Harper's Weekly

“ Schurz, highly commending the Hampton school, and the famous Indian fighter declared that the Indians must be civilized, and that education is the only way to civilize them. He agreed that they are now ready, and that this is the solution of the Indian problem. Captain Pratt, of the Carlisle school, spoke in a very lively vein of the readiness and capacity of the Indian for civilization. There are 50,000 Indian children in the country, and there ought to be a hundred schools to influence them. ”

“ Those who agree that the traditional treatment of the Indians by the government has been inhuman and unjustifiable, and who propose wise and practicable measures hereafter, are really friends and allies. Ex-Secretary Schurz represents an administration whose Indian record, including the appointment of General Miles's commission, is the best in our history, and General Miles is identified with the commission whose brave and humane report is worthy of American gentlemen and statesmen. ”