Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-25

Tor the invasion OF my Canadian fisher
les. " The United States said, 81 will
not pay anything" Well, the two ma
tions say, 81 guess we had better leave
the whole matter to q commission.
The commission is appointed, and the
commission examines the affair, and the
commission reports, and pay we ought.
pay we must, pay we do. Not pound
of powder burned, no one hurt 80 much
as by the scratch Of pin. Arbitration
instead Of battle.
SO the Samoan controversy in any
other age would have brought Germany
and the United States into bloody col
lision. But all is settled Arbitration
instead Of battle.
France will never again, I think,
through the peccadillo of an embassa-
dor, bring on a battle with other ma
tions. She sees that God, in punish
ment at Sedan, blotted out the French
empire, and the only aspirant for that
throne who had any right Of expecta-
tiOn dies in a war that has not even the
dignity of being respectable. What is
the leaf that England would like to-
tear out Of her history? The Zulu war.
Down with the sword and up with the
| treaty!
We in this country might better have
settled our sectional difficulties by ar
bitration than by the trial Of the sword.
Philanthropy said to the north, PAY
down a certain amount Of money for
the purchase Of the slaves, and let all
those born after certain time be born
free. " Philanthropy at the same time
said to the south, "You sell the slaves
and get rid Of this great national con.
test and trouble" The north replied,
IL won't pay a cent" The south re-
piled, II won't sell. War, warl A
million dead men, and a national debt
which might have ground this nation to
powder Why did we not let William
II. Seward of New York and Alexander
Fl. Stephens of Georgia go out and spend
few days under the trees on the banks
of the Potomac and talk the matter over
and settle it, as settle it they could, |
81, 700, 600, 900, and the south pay 81,
750, 600, 600, the destroying angel leav-
ing 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, think, in this
country that arbitration is better than |
battle.
A Word For Poor LO.
l may be mistaken, bat l hope that
the last war between Christian nations
is ended. Barbarians may mix their
war paint and Chinese aud japanese go
into wholesale massacres and Afghan
and Zulu hurl poisoned arrows, but
think Christian nations have gradually
learned that war is disaster to victor as
well as yanquished and that almost
anything bought by blood is bought at
too dear a price l wish to God this ma
tion might be model Of willingness for
arbitration. No need Of killing another
Indian No need of sacrificing any more
brave General Clusters Stop exasperat-
ing the red man, and there will be no
more arrows shot out from the ambush
ments. A general Of the United States
army in high repute throughout this
land, and who perhaps had been in more
Indian wars than any other officer, and
who had been wounded again and
again in behalf Of our government in
battle against the Indians, told me that
all the wars that had ever occurred be-
tween Indians and white men had been
provoked by white men, and that there
was no exception to the rule. While we
are arbitrating with Chistisn nations
let us toward barbarians carry ourselves
in manner unprovocative OF contest.
Let me put myself in their place.
inherit large estate, and the waters
are rich with fish, and the woods are
songful with birds, and my cornhelds
are silken and golden. Here is my sis
ter's grave. Out yonder, under the large
tree, my father died. An invader comes
and proposes to drive me off and take
possession Of my property. He crowds
me back, he crowds me on and crowds
me into closer corner, until after
awhile say "Stand back! Don't crowd
me any more, or III strike! What right
have you to come here and drive me OIL
nv premises? got this farm from my
father, and he got it from his father.
What right have you to come here and
molest me?" You blandly say: "Oh,
know more than you do. | belong to a
higher civilization. | cut my hair short
er than you do. l could put this ground
TO a great deal better use than you do. "
And you keep crowding me back and
crowding me on into closer corner and
a closer corner, until one day look
around upon my suffering family. and.
fired by their hardships, | hew you IN |
twain. Forthwith all the world comes
to your funeral to pronounce eulogium,
comes to my execution to anathematize
me. You are the hero. l am the cul'
prit Behold the United States govern
ment and the North American lndianl
The red man has stood more wrongs |
than would, or you. We would have
struck sooner, deeper That which is
right in defense of Washington home |
is right in defense of home on top OF |
the Sierra Nevada. Before this dwin-
ding red race dies completely out
wish that this generation might BY
common justice atone for the inhuman-
ity Of its predecessors. In the day OF ]
Gods judgment | would rather be
blood smeared Modoc than swindling |
United States officer on an Indian res
eryationl One was a barbarian and
savage and never pretended to be any |
thing but barbarian and savage. The
other pretended to be representative OF
a Christian nation. Notwithstanding all
this the general disgust with war and
the substitution Of diplomatic skill for
the glittering edge Of keen steel lisa sign
unmistakable that "tbe day is at hand. "
Distance Conquered.
find another ray Of dawn In the
compression Of the worlds distances.
What a slow, snaillike, almost impossi-
Bile thing would have been the worlds
rectiflcation with 1, 400, 900, 900 OF pop
ulation and no facile means OF COM
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