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Show 6 IlEPOBT OF THE COMMISBIONEB OF INDIBN AFFAIRS. on a large scale, upon one of the reservations, would bring into the State a thrifty class of immigrants from northern Europe, of the sort who have done wonders for other parts of our Northwest. They would settle down with their families, &st as mere occupants of the soil and workers in it, but gradually as petty landlords and permanent home makers. There is no better material out of which to mold American citizens, and we &n as ill afford to-day to ignore their share in the produgtion of our common wealth as France could have af-orded to ignore the share of her peksant people thirty-five years ago when the milliards had to be raised. Hence, even if we disregard their claims to our favor as the best sort of neighbors for the Indians, an enlightened self-interest on the part of the frontier States would prompt a welcome to an influx of such people, especially if they come as the human machinery of a great productive industry which is to change the whole face of nature and make the ,barren ranges bloom. In view of all these facts I can not think that the campaign for sound economics in the training of the Indian has been doomed to failure by one session's repulse. . . INDIAN LABOE OUTSIDE OF REmRVATIONB. The feature of Indian civilizntion upon which the Office has laid . its greatest stress during the year just past has been& policy of inducing the young and able-bodied Indians who have no profitable work at home to leave their reservations and go out into the world to make a living as white men do. Sometimes they go only s, little way, but even that is better than going not at all; and in a few instances they go a long distance, conduct themselves very creditably, and come back with money in their pockets, some of which they save, and most of which, when spent, goes for more sensible purchases than undisciplined Indians are apt to make. In my last annual report I spoke of an undertaking upon which the Offia had just enterea in the Southwest, the maintenance of an employment bureau for finding Indians who want work and finding the work for the Indians who want it. This bureau has been in the care of Charles E. Dagenett, in whose veins is a strain of Indian blood, and whose efforts are therefore sympathetic as well as practical. The ksults of the first year's experiment have been most encouraging. During the last season some six hundred Indians, including both adults and schoolboys, have found employment in the open labor market as railroad construction laborers, irrigation-ditch diggers, heet farmers, and in other occupations. It would have been possible to put out a larger number of laborers if the Indians of the Southwest had not been enjoying a period of |