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Show 110 REPORT OF THE COMMISBIONER OF IXDIAN AFFAIXS. Erect,ing and furnishing hoarding-school buildings.. ............ Ereoting and furnishing day-sahool buildings.. .................. Repairs and irnprovelnents on present buildings ................ Add'itiond focniture, apparatus, stock, tools, and implements ... Snpporting 7,659 basrdillg seholilra ............................. Supporting 2,958 day soholsm .................................. Transportation of pupils ............... : ....................... Superintendence ............................................... 2,283,660 CONTRACT 8CEI00L8. Allowances for 1889-'90 (4,622 boarding pupils, 895 day pupils).. $561,950 To house and support in Governrnont schools next rear, pupils now at t ehdin~th oae who018 plos one-fourlh of the youth not now provided for in Government schools (plua ellawsuoe for oontract soboola, 188%'9O) would cost.. ....................... 2,845, 610 Appropriations for Indian schools for fiscal year 18a9'90.. ...... 1,364,568 Iucresaed appropri&onrequired fornupport of schools, 1890-191. 1,481,042 . The total appropriations required for the year 1890-'91, as shown by Table 5, is estimated as $2,845,610. When comparing the cost of educating Indians by the Government. with the cost of common-school education as carried on by the Sta,tes, it should be borne in mind that from the nature of the case the Gov-ernment plan i~~cludtehse very considerable items of hoard, clothing, transportation, and industrial training. The achool expenses proper, exclusive of hoard, clothing, transportation, and industrial work, will probably not exoeed the average cost of like work. in the public schools. To offset the cost it should be remembered that the Gov- . ' ernment already provides for clothing and rations for a large number of Indians, and that it costs no more to clothe and feed the young in school than in camp, except that they are better fed and clothed in school than in camp. It should also be remembered that the Government is under positive *treaty obligations with alarge body of Indians to fnrnish them suitable education. It is still fnrther significant that the Indians are now show-ing a disposition to take their land8 in severalty, to dispose of the sur-pins lands fora fair consideration, and to invest a very considerable. portion of the proceeds of the sales thereof in education; so that a very large proportion of the cost of Indian education adminiatered by the Government will be borne willingly and cheerfully by the Indians themselves and not by the people of the United States. But even if the people of the United States were to assume the whole burden of Indian education, it Gould be a burden very easily borne, and would be |
