Arizona citizen., 1879-01-11
8eecher and ~Lo.

ASAAAn5 " NHS pOAlSF VI bhC SOh hSi u
 ment towards the Indians, bitterly ar
 raigned that policy, and said that " i
 was his opinion that in ihe judgmen
 day no nation will stand more infa
 nous for atrocious injustice and blood
 red cruelty, unprovoked, than this
 proud United States" Which is ab
 stract nonsense. The Supreme Being
 will undoubtedly have enough to do
 in judging individuals without taking
 them in the concrete, Ion that great
 day" But this aside. Now we have
 steadfastly maintained the greatest re.
 spect for and faith in MT. Beecher all
 through the years, and would like to
 say to him and to Christians generally
 who are sweating their souls over this
 grave matter of the Indians:
 There is as much rascality in our
 treatment of the Indian as in our treat
 ment of each other. Men cheat and
 deceive the Indian, and men cheat and
 deceive the widow and orphan. There
 is thIs difficulty, however, Una: while
 the widow and orphan quietly submit,
 and starve or go to the bad, the Indian
 goes on the war path and takes it out
 on somebody. This is what plays the
 deuce with the situation. Your church
 deacon inveigles the widow into his
 bank doors and robs her. The poor
 woman retires to the cellar of some
 filthy tenement house, where some
 plous clothier supports her by hiring
 to her 8 sewing machine and giving
 her shirts to make at thirty six cents
 per dozen, and everything is religious
 ly calm and lovely. But when one of your sanctiied agents comes out here
 and tries the game he has learned so
 we'll on the Indian, "Lo" turns around
 and "cleans out" some settler in turn.
 Then agaln if you undertake to. cowardly shift the responsibility, and turn the Indians over to the care of the army you only make matters worse. Gilt buttons and blue cloth and army regulations have DO sub-cuticular ei- feet. 4 mans a man for all that. And when we say that the average of good and bad is the same in military as in civil life, we make the concession in the face of our own knowledge that the worst men the frontier has ever known have been army officers
 Now, Mir. Beecher and the rest, in the name of God and humanity, stop talking for & while and go 10 work Within the past five years the Indian Department, working in partial har- mony with good men in Arizona, has almost oblitersled our Indian difficul. ties,-and we had the worst Indians in the country. This has been done in the face of gross military inefficiency, part of the tune, and partial dishon- esty and inefficiency of civil agents. But some noble soldiers have appeared l at certain crises and some civil agents have done true and unrewarded work. And so we are almost out of the woods s There is sufficient rascality and in- [ efficiency yet, rumored, 10 make us ' feel uneasy, but you have the same [ features in your great centers Of civil I iZation.
 Turn to, then, you men on the walls [ of Zion; join hands with Secretary l Schurz and his Indian commissioner; l organize detective force of your most i honorable selves and associates; see that the purest of your young men are | sent out as Indian agents; watch them s and aid them afler they get 10 their [ agencies and see that they have decent c We merely suggest an out a line. You are arrant towards if you 2 undertake to shift this responsibility. i God and your country call you. Let O the savage islander of the farther q ocean alone for a while, even if he $ runs clean out of moral pocket hand. s kerchiefs and scripturally illustrated g breech-cloihs, and turn all your mis T sionary zeal to the Indian of your own o land. IL is so easy and sensational to s rise in your pulpits and howl about re- possibility of nations, and the iudg u nent day, but we advise you to stop g his nonsense and get down to your b proper work as Christians and men. If we remember aright the teachings b 'f the lowly Nazarene, he was par iC icularly severe on persons charging a leavy responsibilities and burdens on he shoulders of others but who would 5 lot move the same burdens with one e; f their fingers. a' The Judgment day is a good enough, ard to play in the proper time and 'Isce, but "Lo," the poor Indian. lands at the door and there is demand ., or immediate, honest and Christian ot york. = YUMA, January 9.-N New railroad oi tation, thirty miles east of Yuma Ill pened for business yesterday, it is al alled Adobe" instead of "Gila," II le new town is already quite lively. ul 'ol. J. NJ. Barney has established Cd ranch there of his forwarding and o' merchandise business. All freight now 'N ere goes by rail on the eleventh 10 be aI to wagons at Adobe. Hotel, u' .sge of3ce solo,,s 5a,o. t,o,,.o nc