Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-10
THE B. L. T.
The Beautiful Land Polluted by Murder
and Poly gsmy.

The Beautiful land Polluted by Murder
and PoIygsmy.
Kansas City Tins.
The eastern classes from which the
Indian rights ass oclstion is drawn are the
Inspiration of Senator Edmunds in his
sweeping assaults upon the Mormon hier.
arcby. Either they are not well informed
about tie condition of the Indians or they
are guilty Of q remarkable Inconsistency
Ex- Governor Charles r 1binson of Kansas,
VINO Row has charge of the Indian school
az Lawrence, has given some of his ex-
Periences and the association must have
read the story, il 1t makes any effort to
keep posted. Governor Robinson's posi-
ton of authority In the movement toward
educating the ssvages would naturally
cause what 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 a repnlsive negro. Another, q
child OF tender years, was claimed by an
Indian who had married her elder sister
and by a custom of the tribe had right
to marry all the girls Of the family il he
liked. Polygamy fiourishes 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 time, during
the past year, said in the Times office
few days ago that hatred of the United
States is strong among the Indians. List
summer he sent to his wife, who was ct
one Of the posts in the Territory, num-
Der OF flags to be used in celebrating the
Fourth of July in the time-honored fish,
ion he never allowed his children to 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 polygemy and disloyalty
hourishing under the tender care OF the
Indian Rights Association. La Utah po-
lygamy is an insult to the Christian
wives Of the country, though there the
consent of the women is precedent to |
double marriages. Among the Indians |
polygamy is species OF rape, snd yet the |
pious and moral members of the associa- |
ton think the poor creatures ought to be |
left alone. iii be said tnat the Indians
sre ignorant, the reply is that so ere the |
Mormons ignorant and deluded. If 1t be |
said that the Indisns have rights growing
put Of contracts with the government,
he reply is thst so have the Mormons
tights growing out Of forty yesrs Of &C.
;upation.
The Times has been among the FORE
most in calling for suppression of DO
Vgsmy at whatever cost Of severity. 1t
;annot see why the infinitely worse and
more disgusting practices Of the indians
10 not csll for Improvement. What is
more absurd than to spend money in edu-
;stlng an Indian girl for no better pur-
,ose th;n to send her back home to be-
;ome the second, third or fourth beast of
'urden around the tepee of dirty, lazy
luck?
The missionaries ana schools do not
ivilizs the Indian very fast. He is still
Iisloyal and still british. There is
nough in the horrible degradation of the
women to excite 8 crusade among the
irtuous and respectable wives of the
asst. Why not pass law for the disso-
ution o; tribal relations and get the
orces OF civilization actually in molten!