The Florence tribune., 1901-05-18

terest in this matter. 1 have desisted. have little farm back i'd Iowa, but not foot of land in Arizona to be benefited by the reservoir. The con more and more deplorable each year as the water supply fails, and it does seem strange that the government will 1 not come to their relief. If something is not done by Congress the coming winter l shall indeed despair"
 The reader will note the difference in the two pictures; but it is the old story of affiuence and poverty side by side. Every possible want supplied to the children in their school, while their parents are left to starve in their wickiups for want of that necessary of life--water
 The other day President Mckinley was driven out to the Phoenix Indian school where several hundred chubby little Indian lads and lasses drilled and spoke in unison for his benefit. On his way out he was shown some ostriches, kept there for he same pur- pose-merely for exhibition.
 Nothing in this article should be con strued as casting the slightest rehec- tion on Agent Hadley or his subordi- mates. Never in it's history has the Saca- ton agency been handled more honestly or efficiently and with less friction. The employees appear to be one happy fam 1 fly, consciensiously carrying out the l policy of the Indian department ac- cording to eastern humanitarian ideas,
 which we of the west believe to be fal lacious. Far less objection can be of l fered to the Sacaton and other reserva- 1 ton schools than to those in Pennsyl-
 vania and Nebraska, where the home
 ties of the Indian are sought to be en-
 tirely broken up, for here only three
 grades are taught, and day schools
 have been esta blished in different parts 1 of the reservation. It is gratifying to
 know that even this advance has been
 made in the Indian policy, for four
 years ago 1t was considered almost
 treachery to speak slightingly of Car
 lisle and Phoenix and other show
 schools, while now those who have the
 best interest of the Indians at heart
 have. no hesitancy in openly proclaim
 ing the policy of reservation schools exclusively, with a home life, us the
 best method of civilization.
 The writer is the author of Me- morial to Congress, adopted by the 18th Arizona Legislature, in which the fol-
 lowing views are expressed, and he has seen 10 reason to change them:
 2. We firmly believe that the inter-
 ests of humanity dictate that the In dians should be gathered on the reser-
 rations, have lands allotted to them in
 severalty, and that they be furnished with farming implements and m inex! 7Ntei~ SuPbf1 VI N deSt TUT llFlS dtiOA
 of thelr lands, to the end that they may become self supporting. By this
 means will home life be furnished for the Indian and he will more rapidly 3 advance in civilization as a conse. quence. He will abandon his nomadiC
 life; his children will be kept at home
 and educated in neighborhood schools instead of being sent to large Indian ? schools at distance where they ! are kept Gas it would seem) for mere purposes of show. After being in
 structed in the arts of civilization for g !, time they are returned to savagery e to become more unhappy and discon !. tented than if they had never received the questionable advantages. We fee that the present policy of the Indiar department is all wrong in this regard I -4