The Montana post., 1868-03-07
RAILROADS VS.. INDIANS.

Grants habits as utter and damnable lies.
E RAILROADS VS.. INDIANS.
The Washington Chronicle of Feb 5.
in speaking of the disastrous effect of
Indiar depredations upon frontiersnlen,
says: lL -i.. Did. -....asr ra.-- -laf HIf'
Upon this proposition the people of the
United States are agreed the Indians must
cease TO murder, rob and harass, or, they must
be whipped into subjection, cost what it may.
For neither the people nor their government
are inse nsible to the supreme obligation which
rests upon Congress and the Executive to pro-
teet the lives and property of American citi-
zens upon the plains and in the Territories.
We are as much delighted as aston
ished to hear it. If the people of the Uni
ted States having agreed upon this, it
remains for their legislators to fulfill
their duty and give US peace by disband-
ing the Peace Commission and impeach-
ing its members, agents, superintendents
and the whole outfit, for high crimes
and misdemeanors. There would be no
trouble in presenting articles and evil
dence in these cases. 1t is stated that il
cost the government fifty million dollars
and six years time to secure peace from
Billy Bowlegs and his handful of Semi
noles in the cypress swamps of Florida
Some wise" army officers have COM
puted that il viii take five years, eiglrty
regiments of troops and nine hundred
millions of dollars to secure peace from
the hundred thousand red murderers
vest of the Missouri. Were it not tor
the gradual butscsrtain extinction of the
Indians, if the present system were com
| tinued, the wise officers might square
all their totals and still fall within the
bounds of probability. The Chronicle,
speaking in the interest of the Kansas
branch of the Pacific Railroad, urges its
extension as the surest and cheapest
Gethod of solving the question. Why
confne system promising certain te'
nefcent results to any specified locality
when it's general introduction would be
fraught with SO many good results. The
railroad companies only ask the credit
of the government. The u. p. r. r
pierces the center of the Indian country
and the settlements ON either side are
rapidly made. The Kansas branch
goes to New Mexico. The N. p. r. r
extending through the northern tier o
territories, would build up, even durfnS
its construction, industrial communities
along the entire route, and thus strength
ened by numbers and means of commu
nication, civilization would be in two o
three years beyond harm of barbarism
The red man avoids the" bad medicin'
wagon" {" of the white man. Let us hav
them, and with them the government
viii be immensely wealthier, more pros
porous and peaceful. u o sl7 5Egff .hF
AN Anti-Secret Society Conventio
was recently held. the Convention bein
composed Of delegates from the Wester
States, and presided over by Rev. ID
Blanchard, President of. Wheaton Col
lege They adopted resolutions declar
ing secret orders now existing an
spreading throughout the country ar
{ hostile to the religion OF. Christ" 1t
4 proposed TO hold a National Conventio
: of Christians in May to inaugurate
j vigorous warfare against secret societies
/: principal among which are Masons, Cd
d Fellows, Druids, Good Templars, Sons
!. Temperance, Rechabites and the r. j
:. a s. If they persist in the thing, secrt
1 societies will become more universa
: than ever Some of them are really So
fering for lack of persecution. coz.
: THE Underground Railway in Lon
: don, extending from the Bank of Eng
: land to the suburbs, FIVE miles in lengtl
5 and connecting with various lines. la
: carried, In five years, over eighty mi
lion passengers, at an average speed
d sixteen miles per hour. without a sing
s fatal accident The number transports
e last year exceeded by two millions thi
|, of the year previous, showing that it
: gaining in popular favor. 1t is high
a probable that in some of the mo
}. densely populated large cities of Il
n United States similar enterprises win
Il ere long projected and completed.