756 THE GHOST-DANCE RELIGION [eth.ann.14 



Chelch la joilla ; 



Then we'll be happy ; 

 Chelch la joilla; 



Then we'll be happy; 

 Chelch la joilla, 



Then we'll be happy, 

 Al kwe shuck nihil. 



Up in heaven's house, 



Chelch la joilla; 



Then we'll be happy; 

 Chelch la joilla; 



Then we'll be happy ; 

 Chelch la joilla. 



Then we'll be happy, 

 Yuchque sho-sho-quille. 



Up with Jesus. 



Mr Wickersham then gives an account of the persecutions to which 

 the rising sect was for a long time subjected, chiefly at the hands of agent 

 Edwin Eells and his brother, Beverend Myron Eells, already quoted at 

 length, who was at that time the missionary on the Skokomish reser- 

 vation. As Mr Wickersham's statements in this regard are mainly in the 

 form of extended quotations from Ten Years' Missionary Work at Sko- 

 komish, written by the Eeverend Mr Eells himself, they may be regarded 

 as conclusive. It is apparent that a part at least of this persecution, 

 which took the shape of banishment, chains, and imprisonment, and 

 even the forcible seizure of a dead body from the bereaved relatives, 

 was due to the fact that the Shakers, who considered themselves a 

 genuine branch of the Christian church, were disposed to lean toward 

 Catholicity rather than toward the denominational form upheld by the 

 agent and his brother. 



However, religious persecution failed as utterly in its purpose in this 

 case as it has and must in all others. Quoting from Mr Eells. "The 

 chiefs did not care if they were deposed, were about to resign, and did 

 not wish to have anything more to do with the 'Boston' religion or the 

 agent. Billy Clams was ready, if need be, to sutler as ( Jurist did. He 

 was willing to be a martyr." 



Mr Wickersham continues: 



" While Billy Clams and some of his people publicly abandoned the 

 forms of Shaker religion rather than be banished, yet John Slocum and 

 his people refused to so surrender, and the agent sent out his police 

 and arrested John Slocum, Louis Yowaluch, and two or three more of 

 these people — good, true men — and, loading their limbs with chains, 

 confined them for several weeks in the dirty little single room of a jail 

 at the Puyallup agency, near Tacoma. Their only offense was worship 

 of a different form from that adopted by the agent and his brother. 

 They had broken no law, created no disorder, and yet they suffered 

 ignominious incarceration in a vile dungeon, loaded with chains, at the 

 pleasure of the agent. The Shakers believed in God, in Jesus Christ, 

 in heaven and hell, in temperance, sobriety, and a virtuous life. They 



