The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-04
ilization with its swors slashas its way
through forest aud junge.

HZdiiOl Win It's sWels ss3Shiss iSS way
through forest and jung:e.
Civilization cannot s,arve or halt in its
march to consider the sentimeniai birth
right of barbarians to s,erpetuat2 she black
night of superstitious ienorang@s and deg
radiation which is their so-calls.i freedom.
When the freedom of a strong civilization
70 live and move. AMI exteyid its being
finds Itself stopped by Tire filth freedom
OF barbarism the freedom of .hs strong
fairly forces the freedom of tie weak to
fight and die, to Ay or surrender.
Lowell spoke more truth tlau poetry
when he wrote:
Not but wut abstract war 10 hosrf6,
Istgn TO tibet with all my hesrg,-
But civlyzstioa docs q; forrid
Sometimes upon poyder-carN
The sword OF Russia has exterminated
the Turcoman bandits that oT:2e ,blighted
all the peaceful industry of Central Asia.
The advance OF Russia to sac Afghan
from tier; the march OF Englan,s from Cey-
Ion to the Indies; the sdvance Of France
from the ruins of Carthage T.: tAe water.
shed of the Congo. have brought or in the
near future will surrey bring railways,
peace and civilization - regiotss once an
nualIy desoIated by locust GIT OF rob
bers
The Indian, dead Or in exile. was the
Puritan's idea of 'good Indian," and yet
the New England philanthropisi-noliti
reproaches the men Of the West because.
face to face with the Indian pYeb EN-. they
hov - x.I - ,oh n
enable themselves to obtain ard hold lodg-
ment in the country, though they have
protected the rights If the Indian to an
extent that should shame the conduct Of
the whites Of the older states.
1t is a duty of humanity and civilization
to protect the weak. and the Neat in deal
ing with the Indian has :aever 30
utterly forgotten this rs did ths East At
least the West has protected the Indian
when he was no longer an object Of fear,
while the East has pursued aim with
svarice after fear no longer existed. New
England never denounced slavery In the
days of Jonathan Edwards. .he great
Puritan divine. when it was an object
lesson. The history of Deersie;d, Mass.
shows that slavehoiding was common in
that section up to ard after tie time of the
Old French war, and the minister Of the
Gospel were conspicuous slaveh5lders and
did not scruple TO buy and SEED slaves and
sell children from Their slave ssatents; one
OF Jonathan Edwards deacous protested
against slavery, but he was treated a.
''crank" and Edwards preachad . sermon
defending slavery from the B. ;ala.
When slavery did II OF pay ase ceased to
be a domestic object lessor. then New
England began to kick againse slavery. It
is something so with the Eastera denunci-
alton of the Vests treatmeEe Of the In
dian. So long as the Indian was formid-
able in New England. New York or Penn.
sylvania the East legged him into sub
mission with red hot fail; violence and
fraud were always ons ployed TO coerce or
cajole the Indian.
The West is not gultless In this respect,
but its scutcheon IL less smirc ed than that
OF the East, for even where thu lndian sur.
wives ASIAN object lesson Of hatbarism he
10 humanity treated ct the W~ss. But tho
Indian 90 q ward of the natios ought not
longer cumber the earth; he should have
his lands, or their equivalent in, money, if
he does not want land givsn him, and
then be left to lean On himsel: Tor his dim
ner: he should root hog or sie:" he will
probably Idle" before he vii! root" but
no matter about that; If he csaaot survive
the stern education Of seIf-s1pporr, 1t is
better that he shoul4 die and make room
for his betters
The survival Of the fi,test IN the law of
nature both among the loves saimals and
among men. The efforts Of civilized soci-
ETY. to keep the breath of life IN the perish.
ing classes; the "sutterranesa savages" of
our white civilization. are idle end useless.
1t is money. time. talent and humane
genius absolutely wasted in tie effort to
resist the inexorab@ drift o.: nature; the
fittest will survive without hclp and the
unfit will disappear in spite o. help. So
with the Indian.