Observer and Star, 10 Oct 1919, p. 2

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; "six ppd INDIANS. Adorticies good specials very frequently and the three undern entioned . are. rather Boys Bloomer P Pants sizes, lined throughout, ook to wear, blue with neat vhite stripe. Not at all a bad pant for $2. Ten dozen bought facto clearance, my price. $150 ~ "APPLES "Poets may 20 trantic and lwell with love upon the Eastern Outario Apple. After 30 years say; let them, (but give me the British Columbia "man who takes a box, sorts out his best apples, wraps them are efully in paper and packs a riform size. No deception, all ike. The barrel packer makes a lovely bop, § but Then ou get fo i jo do not (hink ne can Lh d better. 1 Six Nations' #4 bound, L oJ 0000005060006 66661000000060 SELTEIIT419IOIINIIENISIEn 'ete BAI i lday in force among The System which? is enounced as §. : in favor of registration { scription was that b # Nation's were not su Men Who Fought For Their rani During the War Are Opposed to the Indians' 'Gouncil as Now Con- stituted and Claim n Voice In the Government of the Red Men on -the Reserve Near Brantford. - HILE the tcemahawk has long sinee been buried, and no longer the braves go out clad in buckskin and marked with feathers the fight- ing spirit of the Indian has not de- parted. Proof of this, if it was ne- cessary, was vouchsafed by the In- dians throughout the Dominion dur- ing the past five years. In this the Six Nations, inhabiting the reserve near Brantford--what remains of the tract of land, six miles on each side | of the Ouse or Grand river, given to them by the British Crown; for thetr services to the royalist cause during the United States Revolutionary war, -- were no exception. Their record is even better than that of the remain- der of Brant county, in which a part of the reserve, and their council seat, Ohsweken, are located. and Brant, claim. to having furnished more men in: proportion to its population than [any other part of Canada. : Official records show that 295 of the braves of the Six Nations donned khaki. action, six died of sickness contracted while on active service, one was re- ported missing, 55 were wounded, and but one was taken prisoner. This is a record which can.be compared with that of any other class or com- munity without bringing a blush of Indians. It is more than passing interest to man to fall in action, was Lieut. Cam- eron D. Brant, a direct descendant, on both sides of the house, of that noted warrior chief and loyal British Thayendanegea, Chief Joseph Brant, whose statue -adorns. Victoria Park, Brantford, and whose tomb is beside His Majesty's Chapel Royal of the Mohawks, just outside the city limits, and a spot frequented by many tour- ists. He fell in the charge of the Fourth Battalion, when "that bat- talion gained its' name of "Mad Fourth,"" when they charged the | hedge at Ypres in the second 'battle fof that name. But the Six Nations Indians who fought for democracy abroad are home. "riors have protested against the Gov- ernment by 'petticoats' which is to the. Six diation 'petticoat government" is based upon the tribal law that the chiefs shall be named only from among the im- mediate family of a deceased chief, Thus, if a chief dies,.the women of the chief's family meet and decide upon the succession, which goes through the distaff side. The chiefs in the aggregate form the Council of Chiefs, which rules the nati Ss to this day, with practically all insignia and customs retained. is what might be termed as critical, in that the 'war has brought to a focus the fight on -the 'part of the. warriers, for a share in the govern- ment of the nations. applied to them, hut later this ruling was withdrawn, and. the M.S.A., at 'Nations Indians' 'Council did not: 'do its part. They point out that when { the question of sending an. Indian: contingent came up through the offer of Lieut. -Col.. Hamilton Merritt, "Toronto, an. honorary chief and a life- , | long friend .of the Six Nations, to" FY provide $95,000 for the counplete eguipinent of two companies of Six 'the. Six Nations'. Nations' Indians, Council refused the offer, on the ground that they, the regular chiefs or sachems, had no right to make, war, but that this should be taken up by a war council, . Later in' the 114th Battalion, Brock's Rangers, tunately owing to 'the exigencies of § war, this battalion was broken up and many of the men sent to forestry and constrictions corps, no body of Indians going to the front as a unit. The warriors also point to 'the fact that the Six Nations' Council refused } to assist the Patriotic Fund, and that at ome time the Indian soldiers' de- { pendents were cut off, and: remained without that assistance until the Haldimand = County Patriotic Fund came to the rescue. As further' evi- @ | dence of the need for a change of 5 'government 'they point to the ant that the Six: Nations' Council | 0- I tested against conscription, and. Po 4 also protested against registratio n such an extent that they engaged legal 'talent to {sht for those Indians who refused to be registered, though they claim. that a huge majority 'was It might be oeriing to oint out that the basis of the > the Indian chiefs' council on con- y treaty the. Six, bjects of Canada,, nor of the British Crown, but were 'allies of the British Crown, Thsy 'claimed that under the treaty--amnd the treaty is still extant and bears out the eclaim--the King across the water could call on his allies of the Indians for" 'help, case they must, as Treats respond with all aviilable Such call must come himself, however, through the Canadian 'Government, had no DOWEr 'over t In which mi en. ; Au People I Canada Could Be P t | world's popu atlon is widely distri-| buted, the agtual space 'occupied isu } square miles, they could all be ac- including the city of Brantford, lays Of these 27 were killed In shame to the cheeks of lovers of.the . note, that the first Brant county born. how ready to fight for democracy at: For : many years past the war- | and by the women of that family. of the 'walking pictures. he old The position on the reserve Th Conscription at 1 first was ruled from Ottawa to have no time was enforced. The! wartiors "went voluntarily and gladly. -- But the warriors claim 'that the Six 3 (old man), who is said to be 125 of _ 'the Indians had a place, but unfor. grounds. ican and Canadian traps, nets and selnes lie in wait over an ocean high-1 way of three hundred miles, the ; salmon has: only about one chance in | a thousand of getting through. 'British Columbia rivers, the salmon | are.' running Fishermen there are making as high as five Aundred dollars a week. decision of | Memorial Cemetery, near Oyster Bay, to. place flowers beside tha grave of Theodore: Roosevelt. to a. great. man's memory from the { lowly. trappers of Northern Canada. They loved 'him very much." STE trom the | and not | : _PoPULATIO oF WORLD, db Hyde Park. a f the fact that the In spite comparatively! small. "Although,!' says the author of an article in 'John o' Lendon's Week- ly," "you could put half a hundred Englands and 'Wales in Australia, and 'yet have plenty of room to walk round them, all the people on that vast continent could be tucked up for the night iin Kensington Gardens. Although 'there is enough land in Canada to make the British Islesi more: than thirty times, Hyde Park would afford comfortable standing- room for every one of its inhabi- tants, 'with {space to move their elbows, ; "King George's Indian subjects number some 315 millions, or nearly | a fifth of the entire world' s popula-| tion; but, although they are scat- tered over approximately 1,700, 000 commodated 'in a space six miles by four, or less than half the area of London within the four-mile radius! from Charing Cross; while a tiny annex less than the Green Park would hold all the people you will find in. New Zealand to-day. "As for the mere handful of peo- ple in France, some forty millions of them, Richmond Park would provide elbow-room for the last child of them all; or for the whole population of Italy, with 250 acres to spare. - "If 'you population of the United Kingdom to London, you could find enough open spaces te provide sitanding-room for them all without trespassing on pri- vate. grounds, though they number well over forty-seven millions, Even Bushey Park would accommodate half of them with a little squeezing. 'And: every subject of King George - throughout the entire world, a good fourth of the people of the earth, could be collected in the Isle of Wight, so. that you might spend a considerable time, in looking for them. They would, in fact, covef less than a quarter of its area. "As for 'all the people that on} earth do dwell, > the Isle of Man is large enough to hold every one of them on little more than half its area." iB: ~ Redskins Love Chaplin Films. Had Charlie Chaplin been a spec- tator at the first moving picture show put on at the Hudson Bay Co.'s post on Bear Island, Temagami For- est Reserve, his heart would have been. warmed by the spontaneous} appreciation accorded "Shanghaied."| a 'The big store of the Hudson Bay 0. squaws, papooses and paleface tour- ists. The air was tense with sup- pressed excitement when the projec- tor whirred under the direction of Picture cial Motion the screen a round the circle of spectators, quick- ly followed iby the query: "What -makes them : walk?' That seemed to be the puzzle. Some of the In- dians had seen motion pictures at Halleybury and = other towns, but even these had not solved the riddle Only one little Indi strange sight; All the others asked: 'Why don't 'they show more of them?" The | iatute, maple 'sugar," 'was 'watched with keen | 'interest, and when a flash of a refl squirrel running along a. rail i the 'appeared a shout of genuine Slog burst from the children as they nized this familiar animal. "The 'New York Zoological Park" reel excited much. . wonder, / Among those present was the old- tet Indian on the Reserve, Dan Misabi, familiarly known as Shunas years old, and it is well established he is over 108. This aged Indian was one of the most interested 'ones | in. the audience. : Bis ; Frase River Fished ou : - Fraser river fishermen and canners agree that the sockeye salmon run{ on the Fraser this season has been a flat failure. The conviction is be- ing forced, too, that British Colum-{ bia's noblest fishing stream can nofj longer be. expected to make a profit- 'able yield, in other words, that the 'Fraser is fished out. In good sea- 'sons, ten 'years ago, as high as a million cases of fish were packed. 'This year's fish 'a tenth of that amount. The end of the Fraser's produc- 'tion came in' sight six years ago, 'when Oanadian Northern contractors 'dynamited a 'mountain of rock into 'the river at Hell's Gate Canyon, and altogether "prevented the salmon from: ascending to the spawning ¥rom the time the sock-. eyes heads toward the Fraser, Amer- ' On the 'Skeena and other Northern in record numbers. 3 . Admired Roogevelt. Archibald Tipper, a. trapper, whose life has been spent in the sparsely- settled regions of Northern Canada, was among the three thousand or! more persons who went to Young's . "This," Tipper said, "is a tribute First of 'the Kind. plane race from the Cana- : (Exnibition to New dyring the progress ould bring the entire! was crowded with red men,} William Dawson, director of the On-| io. | Ryo 53 hl ureau. When'Charlie appeared or} ¢ chuckle of approval'ran| n igirl was afraid of the} "The 'making ot] op will be less than} kd $8 000 with the Canada Per- : : cating. oe o On Septertber 19h, The Ontario Brewers' formally challenged the Refer- \O establish that the 2.51% _ beer to be voted on--the "Beer of the Ballot" --is not intoxicating, 'The Ontario Brewers' Association deposited @ manent Trust Company on September 16th, > Association oy cndum Committee through he * Press to deposit an equal amount with the same Trust Company to support their con- tention that this beer is intoxi : { That challenge has never been accepted--clear admittance by the Referendum Committee they do not consider that they have ~acase. It is too late now" to make the tests and render a decision before the day of voting --October 20th--but the failure of the Referendum Committee to answer our challenge will not be overlooked by the nian or woman who votes. on facts and -q We ut gain assert t : : beer--* The Beer of the Ballot"'-- = is notintoxicating. Tests have 'evidence, and not on sentiment | or false statements. Git iw " ' Le wr Len ee a hat 2.51% only recently been made which prove this conclusively--we will mail a copy of the test to anyone sufficently interested to write fori. By Lesa fa tera] q } Movenver: while {lic ot Boer of the Ballot" has an alcoholic strength of but 2.51%, official tests i made by the laboratory of the were enacted, 'had an alcoholic three times as strong as th Inland Revenue 'Department a --published in Bulletin 196-- - showed that the beers on general sale before The Ontario Tem- perance Act and Prohibition er e content rang ng as high as 7. 33% by weight measure--practically x beer to be voted on October 20th. - Even 'such American beers as were sold i in Canada than the "Beer rof the Ballot." and always spoken of as very - 2 light, : non-intoxicating beers," were over fifty per cent. stronger

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