THE SPECULGM. ~ int ese . = Soe ees es 2 ST VoLumME [X,--No, 7, AGRICULTURAL CoLLEGE, MIcn., JUNE 10, LSgo. WHOLE No. 45. A Tradition. The chase was over for the day, Inos alone, across the bay RY A.C. SLY, UNION LITERARY SOCIETY. His canoe he paddled straightway To where Long Point projected lay. Summer had gone, the autumn come ; There on the beach a maiden stood— The Pottawatomies their home Had just emerged from out the wood; Had left for northern game and trout. Down on his paddle stronger bore, No war had they, no need to scout— And soon he touched the sandy shore. The Ottawas, fast friends were they Out shot again the light canoe, With them, and on this very day Instead of one it now held two. The chiefs had smoked the pipe of peace ; Let minstrels sing of knights of old, Their friendship vow'd should never cease, Dressed in armor trimmed with gold: Far up in the Ottawa land, Yet as brave a warrior here, *Mongst towering pines and hills of sand, - Dressed in nature’s most simple gear, Where Muskegon its source doth take, As ever poised to throw a spear. Hidden there is Neenaba's lake; Let poets praise the ladies fair, And there, hundreds of years ago, With ruby lips and auburn hair : * Tis said (tradition tells us so), Yet here, methinks, in nature's child, - The savage red-men met as friends Innocent, free, fearless and wild, To treat for peace and make amends, The dusky beauty all unsoiled, And side by side, as they were wont, The perfect form, the laughing eyes, To go each year the deer to hunt. A better theme for poet's praise. The twilight reigned, the sun had set, Swiftly glided the bark along, The shades of night the day had met; " Propell’d by a warrior strong, With restless orbs, the arched skies, - A brave young chief—his courage tried— Looked down on earth, a thousand eyes. Favorite leader of his tribe. The horizon, though crimson streaked, No flattering word on his tongue Its western line yet ne’er was reeked, To win the heart of Monion ; Nor did the air in crowded blast No words of love pass'd from their lips, In angry haste come rushing past, No pretty speech to strain the wits ; But zephyrs soft bore odors sweet, But what fail’d language to express, And gently fanned the fevered cheek. The eyes spoke more perhaps than less. As if all nature sought repose Each other lov'd, with simple grace, From weary labor, cares and woes, Made known their love by fond embrace. Like fierce dragoons, fresh from the fray, Wrapt in their blankets, peaceful lay, In voice of deep and richest tone, Bid glad farewell to close of day, Intensified by emotion, Dream dreams of gentle ladies fair, Inos, Pottawatomic chief, Of childhood days, a mother’s care : Told the maiden in language brief Yet knowing well that ere the morn Of great warriors of his tribe, Would rage again the awful storm. How all the nations they defied ; Neenaba's lake was calm and still, Of his forefathers long BES, The campfires burned on Chonoc hills: Who met and conquer d every foe : Along the shore, on western side Of the Pottawatomie land, Ve s ee Corn and plenty on every hand. A birch canoe was seen to glide. I ¥ ¥ The giant pines that fringed the bank, When nearly round the western bay, Mammoth trunks with foliage rank, In the canoe the paddle lay. Cast, as it were, protecting shade The boat had drifted near the shore, O'er warrior and dark-eyed maid. And leaning on the oar once more Oh, say you, have you never heard Inos, turning the bark around, How the red-man’s soul is stirred His quick ear caught a whizzing sound, By love, and how he courts and wins? And on his shoulder felt a sting Listen! Thus the tale begins: Made by an arrow on the wing. 118 THE ———- oor La a Lk A shallow wound, yet though 't was slight, Out rushed a stream of crimson bright. Fierce gleam’d the young warrior’s eye, And fiercer still when he did spy His enemy's dark form glide back Into the wood. The stealthy act Did not escape his eye so keen But that he knew his foe had been Before in Ottawa's tribe— He whio his life to take had tried. From out the lake, the gentle maid, Purest water scooped and bathed The wound, and washed away the stain, The cooling liquid soothed the pain, Inos, like a warrior true, O'er such a wound made no ado. Back to the point, with rapid stroke, He madly drove the swan-like boat, And on the shore left Monion To wend the path that she had come From the Ottawa camp, alone, A war council that night was call'd, And Inos, what had happened, told His braves. Their ears were never deaf To words that came from their young chief: And when the wounded shoulder show'd, Each dusky face with passion glow'd. They lov'd their chieftain far too well To know that such had him befell Without avenging such a wrong ; Thus vengeance came from every tongue. Once Wedesh, an Ottawa brave, His life had risked his chief's to save, And forthe deed, the grateful red Had promised his daughter should wed This great warrior of his tribe— That Monion should be the bride. But Monion bore naught but hate For fierce Wedesh, the brave so great, And had said she'd drown in the lake Before the wife of Wedesh make. The warrior much was vexed at this, For much he loved the pretty miss. To win Aer love the more he tried Farther away the would be bride. When nos first saw Monion, Wedesh knew that the time had come For him to po or lose the prize ; For well he knew that otherwise His valor’s gift, Kewa's daughter, Would be wedded to another. With deadly hatred in his heart, He vowed the lovers he would part. Thus, that he might the maiden save, He'd watch his chance to kill the brave. But the arrow had miss'‘d its aim— His trusty bow for once to blame ; Some bold deception he must try That his rival might surely die, SPECULUM. Soon his own arm cut the skin, As if the flesh had wounded been, And showed it to the great Kewa ; And when the wound the chieftain saw, Heard the story that Wedesh told, His anger back could hardly hold ; Called his braves, that Wedesh might tell To them what had to him befell, With lying tongue and gesture wild, The savage told how Kewa’s child Had been with him along the lake, When an arrow his life to take Had missed its aim, yet torn his arm, And giving chase had seen the form Of Inos swiftly glide away, And disappear along the bay. When the warriors this had heard Their thirst for blood was quickly stirred, They resulved to exterminate The southern tribe who had of late Been their fast friends, but by this act Their foes became. The very fact That Ottawa blood had been spilled, Each heart with deadly vengeance filled. On Neenaba’s most northern shore, There the Ottawa warrior His wigwam had built, while his guest, The southern brave, had thought it best To choose some other place where he Might camp and unmolested be. Where flows the outlet of the lake, Muskegon’'s swift stream soon to make, Among the cedars tall and rank, There he camped on the mossy bank, No star shone in the clouded sky ; _ The hour of midnight drawing nigh, O'erhung a blacken’d canopy. The lake was calm ; from hill to hill Resounded the loon's piercing shrill, And intervening all was still. From either camp a thousand braves Glided across the western bays, Their light canoes cutting the waves, As if by magic force propelled, So noiseless the form each boat held. Each tribe, to surprise the other, Had hoped to avenge their brother This night—to find their foe asleep, And for the dead leave none to weep. Around Long Point, on either side, A floating mass—a savage tribe— They met ; with fearful whoop and yell The foremost warriors fell. Then the awful battle began— Man against man and hand to hand, They strove with to.nahawk and spear, Of death had they but little fear. Fought long and hard the fight to win, Yet ere an hour in battle been The lake closed in on all that throng Excepting one, about to drown, Was rescued by brave Monion. THE SPECULUM. lig The morning came, the rising sun Peer'd o'er the hills and looking down Saw the peaceful lake—nothing more Than he had left the day befure. In the camps, a different scene ; Hundreds of women and children For brave warriors sadly mourned— Who fought the fight, but ne'er returned. Some Ottawa hunters, away, Knew nothing about the affray, Came into camp with game that day— Row'd down across the western bay And fell upon a helpless prey. When Monion, that dreadful night, Had rescued [nos from the fight, Across the lake the chieftain bore, And landed on the eastern shore. With her support he managed well To gain the wood and mossy fell ; She gently nursed the aching wound, With healing herbs to her well known Caused the brave to recover soon, And hand in hand they started forth To leave the lake and cursed north. Their descendants (traditions say ),— Pottawatomies of to day,— Never visit the shinitig spot Where long ago their fathers fought ; That if they should—their only plea— The dead men's ghosts would surely see. The Race Question From a Southern- er’s View. ®% 2B, COOK, OLYMPIC SOCIETY, Scarcely a paper is published that does not alvocate some scheme for settling the negro question in the South, It is the most important problem before the United States at present, and should have a full, unpreju- diced consideration through the press. Is it fairly discussed? Not one article in ten is written by the southerners, and they, of all others, understafid the condition of affairs in the south. A northerner takes a flying pleasure trip through the Southern States and returns with a knowledge adequate for writing any amount on the oppression of the negro in the South. Thus the discussion is continued by the enthusiastic northerner doing the talking and the southerner, who knows the circumstances. best, remaining silent; as anything he might say would not be acceptable to the people of the North. Many dailies are filled with accounts of outrages in the South, which are written in a manner to make the people of the North believe the southerners at large are in sym- pathy with lawlessness, when in reality those south of Mason and Dixon’s line are~ as sensitive to right and wrong as those north, Law breaking which would hardly be heard of if it was perpetrated in the North becomes a national issue if in the South with a negro for its victim, At every election we hear of great scan- dal and eppression of negro voting, just because the negroes do not carry the day, and it is claimed they would under free bal- lot. South Carolina and Mississippi are the only states that have a negro supremacy, and South Carolina disfranchises seventy-five per cent of her negroes by an educational That leaves Miss- issippi accountable for all the suppression of voting which keeps the negro out of power. How the whites peacefully rule in Mississippi over their ignorant people is shown by the picture in the large northern manufacturing towns, of marching the work- men to the ballot-hox to vote under the watchful eye of the employer, and then turning them loose for a holiday if they vote as ordered, or discharged if not. That is worked in the North, where one party has as much wealth and education as_ the other, with but little disturbance. Let the same thing be done in the South with negroes, and there immediately arises an outery against such scandals. It is estimated that Harrison received 1,000,000 southern negro votes, which is about seventy-five per cent of the negro votes, a larger per cent of votes than the whites polled. How much suppression of negro voting could there have been? In court the negro not only gets his rights, but often much more, as the lawyer is enabled to work upon the sympathies of the jury much more than it is possible in pleading for a white man. Negroes evi- dently realize that the whites are their best restriction on the ballot. 120 friends, as a negro will always object to a fellow black on the jury. Thus we sce that the negro trusts and respects the white man’s superior intellect, and if the negro is unwilling to trust his own interest. to his fellow black, how can he be expected to rule _ the states, even where he has a voting major- ity? Evidently the negro must be raised in his own opinion and that of the whites before he can become a useful citizen. The only way of accomplishing this is by educa- tion. The school tax is divided equally per capita between the children of both races. What more could we ask when the whites need it no more and pay practically the whole tax. The southern people are much poorer than the northern, yet pay proportionally a larger school tax. The people of the South have two difficulties to contend with in educating the negro. The people are too poor to raise sufficient school tax to give all a liberal common school education. Many of the negroes are not only indifferent to obtaining an education, but opposed to it, and this prejudice must be overcome before we can expect any consid- erable advancement. It would not be strange if the negroes were treated fully as had as some people in the North tmagife. Think of a people put under the military power that had so recently conquered them, with the intention of protecting an ignorant, helpless people who had just been released from the yoke of slavery and made equal to their former masters! Is it consistent with human nature that they will be allowed to exercise their full rights after the power enabling them to do so has been removed? In South Carolina and Mississippi the negroes would have carried the election if they had ween allowed free access to the bal- lot, and in a few years those two states would have seen their educational institutions and all the public offices under the control of the negroes, They saw this condition of affairs must follow if the negroes @d/ voted as they pleased, and to destroy all chance of THE SPECULUM. such a calamity South Carolina disfranchised most of her negroes by an educational qual- ification. While Mississippi resorted to the less honorable means of keeping the negro out of power, and the easiness with which this could be done has characterized the negroes all through their career as freemen and voters. The Patrons of Industry. GEO. C. MONROE, ECLECTIC SOCIETY, Much depends upon why and by whom a trades union is formed, whether it does good or evil to the people immediately con- cerned, or the community in general. It is no doubt true that a large number of them, representing all kinds of labor, have con- ferred many privileges upon their members and secured for them rights of which they had been deprived. Others, however, formed of the same classes of people, have failed to secure any good results, if such, even, were attempted, because its organizers or leaders turned its power into their private channels to carry on their own schemes for financial or political advancement. Our country has had much of this; too often do we read of strikes or lock-outs, involving hun- dreds of men, productive of no good to those concerned, certainly causing the loss of much time, and bringing suffering to inno- cent persons, all because some men in power in a trades union had seen fit to order the strike. These men are shrewd in their way; they have solved the problem of how to live without work; but could not continue in any such position unless agitation of some kind were present. Revolutionary meetings are held under their direction, into which the masses who prefer to have others think for them are drawn. Again, at these meet- ings we do not find men with diverse opin- ions, they are all from kindred trades, and it is but natural that they should thus acquire exaggerated ideas of their own importance, and seek to elevate themselves by crushing others. THE SPECULUM. 121 = [tis out of such conditions that a peculiar organization has grown up in this state within the last four years, of which little is known. It is distinctively a farmer’s union, having the expressive title of Patrons of Industry, and has for its avowed object the correcting of all evils, real or imaginary, which burden the farmer. Composed as it is of independ- ent toilers it could not follow the plan of other trade unions by ordering a strike when hisher wages were desired, or some other grievance was to be settled; but by intimi- dation it seeks to carry out its own peculiar ideas of business transactions. The idea of such an organization was first conceived by a retired minister at Port Huron, in 1556. He had spent the best part of his life in an unsatisfactory attempt at preaching, and at sixty years of age found it necessary to improve his worldly con- dition. Two of his neighbors, one a lawyer and the other a railroad man, to whom he went with-his scheme, readily lent their aid, None of them had ever tried farming as a profession and knew little of its actual troubles, but they had observed the attention the farmer was receiving from all quarters, and that the farmer paid for it liberally in some way, so they concluded to have a share in that business. The plan was to unite the farmers into one vast organization, having local, county, state and national divisions, presenting too powerful a force to be lightly looked upon. These three originators also believed that no scheme holding out such alluring prospects to its members should be regarded lightly and so put the membership fee at three dollars. This would provide for handsome salaries, which, of course, the the originators looked upon as the principal end in view. After securing themselves in power, the trio set about organizing subor- dinate lodges, and in this they were quite successful. The poor, down-trodden farmer welcomed his friend, who was to help him out of hard times and depression, Thus the order spread rapidly throughout the state. One reason for the rapid growth is seen in the fact that the organizer of each lodge received ten dollars for his services, and to be a good talker was all that was required for anorganizer. In Lenawee County dur- ing the month of April one of this class cleared $290.00 by being the professional friend of the farmer. The farmer’s condition may be improved in two different ways, by securing to him a greater price for his produce, or by enabling him to purchase more cheaply. In this country there are certain laws of trade which fix the price of commodities so that those prices cannot be changed at will. If there is a demand for any class of goods greater than the supply, then the price will be high, and the reverse is true, as well; because of the great competition between tradesmen goods will be sold as low as possi- ble and yet make a fair profit. The vast areas of cheap farming lands in this country have caused such great crops to be raised as to force the prices on the principal produc- tions to remain ata low figure. But these lands will soon be exhausted and prices that will suit every farmer will be the rule. The agriculturist, however, does not look at these points. He sees that certain things are pres- ent, but the future means nothing to him. The Patrons of Industry propose a new basis for transactions which concern’ the farmer. This class and a limited number of merchants are to be brought into closer relations by means of a written contract which binds the farmer to buy all his goods of that merchant and the latter to sell them at not more than ten per cent advance on the cost. This seems reasonable enough, but the parties will not carry out their agree- ment, and it is just here that the weakness of the whole thing is shown. OM ¢ m = wat a ems BI ! g = O =a Sr New CLEARY Bus NESS “Coutace! Ypsilanti, Mich. Circulars on Application. P. R. CLEARY, PRESIDENT. —- TL. EDERER && Sons Are Headquarters for Gents’ F urnishings, Hats and Caps. Special Prices given to Students. 113 Washington Avenue North. H. LEDERER & SONS, the Clothiers. Big Line of Gold and Silver Tipped Umbrellas just : recetved. Best Goods! Prices the Lowest T J. A. 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