Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-27

freely The dance at the Pavilion during
the fair was a tame thing in comparison to
this genuine whoop-up. The band con-
sisted of fifteen musicians, the instruments
ell being of bamboo of different shape and
they kept excellent time. About thirty
young bucks stood back of the dancers and
chanted while the latter kept time with
their feet and violent motions and contor-
tions of the body. Captain Sam. the Chief,
stood by and gave directions and the dance
went on. In the midst of the fandango he
cried halt, and signaling the Indian that
had made such decided hit crowned him
with head-dress of eagle feathers. The
whites cheered Justify and for the next half
hour that buck almost killed himself in his
grand and lofty tumbling, and waved
kisses to the audience in return for their
plaudits.
HIT THEM AT THE RIGHT TIME.
The dance had been running but a short
time when Captain Sam called halt and
Captain Johnson, stepping into the ring,
said Ladies and gentlemen-We are
glad to see 50 many of you here. We have
come long way to please you and we viii
give you this afternoon one of the best per
formances you ever saw. We have charged
no admission fee. All are welcome, bnt
we propose taking up collection to help
the boys out. They have lois in store for
you and as soon as the collection is taken
We will proceed. The next thing on the
programme is the war dance of the Piltes,
accompanied by the song that has been
handed down from generation to genera
ton and was sung by our people long be-
fore Columbus crossed the Atlantic. Be
lively now; get out your half
dollars, quarters, dimes and niekels and
don't delay the show. For fear I wouldn't
get my hat back | will do the passing rny-
self" The collection was taken and
amounted to some $12 or SIS.
THE WAR DANCE.
The war dance was the best part of the
performance. One buck jumped into the
ring with yelling, hitting himself on the
mouth rapidly. 1t was piercing scream
of ha-la-la-la- loo. His example was fol
lowed by twenty others, and for a time it
looked as If they were going TO start on
scalping expedition then and there. Sew
eral ladies felt for their back hair,
while bald-headed rancher raised
his hat and smiled. In the war dance
they pound their breasts, go into hand-to-
hand combats with the imaginary enemy,
stoop ever his PROSTATE form, throw aloft
the scalp-lock and shout words of defiance
This dance seemed to highly please
the squaws, for they applauded with as
much vim and earnestness as did the whites
UNTUToRED ORATORS.
Mr.. Menke at this juncture addressed the
assemblage, and said that the two chiefs
desired to make speeches, and asked that
the audience be quite, that all might hear
what they bad TO say.
Captain David was the first to speak.
He is about sixty-6ve years of age, with
iron-gray hair cut short and parted on the
side. He has a commanding presence.
and his gestures are very graceful He
spoke IN his native tongue, his language
being interpreted by Captain Johnson, who
followed his gestures and moiulations of
voice very closely. He said Ladies and
gentlemen, to say that | am pleased upon
this occasion would but family express nv
feelings. We came among you strang-
ers, hope we part friends.
have lived upon the reservations
been loyal. When under the Governments
| charge We till the soil; we did more than
| our part, but / cannot say as much for the
Government agents. We are uneducated
we are moved by the natural human in
stincts, we are taught at our mothers
knee to resent a wrong, and at the same
time we are taught to cultivate encourage
and cherish friendship. You do kind
| act to one OF my people and it is never for
|
| sented Is as equally hard to efface from
memory. regret to-day that we are to leave
| you, that our work is accomplished and
that we must leave for our homes on the
other side of the mountains. While the
SOIL we return to is not as productive as
yours, while our surroundings are not go
pleasant the opportunities to secure en-
ployment not so good, still it's our birth
place, the burial place of our kindred for
centuries, and will be ours and of those
who follow US, for centuries to come. l
like the men for whom we have worked:
they have treated us kindly, they bave
| only spoken kind words to our wives and
| our little ones, they have paid US our wages,
they have supplied all our wants. We start
| tomorrow or next day for our home in Ne
vada. We go away now but we will return
| to you again next year. We came over the
| Central Pacific Railroad and we will return
| to our home by the same route The con-
ductors il that company treat us right
They don't kick us about, neither do they
insult Us. The read from Placeryille that
runs through Folsom passes here and goes
| or to Sacramento do not grant us that priv
| ilege This they should do. The Indian
| should be allowed to ride on any road in
| the United States. Who does America be-
| long to If not to the Indian We passed no
restriction Act to keep you folks out. We
| kicked a little at your coming, it is
| true but sill you came, and what has
been the result? You have been to
US what you fear the Chinese will be to
! you. You soon outnumbered u.s. we
were driven from our home and streams
our game was slaughtered, our forests de-
! strOyed, and we came to be looked upon as
! outlaws in our own country by those who
had come among us uninvited. We should
be treated better by the railroad companies
| than we have been, and the Government
| that has been built upon the ruins of our
| firesides should protect us in more of our
| rights. You can never make an Indian
| believe that he has not prior right in this
country. We claim that America belongs
| to us. Some forty years ago, when l was
young man, saw the immigration setting
west TO California. You discovered metals
| of which We knew not the value; you
settled up this western country; you killed
| off our game; denuded our forests, and
| now the least you can do is to let US have q
| free ride over the railroads. This is all we
ask. We are not like the Chinese. We
come among you, labor industriously, and
our wages all find its way into your meat
| markets, your groceries and clothing stores.
OF the Sc 600 We receive for labor in these
three hop fields fully 5000 of it is left
With your people; better than that, it is put
| to the widest circulation. What does the
| Cbinaman do with his earnings? Not a
dollar of it ever goes back into the hands
| OF the whites, the few cents he pays out for
a living goes into the hands Of the Chi
| nese merchants, and the largest proportion
of it is sent across the ocean to China.
[Applause.] We want to settle this China
question for you, and we propose to do il
| III the hop-yards of this country next sea-
son if the supply of Indians holds out.
lApplause.l We hope, however, that be-
fore next season Congress will pass law
sending those pig tails back to the country
they came FROM" [Applausel
CAPTAIN SANS SPEECH.
Captain Sam, the Chief of tie Piutes and
brother of Captain David, was the next
! speaker. He also spoke through an in
terpreter.
He said: {" I am Captain SAM have
been with you six weeks, and the labor
which we came to accomplish is performed
and we are now ready to return. We have
done well; we have pleased our employers