Show the sho ouster custer massacre A curious instance of the ease with which an improper use of any word or term is accepted has occurred recently in connect connection ioia iola with the destruction of custers customs command from one end of the country to the other the event has been spoken of as a massacre perhaps a definition in the dictionaries may appear to warrant the employment i of sueh euch a term but if we wish to perceive how unjustifiably it is used in this connection we have only to inquire supposing the case had been reversed and custers command had killed billed all the sioux as they assuredly would have done had they been able should we have called the event a massacre of the indians most assuredly we should have done nothing of the kind but instead it would have been designated a crushing defeat 11 a terrible blow a glorious victory 12 and so forth the simple simpie truth is thal that general custer ouster went out to ter the indians and the indians slaughtered bilm aimin in a square standup fight no he was out numbered but he knew that the 1 odds were against him when he cah charged aged down upon the village and he took his chance with his eyes open it is just as well to call cali things by their right names for presently custer ouster may be avenged upon the sioux and anji then it will be awkward to have hav 6 to talk of the sioux kasmere mas maa mere acre and might seem like disparaging the prak of our gallant boys in blue becard union |