New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-07-12

in 10 the reservations before the A6tf Oh Febs
ruary could not be kept; and Of those VINO
came in, many, it is reported, ran away again,
de6antly taking Government property with
them.
But such trifihg with the lives Of CIR cotin-
trymen in Arizona aroused the whole Pacific
coast. The San Francisco press spoke out
aDgrily about Grants murderous Indian
"policy,n which seemed calculated chiefly for
the speedy determination Of the white settlers
and their families. The Convention was near,
and the election would follow, and so some
thing must be done. Gen. Howard was sent out
with discretionary powers" and zen. Howard
told Gen. Crook once more to go ahead
and as by this time the poor General had
drilled new set of troops and horses, he Is
now at work. But between February and
June were four months of Apache assasslna-
ton and rapine; four months during which
the savages saw the whites helpless before
them, and gained courage every day; four
months in which the Apaches had time to pre-
pare themselves for the struggle.
Now, it will no doubt be said at Washing
ton that troops are shifted about from time to
time; and the change from Arizona to
Nebraska was but a common occurrence. But
as concerns the sOldiers-was it humane or
sensible to bring them in mid-Wmter from
torrid Arizona to frozen and snOw-cOvered
Nebraska Was it not totally needless and
cold-blOoded exposure of our soldiers 7
Moreover, if the change was to be made, should
it not have been notified to Crook before
hand7 Why tell him to go ahead, let him
make all his preparations for campaign, let
the Indians understand that they were to be
punished, and then suddenly deprive the
General of his soldiers Letters from Arizona
speak of shameful waste of money, growing
out of this unmethodical proceeding. We
haYe heard of a single firm which " cleared
hundred thousand dollars by this vacillating
and haphazard Washington policy. There is
reason to believe that at least half million
dollars were wasted in Arizona last Winter,
while the crue Apaches were encouraged.
1t is not to be supposed that the President
desired the murder of the Arizona people.
No doubt he would rather have them live
than die But he attends to little public bust
ness All Winter he was dining quarreling
with the Literal Republicans, and scheming
for his denomination all Summer he was
idling at Long Branch, and amusing him.
self And" like master, like man THE
affairs of the Government are neglected
by his "jOlyn subOrdinates, who like, as
well as their master, TO have "gOOd time =,
and hence neglect of public affairs, confu-
sion in orders, lack of a fixed and regular pol
ICY waste of money, and in this case cruel
waste of life. If Mr. A. r. Stewart or Mr.. Clafiin
attended no better to his private business than
Gen. Grant attends to the business of the ma
ton which il intrusted to him he would be
ruined in year. But that would be the de-
structon ony of a private business. 1t
would be an individual loss. Grants
neglect of public duty unfortunately involves
and causes less of public money, and worse
yet, loss of life. Because the President of the
United States likes better to eat heavy dim
ners, to quarrel with the best men in the Re-
publican party, and to amuse himself, than to
do his duty, therefore men and women and
little children in Arizona have bad to die cruel
deaths, during the last three years, by the
hands of the Apaches.