Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-01-23
A CHANGE DEMANDED.
.Oaklana Tnbune.


 COalland TribuneD
 Mast will find fruitful subject for a series of forcibie caricatures in the rep hensible manner 0; conducting the h. dian sif.irs of this country. For IT. stance, the atject covering of the United States army before the tand of traitorous Apache scouts employed by General Crook to assist III capturing the murderous renegades, that they may be taken back 10 the reservation. and tei on government beef, and clothed with government blankets, and be ready to start out on another numbering ex- petition in the spring-and these same SC 'uts, instead Of assisting the military, give information Co tke reaegades, and assist Tn their escape, leading the mili- tary on fal-s trails. psoteclipg their friends, tle Ten a-R ics, from gl !ntertsr- ence n their I4urGering raids. Even when a conmissarY officer is shot down m his tracks by one of these red devil scouts, because bis rations are not large enough to divide with the murderers he Is supposed to bs hunting. the soldiers are prevented from firing upon the Rs- sgssin by the officer in command, and he Is allowed to escape. Wher the army skeleton is getting a little too close upon the hiding places of the mur- dsrers, the whole band of Apache scouts rev-!t, and refuse to budge another inch -;.-I what is done? Are the traitors shot down in their tracks, as they should have been? Not at all. Fear seems to hHve paralyzed the United States army, and the traitors go into camp and feed on United States rations, and the murdereTs so about committing their depredatious, while the United States army Is busy looking after the mutinous scouts for fear they will join tue hOstiies in open warfare. instead of following their previous mode Of spies and traitors and InfOrmers fer the rene gGde murdeTers. An Indian escapes from d reservation, murders and sca!gs a whole family, men, women and babies, and fees back to the reservation and places himself under the protection Of the military and his tribal relations, and justice fails to reach him. But whito man who steals into a reservation and sells a bottle of whiskey IS immediately arrested and placed in prison a: Fort Scott.
 Nov, has not this criminal farce about had its rua: How iorg will suffering people continue to submit to such ms management resulting in infamous out rGges and murder? We are pleased to note the fact that 8 few Congressmen are waking ap to tla iniquitous manage ment ot the Indian affairs of the country, Rnd it Is 10 be hoped that the crank policy of the vUuld-be philanthropists aud hunanitar:aas will be abandoned, the tribal relations broken up, and every Indian made personally respon- S4DaC lt Ant AaNS GA tiaC 4tlL AuE l-b acts. Says .Conrre8smsn E s. Ste vens, i've have got to treating them with protection wi.Lous giving them re- responsibilities also. If we go on with the idea that their tribal relations must q, rccogrizal. ve mus. get aside for them Gs a reservation an einornous tract of land. We must build Q Chinese wall around it, and hedge it about with . cordon ot soldiers SD strong that no one can get in or oat. There Is 10 other way for 1t, but II ve put every h. dian on personal footing. the Indian question will hereafter settle itself. As things are now We protect the Indian in everything he does. but we act as though he was not a responsible being himself. The entire manner of dealing with tEe Indians as at present pursued ia defer ence to false sentiment is wrong. l think that pubic opinion mas come to See that 1t is wrong and will back up Sheridan"