Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-09-26


the destroying angel leaving the first
born dead in SO many houses all the
way from the Penobscot to the Alabama.
Ye aged men, whose sons fell in the
strife, do you not think that.vould have
been better? Oh yes! We have come to
believe, think, in this country, that
arbitration is better than battle.
Imay be mistaken, but I hope he
last var between Christian ma is
ended. Barbarians may mix tn wal
paint, and Afghan and Zulu hurl
poisoned arrows, but think Christian
nations have gradually learned that wal
is disaster to victor as we'll a. van
quished, and that almost anything
bought by blood is bought at too dear a
price. wish to God this nation might
be model of willingness for arbitra-
ton. No need of killing another In
dian. No need of sacrificing any more
brave Gen. Clusters. Stop e1asperatine
the red man, and there will be no more
arrows shot out from the reservation.
A general of the United States Army, in
high repute throughout this land, and
who, perhaps, has been in more Indian
wars than any other officer, and who has
been wounded again and again in behalf
OF our government in battle against the
Indians, told me that all the wars that
had ever occurred between Indians and
white men had been provoked by white
men, and that there was no exception
to the rule. While we are arbitrating
with Christian nations, let us toward
barbarians carry ourselves in o manner
unprovocative or contest.
l inherit q large estate, and the
waters are rich with fish, and the woods
are songful with birds, and INV corn
fields are silken and golden. Here is
my sisters grave. Out yonder, under
that large tree, my father died. An in
vader comes, and proposes to 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 while
say: Stand back. don't crowd me any
more, or I'll strike. What right have
you to come here and drive me off of my
premises? got this farm from my
father, and he got it from his father.
What right have you to come here and
modest me?" You blandly say: oh, I
know more than you do. l belong to a
higher civilization. 1 cut my hair
shorter than you do. I 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
T Ioot aronnd mon NV suffer;no famiiy
and fired by their hardships I hew you
TO vonr funeral To nronopnce enIoo;nm
comes to nv execution to anatbematize
me. You are the hero, am the culprit.
Behold the United States Government
and the North American Indian. The
would or Won. We wonld have strnck
sooner. deeper. That which is RIGHT in
defense of n Brooklvn home or New
York home is riobt in defense of n home
ON ton of the Rocky Mountains. Before
this dwindling red race dies Completely
ont. I wish that this Generation might by
common Justice atone for the inhamnn-
ity of it's predecessors. In the day of
n blood smeared MoJoc than n sv;n5Iino
nn;teJ States off;cer ON an indian resers
vationi Ona man wos a harhoyior and n
savage and never nretendad 70 he onv.
tbin9 Int a barhor;an and n SAVAGE The
otbe1 man nretented to he n ren,esenta.
tive of a christian nation. Notwith.
standing ali this the General dispnst
With war and the snbstitnt;on of
dinIomatic skiII for the olitterino edoe
of Keen steel is n sion nnmistakahie
that .tbe dav ia at hand
find another rav of the dawn in the
comnression of the world's distances
What a slow snail lie almost limos.
sibJa thing would have been the worlds
rectification With fonrteen bundred mil
lions of nonnIation and M fociIe means
of commnpication. but now. THROUGH
teleoranbv for the eve and telenbonic
intimacy for the ear and tbrouob
steomnootino and railro,dino the
twenfv-f;ve Thousand miles of tbe worlds
c;rcnmf erence are sbriveI;nonn into in
sionifcont hewitt Homo Kong is nearer
to New York than n few Years ago New
Haven zoe. Rombov Woscow Madras
WeJhonrne within sneoking distance
Pnrcbose n teiearanbic chart and Inv
the hIne lines see the teIeoronbs of the
land and Inv the red lines the cables
nnder tho ocean Won see What onnor-
tnnitv this is GOING to rive for the final
movements of Cbsistianitv fortress
NAV he months or years in buildino. INIT
after II is Constructed it NAV do all it's
work in twenty minntes. Christianity
has been planting it's batteries for nine.
teen centuries and nav 90 on in the
work tbrongb other centuries. lint when
those batteries are thoroughly planted.
those fortresses are fullv built. thew
NAV ali do their work in twenty four
bo1rs The world sometimes
derides the church for slowness
of movement. Is science anv ouicker?
hid Il not tale science five thousand six
hundred and f;ftv.two Years to find ont
co simn1a a tb;ny nc tbe circulation of
The human blooJS With the earth and
the slv fnII of electricity. science took
tve thonsanS niobt bnndred Years before
Il even anessed that thers was anv nrac-
t;.ai nss that might he made Of this sub
lie and m;cbtv element When good
mon take nossession of ali these scien-
t;f;c forcos and oIJtbese agencies of in
rant;on IL not Lnow tbof Tho rsdemn.
go of a. worIS NIL, ba noe than tbe
worL If half dav 10 We not reod the
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