The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-03-16

than we have and who had probably
imagined that they had tax title, al
least, in land they had held without
an incumbrance or q law suit, since
the time that the memory of mar
runneth not to the contrary. Yet we
continue our generous policy to this
day, of commanding the untutored
savage to "move on" whenever we
want his property, and like the bias
eyed laundryman, he must go.
There are lots of us, of the superior
white race, who haven't business
tact, thrift or Judgment to make a
living among our own people and we
must have help from our beneficent
and magnanimous Government.
Therefore in the spirit of muniflc.
ence and open handed generosity
that has ever character zed our high
minded Government, the lands of the
noble rcd man are cheerfully pre-
sented 10 us on demand. In the early
period the gentle savage resented
this somewhat unique manner Of
transferring real estate, and he rails
ed question as to its legality with
his thomashawk and scalping knife.
But he soon discovered his error, as
we had the judge and the jury with
us, and he saved great deal Of
trouble and unnecessary feeling ry
giving quit claim deed and emf
grating. And so we| keep lnching
him along. He will tumble over the
edge presently and wo will have ii
all. We have always tried to be kind
to the poor injun. We have beer
trying to take care of him. We used
to crowd him off of his own property.
Now we kindly permit him to stay
on our reservations until we need
them, and then we assign him new
ones OF fresh air and plenty of it. OF
course an injun forms no attachment
for his old home. The familiar
scenes Of his childhood have nc
charm for him. He likes to move.
He fairly dotes on it. 1t is his CHIEF
enjoyment. 1t has brought him with
in the ciyilizing influences of white
society and fire water Fire water ie
a great civilizer. 1t and the gener-
GUS policy we have employed with
the savage red man has domesticated
him, has made him mild hammered
and docile. He has lost the bold
spirit of his brave ancestors, and has |
deteriorated into drunken, lazy, |
lousy, dirty, ambitionless wreck of |
former grandeur. Is it any wonder? |
Is it strange that when any man, be
he white, black or red, realizes that |
he hasn't any chance with his white
ally in the battle Of life; that no
avenue is open to him and that he is
manifcstly designed to be an outcast
and a pauper, that he should lose
ambition to try to wear spike tailed
coats, Dunlap hats and tooth pick
shoes and seek the company of men
who enjoy the privileges of ventilat-
cd attire. eat what they can beg or
steal, and drink their beer keg drain
ings from an antiquated tomato can
of the vintage of 1892? 1t has that
effect upon the white man, and it in
spires the injun with the same lofty
We are not the cham
pion of the unwashed savage, nor do
we upeold him in his present con-
dition. He eats decayed horse and
revels in raw grasshopper, and that
sort of menu we abominate. But we
don't think that we have always
treated the red man just according
to Hoyle, and while it is probably a
little late to acknowledge and apollo
5ize, yet If the injun can put up with
1t now, we apologize.
Captain haywood loved the gentle
'ed man. His love diI not prevent
him from "hogging" the red mans
of course, for the Captain
was white man and imagined, rs
We all do, that the whole planetary
system and part Of New Jersey be-
ongs to us. But the Captain had
'ead Fennimore Cooper's novels and
vas influenced by them to regard
very injun nickle plated, eight
octave hero. He had no fear of viol-
'nce from the copper colored abort
zine. He came to their country to
i've peaceably among them and to
ome extent off of them. He had
'een pictures Of William Penn, in
McGuffey's Fifth Reader and his
was to emulate Willie and
ret his picture in the school books.
he wanted to have the indians come
md see him and bring II quarter
section Of land and exchange it for a
tring of glass beads and be happy.
He did not intend to harm hair of
heir heads. He was us genrrous as
lis Government and proposed to pay
'alue for value for every foot of the
Northwest territory, if he had to
corner the whole glass bead output
If the entire country. While glass
'eads were not the money of the con.
titution, and tho crime of 1873 had
lot yet distracted the Popocratic
iement of our beloved country, yet
lass beads were recognized by the
lntutored savage, as among the most
'aluable of earthly possessions, and
L.: 4.