The weekly Arizona miner., 1881-09-09
THE MANAGEMENT or INDIANS.

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 For ways that are dark and tricks tAa, are remunerative. commend us c. the Interior Department and the qpody g,ody people who live l4zily by carrying out lts plans. public and private This Department.
 backed by people ho label themselves Chris tians, carry bong faces and pray aloud in the churches of the country, has, for many
 years claimed the nght to govern the h. dians-gOod and bad-lyiu- and dead, of the Republic. Their management ot In dian affairs has cost the country thousands Of valuable lives and ElIlli9rs ol money. still they shamelessly. ut;gtluuly, eD- deavor to fasten all blame for Indian crimes and shortcomings on iroutler setticrs and soldiers. They, almost constantly proclaim. and boast of their ability to control Indians on reservations But, facts are stubborn things. The record stands against them
 We have not the tlmc, III a shost newspaper article, to bring up that record. bat shat of that Two-thirds of the country know and admit it. What We desire now to fasten on them, Is that they are responsible for the recent troubles m Utah; later still, fDr those in New Mexico and ArIzcna.
 The powerful Navajo t-lbe, once whipped by soldiers, is now on the brink of & revolt on account, they say. of the trickery and knavery of their agent. The agent of the Mescallero Apaches, New Mexico, Is slandering the citizens and soldiers of that Territory. We shall no; say that Agent Tiffany. of San Carlos, is bad, designing man. He may mean well enough, privately, but, publicly, his acts must accord wIth the wishes of the ring leaders, who. by the grace of Presidents and Congress, run the Department and the Indians. They are the people wha dec!aim against army manage ment of the Indians; that Is when every thing Is fair for peaceful and profitable farmine of reservations. They are the people who have armed Indians They are those who give them passes to go of the re- serves. This they dc lu order 60 save rations and put money in their pockets. Then. when trouble comes. they call, iustiiy, on ti!e army for help, to protect the rcseF' vations. An, hypocrites why will ye offend A just God aEd bring trouble un honest people by such hypocrisy
 We say 1t now. for the huiredth time Reservations. under Interior Department regulations, are schools of crime. The In dian is not there managed as he should be- He is taught to believe that he .s as good a. tho ,rbitor. .ha- f. he will quly do as lIs % right straight to Heaven. 1fhe grumblos at the shor;ness of the ration he has been promised. a pass for @ tour of the mountains mollifes him. But be goes forth win many grievances; he hroo,- uppa broken promises and avonges himself. not upon agent oi the Interior Department. but upon soldiers or citizens
 We believe in treating aIl human beings 1 kindly. not crngingiy. In robbing the in- dian of the food that ought ,o go iu,o his 1 stomach. Indian agents have always en- dcavored to smooth the matter over hy lying ! to the Indian. We do uct say that Agent ! Tiffany has cinchcd Indians stonachs and ! forced them io take to the warpati. But. l We do. honestly. 5hiuk bis bulletins have de- 1 ceived the military :'.d citizens o. this Ter 1 ritory. Truthful white people assure Us that hundreds of Indians have gone where ! they pleased, on Iasses. II wa,. n' doubt. on these pleasure trips, that plans far the recent sma,ts were perfected. well | planned affair 1t was Had it been as weil carried out. the attempted massacre of Gen. Cars entire command, the capture of Fort Apache, etc, would have been matters of fact. From this. lct us learn lessons ot wisdom. Whites cannot trust Mdians. h. dians cannot be fed on prayers aud governed by soft soap. They must be firmly dealt with. consequently ought tr. at once. be placed under control oi the War Depart ment. The War Department ought (" be able to keep suiicien: forces on the frontiers to awe the Indians. 90 that p,.sn 'propEct- prest" like the fellow recently killed by our soldiers, tries Ia raise h revolt. he w"aId not be able to dupe other Indian, into rebellion by preaching to them of the nslgniiicapce ot our Government. as shown by the soldiers now on the frontier. If this canno; be done. then take ;he Indians East and quarter them OF their 'philanthrgrc admirers.