Arizona republican., 1902-10-27
THE M'D0WELL TROUBLE
The Washington Post Takes Notice of
 the Controversy.

The Washington Post, enc of whose editors is a mixed humorist and satir- ist, thus takes cCgnizance of the strain ed relations existing at Fort Mcdowell and involves Justice Burnett of Phoe- nix:
 It pains us more than we can say to hear that the settlers in the neighbor- hood or Mcdowell. Ariz., are alarmed. On purely philosophical grounds we all ways treUble over announcements of this description. We scOrn the hypO- critical pretense of maudlin affection for the Indians, especially the Apaches. It is al old story, of cOurse-this ala m on the part of the settlers andAhe sub seqUent mortality among the Indians who caused it. What we wish to say is that we deeply regret the terror which now racks the honest. painstaK- ing, and industrious settlers near Me DCwcu Ariz. Something tells us that the Indian population of that neighbor- hood will be reduced before long and that much portable property will change hands. When Indians so far forget themselves as to frighten the bashful and ttmid settler" in their vicinity they must expect to paIt with much that they hold dear.
 The situation will perhaps reveal it. self more clearly to those who examine the following press report:
 Phoenix, Ariz. October 13.-NOt- withstardi1g dispatches from Wash ington that the Indian bureau has no fear of an Apache uprising at McDCw- cIl the alarm Cf the settlers has net decreased. J. M. Burnett, a justice of the peace has made a tour of this set clement and taken afidavits Of settlers relative to the history of the Indians and the threats they have made.
 "There are @yG of them and they are camped on lands that could not be farmed even if they had irrigation wa ter. though they claim they are to be- come farmers. Their only resource is making baskets to sell. When refused loans of money or fCod they make threats of violence"
 We can See the yirtuous and worthy Burnett making his tour Of the settle ment and charming from their retreats the alarmed and IouE-sT@ering settlers. Those tlieViEg IndiaIs-hCw we'll We knew them: Why, if the settlers didn't t take everything in sight. the Indians would loot whole regions in their wick edneSS. Now. as the press report shows, they contemplate some special infamy. They are frightening the set tiers so that the latter have oiled their guns and saddIed their horses. and are ready to kill every Indian in sight rather than endure the terror any long CT. A few more days of Apache inso- lence and the settlers, in their fright. will fall up Cn them and appropriate the last vestige Of their property. And why not? Are these peaceful, bucolic shepherds of ours to be paralyzed with alarm by the unprincipled and desper- ate Apache who occupy their own res crvation in defiance of all reason and propriety? Shall these miserable sav- ages be permitted to swagEer about up- on land that belongs to them and in timidate with their frowns and scowls honest philanthropists like Squire Bur nett who want to bounce them for their own good2
 Perish the thought! The Indian has been moved on fer three hundred years CT mere. He hasn't any rights worth mentioning. Shall the unctuous Bur nett and the shivering settlers be aban- dCncd at this crisis? Shall We leave the Apaches in possession of the terri tory which is manifcstly unsuited to them and which they don't know what