The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-09-23

What meant last springs eleOVlon III
England, by which an administration,
getting fond of military glory, was over.
thrown? 1t meant: We, the people OF
England, want no more war; down with
the sword, up with the treaty. France
will never again, by peccadillo among
ambassadors, pick quarrel with Iorelgh
nationality, hoping for battle. AS pun
ishment, God blotted the French EN-
pire out of existence at Sedan, ana the
only asplrant for the throne that hau
any right of expectation, dies in war
which has not the dignity OF being re,
spectacle. The people of the United
States will prefer arbitration to SWORD
thrust. We see how much better 1t
would have been to have settled our sec
tional strife by treaty. Some philanthrro-
pist said to the North: Purchase the
slaves, or let lhlse born after certain
period be Free" "Not a dollar" said
The North, twill we pay in such a pur
chase" 1--WE would not sell our slaves
at any price," said the South. War,
war! A million dead men and nation
al debt that has we'll nigh ground this
nation to powder. We all see now how
much better to have let VIM. H. Seward
and Alex. Stephens go out for a week
and sit down under tree on the banks
of the Potomac, talk the matter over,
and settle the whole question, as they
could have done, than to have a war that
cost the North $4 100000 900, and the
South $75O,0O0 1000, and the destroy
ing angel shifting the first born in al
most every house.
may be mistaken, but l think the
last war between Christian nations is
ended. Barbaric tribes may continue to
mix war paint and fling their poisoned
iavelins, but Christians have learned
| that war is disaster to victor as well as
vanqnished; and that most things, when
bought with blood, are bought too dear.
Let our own country be model in our
willingness for arbitration. There is no
need of killing another Indian; no need
of sacrificing any more brave Custers.
Stop exasperating the red man, and you
will have no more arrows shot out from
| from the reservations. An officer Of the
| United States Army who stands high in
public estimation, himself having been
perhaps in more Indian wars than any
other man, and wounded in the service
of our Government told me that within
thirty days all the wars between the In
dians and the whites were provoked by
white men; that there was no exception.
While wars between Christian nations
are leasing, why may not our treatment
of barbarians be unprovoCatiVe of con.
test? | inherited large estate; the wa.
ters on the estate are rich with fish; the
woods are songful with birds; l have
cornfelds tasseled with silken gold,
Here is my sisters grave, and under the
shade of that great tree my father died.
An invader comes on to my estate to
take it from me. He crowds me to the
corner of my farm, and l move back.
ward. Afterwards he crowds me to a
closer corner; after to still closer cor.
ner. say, Stand back; if you crowd
me any more, will strike. This is my
property. l got it from my father, and
he from his father What right have
you on my premises?" You respond: 81
know more than you do; belong to
higher civilization; cut my hair shorter
than you do; could make better use Of
this estate than you can, and raise lar.
ger harvests." You crowd me harder
and harder, until one day look around
upon my suffering family, and fred with
their hardships, hew you in twain. All
the world comes to your funeral to do
honor. and tony execution to anathemize
me. You get eulogium, and get the
gibbet. You are the hero, | the culprit
Behold the United States Government
and the North American Indian! The
red man has stood more than you or |
would. We would have struck deeper
and sooner. What is right in defense of
Brooklyn home is right on the Rocky
Mountains or Sierra Nevades. Before
that dwindlDg, dying red race has ut.
terly gone from the earth, let the pres.
ent generation, by common justice, do
something to atone for the inhumanity
of its predecessors. Better in the day of
Gods Judgment have been a bloody Mo
doc, than a swindling United States off
Ger on an Indian reservation. But, in
the disgust of all nations with the art of
cut throatery, commonly called war, and
The substitution of diplomatic ingenuity
for the glittering edge Of keen steel, |
see the day is at hand; another ray of
ths dawn find in the compression of
the worlds distances. What slow, al
most impossible thing would have been
III. worlds recti6Cation, if, wi h four
teen hundred millions inhabitants, there
had been no faCile means of intercom-
muniCation, but telegraphy for the eye
and telephone intimacy for the ear, rail
roading and steamboating for the body,
twenty. five thousand miles of the worlds
circumference are shriveIing up into in.
significant brevity. Hong Kong is near
er New York now than New Haven was
few years ago. Bombay, Moscow and
Melbourne are within calling distance.
Buy telegraphic chart and see the blue
lines representing land telegraphs, and
the red lines showing you the ocean ca
| bles. You see what opportunities all
this is giving for the final moving of
Christianity. 1t may take years to build
fortress, and yet that fortress, when
done, may do all its work in twenty
minute Nearly nineteen centuries
have been required to plant the batter
les of religion, and yet they may do their
work in one day. Men chided the church
of God for slowness of progress, but is
science any swifter? 1t took the world
1852 years to find out so simple thing
as the circulation of the blood, With
the earth and the heavens full of eleC.
tricity, it took science 800 years to dis
cover a single, practical use for this sub
tie, nimble and mighty elem Mt. When,
as will tiAally be the case, good men get
command of these forces and agencies of
invention, the worlds redemption may
he an afternoons work. We read last
| Wedneadav the Oueen's sneach at the