The Indian Policy

The jSew York Tribune, urging a policy of doaling with tho Indians which shaïl bo really humano, gays : "Itisvery niiich tbo otlior way now. "We have alternato soasons of fesgting and fightin; the sarai: Indians. -Vincent Colyr codillos them nwhile, and tfaen Gon. Crook opens firo upon them. Thtre is alwayssoine peace oommissioaer interferin-g to stop any military jnov im-nt tha( Bhould ciToctually awo them into onlnr ; and always some anny oflicer coming on tho scène (o binder tho -woi-k of the poaco oommÍMÍoner8) ana leave us forovcr in doubt as to whather tl:cy conld really have secured tho pcaco if they had been let alono. Bat betwoon them wc havo perpetual Ir.itchory by tho Indians or bntchery by tho whites, with piliuge perpetun] on both sides. " What wo do want, then, is a humano policy with the Indians. At prosont wo have nono at all, or rather too many, which, coming in conflict, aro worso than none.1'