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Show and the usual frontier difficulties of the west, the severe winters, the bad roads, delayed malie and other aioilar trials, oould no doubt have been easily met had there not been over and above all, the political and religious hostility between the Mormon and the United States governments. In exoneration of this country's " century of dishonor, 8 it has been pointed out that the ever changing frontier made the Indian problem too big and confused for the United States to solve; that shedidjigt neglect j she simply did not understand. It cannot be said, surely in the case of Utah ths- t ahe did not neglect; and whether failure to understand can be considered an explanation or not is & question. It is evident that in Utah the mutual hostility of Hormone and the United States was the cause of the neglest and delay of the federal government to solve the Indian problem there. Th^ Hormone indeed made themselves s, decided hindrance In treating with the Indians. On the i _ ^ Ellison, ffr. E. , Federal Indian Policy in California,' MS. in University of California. Introduction. |
