Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-04-03

l Warpatn against tuS wulIeS AAumSuI~
tHately following the killing of Sitting
Bull by the Indian police near. Stand
ing Rock Agency. Short Bull Is now
! leading lazy life OF retirement on
! the agency. His warpath days are
| over, but he was Jealous for fight q
score Of years ago and with Kicking
4 Bear he was declared SO dangerous
| that the two were led captiyes to Fort
Sheridan near Chicago.
While the Sioux We're still on the
warpath early in the month Of jan
uary, 1891, Red Cloud, Jacks father.
who was too old to 60 on the war
path no matter what his yearnings
were, was sent out. by his military
/ authorities to the hostile camp to, use
his best endeavors to induce the In
j dams to surrender without further
fighting. There had been a fight at
Wounded Knee, where ninety OF the
Seventh cavalry were killed and
wounded, and where Big Foot's band
OF Sioux virtually had been wiped out
OF existence. The authorities ibid not
want any more Of 1t, If they could
bring the thing to an end peaceably.
Red Cloud went out on his mission
| and, when he came back he said that
his appeals had been OF no avail.
Craft Of the Redskln.
After the surrender one OF the Sioux
! warriors was asked what Red Cloud
said to them when he was deliver.
ing the soldiers message asking for
neace. Did he deliver it? Not II the
youths of his tribe tell the truth
They said that the chief came to them
and that his bleary old eyes lighted
and his voice was young when he told
them that war was for men, and
peace was for towards.
An attempt was made after the sur
| render to get Red Cloud to tell the
story of the Fetterman fight, In which
he led the Sioux. Jack Red Cloud
brought to his father q granddaughter
who spoke English, and she was
asked to act as interpreter. but the
old man refused to tell the story, say.
ing that it was not for a warrior; to
boast. and then he added that some
white man might tell the story.
1t was not long after the Civil war
that Red Cloud met IN battle the field.
tried soldiers of that conflict and they
found him worthy to meet them. Min
eral wealth had been discovered IN
Montana and the rush OF prospectora
and settlers made 1t necessary TOR the
government to erect a military post
! along the trail leading over the
prairies to the mines. On the trail
! to the Powder River was built Fort
| Phil Kearney. While the troops or.
dered to the new post were on the
march scout came riding into the
| column with his horse under spur.
Later Red Cloud with his braves met
Fetterman In battle and killed him
and fifty followers. n 4;
Circles the Globe.
One man in Washington is in touch.
by wire and wireless, with every cor
ner Of the United States, even up to
farthest Nome, Alaska. And this
same man, byswire and wireless, is in
touch with the whole world-Witth tho 2
SIX or seven hundred wireless tele-
graph shore stations scattered all over
the globe, not to speak Of the OPP
orators on. the ships sailing the seas OF
the globe. 81 II y, 3. IA 4 5is5s
s II he SO desired, and II the govern
ment which pays him his salary IN the
department Of war so ordered, this
| man could talk with the operator in
PASSPORT, Maine; the Harvard Univer.
sity laboratory, the lightship Skunk"
| on the English coast. with the Rus
sian station at vladivostok, Siberia;
with Perrin or Zanzibar, some miles
to the southwark. III twas neces-
sary to do so, words could be flashed
from Fort William Mckinley across
to Fukui, Japan, and, no one sailing
underneath the flying messages need
be the wiser. And every day the num-
Der Of these points In the gigantic
forld-circling system Of intercommuni.
cation increases-both in efficiency
and certainty. The one man in the
war department at Washington will
have his hands full, and he can talk
all he wants to. IL 4, 4. ss
viii BE No Babel. K
'"'The ether" says Commissioners
Chamberlain OF the bureau OF naviga-
ton, SIS common property, and with
the cheapest apparatus unrestrained
trivial messages can create babel.
What a magnificent babel it would be
II the tribes and tongues were at war
with each other! But, despite the In.
genuities Of the ever-present prac-
teal joker, there isn't going to be any
babel.
IL AS long ago as 1905 the Imperial
German government, observing tho
need for the regulation OF wireless
telegraphy, and in order to secure the
greatest benefit from It and prevent
the establishment Of a worldwide
wireless monopoly, invited other ma
lions to join 1t In adequate interna'
tional regulauon-the only effective
kind, as wireless defles boundary
lines. + =: q III s5. "A: y
It seems that the delegates from
the United States were influential In
shaping the international agreement,
but, owing to a peculiar circumstance.
they are poWerless to further the rati'
.fcation by this nation. The reason 10
simple: the land-telegraphs OF Europe.
Japan and nations generally are own
ed by the government and are usually
operated by the national postoftice sys.
tem-also always a government insti.
tuition.
Where the Hitch Comes.
In the United States, Of course, pri-
vate capital controls the land tele-
graph lines. Now, the Berlin conven-
ton fixes the rates Of wireless dis
patches and provides for their trans
mission over land lines to their ter.
minus and from their point of origin.
Some people say that without either
federal ownership or else federal
control Of land lines 1t will be impos-
sible for this country to join the rest
OF the civilized world in contract
essential to the well-being OF wireless
telegraphy. ist