The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-04-16
MAJOR IzLAR's SECOND LETTER

| we ludI 41elJCA AGAel 10 III
rect. The white man-nominally at
least, a Christian-has built UP on
these western shores a very brilliant
civilization, as he has likewise done
on the opposite shores of the Allan
tic: but in the accomplishment of
which he has followed in the foot
steps of the founder of our religious
faith about in proportion as a drunk
en- man tracks a straight line.
Forgetting that God is the creator
of all men and that the whole world
is but one vast family, in establish
ing this civilization the white man
nominally a Christian-has pillaged,
plundered and annihilated. He has
waded in blood and stepped his soul
in crime.
After planting the banner of the
cross on these shores, our Christian
forefathers, forgetting the fundamen-
tai precept of the founder of our
faith, love thy neighbOr as thyself,"
but remembering the older text, that
the heather are given as an inheri-
lance, and the uttermOst parts of the
earth for a possession they began
on a career of pillage, outrage and
determination, that shocks all human
sensibilities.
Speaking of which Draper says:
1T was one unspeakable outrage,
one unUtterable ruin, without discrim-
nation of age or sex. Those who did
not die under the lash in a tropical
sun died in the darkness of the mine. f!
From sequestered sand-banks, where |
the red tiamingo fishes in the gray of |
the morning; from fever-stricken |
mango thickets, and the gloom of i'm !
forests; from hiding plac- |
es in the clefts of rocks, and the sol |
Itude of invisible caves; from the
eternal SHOWS of the Andes, where |
there was no witness but the all-see-
ing Sun, there went up a cry of hui
man despair. By millions upon mil
ions, whole races and nations were
,ut off. The Bishop of Chiapa af-
lrms that in his time more than If
cen millions were exterminated.'
Did they find a civilization here?
Surely they did. Read the descrip-
ion of one of the highways in Peru,
nd then imagine what a civilization
hey must have had to have construct
d such a work
Chambers Encyclopedia says:
The greatest highway of the cOun-
ry was that which led from Quito !
through CuzcO into the Chilian do
Unions. In its construction galleries y
'ere cut for leagues through the Hv- c
lg rock; rivers were crossed bv
ridges of plated osiers that swung. c
the air; precipices were assembled 4
y staircases artiflciaIly cut, and val Il
'ys were filled with solid masonry.
was from 1900 to 1000 miles long. h
as about 20 feet broad, and was +
lllt of heavy flags of freestone." L
Fresh fish, caught on one II
ny at Lurin, on the Pacific, is said D
nave been eaten the next day at q
lzco. The distance between these a
aces is 300 miles" o
Must have had automobiles in those lie
lys.
These lncas left also the remains p'
sculpture, architecture and carving. pi
Id literature which showed that 81
ey were refined and civilized in m
any ways. in
Perhaps contemporaneous with 81
EN-. the MOOrs, far across the seas
d also built up a very splendid civ.
cation. by
Seven hundred years before there u'
Is a street lamp in London tho Sc
'eets OF Cordova were brilliantly il.
Its inhabitants had win III
W glasses, marble floors, hot baths al
q tapestry, while yet the people If III
gland were living in chimnevless OIL
is. '0''' HI
Before being driven out of Spain an
the Spaniards, the Moors had es- OF
'hShed schools of medicine bosnit- 10
3 and left as a relic of their nro- WI
IS along scientific lines a gold ~
De and perfect model of a steam Wa
cine an
We repeat that we have built on 70
sc shores magnificent civiliza-
l. one OF which we are irs+1r J
uu' out We must not assume that thi
are alone in this respect. To usa pas
vernacular of the streets that VIC pha
the whole cheese" the
ong before the birth Of the Cbris the
Iellglon, see to what snIendid ele,
5H'S the Egyptians had climbod. the
80 over to Persia: then +o was