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Show 444 REPORT OF BUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN 80HOOLB. has grain or stock to sell, or skill in the occnpations mentioned, will not be apt to want for bread. I offer just one incident in illustration of my position. It is an axiom of Carlisle School that every pupil must have some practice in &cult+ pursuits. This is obtained in part on the school farms, but mainly under the outmg system. A boy who had been several yearaat school returned to his home. His fatherand neighbors had bou ht a self-bmding rea er The agent was to come on a certain day and set the rnac%ine up and show thePnbians how to work it. Re did not come. The boy, havin used a slmilar machine during his school life at Carlisle, put this one together ani cut the cro The agent came and aaked who had done the work. The Indian told him his son%ad set up the reaper and started it. "Well," said the agent, "I am paying men $4 a day for just that work and would as soon pay your son as anybody." Let ns, therefore, give the chief place in our Indian schools to those p d t s which will give to the many the manual skill and ability needed for self-mpport, which will be in about the proportion of 99 manual workers to 1 lawyer or doctor. It requires no gift of prophecy to foretell that if such a policy in Indian education be adopted and continued, combined with the Carlisle outing system, the day would not be far distant when the Government could just1 eay to the Indian, "You areno longer incompetents; you are able; you are ski~e%y;o n have the op ortunity; henceforth make your own living; take care of yourselves; the duties of national pardianshi have been performed; suehare is no longer necesssry for you; you are c~tieensof tRe Republic; enjoy our liberty, your homes, your property; vote; hold oEice; do your best, and Uncle gam will be proud of his red children." THE INDIAN PROBLEM. [ ~ rH.. B. F B ~ E L L , a mpt ton or ma end Agricultural Institute, virginia.] I realize that in speaking to thr audience ~athcred here I a" addreasingmany who k ~ ~ omwuc h n.ore of r1.c Jndisn problem rlian 1 do; men aud womvn who llaru devotud their lirm to i r r auluriun. whose dailv contact with tllc rnl njan in his own home has given them opportunities of underitanding him and his needs such as are not possible to us tenderfeet who live at a distance and gain much of our knowledge at secondhand or from occasioual visits to the Indians' home; and yet there me some advantages in viewing objects at a distance. Those of us who have to do with E&ern schools are watching aith sympathetic interest the work which the great body of Western Indian workers are accomplishing, realizing to some extent the eat difficulties under which you labor, rejoicing in your successes, and modestly grming opinions as to the things that need still to be done before our brethren in red shall attain to the full stature of American citizenship. Allow me to thank vou snr l uur ~npc~Wnrm,lcn<t, f lnclixn scllur,lo ior the c>pljonllnityu f saying a irw \rc;nln to on on TI.,. pn,hlrru, t ~r,h t. .solori<mo i a l l i v l ~n .xny oi yon have iven sour live+. i'aln mdrrilll. tor,. iur rhr nri\.iles,. bi ~ ~ ~ a kI i i!hl i$~ urul ~ierth efort? 3.h audience comvoszd lareeiy of Bouthe& menknd women who are stru&ling with the meatest race'pn,blem i.hirh this or any cllnntry ha3 had 18, urrrt, iorwhile rhr Tndikn and uegro pn~l~lemnnrercorynl ike, yrt they hnec many thinkpin cou>u.on. Then'eateru rrrrrvatitlu n-euthlci to ROULH rxtrut rht. S, utlsenr ulnntari<ru. and I 1,elirrr ttat those of us who have to do with the education and c6ilization bf Indians can learn mauy tltiuy* irom the dealium <rJr St,utlrt.rn irirnde with the plaubtiou uyn,. \i'bilznr all rejuice in tllr fag.1 that tilarrr\.i.ia tl>ircgof the past, yrt I Gml? hrlikve thar under the U O P ~ fnvorahle condirinn~i t \vas a U ~ U lCnlo~re 6!1(.~emfn1~l 8houlf or the trainina of a barbamus race than is the reservation. Slaverv broueht the colored wan inru <:i;,.+ a.mta<ra .itll hi* wllitr hndher, trainir~gh im in ila1,itri.i nurk,giviny Iliut n knoa l~i<rr, i the wlrite ~ual.'sI nugu r and rcl iy~~~Xu.v ver, I believe, i n the lri>turvo i clviliration ha* a great uta49 ni%arlxtrous 1)t,.)1)1sed vnu$*d PO mr,:dIv as have tge blacks on this contiEent in the last three hGdrid veam. On almdst ail the Southern plantarions and in the cities aka, nwro n~rchanikw ere bred, ns \yell as excellent blncksmiths, g ~ o dm rpenrers, and holljd,llildt'~c apabli, of i'xec!!~lrlg blans oi hich ar:hitectural inerit. The necro ww ta~tel~tot work. tu be an aznrnl- &st, a m&hauic, a material producer of iomethine Geful. u \Ye can I>ardlgr lniw h t~l t6 . ~ 1 1f~ro m our rcrcri.xriorl system. It 8eparsfrJ the Indian it.ot~t tllc white ~rrnu; it pauperires him by civing him mrions, rind while of late seam i!~srrut~tit,liln a~~icul tuarnrd induelliaI ~111suilh3 a b e(." riven. vet We havibeen slow to realizeYthat the ov-p ortunitv a n 8 disposition to la& m&e the basis of all our civilization. |