Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-11-05

lanf1c the Pzct3e lands vers thers, and
% we're the Indiana.
Wow. fuss how ron get the right 70
Tndixn lands that you have never seenr
nor Known, nor owned, noe paid for. i
cannot understand. No CHIEF can ell /
o. give sway the lands Of his people. 10
more thar you can ssiI @ eivs sway to 1
lands Ct your white people, Who hate |
made farms On them. You have no /
right 20 trade IN peoples Iands. nor has
your council, the great white Congress- |
God made these lands ve all live upon,
and De Gives them 20 any one who VIII
farm and fenes and live on them Win
hiz family. Yoa have no word from
God 20 take ms lands. no more than
ycu have word from God 20 take my
h0rses ard whsn yea do these things
you steal, and you know IL. This bad
work among you Young men of wash
inQton city caused all the past Indian |
wars, maaszcrss and shameful hatred |
among Indians and whites. Ton know
Of the Hnrsns and Miamis- You know
Of the foods In she waters Of the Algon-
quins. which empty In the Ohio. fOu
knew Of the foods of the Mississippi
and the rosbery of the Tennessee landss
aud the millions stolen from the Chick
asaws and Cherokees. lou know Of tbs
whiriwInds ard rain floods in ArixDna
and California. Remember the stary-
ing Apaches and dying Cowings. You
know Of the storms in your own State;
the deep SHOWS and bloody scenes Of the
Sand Crsek massacre OF poor, SICK old
Indian men and women Of the Utes and
Cbeyennes, by Q mob OF route agents
led by Mefhodisf preacher Of the Cos
pei OF peace TO the hangry poor of the
homeless tribe.
"You know Of the Meeker massacre
that followed az daily directed revenge,
and You also know of the massacre OF
the starving Piegans and the slaughter
of Custer and his brave men. You
know, too, Of the Mermou settlements
and Navajo robberies; the Mountain
Meadow massacre and the rescuing OF
the white boy witness BY an Indian
scout, in order that the truth OF the
origin Of that massacre might be
known.
sNow, then, IL you know all these
things, and say shat Indian men and
women are children of nature why
should not all nature be their mother,
and all sun, stream and air be their
Great Spirits fatherf This being 50,
the pale race will pass away before the
red race will begin TO live In peace and
plenty; and few more years 10 come,
few more foods to flow, few more
storms 10 blow, few more fires te burn,
| fe9 more fevers to warm. few more
wars Of fife and drum-then nerth and
south will all be gone, and the Montezu-
mas again have throne.
| aKnow you not that Cinnamon, Mex
| lean and Indian man are all the same
race, blood and bravery? They are nine
10 one of the pale race, which has, since
| your last war, lost friends with the Afri-
can or black race. This rot berry of the
poor, this stealing and giving away
Gods lands, this driving old men and
women, fathers and Rrandfathers, mo
Tiers and grasdmothers, away to the
bad lands. away from the graves of their
children and the corn and melon lands
of their sisters and brothers-there, far
away, where no grass grows, no water
runs, no fish swim. no deer stay and no
birds fly, there to starve. freeze and die
like fish out of water, may be good
Christian idea.' bat it will hardly suit
the coming idea of love and good will,
when 10! God Himself shall walk the
earth in the terror of the storm, the
shaking Of the mountain and enRulph-
ing of ocean. Then, only after all these
DAYS of darkness have passed away. in
1888, will the sun shine serene, the sky
above form pale blue hue. and golden
stars and crescent, too, adorn the flag
| Of a nation true, to freedom pledged to
every race that q tyrsnt hedeed in shall
disgrace.
"Eow. IL you are so poor here in
Washington city that you must have
the lands of my people to sell again
for money, or give away to some rail-
road company, why, tske them; carry
them away, II you can. but l. Moses,
will not give or sell what do not own,
and my people will not leave, for there
ia nowhere else for them to CO. They
are AT the verge, and you dare not dive
them farther.
g. do not want to be chief. l
have been lied TO and lied absut by
your agents. You and your agents can
go and see my people. You can meet
them at their own homes, tents and
bushes. You can there see for your
selves their poverty, their nakedness
and their sick condition. You can
tkere talk with them, and then you CO q
better tell whether they should feel
ashamed or you should feel ashamed
az the way your Washington city people
do: one time premise one thing, next
time deny it; then promise another
thing, aud then go back on your word
again. ! am sick at heart of such
work, and cannot tell my people any.
thing certain as coui ing from you to be
true. You are like the wind on the
Columbia River: you blow up stream
and down stream to suit you, and you
care not when Won blow or low soon
you upset the Indian canoe that would
glide ever in peace.
you have an interpreter here who
cannot understand my thoughts nor
give my views. nor those of my people,
aud you got him here to suit your tastes.
know all you say, but / cannot express
my thoughts In your language, nor can
your interpreter translate my words in
full meaning of my thoughts. He does
not know the Arabian sounds, tones and
tremors. BY and by my friend. who is
now at my home and knows all my peo-
pie. and all Columbia lands, trails and
lodges, will tell the great papers Just
what Moses has nov said. and what
Moses will always say, and that is this
IL is great crime against God 10 go to
war for other peoples lands. It is a
greater crime TO steal them, and still
greater crime 20 take them, drive the
people away 10 starve and die, promise
TO pay them, and then give the money
20 the agents andsnllow them TO steal It
from the Indian people. whom YOU have
driven from their homes and habita-
| lions. You may be & Nod people, g
great people and very wise people. but
somehow or another you delight in fool
ing and fighting Indians; selling them
rotten goods. shoddy blankets and poi
soned liquors, poor provisions and
spoiled meats and houF; and then end
up your iniquisies by calling all Indians
savages and yourselves Christians'
| was raised an Episcopalian by DIR.
Marcus Whitman, and l have yet to
learn what that petition means when u
says: Lord have mercy upon rs poor
miserable sinners.' | think il should
read: Lord punish rs poor miserable
sinners until we get sense and desire
enough to do better. and be to each
other more truthful, honest and CHAIR
table, That is all !, Moses, have TO
say"
Chief Moses is g. years of age, weighs
2t7 psunds. is six feet five inches in his
mocoasin feet, Is symmetrical in form,
| plaeid in feature. noble in step, Quick in