Arizona republican., 1891-01-06
OUTRAGEOUS sENTIMENTALISM.

The latest from the Indian country Is that Colonel Forsythe, of the Seventh Cavalry, has been suspended. He is to await the action of court martial upon his course in allowing the killing of In dian women and children in the battle at Wounded Knee. On the eve of a great and decisive engagement that is to determine whether the Indian or the white shall rule the Northwest, one of the most efficient cavalry leaders who ever bestrode saddle is ordered off the field in disgrace for doing that which was his duty. Colonel Forsythe, who won distinction as lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth Cavalry when that grand regiment held the passes of the South west against the Apaches, is ordered from the field at time when every sol dier's nerves are strung for the battle of the morrow; time that rarely comes in the monotonous life of frontier trooper, when renown is to be gained and vast good accomplished.
 Once more the Indian Rights Associa- ton has done some work; again have these mawkish philanthropists shown that in their insane love for the vicious they recognize no rights as belonging to the people of their own color. Would to God that they were the ambassadors who had to treat with the Indians at this time, face to face. Possibly they might learn few things were they to meet Sioux warrior on his native heath possibly they might find in that warrior former Sunday school pupil, in whom the natural wolf-like spirit had caused an abandonment of the hymn book for the wild fOray and it's blood shed.
 It seems incredible to western man that an influential class in the East will obstinately close their eyes to the fact that the Indian is not a human in the ordinary acceptance of the term; that he is but wolf in instinct, though biped in form. It may be, after years of sub jection and stern treatment, the Sioux might be tanned, but who ever heard of a wild animal being tanned by allowing him to exercise inherent ferocity with out restraint?
 Yet, forsooth, because his machine guns were not discriminating when pointed at the bowling, painted mob which rushed upon it's prey at the In- dian ambush at Wounded Knee, Colonel Forsythe is to be offered up as sacrifice to the god of cant. Because his soldiers, in repulsing the fierce onslaught of the treacherous fiends, found it necessary to kill a number of young red-faced imps, the bravest and most energetic leader against the hostiles is to be made an ex- ample of in order to show the army just what kind of Indian fighting the War Department desires.
 What prospect is presented to the army officer when he sees that by doing his duty he will be subjected to the dis approval of headquarters, when he goes into battle "with the enemy in front and a court martial behind." But the brave men who officer the Sixth and Seventh and Ninth cavalry regiments and the First infantry have all seen stern service and have been proven true. They will do their duty, though all the Phansees without Judea shout "Crucify him~
 Surely General Miles had no hand in this matter; it must be an arrogarion of headquarters overriding that tried soldiers judgment. But from whatever source came the suspension, the people of the Southwest will remember in Colonel Forsythe the tireless trooper for their sake, by pursuing the Apaches through the Sierra Madres even into Mexico and will stand by him even against the wrath of the administration.