Arizona citizen., 1872-08-17

were beyond their reach that they had asked and plead in vain for them.
 At this time, I am glad to say, two schools are in operation upon these reservations, under the direction of the Indian agent, and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs has promised an ap- propriation towards their support, and certain benevolent ladies in New York are soliciting contributions. But other schools will be needed upon these reservations, and upon others throughout the Territory, so that the Indian children may not be permitted, as has too long been the case, to grow up ln ignorance, indolence, and vice. In the Territory of New Mexico where the Pueblo or Village Indians are more numerous there is even greater need of liberal provision for schools, and in other Territories having Indian population some provision must be made.
 Writing upon this subject, in 1870, Bishop Lamy, of New Mexico, said:
 On several occasions we have endeavored to establish schools in some of our Pueblo Indian villages but unlesss the Govern ment helps as with some means, and also with some mild regulations obliging the good half. civilized to educate their children, we have very poor hopes os success.
 MT. Speaker, objection has been made to this bill, by some gentlemen, on the ground that it will not give return sufficiently large to provide an adequate school fund for the various States and Territories. This may be SO, but it will furnish sufficient means to give stimulus to educational movements and an inducement for local action and appropriation.
 As the gentleman from Iowa MT. Dunnell has just remarked:
 The sum is said to be small. It may prove enough to bring about the needed organization. But $500 were given by Harvard, and out of it has sprung Harvard college. But small sum may do the work. One, or two, or five, or ten, or twenty, or forty educational people in those States may gather about this sum and persevere in the work of organization, and it will T we'll developed public school systems. With this hope support this bill, as vot- ing nationally and not locally. We want universal education in this Republic. We want educated masses. Ignorance is fear ful. It is to be dreaded everywhere. Let light go forth. Let education everywhere triumph; free education, universal educa- tion.
 It is too late in the worlds history to need argument in favor of universal education. Under free government it is recognized essential. Washing ton in letter to Alexander Hamilton, 1796,) expressed the true method of establishing justlce to be the educa- ton of the people, "the surest means" he says, "of giving just ways of thinking to our citizens" Just ways of thinking must precede the establish ment of justice, nor can justice exist divorced from wisdom.
 It is stoo well known to need repeti- tion here that in all nations where the question has been inquired into it has been shown that criminals are gener- ally ignorant; that as school houses increase, in 8 corresponding ratio do iails and prisons diminish. In other countries 1t has not been questioned that Government had the right to provide for the education of the peo- ole, and 1t has been considered a first duty.
 Said Macaulay in the British Par lament:
 Take away education. and what are your means? Military force, prisons, solitary cells, penal colonies, gibbets, all the other apparatus of penal laws. If, then, there be m end to which Government is bound to lttain if there are two ways only of at airing it, if one of these ways is by ,levating the moral and intellectual char lcter of the people, and if the other way s by infiicting D. ain. who can doubt which way every Govern ment ought to take ? It eems to me that no proposition can be nore strange than this: that the State ught to have the power to punish and 5 bound to punish its subjects for not moving their duty, but at the same time } to take no step to let them know what heir duty is.
 I might cite many facts and illus rations to show why education can ot be promptly and generally diff used in the American Territories rithout the helping hand of the Gen. ral Government, and certain 1t Is hey cannot be settled in the manner est calculated to promote their devel-