Arizona citizen., 1873-12-20
TRUTH A SUCCESS.
Reformatory Orders to Agent Jeff lords and Speculations Thereon.


 lords and SpeculatiOns Thereon.
 Truth in good cause will sooner or lat CT achieve success. FalsehoOd often serves temporary purposes but won't per manently bolster up bad actions. THE CITIZEN has been applying the truth to the management of the Chiricahua reser- vation for over year, but falsehOod, off cialIy and otherwise, has maintained its
 sway until Gen. Vandever's report recent
 ly reached Washington. When here, we published a belief that the Generals re- port would lead to new instructions from Washington directing certain necessary reforms on that reserve, and such instruc- tions are now in the Agents possession, ac- cording to late reports from Apache Pass, and they are in effect as follows:
 The Agent is forbidden 10 issue ratiOns to Indians from other reservations unless they have proper passes to be absent; that rations must be issued once each week with more careful knowledge of who to and to how many; and he is directed to in-
 form Cachise that raids into Mexico must
 be stopped.
 Gen. Vandever's report convinced the Indian Office that promiscuous feeding was going on and with bad effects; also that the reserve was used as base from
 which to raid into Mexico and to which the criminals returned with their plunder and for safety and more government food. | Now that the higher authorities know and acknowledge these facts and have forbid den a continuance of the bad practices, they are committed to an enforcement | of the new instructions. It is intimated that the instructions will be evaded or in efficiently applied, but we have contrary opinion; fer should such a course be at tempted it would soon be discovered and troops sent there to compel obedience, and very likely wipe some Indians out of ex- istence. Nearly all other Apaches in Ari- zona have been brought under proper sub lection and discipline and Cachise'S will not much longer be an exception to the the rule, and they will be excessively fool hardy to think they cannot be summarily sent to "the happy hunting grounds" if necessary. The Washington authorities must now be about ready to issue orders to Gen. Crook to look after the enforcement of good order on the part of Cachise & Co.,, and, once issued, they will be enforced with @ vigor and thoroughness that will send dismay to that Chiricahua outfit. We are informed that Agent JeffOrds has recommended the removal of my peO- ple,n as he fatherly terms the Cachise Apaches, to Canada Alamoso in New Mexico. Whether this has been done in view of the new orders, we are not pre-
 pared to say, but being done just at this time, leaves it open to that suspicion. If taken to Canada Alamosa, they would, it is true, be out of Gen. Crooks jurisdiction,
 but not beyond the power of the United States, as it would be we'll for them to bear in mind. People here who are familiar
 with the average New Mexican character
 as applied to public affairs which have money in them, declare that if Cachise & Co. move to Canada Alamosa and there continue their irregularities of going on plundering and Eurderous raids, especial ly into Mexico, such facts will be hushed up as far as possible if not admitted and excused. But NeW MeNlcO IS AHlerlcdn
 soil, and after a dozen years of murder and theft almost without parallel in h.
 dian annals, the Cachise Indians will not be permitted to continue that mode of life
 much longer in any part of the United States.
 The government means to do right by the Indians and also intends to make the
 Indians do right. The peace commission
 CTS have played their useless and ineffec- tive farce to the limit Of public endurance, | and all Indians and frontier and other trimmers to it, may as well abandon it | and ell hopes of gain thereby. Govern ment has shelved that grandiloquent, pi- ous and public fraud, COlyer-a chief among Indian peace commissioners; and \ our dispatches show that the faithleSs l Howard, who so often asks and Oftener needs Gods forgiveness, is now grist in
 the mills of the government gods with a lively prospect of emerging in very un- desirable condition. It is almost needless | to say that several men and officers who | had the moral courage to oppose these public affiictions when in the zenith of
 1 their arrogant power, have continually
 gained stronger footing and are very
 complacently viewing the official wrecks
 they helped to make when they had pre-