Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-01-09
THE OWLS At SUPPER.
What to do With Indians.
From the New York Observer.


VIvEaDUs Did you notice th
remark made 10 the House by
member If Congress that 1.-THE onl,
good Indian he over cav WAS dea,
Indian"
/ Mr.. JoHNs.-I saw il with horro
and disgust. The remark WAS no
the outcoma Of humanity, bnt ths
of impiacabie hostility to the Indial
race which the white men hav
shove since they fret began to has
them ard love their lands.
| PRoF INDEX 1T il said that Will
4, iiam the Conqueror when be lande'
IN England, exclaimed to the people
IL come for yonr good. for all you
goods" And got them, | believe
Our love for the Indians has bee,
shown 10 the same way: We hav,
been preaching about doing then
good and have done them ont o
their goods,
| VIvENDUs But | have not suci
bo.ror at the remark OF the membeI
of Congress as my dear friend Mr.
Johns expresses The religion O
Christ can convert savage into q
man, and gooi man. but he Indian
OF tho American Continent bias al
ways been treacherous, cruel and In.
fernal 10 his heart. A few have been
civilized and We rejoice q. the work
which mission ies nave done in the
Indian Territory. whore schools aad
churches flourish, and agriculture
and arts have been adopted instead
of fishing and hunting. These are
facts, but they do not disturb the
greater fact that the race is natural.
~ cruel, the enemy Of civilization
and therefore OF the white man.
LAIcUs Still they have rights
which white men are bound to re.
spsct. Does any good man venture
to affirm that civilization may rob a
savago aud not commit a crime ?
You may 6od a sort Of balm for con-
science 10 the divine treatment Of
the aboriglnos in the land Of Canaan
but until you End a writ of eject
| ment issued from the court of Heav-
On, and sealed with the signet ring
Of the Hing Of kings, I will bs conn
sci for the In dams and defend their
title to the bitter end.
Dominic UTREYr-It is a treat to
listen TO lawyer when be warns
10 bis work. And | am on his side
aud the Indians. Bot the ways OF
Providence are mysterious in the
history of nations as of Individuals.
The civiissd colony plants itself on
toe confines of barbarism aud the
savage tribes mel. away before the
advance of their new neighbors.
The earth is subdued by the growth
of civilized power, and the gradual
decay of those people that have not
the arss aud sciences, not 10 speak of
this Gasissian religion, with which
they 60 hard 10 hand. But This
does not make wrong right. Aud
the history of our dealings with the
Indians has been substantially evil
from the first.
Dr.. Scribe Il am in favor of put
ting the entire manage ment of the
Indian question into the hands Of
the War Department. The poor
Indians have too long been the prey
Of INSCRIPTIONS ,nerceusrv traders.
who would The natives TO put
n ,ney into their own purses
Mr. JOINS And what reason is
there TO suppose that any better set
of men would control the matter,
than nov. if we mate it over TO the
army? Somebody must firnish the
supplies aud army contracts are as
mach the prey of j,bbers, -rascals
At that,--as any other contracts sre.
II is honesty we want, AMI | do not
see why We ehould expect it in one
set of men more than in another,
LAIcus- The army cffi ,er is sup
posea TO be man OF honor, and
think thu chances are that less
swindliDg wouii be done il the whole
thing were under military inspection
aud control.
Dominic UrREYT But the mis- i
sions and schools ard the arts OF
peace, where they arc now thriving
would not stand 80 good a chance
The army would regulate affairs by
another code, and the laws of love
would be repeated.
VIvENDUs II think not. Military
men are as good as any other men,
take them as whole, aud they
would encourage moral means ss
earnestly as Mr.. Johns would. But
there is vast region, tho frontier OF
civilization, where our citizens, with
their families and f1ccks and herds,
are making for themselves homes.
they do not modest the Indians, and
they must be protected against these
wild men who love to put them 10
death. 1t is not in harmony with
the highest good OF the human race
that savages should control immense
regions for the chase, while the pop.
u,ation of The earth must depend for
its food on agriculture. .Barbarism
must give place to the arts and GUS
toms CT civilized life 1t is not evo-
ution. 1t is the law of progress: 1t lie
not toe survival of the fittest; it ia
the law of necessity that compels
the destroyer to give place to the
producer. that they who will not
work shall not eat.
DoMYsrE UTREYT.-Bnt the rem
| nant must be saved. 1t is not Chris.
tian nor philanthropic to talk of ex.
terminating the Indians. They have
their rights, and they are not snakes
nor tigers. Had they been treated
fairly from the beginning we would
have as little trouble with than as
our Canadian neighbors have with
their Indians.
Pr , INDEX. In spite of all they
have endured, the latest and best re-
turns give us reason to believe there
are US many Indisns'in NorthIAmer-
| ica now as there were 10 any pre-
vious period Of American history,
Probably there are more of them
| now living than there would be il
| the white mer bad not come.
Mr.. JoHNs.-Bnt that does not
prove he whites to have done the
right thing by them Thew have
| lived az the lsraeIitcs did 10 Egypt