Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-31
THE Be- l. 7.
The Beautiful land Polluted by Murder
and PoIygsmy.
Kansas City Tim {

and POlygamy.
Kansas City Tins.
The eastern classes from which the
Indian rights association is drawn are the
inspiration of Senator E1munds in his
sweeping assaults upon the Mormon HER
archy. Either they are not we'll informed
about the condition Of the Indians or they
are guilty of G remarkable inconsistency.
Ex- Governor Charles r Obinson of Kansas,
Who now has charge Of the Indian school
at Lawrence, has given some of his ex-
periences and the association must have
read the story, If it makes any effort to
keep posted. Governor ROpinson's posi-
ton of authority in the movement toward
educating the ssvsges would naturally
cause Whist he says to be considered with
care by an organization whose business it
is to foster the movement.
Governor Robinson tells Of an Indian
girl in his charge who was sold by her
parents to q repulsive negro. Another, a
child Of tender years, was claimed by an
Indian who had married her elder sister
and by custom of the tribe had right
to marry al the girls Of the family il he
liked. Polygsmy tOurishes in its worst
and most degraded form in nearly every
tribe in the Territory.
One of the best known citizens OF Kan
sss, man whose duties have kept him in
the Territory much Of the lime, during
the past year, said in the Times ofIics q
few days ago that hatred Of the United
States is strong among the Indians. LIST
GUNNER he sent to his wife, who WAS at
one OF the posts in the Territory, num-
Der of flags to be used in celebrating the
Fourth of July in the time honored fash
ion ne never allowed his children 10 for
get. So great was the manifest dislike Of
the Indians toward the emblems Of the
United States that she did not dare to
use them.
Here we have polygamy and disloyalty
flourishirg under the tender care of the
Iudian Rights Association. In Utah po-
lygamy is an insult to the Christian
wives Of the country, though there the
consent of the women is a precedent TO
double marriages. Among the Indians
polygemy is species OF rape, and yet the
pious and moral members of the sssociA-
ton think the poor creatures ought 10 be
left alone. Fit be said tnat the Indians
are ignorant, the reply is that SO are the
Mormons ignorsnt and deluded. If 1t be
said that the Indians have rights growing
out of contracts with the government,
the reply is that so have the Mormons
rights growing out of forty years of &C.
cupation.
The Times has been among the FORE
most in calling for suppression Of po-
lygsmy at Whatever cost Of severity. II
cannot see why the infinitely worse and
more disgusting practices Of the Indians
do not call for Improvement. What i:
more absurd than to spend money in edu-
eating an Indian girl for no better pur-
pose than to send her back home to be
come the second, third or fourth beast OF
burden around the tepee of dirty, lazJ
buck? ,>-e1
The missionaries ana schools do moi
ciyiiize the Indian very fast. He is still
disloyal and still british There 5lts
enough in the hpE1ible degradation etthe
women TO excite 3 crusade amaRg the
vIEtuous aFd respectable wives of the
easS Why notpAss law for the disso-
futon q trissI relations and get the
forces gtcssilizstiOn actually in motioni