New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

lized" Six Nations; and the older the
suuaw the greater her individual
power. Thirty-four chiefs there may
be-thirty-four chiefs and uncounted
medicine men and witch doctors-Dut
they all wait on the word Of Mary Big
Bear and Lily Moonbeam.
Lily brings us back TO the subJect
of moons-and drafts.
There was another f1uttering about
of couriers, another signal fire lighted
and another conclave OF chiefs Ill the
Long House" a couple of weeks before
registration day. To this DR.. Bates
was not invited. His information OF
what transpired came at secondhand
but he considered it authentic enough
to justify rush message to Governor
Whitman. His proteges, he learned,
were getting ready to take the war
path again, this time to uphold prln-
ciples purely Iroquois. Not being
wanted as volunteers with Teddy
they were resolved TO sell their lives
dearly in resistance to the draft.
Major Leslie Kincaid was sent down
from the Office of the adjutant general,
who is in charge of the state draft.
After talk with DR.. Bates, he did not
doubt the ability Of the handful that
is left of the Six Nations to make very
bad medicine should they be so dis
posed.
Every brave, young and old, has
arms, ammunition and q determine
tion not to be imposed upon by foreign
powers.
When he came to have heart-to-
heart telk with the head chief, Frank
HIT ~,
the eyes of the lroquois, the United
States is nothing more nor less than a
foreign power when it. begins to die
tate what the Six Nations shall and
shall not do.
The Difference Explained
II was carefully explained by the
head chief that there is difference
between the Iroquois and Western Ind
ians-that the tribes on the plains are
conquered peoples, driven by force of
arms onto reservations and held there
under military law; whereas, the SIX
Nations are unconquered and sovereign
living where and as they do because
they chose to sign treaties far in the
past with Dutch and English and early
state Governors.
The major went to Washington and
could find nothing in the records TO
refute Frank Logan's contention. Be
tween them, promising there would be
no draft, he and DIR. Bates managed to
persuade the embattled lroquois ia
submit to registration. What the gov
eminent intends to do is mystery.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
has decided that blanket" Indians
shall not be conscripted, but the lro-
ouois are not that kind of Indian, their
case, as Frank Logan demonstrated to
almost everybody's satisfaction, being
considerably dissimilar.
If the Six Nations are to be included
in the blanket" exemption, well and
GOOD. They will go on tilling the soil
and working in the factories, and
maybe some later on will enlist.
Frank Logan died three weeks ago
his part Of the work accomplished. and
the Six Nations are without a head
chief.
The all powerful 'Rrandmothers" are
hiding their time before suggesting
that another meeting Of the lesser
chiefs be called, on the chance there
NAV be a second purpose for the pass
ing Of the firebrand-that purpose TO
declare last Indian war on the United
States
1t all depends on the Great White
Stepfather and what he intends to do
with the registration cards of the Iro-
ouois braves, which are now held by
the clerk Of Onondaga County. II
he regards the Iroquois as they re-
gard themselves and as the old treaties
appear to establish them, sovereign
nation. all will be well. If he does not
New York Of the present day stands .
learn with jolt what q ripe moon
means