Arizona citizen., 1875-03-27
HAGAR AS A LIAR.

About February 20, Hagar of San Fran cisco, then United States Senator from California, made the following statements in his official capacity in the Senate:
 "As I stated yesterday, l will vote against this increase or the appropriation to maintain the Indians on the reserva- tions in Arizona and New Mexico. AS understand, tl.at country is a barren waste of itself It will not SupporS the Indians, and, as a gentleman remarked to me, it would not support a duck, because it has neither grass nor water. These Indians have been in the habit of dwelling or llv- ing in the mountain Businesses. They are now put upon this arid plain, and they are there confined by the soldiers of the United States. Necessarily they must be fed by the government; but as l under stand, with all the appropriation that was made last year, they were not properly fed, and of course they break out from the reservation to obtain the necessarieS of life, and the result is that they are slaught- cred, as I understand, by the soldiers"
 Without any reserve, THE CITIZEN pub fishes Hagar as liar. He is man of ed- ucation and cannot be excused as an ig- norant person could and should be. Sen ators like other officers and men may be measurab1y excused for partisan lying, but not for wholesale lying about large
 
 that supports and honors them. The man who knows anything of Arizona and puts forth such statements as those of Hagar, above quoted, could only be truly called a deliberate and possibly malicious liar; the one who knows nothing of this Terri tory and would utter said remarks, is an inexcusably ignorant liar. Hagar can take his choice of positions. Any person of Hagar's intelligence, who will make such false statements about a section of his own country, nearly a thousand miles in length and half as broad, should be banished from it. It is useless to speeif- cally detail the lies of Hagar. All that he uttered, as furnished by the report of The Atlas correspondent and given above, is false-n0 less false regarding the Indians than with reference 10 Arizona and New Mexico.
 The State of Nevada, according to popu- lation, annually produces many times the wealth Of any other in the Union, and yet Arizona has more living streams, very much more grass, twenty times the tim Der, ten times the available agricultural land, and. in time, will equal if not sur pass that State in it's products of the pre- cious and baser but valuable metals, The evidence is ample and we'll known that the Territory now embraced in Arizona, once contained and mniutained popula- tton full as large as does California to-day.
 Bnt 1t $ unnecessary to now pursue this liar Hagar any further. Tie San Diego Union and Oakland Tribune, and proba- bly other California papers, have deserv- edly dished him up, and now the Arizona and New Mexico papers should rasp him off as he deserves. Some men lie about their opponents; Hagar lies about the soil and productive capacity of his country. And herein is the most inexeusable sort of lying.
 One Col. w. B. Hagen of the United States army, can consider the language we have used in reference to Hagar, as fully applied to him and his recently writ ten statements about the southwestern country.