Weekly Phoenix herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory [Ariz.]) 1882-1896, 1883-01-26


to commit depredatio adj
jIining Republic of ASxico-there-
by provoking retaliation and, to a
CONSIDERABLE extent interfere G With
the welfare of the northern tier of
states of our sister republic.
The people have, in their de spera
ton. often fitted out expeditions of
hardy and experienced froatiersmen
to suppress Indian ms urrections, and
such volunteer troops have often
passed through hundreds Ct miles nf
couairy, rife with savage outrage,
without seeing an India in such Il
way do t.ey take advantage f the
facilities for hi,ling aft rded l'y n
mountainous country.
The on y solution of thu problem
is the probl IN is the rem wal of the
Apaches to level or prai lie C. I'm :
try, where they cin be easily guard
ed and forced TO take up agricnltu-
raj pursuits until, by such a life and
b communicating to them the rudi-
mcnts of education, succeeding gen
crati1ns shall have lost IL e instinct,
as well as the power, 10 follow in the
footsteps of their sanguinary ances-
tors.
Such a mode of disposing of the
Indians woul,l be as mitch II bene-
faction to them as to ourselves. 1t
is not visiting upon them the heavy
hand of retribution for their atroci-
ties, but is the only possible way OF
ever making them other than mill
stone round the neck of the nation.
1t is the course which has brought
to their present condition the CAM
dian nd other, at present, semi-civ
ilizcd tribes of this continent.
The vaci Hating policy, the crea-
tiol of reservations in mountainous
countries, the treaties, presents, anil
general whangdoodleism of our In
dian Department are as cruel to the
savages in their ultimate result as to
us. How severe the present regime
is upon US is shown that with a eli =
mate superior to that of many of the
most populouI and prosperous por
tions of the East, soil of surpass
ing fertility and wealth of mineral
resources exceeding any other known
to history, Arizona is to-day, save in
a limited number of protected and
settled localities, virgin and unde-
veloped land. The present visible
wealth of The Territory being a mere
bagatelle as compared with its pos
sibiIties unGer more favo -able aus
pices.
In the administration of Indian
affairs, extravagtnt sums of money
have been drawn from the National
Treasury for the ostensible purpose
of improving the coalition of these
Indians, but up 10 this time without
any perceptible advantage to the in,
tended benehciaries.
That your memorialIsts believe
that the extraordinary success which
has distinguished the military cam
paigns of General George Crook
against the savages has been due to
his employment of other savIges to
follow them into the mountain re-
treats in their own fashion of war
fare. Your memorIaiists are aware
that the tribal hostilitiSs existing
among the different clans will al
ways prevent their confederating
together against the whites and that
they will, by being placed in the
same region of county with other
hostiles, be the most efficient check
and guard, the one upon the other.
1t appears 10 your memorialIsts
but just and right that long suffer
ing people should be relieved of this
perpetual incubus by the removal of
the Apache and other belligerent
Indians from our boundaries into
some level country where they can
be manage successfully, and where
the expense will be somewhat less
fabulous than as at present.
Wherefore your memorialists do
II lmbly pray that measure may be
taken to remove the hostile Indians
from the Territory of Arizona; that
the costly system of Ariz ma Indian
Reservatio 8, with its attendant
temptations to peculation, may be
tcrmina ed and that the lands in
cluded in the reservations may be
relcgated to the uses OF the citizens
of the United States.