National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-09-22

commercial ruin. Opposition to imitation does
not mean contraction or forced resumption. It
simply means firm adherence to the only
policy that can save the country, and the policy
which is bound to be finally successful.
William Allen is q man of wonderful physi-
cal endurance. 1t is believed by some that he
was in the water during the deluge for one
week before Noah took compassion on him
and allowed him to climb into the ark. But
that was during his young days. Now he is
getting old. Time is wearing on his ample
frame, and 1t is predicted that he will come
out OF the Presidential contest in 1888 sans
teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans hair, sans
smell, sans brains, sans everything.
He came stumping into the Surgeon Gene
RAILS office, and hobbling to seat sat down
with apparent pain. eff you please, sir, ;" said
he to the attending surgeon, "can you give me
any relief? have suffered for ten years with
that leg, which was amputsted at the Wilder
ness" After examining 1t the surgeon re-
piled that 1t would have to be amputated once
more. "Great heavens after having suffered
for ten years, unable to work living on my
friends and scanty pension, and seeing day by
day the very men who caused my country and
myself this affliction coming pompously into
prominence and power, and then to suffer an
other ordeal of cutting, and perhaps death
it's hard, sir but then it was for the old flag,
so bring on your knife !" and a tear started
from the old veterans eye as he hobbled along
towards the surgeons private room.
The President in one of his annual messages
to Congress says:
az regret to believe that citizens of the
United States, or those claiming to be such,
are large holders in Cuba of what is there
claimed as property, but which is forbidden
and denounced by che laws of tire United
States. They are thus, in defiance of the
spirit of our own laws, contributing to the
continuance of this distressing and sickening
contest. In my last annual message l referred
to the subject, and 1 again recommend such
legislation as may be proper to denounce, and
If not prevent, at least to discourage American
citizens from holding or dealing in slaves"
William Welsh is among this disreputable
number. In this matter he is thu manifest
perpetrator of a double crime. He is not only
found in the despicable role of STAKEHOLDER,
but he is discovered to be an abettor and alder
of the unholy war which Spain is waging
against patriotic and misgoverned people.
But he is reformer, you know; great moral
reformer, a Christian gentleman and phil
anthropist. Chops and tomato sauce.
There is law strictly forbidding the selling
or even the presence of intoxicating liquors on
most all of the reservations in the United
States. This law was passed for the purpose
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when once they get an appetite for, is far more
demoralizing to them than any other evil that
was ever introduced into their midst. In q
great measure under the present adm!nistra-
ton of Indian affairs this law has been strictly
enforced, and It is seldom that the public has
learned Of any trouble arising from the use of
liquor on our Indian reservations. Still there
are few cases where mercenary white men
have clandestinely Struggled the intoxicating
draught into the forbidden precincts, and
have succeeded in disposing of their liquid
wares to the poor red wretched men who, per-
chance, had something wherewith to secure
them. There are other cases where intelligent
white men have for certain selfish ends iu-
weighed Indians into state of intoxication, and
among the most prominent of these perhaps is
the one recently developed in the Red Cloud
investigation. Pfefessof Marsh pretends and
undoubtedly is a gentleman of much intelli-
gence. He is probably acquainted with the
law respecting the vending and use of intoxi-
eating fluids on Indian reservations. He knew
that this law was enacted both for the moral
and physical benefit of the red man, and yet,
in the face of these facts, while pretentiously
acting as friend to the sborigines, he pur-
chased and distributed among some who
were enjoying his hospitality, a quantity of
liquor, sufficient to put them in a state of
stupid drunkenness. This fact stands against
n--1~ssn- Marsh on the records of the
Red ClUud Investigation. WHIT VIII
he do with it! He cannot deny it, because he
has acknowledged it. he wantedit expunged,
but his wish was not granted. What will he
do with it, again we ask There it stands
dark and deep stain on his reputation. There
1t stands a living, proven fact that he
secured the intoxication of red man; that he
got a fellow-man drunk; that he led a poor,
miserable Indian into state of mental torpor,
and, placing him under oath, received his sig
nature to an affidavit. And what will the
Government do with this fact Here is a case
where the law has been violated, and clearly
proven to have so been. 1t knows who the
violator is. 1t has him securely within its
grasp. 1t has ample testimony to convict.
There is no earthly excuse why it should not
punish Professor Marsh to the fullest extent of
the law, which is heavy fine and term of
years in the penitentia<y. A law which is not
enforced is dead letter, and a law that can
be enforced and is not is a living witness to the
maladministration of justice.