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Show 474 REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. I*. F. F. AWRY. Snperintendent of Port Spohne Basuding 8abml. !dam, Wash.] The arguments in favor of the propasition are plain and simple. Permanent location and ownership of a home are hrlpful to most of us, and especially holpfol to the indivi<li~awl ho is constimtionsll~in clined to roam. nnd vetosrticularlv Iudiin bop has. It is located where he ia familiar with generai renditions. F&- tonatbly it i* r~laof, or a lime, inalienable. 1 thoronahlv bclieva that the averwe Indian bov should beeducated andencoor- ~~~~~ ~~ ~ aged to cuitivite his xlL,tmcut. Ilnithrs marely"followafrom a belief that it was a wim and beneticent thlug to give him an allotment uuil to make it, for a term of years, inalienable. And the two couvictious.it seems appropriate to defend tnedth"a"r. . By may of concrete illn*tration, allow me to n~entionb rief papers whirh a nnm-ber of lndlan 1~1yws ith whoh I am pcraonally l~oqnalntedr ecently prepared aa a claw room rxerclse on the anblect. " What shall I do when I leave sehwla" All Lensing: nvm, is in the majority of cases wholly dcmoralirin . It is not an betrvr ror the able-!"died Indian than it in fpr the u~e.bodiefor alolemindc8 wh~rdm an to receive an income without do~-n.c o. r havin-e ever doue. anvthine , * ~~- from which the income arises. Population is congesting in cities. Mechanical indnstries are being minutely specialized and passing into the joint control of enormous corporations and labor unions. The professions are overcrowded, or seem to be. |