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Show AN EXPENSIVE WAR. The late Indian war cost tho United States government more than :,000,00). It would have been much cheaper to give the Indians what was due them. Cincinnati Enquirer. Now that accounts are all in, it is discovered dis-covered that the late Sioux war cost tho government $2,000,000. It would have cost much less to give the Sioux their full rations. Pittsburg Dispatch. The expense of the campaign against the Sioux Indians is estimated by the war department to be about $2,000,000. And the result? Well, it is not very creditable to the present administration, administra-tion, whatever It may be. Dubuque Herald. General Miles thinks justice was tempered tem-pered with mercy in the Sioux "war." Certainly something was tempered with $2,000,000 from the treasury, but it is the geneaal impression that neither justice nor mercy was got for tho nomey. St Louis Republic. There is one tbing the cost of which has not been increased by the McKinley McKin-ley law. it used to be said that it cost the government $1,000,000 to kill an Indian, whereas over two hundred of them were killed in South Dakota at the merely nominal cost of $2,000,000. Buffalo Courier. The experience has been bitter and costly enough, and what adds to its bitterness is the reflection that it is entirely en-tirely chargeable to the administration of Indian affairs, the honesty of which the president has lately taken timely occasion to vindicate, but the efficiency of which is still wide open to vindication. vindica-tion. Philadelphia Record. |