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Show I I REPORT O F THE C O ~ ~ S S ~ OOFN iEiw~ i f i A F B ~ S . 7 . Of course this poky carries with it, of necessity, the destruction of the whole agency system and the abolition of the issuance of rations and supplies, After the Indians shall have become citizeus it is cx-pected that. they will receive from the Government in cash whatever may be due them, and they will then necessarily depend npon their own intelligence for the expenditure of their own receipts. There are evils and anomalies connected with the agency system - wbieh can not, by any possible care in its administration, be entirely obviated, and which will disappear only with its disappearance. The transition period, however, in which the Indians are passi& from the a.gency system out into full-fledged citizenship is one of more or less peril to them, and they should be protected so far as possible from any unnecessary disadvantages which may accrue to them by too great haste in making the change. The agency system is doomed, and must , go, and that speedily. The great work of the Indian Bureau at present is to hasten the tiiewhen its labors shall be completed, and when it shall'cease to exist as a part of the machinery of the Government. I am strongly of the opinion, and the conviction grows upon me. from year to year, that it will he an act of uuwisdom bordering upon crnelty to thrust citizenship npon the Indians before they me prepared for it, and to fail to make proper provision for the training of the rising generation for the new duties that must wme upon them. The neces-sity for education for the' younger Indians, is intensified by the immi. neuce of citizenship. What has been done in this direction and the suggestions which I have to make regarding the subject of education . -. will be considered in a later part of this report. Oitizeuship is simply opportuniQ. To confer upon an uneducated - Indian, ignorant of thg English language and nnaccustomed to . - American ways, the full privileges of liberty does not necessarily carry ' ' with it any advantage to hh. It does not change his nature; confers upon him no new faculties; docsnot increase his intelligence; doesnot ' necessarily awaken any new desires, and may be practically a mockery. Where an individual wishes to become a citizen, and is eager for the advantages that citizenship brings with it, and has sufficient intelli-gence to adapt himself to his changed relations and to avail himself of his new privileges, as well as to perform satisfactorily his new duties, , citizenship means very much. There are already among us tens of thousands of foreigners who have been naturalized and made citizeus by the operationof the courts, who are in no sense qualified for their important dntiw, but who, on the contrary, are an element of weakness, ! if not of peril, to the country. It certainly is not desirable to add to this class of citizens any considerable number of blanket Indians who are made citizens only in name and not in fact. f appreciate thit where an Indian, by virtue of his citizenship, he-wmes a voter he has a significance in the eye of the vote-getter, and bkomes an object of solicitude to a l l who desire his snffrage in the |