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Show Hff M AS THE FATHERS DID. Hwl1: H When Massachusetts was settled the staid Pil- gBRr H gi'im Fathers who said their prayers and invoked HH$il ' divine wisdom, found it necessary to wipe from IBP!!; tho earth the savage tribes that opposed their ad- HmP jBf vance. As the settlements were pressed into the BKl'f 1J Empire State, the same treatment was accorded HHf 1 a the Five Nations. It was so in the South; the HJ H Gherokees and Choctaws were dealt with in the HhI I ; same way. In the same way the Shawnees, the Klfljf'i I ; Potowottames and all the rest up to and beyond Kjffi'i the Mississippi, were killed or scattered. When Bjjjfvf' f, Florida was bought the Seminoles were treated in ni ijfr the samo way. When Texas was taken the HragL; '. i Apaches, the Comanchcs, the Kiowas and a dozen HH i-i more tribes met the same fate. In the same way HajRII J the Sioux, the Navajos and all the tribes north BffrH II i and south were subdued. When the Anglo-Saxon Hntl'! ) entered California and Oregon the Diggers, the HJTij j I Modocs, the Rogue River and Willamette Indians Hli j I r were reduced to helpless quantities. Before Ne- RBI V ! ' vada had been occupied for a year after the dis- Hmi H covery of the Comstock, the Piute war came on, Mbj ' j and a little later the Shoshone and Goshoot war, fiBi! , 4 In northern Utah Gen. Connor put a quietus upon BffljyJi' ! ne northern savages. The theory all the time was HNB;' 11 that enlightenment must noUbe stopped by hordes BWrei' I of savages, though among those savages some mng- & m nificent characters were developed, from King Hk :m I Philip to Logan, from the great Shawnee to Chiefs Hk ' ff -l Joseph of the Nez Perce and Winnemucca of the IsB Iff ! Piutes. Nfj But under Providence the Philippines came un- IHk i "1 I der the American flag, not by direct appropriation, IKW f i ,' as in the case of our. Eastern and Western States, Hw i but as Texas and California were obtained. Mm ' ' There are some thirty-three or thirty-five tribes of people in those islands. One tribe is tho Moros. They are utter savages; head-hunters and robbers on land, pirates on the sea. No stranded ship on their coast ever escaped pillage; no crew of such ship ever escaped being massacred. A detachment of United States troops went to their island to take possession. They went as the Pilgrim Fathers Fath-ers went to Massachusetts, as the Cavaliers went to Virginia, as the gold-seekers went to California, except that their possession promised no reward to them. They went merely as servants of the Republic to plant and make secure American sovereignty sov-ereignty there. They found themselves confronted by a horde of mongrels, from which no savage instinct in-stinct has been eliminated; rather, they had been sharpened and their cruelties refined by contact with the mongrel Spanish races in the adjacent islands, and by their practice as pirates looking out for stranded or becalmed ships off their coast. There were natural clashings, and some of them were killed. Then they threw off their simulated friendship and assumed open enmity. Then more of them were killed and more are to be killed in future. There are men and newspapers in the United States that denounce war and inveigh against the officers and soldiers that are facing those devils. It will not matter; there will be no change of programme except to make the war more fierce and destructive. It has been that way since it commenced two hundred and eighty years ago in Massachusetts and Virginia. |