Arizona citizen., 1872-01-06
INFERIOR REPORT,

with pamphlet edition of the ar-
 nual report of the Secretary of the
 Interior. Those portions relating tc
 the Indians and public lands are o1
 interest to all our readers, and as we
 cannot give them in full, we will
 their spirit.
 Secretary Delano regards "the hu-
 mane and peaceful policy" towards
 the Indians, as "productive of gratify-
 ing results; ;" but the report shows
 that the Secretary by no means under
 values the benign influences of force
 as an auxiliary to "the humane and
 peaceful policy" for in referring to
 the outrages in Arizona, New Mexico
 and the western borders of Texas, he
 states that under the influence of mill
 tary punishment, |" the disposition to
 make peace is generally manifest" "
 We are convinced that the disposition
 will be much more manifest with
 more punishment, but the recognition
 of the fact by the Interior Department makes it and the War Department in accord. and is an ample guarantee that there is no purpose in any of the Departments to prevent the use of force enough. as indicated in the or ders of Generals Schofeld and Sheri- dan to Department Commanders. The Secretary puts much stress on the of a policy that will in- duce the Indian to "habits of 1n-- dustry, and foster 8 desire for moral and mental culture" He favors a system of compulsory education, and that those who refuse to avail themselves of such facilities when of fered, should be deprived of their an- nuities. To stimulate them to agri- culture, he suggests premiums for the best cultivated farms above a certain and further to this end, that the present system of holding lands in be supplanted by division. In this behalf, he argues in favor of ,emoving all the Indians into one or 5wo Territories to be exclusively h. lian. The estimated number of Ind ans is 321, ,OOO. Exclusive of 75,000I n Alaska, and 3,663 in Florida, North Carolina, Indiana, Iowa, and Texas, ! computation shows that Indian Ter itory is large enough to give every Indian man, women and child, 1S0 acres apiece; and the Secretary favors ! complete organization of that Terri ,ory by Congress, and the removal of LII the tribes within 1t, they to govern themselves by laws of their own un- lera a general Government supervision. The report shows that by getting all 5he Indians into Indian Territory, which contains fl, 154, ,240 acres of and, that 93,692, 731 acres would be from Indian occupancyi and thrown open to white settlement--a large loss of land to our tired brother"
 The Secretary locates the Indians in twenty States and Territories, and credits Arizona with but 5,O66. We really wish the number were so small, but good judges claim that this num- Der exists here, without counting any Apaches. Our own view is that the Pimas, Maricopas and Papagos will over 1000, and that there. are fully 10000 Apaches.
 The gathering of the tribes into comparatively small Territory is regarded as the great problem, the proper solution of which must in great measure "decide the fate, of that race" The Secretary significant ly says:
 If they can be brought to realize their condition as we see it, they will recognize the fact that if they do not sDeadilv accent the eriandlv OfHoaci of