Arizona citizen., 1871-10-07

rom It - these QuMan mOnSUerS, as it calls the Apaches. We extract as follows:
 There is clashing of authority be- tween the Indian Bureau and the War Department upon the treatment of the Arizona Apache problem. Crook, having now got all his forces we'll ia hand, and being on his way to prose cute vigorous campaign, is con- fronted by messenger from the Su- perintendent of New Mexico, asking permission to see, confer with, and, if possible, induce the most noted, cruel and powerful of the Apache chiefs in Arizona to go to Washington and patch up some sort of peace or truce, to be broken, as are all the Apaches' treaties, at the first convenient oppor- tunity. Such an arrangement ought not to be thought of. It is simply lending aid and comfort to the enemy. | The peace policy of President Grant has and always had our hearty ap- ! proval. Itis humane, economical and just. It saves over $3,600, 900 year 1 to the treasury, and has avoided wars with the Sioux, Cheyennes and other t>ribes during the past year and a half which would have cost many millions more. The Secretary of the Interior reports tfat while the old thieving agency policr cost during the last year of johnson's administration $7,042,- 923, the new mole of treating the In dian problem cost fer the year ending June 30, 1870, but S34O7,93S at the same time avoiding wars which under the old policy bad been inevitable. This is eulngy enough for the Indian policy inaugurated by President Grant. Had he done nothing else, this reform ought to cause his administration to be long and favorably remembered. But this policy is not applicable to the Arizona Apaches. There appears to be no remedy left us against their constant robberies and murders but that of eXtermination or remorseless chastisement. Until this is done, they will render a territory of 100000 square miles impracticable to white settlement. General Crook has been chosen to push the work. He has made a good beginning, and he should not he disturbed or interfered with till he has had fair trial and fought at least one fail campaign. The ques- tion now Is, not whether the Apaches shall be managed by the Indian Bu- reau or the War Department, but whether they or the white settlers shall be driven out of Arizona. When they are once chastised into spirit of obedience to the stipulations of treat les will be time enough to talk of ap- plying to them thes same humane pol icy under which the tribes of the plains and Rocky mountains have been brought to peace and progress in civilization.
 The Sacramento Record, extremely humane in its treatment of all ques- tions affecting humanity, has often spoken substantially as follows, which we take from a late number of that paper:
 The safety of General Crook and his detachment is assured by late dis patches from Arizona, but his expedi- tion appears to have been a complete failure, and for the singular reason that the Indian Bureau pursues a policy counter to the objects of the Military Department and in opposition to the interests of the Territory. It Is mo- torious fact that the Apaches have heretofore frequently sent their women and old men on to reservations, and have drawn Government rations for their whole party, while the warriors of the band were at the same time en- gagged in plundering and murdering all the settlers and soldiers they could surprise. Thus the Government has been nursing and protecting the bloody savages that have massacred its citi- zens, and thus the work of one De- partment has been neutralized by an- other. It is clear that this cannot go on. It is clear that while the Apa- ches are afforded convenient asylums on the Reservations whenever pursued | by the troops, the protection of the settler and the chastisement of the red | handed savage cannot be accomplished.
 The Sacramento Reporter is equally | emphatic to the same effect, and the California, Oregon, Idaho, Washing l