The Indian advocate., March 01, 1902, Page 68, Image 4

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order1 to inveigle the old Indians to send their offspring to the
Government schools. Preachers who pretend to be in the
service of God advised Catholic Indians tov send their chil
dren to schools where no religion (or perhaps Protestantism)
was taught.
9. The transportation of pupils required an enormous
sum paid' by the Government. These moneys and the sala
ried preachers enabled our enemies to keep up the agitation
against the Catholic contract schools until they were de
prived of the moderate support formerly given. Thus the
Indian service of the Government, if not intentionally, yet
actually interfered with religion among the Indians.
10. We have told only part of the machinery brought
into operation for the Government schools and for Protest
antism. ' And now here is the result as given by Mr. Jones:
"For about a generation the Government has been taking
a very active interest in the welfare of the Indian. In that
time he has been located on reservations and fed and clothed;
he has been supplied lavishly with utensils and means to earn
his living, with materials for his dwelling and articles to fur
nish it: his children have been educated and money has been
paid him; farmers arid mechanics have- been supplied him,
and he has received aid in a multitude of different ways. In
the last thirty-'three years over $240,000,000 have been spent
upon 'an Indian population not exceeding 180,000, enough, if
equitably divided, to build each one a house suitable to his
condition and furnish it throughout; to fence his land and
build him a barn; to buy him a wagon and team and harness:
to furnish him plows and the other implements necessary to
cultivate the ground, and to give him something besides to
embellish and beautify his home.
"What is his condition to-day? He is still being fed; his
children are still being educated and money is still being paid
hint; ihe i's still dependent upon the Government for existence:
mechanics wait on him and farmers still aid him: he is little if