Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-05-19
NO GOVERNMENT AID.
The Tucson Indian School will be
 Independent.
The Diverse of Church and State Furthered by the Churches Them selves-Can Stand the
 Pressure.

The government will be asked for D
 more aid fer the Indian school in Tue son. Yet the work here will not b
 lessened any. Hereafter the Tucsol
 Indian school will be strictly a Presby
 terian institution, and government nj,
 will go for the straight governmen
 Indian schools, such as are located a
 Phoenix and Sacatop. This step IS DO
 due to any new government provision
 but through the Presbyterian board oi missions Itself. Several years ago the step towards independence was taken on the part of the church missions
 Several broke away entirely at once Others like the PresbyteriaDs, had founded their schools on such a scale that they could stand the extra expense at once. The step was more gradual. The Tucson school has been the last of the Presbyterian schools to part with government aid. In the present school year an aid of S22,000 went to the Presbyterians from the government, and SlS,OO0 of that sum came to the Tucson school.
 Superintendent Billman says that he thinks there will be no great difficulty in raising the additional S25.OO0 needed by the school here by the missions board back east.
 HOW THE MONEY IS RAISED.
 The Presbyterian church manage ment back east comprises various boards, five of them being of import ance. One of these five is the board of home missions, which raises S1000,000 a year. Another is the board of foreign expendlng like sum. Five Sundays of each year a special collec- ton Is taken in the various Presby- terian churches, one each of the Sun days for the respective boards. St. Johns church, on Fifth avenue, New York, last year alone contributed SlO,, poo on home missions Sunday. Other resources are called in also. for the boards.
 The board of home missions is the source of supply of the Indian schools, If schools for the poor whites of the mountain districts Cf the south and other causes. This board having an ncome of 5l000.000 a year, the extra pressure of S25,000 next school year or the Tucson school will not be very leaTe.
 GETTING THEIR MONEY WORTH.
 People like to get value received for heir money, even in charity experdi- uree. From the standpoint of the investors in the S25,000 year so far as Tucson school Is concerned, they got heir moneys worth. The Indians rave been educated and elevated-they lave protited by their education.
 perintendent BillmaD made some when he was at the Saca- on ageLcy in April. At the agency are hree villages, the Black water, Sacaton md village between which is governed by the say of "medlcine nan" there. Blackwater and Sacaton re largely settled by educated Indians. ae comparison between the village un- Ter the old regime medicine man and and Sacatol is vastly in avor Of the two latter. In the ore nay be seen the primitive Pimas, with ilrty clo:hlng Pnd long hair. Their louses are the prehistoric brush and ,rass tapees. Tie inhabitants of the other two villages have their hair cut md are tidy and thrifty. Both at Black water and Sacaton may be seen good houses, of adobe, most of them with win lows ard doors. One house is two tories high. In the houses may be seen ewing machines and cooking stoves and women who can use them. The men, the educated young men, Ire farmers, who raise wheat and alfal- a, and are now setting out fruit trees. The mill at Sacaton has for Its engineer ! Pima boy educated in the Tucson chool. The accountant at the mill is llso another Tucson graduate. Recent y the engineer in question was in Tues on and expended S200. Such Inc ians Ire credit to the system of industrial .ducation as used here. Said Mr. Bill nan:
 One thing is certain: By proper train ng, ethical y, morally intellectually land ndust rially, any man will be improved.
 don't care if be bs a Hottentot, d Iegro, an Indian or an ADglo-S8Xon. H. cannot s ape improvement.
 It is dou btful if the government Will ,uild any more with the extra funds it Vill have for Indian schools through the Iivorce of church and state recently urtbered by the boards of missions in iScIlhiuS RONefutuehl dlu. 1uS bOilCy If Commissioner Morgan, in charge turing the last adm nis5ration, was to rect school buildings. In many cases hey were in excess of tke supply of chool children. This year it is prob Ible that the children will be along to i'll the schools, certainly in southern Arizoma, Indians are willing to send heir children, every school in this sec ion being at its limit. The average .ttendance in Superintendent Billman "hool for the past quarter has been S7.