Arizona citizen., 1871-10-07

1t Is not customary to send an ennis sary to induce them to travel long distances to be convinced that there Is power enough in the land to bring them to the gallows. That power IS forthwith exerted against them. Why should it be otherwise in the case of bloodthirsty savages
 l, The Alta California has often and o1ten plead our cause in the most edSnted and intelligent way, and very Nently said:
 lihe Indian question Is becoming mols and more complicated. The peace policy does not seem to work well it rather stimulates the red deviisto renewed acts of fiendishness, and leazes the whites at their mercy. The genSes@age rather likes the sup plicant manner in which a great and powerful nation like ours begs for mercy at his hand, and whert the whites merely ventuAto proteS tS~t'' ln- selves when attacked, or fly to pltaes of safety.
 The poople of this coast would ilA to know how much longer this noble red man farce is to be continued, and how many more white men must be killed beiore the Apaches are taught that murdering American citizens is
 wrong. If band of white people had committed one-tenth the number of murders the Apaches have, they
 would have been hunted to the death
 lang before this, if it had taken all
 the resources of the country to have
 accomplished it.
 The Morning Cell, San Francisco, speaking of the Mexican State of So- no1ss7.. in referenceto the Apaches closes an article thus
 The Nj" !" system was for a long time in taF Tor with that State, to propitiate these Indians, but 1t only made them more iesolent and exacting in their demands.
 The Chronicle, News Hetter, Herald and Market Review and other San Francisco journals have expressed like sentiments.
 Now we come to the Sacramento Union, paper pre-eminently sound on all questions of human rights. Last May 27th, The Union said among other things:
 The history of North American In- dian tribes affords no chapter as strange as that of the Arizona Apaches. Ari- zona itself covers an area of 10000 square miles. Over. this, with more than half of New Mexico, all sf Chi huahua and the greater part of Sonora, the Apaches have lorded 1t with savage sovereignty for the thirty and odd years which have passed since the Americans first came sharply i'll con- fict with them. All the tribes did not, in their best estate, number as many as the Ogalallah Sioux fifteen years ago. In those fifteen years the Apa- ches have probably killed more white people and Mexicans than they had mem bers in all their tribes or bands. They have in those years murdered more whites and Mexicans than were slain in Kentucky and the whole Northwest Territory (out of actual pitched battle) by Indians in the first thirty years of this century. And they are worse and more dreaded to- day than at the beginning of the con- hict.
 There is surely something radically wrong in the past methods of treating this evil. We think the wrong lies in the treaty system. The treaty binds none but those who sign it. No chief has authority to bind any other person. Hence all treaties are intellectual, and in waging War against the Apaches, the law of self-defense compels their enemies to adopt the bloody code of Terrible as this may seem, we begin to believe it presents the only solution of the Apache ques- ton. Every prisoner taken and turned loose is soon found to be in arms again, as implacable and cruel as ever.
 What Arizona needs at once is such } commander as General Crook. It IS to be hoped that the next Congress may give this subject special attention md General Crook all the means he nay wish to put a speedy. end to the bloody scenes enacted by these human monsters,