The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-26

Indian children. At the latter place
thew have spent over $4,000 on Che
nlant. and the school has now an at
tendance of nearly fifty Indian boys.
It was to be a school in which the
larger boys were to learn the trades
and fit themselves for citizenship. The
House of Representatives appropriated
for the support of sixty Indian pupils
at this school s., $50, or about $139 per
capita. oHon IN
Montana" the gentleman continued,
''the Catholics erected a large school
h1IiIding at a cost of over $25, 600. They
had received an assurance from the
former Commissioner of Indian Affairs
that the government would IN this as
in all similar cases following Il a
well-settled policy contribute some
thing toward the support OF the chill
dren cared for in the school. In view
of Morgan's often expressed opposition
to their schools they felt it would be
useless to ask him for a contract, so
they appealed to Congress, and the
House made provision for this school
by very properly inserting an item IN
the Indian Appropriation bill apprO-
priating $12, 500 for the care and sup
port of 100 Indian children, or Sl25 per
capita. There are 45S children OF
school age on this reservation, and h
government in it's school building can
accommodate only fifty Of this number,
leaving over 400 to roam over II
prairies with the coyotes. Senator
Pierce, of North Dakota, had also
offered an amendment apprOpr1atlng
for the Sisters of Charity at Devils
7 " A. nnn r.. H. ~11oT07Sf Of 7nn
children, or $50 per capita. There IS
also an item in the bill providing for
St. BOniface's school for the Mission
Indians of Southern California.
Mr.. Morgan, it is asserted, upon
learning Of the appropriations, went
to work to defeat their passage in the
Senate. He started the same machinery
in motion that served him so well when
his confirmation vas pending. Memo
rails were received from the commit
tee of one hundred of Lynn and Of BOs-
ton, Mass, organized for the defense of
the public schools and American lnStl-
buttons. The memorials single out the
four Catholic items and oppose them
because they make appropriations
FOR sECTARIAN SCHOOLS
while this same bill contains large ap-
preparations for the Congregational
school at Hampton, Va, the Lincoln
(EpiscopaD in Philadelphia, the Quaker
schools in Indiana, Virginia and North
Carolina, in all of which a rate of 1857
per capita is allowed, while the highest
amount given the Catholics in any of
their schools is $3.50, and in these items
above referred to the House allowed a
per capita of $139, 1925 and $50, respec-
lively.
These memorials, Notwithstanding
their inconsistency, succeeded
in the work Mr.. Morgan laid out for
them, and the Senate Appropriation
Committee reports the Indian bill with
the Blackfeet and Rensaleer items
stricken out and the Devils Lake
amendment unfavorably acted upon.
The Boston public school defenders
object to giving the Sisters of Charity
s., 600 for educating 100 pupils, or $50
per capita at Devils Lake, North Da-
kOta, because the work is to be carried
on in a government building. Yet in
this same bill is an item appropriating
$13, $50 for the support of eighty pupils,
or 1857 per capita at Eastern Cherokee,
n. c., to be paid to n Barnabas @.
Hobbs, who, with his Quaker friends,
occupy a building erected and paid for
by the government.
The Catholics would have less rea-
son to complain Of Morgan did he open
ly appear before the committee of
Congress and oppose in a manly way
their efforts for legislation, and they
object to his using the Indian Office as
a means of
STIRRING UP RELIGIOUS STRIFE.
The Boston and Lynn memorials
were made up of exaggerated and dis
tOrted statements culled from cores
pOndence between the Catholic Indian
Bureau and the Indian Office. and they
cOnarin references to a correspondence
only known to the Secretary of the In
terror, the Indian Commissioner and
the Director of the Catholic Indian Blu
reau. These memOrialiStS claim to
know just what the Catholics are going
to ask for the present fiscal year. al
though the Secretary of the Interior
has not yet passed upon the matter.
and the whole machinery of the Indian
service, so far as MOrgan's influence
extends, is Systematically organized to
cripple Catholic missionary work
among the Indians.
"HOw Senators could allow them
selves to be inOculated with this poison
or the Morgan rabies, and that, too,
twice in n year, seems to be incOm-
p~rehenSlble. The three Catholic items
could not have been stricken out on
the ground of economy, as the Senate
has ever exceeded the ~liberality of the
House, which had increased the school
appropriation $500, 900 over what was
ever appropriated before. Then, too,
the present Congress, that could wipe
out the surplus and create a large de
ficit, should not strain itself on this
gnat. 1t will attempt to justify it's ac-
ton later, however, by
TWISTING H LIONS TAIL