Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-08
THE ENGLISH IN THE PACIFIC.
The Portnightly Repiew for June contain

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is interesting and at the same time pain
full. For it shows with what monoton,
OF arrogance and overmastering selishnes
the Anglo-Saxon races everywhere trample
down the weak race it encounters, ant
how also the same Anglo. Saxon rae,
ignores and violates its own religious doc
trines whenever self interest calls upon it
MIR. Wisker begins his paper with an &C
count OF the natives of Australia, and here
we come into contact with situation sc
exactly identical with our own relations
to the Indians that we might be reading
about doings in Colorado or Arizona in.
stead of Queensland and Brisbane. The
Australian colonists treat their natives
Just as the American frontiersmen treat
the Indians. They are regarded as ver-
min, and killed at every opportunity
Where reservations have been set apart
for them the white men are constantly
trying to get them away. There is an in
stitution in Australia, however, which is
peculiar to that country. We refer to
what is called the Black Police. The
Government has employed natives to hunt
and kill their own people. They are uni
formed, mounted, armed with repeating
rifles and revolvers, and Differed by white
men. Being masters of savage wood
craft they can follow trails which are blind
to Europeans, and are therefore very useful.
When, however, they have made an attack
upon their countrymen, they abandon
discipline and become savages, and it is
found necessary to let them have their
way, which "way" involves the horrible
torture and cruel death of their prisoners,
and hideous outrages upon women.
This is pitch of atrocity which has not
yet been reached on our frontiers. It is
true that our army employs Indian
scouts, but they are not allowed to run
amuck at every encounter with the hostile
Indians. The Australians admit that the
Black Police is rot creditable institu.
tiop, but with the stolidity which habitua.
ton to abuses always engenders, they de-
fend it as necessary. Just SO the slave.
owners used to defend the practice of
hunting fugitive slaves with bloodhounds
The Australian aborigines are being rapid.
ly exterminated, and in few years there
will be no more of them. Perhaps their
extinction is inevitable, but it is certain
that in dying they will bequeath a curse
to their conquerors, who have brutalized
themselves while asserting their supremacy
over these weak creatures But it is not
alone in Australia that there is trouble be.
tween the white and the dark races.
Throughout the myriad islands of the
Pacific the irrepressible Anglo.Saxon is
making difficulties and trade together.
AT short intervals complaint is heard that
some island natives have murdered white
man, or group of white men. a sloop.of
war is then sent to the spot, and the
bread fruit trees and empty huts are
solemnly bombarded. Perhaps some ma.
tives are caughs. Then trial is held. or
the form of one, and the natives are exc
cuted. Thus confusion between war and
government is constantly going on. OF
course if England is at war with these peo-
pie she cannot have a right to punish them
for retaliating upon her. She cannot have
a right to try them in any case, for she has
no jurisdiction. 1t is in fact the unreason-
ing tyranny of the strong over the weak
which she practises. 1t is the same kind |
OF brutal oppression which she practised !
toward China in the Infamous Opium
War.
Eugland's course towards these Pacific |
is discreditable. The complaints
which her men. ofwar take up arise, in
nine cases out of ten, from the bad be.
havior of the white traders who ply among
these islands, and who are really no better
than pirates and slavers. The name they
go by is beach-combers, and it is sig.
nificant of their occupation, which is to
Is comb the shore or bank OF all they can
get, at the same time keeping clear of the
interior. They are almost always ruffians
and thieves of the kind to be looked for on
The very outermost verge OF civilization,
and when they get into trouble with the
natives it is mostly because they have com.
nitted some outrage, tried to steal men,
outraged women, or perpetrated some bold
theft. When they make their complaints
t is impossible for the captain of the man
,f-war on the station to find out the truth.
The natives are not there to give their yer.
ZION, and if they were they could not make
understood. So they are "pun-
she'd" and in the end the treatment
to this that England is employ
ng her navy to protect piracy and the
lave trade. Unfortunately it appears that
his latter has been cultivated quite nc.
lively under the disguise of the coolie
rade, by some of the Australian col
mics. Natives are brought from FIJI
md other islands, and put under con-
ract Tor three years, at wage oil S30 q
'ear and board. Investigation has shown
hat some planters have been known to
ill off their hands by excessive work to-
yard the end OF the three years, to save
he money and escape the necessity of
ending the coolies home
In short, the evidence adduced by Mr..
yisker goes to show that the aggressive
Anglo-Saxon, pushing everywhere with
he Bible, the rifle and the rum. bottle,
carcely gives the savage time to compre-
lend the Gospel message brought by the
mnipresent missionary before he makes
i'm drunk with rum, and then kills him
With firearms. The white traders use
re-arms and fire.water as their principal
and the results of their traffic