The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-21
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
observation-disclosures DISCUSSIONS ON
VITAL QUESTIONS.

MEETING or THE AMERICAN SOCIAL SCIENCE
ASSOCIATION INTERFERING DISCUSSIONS ON
VITAL QUESTIONS.
CIScISSATI, May 20, 1878.
Tho American Social Science Association met This
morning in Dexter Hall. the largest oil
the minor halls in the Music Hall building.
Alter tho reading of tho annual report ny
Secretary Sanborn commun icatlons were read
from Miss Frances Power cobbe, OF England. on
vviscc,ion, ana from Nine. Dora D'Isria, or Italy,
on the war spirit in Europe. Also communications
from Switzerland, Holland. Spain and other coun-
tries on tho study social science therein. General
Armstrong; OF Virginia, sent series OF sanitary
tracts designed Tor circulation among the freedmen
which were laid before the association.
HOMES THE PEOPLE
The principal feature of the morning session was
report and debate for the people 10 Gin
cinnati, in which many Cincinnati gentlemen par
ticpaled. Tho building associations OF Cincinnati,
Philadelphia and Boston were discussed
EDUCATION AND LABOR.
In the afternoon session Professor W. T. Harris, OF
ST. Louis, pre- sided and delivered an address on edu-
cation as affected by the division OF labor and by
grafton. This caused an animated debate IN which
Charles Recmelin of CINCINNATI and Professor Pierce
and DR.. Hoyt, OF New York, spoke AT some length,
Colonel George Ward Nichols, OF CiDcnnati, followed
with an exhaustive paper on art education
INDIAN SYSTEM.
A
General Pope who read paper on the Indian ques-
ton He reviewed the present lndian system and its
results, and explained the method o. making
to be accomplished IN treating with them.
lie showed the difficulties in the way
OF carrying treaties alter they are made and why
under The present system new treaties arc necessary,
while by their operations tho Indians are being grad
ually annihilated and whites murdered lie gave the
present Indian agents credit Tor better morals and
character Than their predecessors under the old
system OF appointment. but as they are men
nm with Indians ana Indian character,
and ignorant OF the character ana habits OF the
frontier whites, he considers them Incompetent TO
deal with either. lraians were starved TO death for
want of supplies Tho government was bound w roaty
10 furnish by the rapid depletion OF the buffalo,
which are killed by the hundreds Of thousands
yearly for thor hides alone. lie said II appears
10 be The only functions OF the army stationed noar
tho Indian TO force the Indian 10 submit 10
suffering quietly and without disturbance. whether
the necessity results from the deficiency oil appropri-
ATOMS bad management Of the agent or actual traIu
He ati ributed Indian wars TO the cncroachmcEt OF
whites ana the maadministra,ion OF Indian agents.
aud considered tho army the victim IN these wars
His plan Tor the settlement OF the difficulty 10 us ol-
lows
tons along the frontier ana such 1t may DO neces
sary place. transferred To points lar IN
the OF advancing emigration and placed on resei-
yatiops in popuous districts where no hostility 10
th Inuian Is felt and he secure against want ana
protect ed from dong suffering violence.
.Sec0nd-rhat thus surrounded by good influences,
ana in o condition the most favorable to success, an
honest earnest effort be made to cvilize him by
teaching the pursuits and restraints OF civilized
ie so that II capable OF becoming part oil our Dopu.
latlo he ay DO absorbed among and disappear as
a distlEct race IN this country.
In the debate which followed MIR. Murray Shipley,
of CT innat. and others spoke.
The sessions OF the Conference OF Charities Will be
opened Tomorrow with an address by Governor
Bisnop.
Mcssrs Durbin, WARD. Murray, Shipley and others
spoke. Judge TAFT took strong ground In favor OF
the transfer OF the Indian supervision 10 tho War
Dem