Review of reviews and world's work . racticable form, by which the Indians maybe taught the principles on which our legal procedurerests, and questions affecting property or other rights,arising through the development of civilized lifeamong them, may be equitably settled. WHAT THE WEST SHOULD DO. if the Western friends of themore actively It would be wellIndians should now assert themselvesthan heretofore. The Indian people, whom they havein foi-mer days regarded as their enemies, must betransfonned into their neighbors and friends. Thecivilized and prosperous communities giowing up inthese n
Review of reviews and world's work . racticable form, by which the Indians maybe taught the principles on which our legal procedurerests, and questions affecting property or other rights,arising through the development of civilized lifeamong them, may be equitably settled. WHAT THE WEST SHOULD DO. if the Western friends of themore actively It would be wellIndians should now assert themselvesthan heretofore. The Indian people, whom they havein foi-mer days regarded as their enemies, must betransfonned into their neighbors and friends. Thecivilized and prosperous communities giowing up inthese new States and Tenitories will be neither Chris-tian nor humane if they shall not soon become aroused to the simple fact that they have tlie fiiture of theIndians largely in their own hands and that they, ifthey will, can gi-eatly help the Government to trans-form the red men into peaceful and usefi;! membersof the general community. One of the first steps the Western friends of Indianprogress might take to good advantage would be to. MR. HERBERT WELSH. make an organized demand for complete civil servicereform in the agencies. The President of the UnitedStates has more power theoretically than he possessespractically for the extension of civil service reformprinciples and methods. He is under limitationsfixed by the state of public opinion. The Westernpeople have it in their power to secure almost at oncethe abandonment of the part}- spoils systems in theIndian service, and it is time they should take a moreleading part in the cause of Indian civilization andcitizenshii). HASKELL INSTITUTE AS ILLUSTRATING INDIAN PROGRESS. BY PROFESSOR F. W. BLACKMAR, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. OXE of the best ways to ascertain the progressmade in Indian education is to examine the workof Haskell , Lawrence, Kansas. Haskell In-stitute was founded in 1882 through the agency of C. Haskell, whose memory every Kansan de-lights to honor. The citizens of LawTence donated 280acres
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