Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-28

At the meeting in the interest of the educa- tion of Indian youth held in Association hall, Philadelphia, the other evening Senator Haw- ley was the principal speaker. Among other things he said:
 The Indian is with us-about 2G1 ,000 of him-he has been with us from the begin ming, and we haven't made much of Q success of him. The solution of the problem which his presence presents is one of the tasks which the Almighty has laid upon us, and it is still unsolved. Unsettled questions have no respect for the repose of mankind. We said some beautiful things about equal rights back there when the Declaration of Inde- pendence was signed, but when 1t WAS pro- posed to apply them to the negro many were disposed to say, ''We didn't mean him 7" And when we got the negro question dis posed of we thought the Almighty would let us off /; but now the Chinaman is bothering us-though many of us were inclined to say, ''Oh, Lord, we didn't mean that man"-and always with us is the unsettled problem of the Indian
 The first question that meets us is, whether or no we shall admit that all the power of our modern civilization Is impotent to effect it's satisfactory solution. With all our boasts that we have the flower and the acme of Christian civilization, must we admit that we are powerless to overcome the barbarism of 2G1 ,OOO Indians? Many believe the question will be solved only when he is exterminated, plowed under-and such are won't to say that the only good Indian is dead Indian. On the other hand I believe in the gradual ame- lioratlon of the human race, it's gradual ad- vance to perfection in short, that God never made human being not capable of improve ment. In proof of the capability of the red man Senator Hawley cited the numerous Indian settlements in the East, the rapid conversion which attended the labors of the early. Jesuit priests, and the fact that 1000 of the 261, 1000 now in this country were self-sustaining. In conversa- ton with the lieutenant governor of the Hudson Bay company, the latter had told the Senator that there had never been any trouble with the Indians in British America. because the whites had scrupulously pursued the plan of keeping faithfully every promise, however trihing the matter at stake and un- der this policy long strides have been taken in the direction of their civilization. Read ing from the report of the Indian Commis- sioner, Senator Hawley showed that in the matter of appropriations for the education of Indians, the government had broken it's treaties just where it would have been to it's advantage and in accordance with it's own genius to keep them. ''If we can educate to the best of our ability for ten or fifteen years" :" said he, 'the 35,- shall have practically solved the problem. Instead of pursuing the almshouse policy of past years, send these Indian children to Hampton and Carlisle; teach them to read and write, and, what is better, train them in industrial arts and in manly sslf-reliance. Our Indian Commissioner says that the difi- culty lies not in their inability to be taught, nor in the indifference OF hostility of their parents, but in insufficient appropriations to carry out the plans proposed for their educs7 ton and development. This is the remedy, and we who believe not only in civilization, but in the Illuminating power of divine love, know that under it's judicious and liberal ap- pliance the issue cannot be doubtful