| Show THE SIOUX SLAUGHTER THE conservative press of the country h ry seems to view the conduct of the conflict with the indians indiana much in the mime itne tight light as it appears to us the tUl following lowing is taken from the philadelphia american and expresses the entertained by many other I 1 journals als A I 1 id behave We have now had two so 80 called bat los with the unfortunate slona causing losses of life its among the united timatea broo troops both men and and of cou course ree the consequences quen ces of slaughter upon the indians indian abo ao were engaged we say the unil unfortunate ate 8 sioux bemuse because however much on it my may ultimately appear the and aad their for ux us ing the lat argument of armi arm it is perfectly certain that the indians are comparatively ively innocent Inno dent sufferers they have neither the advantage of their own mode af f life nor of civilized ways they have found them themselves pelves encroached upon and disturbed their great reservations they were forced into settling and tire breaking aking up a process weicht however feces necessary ary from the white manta mans point of view W was to most of them unwelcome and painful finally having indulged the bopes awakened dy by thib messiah Mea craze cram they find themselves called on to surrender their guns guna and their ponies the form humiliation or buffer the penalty penally of death it is a gross scandal to the american republic that chii condition of bloodshed should arise for f or the sioux are a people amen amenable ble to ances that world would have avoided it they have th the qualities equalities out of which a vigorous civilization may arise they are hardy energetic and brave they have a I 1 large rg e intelligence they are capable of learning they are easily made ir industrious trl they thay ean can be led into Christ christian lan ways nobody who has baa had friendly intercourse with them that they hoy are entitled to better treatment than massacre nor is it unfortunately only the bad indians the hostiles ho stiles I 1 the bands led by bv sitting bull and his lieutenants who have suffered As usual the peaceable bands including many who were endeavoring to farm to build to raise stock to acquire implements and to live in the civilized way have been disturbed and robbed many abany of them in terror at the approach oli of the troops not knowing whether they would be protected or not abandoned their proper property 17 and in the confusion it has been lost or destroyed or stolen it is very true as has been suggested by bv the indian rights association in a cai circular cular r just Lis issued sued that the expenditure of tro trouble U biel in the present dakota trouble will far exceed the sum which would have served if used in time to educate the sioux to the point whore they could not have been influenced by bv the barbarous and superstitious elements among them A proper edu education would have made the ghost dt dancea inces abortive and have restricted the influence of sitting bur bull and other makers of mischief BO far that it would have done no serious damage this indeed was largely the revolt of the heathen indians against the progress and influence of the christianized Christiani zed and civilized ones and if there had been a timely educational effort made the weight of the former would have been been trifling in comparison with the latter it is too soon to judge how necessary it was to let the troops loose it is not too soon to pit pity the unfortunate sioux whenever ake the earthen crook crock swims with iron irod ones it Is id sure to suffer |
