| Show the he llor ilor raon on war wr its vait ast consequences I 1 4 how sow to tiri iiri wage a ge it I 1 I 1 I 1 the emperor nicholas lost the tha crimea crenna and ands fiffy years of national advancement and the the tha prestige of the hirst first military power ower ot 01 europe by lacking a raili ralli railroad oad from moscow to Pe peaceful W work wore ore ork could suppress a bloody war let lat us beseech Coni congress ress rees and the president to prepare for or their war with th the mormons cormons boy toy ap to the pacific railroad there will ha be absolute eco edo economy nomy domy ill lit in this the washington correspondent of the baltimore still sun who has access to tile hie best sources of ill in the departments intimated a few days ago that the cost coat to he united states government of the mormon ivar would not fall short of FOUR MILLION DOLLARS POLL noll this calculation cu lation struck every one at the time as s extravagant but upon reflection it will not be bd considered e d so 0 A mormon wa war involves necessarily a general indian war wit with nith liall all ali the fie fierce ree tribes that bilat now infest tile tiie great western plains and find their thel 7 r secure retreats among amon the mountain fastnesses fast nesses of new hix aix mexico leaon california dacotah and ard washington territories I 1 I 1 when we corkle come to think odthe filmer numerous nume rou ua and powerful tribes of indians infesting the entire vast distance between kansas ald and ai lorilia their predatory lif life ilfe and habits their villainous iu 14 for robbery and murder heir their fac fae facility to i attack and aud escape ilie the entire lack of property amoni amons them either of lodges or villages es the destruction st truc tion ot of which much would nol not be any tiny loss or S chastisement to them and finally the utter des of in their country whereby any armed force of R the united stat stal es could old he be subsisted ab necessitating the tedious and enormously enor enoi expensive transport of every thing of the kind bind across the plains the full weight of difficulty presented t to our dovirn government ment is forced upon 0 n the the mind jt A I 1 i truly wa we have a dismal prospect before us and if a few hundred bundred seminoles Semi noles in Florida could engage the amerian army well on to five years at V a cost of about fifty millions of dollars what exah exaggeration is there in jil supposing that the numerous and bloodthirsty blood thirsty tribes of the interior of the continent roving as the bedouin arabs and uncertain yet as swift as the wind in their attacks and retreats across tile the great american P plains lains will engage our government in the longest and most harr har assing war it has ever had at a acost cost of even more than it can hardly end if once commenced of the annihilation of the major part of the indian tribes engaged in the strife nor would the citizens of the west wish it to cease till tile the country was bably rid of the beastly wretches upon whom such large amounts of sickly sympathy are annually expended I 1 but recur to the tile cost of af the mormon war that is twice tile hie amount hat hai would be needed to take up the missouri pacific railroad at kansas kanas kan as city and build it through utah to herity he thi city of sacramento in california and the building of that road would quell tile the mormon war without the firing of a gun by the government Gover goyer Dment it would repress and keep in order the indian trib tribes esby by a policy of self belf protecting protection t settlements of or whites thick along the railroad clear across the continent the sunlight of civilization poured hy by railroad trains through utah would disperse its moral miasma and purify it hy by contact with the intelli intelligent 1 ent world tile the discontented mormon mornion man mail or woman weman wem m could flee fleo ill in safety from I 1 lie the toils tolls of unprincipled prophets and elders and phe fhe danlie danite band bard could not gather thlin thair prey from the flying locomotive there can be no mistake about it our oar relations with the mormon and Indian savages of the moun bains are df 0 the most threatening ani and dangerous character and no policy would he be so wise wlee or prudent for our government to pursue as to stop all warlike movements that would be carried on I 1 at such crush crushing illg cost and amply the funds instead to tiie the construction of it h military highway a first class railroad across the continent we will crush crash fhe tile mormon and indian mutiny years sooner and at vastly less expense of treas tire lire and blood by so 60 doing st louis evening news nov 28 |
