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Show REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN 8CEOOL8. 419 As instru~3orso f Indians yours is a moat important vocation. The missionaries who carried the gospel paved the way for your coming. With the acquirement of knowledge thus brought the first settlers of this continent began to realize, by com-parison, the difference between them and their Csucasian brothers. True it is that not all of them were ready to accept the protection of our Government, hut once accepted they have generally come to know the significance of the change that has been wrought until now many of the descendants of the aborigines are among our most honored citizens. A grateful nation, therefore, looka on and applauds your efforts to augment still further the usefulness of the "Red Man of the Forest." Not only are theelements of an English education afforded him, hut he is trained in the arts and sciences and in manual labor and is given the opportunity to become as learned and as skilled as any students or artisans. 61owl hut surely the Indian, as we know him in history, is disappearing, and in his ?&we find the educated strong, and worthy citizen. Yours has been the task whlch effeded this transformafion. I congratulate you upon the splendid showing ou have made in several exhibit palaces. Here on these grounds are ample eviiences of progress. Let the good work continue. It can not he too thorough. The educated masses of an otherwise savage people rise up to bless you. As the exponents of a nation's will, you lead them on in paths made bright and lives made useful by an awakened intelligence. The o le of this country owe ou 4 debt of gratitude for your sacrifices that these wargof the Governn~enmt ay ge trained into the best of citizens. I t is my pleas-ure, therefore, to welcome you to our State and to this, its chief city. Our people are your friends and the friends of those over whom you exercise super-visory care. ~ a c bhro adened life is a monument to the gloryand power of our Gov-ernment, which employs your hands to work ita own gmnd purpose. Greeting.-Hon. David R. Francis, president Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo.-I shall not only he remias if I fail to extend to the Congreas of Indian FAucatom a greeting hut I shall not he true to my own feelings. I have had some official connection (for a short time only, itis true) with the Indian edurntion of the United States. As Secretary of the Interior, 189697, it naa my pleasant duty to have something to do with theBureau of Indian Affairs. Itgave me an insight Into the mans ement of that Bureau which I should never have had if I had not been connectedgwith it. I desire at this time to pay tribute to the devotion of the educators of the Indian. I well remember how I waa im ressed with the interest which those educators mani-fested in their duties, and witR the fact that they were not working solely for the compensation given them by the Government. My experience and observation, and information from every source, are to the effect that wh6n a right-feeling, proper-thinking American man or woman is placed in this ljlace of responsibility-and it is a position of great responsihility to be called upon to teach an untutored race-there is evinced, beyond the compensation received, a deep-rooted interest in the welfare and in the elevation of the Indian which is well becoming to our Anglo-Saxon nation. I am, therefore, very glad, on hehalf of the exposition company, to extend to you greetings this mornmng. Speaking for the exposition management, and not dwelling at length, if at all, u on the scope and merits of the exposition, I wish to say a word in regard to its exucationa~a dvantages in studying the exhibits of the products of all civilized coun-tries, and attending the Congresses to he held in connection with the exposition, which are sufficient, in my mind, to make it a landmark in the eat rogress of human thought. The man or the woman, urhoever he or she may%% wfo fails to take advantage of the opportunities here presented on inspection to human view within the small area of two square miles, will not be true to his duties to himself, and will never cease to regret it. I believe that this exposition is in itself a great educator, and it is highly roper that we should welcome the assemblage of educa-tom. The management, tterefore, extends a greeting to the Indian educators, and trusts your stay among us will prove a leasant and rofitahle one, and that it may be prolonged to the fullest extent possi&e. On behag of the management I there-fore greet you. Greeting.-Dr. Howard J. Rogers, chief of de artment of education and director of congresses, Louisiana Purchase ~xposition.-8n behalf of the department of con-gresses, I take great pleasure in welcoming you to the exposition. This is the first pun in the series of great educational conferences to be held .within the grounds in the next eight daya It is especially appropriate that on the hanks of the great river which hem an Indian name, flowing through scenes which are of historic interest to the descendants of both races, and whose waters for 80 many years marked the boundary between the |