The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-11-24
AN ADEPT AT EVASION.

! AN ADEPT AT EVASION.
/ Such is Morgan In His Discussion With
Father Cleary.
| 1t is indeed. tiresome to attempt to fol-
low Mr.. Morgan, the Jealous ex- Indian
commissioner, over the wide range which
be is ambitious to cover, writes Father
!, CIeary in letter to the Minneapolis
last Tuesday. In his letter of the 18th
inst, from New York, he asks to speak
'just one word MORE" and then proceeds
to spin out lengthy article of seven
paragraphs, that adroitly evades the
questions at issue, and skips over the
hard places. I accused him OF illegal and
dishonest attempts to defr6ud the Tur-
tie Mountain Indians of the advantages
of any kind of school in order to be
able to devote $4,000 to the education
Of few of his favorites among the In
dian boys. He admits the truth of my
accusation, of course, as the proof is all
against him, but he buries the admission
in such lot Of verbiage that it is almost
lost. He, without having been author
ICED by the chief OF his department, with
out any warrant in law, without the
knowledge even of the secretary of the
interior, attempted to withhold Sis, 200,
and to deprive the poor Turtle Mountain
Indians of school. If this was not lille
gal and dishonest, it might be interesting
to have Mr.. Morgan give US homily on
honesty. He tries to defend himself by
blaming his superior officer for not shar-
ing his exalted notions of Indian educa'
ton. 1t is the usual way with ambitious
meddlers of his class. When the law
and authority are against them, the law
is wrong, or the authority is incompe-
tent. Mr.. Morgan stands convicted, and
cannot deny that Mr.. Noble ordered him
to change his plans and give the Turtle
Mountain Indians school. He may not
lind me SO very ignorant after all, of the
matters under discussion.
I shall not attempt to chase the gen.
tleman all over the country in his ramb.
ling disquisitlon on the merits of his pat
ent scheme of furnishing mon sectarian"'
education beg leave simply to refer
to the Carlisle school, which Mr.. Morgan
SO often refers to as model of non-sec'
tartan training for the Indian children.
AS an illustration of what ia meant by
mon .sectarian" at that establishment,
select the following specimen Of anti
Catholic lying, taken from the "Red
Man." paper published at the indus
trial school, monthly. in the interests of
the Indian education and civilization:
s'The present tumult Of Indian school
matters arises largely from the fact that
the Pope at Rome imperiously insists
that be knows best how to educate, civil
1ze and Americanize the Indians Of the
United States, and favored by those he
has placed in power in the United States,
he has made muck Roadway in securing
money from our government, on which
no has imported many workmen and es-
tablished and organized numerous agen-
cies among the Indians and at Washing
ton to carry out his purposes. From
much trying experience and wide obser-
walton we have come to belong TO that
large and rapidly growl g class of citi
zens who believe that the stability Of our
! government and it's institutions is in no
| less danger from the Pope than it was
from Jefferson Davis, whose efforts to
divide and destroy the country had the
Popes blessing
This is the kind of stuff the Indian
! boys--many of whom are Catholics-are
| made to put in type st the Carlisle In
stitute, an establishment supported in
part by Catholic taxpayers. A little ill.,
| vestigation into that boasted mon sec
tarlan" institute might be a service. Il
this be specimen of mon sectarianism, y
| we can understand the object the big
, oted Mr. Morgan had in view to make
all tho Indian schools -sectarian. -
! ''Non sectarian,' forsooth, when The
! wards of the nation are taught in snch
| institutions to believe most ridiculous
charges against the Catholic Church.
Mr.. Morgan attempted to create great
sensation here in Minneapolis by assur-
ing us audience that the Catholic teach
ers among the Indians taught them the
catechism at public expense. Even he
could not suspect those teachers of poi
sonng the minds of their pupils sgainst
Baptists or any other Protestant denom'
,, lnation. But here is boasted mon. sec.
tarian' school, supported by the public
funds, the Indian children are taught to
believe that the church that led the most
to their pagan forefathers from the dark
ness of idolatry to the light of Christian
truth, is an enemy of this free republic.
What repsect can those Indian children
have for government that permits
them to be misled in this manner? All
intallioant man we'll know that the