The Parker post., 1912-08-31
WANT NO MORE
BAD INDIANS
SENATOR MARK SMITH MADE
STRONG FIGHT IN SENATE TO
PREVENT BRINGING OF GERON-
IMO'S BAND BACK TO ARIZONA.

PREVENT BRINGING OF GERON-
IMo's BAND BACK TO ARIZONA.
The activity and resource of Sena-
tor Mark A. Smith is we'll shown lin
his fight against the conference re-
port agreeing that the Apache Indi-
ans now stationed at Fort Sill, Okla,
should be turned loose i'm New Mex
icO and Arizona. Senator Smith and
Senator Fall of New Mexico led the
resolution and the report was reject
ed by the senate
The senators from the states of
New Mexico and Arizona were all
i'm the two states when the marauding
Apaches were making life miserable
for the white settlers i'm Arizona
and New Mexico. They do not wish
to imflct amy UNJUST Legislation upon
the Indians but they do not wish ito
have THE remnants of the Geronimo
band back in their Businesses.
| Senator Smith ably stated the
situation before the senate when he
said that:
eve had all the experience we
want with Geronimos band of Apa
che Indians 1t is a mistaken phi
lanthropy to send them back. AS
the Senator from New Mexico (Mr
Catron) who has just preceded me
has we'll said, you would send them
back without an occupation. For the
twenty six years since Geronimo was
captured up until now we have had mo
INDIAN troubles. We had these trOub
les ALL the time until these Indians
were sent away. I'm that twenty- six
years the Indian i'm Arizona has de-
velOped beyond our expectation. If
these Indians, remembering only the
warpath; remembering only blood,
trespaSs murder and rapine of the
EARLIER days, are to be sent back
among Indians i'm Arizona who have
lived in peace with the white man
for twenty years, who are picking
up the practices of industry, who are
beginning to farm, who are working
for themselves and doing better and
| for oh nf
THAT those who are to return ever
knew or Thought, or dreamed
eff you send the young ones back
-4twenty7six years have elapsed
what cam they do amid surroundings
unknown to them? Send the old
ones back and you have nothing ex-
cept the unrest, trouble, and danger
as has already been predicted by the
Senator from New Mexico. AS GER
tain as he goes on the Arizona Indi-
am reservation with NO land he be-
gins at once to stir aIp thequiescent
Apache with the same spirit that
animated Geronimo, and you will find
nothing but trouble from it. AS sure
as you do lit you are going to precdp-
itate ON the people more Indian troub-
les, of which they have already
borne too much.
81 have as much sympathy for
the children of these Indians as amy
senator ON this floor, but l have a
larger and more intense sympathy
with the children of the men whom
they have murdered. I can look
back for almost thirty years-with
out attempting to draw amy picture
of distress there arises before me
the mutilated forms of many OF my
best friends, killed when pursuing
their peaceful avocations more than
hundred miles from amy Indian
reservation; women and children tor
tured to death i'm mere wantomness.
The men went everywhere with
arms never dreaming of driving
twenty miles without a Winchester.
That was the condition when Ger
onimo and his band were removed.
And now it is proposed to invite
there body of Indians with the
same spirit that Geronimo had then,
bringing back to them the sense OF
their capture, if you please, and the
degredation of their submission. 1t
means nothing but disturbance; ut
means nothing burt disaster; 1t
means nothing but somebody getting
l1illed when you return this band to
Arizona.
eve go now anywhere on the
plains and ON the Indian reservation
lunarmed. | for one, with this gang
back there, would not go wlthm
twenty miles of an Indian reserva-