Show INDIAN advancement f morgin gitts sn sa AP account cou of the work being done do no san francow chronicle general T J morgan 1 states commissioner of indian affairs arrived tr rived from D a yesterday and is at the palace forthe for the last fourteen month months I 1 said he be to a it chronicle reporter 1 I have been so steadily at work in my office in washington that I 1 f feel ee the th e need of malting making a tour of the indian agencies to per ascertain jus the in deans di acs live and how the work is done on the reservation and in tha the schools from here herel I 1 will godown go down among the mission indiana indians in southern california to see what p needs to be done ily I ly toward settling land disputes and beginning a more practical system stem of education e duca flon that will teach t the ke indiana bow how to become good 01 lou american citizens I 1 will a also visit the reservations in arizona new mexico indian and oklahoma and then return to fb washington practical education of tho in diana is what the present administration is advocating in we thle schools wo we had arll hupin last IQ year this year congress co h bai given give n nea nearly aly more for indian education dball any year before which swells swells the the sum for that purpose to nearly among the industries now taught are carpentering bar hit f nees ness making mak ing printing and fari farming at genoa neb this year we buy from the indian india n school bets of harness mado by the boys for the use uee of the indian service from the same school we buy for tho the government brooms which were made by the indians who also grew grow the corn at grand junction col be we propose a e to develop freit in addition i tion to the trades mentioned and this fall I 1 will spend 1000 inputting out orchards at fort hall LT I 1 T we will give special attention to stock raising the acree acres now fenced for iw that at pur pose will be extended so aa us to ine elude rade 1600 acres which will willbe be stocked this year they now tiow have hive a start of seventy bead of therb them 1 to show that indians Indian swill will work r k under proper training we bavel 1 had bad at carlisle pa during the last list year ar in addition to tho the pupils pup ite who have done the work in the different shops out among 6 the pennsylvania farmers working by the month these have earned in wages durigg the year one thing especially interesting is the fact that the war department is turning over to the indian office all abandoned forte forts which are be ing converted into trailing tra luing schools hoole sc the th first to be turned over for this allu purpose 6 e was at mojave forts 26 yuma y and mcdowell followed although the indians appear to be the most degraded in the tho vicinity of yuma the good work of the school is already shown by their mankad advancement it is s a fact beyond dispute that indian children in one of these schools id fa a better protection protect ipri against indian depredation depredations than a regiment of sold goldiere lol diere era it is the general policy of the government to allot indian 1 inada in severally severalty just as rapidly a as the indians can be induced to take them to give their children a practical education to prepare pre ahem them to make the most of this land laud to ex the indian style of titles to the surplus landi and then to throw the lands open to settled settle 1 ment ev Q there is now land bat longing corthe to the indians lo 10 give give every man woman and child if equally distributed aclei acres each and then have left it hae has been said that the tho western people were not in favor of indian education but the most earnest advocates of the cahee aro are western people president 11 arrison is is a western man the secretary of tho the interior ie is a western man and aa sa am I 1 why should this be so this is a western question the lands are in the west and tho the eastern people voted this for indian education although it will not benefit them for instance has bas been appropriated for an indian school in n southern california every indian redeemed from a 0 vagabond a 9 abond to a prod producer ticer adds to the t h wealth of the west tho the indian country amounda to square miles a region as large arge aa as spain Sp aill there are about two hundred and fifty houland houa and indiana indians in all this year about will be os expended in the maintenance nance and advancement of i these indians for each chief tribe there is an hn agent who is re mon sible to the commissioner of Z indian affairs there Ther therease eare are five interior who report direct directly lito to the secretary odthe of the inspector and nad five agents who report to the 10 commissioner i 1 0 11 or great pains have I 1 been nent taken by the president to se cure dure good men for the 8 agencies e cies so far as I 1 can judge jue there her re is is a steady growth ia the advancement d van cemen t of tho the indians through throughout 0 ut the tho union |