Year: 1876

hundred lives, and many millions OF dollars to
subjugate the Sioux. obi.
The Jersey City Epe,liag Journal says: "The
Sioux Indians have gone on the war path once
more and got the worst of it, but at serious
cost to our little army on the frontier. The
Indians outnumbered the soldiery moro than
two to one, and the superior fighting qualities
of the white men were again demonstrated.
But it is obvious now, as it has been from all
previous experiences, that the Indian is amen
able to no argument but that of force. He
can be subjugated or killed with a good deal
more certainty than he can be civilized"
The Journal is good paper, and its editorials
are written to the point and generally correct,
but in this instance an error has been made.
The Indian is amenable to other arguments
than force. The Indian can be civilized. To
confirm these two assertions it is only neces-
sary to refer TO the past eight years of the In
dian service. Over sixty thousand of this wild
people have been elevated to sphere of semi
civilization, and nearly Fifty thousand more are
rapidly approaching this state and condition.
1t is the hot bad blood that influences 8 man
to say that the Indian can be killed with more
certainty than he can be civilized.


General Woodford, in his address to the
alumni of Hamilton College, has this to say
relative to party allegiance and Independent
action IN politics "There Is no sanctity about


nominations, simply because they are regular.
And there is neither oil of amounting upon the
brow Of regular candidate, nor just claims
of apostolic succession in any party conven
tion. When party is right, sustain party; not
because it is party, but because it is right.
When 1t is wrong, do your best TO set 1t right;
and If you fail in that, then bolt your party
and beat It. As spirit is better than form;
as the brain, the henrt, the soul, and not the
body, are the man, so the ideas and purposes
of Government for which political party is
organized are, in its best sense, the party.
So long as the organization sustains and gives
practical, honeat and efficient expression to
those ideas, it has just and binding claims


upon such citizens as sincerely believe in such


ideas. But when it discards and rejects them,


or when 1t seeks to make them only rallying
cry for the unwary, that its ambitious leaders


may get victory for merely selfish ends, when
party has outliYed purity, 1t has outliyed use


fulness, and being dead, ought to be buried"
Williams. there's music in the name.


Uncle Jimmy Tupenny WIliamsl How


charged with cuphony are the manifold wo rds


which go to make up the name OF this great


Hoosier! How great and yet how small, how
telescope and yet how microscopic are his
various ways! Now and then ray of gen
erosity flashes quickly across his soul, and
under the inspiration of the moment he has
been known to suggest as much as two cents
for some charitable appropriation. Then par
| simouiousucss. like tho night cloud, Settles
on him, and he clutches the purse-strings of
the Committee on Accounts until the purse
fairly squeals from suffocation and the COM
mittee men encore the screeches. He clutched
the strings SO mserly close the other day that
the entire House squealcd against the tupcnny
meapness. Lemonade and iced tea have
been heretofore kept in tho cloak-rooms of
the House, the little luxury being secured out
of the contingent fund, but there is none pro-


vided for the pArched lips of political great
ness now. No more docs the musical gurgle
of the sweet beverage resound through the


arehways of the cloak-rooms. No more do
the smacking of satiatcd lips reverberate
along the corridors of the Capitol. The


lemonade and iced tes arc gone. Their
sweetness, their stimulating influences, their
refreshing presence have all passed away, and


nothing remains TO mark the place where
they were save q fve-gallon ice-water cooler,


filed with colic-generating fluid known as
iced Adams ale. For this immense saving In


expenditures a grateful and taI-oppressed
people are under broad, deep and massive OBJ
legations to Uncle Jimmy Williams, the ex


pectant Governor of the Hoosicr State. He
did it. He removed the lemon and the cool
tea. He has saved as much as five dollars to
forty millions of people, and put the "brains
and wisdom" of this great nation in condition
to be sun-struck by too much use Of ice
water. How can this ten billiondollar
country ever discharge its debt Of gratitude to