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Show REPORT OF TEE CO?dMI$SfONER OF INDIm ABE'PAIRS. 7 manual labor, as all snch people must be, it was necessary that they should be placed upon these reservations, not for the purpose of form-ing or re-forming the gnarled and knotted oharacter of the old Indian seasoned by generations of warfare and antagonism, but to prevent him from interfering while the Government could secure the necessary time to mold the individualism of his children Lnder the enlightened influence of schools established for their benefit. When this result has been accomplished the necessity for Indian reservations will cease. It is therefore essential that the education of the present generation of youug Indians shall be along this line, which will prepare them to take and properly appreciate their share of the common land belonging to themselves and pareuta when the same is allotted in severalty. This being the goal, the danger in the system. lies in its being delayed too long. While it is true the best and most permanent results are only looked for from the education of the young, yet the older ones can not be neglected, so the gospel of work is preached to parents as well as to their children. The purpose of 'many large noureservation schools, snch as Carlisle, Phaenix, Haskell, and others, is through the outing system to train the boys in farming, stock raising, and other kindred industries, while the girls receive practical instruction in dairying, cooking, housewifery, etc., in order that they may find permanent homes among farmers and others in civilized communities. Where remunerative positiona can be obtained iu such places the authorities of the school otfer every induce-ment to these bright boys and girls to remain away from the reser-vation and make their homes where they will be surrounded by the comforts and enjoyments of the life which they should lead. If t.hey persist, however, in desiring to return to their old homes, or it seems impossible to secure permanent employment, the training which they have received among these honest farmers and at the firesides of rural homes will be of inestimable benefit when they get hack among their own people. The entire educational ssystem of tbe Indian Office is thereforepredi-cated upon the final abolishment of the anomalous Indian reservatiou system. Wherever there is a small Indian reservation with scanty population an effort is made to combine its business and educational features under the saperinteudent of the school located on the same. Congress in 1894 recoguized the benefits accruing to the Indians by coordiuatiug these features of the reservation by providing in each appropriation act since that time- That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with the approval oaf the Secretary of the Interior, may devolve the duties of any Indian agency upon the superintendent of the Indian training soh001 loosted at such agenoy, whenever in his judgment snoh superintendent oan properly perform the duties of such agency. And the soperintendent npon nhom sooh dutiee devolve shall give bond ae other Indian agents. |