Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-11-20
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
C,TURpAY. NOVEMBER 20. 1886,

" EEhLI N1A1Li@~" SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 20, 1886. EouryER satisfactory it may be to .bs people of Arizona, it is a serious -;sr--,une to the country that the ,,scbe Indian war has been transferred .-,r, ,he frontier mountain ranges into .l. r,,,i- journals, where the bat le is -.-s8 with even greater fury that ii - m the field, with the usual advan- .--a n, safety upon the part If the red -. o. r,nteution. Ever since General ,Il,s achieved his brilliant victory = siyual defast was con jdently pre- ,.,.si the friends of General Crcok ,,r. lost DO opportunity to interpose -,s.scl-s 10 hls enjoy ment of the hon
 t.b-d esr2sd, spd hey have gone ,,- ss [, mISrepresent his services .,3 p-oyoke such biGter controversies ,s., one almost requires the sworn tes- ..-,,,v of eve-witnesses to the affair to ,,r.ya ,he Iuiians were taken prison
 .tsJ, Ia the daily newspaper col .-.,n.ier flash headlines, and bet cen .L.s,Isr7u covers of the literary month r... ,b. same story is told in different -,.i. cf ;he manner by which General r.,,k con9uered the Apsches and how t.. .r,css.or merely plucked the fruit t.bsi left almost ripe upon the trees. r..,h4orv of the csmpaiGn is so thor r,,.,y distilled into lhe careful readers .,i that he wonders why the sun -,-s mi pause a: midday and make re .,.,-fnl obeisance to such achievement ', r,;r3 oysr matter, snd he mentally r,,.nrs. General Mics ID the sttIiude o, inc msn h ,liing the bag in the snipe hunt.
 aTb, Ap.cbe Problem is the subject o,s l,.y article contributed to the Oc .sba- Bymbsr oftha Jolrusl of the Mill fs-, s-rvl,s Institution of the United States bv GrorE Crook, in which hI: fine riss are plainly pictured. Of hi: op.raa ns sg4ins: the hostile Apsches he ssrs. -Is operating against them tht oniv Lope of success lies in using theil oxu methods. and with the above fact m y;ev. It mus, b. evI1ent that tC successfully operate against theu p.rIcal tribal disintegration mus take place and that portion of the trib' nus, be arEsysd against the other"
 l. VAS upon this "disInteSration' theory that the hostiles were permitted 60 muIier and pilsge pretty much a thsy cLoosa to do, under the very eye d, the troops, until the military force hsd become the subject of contemp win the people almost equal to that CT p,essei b. tbe savages. The weak ele meat in his theory is the fact that tn Apsens tribe does mt "1lSi-teErate 1gry readily when the life and prupeTt Otc white man IS the issue, and | amount of persuasion, threat or supel sutton can coerce them into active va fare with their own fathers, sons ( s-Others. They will engage 8s traileI s1i follow very faithfully the most Il ..s,iuct trail. but never in practice VI .asy fire B single shot with hostile IT .51t into the ranks of their wsywsT kusmen, but, on the contrary, the -se their presence to avoid A collision 90 saich they are eminently success tu-
 Gsneyal Miles adopted different ta tcs. Eli while he employed Apsch scouts they were not of the trloe on th wsrp.;h, and h;s short and dec.sive can psigu of only four months has estat ushed prscucal T, suits that hietlm ofuswzpsPer theory cannot upset. H not only su iugatri the Apacbes on th varpsth aUd accomplished tbe remov' ot t1eir tribes from our territory Tea, that w,s claimed to be impossi le- but L- demonstrated the fact that th Umtti States army Is superior to fo Ina: has deiiei II for years, and change c1Biem,t into lovs and pride io. on boys ID tlue, Rud taught the Indian lesson tha: will never be forgotte, There wss no "dis utesratIOn" RwaIteC bct sound judgment and stoli b-sy5ry sui endurance anticipate t-sse ravages of time and c.u-be oa, the demon, h the eyes of thos
 people Vho have witnessed the applies
 col Of the "di-iDtegrsiion" theory aD
 EloE ;he iull 3epth of its absufdity, D
 'lri IS needed ID defence of the COT
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 s.9l, attacks upon him are the penaltl,
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