Arizona silver belt., 1890-12-13
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 clipped his oratorical wings in the pres ence of the United States Senate, has again been heard from, in advocacy of more grub for the defiant Sioux, on
 their way to scalp unohending whites.
 But unlike Caesar who wept for his starving brethren, Dan has not a word or tear for Indiana's hungry poor, which seems strange as he abounds in natural gas. He is rich in good words for the red-skinned Sioux, but not @ word did he utter for the protection of pioneers within reach of the upGfted seaping knives of the Indians.
 If the Indians are starving, as al- leged by Voorhees,, how is it that squaws retain sufficient strength to dig rifle pits, at various points where sol thers are expected to appear. It can not be said that all the Sioux, widely separated, at Pine Ridge Agency, Low CT Brule Agency, Rosebud Agency, Sisseton Agency, Standing Rock Agen- cy and iankton Agency are starving. If so, why are the Arickaree, Gros Ventre, Mundane, Shoshone, Bannock. Sheepealer, Neg Perces, Pend d d'oreille, Kootenais, Cheyenne, Arappahoe, Kio- wa, Comanche, Wichita, Towaoonie. Keechie and twenty other tribes which We can name, as restless as the Sioux? Not On account of the want of food, but because of the presence of the buck who poses as the red mans Christ. The number of Indians which the Gov ernment is now feeding and clothing is not less than 270, ,000, and We venture to say not one of them goes to bed hungry
 General Miles, on the Sd of Decem- Der, for the first time, heard that the Sioux were short of rations (not that they were starying) which was three weeks after accounts of the religious craze first burdened the telegraph wires with the intelligence that they had been holding conventicles and camp meet ings for almost if not quite, calendar month, and had given themselves up to the delusion that 1t was time to re-em- brace barbarism in its widest form. The General believes that danger is imminent. 'The situation" he said, ''has not been exaggerated. The trouble is more widespread than it has been at any time for years. The con- spiracy extends to more different tribes that have heretofore been hostile but that are now in full sympathy with each other, and are scattered over larger area of country than in the whole his tory of Indian warfare. It is a more comprehensive plot than anything ever inspired by the Prophet Tecumseh or even Pontiac. The causes of this diff ficulty are easy of location. Insufficient food supplies, religious delusion and the innate disposition of the savages to 1 go to war must be held responsible
 h view of Miles utterance, is it not the part of ftudence, wherever possi- i ble, to disarm the Indians, thus prac- i tically rendering them harmless, The necessity for disarming Arizona Indians has already been suggested by Acting Governor Murphy to the Secretary of the Interior, but, so far as We are in- formed, no step has been taken leading to that result. Although 'there never was 6 good war or a bad peace, never theless to those surrounded by ruthless sayages and who count the flight of time by heart beats, to end the sus- pense, they would rather that the pick cts be relieved and forward movement | ordered General Miles, on the 7th . instant, said: "No other civilized coun- try on the face of the earth would tol- crate so many thousands of armed say ages scattered through different States and Territories. Texas, western Kan sas, North and South Dakota, Utah, | eastern Washington, Idaho, Arizona and New Mexico are seriously inter- ested in this subject. While the fire may be suppressed in one place it will be liable to break out at other places where least expected under the present system"
 And while the entire West is thus We have the humiliating fact that such men as Voorhees,, who have no conception of the situation, advocate that additional food be given to the already well fed malcontents, instead of a sufficient increase of the army and arming of citizens to enable them to cope with beligerent Indians. And as an evidence of the supineness of Con- gress in supplying the means of de- fense we are presented with the melan- choly fact of abandoned homes, men, and children, amid the snow and roystering winds, fleeing through q mist of tears, to places of safety which they may never reach
 When Sitting Bull and his lieufenants l. ! | l. |