Letter from George B. Cortelyou to E. A. Hitchcock
This item is a letter enclosing another letter from Thomas J. Morgan to the President.
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beneficence, and the aid extended by the Peabody and Slater Funds,
are to be supplemented in their beneficient work by large funds con-
tributed by philanthropic men interested in the tremendous problem
of fitting for citizenship eight millions of people just emerging
from bondage and semi-barbarism. The problems that confront these
schools are in many respects similar to those that confront the
Indian schools, so that the Government system of schools established
for Indians pught to be very helpful in the establishment and ad-
ministration of schools for the black men.
The Government is called upon to establish and maintain the
schools in Porto Rico and in the Philippine Islands where the con-
ditions are som ewhat similar, and call for agencies very much like
those in use in the Indian Schools. These latter should be an
object lesson, influential and everyway helpful, in the development
of the schools in our insular possessions. These, it seems to me,
are sufficiently weighty considerations to justify the maintenance
of our Indian Schools at the highest degree of efficiency and to
necessitate the appointment of the best available talent in their
administration. I think I voice the sentiment of the educators of
the United States when I say to you that the appointment of a first
class educational expert, such as could be named to you by such
educational authorities as Commissioner W. I. Harris, and others, would
give very great satisfaction. When President Harrison asked me to
suggest a suitable man as Commissioner of Education, I said to him
that the best equipped man for the place was Dr. W. T. Harris, who was
accordingly appointed, and the appointment was received with univer-
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