Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-30
ADDING INSULT TO INJURY

NoTln Ainerlcan; Dr. F.. MOrlaty, fl fl ) Democrat; Peacock, Fetherston & c, Evening Bulletin; Chas. E. Warhurto
 Evening Telegraph In a circular tue
 enunciate the following as their
 PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES.
 Coop FAIrH-Never break faith wit
 the Indians.
 INDIAN TERRIToRY-Keep all intruder
 out of the Territory. Continue the sell
 government of the civilized tribes. Je
 them regulate their own land teuure.
 LAw-Enact suitable laws to protec
 lie and property on reservations. Max
 mem flexible m detail Administer ther
 throngh Department orders approved b
 the President. Promptly and rigidly en
 force them. lndividualize the punish
 ment or crime. Never hold the trib
 liable for the crimes Of its members Organlze an efficient Indian police fore
 'h eSery reservation.
 INDIAN DEPARTMENT-Creat sepaT
 ate Indian Department under civilian
 Secretary,
 Grant plenary emergency powers t,
 the President.
 Have all agencies frequently inspected by appointees of the President, well pai. aud unconnected with the Indian De | nartment,
 Carefully regulate the powers ana duties of Indian Agents.
 Give them permanent positions and liberal salaries. Keep them free from political influence. Let their suburdin. ates be appointed by the Department.
 All questions of general policy and treatment to be settled by the Depart. mert. No individual experiments by theoretical agents to be permitted.
 Abolish all privileged traderships. Absolutely destroy all traffic in liquors. Control the sale of arms and amnuui- uon. In all else let there be free trade.
 Let all military post, be maintained 'eparate and apart from the Indian vil- iaEes and preserve absolute non-inter- course between the soldiers and the h. 1ians.
 No REMovALs-Rema -e no more tribes except where the soil and climate require It, and the change IS voluntary.
 Clvlllz-the Indians where they are.
 E"UcATIoN.-Educate the entire h. ilan reservation pop Ilation. Teach the children Tn boarding manual-labor schools Tn the reservations.
 Make them farmers and graziers.
 Give all the band an abundance of cattle.
 Teach them'trades.
 Instruct them in the laws of health.
 Show them how to live.
 Neutralize the influence of the medi- cine men.
 Make work compulsory.
 n.. lions devide lands in severalty as soon IS Indians can farm them Make them inRllenable and non-taXable for a time. Sell the surplus lands for the benefit of the tribe.
 Elsewhere grant government lands in >everaitE ion same terms) to all Indians who can cultivate them.
 CITIZENSHIP Give citizenship to all sslf-supporting Indians who ask 1t.
 The pamphlet Is a libel upon the peo- ple of the western frontier, and a monu- mental evidence of the ignorance of its luthor, Jas. W. M Newlin, and the journalists who endorse it. It starts ut with this statement;
 "The first great essential is, that the Indians should have fair play. This the frontierDen will never give them, and the disgrace of its denial falls not on them alone, but upon the whole nation, which must make reparatiOn for the wrongs it has permitted the border set . CTS to perpetaate."
 This is followed by detailed accounts # the killing of Indians by whites that have taken place in the west since the year one, with laudations of the Indians character. Among them of course ap- pears the Camp Grant affair m this Ter ritory. It makes, a stiched together patch work of atrocities which is calculated to create in the minds of the ignorant a be- lief that the Indians as a race and indi- viduals, are saints and martyrs, and that he hardy frontier settlers are a set of ruff ians and cut-tLroats. It Is the dissem- nation Of such literature which, con- aiming accounts m the main true, but which, removed from their connection with collateral events, form lie as false IS hell that makes the scenes through l which Arizona is now passing, possible. l And we may be pardoned if we ay that in our judgment, it IS the inteD- l ion of those who issue this kind of lit- | .rature to poison the mnds O! the peO- ,le, to perpetuate the existing order f things for the purpose of making | honey, while our people are being | by hundreds by these ruth ess savages.
 The sentimental public of the East is .iven these stories of the killing of h. ians, but is not told of the long series f murders, robberies and outrages | which in each and every instance caused ! ne e1asperated settlers to inflict con ign punishment upon the red devils. They do not know that the men who isited this merIted punishment did so l accordance with VOWS registered over he bodies of their fathers and mothers, ieir wives and their children, and in he ashes of their ruined and deserted omes. They do not know that the omes of the savages so pathetically de- cribed in this pamphlet were adorned nth the fair tresses Of innocent women nd children murdered in cold blood. hey are not told of the peace winch has leyitably followed these seasons, when he white settlers, tired of asking the for protection, have risen in heir might and given the red-sl1inned evils q reinstatement.
 The white settlers know that there is imply one kind Of influence which IS otent with these savsges, and that is he power to inhict summary punish- lent Every effort to mitigate his atural ferocity by presents or by acts kindness Is wasted. In his simple ind they are evidences of the fear that he whites entertain for them, and only ,creases the probability of his making -ouble.
 It Is these occurrences which are cited this work which alone make it possi- le for the whites to live upon the from er. Nearly everything the government as done has been to perpetuate the era [ trouble and murder.
 The platform of principles set forth ' these would-be reformers reads well D paper and will do to put into opera on upon wooden Indians in Philadel- hia, but are utterly useless as far as le live Apache is concerneA
 If these would-be refornrSrs want to