Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-06-28
Reservation Indians.
TTuesou Citizen

There Is but one method of success l fully keeping Indians on their reser- ! vation, and that is to treat them as hostles when found of. They should not be allowed to roam at will While depredations are being comsa4ted, as at present, and reserva -Jn Indians are armed and given passes to roam whenever and wherever they please, the citizens should hold them re- sponsible for their criminal acts, and treat them as outlaws when found outside their own reservation bound aries. It ia a well known fact that reservation Apaches have repeatedly gone out and committed both theft and murder, and then been allowed to return to their reserves to enjoy gov ernment food, clothing, and protec- tlon at the hands of our own troops. We do not assert that the troops are affordiug protection to Indian crlml- nals to o-dav. but there was time when the reservation was nothing more than an aid t0 Indian depredalons--a screen, as it were, under which they could crawl when danger menaced them at the hands of inIuriated and outraged civilians. It Is because of these well authenticated facts that Arizona cannot approve of the prevail ing reservation system. What Is the use of & reservation at all unless the Indians are kept upon it? Il they are allowed to roam at will, menaclng the lives of settlers, using the reservation as a sallying point from whence they can draw supplies, ammunition and arms-would it not be better to turn I them all loose at once, and let the set l tiers of this territory be informed of ] that fact, instead of having the red devils sneaking around isolated homes and shooting down unarmed settlers: i Our people care little for the size of ! the reservatiotis- or for the undesery- ed good treatment shown the Indian i compared to that exhibited to them ! selves, but they do care and 1t is not i in the human composition not to care, j for that generous and lax system ot infringement which makes every re- ! serve a secure and well-provlsioned | home for those who rob and murder them. This is what prevents har- m0ny between the citizens and those in charge of the notwithstanding else. The whole matter of difference rests upon the Indians liberty to roam when and where they please
 This it would seem they can do now
 Let the proposition be made known t6 the citizens and Indians that all of tht latter found off the reservation shal be treated IS hostile at the bands o
 the former and we will guaranteC roaming Indians, will be curse 0
 the past. Can any fair man object t(
 the foregoing conditions to secure th1
 harmony of the citizens which afford ! every possible facility for ciyihzing tht
 Indians by government or pmian
 thropic men? Can any man not ai
 enemy 10 law abiding, seli-sustainlnj
 citizens object to these conditions I Will any inst man insist that al
 rights of person and property b
 guaranteed the Indian and publi
 money be expended to supply all hi
 bodily wants, and at the same tim
 deny 10 the tOiling, selfsustalnlng law 4Ulullg C1Li1ell. SStd44tt Ill '-i -
 persons and property? Ii not, the1
 harmony of action on the yexed IT.
 dian question, can soon be secure between the fcontiersman and pro
 fessional and practical philanthropist! We are not Indian alarmists an neger were, bat there are thirty rene ;, ga3e Indians off the reservation. The make hea5qparters in the Sierr
 Madres and then foray into Arizout
 Those coming this way occasionall
 kill stock, bpt SO far as known thel
 has been no killing since the ahootir = of Hardie in the Hauchucas, 4 wee
 since small squad was seen at tt
 head of Temporal Gulch, above Cri tenden, where they killed two beeve
 but did no further damage. They we a followed hy +czops under Lieu Y Brmnard, but as the trail led direct
 into Mexico, they were obliged to T l turn without anything. From diie
 ent sections ofthe country word com | in of small parties having been see IF but as they travel lightly it is impoai t ble to capture them.