Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-05-30

HE report that the Chiricahua In.
 uisns have again taken the war-patb and
 iert the reservation is indeed pa,nfrllv
 rue The news of their bloody deeds
 IS just now beginning to come in and
 the affair is but a repetition of the seoras
 that have preceded it. This time the
 why savages have taken the route
 through New MeIIco, but whether this
 small band IS thus sent forth to decov
 the military into that Territory, while
 The main body makes the raid down
 through Arizona, Is a matter of copiec-
 ture. The settlers of Arizona and Nav
 Mexico are growing very weary of these
 periodical sorties of carnage and blood
 shed; they have been assured that the
 Indians are subdued and would never
 sgain make a raid; the murderers of the
 brave settlers and innocent women and
 children have been given safe protec-
 tlon from any visitation of penalty for
 their crimes, by the government, and
 they have been fed and pampered Until
 they are again in readiness to sally
 forth upon a murderous raid, to be again fed and forgiven. Will the country
 wonder, and hold up their kid-gloyed
 hands in holy horror if the scattered
 and mutilated remains of our kinsmen
 and loved ones who have perished at the oowardly hands of inc red devils call SO loudly Tor rJUsTIcK-not vengeauce, if it
 be plessanter to the ear-that the peo-
 pie should rise up and forever wipe out
 that lester upon the fair face of our land Of sunshine, the Apaches on the
 White Mountain reservation? Do they
 expect us to quietly submit to these
 periodical raids and trust solely to the
 protection of an incompetent and impo-
 tent force of lazy soldiery? Indeed the
 people of Arizona have been compelled to bear mountain of woe in sbject si- lence, tor many long and weary years, ID the vaIn hope that the hand of nation al authority would stay this crimson tide Of aboriginal turpitude. They watch with feelings of proud patriotism the
 beautiful evolutions of the military drill at the various posts, and the exact dis cipline of the sleek soldiers and gaily decked officers on the dress parade; they admire the graceful glide of the West Point dudes ID the act of mashing silly girls upon the ballroom floor, but they question the wisdom of Providence in planting such hot-house plants upon this desert soil. Why, a rousing h. dian war whoop would give half of them congestive chills. As ornaments they are truly aesthetic, but on smarch of fOrty-eight hours they must be accom-
 panied with train of pound cake. Of course there are brilliant, honorable and | noble exceptions to thIs sweeping rule, | but too often, unfortunately, these are | tightly tied down with red tape. The Indian finds no formidable foe in the | soldier. He is equipped in the lightest of tropIcal fashion and accomplishes by | easy stages that which it IS impossible | for our cumbersome army to do. It IS quite fresh in the memory of our people l that the Indians drove herds of stolen | cattle few hours ahead of the pursuing soldiers and distsnced them! We trust, | for the good of Arizons; frr the reputa- ton of the prowtss of our military forces, and for is quietinG influence upon 6 people almost ready 10 revolt against senseless Indian policy, that
 the army may meet-they never can overtake-the renegade Indians and an nihilate them.