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Show will reanlt in greater skill in handling children, higher moral standards, and their efforts harmonize much better with the general pnrpose of educational institntions. The Indian service differsfmm other governmental m i o e i n that the employees are not so much the servants of the public, but have a yet higher duty to perform in that they mnst become the teachers, guardians, or foster parents of a different race whom it is desired to convert into self-sustaining individuals and preparefor membership in our body politic. The more perfect the inatmments, thequicker and more perfect will be the amalgamation. The final selection and perfecting of these instruments must of necessity rest largely with the field officers. Such per-sona should of course be chosen with the utmost care, and when their ability has been demonstrated they should be left as nearly unfettered as the good of the service will permit. Under such conditions the rule that the employee must prove and maintain his fitness for the work in hand can he applied and sustained. SEOIJLD iTOT TEE GOVERNMENPTR OVIDEIR RIGATION FOR INDIANS WHOSE HOMES ARE IN ARID ReaIonrs 7 [Sopt. 8. M. McCow*~, Phoenix Bohml, Arizona.] For the last few ye8rs the Pima tribe has sown seeds of wheat and corn and reaped harvests of blasted hopes and hungry ache8 and pains. The are fa~thful toilers. They ar? up with the sun?nd the going down thereof 5nds tKem afieldand st work. In their daysof pro~pentyth ey cleared large fields of brnsh and leveled them. They fenced the fields with barbed-wire fences and planted trees and graases. Andafter the boys and girlareturned from school-for these people were eager for knowledge-they built comfortable homes of adobe brick, divided the housas into rooms for eating and sleeping, papered the walls with pictures from Rarper's and Leslie's, Judge and Puck, a variedand wonderfulassortment. They dug wells close to their homes, so the women need not go so far for water. They bought wagons with their savings, and cows and labor-saving implements. Many homes had tables and chairs and dishesand sewing machines, and a fewpossessed organs. It seems to me they were progressing about as rapidly as they could. It appears they were rapidly oonquenng environment and triumphing over so erstition. It seems grand to me, incomparably nand, to see them groping blingy yet unerr-ingly along the road to better things. An ancient people were once grievously tormented. Plague after plague visited them until they were sore distressed. Bnt if onr Pima brothers would speak I think they would say: "We will very gladly swap our one plague for your seven. We will take yonr plague of locusts, of disease, of sores, and give you our plague of white men." I know not how the red man feels-it may be altogether different with him-hutwhen the white mansowshe expectsto reap. When he toile heexpectareward in profits. And I know something of how he feelawhen the hot days come; when he steps from his doorway each morning and scans with eager eyes the ever-blue sky, seeking for the rain clonds thabnever appear. 84 the long summer days drag by and the desert quivers in the awful heat and the merciless winds smite the trees and grass and death broods joyfully over it all, the handsome tanned face grows heavy and wrinkled and sad and there comes an awful ache in his heart and a pitiful stoop to his stalwart frame and the world for him goes wrong. The red man may enjoy all this sort of trouble and wrong, but the white man does not bow so meekly. He does not think it right that another man should go above him and purloin the waters he had already preempted and owned. It may be-it seemsvery often as though there were-one law for the white man and another for the red man, but this supposition is entirely at variance with a certain divine injunction that says: Do unto others as you would be done by. Now, I want it distinctly uuderstoodthat I am not a worshiper of the Indian nor a devotee before this picturesque idol in bronze. I do not believe that he was immacnlately conceived nor divinely anointed. I do not believe that he was or is the favored of the Deity, nor that theaccident of his birth in the Western Con-tinent gave him the right of absolute preemption of the entire homisphare. I regard him as a composition of very common human clay. The ideal red man vanished with the last of the Mohicans, and had his cradle and grave in the fertile imagination of the renowned novelist. The Indian of our day-of any day-is but a grown child, full of moods and whims, of bitter and sweet, of frowns and smiles. Unlimited quantities of sympathy have been wasted and oceans of tears been shed o'er the Indians' fate, but I want to tell you that sympathy and team aeldom |