Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-09

and talk the matter over, and settle it, a:
settle it they could, rather than the North
pay in cost of war four billion seven hun
dred million dollars, and the South pay
four billion seven hundred and fifty millien
dollars, 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 would have been bet.
ter? Oh yes! we have come to believe, ]
think, in this country that arbitration is
better than battle,
may be mistaken, but hope that the
last war between Christian nations is ended.
BarbarisHs may mix their war paint and
Afghan and Zulu hurl poisoned arrows, but
l think Christian nations have gradually
learned that war is disaster to victor as well
as vanquished, and that almost anything
bought bV blood is bought at too dear a
price. l wish to God this nation might be
a model of willingness for arbitration. Ne
need of killing another Indian. No need OF
sacrificing any more brave General Gus
tiers. Stop exasperating the red man, and
there will be no more arrows shot out from
the reservation. A general of the United
States Armv, 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 be-
half 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 manner unprovoeative
of contest
/ inherit large estate, and the waters
are rich with fish, and the woods are song
full with birds, and my eornields are silken
and golden. Here is my sisters grave. Out
yonder, under that large tree, my father
died. An invader 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 closer corner,
and still closer corner, until after while I
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 prem
ises? 1 got this farm from my father, and
he got it from his father. What right have
you to come here and modest me 2"
DOES MIGHT MAKE RIGHT?
You blandly say: "Oh, 1 know more
than you do. belong to higher eiyiliza-
tion. l cut my hair shorter than you do.
could put this ground to a great deal bet
ter use than YOU d." And you keep
crowding me back and crowding me on into
a closer corner and closer corner, until one
day look around upon my suffering family,
and, fred by their hardships, hew you in
twain. Forthwith all the world comes
to your funeral to pronounce eulogium,
comes to nav execution to anathematize me.
You are the here, am the culprit, Be-
hold the United States Government and the
North American Indian. The red man has
stood more wrongs than / would, or you.
We would have struck sooner, deeper.
That which is right in defense of Brooklyn
home or New York home is right in de-
fense of home on top of the Rocky Noun
tains
Before this dwindling red race dies COM
pletely out, 1 wish that this generation
might by common justice atone for the in
of its predecessors. In the day of
Gods judgment would rather there be a
blood smeared Modoc than a swindling
United States officer on an Indian reserva-
ton! One man was q barbarian and a
savage, and never pretended to be anything
but barbarian and savage. The other
man pretended to be representative of a
Christian nation. Notwithstanding all this,
the general disgust with war and the substi-
tuition of diplomatic skill for the glitterlng
edge of keen steel is sign unmistakable
that "the dav is at hand"
l find another ray of the dawn in the COM
preston of the worlds distances. What a
slow, snail-like, almost impossible thing,
would have been the worlds rectlfcation
with l, 400, ,000, 900 of population and no
facile means of communication; but now,
through telegraphy Tor the eye and tele-
phonic intimacy for the ear, and through
and railroading, the $4,000
miles of the worlds circumference are
up into Insignificant brevity.
Hong Kong is nearer to New York than
lew wears ago New Haven was; Bombay,
Moscow, Madras, Melbourne within speak
ng distance. Purchase telegraphic chart
md by the blue lines see the telegraphs of
he land, and-hy the red lines the cables
lnder the ocean.
SCIENCE AS AN EvANGEL.
You see what opportunity this is going to
rive for the final movements of Christian
ity. A fortress may be months or years in |
building, but after it is constructed it NAV
10 all its work in 20 minutes. Christianity |
las been planting its batteries for 10 GEN. |
uries, and may go on in the work through |
,ther centuries: but when those batteries |
re thoroughly planted those fortresses I
're fully hpiIt thew NAV ali do their vorL
:, o. horrs Tbe ,sorld snroet;rnas dor;Jaa -
~ !. "a ainuaL n Co. .'oass sos 81 = uefiuTs
ne n;anne er anr ,oi omicIarS T MD n' - net to Is
cience 5652 wears to find out SO simple a
hing as the circulation of the human bIoodo
With the earth and sky full of electricity,
c;ence toot K 400 years hsfore Il o,,on
messed that there was anv nracticaI nse
hat might he made of This snbtIe and
mighty element.
When good men take possession of all
hose scientific forces and slI these aoano;es
4 invention do mot Know that tbe re1
lemntion of the world will he more than
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