| Show THE RED AND WHITE CRAZE WHAT is ie now called the indian craze occupies a large proportion of the dispatch h columns of american newspapers in reading the clashing and contradictory reports on the subject every thoughtful person will admit that there is a great deal of white amans mans craze on the subject the telegrams are full of accounts of military concentration and movements men to preparatory to suppressing an anticipated uprising yet the indians have not according to any of the reports eftie e a single hostile demonstration that is the most singular phase of the whole bustness business the basis of the alarm seems to be wholly grounded upon n certain orgies or rites including dancing in which the red men are said to be indulging also on the fact that many MR ny of cf them belicove in the intervention in their behalf of a messiah who is to destroy the whites by some tremendous convulsion of nature it seems to us that if they have this belief as has been so often represented they will be likely to wait for its realization instead of going to work to destroy the v hites with winchester rifles it will be very unfortunate it if the indians indiana shall be goaded into r committing om mitt ling some overt act by the hostile movements now going on in relation to them there are occasions when we can agree with the tribune and on one phase of this subject at least we can consistently coincide with it that journal intimates this morning that the terrifying rumors floated boated ail over the country about a probable indian outbreak are set afoot and kept live alive by post traders and other traders on the frontiers it is not the first time that indian wars ware have been precipitated by the sordid lust for business benefits peculiar to that claw class MOB men get pretty low in the scale of humanity when they seek to further the interests of their trade sit at the sacrifice of hundreds or perhaps thousands of liveson lives of their fellow creatures the same paper speaks correctly when it intimates that it would he the worst kind of malu malness ess for the indians indiana to seek to enter upon the warpath karpath at this season of the year especially in the dakota country which is liable soon to be swept with the destructive blizzards common to that region and to be expose I 1 to which is as certain death an to be confronted by a phalanx of soldiers in hostile array armed with the most improved weapons of modern warfare if the indians ot of this country desired to be wiped out of existence they could not according to all appearances adopt a more or of ing the work of extinction than by cord committing any act that would form the basis of a reason to have the military forces of the united states hurlen against them we hope that they will not be induced by any demonstration toward them to commit any act of revolt that would open an indian war which would be a great misfortune any white men be they post poet traders or any other class tr found working toward the production of such a sanguinary outcome of the present agitation ought to be summarily placed under effective restraint |
