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147-YEAR-OLD TREATY
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In these days of broken treaties in Europe, it is a happy
comment on the American way of life that sometime this month
a tribe of Indians in New York state and another tribe in Wis
consin wi 1 receive about $4,500 worth of calico and cash as the
U. S. Government keeps its treaty pledge with an Indian nation
for the 147th consecutive year.
The distribution of the calico will be in accordance with a
treaty made between the government and the Six Nations of the
Iroquois in western New York during the second administration
of George Washington.
The man who administers the treaty payment this year is
John Collier. U. S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the i m>‘
chief of t'ne Office of Indian Affairs who has jurisdiction over In
dian activities in Alaska.
The original treaty was signed on November 11, 1794, and
offered in return for peace and friendship between the Indians
and the whites of those early days to pay to the Indians a quan
tity of goods equal in value to $10,000. That was to be the down
payment to the Indian nation. The treaty further stipulated
that each year, forever, the U. S. Government would pay to the
Indians a sum of $4,500 to be expended for clothes, domestic
animals, implements of husbandry and other utensils.
But tilings have changed a great deal since the day the treaty
was signed. Many of the Indians of today are successful farm
ers. business men and craftsmen who are supporting themselves
richly'. It hass been suggested that an annual cash settlement be '
given the tribesmen each year, in lieu of the merchandise pay
Tnent. But the New York Indians themselves have voted to ad
here to the original provisions of the treaty. Calico was decided
upon by the government agents and the Indians as a practical
and desirable substitute for the items mentioned in the treaty.
Each year, a sort of celebration is held when the Indians
come m t > th ir c n .vanity meeting house and receive the calico.
T:ie New Y rk remnant of the original Six Nations, sturdy de
scendants of the braves who were featured in James Fenimore
Cooper’s Leather, .ticking Tales, annually receive S2.7 0 worth of
ca ic v The additional $1,300 is paid in cash to the Oneida Indiana,
■wh n evi d to Wise: nsin and are now under the jurisdiction of
the Tomah Agency in Wisconsin.
The continuation of this treaty payment on the part of the
gov rumen: may not seen comparable to the treaties mad be
tween great nations of the world but we must remember that at
the t: re tin Ir aty was signed, the United S ates was a young,
Rp ’ y populated country and the Indian nations were c.stab
li bed p v. r.s in this land. Long since, these Indian nations
have ci rn d to be other than an integral part of the country, and
t:ie.> 1 could certainly be little political reason for continuing t*
h nor the treaty out of fear for an uprising, but sti 1 the treaty
provisions are being carried out by both government and Indians.
It w uld be hard to imagine many of the European nations,
cap chilly Naz. Germany, continuing to honor a tr. :.-,y for a frac
tion of the length of time the Indian agreement has been on the
books.
D O N t W I T H A M I R R O R—Sprucing up in front of a
mirror at the end of clothes-distributing line at the New Cumber
land, Pa., army center. Private Robert Charles Strouse of Kenner
dell, Pa., proves a point in psychology that the sign over the
L mirror seems to make.
THE WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO ROUND
By Drew Pearson and
Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON — Army and
1 Navy strategists who stay up late
1 studying the defense of the U. S.
A. consider only one part of the
country in actual danger of Axis
invasion in the near future.
They have some definite ideas
about the Panama Canal, Texas
and the Southwest if the Nazis
ever get across from the bulge
of Africa to the bulge of Brazil.
But for the time being, with Nazi
armies encroaching on Russia,
and with Japan becoming more
and more belligerent, they say
the only real danger spot is Al
aska-separated by only 25 miles
of Bering Sea from the mainland
of Siberia.
In view of this, it is interest
ing to dig into the musty archiv
es of the State Department re
garding the manner in which Al
aska was acquired from Russia.
The purchase took place short
ly after the war between the
States, when the Czar was occu
pied in trying to get an outlet
through the Bosphorus, which
risked war with England. So he
was afraid England might take
Alaska. Also A’aska was valu
able chiefly for seal and sea ot
ter furs to beautify the ladies in
waiting, and the Alaska fur crop
was getting low.
Simultaneously. Charles Sew
ard, Secretary of States in 1867,
was anxious to extend the new
American “empire” both north
and south and had suggested the
Alaskan purhase to the Russian
ambassador in Washington. The
Czar, in reply, told his ambassa
dor, confidentially to sell for five
million dollars. But the Ambas
sador, thinking there woud be
some bargaining, sent a message
to Secretary Seward one night
and told him his government,
would sell Alaska for $7,000,000.
He said he would come to the
State Dpartment to discuss the
deal in the morning.
Bu Seward summoned him to
the State Department that night.
In fact he was so anxious to get
A’aska that he sent carriages out
for State Department clerks, and
kept the lights burning in the De
pqrtment until about 1 a.m. when
the treaty for the purchase final
ly was signed. The price was
$7,200,000 — exactly $2,200,000
more than the price proposed by
the Czar. The extra $200,000 was
thrown in to purchase a Russian
development operating there.
After the treaty was signed.
Congress rebelled agains ratify
ing it, c’aimed it was an area of
rocks and ice. So Seward sent;
a slu-h fund of $300,000 to Cap
itol Hill, of which $10,000 was
paid to Thaddeus Stevens, fam-|
ous crusader for freedom of the
slaves and author of the Four
teenth Amendment.
Later the Russian Ambassador
asked him to relieve him from1
duty in such a center of corrup
tion. I
Smuggler of War Material
There is a German smuggler
operating in the Caribbean off
the coast of Mexico.
This was the inside reason for
the President’s sudden transfer
of hie entire Coast Guard to the
Navy —the Coast Guard’s ships
Thanksgiving Services at
Eskimo Church Tomorrow
Special Thanksgiving Services
wi 1 be held at the Eskimo
Church Thursday morning at 11
i a m. A “Thank offering” .will be
I taken. The public is welcome to
the morning service.
At 6 p.m. the annual native
Thanksgiving Feast will be held
! at the clubhouse. The Feast is
sponsored by the “Sisterhood”
and ‘Brotherhood” organizations.
Delicious, Fresh. Quick
Frozen Srawberries
35. a Box
Lehmann’s
and p anes are needed to track
down the Nazi intruder.
Sensational feature about the
smuggler is that she is a former
U. S. vessel—the 500-ton Diesel
engined yacht that once belong
ed to A. Atwater Kent, Phila
delphia radio magnate.
The one-time pleasure ship
now is being operated under the
Panamanian flag out of Vera
Cruz, Mexico, by Nazi agents in
that city, and is being used to
transport high test gasoline and
mercury to small Caribbean Is
lands where Japanese ships col
lect the smuggled strategic sup
plies.
The yacht recently unloaded
1 COO flasks of mercury at an is
land which for military reasons
must he name’ess.
The former luxury craft came
into possession of the Nazis by a
circuitious route which Intelli
gence experts uncovered only a
few weeks ago. The purchase wasj
made by a shipping company)
whose main office is in Vera Cruz
and has a branch office in New
Orleans, where transfer of title
took place. The price was $18,000.
Fortunately for Intelligence,
the pavment was made in U. S.
bills of $1000 denomination. From
the serial numbers, the bills were
traced back to a Vera Cruz bank.
There it was learned the money
had been withdrawn from the
account of the leading Nazi busi
ness house in Mexiico, and turn
ed over to the shipping company
that bought the yacht.
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Nazi Owners
Subsequent investigation re
vea’ed that all the stockholders;
of this company were Germans;'
also that the two top officers
werp Spaniards, one a naturaliz;
ed Mexican and the other a nat
uralized American citizen.
Now every movement of the
yacht is watched hut there is no
thrng the United States can do j
about the ship unless she en
ters American waters. So far the
vessel has been very careful to
stay within Mexican territorial I
waters.
Before the U. S. authorities un
covered the Nazi ownership of i
the yacht and the nature of its
operations, however, it made 3;
trips to Cuba. It also docked sev
eral times at Panama. The crew
of the vessel from the captain
down, are Spaniards recently \
brought from Spain expressly!
for this purpose.
NOTE -The yacht is one of sev \
oral to which deposed pro-Nazi |
President Arias gave Panaman-!
ian registry.
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