St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-14
The BLACK HILLS PROUD
OF Its Gallant and Effective Fire De.
partment.
HOW 1T DID AT RAPID CITY
Alleged That the Indians Cannot Become
Civilized OF Bleached, But Must
Die Out.
special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
RAPID CITY, OAK, April 13.-The
Black Hills may be short on some
things, but certainly this region is long
on volunteer firemen. Had any one
been present in this town on last Tues
day convincing proof would have easily
been obtained of the existence of the
volunteer fremen, for on that day was
called to order convention, the second
annual meeting, of the Black Hills Fire
mems association. There were in at
tendance thirty-three delegates, repre-
senting eleven companies, the member
ship of which reaches fully 500. The
companies contributing TO the assocla-
ton, but unrepresented at the conven-
ton, swell the total membership or the
organization to over 7OO-an army of fire.
men. These men are the boast of the
region. 1t is doubtful if there is an
other section of country on the face OF
the earth where better organized or
more thoroughly efficient corps of
VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTERS
may be found. The Deadwood depart
ment is the pride of the association.
This department comprises three hose
companies and hook and ladder
with the most approved APP
paratus for battling the destroying ele-
ment. The companies own their own
carts, and their own quarters. One
company owns two hose houses, and
rents one to the city. The cost to the
city of Deadwood for the maintenance
of a fire department that would do credit
to any place is almost nothing. The
Rapid City department comes in we'll
behind the Deadwood. 1t is young
organization yet, but has shown that it
contains mettle which will develop some
time into high order of merit. In the
fire at the old American house last
week, the boys showed that they would
do excellent work in q pinch. The
building was huge fOrr-Square finder
box, built of pitch pine, and dry as II
powder house. The fire caught in the
garnet, and when discovered the flames
were shooting through the roof. AL
| though the hour was unseasonable-3
| o'clock a. m.-and the town Is without
| any means of giving an alarm, save by
| the strong lungs OF night Waterman,
| in very short time
FOUR STREAMS
were playing on the building, and, al
though there were thirty-fOur rooms on
the second floor, and all were on fire at
one time, the flames were eXtinguished,
and the outside walls of the building
were not even scOrched. The efficient
work of the firemen has saved thousands
of dollars worth of property. This is
only sample instence of how the fire.
men work, and is one of the many
reasons why the people of this section
glory in the Black Hills Firemen's asso-
citation.
Apropos. in last weeks GLOBE / men-
toned the fact that the noble red man
must go. At the banquet given the
firemen here on Tuesday night, DIR. V.
Il. M'Gillycuddy, the well known In
dian agent and man whose experience
with the savage, qualities him to speak
authoritatively,r replied to to astlabeled
''Red Cloud" In his remarks, DR..
M'Gillycuddy said the matter had
reached the point when the question
presented is, ''Will the Indian die off,
or will he develop
INTO A WHITE MANI
The speaker went on to say then that
the Indian could never be civilized; all
attempts at it had been miserable fail
Ures. The Indian is not capable of being
civilized. His natural proclivities and
prOpensities are all against the restrain
ing influence of the white mans way of
| life, and he will die rather than work.
| He is differently designed by nature
from the African savage, who can be do
mesticated and civilized. The buffalo
| can be civilized, if taken young enough,
but the grizzly bear cannot ever be
thoroughly tanned. 1t is thus with the
red man. The young Indians may be
turned in the ways of the white, but the
nature of the redskin will never be
eradicated, land just as the so-called tame
bear will sometime turn on his master,
so will the supposed educated and
CIVILIZED INDIAN RELAPSE
into his primitive Savagery. If not this,
he will pine and die under the process.
The once mighty and powerful tribes OF
the Miamis and the Pawnees, and the
Sacs and Foxes were referred to in sup
port of this statement, The close OBJ
server cannot fail to agree with the
doctor. 1t is well enough for the East
ern humanitarian, who, safe i'll the dis
tant towns along the Atlantic coast, can
discern the great wrong that is being
perpetrated on the noble ward of the
nation by the rapaciOuS white men, who
are wrestling from him his heritage, to
talk as did DR.. Bland, who said he would
like to see "a wall as high as heaven
around the great Sioux reservation, and
then he would there rear up the highest
type of civilization the world has ever
known" This sounds well and catches
the ear of ignorant sentimentalists. But
as DR.. McGillicuddy said in his talk, the
day is coming when the Indian will
NO LONGER EXIST,
and the broad acres he now holds will
be turned over to the white man, for
whom the Almighty intended them.
"Chickens come home to rOost' to
politicians much the same as to ordi-
nary individuals. This was proven by
the experience of one or two of the can
didates who were before the people here
last week. These men had at one time
or another opposed some candidate Of
their own party, and on Monday en-
joyed the fun of having the men they
had opposed oppose them. And one
man thus served felt very sore over this
treatment. It's not bad plan for man
in politics to keep close to party lines.
People have peculiar and some men
think reprehensible faculty of remem-
bering boilers.