Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-09-19

<Coe5nS ~ w HcdI price. 1 wish to |
Tod this nation might be q model of
Willingness for arbitration No need OF
killing another Indian No need Of
sacrniclng any more brave General Clusters
stop exasperauAg the red man and there will
be no more arrows shot out from the reserva-
ton: A General of the United States army.
In nigh repute throughout this land, and
who, perhaps, has been in more Indian wars
tAan 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 oc
CURED 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 to-
ward barbarians carry ourselves in a manner
unprovocative of contest
inherit large estate, and the waters are
rich with fish, and the woods are songftl with
birds, and my cornfelds are silken and golden.
Here is my sisters grave. Out wonder, un-
der that large tree, my father died An in
vader comes, and proposes to drive me of
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 a while | saw
stand back don't crowd me any more or
I'll strike. What right have you TO come
here and drive me off my premisess got this
farm from my father, and he got it from
here and modest mey You hlandly saw:
':Oh. know more than you do belong TO
a higher civilization. | cut my hair shorter
than you do. could put this ground to a
great deal better use than you do-n And
you keep crOwding me back and crowding me
on into closer corner and closer corner I'M
til one day j look around upon suffering fam
lily, and Eredby their hardships hew you
in twain Forthwith all the world comes
to your funeral to pronounce eulogium,
comes to my execution to anathema-
tie me. You are the hero, ] am
culprit Behold the United States Govern
ment and the North American Indian The
red mam has stood more wrongs than |
would or you. We would have struck
sooner, deeper That which is right in de
Tense Of a Brooklyn home or New York
home Is right in defense of 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 iinhumanity of its predecessors. In
the day Of Gods Judgment, would rather
there be a blood-smeared Modoc than
swindling United States officer on an In
dian reservation One man WINS a barbarian
and q savage and never pretended to he
ANYTHING hut barbarian and IA savage. The
other man pretended to be n representative
of a Christian nation. Notwithstanding all
this the general disgust with war and the
substitution of diplomatic skill for the gilt
tering edge of keen steel is a sign unmistaka-
BILE that 1.-THE day is at hand"
find another ray of the dawn in the COM
pression of the worlds distances. What
slow snail-like, almost impossible thing
would have been the worlds rectlfication'
with fourteen hundred millions of population
and 40 facile means of communication; hut
now Through telegraphy for the EYE and
TELEPHONE intimacy for the ear, and through
steamboating and railroading the twenty
five thousand miles of the worlds circumfer-
ence are shriveling up into 1nsig
nificnnt brevity. Hong Kong is near
err b. New York than Few years ago New
Haven was; Bombay, Moscow, Madras, Mel
bourne within speaking distance. Purchase
a telegraphic chart, and by the blue lines see
the .telegraphs of the land, and by the red
lines the cables under the ocean. You see
what opportunity this is going to give for the
final movements of Christianity. A fortress
NAV be months or years In building butatter
il is constructed 1t may do all lts
work In twenty minutes. Christianity has
beer planting its batteries for nineteen CEN
turtles. and may go on in Che work through
Other, centuries. but when those batteries are
thoroughly planted, those dortresses are fuily
built they may all do their work IN twenty
four hours The world sometimes derides the
church for slowness of movement As science
anvauicker? Did it not take science i've
Thousand six hundred and ihfty-two years to
find out so simple a thing as the
circulation OF the human bioodY
With the earth and the sky full of electricity,
SCIENCE took five thousand eight hundred
years before it even guessed that there was
any practical use that might be made OF this
subtle and mighty element Whengood men
take .possession Of all these scientific forces.
and all these agencies of invention, do not
know that the redemption Of the world wlll
he more than the work of half day. DO
we not read the Queens speech at tne
proreq1line of Parliament the day before IN
IondonY If that be so, Is 1t anyahing mar
velonsi to believe that in twenty-four hours a
a;,-;,,., .,.ornD,unication can reach the whole
earthq Suppose Christ should descend on pne
notions-rnanv expect that Christ will come
aulonpsthe nations personally suppose thal
Tomorrow morning the Son OF God from IA
lowering cloud should descend upon these
cities. Would not that fact pc known al
the vorld over in twenty7four hours!
Snnpose He should present His Gospel
IN a sa,y words saying: II am the Son
~ Coz T. came to pardon all your siIas ana 10
heal all ,vosir sorrow, to prove lnab au
q supernatural being have just descended
from the, clouds; do you believe NE ana 40
Won believe Ne now why, az Ihe beie
scranb Citations of the earth wcrld be crowded
8. them we're ever crowded just af
tar a sl,;nvrreek. tell you all these Things
Ia show won it is not among tue lmPossipii-
flies or even the improbabilities that Chrisb
will consumer the whole earth, and do 1t IN
stanter when the time comes. there are
foretokesainrs in the air. something
treat is going to happen do not
think that Jupiter IS going to run Us oown
or that the axle of the world IS going 70
break. hut l mean something great FOR tne
worlds blessing and not for the world
damage is going to happen; THINK me MorI '
has had Il bard enough. Enough the Lon
don nIael,es Enough, the Asiatic eholeras'
-Fnough. the wars. Enough, the sll,pErecks.
EnonSh' the eonhagrations, think our
,. World could stand right well proeessasn OF
.nrosnerities and triumphs. Better De on
5be lookout. Batter have your otserva,
tories omen toward the heavens ana
he -. lenses of your most powerful telescopes
veil nolished. Better have all your leJIen
las ready for some new rulsation OF mighty
;n1,uence Better have new fonts OF Type IN
vo.,r nrinting Offices to set up some asDoun0-
mo gaod news. Better have some new us1n-
ne tS that has never been carried reany b1
~ ,,rocessions Better hove the bells N
yon, .ebnrch towers well hungsand rope Wild
y roach that vos may ring out the mar
,;aes'of the Kings Son. Cleanse an YOU
corTt ,houses. for the Judge OF All the earn
nav ,nnear Let al your legislative nalis
h ny ssiiIad for the great Lawg'Ser may %