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Show One 6nal word with respect to the aim of Indian education, as I conceive it. I am verfectlv ready to ~ r o f icto nstantlv hv the s ~ i r iotf such leaders of education aa the brumiiaionw-oi Indian -\ffair~;i 3 tfte ~11~irin1eudetr, f. ri ntlialt Fchools, >lim BWI ; or an Suprrinrendeut \Ic(:cwan, who ha3 charge of tlw Chilncvo Indian Ychoul, and ir also in cl~art.eo i thr Indian a~~hoohle ro. 1 am ~lwayar eady to profit by their ex~eriencca nd tllt.ir drvotion to 11lslian e~lumtion.a llich. as I ~r r r e i t ti.t . en.brarea the making of better Indiana and the im~rovemento f the endfan aa an ~'ndian. I t i~ true thai fhe objert, or me of thc maln'objwm, ia to make vitirenn, just as it is the ohjtvt oi ecluctltiotr nrnorlg ourdel\.es. Rut can not we makc. e r~~drnotfs the Indian without dt~- l~~~l i a r~i r i r~nIh tihmiu'k! weran--hven<lc~avorintn~ ~ r ~ a hkp~ttr8. r lrlalinnp: ~ ~~ .----. .. .....- to make the Indian gore confidknt of suouortlne himself: to make him more com-petent to enter into those stmmles for sidremacy in whih we are all alike engaeed ivl!ctllt!r we prole% it or nut,.in~I to tnkc his part in tltoar rtrugglrr for pr;jL<enn which wprcient t l ~mr k i n y of all httman avrivity. All tllerz i;l~ouhlin . theaim in lnclixll eclnation. 1 thank vou for the ovt8r8nllnitv t l i remolalinr to E O l l r r < l I the kind greetings that have been extendid to us; hut the length of my servfce does not, I trust, ~neasureth e extent of my interest in the cause of Indian education nor the depth of my s mpath for the workers in the field. President Aooseveg. in his first annual messaee to Conereas. said: "One of the greatc.ht nwJn ui the 1i;dians of the yre+rat F~l l r r a i i~isl lc u"tidc"t covt#mando f eol-o i l l i l ' \\'itkt this 3taremertt 1 iully agree, l,ut n.xke the poirrt that tllr nwd ia 41onlv the meaw to w end. nrnl In. strr,ulvinrr that it will ~ 7 )fu rtller toward nutti% the Indian uuon a s e l f - d u o ~ o d eb& :e%ha: will snvthineklse. ,\dmiit:ng tlrat the rpraking of Fnglish ia .i inr31rn to all ~ . n < l , ~ ~wlhoatn ~lin e nhould Int1i.m ctriltlrrn I,? led in tlreiacquirement an.1 rxrrclrt,of tl~eart,umpli.*htnent 99 k,ein~t he, RllrQHt to W~ t hth -e. d ceir~dT ( .Bu~~.I IXIDUIV. ~e l i -811~~OAl f1l0 nll the ~ - ~ ~,~ - ~ ~ ~ ,, ~- ~. - ~~~~ industria line will b e t h e moat eeneral answer, or. to ~ n i t m ore correctlv, alone the liltc crl phgni,ul rather thau ~;l'~.ntaalc tivitieR i~rnEeit in that under ttiv policy of the Iodinn Ofice our Indian %choula an. largely <,f nn industrial character, xnd instmrtior~in shup, f a r a , and irotra: work ifl6uppoanl to have a pmnincnr plilre in the .,dnc.<tional rvl.cn,e. Beaponse.-8. M. McCowan, superintendent Chiloem Agricultural School, Ohitocco, 0kld.- I t r;v~.d me great plearim to lu\.e this opportunity oi responding to tho malty clmJial grwti~lgr\r .hiclr lritve hseu rxtrmded to un this morning. I eepecially nrmretiatr the tnrlnv kind uodo of orsiseoi our Indian Exhihit and .Model School. T6ese are primarily' intended to illnitrate the great progress which is being made in educating and uplifting the Indian. ReanIta are beginning to show. We an beginning to mp the harvest of years of sowing. We can now see for ourselves what Commissioner Morgan srrw years ago-that Indian nature is but human nature bound in red. God never yet marooned a |
