The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-11-05

tfeacnerous RED SKINS. Inc noble red man.
says Mr.. Bull, expects his claims to be recog-
nized. Now, in the name of common sense
what are his claims and what makes him no
BILE. lie is our most deadly enemy and the
enemy of civilization and of the elevation of
man. He is treaoherous, untruthful, coward
ly, deceitful, barbarous, ungodly, inhuman,
lazy, lawless, thief, murderer niutilator,
plunderer and government ration eater no
BILE mess indeed. How noble it is to scalp
white women and children and roast them
alive simply to amuse the squaws aud pap
posses, burn buildings and scatter death and
destruction wherever they go. "Go slow in
solving this great problem Good heavens
haven't we gone slow for the last hundred
years at fearful cost of blood and treasure
and no nearer solution than when we began.
"Chief Joseph held prisoner" Oh, N.Y.
but how do they hold their prisoners why to
a stake, of course, until burned alive they.
we believe, are the original cremators, in this
country at least. "Their dead buried in to
them foreign country" How awful, yet is
Mr.. Bull so ignorant of Indian affairs as not
to know that their dead are always provided
with pipes, tobacco and government rations
sufficient to last them until they reach the
happy hunting grounds, then what difference
where buried. And how many white mems
bones lay bleaching in the sun, far from home
aud friends killed by Indians +" The driving
of Moses out of Oregon" on account of his
unbeatable depredations and the threatened
removal of the Santees by a rancher, their
horses and cattle driven off, and their pre-
duce coniscated, &C., is simply nonsense
The Indians never work, consequently own
nothing except what they steal. The govern
ment, few years ago made desperate eff
fort to civize the Indians, loaned them
horses, harness, wagons, farming implements
furnished them rations, in fact everything
necessary for farming purposes, and hired
white man to do the work while Indian laid
in the shade and smoked big pipe And what
was the result Why, when the harvests
were gathered the Indians harvested the white
meu, gobbled up the plumber and traded it for
arms and ammunition to fight their most mag
unanimous benefactor Ciyilize the Indians
II is ridiculous to talk about it. We can DO
more civilize him than we can Beelzebub him
self, and we've had hundred years. expert
ence to back our assertion. Mr.. Bull quotes
Gen. Crook, an old Indian fighter. Well
Crook is likely to remain an old Indian fight
er all the days of his life and die natural
death from the fact that he don't fight them
at all He is one of those brussels carpet
fighters and never risks his hair as did the
lamented and gallant Custer and many 9TH
ers Though we've no particular fault to find
with them for whipping our troops, it is their
business to whip or get whipped in that case.
s' The Red Clouds, Spotted Tails and Sioux
are living on their reservations" Well, what
of it, they doat do anything for themselves.
They are kept at government EXPENSE
Treat them as you would the white man."
Mr.. Meeker tried that and the way they mas
sacred him is a fair sample of their humanity
Thurman at all, they have bad way of show
ing it. "Givs him a chance" Yes, and if
he don't take your scalp and roast you alive
you are q lucky man. 1.-The noble red man."
Why not say the noble gorilla or noble cann-
bal, they are all noble alike. The War De-
partment issued orders on several occasions,
10 army commanders to punish the Indians
severely for treachery and murder, which or
der we understood to mean to the full extent
of their ammunition, but our Generals know
that if the indians were exterminated that
there would be no further need OF the regular
army, hence the broad philanthropy plan of
Commitatus act. saws Mr.. Bull, " the militia
nv arm of the government is paralyzed. -
Well. so far as being anv protection to white
settlers AGAINST the brutal attacks of the saw
ages the whole military power might as we'll
be dead. There is no other nation on the face
Of the earth that has been SO Iepiently dealt
with as the Indians. Millions of dollars have
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mains the same old Indian. Now, can we af
ford to let millions of acres of land lay waste,
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