New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-01-28

THE POOR INDIAN SENTIMENT.
(From our Regular Correspondent
Washington, D. c., Jan. 18th, 1880.
Under the shadow of a church,
within stones throw of the palatlal
residence Of the British Minister,
and but a short distance FROM Castle
Stuart" now in ruins, a young gro-
Ger was murdered last week for the
paltry sum of four dollars. The &C.
currence has created a profound SEN
sation, and on Sunday the scene Of
the tragedy was visited by thousands,
who looked upon the blood stained
pavement, and unused upon the un-
security oflife even in this age of
civilization, and in q populous capt.
al. Why this murder should be
more talked about and written about
than the many Others that have
been committed in the city is not
easily explained, except upon the
well.known fact that communities
will apparently tolerate the grossest
outlawry for long time, but will
finally be- shocked, by some deed of
peculiar atrocity, into wreaking vi
carious vengeance on the perpetra-
tors. The murderers are supposed
to be four negroes, now under arrest,
1t is to be hoped that no other city
has such an excess of worthless, idle,
vicious, colored people as Washing.
ton. Nine-tenths of the business of
the Police Court is supplied by this
class, and it 10 known that many of
them, too lazy to work, commit pet
ty crimes for no other purpose than
to secure food and lodging in Jail,
from which they emerge sleek and
fat, prepared for new adventures.
Able bodied colored men infest the
street corners, with shoe backing
apparatus for an excuse for liveli-
hood, content to earn Is or 20 cents
per day, and happy in the lack of
employment that enables them to
joke and gossip with their friends,
when the weather is too cold for the
preferable pastime of doing in the
sun. These lazaroni cannot be in.
duced, by the offer of wages, to
tackle heavy work, and not Italy or
Spain can show a more idle or worth.
less class. The four that have been
arrested formed a singing quartette,
which during the past summer, pa
raded the streets at night, serenad-
ing on the corners, and passing a hat
for pennies at the end of their per.
Torrance. No one who has lived
long in Washington but is familiar
with the hideous music of these utu-
lating Migrants, and they should
have long since been arrested as dis
turbe1s Of sleep.
Ouray and his Ute Chiefs arrived
yesterday, and have been quartered
in a second.class hotel. They come
to secure better terms than hanging
for the murderers and ravishers OF
the Mecker family. When we con-
slider the ignorance and savageness
of these people, it seems absolutely
absurd that we should make treaties
with them or consider them politi-
cally intelligent entities. There has
been a great deal Of sentimentalism,
now happily declining, in the press,
and pulpit, and Congress, about the
rights and wrongs Of the F'poor [ndi-
an. If the history of civilization for
the last 5000 years teaches anything,
the lesson is that the tools belong to
those who can use them, and the soil
of this beautiful earth to those who
SOW and reap. With sentimental
people the tiger may have right to
his native jungle, but the same me-
cessity that is exterpating him with
bullets, charged with explosive poi.
son, and transforming the Jungle in.
to garden, is at work on our from.
tier, and has been at work for three
hundred years, in benifcent slaught-
er Of tigers, from jamestown and
Plymouth Rock, to Colorado. The
fittest will survive in spite of OBJ
structive romantic sentimentalism.
It is the law of nature, the law of
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