Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-07-25
Z. TIVE SWINDLED SIOUX "
AGAIN.


n the readers and admirers of the
..rerritorial Enterprise" journal ac-
corded . very high standing on this
coast, to know that it has assumed a
posit;on from which it has been fore
cd. from lack Of argument to sneak
out like q chicken thief at night:
This we claim that the Enterprise
has done in its discussion with the
TrxEs upon Indian affairs. No one
acquainted with the past and present
conduct Of the Enterprise" will at
tempt to credit its editorial columns
with any degree Of consistency in the
discussion Of important issues. 1t is
ever chop-chopping around, as tickle
~ the wind, first on one side and
then on the other. 1t was first very
sure that Beecher was undergoing
persecution, then it was not, then it
was, and then it was not, and it would
puzzle the closest reader to tell
where It stood at the end Of the trial.
1t has been the same when treating
Of Indian affairs, as we shall show in
this article. The points in this dis
cussion are Just these: In comment
ing upon Prof. Marsh's accusations
against the agents at the Red Cloud
agency, we held and do now, that the
Sioux Indians were not proper OBJ
iccts of Government protection nor of
the sympathy Of white men. We do
not know that We said they should
I've exterminated, but we now unhesi-
tatfngly make that assertion. In an
swer to our article the Enterprise"
opened its ponderous jaws and by its
chief editor attempted to annihilate
the TIMES. 1t planted its standard
on the high hill Of Humanity, and
from this lofty eminence trumpeted
forth the virtues Of the noble red man.
It virtually took the position that the
Sioux were prosecuted and that the
whites had no rights superior to In
dians; the whole boundless continent
of right belonged to them; that they
had been driven away up into nook
of the Rocky Mountains, as last
haven of safety from their white ag-
grsssors. We forgave this manifest
ignorance in the Enterprise" very
properly supposing it did not know
that there is stretch of fertile coun-
try between the Iowa border and the
Rocky Mountains nine hundred miles
in extent that is occupied and roamed
over by the Sioux Indians, and in no
part Of which would the scalp of the
scholastic genius who writes Indian
articles for the Enterprise" be safe
from Sioux acquisitiveness. From
these proportions the bright and
shining light which sheds its lustre
over the journalistic sky OF Storey
county, SCARED aloft on the glorious
wings Of his own magnificence to the
upper heaven, shouting, 40! the poor
Indian, at every flap Of his FURNISHED
wings. Having flushed our game,
we took him on his own ground and
by a few we'll directed statements
brought him down feathers and all.
We judge the tumble was heavy one,
for it knocked all the sense out OF
him, and when he attempts to flutter
again in last Fridays issue, he forgets
70 produce q single argument
III defense Of his first position,
relying. wholly upon his powers
OF invective to cover up the tracks of
his ignorance. Abuse OF an oppo-
nent will mot avail you, Mr.. Enter
prise, nor shall it be powerful
enough to call out abuse In return.
In all discussion with the Enterprise
we shall be sufficiently generous to
spread the mantle OF charity over
the personal decomposition Of its
"Indian" editor. When it says
the Sioux are abused and have
equal rights with the whites we can
not agree with Il, but when 1t says,
~ 1t did say in its columns OF July
Is, 1873,
"All the tribes Of the West are not worth
one life such = Canbys,"
orthe lie Of any other white man,
we concur most heartily. For the
purpose Of showing the inconsist-
ancy OF the Enterprise on Indian af-
fairs, we take the liberty Of quoting
from It's file. Il is just barely pos
sible that We have given Mr.. Dag
gett too much credit in assuming
that he combines all the mental
magnificence Of the Esateypa1se, and
that he u not wholly responsible for
all the eloquence and srudition that
has until now hoated undisturbed
through its- columns. Be that rs it
may. we shall hold. the Enterprise
and not the mellifiuous Daggett re.
sponsihe for the inconsistent, zig.
tagging, Aip-fopping course which
has characterized its writings on
~ssss~s~ ouSGSS VAiBotiJ
called indians. One thing Is GER
tain however, that when . news.
paper which Is smothered all over
IN talent. and wisdom permits its
journalistic Samson 10 resort to so
mean . subtsrfuga - abuss.to carry
"a point wrongly taken, 1t should fly
its flag at half-nass.in token OF de
parted honor, or . yellow rag. from-
it, window to denote that pestifer.
Gus disease had broken out in its
ssnctum. In proof OF its ineocsist-
ency We cite Il to Its own files piled
AWAY In the Summer of 1873, and
containing article after article ask
Ing the determination Of the Mo.
docs-men, women and children,
and then % it, articles Of the past
lew days condemning US for inti-
mating the destruction OF the sioux!
D, thou jewel Of consistency O,
thou modssn Daniel come TO Judge.
Ipeut! Hadst thou he.en NJ the Usias