Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-09-24


is the leaf that England would like to
tear ont of her history? The Zulu war.
Down with tine sword and up with the
treaty.
We in this country might better have
settled our sectional difficulties 10y ar
bitration than by the trial of the
sword. Philanthropy said to the
North: Pay down certain amount
of money for the purchase of the slaves
and let all those born after certain
time be free Phianthrophy at the
same time snid to the south: You sell
the slaves and get rid of this great ma
tional contest and trouble The
north replied: Il won't pay cent"
The south replied: Il won't sell -
War! war; A million dead men and n
national debt which might have ground
this nation To powder. Why did we
not let William II. Seward, of New
York, and Alexander II. stephens, of
Georgia, go out and spend few days
under the trees on the banks of the
Potomac and talk the matter over aud
settle it, As settle it they could. rather
than the north pay in cost of war 81
'5O,OO0.O0O and the south pay Si,75O,
900, 900, the destroying angel leaving
the first born dead in so many houses
all the way from the Pcnobscot to the
Alabama. We 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.
| may he mistaken, but | hope that
the last war between Christian nations
is ended. Barbarians may mix their
war paint, and Chinese and japanese
go into wholesale masSacrcs. and AZ
CHAN and Zulu hurl poisoned arrows,
but | think Christian nations have
gradually learned that war is disaster
To victor as well as vauquished, and
that almost anything bought by blood
is bought at too dear a price. | wish
tn God this nation might he a model of
willingness for arbitration. No need
of killing another Indian. No need of
sacrificing any more brave Gen. Custer
Stop eNasperating the red man, and
there will he no more arrows shot out
from the adjustments. general of
the United States army, in high rcpute
throughout this land, and who, per-
haps, had been in more Indian wars
than any other officer, and who had
been wounded again and again in be-
half "a our government in battle
against he 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 arbitrlting with Christian ma
I tions, let us toward barbarians carry
ourselves in a manner unprovocative of
contest.
Let me put myself in their place.
inherit large estate, and the waters
are rich with fish, and the woods arc
songful with birds, and my cornfields
are silllen 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. lie crowds
me back, he crowds me on, and crowds
me into a closer corner, until, after a
while, ] say: stand back, don't
crowd ME any more, or I'll strike.
|
drive me off my promises? | got this
farm from my father and he got
it from his father. What right
have you to come here and
modest nc?' Gou blandly say: ''Oh,
know more than you do. | belong to n
higher civilization. | cut my hair
shorter than you do. | could put this
ground to great deal better use than
you do And you keep crowding me
back and eros . ~ me on into closer
Corner and clio. c3raer until one day
: i.r'- a~. :; s5r.g ~.- .r' ring fami-
~, ami tired ! ".,..
/ you in twain. L".tn'y.Ji, ~ d
comes to your fun,g.. -.- ,;...,,,,,.s.ee
eulcgium, comes to IIy ..Dtion to
mathematics me. You ART l4a hero,
| am the culprit. Behold the United
States government and the North
American Indian. The red man has
stood more wrongs than would, or
you. We would have struck sooner,
deeper. That which is right in de-
| Tense of n Washington home is right in
defense of a home on top of the Sierra
| Nevada. Before this dwindling red
race dies completely ont, | wish that
this generation might by common JUS
tice atone for the inhumanity of its
predecessors. In the day of Gods
| Judgment, L~wofld rather be n blood
| smeare2 Modoc than a swindling
United States officer on an Indian
reservation, One was barbarian and
a savage, and never pretended to be
anything bnt barbarian and a savage.
| The other pretended tn be a represent
| alive of a Christian nation. Notwith-
standing all this, the general disgust
| with war and the substitution of diplo-
matte skill for the glittering edge of
keen steel is n sign unmistallable that
1.-THE day is at hand"
| find another ray of dawn in the
compression of the worlds distances.
What slow, snail-like, almost impos-
sible thing would have been the
worlds rectification with l,iOO, 900, 900
of population and no facilc means of
communication; but now, through tel
egraphy for the eye and telephone in
timacy for the ear, and through steam
boating and railroading, the 5000
miles of the worlds circumference are
-shriveling into insignificant brew
ity Hong Kong is nearer to
New York than few years ago
New Haven was; Bombay, Mos
COW, Madras, Melbourne within speak
ing distance. Purchase a telegraphic
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 Chris
tianity. A fortress may be months or
years in building, but after it is con-
structed it may do all its work in 20
minutes Christianity has been plant
lag its batteries for 10 centuries, and
may go on in the work through 9TH
err centuries; but when those batteries
are thoroughly planted those for
tresses are fully built; they may all
do their work in "a hours. The world
sometimes dcrides the church for slow
ness of movement. Is science any
quicker? Did il not take science 5,G52