The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-17

shocked by the death of Secretary Win
dom. have known him for twenty.six
years. We were always friends. He has
filled the position of secretary of the treas
ury with great credit to himself and his
party p Al my symPathies have gone out
dom was an intelligent, industrious and
able man. Besides he had courage. and
cheerfully assumed responsibility His
last speech read it today-was probably
one Of the best he ever made"
Following his remarks about the late
secretary of the treasury the conversation
became general, during which Colonel In
gersoll said: 81 suppose there will be a
great stampede of political renegades to
get into the Alliance band wagon, and Sc
ductive bait will be thrown out by the two
old parties to catch the farmer vote. An
old friend of mine, who used to live down
Monmouth, ILL.,, was making a stump
speech in country schoolhouse one time,
and, in trying to get on confidential terms
know what 1t is to be farmer! Why
shouldn't I? was raised between two
rows of corn!' His speech at this point
was interrupted by an old farmer who
yelled: Stranger, you must be pun
At this point waiter handed the colonel
the regular daily telegram that he receives
from home assuring him that his children
are all right. After reading this and pass.
ing it over to his wife he said: II think
the Indian is entitled to sympathy at this
time. see by your paper this morning
that Mr.. Short Bull says that it was
claimed that their Messiah could make
money and spring wagons by a simple
twist OF his wrist as it were. For believ-
ing in this they have been held up to the
scorn of the religious world, placed under
surveillance by the military and treated
as being of unsound mind.
''If they had believed their Messiah cap
able OF performing one hundredth part of
the miracles that are vouched for in the
Bible as having been performed, suppose
they would have been burned at the stake.
The Christianized Indian is the most
mournful object of modern humanity. Bv
forsaking the crude faith of his people he
possesses himself of their everlasting con.
tempt. By adopting the religion Of the
as missionaries to the Indians to avoid
overcrowding Eastern almshouses, he be-
comes an outcast from his own people
and an object to be grudgingly tolerated by
the whites. In the end the Christianized
Indian becomes simply wearer of old
clothes.
"You have some wonderful papers here
in Chicago" continued the colonel, sud.
denly changing the subject.
Yes" interrupted Mrs. Ingersoli, sI
like them better than New York papers.
But tell me, why doesn't some one start a
newspaper that says only pleasant things
about people and omits the dreadful things
that are published so often?" This femi-
nine view of what constituted model
newspaper was answered by Colonel In.
gersoli, who said, in tone that proves
that the honeymoon in the Ingersolf fam.
lily is still radiant: my dear, the modern
newspaper is fearfully and wonderfully
made. The business manager keeps one
hand on the public pulse with the other he
presses the button, and the editorial force
does the rest. The evolution of the Amer.
lean press is wonderful thing to me.
Time was when a newspaper was a sort of
literary shebang and printed very tough
spring poems and long contributions from
a Citizen 'Veritas' and TAXPAYER
Why, 1 can remember time when they
occasionally published speeches delivered
In congress But all this has been tram
Piled under in the triumphant march Of
superior mental development. until today
the great newspapers, like the green gro
GERS and the preachers, offer anything for
sale that the public want to buy"