and venting its venom
ia relation to the proposed removal
Of the Colombo Utes 70 the San
Juan country, located in the south
eastern art OF this Territory. After
making copious extracts from the
Springfield ReouJ lean, it follows up
this labor Of the scizzsrs and paste
pot with the following dish of intel
leetual hotch-potch:
1--WE. have copied the above to show
what faith our great Government has
shown with those Indians and what
means were used by the Colorado
land-stealers TO obtain the consent Of
the Indians 10 a removal. The whole
business has been base and cowardly
in the extreme, but there are two
phases in the case that the article does
not mention. One is, that by some ar
rangement the Colorado men have
secured the Mormon chiefs in this Ter
ritory 10 consent 10 the transfer, which
Of course viii stop ell opposition from |
Delegate Game and insure his covert 1
il not open support Of the measure.
It would mean the building OF 4 saw
age wall between Northern Utah and
Colorado, and would be an unmiti-
gated hardship upon this Territory. for
which there is no possible excuse.
Moreover, ii would result in tho direct
robbery OF many settlers who have
located on the lands that the .rener-
Gus Colorado men propose to give
the savages. The business should be
killed in Congress. and the Govern
ment should keep its treaty obliga-
tons"
About the degree Of good faith on
the part OF the Government in its
treatment Of the In6ians. and the
operations OF the Colorado land
sharks we have nothing to say, be-
cause however little poetry there
may be in these charges. we are mt
prepared to state that they do
not contain strong clements of
truth. As 10 any consent beipg
given to the removal 10y apy one /
Interested in tie Mormon, settle
nents In San Juan County, there i
not grain Of ground for the asser-
ION, which is not only intrinsjcaIIv S
losurd, but bears that aspect unon q
Is face. The removal has been /
teadIy fought by the representa-. |
ives Of the settlers, but it is discov- t
red that, like every other move ]
nent in which Iniians or "NIor t
lonsa are the proposed victims. If a
; inevitable. S
The settlers-''SIormons,,. AMI n
oa-"Mormons," are about to NJ t
Of their homes, established p
y great toll and labor, and com Il
eiied to seek other locations. They
re now endeavoriug, in the event Of a
leir compulsory exodus. tn induce a
he government not to subject them jt
TINS deprivation without ACCORD Ia
Is them compensation somewhat Il
9proaching the value OF their i'm IL
'ovements. Nothing wouII suit Il
ZEN better, however, than TO he al
lowed to remain in peaceabl. nos n
.Ssioa Of their homes. to which n
icy have naturally become greatly HI
tachsi, the country being a fairly Of
BOD one, all reports 10 the eontrory a
Notwithstanding. n
The erection ''of a savay.. wsu So
tween Northern Utah and Colon. tn
= IS physical impossibility 30 far de
Relates to the proposed removal re
the Utes' the San Juan Countrv tn
lng located on the extreme south al
stern border OF Utah. If the ra W
oval is to be an s'unm;tiraied at
.Fdship upon this Territory, none pr
III feel it with greater force tb,n
e mormon" settlers, who are in be
e overwhelming majority in the CO
sion OF country immediately in OF
'ested. This rhetorical ewsJI,, vi
o mas This Disadvantage to them tn
L places a disagreeable barrier fol
tween the settlements in SOUTH Sd
'.ern Utah from those located in Sc:
n Luis Valley, due east, on the tn,
lthern Colorado border. tn,
Though differing on many poin.s be
4 rule from our rabid, unreason. to
e and vituperstive ootemyor,ry dis
the matter Of a desire 10 see the the
asare in question skilled in Con- an
5 $" it can incite no controversy pre-
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