The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-05
THE MURDEROUs APACHEs.
Plain Language from White Arizonian as
to the Proper Mode of Fighting Them.

Plain Language from n White Arizonian as
to the Proper Mode of Fighting Them.
Tombstone Letter in New York Evening Post.
There is no reason why the Indians should not
60 on with this kind Of work for years They
are cunning enough not to attack trains or the
larger towns, will they attack a ranch in
open fight when there is danger to themselves.
1t is not warfare, but the work of wild beasts
with human heads and brains General Crooks
policy may have been right, but it failed at last,
perhaps by accident; he has been relieved and
General Miles put in command. LIZ the savageS
to be killed captured by troops, it is firmly
believed here that it can be done speedily, but
only by force large enough to guard ever pass
and water-course, and in constant and instant
communication by means of the heliograph sig
nal. 1t would certainly have been better year
ago to have sent ten thousand troops or enlisted
volunteers for special service in New Mexico and
Arizona, and have finished the matter in
month"; than to dawdle over it for year with
thousand troops. and accomplish nothing What
is there to show for 1t but the sacrifice of the
lives of hundreds of white men. hundreds of
thousands of dollars in direct loss, millions of
expense. and the dance of death still going ons
The Indians must have food and water as well
ammunition. 1t is idle to say that et-work
OF stations cannot be spread over the country,
inclosing all the passes they frequent, and which
are now we'll known thus starving them out or
hunting them out of their holes The ordinary
tactics of warfare must be thrown to the winds,
aud the savages caught and trapped as you
would rats. or wolves, or other vermin or beasts.
1t may require ten times the force now IN the
field, but what if it doesg Have the
people here no rights of life and prop
erty which the Nation guarantees to respect
and protect9 Let it be known that Cochise copn
ty alone contains population Of from 5000 to
10000 and its cattle interest is $3.50 900, valued
at $l2 head. The mining interest runs into
millions, but prospecting and development of
outlying mines have almost entirely ceased since
the Indian outbreak. The people are not liars
and cowboys, and rustlers-a few of that element
remain as ghosts of the past-but an intelligent,
thrifty. law-abiding community, mostly from the
East, who have suffered long and patiently in
the hope that this handful of savages would be
exterminated.
No sentimentalist nor genuine friend Of the
Indian need waste any sympathy on these rene
gade Apaches There is as much difference be-
tween Indians as there is between white men,
Geronimo and his band are to be classed with
Most, Schwab and Parsons. No better service
can be done the residue of the race of red men
than the determination of renegade Apaches
1t is one thing to acknowledge that the Indian
race has been most abominably treated; that be
ginning with the children, the red man can be
Christianized, civilized and converted into an
average American CITIZEN but it is quite another
thing to waste sickly sentimentalism over such
fiends as Geronimo and his braves