The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-09

as upon the killing of volt. The frontier
society is imbued with traditions and nara
tives of cruel massacres, of women carried
which death would be blessing /;
of men slowly tortured to death
by delighted and frantic warriors. We are
told with harsh, blunt truthfulness that we
do not challenge that manifest destiny has
solved this distressing problem; that the
aborigines must be driven from the continent,
that the white men need their hills and val
leys and rivers, and that whether war OF dis
ease or intemperance exterminates them it
matters little, the end must come. Even if this
were sound policy, even if it became the duty
of the government to deal with the Indians
as with wolves, it would not justify the trans
actions which are recorded by our correspond
emit Laying aside any question of duty to
the Indians as our wards we see system so
corrupt in all respects that il is a question
whether it is more injurious to the white or
the red man. We see possibilities of misgov-
eminent on the part of our authorities in
Washington that make us fear that an admin
isration which can tolerate such state of
affairs in the Sioux country must be corrupt
in every department.
This criticism bears directly upon the Pres
ident. When he accepted Office he especially
charged himself with the settlement of the
Indian question. He knew it we'll, for he
had lived on tho frontier as soldier. The
President was wise and bold at the outset
Humane men rejoiced to feel that at last the
Indian problem, for generations The stain
upon our civilization, would be solved The
President selected irreproachable agents
wise experienced and devout. But their
work was doomed. The Ring was too pow
erful. The men who grew rich while Indians
were eating dogs and ponies, rich out of the
money belonging to starving tribes, were too
strong. The Quaker policy" as it was
called in scorn, failed. The President sur
rendered to influences which he began bis
administration by fighting, and the Indian
policy, which at the outset had William Welsh
and George H. Stuart at its head, is now
typifed by Orville Grant, the President 8
brother, partner in Indian trading stores,
and sustained in his monopoly by the gov
eminent This fact is so fragrant and scan
dalous that it carries its own comment. Even
the admirers of General Grant concede that
he has not been wise In bis ideas as to the
claims of his relatives upon the treasury. 1t
was bad enough to send an incompetent rela-
tive to foreign court and to appoint cal
low son, who stumbled through West Point,
to be lieutenant colonel before his lieuten-
ants straps had lost their fringe But how
much worse it is to find at the head of this
system of mismanagement and iphumanity
which now prevails in the Sioux country the
Presidents own brother 1t is the most dis
heartening incident of the Presidents term.
An American Doctor in London.
produced profound impression on the
medical mind of London by his lecture before
o learned body in that city on the American
treatment of puerperal fever-a fact that will
scarcely surprise those who know the bold
difference in the view OF this disease taken by
the practice here from the view on which the
practice in England rests. 1t is assumed by
the practice here that while the cases of this
disease may be grouped in two classes, yet in
the class that includes by far the larger num-
Der of cases the fever may be practically re-
garded as of traumatic origin; that all its
phenomena are due to the communication by
the nervous system of the irritation conse-
quent upon what may be considered
as an extensive injury, and that con-
sequently, if you interrupt this COM
munication by keeping the nervous
system under the influence of opiates till the
injury is remedied by ordinary physiological
processes, the large majority of patients will
recover. For fifteen or twenty years this
treatment, with or without the theory, has
been practised in this city; and, as all the bet
ter doctors OF the country study here, it has
spread to other cities, and with results so
eminently satisfactory that disease once re-
garded with great dread is now commonly
esteemed as fairly within the number of man.
ageabe maladies. DIR. Alonzo Clark, of this
city, one of the ablest American physicians,
first publicly taught this practice; but we be-
lieve he does not claim that it is his inven-
ton, but attributes it to hint from DR.. Arm
strong, who fourished in London in the early
part of this century, and who, curiously
enough, was bleeder and purger. In Lon
don they have not needed the success of this
treatment here because there is an unfortu-
nate fashion there of fancying that in the
science of medicine what is not known in Lon
don or Paris is scarcely worth the attention of
busy men.
The MoULToN LIBEL INDICTMENT Mr.
Moulton and District Attorney Britton have
exchanged correspondence regarding the late
nplcasantness between Mr.. Tilton and Ply
mouth church which is of decidedly spicy
character Mr.. Moulton wishes to meet any
charge that may have been preferred against
him, and the Brooklyn District Attorney re-