The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-12-23
TRAINING SCHOOL OPENING

The Industrial Training School which has been building at
Ross Fork tor the past has been completed and the
formal opening occurred on Friday evening" October o The
school has been use since September but not until last Friday
evening portals thrown open the public for inspection
ano the usual houewamng In accordance with the arrange
mens made by Major Caldwell company of about seventyve
invited guests from Blackfoo Ross Fork Pocateo and nkom
gathered to spend the evening social intercourse among them
selves and the nations wards for whom the institution was built
Out Of the sale Of lands belonging the Indians the gov
eminent has erected four large buildings fitted with mod
appliances for living and school purposes Every
thing heated with steam there is system Of water works
furnishing hot and cold for the buildings with FIRE pressure
and equipments for fighting fire. and everything from roof to
basement lighted with electricity furnished by the Brady COM
pany Pocatelo The buildings stand on an enence about
half mile south Of the station and part the plan to put
large oland under cultivation and plant trees and ar
range beautiful campus between the buildings and the railroad
track in front where heavy passenger trains carry Of
travel hroug ghout the year.
In the background are Mount Putnam and the foothills
where the lies among the pines till early August while
in front the Snake plains where the burning Of
mer keeps the soil dry and pached except where the hand Of
artificial irrigation has unlocked the bountes Of the horn Of
plenty.
Across the nver to the westward stretches the Snake river
wealth Of rich counties scarcely bom that part Of the valley
reaching to the norwad from Minidoka and American Falls
where the camp fires Of many grading camps indicate the oca
ton Of great reservoirs and canals being built by the American
Falls Canal and Power Companys SYSTEM which single de-
cade will form the nucleus Of agricultural and commercial opera
lions equal to the best settlements in the valley now
At central point their reservation in the midst Of such
surroundings and with such future they predicate the gov
has established the Industrial Training School which
to mold the habits and from which will emanate the best social
Ie Of its awards known the Shoshones and Bannocks
In years gone BY the white race recognizing its indebted
the native population, has expended much money for
flour and beef to feed the Indians whose fish and game the set
tiers had deprived them Of but dene the cocoon Of vice. only
aggravated condition that lead furnishing them with tools
that they knew not how with whose gearing they
ruined because they did understand the principals gov
emng its and preservation with wagons whose wheels made
such grand demonstrations Of speed when turned loose one at
time mountain side go by leaps and bounds till they
struck great rock cliff and ruined Things like these
gradually burned into the white the conviction that ne
gent direction and training must be instituted carry the Indian
the gulf that hes between the life Of savage and the life
Of civilized man forming constituent part Of great
pendent social body
1t has been shown that the Indian is susceptible Of acquiring
good education but those who taken from the tepe and
graduated from Carlisle with high honors have found themselves
barred by racial differences from a6ang with their intellectual
equals among the whites and with cultivated tastes that make
them wretched among their ignorant people who have re-
NAMED at home ekng poor exsance industries that
becoming obsolete advocadons which they fail to sue
ceed in
But these conditions do prove that the Indian should not
lifted above the plain he occupies Our oefathers
he Bntons living savagey when intelligent and CIV
lzed people worshpng the true God in the Temple at
jerusalem, but coming touch with human progress they have
utspped that people all things and stand prs-emnent
having put the breath Of the tcakete the iron horse to
AIRY their burdens having built iron galley slave sit
lay and night for years perform their labor feeding itself
instances with petroleum which it pumped with its own
engh from subterranean deposits hamessng the to
urnsh power their machinery and to furnish elegant
with clear crystal light grding the earth with
nd cables that transmit his touch his distant parts Of
he earth and through restless receiving and storing the
words of men who sneak oday and having the device which