Connecticut western news., 1896-09-24
lision. But all is settled Arbitration Instead of battle.

France will never again, I think, through the peocadillo of an embassa- dor. bring on a battle with other na- tions. She sees that God, in punish ment at Sedan, plotted out the French empire, and the only aspirant for that throne who had any right of expecta- tion dies in war that has not even the dignity of being respectable. What Is the leaf that England would like to tear out of her historyr 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 a 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, II won't pay cent" The south re- piled, 1T won't sell" :" War, wari A million dead men, and 8 national debt which might have ground this nation to powderi Why did we not let William H. Seward of New York and Alexander H. 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, rather than the north pay in cost of war e4, TOO, 900, 900, and the south pay a. 750, 900, 900, the destroying angel leav- ing the first born dead in so many houses all the way from the Penobsoot 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.
 I may be mistaken, but I hope that the last war between Christian nations is ended. Barbarians may mix their war paint and Chinese and Japanese go into wholesale massacres and Afghan and Zulu hurl poisoned arrows, but I think Christian nations have gradually learned that war is disaster to victor as well as vanquished and that almost anything bought by blood is bought at too dear price. wish to God this na- 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 orv iv, hfoh kn kh,Or.kN1k fk,o 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 Christian nations let us toward barbarians carry ourselves in manner unprovocative of contest.
 Let me put myself in their place. I inherit large estate, and the waters are rich with fish, and the woods are songful with birds, and my cornfelds 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 baokl Don't crowd me any more, or I'll strikei What right have you to come here and drive me off my premisesP I got this farm from my father, and he got it from his father. What right have you to come here and molest me2" You blandly say: "Oh, I know more than you do. belong to higher civilization. cut my hair short CT than you do. could put this ground to 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 Indianl The red man has stood more wrongs than I 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 I wish that this generation might by common justice atone for the inhuman- ity of It's predecessors. In the day of Gods judgment I would rather be blood smeared Modoo than @ swindling United States officer on an Indian res ervationi One was 8 barbarian and @ savage and never pretended to be any thing but barbarian and a 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 is sign unmistakable that "the day Is at hand"
 Distance Conquered.
 I find another ray of dawn in the compression of the worlds distances. What slow, maillike, almost impossi- ble thing would have been the world 8 rectific ation with 1, 400, 900, 900 of pop ulation and no facile means of com munication. But now, through teleg- raphy for the eye and telephonio in- timaoy for the ear and through steam boating and railroading, the 25, 900 miles of the worlds circumference are shriveling up into insignificant brevity. Hongkong is nearer to New York than a few years ago New Haven was. Bom- bay, Moscow, Madras, Melbourne, with in speaking distance. Purchase a tele- graphic 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 may be months or years in building, but after it is con- struoted it may do all it's work in 90 minutes Christianity has been planting it's batteries for 19 centuries and may go on in the work through other centu- ries, but when those batteries are thor ouphly planted those fortresaes are fully