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or barbers, hotel waiters, etc. These qualifications would bring the^[[m]] into fellowship with the world, not having these qualities they are out of fellowship with the world and it seems to me every move we make is only calculated to keep them so.  I am getting tired and pessimistic.  I despise the plans of my good friends Gen. Morgan more than I can tell you.  The public ^[[school]] system at home is like lands and severalty, another anchor to keep them there, and as lands and severalty and the public school system on the reservation are on top I feel as though the service has little use for me, and there is not a day but what I am willing and more than willing to quit.  I can get them into fellowship with the country, I can get them into the public school system of the country, I can make them self-supporting on many lines, which means supremest manhood.  I suppose really I am to work and wait ^[[&]] so thats what I am doing.  Morgan help^[[s]] me all he can but notwithstanding all the noise of ^[[w]]hat he says, he dabbles in politics as much as any man I have come in contact with in my ^[[Indian]] experience.  He tells he Catholics the Constitution is against his helping them and then presents to them an increased amount of the school fund.  He makes a great deal of noise in the fight over the contract with the Catholic Bureau and seems to whip but having the increased appropriation they are after they retire, but in reality are more strongly entrenched.

I realize you must be driven.  What an easy thing it seemed to us at first,- to allot the lands your way, and educate the children my way!  I can still see that it was just as easy but I