Arizona citizen., 1871-07-22
PRACTICE BETTER THAN
 PREACHING.

or preaching Go SaVe tue ooUlS oI
 men, but Dr. Franklin said that ex-
 perience teaches dear school but
 fools will learn in no other; and we
 believe all sensible authorities recom-
 mend the practice rather than the
 giving of wholesome precepts.
 Certain Quaker gentlemen have for
 many long years protested that savage
 Indians were natively good, and if
 treated we'll by the whites, they would
 be peaceable ss well as altogether lovely. We are inclined to the belief
 that President Grant perpetrated one
 of his dry jokes on the broadbrims
 when he gave them the job of put
 ting into practice their foolish '"
 preaching. Certain it is that father
 Tatum, agent of the Comanches and
 Kiowas, and whom General Sherman
 says is "a most benevolent and conscl- entious Quaker gentleman" called on the General at Fort Sill, and the good mans first remark was "that he had been able to accomplish noth- ing in civilizing the Indians" But we must quote few of this "good whites " words just as we find them, to our amazement, ill The New York Tribune. General Sherman reports the "b, nevelonent and conscientious Quaker" as declaring that
 They paid no attention to his in- functions, and continued going to Texas, where they committed murders and lawless depredations upon the whites of that section, while at the same time they were being fed from week to week by the United States. A school had been established for these Indians, but he had been unable to persuade them to send single child to it. One Comanche had been in the school for few days. but his entire family encamped near the school house all the time, and they soon took him away, fol fear probably, that he would be contaminated by contact with our people.
 This gives hope that the Quaker policy may yet impregnate tbe eastern mind with some real sense on the Indian question. A truly "good white !" has been feeding and trying to educate a people who return con- tinued murders for government food, and refuse to be educated by ." 9 and conscientious Quaker because the association would be conta1ninating! Peg one light here for the experimental west .rn view of ye noble red man.
 But there Is more to the same good purpose. General Sherman says of his good brcadbrim and his policy:
 The agent does not presume to go to he camp of these savages without a trong guard, and he begins to realize he necessity of more rigorous policy oward them. They must, he thinks, ,e made to feel the strong arm of the and be punished when yer they perpetrate atrocities. Last Summer the merciless miscreants murdered four men ill one day within hree miles of the fort. Tatum has lad two years experience at this ,Ost.
 The benevolent civilizlng peace policy, so urgently advocated by lass in the Eastern States, has received long and fair experimental trial with hese Indians. They have been reg llarly fed, and the kindest tr, atment to them for two years by our but 1t has not had the lightest effect They have no more conception of gratitude than SC many wolves, and they have continually ,een stealing horses and mules. mur- lering men, ravishing women and children. Beside, they lave not only openly acknowledged, ut have boasted of these atrocities.
 General Sherman has done g. great ervice to the frontier people" by lis recent trip to Texas and other h. Han infested sections. How frankly le tells the benevolent, civilizing