Arizona citizen., 1871-06-17
BUSINESS GOSSIP.

business. The Denver News says:
 With nearly one-tenth of the army of the United States in Arizona, not an average of one hundred Ren are engaged in punishing hostile Indians-the very object of their presence there. Gen. Crook may change this state of affairs little.
 Every Arizonan knows our opin- ion of the usual cry for more troops We have personally witnessed and be- lieve we know as we'll as anybody what amount of work U. 5. regulars can do in this business, and 1t Is our desire and intention as far as possible to see that they do it.
 There were just two actions of the late Legislature of Arizona worth re- membering beyond adjournment. The refusal to pass bill to issue $20O,OOO bonds for volunteer purposes, now appears most fortunate stroke. The scheme emanated at time of general despair and disgust, and would have been defended to the last from that standpoint, had it become 8 law. It was proposed in good faith, but fianal- ly indefinitely postponed. Common in stinct of the people, if nothing more. tells them that 1t was not the intention of government to acquire territory and invite the most enterprising men there for no other purpose than to get killed. The calm and unpretending pamphlet "a certified statement of the last year or twO's horrors in 8 part of Arizona, completed the good work of the Legis- lature. It laid the Case blre before the world, and if 1t did not cause the regular army to cut its own red-tape, 1t prepared the way to that end at once. If the General of that army could not see 1t, the Commander-in- Chief of all hands could.
 It is dangerous resort for a weak Territory to create a debt, however desperate the situation, in the belief that the general government will as- sume it. Twenty years ago, Oregon experimented ill this way to her very sorrow. The monopolist of the scrip finally realized the face of 1t: the poor citizen, nothing but muck loss of time and more or less means-the subject to this day is poison to his very soul to recall It complicated and doubtless prolonged the troubles, and paved the way for final and gigantic organiza- tion of peculation as admirable as it was powerful and to be deplored. The ,o,xx oo,.,o.Jo. b,ro will fs,d ~, kbo contrary, in this southern extreme, as perfect state of looseness as ever ex- isted out of doors. It Is so serious in its effects, however, as not to be wholly despised. Congress, bear in mind. en- acted law allowing the employment ol one thousand persons-white, red, half breed, or what-not-in the name of scouts. We believe that not half the quota Is filled, so that here is all the opening necessary for citizen aid. There is place and work for us all out side the army, as 1t were. Let us See that the army Is more useful than or nlmental, and all will be we'll. We feel that, primarily, a standing army in the United States is of insignificant import in comparison to the common school system, and hence while the metropolitan press will lash itself into a fury for months at time over an excess of switch on the part of some obscure pedagogue, the editors should glance deeper into pnblic affairs still They might discover an institution full of rottenness, horrible punishments, jealous of the citizen and full of con- tempt for him; an institution which, if not we'll watched, will be the chosen instrument for the final undoing of that great institution-the State.
 How much killing these Apaches will require (we know how much they deserve) to make them know their pre- destined station in our glorious human makeup, time and trial must tell for certain. If 1t be possible to find them in great force and in a position of their own choosing, and beat them there at every point, we believe one such en- counter would practically ly settle it. It was the opinion of Capts. Moore and who visited the scene of It. Cushing's last fight, that he gave the Chief, Cachees, more of an eye-opener than he ever yet received in Arizona. It was a favorite amusement up north for the savages to repulse troops from strong places, besides which | they had artiticially fortified for hun dreds of miles rounda bout, and they had no more thought of Crooks stop nino and sittinoc m with them day af