Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-09

| mes the dudIT, ana the commission re-
! ports, and pay we ought, pay we must i,
pay we do. Not pound of powder
! burned, not a cartridge bitten off, no
one hurt so much as by the scratch of g
! pin. Arbitration instead of battle.
! So the Samoan controversy IN any
other. age would have brought Germany
and the United States into bloody coilis-
! ion. But all is settled. Arbitration
instead of battle.
France viii never again. I think
! through pecoadllo of ambassa-
! dor, bring on battle with
| other nations. She sees that
| God, in punishment of Sedan, blotted out
the Frelfch 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.
PhilanthFOphy said to the North: 'Pay
down a certain amount OF money for the
purchase of the slaves, and let all those
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: 81 won pay q cent The
South replied: CT 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 H. Seward
of New York, and Alexander H. Ste
phens Of Georgia, go out and spend 2
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, ST.
700 900 900, and the South pay 81 $780,
600 900, 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 better? Oh yes! we have come to
believe, I think, in this country, that
arbitration is better than battle.
CHRISTIANS ARE PEACEABLE.
7 may be mistaken, but [ hope the last
war between Christian nations is ended.
Barbarians may mix their war paint,
and afghan and Zuiu hurl poisoned ar
gradually learned that war is disaster to
victor as well as vanquished, and that
almost anything bought by blood Is
bought at 100 dear price. L wish TO
God that this nation might be q model of
willingness for arbitration. No need of
killing another Indian. No need of
sacrificing any more brave Gen. Clusters.
Stop eXaspeTating the red man, and
there viii be no more arrows shot out
from the reservation. 3 general of the
United States army, in high repuJe
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 baTbarians carry ourselves in Il
manner unpTovOcative of contest.
I inherit a large estate, and the
waters are rich with fish, and the woods
are sOngful with birds, and my corn
fields are sIlken and golden. Here is
my sisters grave. Ont yonder, under
that large tree, my father died. An
invader comes and proposes to drive me
of and take possession of my property.
He crowds me back, and crowds me on,
and crowds me into a closer corner ana
still closer corner, until after awhile 1
say: "'Staud back! Don't crowd me
any more, or III 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: con, know more than
you do. I belong to higher civiliva-
ton. I cut my hair shorter than you do.
l could put this ground to d great deal
better use than you do. - And you keep
crowding me back and crowding me on
into q closer corner and closer corner,
until one day l look around upon my suf-
ferlng family, and, fired by their hard
ships, 1 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, I am the cuIprit. 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 q Brooklyn
rome or q New York home is right in de-
Tense of q 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 a blood smeaTed MCdoc |
than Q swindling United States officer on |
an Indian reservation One man was |
barbarian ana Il savage; and meyer pre- !
tended to be anything but barbarian |
and a savage. The other man pretended |
to be a representative of a Christian ma
ton. Notwithstanding all this, the gen. |
eral disgust with war and the substitu- |
ton of diplomatic skill for the giittering |
edge of keen steel is a sign unmistakable |
that 1.-the day is at hand. n
RAPID TRANSIT 4 JOYFUL FACT.
find another ray,of the dawn in the |
compression Of the world S distances.
W hat slow, snail-like. almost imposs- |
ibIe thing would have been the world $ |
rectification with 400, 900, 900 of popula- !
ton and no facile means of communica-
ton; but now, through telegraphy for |
the eye and telephone intimacy for the |
ear, and through steamboating and rail- |