Arizona citizen., 1872-04-20
THE NEW POLICY.

Clty by the Reverend U. |. Omlth ana
 Gen. 0. 0. Howard on "the new
 policy" regarding hostile Indians. As these gentlemen were guests of Col. J. G. c. Lee, and as he says he "has
 been permitted to take and send " us copy thereof, we have a right to say they are authentic and treat them ac- cordingly.
 All that the Rev. Smith says about preventing fraud, peculation and speculation; of compelling honesty towards Indian and Government; of earnest efforts to lift the Indians into civilization by the introduction of schools conducted by teachers who shall instruct by precept and ex- ample; of curing savages of barbar- ism; or of any other ordinary or ex- traordinary measures to improve the moral and physical condition of the savages, meets with our emphatic ap- proval, and MT. Smith may count on us as a supporter of him and all others in these good works; but we must call his attention to fact which the closest scrutiny of his remarks fails to discover in his otherwise fine programme, and fact of some inn portance, too, in this connection, viz: That there are some citizens in Ari- zona. whose lives and property are supposed in law and common justice to enter into all public considerations of th1s business, for business it is, whatever fine spun theorists may term it. As a humble layman, not presuming to possess those exalted attributes of & divine teacher, but as one having the nerve to utter some truths which common sense mortals think vitally affect themselves, and governments generally recognize as tolerable expressions, we would refer the gentleman to the census reports, if necessary, to show him that there are about 10000 people in Arizona in addition to the Indians, and that any moral sentiment, any public action, any expenditure of public funds, or even any consideration of the Apache business which excludes them or ig- nores their existence, is not just the acceptable thing. The graves by the wayside on every public road in Ari- zona, the teamsters and farmers who have been reduced to poverty by theft, the fact that majority of these 10000 people are practically imprison- ed in villages and settlements, the ruins of mail coaches and utter de- struction of mails, are each and all proofs that our position will not be ignored, and to make use of the language of the good Mir. Smith, "any "party, or administration, or General "in command, who attempts to resist "it, will go down before it.'
 We pass by as merely incidental to the great object in view, the dogmatic way of the reverend man; of some old legends about Church and State of having opinions on public affairs without fear of beng crushed out be- cause of them; of why the Pilgrim Fathers settled in Massachusetts, and some things they really did after wards, and proceed to note briefly the remarks of one whose piety, thought, and purpose of action, are large enough to take toillng citizens into the account we are all trying to square up.
 AS 8 whole, the expressions of Gen. eral Howard are unexceptionable, and we venture to say that the citizens of Arizona as body will heartily en- dorse them. They cover the whole subject. They are good words and we