The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-03-01


 Favor is lost upon people incapable of ap- prccating benefit.
 Few, if any, Indians ever feel the impulse of pity vr commscration for the msorcs of others. "Over tale of woe" real or imagin- ary, the Indian sheds no tears. His gratitude, like that uf many of our own ruce is felt only for fwors To come. When he resolves to make war upon his natural enemies, the whites, he is more apt to display the cruelty of his nature upon those who have always been his friends and benefactors than upon those who never show him friendship UT fa- vor. Even the present outbreak adds another
 illustration of this trait; of the fifteen citizens slain, the body of Henry Miller, for years their servant and ally, bears most marks of violence Missionaries fail to christianize from not taking into consideration his igno- rance and the circumstances that surround and control his life They offer him the bread of eternal life when his time and thoughts are ongrossed in obtaining the bread Uf this and that a man whose whole life has been SO cngrossed is wholly incapable of practcng or even experiencing pure morality.
 Of the missionaries l have met Dr. Whit man alone seemed fully to comprehend the
 Indian character, and tu proceed in the right way To ameliurate bis condition. He regard ed them as little children in ignorance, not as children in innocence, but adults, with all the animal passions and appetites cultivated and strongly developed, with the moral sen tim .nts which should control them dwarfed or extinct for want of exercise. For adults he bad little hope of improvement further than by teaching them agriculture and the simple mechanic arts to enable them 10 in crease and make more certain the meats of subsistence, expecting in the young more pro- greSs in moral and intellectual improvement
 Doing good to all, harm 10 none, the Doctor and his equally devoted wife took upon them. selves life of prvatien and toll to redeem these sayages from their helpless state of ig- norance and barbarism, and to conduct them along the paths of knowledge to the gates of Heaven.
 By years of unremitting toll these devoted christians bagan to rejoice in the fruits of
 their labors, which bloomcd with the promise
 of abundant fruit at no distant day. Already
 most of the grown up Indians were living in
 comfortable houses, and cultivsting little
 farms, which bountifully supplied their daily
 wants, and the young could read the script
 ure in their own language, parts of which he had translated and printed for their use. But in true savage style did these people dash the "up of prosperity from their own lips and showed their gratitude to those to whom t.av were indebted for all their prosperity by
 riering both in cold blood, adding savage :ity to the fendish act.
 Y seems to me slight acquaintance with 'a- rise and progress of civilization among men, the arts, sciences, and rational religion. | would suggest to those who undertake to civ |
 ll and christianize the savage the correct | maae of procedure. The mind cannot be con ined to study while the body shivers with o1'.. or is pinched with hunger. The physi-
 a wants must first be gratfied before mental p-J ,ress is possible. Learning first took its Ise in Egypt, not because its people were of 70 peror race, for history of the past. as well facts of the present. prove the contrary, but se ause in its ever warm and ever dry climate hunan wants were fewest, and the sponiane- pus productions of it's wonderfully fruitful su. supplied those wants with the least exer- Ion of skill or labor Hence it was that in tlat favored region where man, released from a constant struggle to supply his bodily wants, first bad leisure 10 look with inquiring eyes up to the heavens and abroad upon the earth, ' and leisure to investigate the phenomena they presented. It was there also the first body of men associated together to make the pursuit of knowledge the business of their
 lives, and at this day it is only those bright intellccts who are placed beyond the reach of want, and released from the ordinary cares of life, who can tread the higher walks of sci ence and extend their researches beyond the present boundaries ef human knowledge. (
 Therefore, it seems to me the first step to- z ward the reclamation of the savage is to sup O ply his physical wants, or teach him how to |, supply them himself at least cost of time and |, labor. He must also be satisfied that these s supplies are certain and permanent before his O mind can be occupied with other subjects
 Even when this is done the matured intel feet of the adults may be so cramped and bru- talized by the cultivation of the bascr facul- e ties only that they may never expand over V wider field or admit of further improvement than knowledge of farming or some mechan- Il |, lcal art by which they can supply their own nj wants and 1t IS to future generations we h must look for such intellectual requirements as the capacity of the race will admit.
 To begin the education of such a people by n first preaching to them the doctrines of sub lime religion and teaching them pure code |. of morals, which condemns every act and 's practice of their lives and inculcates virtues ii which they are no more capable of compre- lending than blind man is to distinguish 'Olors, IS like sowing seed upon a naked rock e 'r building church beginning at the steeple t let the piOus of our land give large sums S early to send men "to preach the Gospel to t he heathen" who are as ignorant of the arts Y md industries that make the first approach ' O true conception of christianity Us the leathen to whom they are sent.
 Nor are the large sums the Government Y early expends upon these people much bet h CT directed. True, such part of their annu- V, ies 10 be paid for food and clothing if it ever al caches them is good so far as it goes, as it fords some relief from the cold and famine, ut the sums paid to men who figure in the n, accounts as farmers, school masters, etc, at a gencies where neither farm, school house or s exist, and the people supposed to :. e proiited and instructed by these employees ] igging roots or stealing for living fifty niles outside the reservation to which they elong, can not be proper if the common ap-
 cation of the bounty of the Governmentr
 Next to confining them to barren land, is T, the tribal relations among the u indians by acknowledging the distinctions of hief and subject; it maintains organizations