Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-02-16

Them. l would waste neither tinlo nor
money IN schools aud churches among
them until had, by the object lesson,
Interested them M their physical Inn
pf0vcmcnt.
n an Indian becomes convinced
that certain white Is ali honest man
and Will not cheat him or harm him
Ia any way, that white man can lead
the Indian In any direction. IL the
Indian lives upon bis own land, know
Ing thatjie cannot 10 driven rom IL,
aud next to his farm Is a white family
that IL getting ON well, the Indian
sees the improvements and sees that
they are due 10 work. He sees the
white family Increase the ploughed
land and the crops, sees the cattle and
horses increasing IN numbers, sees the
white family build house aud leave
!he dug-out, sees the whites wearing
better. clothes, sees the new. wagon,
new harness, the new implements.
Gradually the Indian gets II impressed
on his slow mind that bet too can No the
sanie. lie makes the effort. IL the
whites arc friendly, " they are
not trying 10 get his land, II
II II part OF their duty to en-
courage him, the Indian soon begins
TO manifest pleased wonder ut his own
success. The rest n easy. Only keep
him Ia contact with whites who will
not enticc him to drinking, gambling
aud other vices, anu the problem IL
solved for him-he will become n pros.
porous man aud no will not fall back
Just n long ms the white Influence
around him Ia really an influence for
good.
This IL one case. Multiply II from
one allotment or two-from one white
aud one red family 10 hundred, 20 n
thousand Of each and, provided the
white families are equally honest, cap
able aud industrious, tho result will DO
equally gratiiying-the indians will lie
saved, rcvolutionized and civilized In
the right sense Of the term. The
only obstacles are, fifst TO get thd
consent OF tho indians 10 try the
scheme, and SECONDLY - 10 find
the whites who win accept the condl-
lions. Can they be overcome? In my
opinion they can. Yet what | am to
oiler NJ n removal OF the second obstacle
Will raise howl OF denuuclatlon n.
moug the "unco guild" who dcslrc to
hold tho indians as their cattle 80 10
speak.
My proposition Is In brief that the
government turn the Indians over to
The Mormon people, after having made
, provision 10 carry out the above
scheme OF Iutcf.sottlcment Of whites
and reds. But why the Mormon poo
plci Because every other sect has
lgled 10 solve the Indian question and
failcd. The iloTmons alone have
solved IL. In Utah, Brigham
Young found the Indians hos.
tile aud troublesome. They stole
stock aud murdered men. brigham
kept saying at IL better To feed than
10 light them" Gradually the Nor.
mon people carried that philosophy
| into execution, and II won. Many n
verbal treaty has been made between
the men Of Mormon communities aud
the Indians about It that has never
been broken on either side. The con-
sequence Il that the Utah Indians who
are In contact with the Mormons are
not unly peaccnblo, but they are, under
the Influence Of the object lesson, be-.
coming interested In farming and
stsck-raising, and are moving steadily
along the ascent OF fertilization.
Hut would the Mormon people
accept such trustg have
never asked one OF them, yet
am sure they would. No people
on earth nre so much Interested In the
Indians Rs are the Mormons. No poo
pie on earth are ~ fayorably disposed 10
them. To the Mormon people the In
dlans are the descendants Of Joseph the
ancient Hebrew, aud they are TO be.
come conspicuous In the restoration oi
Zion and Jerusalem.
Hut would not the Mormons, II 40
placed towards tho Indians, Proselytu
thcm2 Not " thuy agreed not 10 do
no. But the ohcct.l.sson Of religion
would doubtless DO NJ encctlinl A. the
oJecl.les,on Of farming. Hut sup
pose the Indians did become Nor.
mons, where n tho barmg All the
seots bellevo In God; all believe In a