The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-02
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Iiundree ears ago the island
aIaIita RI as bought from the
eIans syentyf our liars. To
ssday twenty our thousand million
GLARS could buy If you offer
esl money enough in five dollar gold
to pave the countless streets
NsW rom the Bronx to the
youE could not purchase it,
Irish vorld IS
SgS centuries ago the Indians from
~ Iaing 10 Calf rnia, all told, did not
reach mil lion. The white in the
efrftory q e. that time are esti-
mat tel AT not more than half a mil
To-day til white population
bout eighty million souls,
the rednen number even less
han they then.
true hat the white man did
not deal his red brother in the
Christian brotherhood. He
not tact honestly toward him.
To make treaties with the Indians
the in entfon Of breaking them
deemed no sin. The Puritan who
tailed SO to eeting'' on the Sab
bath was sabsoIved If he shot red
this is to the eternal shame
white man
lille hese things are true. it
be- admitted that the Indian
bound to disappear in time, or
at 1east hat he# could never get be-
raachad, if his condition remained I'M
chang
How explain this2 How account
for ctical5 disappearance of the
red man and the wonderful growth
III wealth and numbers of the white
man esexplanation is to be found
IN the di ference between savagery
nd CIVILIZATION. solomon says the.
sI,oVerty Of the poor is his destruc-
id s may also be said that
fgnorance Of the savage is his
on
savage like the beast, looks
food directly the hand Of ma
Sture; the iyilized man creates his
ss[ood terally he makes his liv-
he Indian, who lived by the
sGnaSRSSSrSqulreusStI111 MILLIONS OIL acres OIL
Sand support himself and family;
white man with five acres prop
8er1y nltfYated. has an Infinitely bet
teE Wing he savage idea Of agri-
culture IS extensive; the civilized
idea ntensive. Scientifically work
one acre win yield more food than
can he gathered from ten thousand
acres in#th e8wild.
Inarespect Sof clothing and housing,
ifes of the Indian was equally
Wratched: The .wigwam, which was
the Indians domicile, consisted of
Dom only, Itswas rudely made
ESof bark Of trees. The walls,
which were easily broken, were al
avs full of holes and chinks, Which
#e1posed it's tenants to bowling blasts
ter and to tempests of rain all
afhssyear5 round. Is it wonderful that, !
der such conditions, seven-tenths
sof the red race persisted in infancy?
alone, not the Indian
Medicine Man with his gong-beat-
and superstitious invocations,
seonld have.sayed the race
8Ss God absolute Sovereign of this
world, and man, acting under His
commands, is His ,vicegerent. God
said to man: fInc crease and multiply |
and fill the earth, and subdue 1t, and
Srn1es over all things This is the
Creators will But the savage fails
utterly to acton these commands.
Isl ignorant of the hidden wealth |
soE the soil He knows nothing of |
the property Of minerals, and next to
nothing Of the property of plants.
And becausesof his Ignorance Of these
forces in the earth he cannot Sub
duel t. or#d dominate; it to his use, and /
again becauseEof this ignorance, he
can moi increase and fill the earth"
the savage state all pursue one
dustry The chase. They all hunt
something 70 eat, yet they are al
most always hungry. In civilization
heaYocations$a are many and diversi-
fed he food producers are in a very
small minority but all have enough,
and much is@exported abroad.
fake up one of our business direc-
tories. Here you find artists, archi-
stects.S bankers carpenters, bricklay-
3ers9 chemists, tailors, millers, coop
ers, bakers, blacksmiths, tinsmiths,