The Irish standard., 1916-11-11
THE TREATMENT OF INFERIOR
RACES.
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"The churchman would bid us be
silent" goes the article, when we tell
of the wars of the Pilgrim Fathers on
Indians. Some would not have us
know that when the Pequot men, wo-
men and children had been murdered,
the Pilgrim preacher rose in his pull
pit to thank God that the militia had
sent six hundred heather souls to
hell!' 1t is not considered good form
to mention that Christian Indians were
hunted and murdered like dogs in
Pennsylvania and Ohio, and even shot
in church as they knelt to pray Gods
blessing on their prosecutors. We are
not allowed to know that Indians were
hunted as wolves and that the states
of Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North
Carolina. New Jersey and even New
scalps. The Pennsylvania schedule
was as follows: For every male above
ten years scalped being killed, $l34;
for every female or male under ten
years captured, $3.50; for every fe-
male above ten years scalped. being
killed, $50" And it adds later in
cident, of Professor Sherman Coolidge
as a boy being saved from machine
gun attack on a peaceful Araphoe vii
lage. ("Social Elements of the Indian
Problem" American Journal of Socol-
ogy, Volume XXI. No. 2, p. 1922
The Christian Indians to whom ref
erence is made were the disciples of
the German Moravians who settled
in Pennsylvania, founding among 9TH
er towns the home OF the great steel
trust Bethlehem. or them and the
treatment of their Indians Roosevelt
tells us in his Winning of the West"
Volume ~, one of the most savage
attacks on them being known as the
Gnadenhutten Massacre, from the lit
tie German MOravian town which the
white men attacked Fiske also gives
us glimpse of the same things in his
Beginnings of New England" He
tells us of the sale of the little Indian
boy, King Phillips son. and other In
dams, into slavery, and how many of
the Puritans even wished to murder
them. He also recites the violent
writings and expressions of the clergy
against the Indians in that time. "Evi-
IDENTIFY the red men were not stray
children of Israel after all, but rather
Philistines. Canaanites, heathens, sons
of Belial. fire-brands of hell demons
whom 1t was no more than right to
sweep from the face of the earth.
Writing in this spirit. the chroniclers
OF the time were completely callous in
their accounts of suffering and ruin
inflicted upon Indians, and, as has
elsewhere been known to happen,
those who did not risk their own per-
sons were more truculent in tone than
the professional fighters" beginnings
of New England, 1893, DID. 257, 1851 In
contrast with this can we read in
lAummis' Awakening of Nation" of
the fact that the hand of the church
was always on the conquistador, to re.
strain him and soften him in his deal
ings with the natives.
These little examples are given to
warn those who wish to attack the
church that it is wise to go slow on
this matter of the treatment of inferior
races. For in this the Catholic ma
lions. guided by the precepts of the
church. have had splendid record of
achievement They have not civilized
the barbarian peoples by killing them
or, but by bearing with them and
slowly but surely leading them stem
by step to a higher civilization. or
this fact the Mexican Review" could
profitably take notice.
G. 3. of c.. V.