The Monitor-register., 1896-09-25

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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. s.Pav
down a certain amount of money for
the purchase of the slaves. and let all
those born after a certain time be horn
free. Philanthropy at the same time
said to the south, "You sell the slaves
and get rid of this great national con.
test n trouble" The north replie6.
81 won't pay a cent" The soutb 70,
plled, Il won't SELL" War, warl A
mllllon Q a men, and a national debt
which might have ground this nation to
powderi Why did we not let William
II. Seward of New York and Alexander
Il. Stephens of Georgia go out and snend
a few days under the trees on the banks
OF the Potomac and talk the matter over
n settle 1t, as settle it they could.
rather thar the north pay in cost of war
81, 700, 000. 900, and the south pay "a
$50, OO0, 900, the destroying angel leay-
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, l think, in this
country that arbitration is better than
battle.
a Word For Poor Lo.
l 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
n Zulu hurl poisoned arrows, but I
think Christian nations have gradually
learned that war is disaster to victor as
we'll as vanquished and that almost
anything bought by blood is bought at
too dear a price. I wish to God this ma
ton might be a model of Willingness for
arbitration. No need of killing another
Indian. No need Of sacrificing any more
brave General Clusters. Stop exasperat-
tHS AN ~ AAetAS oL1o tlSI0 Will u uO
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 Ohistian nations
let US toward barbarians carry ourselves
in a ann unprovocative Of contest.
Let me put myself in their place. I
inherit a 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 ONE
and proposes to drive m off and take
possession of my property. He crowds
me back, he crowds me on and crowds
me into a closer corner, until after
awhile l say "Stand back! Dom crowd
me n more, or I'll strikei What right
have you to come here and drive me off
my premises? 1 got this farm from my
father, and he got it from his father.
What right have you to come here and
modest me?" You blandly say: "Oh, 1
know more than you do. l belong to a
higher civilization. 1 cut my hair short
er than you do. 1 could put this ground
to a great deal better use than you dc.
And you keep crowding me back and
crowding me on into a closer corner and
q closer corner, until one day l 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 1 would, or you. We would have
struck sooner, deeper. That which is
right in defense of a Washington home
is right in defense of a home on top of
the Sierra Nevada. Before this dwin-
ding red race dies completely out l
wish that this generation might by
common Justice atone for the inhuman-
ity of Its predecessors. In the day OF
Gods Judgment l would rather be a
blood smeared Modoe than a swindling
United States officer on an Indian res
ervationi One was a barbarian and a
savage and never pretended to be any
thing but a barbarian and a savage. The
other pretended to be representative OF
christian nation. Notwithstanding all
this the general disgust with war and
the substitution Of diplomatic skill for
the glittering edge of keen steel is a sign
unmistakable that "the day is at hand.
Distance Conquered.
find another ray of dawn in the
compression Of the worlds distances.
What a slow, snaillike, almost impossl-
BILE thing would have been the worlds
rectifo alton with 1, 400, 900, 900 of pop
ulation and no facile means of com
munication. But now, through teleg-
raphy for the eye and telephone in
timaoy for the ear and through steam
boating and railroading, the 25, 600
miles of the worlds circumference are
shriveling up into insignificant brevity.
Hongkong is nearer to New York thar
a few years ago New Haven was. Bon
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 h 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-
structed it may do all its work IN ~
minutes. Christianity has been planting
its batteries for 10 centuries and may
go on in the work through other centu-
ries, but when those batteries are thor
oughly planted those fortresses are fully
built. They may all do their work IN "a
hours. The world sometimes derldes the
church for slowness Of movement. Ii
science any quicker? Did it not TAKE
science 1868 years to find out SO simple
q thing as the circulation OF the human
blood? With the earth and the sky full
of electricity, science took $500 years
before it even guessed that there was
any practical use that might be made OF
this subtle and mighty element. When
good men take possession of all these
scientific forces and all these agencies
of invention, I do not know that the re-