Show som t h ing ort h y tg r OW OT VA I 1 unless uncle sam comes through on august 9 with the rent 3 for the somewhat sizeable estate known as the united states of america he will have to move inove somewhere else all moreover the landlord isa is a big indian chief and there is J no 10 telling what will happen if the rent ready right on the dot unfurnished locations suitable for a family 0 of a hundred milli million oll people are said to be terribly hard to get this year so it is probable that uncle sam will ivill raise the necessary yards of red calico and the and save himself a lot of trouble will hoag president of the seneca indians tells about uncle sam being his tenant in the july farm and fireside george Washington wash ingool ing tol 9 he says negotiated the lease which is based on the claims to posseSS possession 1011 0 of f a large part of the united states by the powerful six nations of the iroquois that survived the white invasion in 1795 he signed an agreement ment with us its providing that as s long as the sun shines the grass grows green gree c y i wid and water runs down hill hiir the whites must pay on the ninth of each august four yards of calico and nine dollars in cash to every member of the six nations this is still dotie done and we ive call it cloth day we retain acres for our people and are really a separate nation tion from ahe united states we have the right to make our own laws and colled collect taxes from the whites who live within our domain amaca N Y is the only foreign city that actually pays rent on its site to the owners of america every 99 years it has to renew rene ivitS its lease with the indians frid ians who charge the ti culy city a nominal rent the landlords of the U S A also levy taxes about five dollars per year for the average avera ge householder and as high as a year for the biggest business houses Tto uses |