Arizona weekly miner., 1874-01-16
From Wednesdays Dailyl The Quaker Indian Policy---Its Agents in the Army,

Chicago, December 5.--Captain C. A. Wilkinson ui thy luitrd Stste- Army, aidc.dc camp to Gen. cril q. c. Howard, who pi,scd through here 10. d CD route for Washington tO report upon the transfer ot the MUdocs which he was detailed 10 ,upcruteud, delivered lecture this evening in the Firsl Congregational Church, at the request Of Rev Mir Goodwin hmsclf an Indian Commis. sioncr.
 THE ApACHFs.
 While he was in Arizona Yuma Indian camc into camp, and waving his arms, exclaimed, "A few ycars--a few years; then nothing" This was d chief who had made treaties with General Thomas, and whose trihc had been given large annual payments, Ofwhich they had been grndu- ally swndicd by agents til now they received nothing. On another occasion an Apache chief who went to e white agent Co complain wns given a glass ot poisoned whiskcy but as too much ar -euc was put in the whiskcy 1t only sickened him. When he came back to say he was sick the agent shot him. Again, when travelling with party of Apaches he nOticed that the mules would not eat the corn issued by Government. On inspecting t be found it was two-thirds gravel. When cu route to the Indian Territory General Howard never travelled on Sunday, but held church -crvi- ces and sang glorious old hymns, to which the Indians listened in crowds with tears in their eyes. After one service an Apache came to tbe speaker, and hugging him to hie breast, said, Apache good" He believed that Indian he would trust bis life with that Indian at any time.
 THE MoDoCs.
 Captain Wilkinson thought the Modocs had been more siuned against than shining. Tue rem nant Of that tribe-thirty.nne men, hity-ihree wo- men, and sixteen children-bad been transported across the continent in box-cars, the males being chained. Captain Wright was the cause of the massacre, having made the Commissioners be-
 eye that they were safe when they were not When the Modocs were about to come East, Scar faced Charley asked him if there was much hunt" where they were going, and he answered, Not much hunt but m lch work" The Modocs had vigian,ly guarded their ears and kept them clean. A Kansas reporter had lied when be had said that the train filthy and the prisoners ill-used. That reporter boarded the train one day and kicK. ed ShackNasty Jim. Captain Wilkinson wished be could have kicked that reporter. tliere the speaker burst into tears) Bogus Charley was be- ginning to be ashamed of his name, now that he had found out what "bogas" -ignided.
 When the convoy reached Baxter Springs he hired an old hotel in which be placed the Modocs temporarily, with their trusty leaders guard. Then be explained 10 them the intentions of the Government. He had won their hearts by his kindness and the care he had taken of their chil. dren. He told them that all their trouble came irom their using whiskey. For fifteen years he had been talking 10 God, and (he stated) he was talking to God then and asking God to bless them. They would have been ike the leaves the trees for number but for whiskey. On Sunday they reached Baxter Springs, and on Monday their barracks were all completed. This showed that the Indians could work. He told Bogus Charley that they must raise their own corn and
 
 saying last prayer, he-(Here the speaker burst into tears and wept for some minutes)
 All that was necessary to civilize Indians to be true to them and not give them gravel for corn and sand for sugar. He never saw people SO devoted to their children. Steamboat Franks baby died and Steamboat Frank came and told him God had taken it because he did not wish it to go to the new country. The Indians would work They would put their children 10 school if they had schools. If something like a Freed mep's Bureau, with such men to manage 1t as General Howard and himself, were organized, the Indian question would be solved. Christ had died for the Indians as well as the white men. The reporter need not be afraid to take that down. He meant just what be said.
 The MINER gives the above to its thou sands of readers who do not see the Eastern newspapers, and, otherwise, might never know the style and methods adopted by the party to which Colyer, Howard, Whitman and Wilkinson belong, for working on the re- ligious, phlanthropic and benevolent feelings and sympathies of the great mass of the American people in the Eastern States, who select our members of Congress and shape the policy of our Government in all impor- tant affairs-the most of whom never saw an Indian, and know nothing of them except what they read in the papers of the day, and hear from the lips of the peace commissioners who, for sordid gain, with pious pretense, so damnably misrepresent the character and dis position of the various hostile Indian tribes in the United States, as we'll as the actions and feelings of the great majority of frontier settlers toward such tribes.
 Could the good people who listen to the lectures of such pulling snivellers as Howard and Wilkinson, know. and appreciate their real character, their faith in the lies they tell would be lessened.
 The heavenly minded Howard has told, in every church and Sunday school he has had an opportunity to speak in, the story of his and with tears in his eyes, has narrated his interviews of prayer and psalm singing with the Indians. Yet, the investi- gations into his operations as chief of the l Freedman's Bureau, according to the testi- | mony of his subordinstes, prove him to be an | uncommon and ungodly thief. An exchange l says:
 "The telegraph tells us that the prominent army officers, who have investigated the ac- counts of the saintly Howard say that the real extent of his criminaity will become | more evident and incontrovertible as the | proceeds"
 A clerk under Gen c. W. Bullock, chief | isbursing officer of the Bureau under How | lrd, ayers that horses and carriages for How | .rd's private use, summer vacation, travelling | expenses of favorite clerks and many other it. | egitimate expenses, were paid for with | government funds. Towards private coach nan, and the wives of some of his staff officers. lad their names placed on the payroll, though they did no work of any kind for the Bureau. From such little beginnings he ,rew up to be deiaulter to the amount of s27S, ,000 He prayed with the Indians and soldiers and wept with them. Here in An- .ona his pathetic discourses and actions with earful eyes, touched tender chords in the hearts many of hls hearers, and often caused heir sympathizing tears to fow-yet he was thief at the time, and a hypocritical liar, wolf in sheeps clothing.
 Captain Wilkinson seems desirous to follow
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