New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-11

his contribution TO the common store OF character.
great deal WHICH is admirable and Wi i ne S
proper work with him is Improvement. not trans
formation.
Referring to his effort to preserve to posterity
the characteristic music Of the Indians, Mr. Leupp
SAYS:
1t is in pursuance Of the general idea Of saving
nstA ad OF crushing what Is genuiney d ,5a+
with your approval and authority have taken
Step p i IS bef IN Indian music This is subject
which has never 9e@n sutiicienty stu1I1G rt ' o9
the world express astonshment that our people
should Should aaFH lar 81 New of the beautiful themes
derivabie from certain native SONGS anu +roiSeiI
the deatE Of the old members of the tribes and
the Sfa S dstinctiVely aboriginal the young
matter Of fact the last Ih n6go1 5 whom we
are irving to indoctrnate with notions o. ! seIt-
ggspefT AS we caucasans take only pleas
ure hut pride in reytving the eS1 Gons in re-
M eion var love industry, conviviaty why should
the indian 6s e,msn born Fellow citizen makes
less patriotic American because ne cliss III,
Should the indian, who sere with his music
DeTG b fn5ep schoos offer US just now our best
opportunity to retrieve past errors as taG as the o
Ell f1fbai elements assembled there The children
should be INSTRUCTED IN the %Sf This pIrpose an
experimental start has been made un6er i3io Of
expert Of native music to which Harold LQr
ing Of Maine, has been aPpOlhIeo eie5s are
iready visible that the idea is spreading fax95aoly
Pe o 9er1 the s is y Tsssp
ton given by m5Seq n9sc bT well Drilled school
has been IN the habit Of playing
WITCH have been accomplished. undertaken or pro-
fecte6. Mr. Leupp describes projected reform
school for the accommodation OF incorTlglole hua
children the necessity Of a sanatorium TOT 1nolan
consunpttves, discusses the method of paying Ind
tan irregular employees Indian police methods OF
purchasing and furnishing supplies the sale OF
LIQUOR to the Indians etc,
Rafarrine to the indian trader, Mr.. LeupD says in
part:
The Indian trader has bad name with the pub
taking advantage Of the ignorance or necesSlIes OF
b 6nness osfsd faa Of an indian from
oil on0Poy TO 3ou fsvdrabIe opporunites for
oyeTreaching he Is 6dS bs s0 Of foPethoug
ana ne SIasi ais fpe isolation of his reservation
and his unsettled mode Of life all conspire to make
him dependent upon the trader. Humanity com
man With the store Of clothing and food to advance
supplies to the cold and hungry me tgaeef ger. Wae
custom diverted to his credit giving competitor,
future income. Keeps the debit side OF the account
continually against the Indjan. ,oo6 ~ e7,, e
great and continuous His store is a common non
and to neary every one of them he has been at
some thine the friend in need; he furnishes the
nearest market for whatever the Indian. has to
Cispose of. and rarely does he turn an unsympe-
thetic ear to the Indians longing for some aEucle
of civilized iuxury-it may be buggy or phone,
graph-to be paid for out of the next annuity
or tiease money" purchase price of a dead an
cestor's allotment.
The licensed trader is survival from the old
coach and the VOLTS scalp currency, and among
more modern conditions seems almost as much OF
an anomaly But he Is retained largely because
whatever trade with Indians is licensed by the
government can be supervised and restricted by
that one trading place can be offered the Indian
and that the nearest one-where he cannot OBTAIN
liquor.
Finally. the commissioner explains, the greatly
misunderstood question Of paying tuition for Ind
ian children at secarian schools citing the opin-
ions of the Attorney General, in which it was de-
cared to lawful for the Secretary of the Interior
to devote to this purpose the interest trust funds
which he is instructed by law to expend for the
benefit Of the Indians. The commissioner points
out that the Indians have first been required to
contribute from these funds their quota toward
the support Of the government schools but that
out of the remainder the Secretary has directed
that the tuition Of certain Indian children be paid
at sectaran schools when duly authenticated peti-
lions from the parents of such children appealing
for this privilege have been fled with the depart