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cruelty and massacre, we have filled for ourselves a 

 vial of wrath. It will certainly be outpoured on us to 

 the last drop and the dregs. What the Persian did to 

 rich and rotten Babylon, what the Goth did to rich and 

 bloody Rome, another race will surely do to us. 



If ever the aroused and reinspired Yellow man comes 

 forth in his hidden strength, in his reorganized millions, 

 overpowering, slaying, burning, possessing, we can only 

 bow our heads and say, "These are the instruments of God's 

 wrath. We brought this on ourselves. All this we did to 

 the Redman. The fate of Babylon and of bloody Rome is 

 ours. We wrote our own doom as they did." 



THE APACHE INDIAN'S CASE 



(From ''On the Border with Crook" by Captain John 

 G. Bourke, U. S. A. Courtesy of Messrs Charles Scrib- 

 ner's Sons.) 



For years I have collected the data and have contem- 

 plated the project of writing the history of this people, 

 based not only upon the accounts transmitted to us from 

 the Spaniards and their descendants, the Mexicans, but 

 upon the Apache's own story, as conserved in his myths, 

 and traditions; but I have lacked both the leisure and the 

 inclination, to put the project into execution. It would 

 require a man with the even-handed sense of justice pos- 

 sessed by a Guizot, and the keen, critical, analytical powers 

 of a Gibbon, to deal fairly with a question in which the 

 ferocity of the savage Redman has been more than equaled 

 by the ferocity of the Christian Caucasian; in which the 

 occasional treachery of the aborigines has found its best 

 excuse in the unvarjdng Punic faith of the Caucasian in- 

 vader; in which promises on each side have been made, 



