Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-20
Misplaced Sympathy.
Silver Belt.

Dan NOOfneeS, the tall sycamore Of the Wabash" but better known as the late MT. Voorhees, since Mir. Ingalls, clipped his oratorical wings in the presence of the United States Senate, has again been heard from, in advocacy of more grub for the defiant Sioux. on their way to scalp unotfending whites. But unlike the Czar who wept for his starving brethren, Dan has not a word or tear for Indiana's hun- gry poor, which seems strange as he abOunds in natural gis. He Is rich in good words for the red-skinned Sioux. but not a word did he utter for the pro lection of pioneers within reach of the up- lifted scalping knives of the Indians
 If the Indians are starving, as alleged by Noorhees, how Is 1t that sqlaws re- tain sufficient strength to dig rifle pits, at various points where soldiers are ex- pected to appear. It cannot be said that all the Sioux widely separated, at Pine Ridge Agency, Lower Brule Agency, Rosebud Agency, Standing Rock Agency. and Yankton Agency are starving If so why are the Arickaree Gros Ventre, Mundane, Shoshone. Bannock, Sheepeal- CT, Neg Perces, Pend d Oreille, Kootenais, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Kiowa, Comanche, Wichita, Towaconie, Keechie and twenty other tribes which we can name, as rest less as the Sioux? Not on account of the want of food, but because of the pres ence of the buck who poses as the red mans Christ. The number of Indians which the Government 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 3d of December, for the first time, heard that the Sioux were short of rations, not that they were starving, which was three weeks after &C., counts of the religious craze first burden ed the telegraph wires with the intell- gence that they had been holding convent lcles and camp meetings for almost, If not quite, calendar month, and had given themselves up to the delusion that 1t was time to re-embrace barbarism in its wild- est form. The General believes that danger imminent. "The situation" he said '.has not been exaggerated. The trouble is more widespread than 1t has been at any time for years. The conspiracy extends to more different tribes that have hereto 1 fore been hostile but are now in full sym pathy with each other, and are scattered over larger area of country than in the whole history of Indian warfare. It a more comprehensive plot than anything ever inspired by the Prophet Tecumseh or even Potiac. The causes of this diff | ficulty are easy of location Insufficient food supplies, religious delusiou and tht innate disposition of the savages to gc to war must be held responsible.'
 In view of Miles utterance, is it no the part of prudence. wherever possible to disarm the Indians, thus practicall, rendering them harmless. The necessity for disarming Arizona Indians has al ready been suggested by Acting Gov ernor Murphy to the Secretary of tht Interior, but, so far as we are informed no step has been taken leading to tha result. Although there never was { good war or bad peace" nevertheless tt those surrounded by ruthless savages and who count the flight of time by heart rather that the pickets be relieved an6 d forward movement ordered. General Miles, on the 7th instant, said: No othel civilized country on the face of the eartl would tolerate so many thousands 0 armed savages scattered through differ ern States and Territories. Texas. west ern Kansas, North and South Dakota Utah, eastern Washington, Idaho, Ari zona and New Mexico are seriously inter ested in this subject. While the fire ma, be suppressed ill one place 1t will b' liable to break out at other places wher
 least expected under the present sys tenX
 And while the entire West Is thu
 threatened we have the humiliating fac that such man as Voorhees,, who hay no conception of the situation, advocat, that additional food be given to the al
 ready well fed malcontents, instead of sufficient increase of the army and arm , ing of citizens to enable them to cop with belligerent Indians. And as a evidence of the supineness of Congress