Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-08-10

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questionable.
THE UNTAMED SIOUX.
The Sioux have gained some worldly
wisdom by long experience, and decline
to give up any part of their reservation
on the terms proposed in the treaty offer
ed by Captain Pratt's commission. Ap-
parently they are holding out for a better
price. The treaty is really very fair
one, but the Indians have been 80 often
deceived that they have grown suspicious,
and If the present negotiations fail en-
tirely it will be sort of retributiou for
past bad feith. The present reservation
is all that is left to the Sioux out of the
boundless territory over which they form
erly wandered at will. Il is larger than
they actually require, since most of the
game have disappeared and they are
practically pensioners on the United
States, and the proposition is, in effect,
that they shall sell part of it and con
fine themselves to the remainder. This
they will doubtless be compelled to do in
time, for 1t ia n simple impossibility for
the Indian long to withstand the advance
of the white man; but il may be more
than reasonably can be expected that
they shall retire of their own free will,
even for a money consideration. Whether
from general opposition to giving up
any more or from a shrewd idea that by
holding out they can get better price
for their lands, 1t Is clear that they have
made up their minds TO eject the TIRE aty,
and thus one of the best meant and most
carefully devised plans ever proposed TO
secure something for the Indians out OF
the inevitable wreck of their fortunes
will come to naught. Unless some modi
fcstion of the plan can be arrived al
which the Indians will accept, it will be
difficult to preserve this large reservation
from the intrusion of white settlers, and
there is danger that a final adjustment
may be forced upon terms much less Just
to the Indians and less honorable to the
whites than those which are now rejected
THE PRESS OF PARIS.
1t is frequently complained, and not
without reason, that the newspapers of
America are too much given to sensa-
uonalism, and that in their greed they
are not careful always to draw the line
bet~esn deoenoy and vulgarity. Com
parisou is at last the only means we have
of arriving at anything like a correct
! conclusion. There Is no standard except
that which mea make for themselves.
But what vast difference there is in The
standards which appear to hsve been
adopted by the people of the Western
European Republic. Compared with the
! journalism of France that of America is
tion which a CORES poudent of the Bos-
| ton Transcript gives OF the character OF
the daily newspapers which are sold by
millions In the streets of Paris is almost
! incredible. So obscene has it become
that the government has at last made a
| protest, feeble though it is and without
result as we know 1t will be. THE new
| journalism acquired few years since,
he ssys, "Snd which reached its perfec
tion in the Gil Bias, created the need OF
new word to express it. Only vecy
strong one would ut the case. Therefore
the Greek language was consulted fol
the sake of propriety. The term "porno
grsphy" was hit upon. Pornograp ply
has now so many professors that tn,
composition smoug them is keen. Porno
graphic competition does not stop 81
printed matter; it has recourse to illus
trations, for these strike the eye, e1cit,
the imagination sud greatly stimulate tn,
sea. The republic believing that its mis-
sion WAS to strike off shackles of ever,
kind which impended the free e1ercis,
and expressions of thought, set the pres.
so nearly free that, whenever it now feel
the necessity of putting halter on th,
buffalo, it has turned loose in the street,
it is sorely perplexed to kuov how thi,
can be done consistently with its owl
laws. 1t is clear to sill who hold that i
is one of the duties Of tae state to keeI
foulness and iudecenoy out of sight, ths
France cannot be trusted with the luxur
of free press. The experiment of leav
ing TO the public opinion the task os cor
recting that which should be offensive t,
it has proved sn utter failure" If it i
true 'ha. the public press is the best in
de1 to the character of s people, Franc,
! Is indeed corrupt to the core. Perhsp
with the fall of Boulanyer, "the hero o
the beer halls" it is about to enter upol
another revolution.