Arizona citizen., 1873-01-04
THE CITIZEN.
TUCSON, PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA.
Saturday,. Jan. 4. 1873.
AIDS TO IMMIGRATION.

j. the State of Kansas increased her popula F ton about 100, ,O00. We say increased he
 population, because the State authorities
 are chiefly entitled to the credit of ths n valuable acquisition. Kansas is an interior r State, and to induce so many people in ont year to pass directly over many fine State:
 and choose homes there, was the work O, wise presentation of the States merits of climate, soil, water, lands available al low prices, and her present and prospect
 i've railway facilities. An increase of pop
 ulation is proportional increase of
 wealth, and, as in other ways, it requires
 persistent and systematic labor and also
 diffusion of free and accessible knowl. edge, to get ahead in this direction. With. out an increase of population, there is little if any at all, addition to the wealth of a community. To this end, Kansas has kept agencies at the principal seaports of the world, and in the dearest and freest man. ner laid the States best points before the world.
 The State of Texas has probably been more successful in this respect than even Kansas. We have not the figures at hand, yet there is no doubt but Texas is con- stantly adding to her industrial population with astonishing rapidity. But she also expends money literally in the publication of information and maintenance of ener- getic agents in New York and other cen- ters of population. Texas does not rely upon report upon the States resources once year, but actually sends forth large perio dical for free distribution freshly made up every month. The New York Agent, Hon. William Henry Parsons, has an office on Broadway, and he is constantly engaged in issuing maps, circulars, publi- cations in different languages, and per sonally seeing that immigrants for his State are prop erly treated in New York and'sent as directly and chsaply as possible to Texas.
 Reference is made to these two States, not because they alone are examples, but because they are conspicuous examples of how States and Territories may in crease their population and therefore wealth. Heretofore we have been unwilling to en- courage immigration to Arizona; but now that General Crook is giving such hard blows against the butchery and robbery of citizens and in behalf of trusty peace, this reluctance is almost removed. With the peace that General Crook, unopposed, by superior authority, will soon give to Arizona, her friends can consistently in. vite hither immigrants in want of home in genial climate, upon soil either cov- cred with the finest grasses for stock, or underneath filled with the precious and valuable metals, or productive of grains and fruits of every variety and in unlimit- ed abundance.
 The coming legislature may regard this subject worthy of it's liberal care.
 GRNERAL P. H. SHERIDAN now and then gives an opinion upon public affairs which ought to be branded in the hearts or upon the foreheads of many men whose delight is to prate of their own virtues and ex- cellency of their public acts. Here is an other sample on the Indian business
 The principal error that I discover is that while efforts are being made to teach the Indians what is right, sufficient inn portance has not been given in teaching him what is wrong. l very much fear that the course pursued toward the wild Indian does not cause him to fully realize from his own stand d-point that he is doing wrong | when he commits murders and other depre- dations, and if some wise system of punish ment could be arranged and carried out which would have the effect of controlling 1 him in this respect it would much sooner terminate the Indian troubles on the from tier.
 There are "solid chunks of wisdom in the above. It is so far superior, in com mon sense, to anything ever put forward by the self constituted and loud-mouthed peace-mongers, that we have no idea they will comprehend or act upon it. No just man in the wide world ought to object to the practical application of the wise sys- tenn" suggested by Gen. Sheridan. He approves, as we do, the most complete liberality and kindness to well-behaved h. dians without regard to their former career,