Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 6, 1913, Page 7

- WILSON New Chief Executive Declarés His Aim Will Be to Correct the Evils of Our National Life Without Impairing the Good. ‘Washington, March 4.—President {Woodrow Wilson’s inaugural address delivered today, one of the shortest on record, was as follows: There has been a change of govern- 'ment. It began two years ago, when the house of representatives became Democratic by a decisive majority. It has now been completed. The sen- « ate about to assemble will also be Democratic. The offices of president and vice-president have been put into the hands of Democrats. What* does the change mean? That is the ques- tion that is uppermost in our minds today. That is the question I am go- ing to try to answer, in order, if I may, to interpret the occasion. It means much more than the mere success of a party. The success of a party means little ‘except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite porpose. No one can « mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Demo- ‘eratic party. It seeks to use it to in- terpret a change in its own plans and point of view. Some old things with which we had grown familiar, and which had begun to creep into the very habit of our thought and of our lives, have altered their aspect as we have latterly looked critically upon them, with fresh, awakened eyes; have dropped their disguises and showp themselves alien and sinister. Some new things, as we look frankly upon them, willing to comprehend their real character, have come to as- sume the aspect of things long believ- ed in and familiar, stuff of our own convictions. We have been refreshed by a new insight into our own life. We see that in many things that life is very great. It is incomparably great in its material aspects, in its body of wealth, in the diversity and sweep of its energy, in the industries which have been conceived and built up by the genius of imdividual men and the limitless enterprise of groups of men. It is great, also, very great, in its moral force. Nowhere else in the world have noble men and women exhibited in more striking form .the beauty and energy of sympathy and helpfulness and counsel in their efforts to rectify wrong, alleviate suffering, and set the weak in the way of strength and hope. But the evil has come with the good, and much fine gold has been corroded. With riches has come in- excusable waste. We have squan- dered a great part of what we might have used, and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of na- ture, without which our genlus for en- terprise would have been worthless and impotent, scorning to be careful, shamefully prodigal as well as admir- ably efficient. We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thought- fully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of ener- gies overtaxed and broken, the fear- ful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years ‘through. The groans and agony of it .all had not yet reached our ears, the :golemn, moving undertone of our life, coming up out of the mines and fac- tories and out of every home where the struggle had its intimate and fa- miliar seat. With the great govern- ment went many deep secret things which we too long delayed to look into and scrutinize with candid, fear- less eyes. The great government we loved has too often been made use of for private and selfish purposes, and those who used it had forgotten the ipeople. At last a vision has been vouch- safed us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good, the de- based and decadent with the sound and vital. With this vision we ap- proach new affairs. Our duty is to ‘cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to ieorrect the evil without impalring the ,g00d, to purify and humanize every process of our common life without weakening or sentimentalizing it. 'There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to isucceed and be great. Our thought has 'been ‘Let every man look out for him- 'self, let every generation look out for /itself,” while we reared giant machin- ery which made it impossible that any | .but those who stood at the levers of 'control should have a chance to look ‘out for themselves. We had not for- jgotten our morals. We remembered 'well enough that we had set up a ‘'policy which was meant to serve the jhumblest as well as the most power- ful, with an eye single to the stand- ards of justice and fair play, and re- membered it with pride. But we were 'very heedless and in a hurry to begreat. ‘We have come now to the sober ‘second thought. The scales of heed- lessness have fallen from our eyes. 'We have made up our minds to square every process of our national life jagain with the standards we so proud- ly set up at the beginning and have always carried at our hearts. Our work is a work of restoration. ‘We have itemized with some degree of particularity the things that ought to be altered and here are some of the chief items: A tariff which cuts us off from our proper part in the commerce of the world, violates the just principles of taxation, and makes the government a facile instrument in the hands of private interests; a bank- ing and currency system based upon the necessity of the government to gell its bonds fifty years ago and per- fectly adapted to concentrating cash and restricting credits; an industrial system which, take it on all its sides, financial as well as administrative, holds capital in leading strings, re- stricts the libertles and limits the op- portunities- of labor, and exploits with- out renewing or conserving the nat- ural resources of the country; a body of agricultural activities never yet given th2 efficiency of great business undertakings or served as it should be through the instrumentality of science taken directly to the farm, or afforded the facilities of credit best suited to its practical needs; water courses un- developed, waste places unreclaimed, forests untended, fast disappearing without plan or prospect of renewal, unregarded waste heaps at every mine. We have studied as perhaps no other nation has the most effective means of production, but we have not studied cost or economy as we should either as organizers of industry, as states- men, or as individuals. Nor have we studied and perfected the means by which government may be put at the service of humanity, in safeguarding the health of the nation, the health of its men and its women and its children, as well as their rights in the struggle for existence. This is no sentimental duty. The firm basis of government is justice, not pity. These are matters of justice. can be no equality or opportunity, the first essential of justice in the body politic, if men and women and chil- dren be not shielded in their lives, their very vitality, from .the conse- "quences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control or singly cope with. Soclety must see to it that it does not itself crush or weaken or damage its own constituent parts. The first duty of law is to keep sound the soclety it serves. Sanitary laws, pure food laws, and laws determining conditions of labor which individuals are powerless to determine for themselves are inti- mate parts of the very business of jus- tice and legal efficiency. These are some of the things we ought to do, and not leave the others undone, the old-fashioned, never-to-be- neglected, fundamental safeguarding of property and of individual right. This is the high enterprise of the new day; to lift everything that concerns our life as a nation to the light that shines from the hearthfire of every man’s conscience and vision of the right. It is inconceivable that we should do this as partisans; it is in- conceivable we should do it in ignor ance of the facts as they are or in blind haste. We shall restore, not de- stroy. We shall deal with our econ- omic system as it is and as it may be modified, not as it might be it we had a clean sheet of paper to write upon; and step by step we shall make it what it should be, in the spirit of those who question their own wisdom and seek counsel and knowledge, not shallow self-satisfaction or the excite- ment of excursions whither they can- not tell. Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto. And yet it will be no cool process of mere science. The nation has been deeply stirred, stirred by a solemn passion, stirred by the knowledge of wrong, of ideals lost, of government too often debauched and made an in- strument of evil. The feelings with which we face this new age of right and opportunity sweep across our heart-strings like some air out of God’s own presence, where justice ane® mercy are reconciled and the judge and the brother are one. We know our task to be no mare task of politics, but a task which shall search us through and through, whether we be able to understand our time and the need of our people, whether we be in- deed their spokesmen and interpre- ters, whether we have the pure heart to comprehend and the rectified will to choose our high course of action. This is not a day of triumph; it is a day of dedication. Here muster, not the forces of party, but the forces of humanity. Men’s hearts wait upon us; men’s lives hang in the balance; men’s hopes call upon us to say what we will do. Who shall live up te the great trust? Who dares fail to try? I summon all honest men, all patrietic, all forwardlooking men, to my stde. God helping men, I will not fail them, it they will but counsel and sustain me! 5 Farmer ‘Had Business Instinct. At the tail end of the summer a farmer near Springfield, Mass., found he had 50,000 ripening melons on hia hands and it looked as though they would be a dead loss for lack of time to ship them. But he posted notices throughout the county, advertised in the newspapers and sold 40,000 mel- ons within a week. - He had a line of 27 automobiles standing in front of M-hougutmfime‘aq‘in{nfl,;!hp <y Can Always Turn to Books. If one’s intimate in love or friend ship cannot or does not share all one’s intellectual tastes or pursuits, that i3 a small matter. Intellectual com panions. can be found easily in men and books.—0. W. Holmes. Proves An;lquflkt'x.;:fi,flumanlty.‘ Prehistoric human fgotp . ‘have in a quarry at Warrnamboyj, Aus tralla. Their'age'is estimated at 50, wae ’ There- been discovered in slabs of sapdstous wage? ! ‘VIII afford to die on. LITTLE MEXICAN TOWN OF MAZA-. PIL I8 SAID TO BE PAVED. Discovery Made by American. Mining Engineer Results in the Purchase by Company of All the Property They Could Buy. If Dick Whittington had only lived today he might have found the city whose streets were paved with gold. For recent investigation has brought to light the fact that such a place does exist, and that there is marvel- ous wealth in the little Mexican town of Mazapil. Imagine the bricks of the pavement being full of gold and estimated from $500 to $600 to the ton! And there Is a single wall about a garden in front of the town hall which is valued at a million dollars! It seems that not long ago an American mining engineer was roam- Ing through that country, and when he came back into civilization he brought with him a few bricks and some sam- ples of slag. He was not sure if they were worth anything at all, and never dreamed of their real value, but he turned them over to his company’s as- sayer, The assayer’s report was startling. (f there was more of the same stuff ‘0 be had, he said, untold wealth was In sight, and immediately the com- pany started an investigation. It was found that the assayer’s estimate was not exaggerated. The streets of Mazapil were literally paved Kwith gold, and a high percentage of sil- ver; too. and some of the baser met- als, such as copper, lead and zinc. Of course it did not take many Jays before the little town was be- ing deluged wwith the company’s rep- resentatives, who proceeded prompt- iy to buy up every inch of available property. The natives, ignorant of the value, gold out for a song. The company purchased all the old smelt- ers and slag piles and dilapidated —walls and buildings. It even bought up the postoffice. The only thing which they could not get was the Roman Catholic church. The priests refused positive- ly to sell, and no amount of money seemed to tempt them. In vain did the representatives offer higher prices. They were forced to be content with- out the church, Then, just as they were on the verge of removing the bricks and slags to the modern smelters, the Mex- fcan revolution started, and all op- erations along that line had to be suspended. But it is needless to say that every inch of the little town is being carefully guarded for the fu- ture use of the fortunate company. Her Last Chance. “You can’t deny it,” he said sternly. “Penelope, you'’ve been chewing gum again!” Desperately, frantically, she sobbed on his chest. Firmly lifting her off the chest and depositing her on the sofa, he dashed the beads of agony off his brow. They fell on the hardwood floor with a metallic elatter. “I warned you,” he continued, “that I would break off our engagement it I caught you at it again. A girl that chews gum is no fit wife for a man. A girl that chewe gum would take in a matinee with the butcher money. Pene lope, all is over between us.” With a final outburst of desperation she was on his chest again, pleading, begging, beseeching for the love of Mike. “One more chance,” she cried, “and I swear another drop of gum shall nev- er pass these lips.” “S8o be it,” he replied. chance.” And reaching grimly for his hat, he departed, pausing on the doorstep only long enough to bite off a fresh chew of tobacco.—Detroit Free Press. “One more Task for Naval Officers. Naval officers are not often called upon to perform such a delicate task as that set out in a circular which emanates from the French ministry ot marine. It runs thus: Ruyter Warfusse has bequeathed ta the town of Houlon a legacy destined to promote marriage between an or phan girl of good character and a sailor of proved sobriety, the former to be selected by the mayor of Toulon and the latter by the senior captain of the squadron of vessels now anchored at Toulon. Would-be candidates for the legacy must send a statement of their qualifi. cations accompanfed by documentary evidence to this officer not later than December 25. The couple pelected must, according to the terms of the will, be married on the forthcoming feast of the Hpi- phany and undertake to have at have at least four children—New York Sun. When Wisdom Lingers. The operation was successful; slso the patient was dead. The doctor spoke kindly to the mourning widow: “Marvellous that the poor man lived through so many years of so much ‘disease and suffering!” “Yes, doctor,” -the' widow replied, “we had tried our best to make him have the operation long, long béfore this.”—Life. His Nnd.' Knicker—Don't you waat & living Bocker—I want more. I want one I Harmful Moments ef Leisure. Humorists are people who cut, fif and finish jokes, jests and light verse and do plain and fanéy writing which is not serious. X Male humorists do this by lighting & pipe or a cigar, sticking a sheet of paper into a typewriter and wishing they had adopted a mercantile career. Female humorists accomplish the feat by twisting their back hair into a knot, nibbling chocolate creams or chewing some gum, and manipulating the typewriter in the customary man- ner. As a general thing, nowadays, humorists are very human. There are more of them than there used to be. The women dress like their sis- ters, and the men are perfectly con- ventional in their attire. Occasionally you come across an old-school humorist, or a modern one who clings to the old-school tradi- tions. He imagines that he has to wear a most solemn face, never smiles, and looks pained when you laugh at what he says. This variety goes great on the rural lyceum circuit. Humorists are always introduced as such. Plumbers, housebreakers, bank. ers, dry goods men and wholesale gro- cers are never classified when intro- duced, but humorists are always spe- cified. Immediately the persons to whom they are introduced wait expec- tantly for them to say something wild- ly witty. Immediately, also, they are disappointed, unless they are of the class who' shriek with joy when the humorist politely says: “It is a nice day.” . Humorists always have to explain why they are humorists instead of fol- lowing some more laborious occupa- tjon. Also they are expected to de- liver afterdinner speeches for nothing, because being funny is second nature to them, and they are not supposed to have any remunerative way of spend- ing their odd moments. The difference between a humorist and a comedian is that a comedian uses the humorist’'s humor. If the humorist used the comedian’s humor ‘he would starve to death. Another dif. ference is that the comedian makea from three hundred to five hundred dollars a week.—Life. Ways of the Working Class. The psychology of the working class is different from that of the other classes. The prevailing tone is apathy. There is no discontent or envy of the well-to-do, but neither is there that restless eagerness to better their position, and confidence in their ultimate prosperity, which the Amer- ican spirit is supposed to imstil into a man. Men in the trades seem to have this spirit, but it is noticeably absent from the factory class. Even the immigrants seem quickly to lose that flush of hope and ambition with which they arrive in this country. The factory routine seems to get into their very souls, so that their whole life settles down to a monotonouos drudg- ery without a look forward or backe ward. They are chiefly concerned in holding their jobs, and escaping the horrors of unemployment—in making both ends meet. Beyond this there is little horizon for day-dreaming and ambition. Life to them is a constant facing of naked realities, and an actual “economy,” or management, of Te sources, not an effort to impress themselves on their neighbors, and to conform to the ways of those about them. This deep-seated divergence in standards and interests from the rest of American life may or may not be important, for the factory class is thus far politically negligible; but it is interesting, and well calculated to suggest many unpleasant things to American minds.—Randolph S. Bourne, in the Atlantic. 2 Ak TREAT FOR HOUSEKEEPERS Bemidji housekeepers are delighted with the delicious, nut-like flavor of “Minnesota” Macaroni. Many say they never knew - macaroni -could taste so good and be so firm and nu- trious and fiavory as the “Minneso- ta” Macaronf, now sold by leading Bemidji grocers. There is a big difference in maca- roni as sold in the stores. “Minneso- ta” Macaroni is made from the very best durum ‘wheat with- all' the wonderfully nourishing gluten . left in.J It is easily dibested, very nourish- ing, and costs only about one cent a dish. g Try the handy “Minnesota” Cut Macaroni, which is cut ‘into-uniform pleces—it cooks more evenly and is quicker to prepare.—Adv. William C. Kiein} INSURANCE Rentals, Bonds, Real Estate FirstMortgage Loans' on City and Farm Property - . © and 6, O’Leary-Bowser Bidg. t Phene 10. Bemidjl, S | /and :Bone Spavins, Ringbones, Side 162 East Bound Leaves. 163 West Bound Lea: GREAT NORTHERN 83 West Bound ves. 84 East Bound fiv::. gg ‘West Bound Leav pm MINNESOTA & INTERNATIONAL 82 South Bound Leaves 81 North Bound Leaves 84 South Bound Leaves. 83 North Bound Leaves. . Freight South Leaves at. Freight North Leaves at * PROFESSIONAL CARDS KEKKKKKKKKK KKK KK Ruth Wightman Teacher of Piano Residence Studio 1002 Bemidji Ave. l Phone 168 LAWYERS GRAHAM M. TORRANCE LAWYER Miles Block Telephone 560 D. H. FISK ' ATTORNEY AT LAW Office second floor O’Leary-Bowser Blda PHYSICIANS, SURGEONS i r mee! nights—first ' and third ‘Monday, at_ 8 o'clock, —at Odd Fellows hall, 402 Beltrami Ave. Regular meeting nights— first and third Thursdays, 8 o'clock—at Masonic hall, &lmm Ave, and Fifts G 0. % every second and fourth Sunday evening, o'clock in basement of Catholic church. DEGREE OF NONOR Meeting nights every second and fourth Monday 0 ;:.i?lnn. at 0dd Fellows . 0. R Regular meeting nights every lst and 2nd Wednes- day evening at $ e'clock. Bagles hall. G A B Regular meetings—First and third Saturday after- noons, at 2:30—at Odd Fele lows Halls, 403 Beltrami > Ave. L. 0.0. ¥ Bemidji Lodge Ne. 110 Regular D s DR. ROWLAND GILMORE PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office—Miles Block DR. E. A, SHANNON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Mayo ‘Phone 896 Block Res. 'Phone 397 DR. C. R. SANBORN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office—Miles Block DR. A, E. HENDERSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Over First National bank, Bemidji, Minn, Office "Phone 86, Residence 'Pdlfkne 3 DR. E. H. SMITH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Winter Block 2S L 0.0 F Camp Ne 84 % Regular meeting every secend ” A and fourth Wednesdays at § QPR o'clock at 0Oaa Fellows Hall. meeting nights -- first and third Wednesday at $e'clesk. —I. O. O. F. Hall. INIGNTS oF FYTE Bemidji Lodge No. Regular meeting nights ery Tuesday evening o'clock—at the Wagles Regular meeting last Wednesday ev in each month. DR. E. H. MARCUM PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON fiice in Mayo Block Of Phone 18 Residence Phone 311 EINER W. JOHNSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office over Security Bank DENTISTS JR. D. L. STANTON DENTIST Office in Winter Block DR. J. T. TUOMY DENTIST First National Bank Bldg. DR. G. M. PALMER DENTIST Miles Block Evening Work by Appointment Only Tel. 330 NEW PUBLIC LIBRARY Open daily, except Sunday, 1 to 6 p. o o b e undey, reaaing peoms only, 8 to 6 p. m. W. K, DENISON VETERINARIAN Phone 164 Pogue’s Livery | TOM -SMART DRAY AND TRANSFER SAFE AND PIANO MOVING Res. 'Phone §8. -: 818 America Ave. Office Phone 13. S§SFUNERAL DIRECTOR = M. E. IBERTSON UNDERTAKER and COUNTY CORONER] 405 Beltrami Ave. Bemidji, Minn. Resolvine bones, Splints, Curbs, Big ‘Hocks, Big' Knees, Big Joints, Sweeney, Contracted, Feet, Poll Evil, Fistula, Absorbs' Bunches. Work horse every day.” $3 per bottle, Free Veterinary Advice. Peerless Medical Co., Kasota Block, meeting gé,flm — first and thira ednesdays, § o’clock—at Masonic "Hall, Béltramt Ave, and Pitth st. Bemidji Chapter RAM Stated. eonv:‘e:tu-"' —first and thirda Mondays, o'clock p. m.—at 2 Hall Zeltrami street. +_Elkanah Commande: L] K. T. Stated mu.n'i."ee.:; and fourth Fridays, 8 o'clock P. m.—at Masonic Temple, Bel- trami Ave, and Fifth St. O. 8. 8. Chapter Ne. 171, A B. A. Roosevelt, No. Regular meeting Thursday everings 3 :;ill?ck in Odd Fellows Regular meeting nights — first and third Tuesdays st 8 o'clock at Odd Fellows Hall, 402 Beltrami Ave. _MODERN SAMARITANS. Regular meeting nights em the first and thiré Thursdays in the L O. O. F. Hall at 8 p. m. Meetings -held Sunday afternoon of each month at Troppman's Hall. THOMANS. ~ Use % Peerless Gelebrated Veterinary Remedies Peerless Distemper and Fever? Remedy cures all Lung, Throat and Nose Diseases. $1.00 per bottle. Peerless Colic Remedy. 30 drops stops the pain. $1.00 per bottle. Resolvine. Cures Lame Horses to Stay cured. Work horse every day. Does not blister; penetrates at once to the injury.. Stops'Lameness quickly. ‘No ' hair ‘gone.' $8.00 per bottle. Fl"ee VVetgrlnary Advice Peerless Madical G, . Kasota Block Minneapol Bemidj! Lodge No. 1052, thire