Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-08-29
He is raised nnrmanently above want

He Is raised permanently above wan
and above fear of want. ........ 49,
| Moreover, the Osages are strict social
lists. They hold their lands in com
mon. They live in clan community
the strong sharing equally with tn,
weak, the we'll with the sick, tn,
shrewd with the stupid, the skillfu
with the unframed. EVERYBODY has @,
chance" There are no monopolies
There are no greedy millionalres
There are no "soulless corporations.
! There are no industrial slaves.
Everybody has all the land he wants
and the land pays all the taxes. Every
baby has a silver rattle and Is fed on
goldensyrup.
Here are all the elements OF sOcialis-
tic progress in the virgin territory just
south Of Kansas. There is no grinding
| in the lawful mill of competition. 1t
| is the paradise Of Powderly-the he
en- of Henry George. Great things
we're to be looked for-from the social
istic point of view.
Well.
What has happened?
Why, the whole tribe has retrograd-
ed ever since "a big sale of wild land
made it rich. Under plenty the popu-
lation steadily diminishes. In 1858 the
population was 6, 720, in 1869 4,4Sl, in
1873 1891, in 1889 l,50l.
The rich Osages are running out
There were II deaths last year and
3 births.
Only one baby has been born during
the six months of this year as far as
reported, and that is only about one
fifth pure blood.
The Osages refuse TO he civilized
dress mostly in blankets, brecch-clouts
and moccasins and are lazy, ignorant,
worthless fragments OF the human race.
They are mostly drunken when they
can get rum. They will not work, but
when they have any work that the
squaws don't understand they hire
white men TO do it. The government
tries to train the young without any
good results. The agent reports:
''As TO the majorfty OF tho Indians,
their habits are indolcnt They arc
welded to their Indian ways and Gus
toms, without apparently Il thought
of anything that will improve them
In my opinion, up 10 the present time.
the young men of the Usage tribe re-
turning from the training schools make
the meancst Indians, the best dancers,
and promote more dcviltry than the
young men remaining here without the
advantage of training school cduca-
ton
The school superintendent reports to
the commissioner:
Tho Usage Indians arc very avcrso
to sending their children to any school
and when they do send them thci /
minds arc very productive IN the invcn-
zion of plausible excuses to get them
home
The fact is that the Usage tribe is a
community of copper colorcd 10 fors
of protligatc, dissolute, lazy, filthy
nabobS. They are afflicted with all
sorts of expensive and luxurious dis
cases. They do nothing to better their
condition except constantly tease the
government for more and more money
1t is the old story, known long before
Karl Marx dreamt his futile and pre-:
pOStcrous dreams: That where land
is held in common, nobody ever wants
any of it, that where everybody has
everything; and that where u commu-
nifty is placed obove the possibility of
suffering, its members will not work
They scOrn and despise civilization
because civilization means work.