Arizona citizen., 1878-10-12
Gen. sherman's Trip snd fss object


  Gen. sherman's rriD sad fts object.
 The General of the United States Army has lately made an overland "Trip from the end of inc railway in Colo rado, via Santa -Fe, to and through Arizona, via department headquarters to Yuma and thence to San Francisco. A newspaper prophet and wiseacre of Los Angeles, assumes that the Gener al's movements nave reie. ence to a war already determined upon with Mexico, and spreads himself in col umn or two ou the subject, and got an innocent telegraph operator 10 wire it to San Francisco as news. He talks about an early seizure of the right bank of the Rio Grande, and intimatrs that some Of the Generals remai ks were not inconsistent with such pur- pose. The General very likely re marked upon the progress of Los An geies, of the growth and beauty ot ils fruit groves, of his desire 10 have a bath and a clean shirt, and possibly made other equally hostile remarks n nowise inconsistent with a purpose to seize the rlgh; bank of the Rio Gran de. Then, some tTn years ago, Gov. Stanford expressed a purpose of his company to extend their railway into Msxico-another indication of war, all though the same purpose has been since stated with more or less direct ness every week. Then the remarks of the hoodlum San Francisco Post some twenty months ago about the movements of the Ancient Order o' Aztecs down this way, are recalled as significant of war on our neighboring nat ion neither of the writers iD the Post and Los Angeles Herald knowing, per haps, that the Ancient Order ot Aziecs" they were writing about, was a fraud and would in no sense be rec ognized by very respectable order oi that name whose headquarters are in the eastern cities, and whose member ship is limited to the organizers and their descendants as in the men 5er- ship of the Society of Cincinnati. The Posts Order If Aztecs sought member ship in Tucson of any and all races represented hsre, but finding it uu popular, oriers were sent out to stop recruiting.
 Then it is asserted that Gen. Sher mans trip along the border Is no, to be accounted for in anything short oi war with Mexico. The writers know edge of the geography of this southern bo der is as oor as their judgment IT other matters. Until ihe General lef' Prescott and turned southward to take ths cars at Yuma, he was st DO time much if any nearer the Mexican b"r der than 300 miles. H. was hardly within 300 miles of the scene of the Rio Grande troubles at any time. Il ,he General should return to Washing ton through Central Illinois, Southern Indians and Ohio, he could hardly b' ,aId to have made trip along tho Canadian border, snd yet he woulc have ss nearly done so as he has re gently along the Mexican border.
 This administration in which Gen Sherman feels & lively interest, hsi other " fish to fry" than to make val with any nation. It's aims seem |" o' to restore good feeling between he sec tious; to pu, the industries Of the cona try on a sound and prosperous basis to resume spec payment, secure sound currency, reduce the interest or the public debt and thereby taxation A war with Mexico would greatly re tsrd if not defeat the more importsn of these leading measures.
 War between Mexico and the United sis,ss would be foolish in the ex treme, especially II it can be acoide' on our mart on terms st all honorable Should it be wAged and won by thu I limited States. it would possibly chang' he present border hne, but nHt stoI nor even mitigate the border troubles h would tend to greater sccnmula ion of lawless men along tue b"rdt rhereyer it might be established Mexico could not be msde 10 pay th srnense of the war, and the slread, Isrre national deb; would be incresse' and very likely the rates of interest ol Iu It is easy to imagine the class O men who would profit hy the war rhe expense and dishonor Of both ns ! tious. They would be in the maia lot of despicsbie creatures who ioilo7 in the wake of battles to p'undeE th living sud dead. There sre nlany-ver. lmany-reasons why war aith Me1ic would be 8 ustional misfortune who's ibad influences would extend througI I rspe-s,iuus to couie