Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1886-11-03
GERONIMO AGAIN.
In the New York Herald Of Octo!

In me New York Herald OF October !
9. We find the following paragraph:
"The desire of the president to treat
renegade and marauoing In6ilns to the
same dose witch is administered to ren- |
GRADE and maraJdirg white men meets |
the api roval Of the people. In the case |
f Geronimo, General Miles has ap-
parert'y baked the presi tents purpose.
4 man who makes murder his business
is net to be treated tenderly because he |
has red skin. Geronimo knew what |
he was about and he knew the penalty.
and II is great PITY that the cond ii ms
OF his surrender make il impossible t.
Try him for lis crimes. Some one has
Numbered.
In converting With officers who we're
present 1t the surrender Of Geronimo.
they emphstically site that Geronimo
surrendered absolutely. and th:t General
Miles would grant none Of ri. requests
or make any conditions, and Geronimo
fearing that he would be assassinat.d, as
Mingus Colorado had been by hi, cap
tors, General Miles told hin that he
would no, be murdered by the officers or
men of his command, but that he must
surrender as prisoner Of var and trus,
to the federal authorizes for fair and
uSt treatment, and that his future would
rest entirely with them. Such being the
case. il President Cleveland consi iers it
flir and just, - administer u Geronimo
the same trestnent that would be inf Ct
&C upon whie men for ths same crimes,
there seems TO be nothing to prevent
him in the terms Of the surrender. But
# Geronimo is treated in ttii way Why
net his equally guilty companions. Chat
t., Nstchez, and the rest, aud by the
same analogy also Spotted Tail, R.in-;n-
face, Sitting Bull, Chit Joseph and all
the rest Of these redhanded marauders?
II dose of his own mecicine is admin.
istered TO G.ror ino. Why should net all
the res. be treated the SAINT? Are they
any the less guilty that they should be
spared?
Then again. how is the president to
accomplish this ends
The only way apparent to US would be
TO turn them over to the civil authori.i-s
of New MeAi,o or Arizona. Presum-
ing tlii course was followed, where in
the txo territories could jury be found
of men who could swear they we're VI.
biased and unprejldiced as t, these In
ciIrs? Or, if jury were inpanelled,
where are the Witnesses of the murders
and where are the men who would have
the oourag: - return any verdict but
guilty, no MISTER what the esi 1ence was?
Such 4 trial would be = parody on just
ice.
Then again, if We trest Geronimo as
murderer. and apply the Law as to any
ii, zen, wha, right under that law WOULD
We have to eaile all his !,eopl.s and tina,
u US who i've in the tao territories is
much more Of gain than the mere pun
.stmert Of one savage
Another consideration should also DC
borne in mind, tia, this is probably noi
The last or only Indian var We shall ever
have, and if the no.ion becomes implan,-
ed among the Indians, that any Indian
who surrenders is sure to met his death,
he will naturally conclude I, stay out on
the war path. and kill, murder, and slay,
i'll he i, killed himself However edif,-
ing such a course nj, lt be to the au-
thorties It Washington, it would be no
source CT amusement to the settlers on
the border who would have - suffer. II
il fficult for us ID conceive how this
Apache Indian var cou:1 have been term
ia,ted in a wiser or more satisfactory
manner. The whole hostile uioe are
moved ont Of the way Of doing harm for
all future line, and that being accom-
plished We care little what they do with
Geronimo and the rest so long as they
don'I send any of them back here; and
We would Ike I, respectfully suggest {,
tae adn.inislrA alton, who seem bert On
evolving some newtheory for solving the
Iudian problem, tina, if anything Of that
sor, is st:emp,ed, the Aforesaid Indians
vert ge, very far into New Mexico before
they will be convicted iato good In
dams" Of the most super6ne quality.
Though it really makes US quite weary
- have ags il to refer to the subject. why,
may We ask, 90 not the authoriii.s put
lish General Miles repor1 and IS they
seem bert on making mystery Of it. We
think General Niles owes it to himself
to pubi,h it. and LIT the people judge
for themselves who il is that has tlund
cred.
BIT after all, who are better judges ct
whit has been accomplished by General
NJ les than the people Of New Mexico
and Arizona, and the citizens Of these
territories have approved and applauded
General Miles course in the most EN-
pha,ic manner, and II we who have
suffered the mos. are sAished We can see
no reason ior the administration or any
one else 10 find fault.
Bu. while on this master. is not the
treatment General Mics is receiving It