MORE FRAUDS.—THE POOR IN. DIANS THE VICTIMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IX, Issue 2520, 22 February 1872, Page 3

MORE FRAUDS.—THE POOR IN. DIANS THE VICTIMS.

We seem to liare fallen upon a time for a general exposure of frauds in the governments of the cities, States and nation, and by officials and agents in every direction. One of the latest of these unearthed rascalities is tlie robbery of tlie Cherokee Indians of tlieir pensions and bounties coming to them from the United States Government, by a combination of federal officials and others, whose duty it was to protect these poor people from such wrong. The Department of tlio Interior appointed lately a special commission to investigate these frauds, and the report we published yesterday, over the signatures of the special agents sent to the Indian Territory to make the examination, shows that the Indians have been shamefully swindled. The aborigines have been the victims of unprincipled traders and agents for a long period in our history. Not half the liberal appropriations, allowances and supplies made by the government for them have been properly applied. Ignorant as they are, they have been conscious frequently of the swindle practised upon them, and this has been one of the most fruitful causes of bloody conflicts between them trad the white settlers and government. To rob these wards of the nation is like robbing orphans. We hope the government will bring the guilty in these Cherokee frauds to punishment. We advise the Quaker philanthropists who have undertaken by authority of the

government to protect the Indians to look sharp after the agents and traders wlio have too long plundered these people and have been the cause of most of the wars and troubles between the two races.— New York Herald.