Arizona citizen., 1875-11-06
Intoxicating Liquor and the Ind.
 inns.

Intoxicating liquors bring people O
 the highest civilization tO disgrace an,
 ruin, and so they do the unleilere, Indian. Owing to the low position o
 the latter, they come to ruin quicker
 Generalization from thi- cause bring
 in nearly all other evils. Herctofor,
 the people of Arizona have had most [,
 fear from the Apaches, but at the rat, liquor is being used by the Papagos
 Pimas and Maricopas, these Indian.
 must soon become unbeaablc nuisan ces Tn several respects, unless its Us,
 by them can be stopped. Agent Clun seems to have completely prevented
 the Apaches from manufacturing tiZ
 win, and hence drinking it, notwilh
 standing they have always been accus
 toned to its use; and il would seem a.
 If with the whole machinery of gov
 ernment and the voice of all good men
 to aid the officers, they ought to check
 if not wholly stop the more pcaccably
 disposed Indians from going Co ruin
 and thereby committing unbearable
 outrages by excessive drinking, or al
 least make it well understood that any
 person who sells or gives them liouor
 will scarcely escape severe punish.
 ment. If the present laws are made quate, the officers should appeal direct. ly to Congress to SO amend them that all needful power and discretion would be conferred We are told that the Chief of the Pimas goes to Sonora. buys mescal by the barrel, take. it di. rectly to the reservation and sells it to his people according to their means to pay for il. If We were Agent of the Pimas, we would stop such bold traffic or lose our commission in the effort. Agent Gum imprisons Indian manu- tacurcrS of tiZ-win, and those who get drunk on 1t or any other liquor, aud the same laws govern his actions as do all other agents, and they ought tu take a hint from hia succcss in this regard
 MT James A. Moore informs us that quite recently the Pimas have taken from him six COWS, and that they have made it almost impossible to keep hogs. His place is off but near to the reserve. He also says that almost every day these Indians run off the animals of ireighters-to the delay and expense of this hard-workiag and none too well paid cI'->s Tine telegraph gives frequent notice to this effect. and las! week t informed Us of cutting lnd shooting at Phcnix by Papagos crazed by drunkenness. More and more frequently n Tucson, du we ob- serve parties oc drunken Papagos. Last week, d party Jf prospeciors from California had their hocscs stolen from them by Indians on tie Pima reserve at Saca;on, and cou:j nDj get them back and were thereby compelled toN purchase a burro .o pack their food and clothing and proceed on foot
 
 We do not reciic these facts in al ,riucal spirit, but to show the neccssi-. ' of determined effort to arrest thet ,ril Even the few who are short lighted and indifferent enough to savl hey don't care how swiftly nor byl what means these Indians 20 to utter, iestructiOn, have all interest in having he evil removed The Indians are mong Us and probably always will be. Day by day they are becoming more eckless in their acts in consequence of heir intOxication. Shooting and cut ing will not long be confined to them elves, and as we have seen, their hetts have for long time been per upon others whose patience is bout exhausted, and who will certain y soon retaliate in a way that can but dd 10 the trouble with all concerned. IS certain as that time rolls on, to this nd are the Indians m question, tend. lg, and it Is unmitigated folly to shut yes and ears to il. We believe drunk n Indians might be legally put in lil and thereby induced to tell whoi )ld or gave them the maddening' quor. With determined will to dis over the wretches who furnish tine , quor, we think way of success -ould not long be wanting.
 If a reform with these Indians can { ot be effected the only safety for the , eople here, will be in removal of theI ibes to Indian Territory, or somcI iher place isolated from other races. 7e presume the purpose of the admin
 trauon to concentrate the Indians in I ne Territory, is not abandoned, and I rely the law encourages it. We be- ! eve if there were not an Indian in riZona, the people here would sooner { ecome prosperous according to the unsurpassed natural wealth of the Ter [ tory. If the Indians referred to re- ain with us, they must behave better, 8 nd we cannot hope for better behavior ' ltil drunkenness among them is stop d. C A LETTER lately received from Judgel ' ennett of the Longfellow Copper { orks at Clifton, Arizona says mining. [