Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-09


 or honest It is impossible to identify the handwriting of an Indian to q voucher, or to ascertain whether the h. dian executed the voucher or not, and consequently the manufacture Of vouch- CTS in the Indian service IS not only a safe but a lucrative business. It Is not strange that vast Indian ring has been organized and continued in full force and operation for the last thirty years, and that few frauds have been detected and exposed; for a few moments Tetiec- ton will satisfy any one that detection and exposure are nearly, if not quite, impossible. The few exposures that have been made were cases of blunder- ing rascals not useful to the ring. The resources of this ring are so enormous that they have hitherto been able to maintain themselves under the guise of charity, humanity and christianity. Their ample means enables them to con- trol the press by various iusidious sub- sidies such as attOrneyships for Indian tribes and the like, which are freely dis tributed among newspaper correspond- ents at Washington. They are also able by their vast resources tO maintain a force of travelling agents, prOfessing tO belong to the various christian denomi- nations, t. enter the pulpits and prayer meetings of the eastern churches and there disseminate their falsehOods and misrepresent the character and purposes of the pioneers Of the west By these means the press and the church and the great majority of the christian people of the nation have been educated to be heve, and do believe. that the men, wCm- en and children who have sought homes in the western States and Territories are a band of blOOdthursty murderers. infest-
 ing the country to which they have emi- srated for the purpose of robbing and murde'iSg Indians, and when they are informed or 'he wholesale slaughter oi these pioneers by tLo ruthless savages
 they think, and often -ar. s.It ,erves them right and 1t renews then -a,,Iu.
 tiOn to vote for members of Congres.
 and Senators who will see to 1t that the
 poor Indian is provided for and his enc
 mes pnnished. It may seem strange tC
 the peopl, af this Territory that the
 murders now being committed excite no sympathy among the christian peopl,
 Of tbe east, but 1t Is not strange or pecu liar when the facts are understood ID, | hd1k ul lilN lil Al AAN4Ao AAAt AAbNfA have been used for SD many years to ex
 toll the virtues of the Indians and eIag gerate the vices of the white man, tha
 the eastern people believe, and honestly
 believe, that the white man Is a monster
 and the Indian a-victim.
 The professed object Of these apprO puatIOus Is tO protect and ciyilizc tn, Indian, yet no Indians have been civil Ized or ever will be under this system.
 The system k to put them on reserva
 tons and feed them in idleness, and 6
 moments reflection VIII satisfy any 0uJ
 that such a system cannot improve tLt condition of rle Indian. 1T like mum Der of whites were put upon reservation.
 and treated in a like manner they would
 become yagabonds, thieves and murder. CTS, the condition to which the Indian.
 have been reduced under the vast appro. priatiOns made by Congress in the name
 D.. humanity.
 They have the same kind of Indians m the British possessions that We have
 but they treat them as other human be- lngs, hold them responsible for crimes enforce the laws; and they have no diff culty m maintaining order.
 IT the government would abolish the Indian bureau, stop appropriations to feed Indians, allow them to pre-empt land us other people do, allow the States and Territories to enforce their laws against them as against other people, the Indian question would solve it. self in less than two years. Then some Indians would become civilized and some would survive. Under the present system all mUsT perish. They are now collected on re5ervations,provided with large sub sidiet, clothed, fed and armed. Dishon- est agents steal their subsidies and thev go on the warpath with clothes, arms and supplies furnished by the Govern meut. The military are called upon and pursue them through the settlements. and after they have robbed and murder cd the settlers to their hearts content and become pressed by the military they return to the reservation and the Indian Department, under the pretense of secur- ing peace, makes new promises. furu- lshes new supplies and arms, the military departs and in a few months the Indians make another raid, which is a repetition or the former m every particular These raids enuch contractors, draw new and larger appropriations from the Govern ment in the shape of deficiency bills and furnish pretexts for large appro- prIahOns tO carry ont pre- tended promises. This process has been going on for years and will continue to go on, in all human probability. until the Indians are finally exterminated by the wars engendered by the raids beforemen- toned and by the idleness and vicious habits, which they contract on the reser- vatiOns while fed by the Government. It is a sad fate for the Indian.
 He Is taught by the system not to look to his own labor and industry for sup port, but t0 the Government for boun- ties and the pioneers for plRnder.
 The sad fate of the Indian is not the only evil brought upon the country by this debasing system. The fraudulent contractors and rascally Indian agents lot only demoralize the Indians, but corrupt the morals of the people of the frontier by holding out to them glitter ing and tempting prizes for dishonesty.
 The cowboys that now infest the Ter ritoTies of Arizona and New Mexico were educated Tn this school From child hood they have been in the employ of dishonest contractors, stealing supplies and cattle tO be sold to Indian agents Tor the use of the Indians until they have become SD numerous that they are now as intolerable a scourge as the Indians themselves.
 It is strange that the common sense of the country can not recognize the simple fact that no people can become civilized without labor, and that the savage will not labor except from want. The only process of civilization that can ever benefit the Indian is to let him in with all mankind labor and sup ply his own wants.
 While in the Senate l did all in my power Co resist Indian appropriations and Indian treaties in Nevada and was so far as tO limit the appro- | DriatioLs to fifteen or twenty thousand dollars year, and the result was that liter ten years many Of these Indians were se-f-supportIng by their own labor, l lerdlnE stock, cutting wood and assisting armers generally, but the Indian De ,artment undertook to account for it ! hat the Indians of Nevada were origin l lily a superior Indian to any ,ther on the continent. The ]. cal reason was that they were compel ] ed to labor to supply their necessities, l nd I have no doubt that if I could have |