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Show REPORT OF THE CONMISSIOFER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 97 ; 1 assistant industrial iexcher. $120 1 matron. .................... 480 1 industrial teacher .......... 6W 1 matron. .................... 360 2 industrial teaobem, at $1.30.. 360 1 assistant matron at . . ....... 300 ll&undress .................... 420 1 cook ....................... 300 2 laundrassea, at $400.. ....... 800 1 cook ....................... 240 3 laundresses, at $300. ........ 900 Sjanitors, at $180 ............ 1,620 1 laundreaa .................. 260 2 janitors, at 5300 ............ 600 4launtIresses, at $240. ........ 960 4 assistant laundresses, st $240 960 1l aundress .................... 200 4 assistant l&~indreaaeas,t $180 720 1 laundress .................. 4 assistant laundresses, at $150 600 . ....... seamtmsse, ,,,. 12 assistant laundresses, at $120 1,440 3 seamstresses, at $.SO0 ........ - ' 2 seruuatresses, at $290.. ...... 680 62,878 A~erage, $145.65 per annnm. Amoont expended for irregular Indian labor ...............................- 37, MM Total ............................................................... 99,878 From a comparison of the two tables herewith cited, it will be seen that nearly 2,000 Indians-receive regular stated wages from the Gov-ernment for services performed, and that, including those employed irregularly, an aggregate sum of $397,818 is paid out for Indian labor. While, of course, this does not furuish employment for the whole body of indim young men ilnd young women who would be glad to have it, it certainly makes such au exhibit as to show that there- is no justice in a criticism sometimes made against the Qovernment that it has no care for the Indians, and it ought to silence any complaint made by the Iudiails themselves that they are discriminated against in Gov-ernment employment. It should be remembered also, in this connection, tbat hundreds of Indian pupils at the C d i l e school are, by the outing. system in op&- ation there, dorded an opportunity of earning wages by working among the white people. The aame system is now beginning to be operative at Haskell, Genoa, Carson, and elsewhere in the western schools, and I think the day is not far distant when the door will thus be open for multitudes of these yonng people to find not only temporary but per-manent employment among civilised wmmunities. It would be certainly unfortunate for the Indians themselves if the impression should obtain in their minds that they have a right to demand of the Government that it shall employ them at remunerative wages, especially after it has already educated them to such an extent as to prepare them to earn wages for themselves independently. The idea should be inculcated in their minds with great persisbency that they must not only depend upon their own labor for a living but that they must find opportunities for work for themselves, and that they must be governed as other people are by the one great law that if they . wish work they must go where work is needed. They must not expect that the Government will bring work to them but they tunst go into those oommmities where there is s demand for the kind of labor wbich they are prepared to furnish. 8397 1 11-7 |