Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 27, 1917, Page 2

LISHED QVEBY AFTERNOON EXCEPT\ ‘SUNDAY———— THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. . § B. H. DENU . TELEPHONB 922 Mk at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minn., as second-class matter act of Congress of March 3, 1878, _ S 0 attention paid to anonymous contributions. Writer's name must ywn to the editor, but not necessarily for publication. junications for. the Weekly Ploneer must reach this office fot | than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the current issue. A i S G A el '§°g'h.m of the 71; Pab- Ten pages, containing a summary o news e wee ! n&ynufidayudmtpomgepfidtomyddmu,for,‘ig 6T 6ia's ae ra e e 0 0 0 0200 800 0°0 o'al0 ei0.0:0:0,0 010570 S0 00 " The Daily Ploneer 1s & member of the United Press Association, and represented for foreign advertising by the offices in New York and Chicago, branches in ail principal cities. BLAME BAKER. The New York Sun, in'double leads; calls upon Congress or someone to nd out who is responsible for the coal shortage. The best opinion we have able to find lays the blame at the door of Newton D. Baker, secretary war. . Early last summer Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior, got he coal operators of the country together at Washington and with them xed up a price for coal which, as all agreed, would keep the mines every- ere running at the peak of production and would leave the coal problem only of distribution. Mr, Baker immediately denounced the proceeding outrageous and announced that the prices thus fixed would not be paid y. his. dgp’n.rtmgnt or byany body with which he had afticial _oonimctlon. Being at the head of the Council of National Defense, through which ‘contracts for everything had to pass, Mr. Baker held the whip hand in the situation; and when he drew Josephus Daniels: to his side with equally id announcement that the navy department would mnot ‘accept Mr. Lane's prices, it became evident that a crisis was impending. The crisis me in due season, and it reached its most acute point when a cold snap d a coal shortage simultaneously laid hold fo the couhtry. Mr. Baker was prompt and frank in ‘assuming responsibility for the shortage of guns or the army. . Will he be equally prompt and frank in assuming respon- bility for the shortage of coal in the households of the land? TITUS PRQUD OF HIS MEN. - The Red Cross drive for membership in Beltrami county chapter strong- 1y illumined the patriotism and loyalty of these engaged in industrial lines in Bemidji, and over in the Fifth ward they are justly protid of” themsélves’ and have every right to be. 4 When the ladies of the canvassing committee desired to go to the M. & 1. railroad shops, George Pellow took them in an auto, introducing them to General Superintendent H. E. Titus, who extended to them the unusual privilege of going through the shops to interview the men, he personally seeing that they were weil cared for in their rounds. The result was that practically every employe subscribed a membership. Superintendent Titus is highly elated over the showing of his men and so it the Red Cross chapter and Bemidji in general. ALL AGREED. g, | (Winnebago Enterprise). It has been moved and enthusiastically seconded by practically every yoter in the 86 counties of Minnesota that Hon. Calvin L. Brown be chosen > succeed himself as chief justice of the supreme court of the state. Jerusalem is at last in Christian hands, and the preaching of Peter the Hermit has been vindicated. During the twelve hundred years in which it has been in the hands of the Moslem it would be hard to estimate the liyes sacrificed in the attempt to wrest it from him. It should never again be desecrated by his presence, to say nothing of his control. The Holy City ll(ould revert again to its rightful owners, and the entire territory of Pales- tine with it. They should have a free hand in rebuilding a Jewish nation i they so will. It is up to the boys, who know better, to have the toboggan slide re- main in use this winter both for their enjoyment and the pléasure of others. If they persist in building bumps at the \slide, endangering life and limb, the slide will be entirely removed, as the carnival association does net care {o shoulder responsbility for accidents. —————————————————————————————————————————— 1227t8| cl As s I F l E n FOR RENT—Modern room, 515 Be- midji avenu 'FOR SALE FOR SALE OR TRADE—Sacra- mento county, California, lands for Eastern Properties, 200 acres high class suburban farm land 6 to 8 miles. from center of Sacra- mento.. Electric cars, concrete boulevards, beautiful home sites; will sub-divide 5 acres up.. City of Sacramento, Cal,, population 80,000. Growing fast, .safe and sound investments. Deal with owners. - Write M. Bush, Oakland, Cal., 3460 Telegraph Ave. 123 to 13 FOR SALE—Tamarack and jackpine in 16-inch lengths; will deliver to any part of city; also hay and straw. Reeves & Reeves, Phone 20. 1222tf _ FOR SALE—1916 Ford touring car, . ‘best of condition. Low price for . quick sale. 521 America Ave. Phone 446-J. 6d 12 - FOR RENT FOR RENT—Furnished room, all ‘modern. 1118 Bemidji avenue. Phone 465. 1211t FOR RENT—Four-room cottage, $10 "~ -per month. 1209 Dewey Ave. Call at 1213 Dewey Ave 6-1227 per month. This house is mod- ern except heat. Also a 7-room use. on 1517 Beltrami Ave. at |8,00. per month. Apply Reyn- inter. 1212tt FOR RENT—Furnished flat upstairs, Call at 510 America avenue. 3-1229 FOR RENT—House, 1017 Minnesota avenue; all modern with heat; will also rent my house at 909 America avenue; inquire at 909 America avenue. 6d12 TOR RENT—b5-room nLouse on 1bth street and Park Ave., $156.00 per month. Also an 8-room house on 8th St. and America Ave., $20.00 WANTED WANTED—Pine timber stumpage in St. Louis county in townships 65, 66 and 67, Ranges 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16. Send photos and prices quick to J. J. Opsahl, Bemidji, Minn. 10-1231 LOST LOST—Female Irish Setter.. Return to Victor Bushway, Nymore. 441229 RAGS Bring us your clean ocot- ton rags--no buttons, bands or woolen cloth acoepted. Pioneer Office PIONEER PRNYT 'llke our own, controls '.hedl’oralgn' poli- -mig Y- . deceived many of the German people, | |into supposing 'that Germany ‘enjoys (Continued from Monday's Daily). I, “TWO SIDES OF A ‘SHIELD. i We have traced:the history of the 'rru {an ideal government to the pres- lent, and; have found that its i iistence depends upon .an ;militarism which must ever ‘conquer 'new dominions, [ 7 ‘death. It follof i1qpal ot{mvommcnt ‘must loonquer | or be'-conquered. - There . w in this warfare of u:‘u‘! Unlon not exist halt slave ‘and half free. The Hohenzollern' realizes, and we must realize, that the world cannot exist-half in political slayery and halt in ‘political freedom, half autocracy and half: democracy. ok It is fair to ask, however, whether after all the Prussian ideal of govern- ment may note the best, it wisely ad- ministered. Human instinct may. in- cline all mankind toward individual freedom, but instincts are not always safe guldes to actfon. There is no 'a priori 'ground for assuming that the American ideal of government fs :su- perior to the Prussian fdeal, and many; an intelligent German has conscien- tiously argued that the Prussian.Gov- ernment is the most efficlent, the most 1iberal and the most truly free of all modern states. Let us in all'c dor consider ‘whether the American. Ideal 18 80 good or the Prussian ideal 80 bad that we would shed American blood to preserve the one and de- stroy the other. No fair-minded man will depy that & government of the Prussian type msy attain the highest efficiency in maay fields of action. ‘With-an intelligent and energetic ruler at:the helm, with centralized control -and responsibility, | decisions may be quickly reached and promptly ‘translated into action by the orderly teamwork of a disciplined peo- ple. For more than five centuries the Hohenzollern dyna.ty has consistent- Iy and efficlently progressed toward the ultimate achievment of *a single ideal, while more liberal governments have _blundered in confusion “and: through disastrous revolutions and profound changes of national po_l!cy. To-day Prussianized Germany, ~hope- lessly. outnumbered, holds-the wocld- at bay, counting her military victories while her eflemies count: their. ‘dis-. astrous blunders. 1In social legislatfon; in municipal governmént, Germany gives lessons to the “world. In the application of science to the artsshe has no equal. ~Autocracy is admitted- ly efficient, democracy is certainly in- efficient. - : When -every 'count in {ts favor has been duly recorded, however, the truth remains that.the Prussian ideal of gov-. ernment is so immoral, so iniquitous, so debasing to the mind and soul ‘of man, that its annihilation becomes :the. supreme duty of the hour. Let us review the indictments against this monstrosity of the Hohenzollern in- tellect. In the first place it should be noted that many of the beneficent features RATRRY ] self-government. . But let us look more closely. We find that the upper house .does “not,, repr e . t consists, (with*’thre men personslly appointed by twenty- two hereditary princes. Even the low- er house is:not truly representative, | for the dlled universal suffrage i ‘a farce; The conservaive country wijich are the strongholds p{ flourish. Less and voters in certain country districts ‘bave sent to the Refchstag as many ‘representatives:as’ two ‘miillion voters in some of ‘the cities. ‘In Prussia, the dominant German state, voting is bas- ed on a system which gives to the large taxpayers nearly thirty times as much representation: as to the small taxpayers. Thus it is stated that in 1907 the large taxpayers, represent- ing 3% of the voters, elected one: third of the electors, ‘or as many as small taxpayers representing 87% of the voters. Even this does nottell the whole story of autocratic Prussian rule. The Reichstag, or lower house has no con- trol over the Kaiser's salary.or civil Iist, none_over the Imperial Ministers who . determine "national ‘and interna- tional policy, and almost ‘none_over | legislation. Practically “all 1legislation initiates with the upper house of mon- archical appointees, and it may, with the Kaiser’s consent, dissolve the low- er house. -The Kaiser has'the power to declare defensive war, and since even this war of conquest is to him ; al with the consent of the upper house,, disgolve the Rejchstag. -He-is assign- ed enough votes in‘ the upper house to-| him to pass any legislation he .desires; jand :to. block any measure of which he disapproves.- In a word, the Prince-appointed upper house controls the mis-representative lower house, and the Kaiser in turn .controls both. form of constitutional. government, Germany posseses the-strongest auto- cratic despotism in the world today. The Prussian government of Ger- many is an absolute ‘despotism. The constitution is so. skilltully devised | as.utterly to prevent any reform the Hohenzollern ruler (ddal not approve, no matter how insistent the popular demand may be. The liberal:minded masses. have a wholly inadequate re- presentation, ‘in the Reichstag: But should reform pass ‘there, the mon- archical appointees of the upper house, ever jealous of their preroga- tives, stand ready. to stifie them. And could we conceive -that real-reforms should win: the support of. a majority of these princely delegates, we must remember “that fourteen- votes ‘are enough to defeat any amendment jn this body, and that the Kaiser controls seventeen votes! . The “despotic con- trol is final and absolute, g s The Prussian government of Ger- many is an irresponsible despotism. The chief minister of the empire is the Imperial Chancellor, ‘who is re- sponsible to the Kaiser mlone. The Kaiser, in turn, owns responsibility only to God. Willlam H.-faithful.to the ~centuries-old ~tradition of his Hohenzollerr ancestors, - seriously | claims that he rules by the grace of | God, and the. claim is loyally support- .| damental a: Prussianized Germany from 1871 to'1914, showing_the. result of Blsmarck's policy of blood and.iron. The Danish prov- inces of Schleswig and Holstein; and the French: -provinces of - Alsace - and Lorraine have been forcibly seized and the smaller German states brouht under Prus- sian domination, associated with Prussian autocraoy are not essentially a part of the Prus- sian ideal of government. They are, in not a few cases, bribes offered to a discontented people to quiet ' their grumbling against despotic rule. Take, for example, the workingman’s insur- ance laws to which Germans justly point with pride. ~Both the accident insurance law and the sickness insur- ance law were introduced by Bismarck for the avowed purpose of quieting the soclalist* agitation for greater -politi- cal liberty, after drastic laws for the imprisonment of socialist leaders had failed to crush their propaganda.-A contented slave is better than one dis- contented, and it is a wise paternals ism which provides for the material welfare of its' subjects whether the form of government be good or bad. It has been well said that the German, autocracy strives to govern so well that the people will have no desire to govern themselves. The Prussian government of Ger- many is in point of fact a despotism in disguise. It has all the trappings of constitutional government, but the constitutional features are an empty sham designed to cloak the iron rule of Hohenzollern autocracy. If this seems an extreme statement,- look for a moment at the structure of the Hohenzollern stronghold. Like our own govérnment; there is.a federation of different states ufider a President, the. German Emperar. - This.President; ‘ed by the conservative parties in the The hatéful -doctrine .right of kings is a fun:’ r .ot the Hohenzollern creed, ' although frequently . disguised| for . tHe German- people “uader. the more. subtle,’therefére> more danger- ous, doctrine of the divine right of the State. Since the State is, in the last’ analysis, the Kaiser, the differ- ence is one of words. “We Hohenzol- lern,” ‘cries the presen our _crown from G God alone: are we -fulfillment of dut; THE DIVINE RIGHT OF THE STATE. : Out of evil things evil must come. No absolute and irresponsible - des. potism can breed peace; justice, and "honor in the world. ,The evil may for. ‘s space be cloaked umder the disguise of material prosperity, but the time soon comes when the horrid ' thing stands revealed in all its hideous- ness. We have seen that aggressive militarism is the. inevitable accom- ' paniment of the Prussian . ideal gov- ernment. And-militarism ds an evil. "It ‘brutalises mankind and substitutes the pagan doctrine that might ‘makes right for the Christian -doctrine that right is might. In the twinkling of n-eye the mask of material develop- ment which made. Germany. appear beautiful to the casual observer, drops to the ground, and we see all the hide ousness of Prussfan ~militarism ex- posed to the gazé of a surprised’ and indignant world. -~ The indigngtion truly (is justified, ut not so the sur- prise; for the deeds of Prussian mili- tarism are the logical and expectable consequences of the Prussian ideal of government. The State is everything, the indi- vidual nothing. The State'is a divine institution, and therefore can do no ¢Gontinued on Page Four) Despite the outward || THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1017. prepp— VT'h‘e; Y*eaif Is Almost Gone- It gives us much pleasure and happiness to write our wishes and hopes for you this jeyful season. We feel quite sure that you have many expec- tations and ambitions, which you look forward to this coming year, and our greatest for you is that you will realize them to the fullest extent, and that all your endeavors will be rewarded. This i8 a seascn when everyone ‘should have a kindly feeling for others and try to make them happy in some measure. . Now'we trust that our sincere greetings to patrons and friends will in some way gledden"your heart as it does our to remember you, Bemidji, Minnesota:- FARMERS’ & TRAPPERS, ATTENTION We are buying Hides, Furs, Wooi. 1 M Pelts and Tallow and will pay you the full market price. 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