Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-07-21
BAD NEWSPAPER INFLUENCE.

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Gold Hill News makes that paper
the most wonderful exchange that
finds its way into this Office. To
say that it is visionary and extreme,
is to tell its character in as mild
terms as we at this moment can
bring to the pens end. If one
should attempt to set it Alright on
every occasion presented for criti-
cism and correction one would find
himself engaged in a never-ending
task. 1t is only when it commits
an error which, if let go by might
do some public harm, that THE
TIMES can afford to give it any
heed. In its last issue it reiterates
q statement made some days ago
that the Sioux Indians ought to be
exterminated. When the first arti-
Gle Of the same import was pub
lished We did not deem it worth
the while to pay any attention to it,
believing that when the smoke of
battle cleared away The News would
take q more humane view OF the sit
uaiion and its requirements. Asan
honest journalist, whose duty it is
to mould o correct public opinion,
consonant with civilization and the
teachings of civilized life, We now
feel called upon to counterfeit the
influence Of The News in this one
particular. In the first place, to
exterminate o whole tribe of IN
dians, or to engage in warfare with
the intention of exterminating fifty
or even twenty Indians, is repug-
uant to the senses OF anyone but u
barbarian. a war of determination
has never been waged by any civil
lied nation against an uncivilized
horde since medieval times. Such
an event now would be a dis
grace to humanity that it would take
ages to recover from. In fact no
subseq uent act of kindness to iufe-
riors could atone for it. 1t is not a
wonder that men who have been
among the Indians and have suf-
fered violence ut their hands should
cherish such q hatred toward them
as would be satisfied only by the
death of the last red man in the
world. But newspapers are sup
posed in these matters to have no
grievances to redress, and editors
are expected to write upon such
topics from standpoint little
above the average desperate 'front.'
iersman, aud to be guided some
what by the teachings of history,
the behests of humanity and the in
huence OF modern philosophy. Ii
The News editor tanks the Sioux
are not capable OF any improve
ment we refer him to the progress
which tue Cherokees have made in
the Indian Territory aud the Win
nebagos in Michigan. Those tribes
are now e ucated and industrious.
Once they were wild and treacher-
Gus. Its plain enough now that
it would be disgrace to have ex-
terminated them. The Sioux should
be governed if ii takes the last man
of them in establishing the supre-
macy of the army. Any newspaper
that advocates . severer course
(which course would be wholly IN
necessary is not tit to be a mentor
of the people. The News says that
Custer and his band were murdered
in cold blood. We presume that is
meant as joke. and pass it by ac-
cordingly. We append paragraph
from u Canadian paper, showing
that in Canada the feeling toward
the Indians is quite different from
what it is in this country:
We will not change our policy
with regard to red men; We will
continue to mete out to them the
same measure OF justice and afford
them the same protection as We ac-
cord to white men. So far our
hands are clean-no Indians blood
stains them. Under our rule Ne
Indian has ever been put to death
by the Government except by the
same process Of law that sends the
white man to the gallows.
TnE New SAVAGE TRUSTEES
The Savage election to-day resulted