The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-24
CARLISLE aRApuA1Es
Does Education Help an Indian to Be
q Better Horsethiefp
From the Eeg York World.

From the Ee1r York World.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-By most Of the
eastern friends Of the Indians, and especially
by those who believe that the solution OF
the Indian problem lies in the careful edu-
cation of the Indian children under govern
ment auspices. the indian school at Carlisle.
Pa, is regarded as the foremost institution
of the kind in this country. The school
has been in existence now over IL years,
and it has cost the government at least
81 200, 900. And this has not been by any
means the entire cost Of the school, for
charitable contributions towards its support
are being continually made, and have
amounted to as much as SIC, 900 in a single
year.
The school is under the control of Capt.
Pratt Of the regular army, whose tenure of
Office is permanency, continuing from one
administration to another. Presidents and
congresses may come and go, but Capt.
Pratt remains always The salary roll for
teachers and helpers at the school is over
$50, 900 a year. The annual appropriation
made by congress for the school has been
over 500. 900 year; the amount appropri>
ated for the coming year, in the bill now
pending in congress beng $4,000.
Some people who have given more or less
study to the subject have a suspicion that
the Carlisle school is a failure, and that The
ing to reclaim the red man by the msthods
which that school represents. The ques-
ton is sometimes asked, "What has the
Carlisle school done for the Indiansl How
many of the graduates Of that school have
ever become eminently useful or even rea-
sonably civilizedr
While over two thousand Indian youths
have been graduated at that school within
the past dozen years, there are close obs
servers that say that out of the whole num-
Der, those who have amounted to anything
after they left the school could be counted
on the the fingers of one hand Graduates
OF the Carlisle school are found engaged in
mischief every day in the week. The late
Gen. Philip H. Sheridan knew good deal
about the Indian, and in testifying before a
Senate committee he expressed the opinion
that the only thing for which the graduates
of Carlisle school were distinguished was
their dexterity in DEMONSTRATING. The gen.
eral said he had found that these Carlisle
graduates had depleted the plains of all the
fastest and best horses.
A dispatch from Tucson, Ari., gave a full
account of the misdeeds of Carlisle school
graduate who had got into trouble there
The Indian chiefs in the conference held
at the office of Indian affairs Yesterday tolo
Commissioner Morgan that the Indian who
murdered Lieut.. Casey at the battle OF
| Wounded Knee creek was q Carlisle gradu-
ate.
As the result of great many complaints
and adverse criticisms regarding the Car
Isle school and the result of its teachings.
Senator Jones of Arkansas offered in the
Senate to-day and the Senate adopted a
resolution calling upon the Secretary of the
] Interior to furnish the Senate with all ma
I terial facts bearing upon the cost to the
government OF the Indian school at Car.
Isle and the results thereof, as shown In
the number of graduates and their records
and conduct since leaving the school.