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Show TV.K ( I, M VS Oi 7,!TT).L NATIONS. 7t is time for the American In-:. In-:. ' ':i-:rri a f tho Peace table. This gciiileman has been a little neglected. The demands of the vari-ors vari-ors rr.r"! thai v;h- Mie rifiht to de- , -i i ' t . .. ' '. i . pression. i'..jt how it'ciil. ih'i Injun? It may be urged that he has fused Willi the .' mev;c:i n nation. True, h'.('. af!cr u!;j.!sjwu;i. He accepted the national extinction to escape physical extinction.' Kis was the bitter bit-ter choice of alternatives that follow conquest. Well, then. It is so long since his subjugation that it is unpractical to dig up his claims. They were buried with his hatchet. He is part of us, and to baud him buck his independence in-dependence and the American continent, con-tinent, which is his by squatter's right would be too violent a resolution resolu-tion into original elements. ' Is it so long since he was vanquished? van-quished? If this lapse of time kills his claim, then Ireland's is not only dead but petrified. The red man had his independence long after Ireland Ire-land merged with Great Britain. But Indians are savages. Are they? Our boasted civilization is not worth a bean if it left him where it found him. But it did not. Among the ranks of lawyers, physicians and other oth-er men of culture the red man holds his own with the pale-face. There are parts of Ireland where the inhabitants in-habitants fight against education with the same persistency that the Indian shows in embracing it. This is no tirade against Ireland the birthplace of poets, orators, jurists ju-rists of generals who time and agajn have led British armies to victory. It is merely a plea for cool heads and clarified theorizing. To dissolve nations into their original components is not the irresponsible irres-ponsible joy-ride that some sision-aries sision-aries imagine. If the bundle of f;v gots is broken too completely there will be nothing left "but sawdust. It is harder to mend than to break. In parts of England the Danish element predominates pver the Saxon, Sax-on, the Norman and the Celt. In parts of America the African predominates. pre-dominates. Try this program of disruption dis-ruption if you want to, but its problems pro-blems are not without a certain complexity, com-plexity, and the more consistently we theorize the more complex they become. |
