Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-13
roe rrasn OF ,hs Iaa,au Question.

The Truth OF sbs Iadiau Question.
There Is . GRIM satire in the fact
that all the Reservation Indians
are getting back into their quar-
ters, ready to take their allotment
Of the good things the government
provides for them. They are as
consummAte hypocrltss as can be
found anywhere on earth, not ex-
cepting any Of the prominent
Christian denominations. Neither
the Tartuffe of Moliere nor the
Pecksni6 Of Dickens can exceed
the bland and ohildlike trusting.
ness Of the untutored child of the
Arizona deserts. 1t is true that, in
the latter's walk of life, there is
little Of the involved and intricate
word play of the hypocrite of civi.
lization. He has had no ages Of
soholasticism or schools of philo 80.
ply or metaphysics to give indi-
rection and finesse to his utter.
ances. But when the time comes
to handle the blankets and grocer
les which the Great Father at
Washington so literally doles out
to him, he turns up O smooth,
round face, as guileless as the line
aments of infancy, even though
both hands have lately been drip
ping in the blood of the prospector
and voyager. Strange to say, even
In the teeth OF horrible Isdian
emeute, journals reach US from the
East sympathizing with the Apa-
che. We concede the fact that the
Indian Bureau of the United States
government is a mockery and
sham; and that, very often, the
Indian agents are dyed-in-the-woo
scoundrels, who cheat and rob the
Indian and confuse his sense of
Justice. Nevertheless, the Apache
IL brute upon whom sympathy lie
wasted under any circumstances
He is cowardly and ferocious. He
Is like an inoipient volcano, al.
ways ready to break out and burn
and devastate. His methods of
cruelty are so iDhuman as 10
shock into unutterable horror and
hatred the frontiersman, whose oc.
cAsional acts Of retaliation,
fierce and relentless, are often cited
BY pseudo humanitarians as sort
Of justification Of aboriginal afro
cities. These dainty Eastern phil.
anthropists are kept in ignorance
of the peculiar and unspsakable
unormities of these brutes because
decenoy forbids the telling of the
story in its naked deformity. What
Edmund Burke pictured of the
outrages OF Warren Hastings upon
the Hindoos on the Gapges and
Coromandel, and of Hyder Ali, in
return, in the Carnatic, is as noth-
Ing to the bloody divertissements of
the derce Apache. Unspeakable
xeanements of cruelty and inde-
oenoy are wreaked upon both sexes
Of the unfortunate whites who fall
Into their hands. Their most
venial offence Is to drive q single.
tree through the bowels of a poor
feamster deep into the earth, and
leave him wrlthing there, with ac-
esssories Of obscene cruelty whose
mention is forbidden in a respecta.
BILE journal. As to the poor women
who fall into the hands of these In.
human wretches-ah better draw
the veil at once! Owing to the en-
forced delicacy in the narrative of
1hose transactions, the dilettante
Journalists of the East do not even
dream of what 1t is to be exposed
to the lurId and murderous regime
which characterizes an Apache
outbreak. If they knew even
tiths Of the truth they would quit
their pulling and mewling and drool-
ing and join heartily in the from
tisr cry for determination of the
red-skinned miscreants. There
may be some use in this creature,
but we confess that TO US he ap-
pears to be utterly without an Of
noe on earth, except as a strongly
favored constituent in q compost
heap. The world, from every
standpoint, would be all the better
fer the announcement of fhe death
Of every Apache In the land. He
does not possess single character
1stic which should lead the most
sensitive Humanitarian to save his
race from extinction. With old
Mother Earth pretty fully crowded
~ It 10, 1t fs highly desirable to rid
her of such irreclaimable mis-.
creants.