Arizona citizen., 1872-04-13
April. 13. 1872.
"GET A HORsEv &c.

IOpc udNc IeCeutly uitu d Idlh WlCn
 Cachise near Canada Alamosa. Col.
 Pope favors The New Mexican with
 a report of what was said on that
 momentous occasion-hence 1t is fair
 to accept it as authentic. It IS diff
 ficult to properly comment on that
 diplomatic interview. We believe
 the Scriptures say that "the foolish ness of preaching" was an instru-
 mentality by which it pleased God to save the souls of men, and hence we are not going, in the face of such au- thority, to declare that the foolishness of such talks " as this last reported one with Cachise, will not do the h. dian some good; but how about that other class of some importance to the country, the citizens? Cachise is as- tonished that after the citizens come and occupy the mountains and valleys, that they should complain when he and his people "get a horse" from them, and as to murdering them, he seems to think it so trifing matter as not to refer to it at all. Let us quote from said talk:
 Cachise-The people who come to this country find gold and get rich and then complain If I get horse
 General-Let us get ready to go to town and your people may camp where they want to.
 General Granger did not give his opinion about the justness or injust- ness of the complaint of the people who are unfortunate enough to find gold and get rich," that Cachise should now and then "get horse" from them. "Get @ horse" is good its more refined expression than "steal horse," and we have no doubt but all the horse thieves ill the land will thank Cachise for this inn proved way of stating the act. In the early part of our late "unpleas- antness," our Southern brethren would occasionally "get" a custom house, a mint, an arsenal, g. fort, a city, and the like, and in the Ian guage of the law makers, they called these acts appropriations" and "ac- cumulations." But our government then did not hold timid talks with the getters of property in that way; it proceeded to "get" those appropria- tions and accumulations back again, 1 i'll a way that actually seemed more cruel and unreasonable to the appro- priators and accumulators, than the conduct of the men who find gold and get rich " when Cachise happens to "get a horse" of theirs.
 It really seems as if the millenium were not far off. Ten years ago, when people were found to "get a horse " or other property, in the way Cachise has during much if not all his life, 1t was not customary for high officials to ignore the facts and pleasantly say to the chief of the gang:
 Let us get ready to go to town and your people may camp where they want to.
 And also to further assure him that he is wanted to "ride 10 town" in the officers ambulance, and be safely shown the people from whom he has been in the habit of getting a horse.
 The horse-thief guild ought not to despair, even if many of its best members are III penitentiaries, with ball and chain to their legs to embar- rass them in their enforced labors for the public. "Things are not as they used to was," and a profession so long under legal ban, may yet be- come one of recognized merit. It might be well, however, if the pro- fessors would confne their efforts ito get horse" from men who find gold and get rich" instead of from