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Show An Eloquent Tribute. Addressing the Newman club of Los Angeles, Cal., recently, Charles F. Lummis, the well known editor and writer, who is not a Catholic, delivered a ringing address. Among other things he said: ''The fact is that the Catholic church and its schools are the pioneers in Indian education in America. It was not until 1807 that an English-speaking English-speaking person came to New Mexico. In 1017 there were eleven Catholic churches in New Mexico, and all had their Indian schools. The reason why I am opposed to this compaign (against Catholic Indian In-dian schools) is because these are the only schools I know of that arc doing the Indians lasting good. Not because of ihe religion, which is nothing to me, although it is the Indians' religion to a great extent. I do not believe that one should be taken from his father's faith or his mother's faith at the whim of a school teacher. I am judging by the long results. I have not known a child from a Catholic school who had forgotten his parents or his language. I have not known any of the girls that have grone wrong in the Indian towns to have come from a Catholic school. Not due! "But I have known a good many from 'Carl isle, and ;the .other government schools. Go with me to that exquisitely exquis-itely neat and motherly 'school of Sister Margaret. at Bernalillo; go with me to the Albuquerque or the Santa Fc school, and then let a man of the world judge which of those he would choose as a place for his children. If there is auything in the world, aud mothers and fathers fled away is a Sister of Charity. There, is something selfish in that administration as well . as something of experience, for I have known them for a long time, and in boyhood I thought they were terrible; but I have seen them when the black "vomito" ragfd in the tropics, and mothers and fathers iled away from their own children, and people peo-ple nVd iu the streets; and those daughters of Cod picking up the deserted dead and flying. Aud I have felt th-ir tender mercy myself; and when a man comes to me and says that a child or a dog had better be taught by a politician who i re-I re-I warded by a place in a government indi'in school i than by a Sister of Charity, he wants to bring his fire-escape with him. that's all. And it 'seems to me that any American, not to say any Catholic American, could not better employ part ef bis money than in aiding the support of the Indian schools conducted by these noble and unselfish women, wo-men, now frowned upon and even actively antagonized antag-onized by the partisan spirit of our politicians. . - |