Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-09-15

SO, the quarrel eight or nine years
ago about the Canadian fisheries in
any other age would have caused war
between the United States and Eng
land. England said; PAY me for the
invasion of my Canadian fisheries"
The United States said: Il will not
pay anything" Well, the two nations
gay; 81 guess we had better leave the
whole matter 10 a commission" The
commission is appointed, and the com
mission examines the affair, and the
commission reports, and pay we ought,
pay we must, pay we do. Not a pound
of powder burned, not a cartridge bit
ten off, no one hurt so much as by the
scratch Of a pin. Arbitration instead
of battle.
NO MORE WARS.
SO the Somoan controversy in any
other age would have brought Ger
many and the United States into
bloody collision. But all is settled.
Arbitration instead of battle.
France will never again, / think,
through peccadillo Of ambassador,
bring on a battle with other nations.
She sees that God, in punishment Of
Sedan, blotted out the French empire,
and the only aspirant for that throne
who had any right of expectation
dies in a war that has not even the
dignity of being respectable. What is
that blush on the cheek of England
todayf What is the leaf that Eng.
land would like TO tear out of her his.
toryf The Zulu war. Down with the
sword and up with the treaty.
We in this country might better
have settled our sectional difficulties
by arbitration than by the thrust of
the sword. Philanthropy said to the
north: PAY down a certain amount
of money for the purchase of the
slaves, and let all those born after a
certain time be born free" Philan.
thropy at the same time said TO the
south: You sell the slaves, and get
rid Of this great national contest and
trouble" The north replied: Il won't
pay a cent" The south replied: Il
won't SELL" Warl Warl A million
dead men, and a national debt which
might have ground this nation to pow
der.
Why did we not let William FL
Seward, of New York, and Alexander
II. Stephens, of Georgia, go out and
spend a few days under the trees on
the banks of the Potomac and talk the
matter over, and settle it, as settle il
they could, rather than the north pay
in cost of war, four billion even hun
dred miliion dollars, and tine south
pay four billion seven hundred and
fifty million dollars, the destroy.
ing angel leaving the first born dead
III so many houses all the way from
the Penobscot to the Alabama. YeI
aged men, whose sons fell in the strife.
do you not think hat would have
been betterl .0h yesl we have come
10 believe, | think, in this country,
that arbitration is better than battle.
lmay be mistaken, but | hope that
the last war between Christian nations
is ended. Barbarians may mix their
a paint, and Afghan and Zulu hurl
poisoned arrows. but ] think Chris
tan nations have gradually learned
that war is disaster to victor as well as
yanquished. and that almost anything
bought by blood is bought at too dear
a price. | wish to God this nation
might be a model Of willingness for ar
bitrution. No need Of killing another
Indian. No need of sacrificing any
more brave Gen. Clusters. Stop cxaS
pcrutiug the rcd man, and there will
he no more arrows shot out from the
reservation. y general Of the United
army, in high repute through,
out this lGnd, and who, perhaps, has
been IA more Indian wars than any
o~tlllroillcur, aud who has been wound
cd again and again In behalf of our
government In battle against tho In
told me that all the wars that
had eyer occurred between Indians
and white mcu bad been provoked 6y
mon, and That there WAS no oX
ccrtion 10 tie rule. While we arc ar.
bilratiug with Christian nations. let
Us toward harbariaus carry ourselves
ID a manner Unp%rUvOcJtlyc 81 contest
now WARS CONE.
| inherit a large estate, and the
waters are rich with fish. and the
woods are sougful with birds. aud my
corndclds are silken and golden. Here
is my sisters grave. Out yonder, un.
der that large tree, my father died.
invader comes, and proposes 10
drive me off and take possession of
my property. He crowds me back. he
crowds me on, and crowds me into
A closer corner, and still closer
corner, until after a while | says:
Stand back, don't crowd me
any more, OF I'll strike. What right
have you TO come here and drive me
Off of my premisesi got this farm
from my father, aud he got it from
his father. What right have you to
come here and modest met" You
say! "Oh, | know more than
you do. | belong 10 higher civil.
/ cut my hair shorter than
you do. could put this ground TO a
great deal better use than YOU do.
And you keep crowding me back and
crowding me on into a closer corner
aud closer corner, until one day
look around upon my suffering
and fired by their hard
/ hew you in twain. Forth.
with all the world comes TO
your funeral TO pronounce eulogium,
comes 10 my execution ~ a~nathema,
Iize me. You are the hero. ] am the
Behold the United States
government and the North American
Indian. The red man has stood more
than 1 would, or you, We