| Show RELIGIOUS persecution As ALS story of the of I 1 indians n at wounded knee is developed it becomes more and more certain certai a that the me troops engaged in it chased fleeing and papooses oses as well as bucks and shot ahot them down wherever found A JB tile patch dated pine ridge jan 19 contains this paragraph this afternoon one of the indian police discovered the bodies of four dead indiana in the creek of wounded knee boy two girls and an old squaw they were evidently victims of the wounded knee battle 9 9 thin Is but one in incident eident of a large number that have been published they all go to establish what we said when the news of the slaughter was ard received 01 apropos of the views we have ex fremed premed on the error and iD injustice justice of attempting to suppress the indian dances whichard chare religious exercises and injure no one unless it be the indians indiana Isu engaged in them we find the following in avery interesting correspondence from adaton nebraska Me braska to the salt lake herald dated january 1 I must here relate an incident of this messiah campaign last lall fall and a few days before colonel gallagher was relieved as indian agent at pine ridge agency the follow ng choice conversation took place between him and a chief of a band of brutes who were carrying on the ghost dance lg j colonel gallagher why not stop your dancing do you not know that your medicine men are misinforming you and that this messiah business is false chief why does not the white man kill off his bin preachers these men talk from froma a book they never saw themes the messiah they only read about him the messiah came to us in the mountains we saw him we talked with him he told us just wh what at will come we have as much right to believe our Messiah whom we saw with our very eyes as you to believe your preacher whose only knowledge comes from a big book tt this is unexpected logic somewhat turned the tables of argument in the wro wrong direction and it more than convinced vin colonel gallagher that the indians indiana were indeed imbued with the idea that his messiah outranked out ranked the one of the bible |
