Show indian education there is still a difference in opinion ansome in some states regarding the advisability vis ability of compulsory education but it would seem that there could be no dissent from indian commissioner oberlyn Ob erlys conclusion that compulsory education is necessary for the indians in many cases indian parents have shown themselves honestly desirous of promoting g the welfare of their children th the e indian is beginning to realize the fact that he must learn the white mans ways or perish from the face of the earth but it is still necessary to reckon with a vast mass of pre prejudice judice ignorance and inherited preferences in other words it is inevitable that many of the indians should be treated more or less like children and compelled to take medicine necessary and helpful but unpalatable this education as mr oberly well says should be on those principles of compulsion which are recognized as legitimate in the free commonwealths and which while requiring the indians to be educated for civilized life and self support leave with his parents the liberty to chose between the government and the private school so long as t the h e latter conforms to the proper dr so standard ta edard the sensible recommend recommendations ons are made that the standards should be uniform and that the official tenure of the teachers should be permanent and removals made only for inefficiency and other unfitness it is certainly true that the indian must be taught how to labor and also that it is his duty to work this means that the schools should include manual training in tb their air curriculum ri and the children should be instructed in the use of agricultural IM implements p e en the carpenters saw and PIS plane ne the a stone ne masons trowel the tailors tal ors needle and the shoemakers awl the enervating communism of the reservation system cannot be allowed to continue much longay longwy long and with the allotment of land W la severalty there will come an tott mediate incentive to work sod 0 this must be made Int intelligent ellige nt 60 i the indian will not learn 0 says BOA mr oberley I 1 if be h e will continue to persist in saying 1 I am content w me alone I 1 then the guardian mua nieuw act for the ward and do for him thlik tb good service that he denounces as a st S bad service the government biuk mix K thus in duty to the public cow con r pel the indian to come out from w hit y isolation into the civilized way WW i ii he does not desire to enter iw to citizenship and into issimil assimilation a tion 1 with the masses of the republic j frank lesliea Le newspaper |