Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-09-24

| peaceable. Now what IS 1t that ID i Government has done with the ApacheI 1. When. General Crook came to this Te | ritory he went to work and followed D
 these Apaehes and took their scalp | He followed them from mountain mountain. from fastness to fsstnes | until they came down, all of them, an
 while he was reaching for the very nel
 of all the wicked Indians of thatApach tribe. the curse not only of this Terr tory but of Sonora-thRt wEs this Co
 chise band-snd had them prscticall
 surrounded, when this miserable, wicke
 policy-because it was the interference
 of men who knew nothing about wha
 they were doing-this peace policy 0
 General Howard which took from Gen eral Crook, man who knew what h
 was after, a man who had cornered th,
 most wicked and desperate tribe. tn
 consummation of the object he had al
 most attained and stayed his hands Bnt
 took this wicked band of marauders snS murderers. where? Why, away up il the mountains wnere they knew everI
 pass, ~hsre every whispering breeze in
 vitc hem to revolt, and put them in [ reservation, larger than New England 1T
 it's boundaries and tho re feeding then
 with sugar fapplause and giving then
 blankets and sending them tracts and
 school-marms and permitting them tC
 select their own agent, and now what II
 the result? Why, it has cost the lives,
 without any exaggeration at all, of two
 hundred men killed by this small hand.
 ful of Indians from this sub-agency. In
 hrI Tv-~ ruTa
 never go there but what we miss some
 men that we saw the last time we were
 there who have been murdered by the
 Indians. You will find Tn Globe as
 splendid men as in all the world; they
 have gone there with their money and
 their energy and industry; they have
 opened those mines, yet they have been
 practically in a state of siege by these
 miserable seslpers on that reservation ever since fl was established; they have
 had topay sAtra rates for freight When
 20 to Globe I do not look around for h. dians, but recently in passing over that country I found the brother of one
 of your honored townsmen, dead. found five other men dead. found train loaded with supplies for that agency all scattered and filled with bull lets; I found where those miserable wretches had taken out the flour, cut a hole in the sack and piled it up Tn heaps and covered 1t with nBstiness of which we cannot speak, and this was all done by Indians from this sub. agency to show their utter contempt for the United States. Compare that with the MsricO- pas. There are there to-day 1 suppose 5000 Indians. They are sources of wealth to the Territory. stopped the other day at a station having a grsnery half as large as this room filed with thousands of pounds of wheat. better wheat than you would see in the Chicago Gram Exchange, rai.ed by these Indl- ans. They keep one mill running all the time. They made the settlement on that river possible. When the first schooner came around Cape St. Lucas they were the men that took hold of the rope and drew the boat up the river. They were express messengers long before Wells, Fargo < O., came to the coun- try. I never Knew one to fail to carry a letter or q package of money wherever you sent hIm as faithfully Rs any cOmpG- ny ever did. Applause, In the East they talk about Arizona Indians without knowing anything about them. These Indians never get blanket nor a seed. The Papagoes and the Pimas get a very little, all the rest of the Indian sppro- priation goes to this very band which has caused all the trouble in Arizona, not only in our own time, but as long as history dates back; and yet the gov ernment of the United States pretends to say that they cannot remove that small band of Indians. It is mere talk. They can do. it. They have had them in their grasp once; Gen eral Crook is now here in the Territory, aud fl the Government says 80 he will reach out and have them again,
 grent applause and he will do what the government in its policy indicates. He will put them on Q piece of land away of on-the confines of the govern ment where they will not understand the trail back into Tonto Basin or the mountains. | e. say in conclusion, fellow citizens, that with this Indian difficulty removed, with the production of Arizona Rs 1t is at the present time, with the means of with the diversity of soil, with the climate, that there is heareafter for this Territory. That while we are mere broken frag. ments of every nation, there is here that out of which a great commonwealth IS to be constructed, and if ws exercise our rights properly, and look to our in- terests, and understand that the general government can, and will do for us, and see that it is obtained, that at no dis tant day Arizona will become one of those States, not way down III the wealth producing scale, but one of the powers of the Union. It IS something worth striving for. It Is something for the other States to think that they helped to bring into this sisterhood of States another State and add another jewel to this crown. It is true that We have a vast empire as far as extent is and it's varied climate and its wealth will bring 1t under the pro- lection of that institution which We know ss the United States Government, an institution, fellow citizens, that has not been formed all at once. It is no accident but we must remember that IS the outgrowth of time. The same instl- tuition was fought for by the Greeks at whose pulse was quick ened by the courage and force of the early Romans, and by the manliness of the Swiss Inountsiu- eers; by the Barons at Runnemede, by the rugged heart of a Cromwell and every act of hard battling ngaInst op- precision, which has sent some seed flowing down the stream of time, that has taken root in this broad continent and blossomed in our nations life. great applausel
 When MT. Porter concluded his beech he was greeted with loud and prolonged applause. followed by music by the band.
 Hon. J. NJ. Kirkpatrick was then call ed upon, and excused himself from speaking at the time. but promised to appear during the campaign before Tucson audience and give them the views of a hard-working and horny handed miner. Mir. Kirkpatrick was lvite enthusiastic in his remarks, and he was frequently spplauded.
 After further music by the band the adjourned.
 Letter from Willc0X.