Show A SAVAGE SENTIMENT EVERY once in a while a stale flat and barbarous saying is ie expressed regarding the indians indiana of this country it appears frequently in public journals and is uttered by individuals it is this the only good indian is a dead indian such a sentiment as the words indicate either comes from a cruel and depraved heart beai or is merely a thoughtless expression of a human parrots who imitates and utters i what he hears bemuse because he hears it and because other people have said it he takes it for granted as being proper when the cold blooded declaration comes from a person of education it is in an evidence that it ais 18 simply the enunciation of a civi limed savage one whose mAli malicious clOus nature to Is in conflict with his intellectual enlightenment and the indians indiana could say with much more foree force in reference to that class that the only good white men who poo poa loses such brutal instincts are dead lones the oft used expression quoted regarding arding the aborigines simply means according to the significance of the english language that the of it to is an advocate of wholesale murder of helpless and ignorant human beings and that it would be proper to exterminate them this is about as high a conception of the march of civilizations civilization as some peo I 1 pie are capable of attaining to in order to further the cause of enlightenment lighten ment they would assassinate the unenlightened and leave those only who have reached a more or ilea less advanced stage of development A prominent indian in the dakota region in conversation on the present state of affairs drew draw the attention of a leading white man to the fact that in many respects the indians were better than the whites having no brothels nor drinking shops it to is the high function and duty of the civilized to enlighten and develop the ignorant not murder them if the same eagerness had been displayed in that direction toward the indians as there has been in robbing them of their lands the question in relation to them would have been solved long since they would have been lifted from the dark realm of savagery into the bright region of correct civilization it is needless to assert that those these poor benighted people are not susceptible cep tible of cultivation this theory has been smashed in mexico and elsewhere on this continent some borne of the brightest and most moat liberal minded publicists have been pure blooded indiana but the development of the indians indiana can never be reached by placing them permanently on the defensive against the unjust encroachments encroach ments ot the race 41 I 1 claiming to be their superiors we never see the common expression favoring the annihilation of the aborigines of this country without being inspired with a feeling of shame and indignation he who utters it with a full sense of it its purport is a heartless monster he may be intellectually advanced but is morally decrepit and made of such material as constitutes tyrants it is a pleasure to note the fact that the horrible sentiment exhibited by the oft repeated saying the only cooj indian is a dead indian is meeting with wide and unsparing denunciation from numerous sources and directions |