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Show \ 8. REPORT OF THE CO~M~SBIONEORF INDIAN AFFAIRS. lation has been tentative and administration htful. Mans things have been attempted, but few have beenaccomplished. Now that there is coming to be a pretty well recognized and rational policy, it should be carried into execution with as much vigor as is practicable, to the end that the results anticipat~dfr om it may be reached as speedily as pos-sible. If the policy of allotting lands is conceded to be wise, then it should be applied at an early day to all alike wherever. the circumstances will warrant. If we have settledupon the breaking upof thetribalrelations, the extinguishment of the Indian titles tosurplus lands,.and the restora-tion of the unneeded surplus to the public domain, let it be done thor-oughly. If reservations have proven to be inadequate for the par-poses for which they were designed, have shown themselves a hindrance to the progress of the Iadian as well as an obstruction in the pathway of oivilization, let the reservations, as speedily as wisdom dictates, be utterly destroyed and entirely swept away. Xf we purpose to educate Indian children let us educate all of them. ThB reasons that determine us to educate the few apply with increasing force to the education of the many. If we look to the schools as one of the chief factors of the great transformation that is being wrought, why not at once establish enough to embrace the entire body of availa-ble Indian youth, and thus not only hasten but render doubly sure their good work. "Wake haste slowly "does not seem to apply here. There is now a widespread demand for education among the Indians; .it has become comparatively easy to secure the atteudauce of their children, and the work of education has proceeded so far as to establish beyond question the advisability of educsting them to self.supyort, so that there would seem to be no good reason why the system of education that has been, since 1876, gathering force and strength, should not at once be so far extended s to be entirely adequate for the end in view. If this were done, and 4 3 ere could be gathered by the eild of 1893,into well-manned and suitably equipped schools nearly all of the Iudianchildren, and they could be kept there for 10 years, the work mould be snbstgn-tially accomplished; for within those 10 yeara there would grow up a generation of English-speaking Indians, accustomed to the ways of' civilized life, and sufficiently intelligent and strong to forever after be the dominatit foroe among them. (9) Sfabi1ity.-~aviu~ determined upon a policy, we should regard it as permanent until its work ia aouomplished. Whatever lawsare to be passed should be framed with reference to the perfecting and not the es-sential modification of the plan. All acts of administration should be withreference to its success. Ageuts.shonld be selected, employds ap- -poiuted,regulations framed, and ordera given with a single eye to the speediest and most complete carrying out of the purpose of the Oovern-ment as formulated. The day of experiment should be ended. Oon-siatency in legislation, uniformity in administration, permanence of the tenure of office based upon/iutelligent comprehension of the work to be/ |