Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-03-19
the COLORADO NrlMY.


Tho little scheme u a number Of
Colombo "lchthor.brccchcs" aud land
spectators 10 remove tho Southern Ute
Indians from their pleasant aud fertile
reservation In the Centennial state aud
drop them Into San Juan county, Utah,
10 Just now oncountofing many an un.
expected susg. Even the Congrcssiou.
nj committee which has had the bill
In charge, IL reported a. being an.
favorable to Il; and Of couuo 10 the
lobbyists have not been ablo to win that
small number Of usually susceptible
champions 10 their side, their case
would seem to look indeed hopeless,
Every honest man, In Congress or
cut oft, ought 10 know that iu such
trade aa this, something more than the
mere dlolum aud the spoclous argu.
monis Of the lobby must bu considered.
Tho proposed bargain h too important
10 DO carried through upon this repre-.
fcnlallons Of one side only-ani that
side tho bouofchries' That Colorado
people should want 10 get rii OF their
rcd neighbors ami got possession Of
their good lands IL easy enough to
undcratandi but the plan proposed IL
not % easy tojus,iiy. II happens that
Utah doesn't want any more Indians
than she has already and that
she Is especially avgrie to being
treated Ms mere damping.ground Tor
Colorado's surplus. Il further happens
that the aectlon which II Is proposal 10
give tho Indians la the event OF their
removal, has boon coloniEsi at gtoit
expense Of tinB aud msans aud AN 4
great hardship; aud that the settlers
have made extensive aud valuable i'm.
proyomonta which money could hardly
pay for In Wow oi tho fact that should
they loss their poasoisionl they would
scarcely know whore 10 20 10 got other
lands Tor homes ami farms Lastly, 10
happens that the Indians themislvoa
are Aveuo to the exchange; aui this
objection, wo submit, 10 Tremendously
important, Notwithstanding the popular
Colorado notion that the Indian has
no rights which the white man h
bound to respect, or that the only good
Indian 10 a dead Indian.
Il may be true that fow Of those
Utos are willing TO have tho removal
tako place; there arc always whito
men shrewd enough to bflbB with
presents ami oaillu with promises the
uniulorsd savage. But the great ma
iorlty Of tho lAttor have remained an.
shaken by either threats or gifts or
pledges; aud No far as the psopls OF
Utah arc concerned, not only the
San Juan sot.lora bat tholr follow.
citizens In every county In the
Territory, there Is probably no. one
who does not regard the proposition ns
rank Injustice and an outrage. Whal
all OF US dobirn Ia that the present un
certainty shall DO terminated; that th,
cloud which for months and yeau
has been lowering over san Juan b,
dispened; tina, the thrifty people Their,
w hANNh AAAA kAtio 30 AhNlA lANAhi NNh
full assurance that they will be- loi
uudisturboi; no that they may 80 OF
with their reclamation Of tho waste
anu with their improvements upon
aud around their farms ami hearth
stones. TINS mission Of tho Colo
RADIO lobby in Washington b.
disgraoefll and u Congress ha.
spark Of conscience lott, that
ml8slon viii uil. Kate Field
in the latest issue OF Washington, rid,
dies their scheme, which she calls at
outrage ON the indians; ami her CON
olu5ion We fully aud heartily enforce
at is about time that reason entered
into tho solution Of problem which
has only beeu problem because SEM
timen,ality On one eide ami goodies.
greed on the other have slragalgl
common sense In tho treatment OF Oh,
Indlun.U