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and has tended to bring the people to their present dicision.  What is true of the blacksmith, is true of every other employer.  No one man can faithfully perform what is now demanded of him by the advanced condition of the [[strikethrough]] people [[/strikethrough]] community.  The employers have done a good work in the past & the people have learned a great deal, the [[?]] Indian employees having [[strikethrough]] all carried [[/strikethrough]] acquired their trades in the Reservation shops.  The people having [[strikethrough]] worked [[/strikethrough]] learned the lesson taught by the employers [[?expect]] now ask leave to practice freely what they have learned.  They [[strikethrough]] say lik [[/strikethrough]] ask that these and other men who are  [[?]] be allowed to open shops upon different parts of the Reservation.  The [[?]] say we will pay them for what they do, and so get our work done when we need it, & without loss of tiome to the detriment of our farms.  Many times it has been said to me.  Of what