The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-10-12
A WORD FOR THE APACHE.
An Indian Fighter Talks Freely About Uu.
Gle Sans Indian Policy.

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ALBUQUERQUE, n NJ, July 24-The be-
lief is general that the invariable army
opinion of the red man is that the only
good Indian is a dead one. But | have
talked with many army officers who re-
pudiate that sentiment quite as emphatic
ally as would member Of the Indian
Rights association. And the other day
saw one who had q passably good word
even for the Apache He knows what he
is talking about, too, for he has warred
with the Indians all over the west and the
southwest aud taken part in an Apache
campaign He is a captain in the Tenth
infantry.
He said: "Why, even the Apache isn't
such a bad sort of an Indian as he is usual
ly made out. There is much to be said in
his favor A bloodtbirsty hend? Oh, ]
know that is the way he is generally de
scrbed. But go around among the
Apaches after campaign and talk with
them and find out their opinion of the
bloodthirstiness of the United States sol
diery, and perhaps it will dawn upon you
that there are two sides to that question.
"The Apache does as he has been done by,
with as much interest added as his ingenu-
ity can invent. The law of revenge is the
prime rule of his life, and if any person does
him an injury that person must be made to
suffer for it, Well, there are plenty Of civil
ized, churchgoing white people who take
that same view of things and whose actions
are based on that same principle. They
| fight with different weapons, that is all.
| Now, the Apache reckons among his enc
mics all white people, and the United States
army in particular And considering the
| policy that the army and the conquering
race in every way have pursued against him
| from the start / reckon he is about right.
! Consequently his most ardent desire is to
| down them, singly or collectively, when
| ever he gets the chance If that principle
| existed solely among the Apaches, we OF
the Caucasian race might carry on our at
| tempts at determination with a good deal
| better grace.
Notwithstanding his grievances the
Apache isn't apt to 90 on the warpath un
less he thinks he has received some new
and particular injury or has got drunk
on tiswin. It's usually the tiswin that
starts him off OF course it, very naughty
of him to drink tiswin, and he ought not t,
do it. But the meekest man that eve
| lived, white, red, brown or black, coulC
not drink tiswin without being turne,
| from timid lamb into a roaring lion will
| an overwhelming desire to 60 out and devOu
somebody, 1t has got more concentrates
essence of iniquity in it than any other liq
uor that man ever invented. Get the New
York Lotus club down to a tiswin feast OF
empty stomachs-the Apache fasts for tw
days when he is preparing for atiswn drum
and they would need a detachment O
United States troops to take care Of then
before they got through.
1.-THE first duty of the troops in tn
Apache country is to look out for signs q
tiswin and break up as quickly as possibl
every attempt to brew the stuff
1.-THE Apache isn't so very different a
bottom from other men after all. OF cours
he doesn't like to work, but can any re,
sonable man blame him for that2
do l believe in the governments polio
toward the Indian tribes? It's not m
place to criticise the governments polio
toward the Indians. It's my duty to q
out and fight 'em, and l do so to the bes
of my abilities whenever / have to. But
do believe that if the government were {
collect all the Indians in the United State
and board them at full rates at the Fift
Avenue hotel and furnish them with poke
money in the bargain it wouldn't cost an
more than does the present way of takin
care of them"
FLORENCE FINCH KELLEY.