The Indian Advocate (Sacred Heart Mission, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 14, No. 2, Ed. 1, Saturday, February 1, 1902 Page: 5 of 32
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not see in all my journey which lasted for several weeks a
single school that was doing any educational work worthy of
the name of educational work unless it was under the control
of the Jesuits."
Senator Vest found schools with 1500 enrolled and not
ten in attendance except pn the days when the Indian agent
distributed free meat when every one of the 1500 put in an
appearance. He also found schools conducted by broken-
down Protestant ministers and politicians receiving $1200 a
year with a house free for work which was shamefully neg-
lected. To what extent this work was carried may be judged
from this extract from Senator Vest's speech: "When I cross-
questioned them (the ex-Prntestant ministers and the broken-
down politicians) I found their actual attendance was about
three to five in the hundred in the enrollment." The whole
Indian system was simply a huge bunco game practiced on the
Government which had to foot bills for which it and its Indian
wards received no proper equivalent.
After examining the condition of the schools managed by
broken-down Protestant ministers and politicians Senator
Xest turned .his attention to schools under Catholic auspices.
He tells us that he found that the Jesuit missionaries among
the Indians had grasped the.true meaning of education go far
as the red man is concerned. "They established" says Sena-
tor Vest "a different system separating the boys and girls
teaching them how to work for that is the problem not how
to read or spell nor the laws of arithmetic but how to work
and get rid of the insane prejudice taught by the Indians from
the beginning that nobody but a squaw should work and that
' it degrades a man to do any sort of labor or in fact to do any-
thing' except to hunt and to go to war."
'A generation or two of this sort of education and the red
man will be a totally different being from what he is to-day.
Wherever the Catholic Church. has an opportunity of bringing
her moral influence to bear upon savages she invariably has
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