The Weekly Arizonian., 1871-04-08
FALSE ECONOMY.


 mittee of Safety" sent to interview Genera Stoneman that economy is the order of th day; yet economy may De carried to such al extreme as to defeat itself and become nor, expensive than libsrsl policy. We hoIc that 1t is not economic to feed, cloths and pa, five caValry-uen, four of whom are doins nothing while the fifth scents among the hill, Esmi-occasionally, on sorebacksd and fused up" mustang. With as fine body of soldiers and as contemplating and ambitious officers ss there are in any of the Territories, a nice sd- mixture of red-tape, politics and stupidity has given us instead of an effective military force. 8 committee of Public Consu mption, bound dswn to make raids on expensive Commits sary stores insteRd of Apache camps. But what seems most strange in this niggardly eco- nomy is this fact, which is . disgrace to the Government, to its head officials, and specula- tors including Mccormick -that twice as much is paid fer freight as there is any nscsse. sity to pay. If ws soonomize, let us do so in everything After an expersnce oftwo years in frsighting from Guaymaa, at one-half pre- sent cost, and delivering freight in better con- dition than by way of Fort Yuma still govern~ ment retrenches or its expenditures by the spigot and leaves out the bung. And still fur- ther. to avoid expenses the order arrives to change the Depot from Tucson at the time it is most needed here-whsn the record et in dian cruelt;es in Southern Arizona stands un.. parallsled. We would like to know at what price human life is valued by the advocates of rstrenchmsnt With our ranches depopu- lated, our settlers scalped and their wives and daughters reserved for worse fate iu captiv- ity, houses burned with their inmateI, ehil., drsn dashed against rocks, crops destroyed, stock stolen, yet expenses must still be so re- duced as to render our troops a nullity except to consume expensively freighted commissary stores. This is economy with 3 vengeance. As 1t seems to be foregone conclueion to re- ducs the expenses of the service in Arizona, | why not do so with judgment which would | So SO PAS'Ohs ASNUS0Ou III IAV HlIOhAuCe for closhing and rations? The people are not | anxious to see, as the result of governmental economy, our troops present themselves at lrill like skeletons in Q state of nudity. Let Is have freight by the cheapest route and let oldisrs be comfortably clothed, well fed, md properly exercised by hunting down Apa- hes.
 1t is impossible to compreh end by what fight the Eastern people presume to dictate he policy oftais Territory, as their knowledge f Indians does not extend beyond what they nay have gleansd from Cooper's novels and 'atlin's pictures; but that they are right s;regards the "moral suasion and kindns sss" ore will deny-as We understand it. We uppose that the 'kindnesS" G intended for us nd the "moral suasion' for the Indians, iu ls frem of shot from the eloquent month Of pencsr rife; an eloquenee peculiarly adapted ) their wants as it is felt and heard at 6 long istance. There is just one thing for which the peo- le of Southern Arizona should, however, be ratefnl to the government that tt allows the Tn to rise and set, daily, by giving the signal | m fire