| Show INDIAN EDUCATION the united states commissioner of indian affairs afla lre D M browning Is ie making a 8 tour of the west visiting the various indian reservation and will soon reach those of utah and idaho in the order of hla his trip in his reference to the progress reee of the aborigine toward civilization mr browning should be and la Is good authority his hie statement of indian education throughout the country shows the most aarle factory condition he says there are now indians indiana living at the fifty agencies established by the government and that children are being educated to in the indian indan schools Bo noole the general plan ot of the government la Is to place each indian in possession of a farm and make him earn his bia own livelihood the older indians indiana are being settled on lands lande and the children are aie educated to be settlers sett lors in due time la in the hope bope of making them a 8 self sus aua people with the exception of a few wild tribes that will follow tin in due time mr browning thinks that the indians indiana are now well on the way to become an industrious self support ing ine people who will observe the civil laed of progress aa with which they are being made acquainted AS aa to the danger of indian cupris loge inga mr browning thinks they are now practically a thing of the be p as t go BO far as ae their inception in the indian mind to is concerned there la is now no occasion for them and no prospect it if the white men will not make a racial attack upon the aborigine the commissioner attributes the removal of danger of uprisings to the teaching by the government govern men meol the idea now being comprehended by we indians indiana generally that all persons are on an equal footing before the law and that each la is responsible reap for big bia own actions mr browning says that he be has bae noticed an increased moral tendency among indians generally during the past rew few years that if an aspiring young buck wants to lead his bia people to war there are indian police ready to throw him into jail and he be is kept there until he can cool off indians do not act until they have bad a 8 long powwow and before any warlike plan can ibe be formulated the whole movement la in suppressed by a few timely ar agreste arre reste etc then when 15 very every in dion dian is ie a farmer pr a mee mechanic bant he be will not have any more disposition deposition than the white man to go on the warpath karpath war path 3 there la Is no doubt in the cona vals lioner sl s mind that the ab aborigine origin T I 1 capa capable bloof of the highest type of oivin civill bation in due time the present pla nin to la seeking the amelioration of hiamon hia aitt now so his hia mind will be turned to following the pursuits of 0 the white man and nd it la is relieved believed to be onla dimly a k of a few generations genera tiona at most when those that may remain C nf the erstwhile savage inhabitants of the united states state s will be as aa eD enlightened lIghtened citizens as aa ic other class with like opportunity any the culmination of the tendency noted by mr browning Browni Brow nini nw as well wel 1 a as 8 al all I 1 W ho study closely indian character and prospects to is al legacy under the df divinie vine promise i 1 to their forefathers amade niad nearly twenty five centuries ago ua wherein it was stated that the T re f gant of their and that to Is all there Is now ot of the indiana N would become a white and delig delight ht aw some people to this end they 1 being be educated by a government in D ar 11 by the almighty for the fallz f flament of his purposes in latter days daya i i |
