Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-12

ter 10 q commission. Inc commission
is appointed, and the commission exam
ines the affair, and the commission re-
ports, and pay we ought, pay we must,
pay we do. Not q pound of powder
burned, not cartridge bitten of, no
one hurt so much as by the scratch of a
pin Arbitration instead of battle.
So the Samoan controversy IN any
other age would have brought Germany
and the United States into bloody collis-
ion. But all is settled. Arbitration
instead of battle.
France will never again. I think,
through peccadIllo OF ambassa-
dor, bring on battle with
other nations. She sees that
God, in punishment of Sedan, blotted out
the French empire, and the only aspir-
ant for that throne who had any right
of expectation dies in war that has not
the dignity of even being respectable.
What is that blush on the cheek of En-
gland to-day? What is the leaf that En-
gland would like to tear out of her his
tory? The Zulu war. Down with the
sword and up with the treaty.
We in this country might better have
settled our sectional difficulties by arbi-
tratiOn than by the thrust of the sword.
Philanthropy said to the North ''Pay
down certain amount of money for the
purchase of the slaves, and let all those
born after a certain time be born
free. Philanthropy at the same
time said to the South: "You sell
the slaves and get rid of this great ma
tional contest and trouble. - The North
replied: CT won't pay a cent The
South replied: 81 won't sell. - War!
War. a million dead men, and a ma
tional debt which might have ground this
nation to powder.
Why did we not let William Fl. Seward
of New York, and Alexander H. Ste
phens of Georgia, go out and spend
few days under the trees on the banks of
Potomac and talk the matter over, and
settle it, as settle it they could, rather
than the North pay in cost of war, S4,-
700 900 900, and the South pay 81 $780,
600 900, the destroying angel leaving tn
firsr-born dead in so many houses all the
way from the PeDObscot 10 the Alabama.
Ye aged men, whose sons fell IN the
strife, do you not think that would have
been better? On yes! we have come to
believe, think, in this country, that
arbitration is better than battle.
CHRISTIANS ARE PEACEABLE.
may be mistaken, but l hope the last
war between Christian nations is ended.
Barbarians may mix their war paint,
and Afghan and Zulu hurl poisoned ar
rows, but think Christian nations have
gradually learned that war is disaster to
victor as well as vanquished, and that
almost anything bought by blood is
bought at too dear price. wish to
God that this nation might be a model of
willingness for arbitration. No need of
killing another Indian. No need of
q
Stop exasperating the red man, and
there will be no more arrows shot out
from the reser7 alton. 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 In
dams, told me that all the wars that had
ever occurred in this country between
Indians and white men mad been pro-
Voked 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 a
manner unprovocative of contest.
I inherit a large estate, and the
waters are rich with fish, and the woods
are songfnl with birds, and my corn
fields are sIl1en 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, and crowds me on,
and crowds me into closer corner and
still closer corner, until after awhile
say: ''Stand back! Don't crowd me
any more, or IN strike. What
drive me of 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. I belong to a higher civiiiva-
ton. 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 corner and closer corner,
until one day I look around upon my suf-
ferlng family, and, fired by their hard
ships, l hew you in twain. Forthwith
all the world comes to your funeral to
pronounce eulOgium, comes to my eXecu-
ton to anathematize me. You are the
hero, l am the culpTit. Behold the
United States government and the North
American Indian. The red man has stood
more wrongs than l would, or you. We
would have struck sooner, deeper. That
which is right in defense of a Brooklyn
home or New York home is right in de-
Tense of a home on top OF the Rocky
mountains. Before this dwindling red
race dies completely out, wish that this
generation might by common justice
atone for the inhumanity of its predeces-
sors In the day Of God IS Judgment,
would rather be blood smeared MCdoc
than a swindlinS United states officer on
an Indian reservation! One man was
barbarian and a savage, and never pre-
tended to be anything but a barbarian
and savage. The other man pretended
to be u representative of Christian ma
ton. Notwithstanding all this, the gen.
eral disgust with war and the substitu-
ton of diplomatic skill for the glittering
edge of keen steel is a sign unmistakable
that 1.-THE day is at hand. -
RAPID, TRANSIT \ JOYFUL FACT.
l find another ray of the dawn in the
compression of the world g distances.
What q slow, snail-like. almost imposs-
IDLE thing would have been the world s
reetifcation with l 400 600 900 of popula-
ton and no facile means of communica-
t4on; but now, through telegraphy for