Arizona republican., 1902-03-01

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 What good does such education to them either east or west? They can do the east no good by it. They can do no good in the west with it. It de- stroys their ability to live in happiness or peace among their own What good does it do his tribe? But where you have a school, where he can see it close to the white church. the plow the anvil, and the school house, it does him good or may do him good.
 Let him see how education is ob tained. let him see every day what civiliza ton means, ana then he himself will in time probably want to learn to read. I would not give one good work ing Indian for the sweetest songster among them all. He will do more to elevate his tribe than all the philoso- phy, all the mathematics and geometry you may teach him in a thousand years. The best Indian that I ever saw on the San Carlos reservation-and he had the best schooling for what lay be- fore him in life, and that was four years in the penitentiary Qaughter), where he learned discipline-learned to work and obtained something to live upon.
 This school at Carlisle and every one like it is the outgrowth of sentimental ism. The motives and principles act uating these people are of the very highest. but their knowledge of the question is of the very narrOwest. Now. Mir Chairman. this appropriation ought to be stricken from the bill. The government ought not to pay one cent for this Carlisle school. The children ought to be kept and educated near the reservation.
 Speaking eXtem0oraneousiy. Tdr. Smith could not well have put the sit uation better. The Phoenix Indian school, and all other schools situated near reservations. are doing socd wcgx. and the appropria tions for them should not be stinted. But Mir. smith, in the colloquy with members succel- ing his remarks quoted above. fitly characterized the education which h. dian youth receive in the east as hot house training" and ne was right. What the Indian needs above all e.se in addition to primary teaching, is a practical education which will enable him to make a living for himself. And the only way in which he can naSe his living is by farming. The government is criminaIly foolish in giving Indian D0NE q tlDl-fAo-s~t tuUfsAAlbAi laA AiAN NeA@N and then returning them to their res ervations where they must live as vag- abonds and associate with their elders who are not only loafers by force of necessity but insist on the returned student becoming savage with them selves As a net result. the educated Indian out of emrsoyment becomes rather more vicious and worthless than his fgorant relatives.
 To maintain the Indians in their tribal relations, to keep them. educated and uneducated alike. in half-starved idIeness, and to withhold from them the proper instruction in agriculture and the means for pursuing the same. comprises the policy of the sentiment ally foolish east. As Governor Mur- phy pointed out in his annual report, and as Mir smith has so ably shown on the floor of congress, this policy is stupid in the extreme. Until the gov ernment adopts what might veil be termed the Arizona policy" there can be no material advancement. for the Indians on the western reservations.
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 Next to exploring the island of Ti- buron. which lies in the Gulf of Cali
 icrnia, short distance HEDIN'S below the Arizona line. FAILURE. the most dangerous feat
 for travellers is to at tempt an entrance into Lhasa. the for bidden "hoIy city, of Tibet. The news papers have announced the arrival in Cashmere of the famous explorer. Sven ITedin, from his field of explorations in Central Asia. No cable reports. how eyre. have reached this country with regard to his adventures in Tibet while crossing that vast country to India, ex- cept the vague statement that he lost a part Of his expedition.
 The telegraphic dispatch which he has sent to the King Of Sweden shows that he had most exciting time while travelling through that forbidden coun- try. His dispatch is lacking in detail. but gives brief outline of his adven- lures.
 It appears that he could not resist the temptation of making an effort. like many explorers before him, to reach the forbidden city Of Lhasa. So he dis Guised himself as a pilgrim and sue ceeded in approaching Lhasa within a few miles.
 The town was thrown into much ez- citemeut by the discovery that a for- eigner was approaching the city, and he was at once made prisoner. For tunately for the explorer he was not tortured as the Engiishman Lander was when he tried to reach Lhasa from the north.
 Hedin was well treated by the e5s press command of the Dalai Lama. Per haps this was partly due to the friendly relations which seem to have been es- l.. hIiehad ht. The rrieeinr1 ,,.hich nt t,n