The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 12, 1917, Page 4

i : WA Ley Ante re |) | Member Audit Bureau of Circulation | THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER | (Bstablshed 187) | i LOCAL WEATHER BULLETIN. For the 2 4hours ending at 12:00, noon, Feb. 12, 1917: Temperature at 7:00 a.m. .. Temperature at 12:00, noon Highest yesterday Cory | | | | | Lowest last night . 3 Precipitation ... e Highest wind velocity . 5—-S Forecast. For North Dakota: Partly cloudy; warmer in east portion colder Tues- day. i rempararure | Calgary . 28 i Chicago No report ; Kansas City . 12 Moorhead —14 | Pierre ... 8 | Prince Albert 8 St. Paul . —16 Winnipeg —12 St. Louis No report 50 . No report a San Franc! Helena . #) Paso Williston . ‘ ORE . BERTS, | Meteorologist. ‘CONTROLLING OUR WIRELESS. A bill is pending in Congress to give control of every wireless telegraph company in America to the navy de- partment. In time of war control of Jand telegraph lines is a comparative- ly simple matter. ‘The army simply seizes the telegraph lines and mans them. But the messages that may be tlash- ed through the trackless air—perhaps to an enemy—are more difficult of control. ‘The wireless may be such a source jan American you must have felt some- | thing that quietly warmed your heart without profit. times ‘is that line in the Gettysbugr speech: “It is for us here to ‘be dedicated | to. the great task before us.” Surely not since 1860 has there been greater need than now that every \citizen dedicate himself to whatever | service his country may ask of him. So let us make thig holy day of Lincoln's birth a day of dedication—a Patriots’ Day. The next note will be forged in the munitions plant. AS TRANSLATED. | | No jingo, no jingo—but if you are| as you watched how the country took the break with Germany, ‘Not a demonstration anywhere, not the rattling of one sabre, no public assemblies, no clamor in the streets, no crowds ‘marching about cheering for war, no threats, no boastings of how we should eat them alive, but everywhere, all of a sudden, two! things: : Full recognition of the serlousness of the step and full resolve to go through with it, no matter what might happen. ‘Pretty good country—what? Those that were in Europe in the troublous days at the end of July and beg:nning of August, 1914, don’t need to have the difference pointed out to them. In times of peace, ladies and gen- tlemen that preach disloyalty and non- resistance make some noise and pa- rade to and fro as if they really amounted to something. Forget them all, Let any test come, and see Americans really are and really about their flag and their ideals, what think Ford has severed diplomatic rela- tions with the peace dove. Offers to run his entire plant for war purposes, LINCOLN—A LEADER. of peril in war time that it should be} Today, while honoring the memory controlled and operated by the gov-|of Abraham Lincoln, greatest Ameri- can, let us reflect upon the lessons of Lincoln’s life as applied to our problems of toda) | Leaders, not rulers, are the need of the world, today as in Lincoln's time. *- k & * We think of Lincoln as the man of the people ;the commoner; the demo- crat; whose views were those of the]? great, intelligent masses; whose feel- ings, those of the men who toil. But we should not think of him as the ordinary man. ernment in peace time. A very good thing for Congress to do would be to make an emergency measure of the pending bill, and pass it quickly. Is Columbia the jinx of the ocean? 'GROUCHING ON YOUR JOB! ‘The weather, as a common cause for constant complaining, has only one rival—a man’s job. Quarreling with our bread and but- ter is pursued as eagerly as if it were a joyfest by most of us. We think less Understand this difference! | Lincoln, born lowly, son of a shift- father, spent, his days in it.a peculiarly modern frame of mind, an evidence of our independent spirit, a certain form of self-respect, to be everlastingly proclaiming ourselves superior to the thing we are doing. But: most of us haven't any better reasons than the slothful man who, according to Solomon, saith, “There is a lion in the way a lion is in the streets.” What a lot of little toy lions some of us who are not at all slothful set up in the path of our daily success! We complain of headache because honest toil and pored far into the night, by flickering candle, over a few books he could borrow from more for- tunate neighbors. With a determination rare in the hu- man race, he set about to become a master of knowledge, and by his own untiring zeal he raised himslef from an unlettered mountain yokel to the most exalted position that man can bestow. That is why Lincoln, the commoner, was not an ordinary man. ee we have to get up so early; or else it makes us sick to be on a night shift. We ought to give the boss a few pointers on.running his business. Our fellow workers are all boneheads. We have to stand too long; or we sit all day and acquire dyspepsia. The factory is too cold; or the office is too hot. We ought to get a raise; or some- mon people, for only the common peo- ple can have the true brotherly out- look upon the problems and trials that beset mankind. mon people will produce more Lin- colns! Lincolns must spring from the com God hasten the time when the com- Carranza says he'll be neutral as >, >~most solemn day of our calendar in body is standing in with the boss and cutting us out. Or somebody else is shirking and we are carrying his share—two jobs for our one pay en- velope. We can't see any prospect ahead; somebody else is profiting by our ge- nius. Oh, what a joyous variety of reasons we can rake up for jawing about our job! And then, of course, if we had only gone into some other line—we would have made our million by this time. Perhaps, yes; but usually, no. Prob- ably if we could swap jobs with the Man we envy we would be just as dis- appcinted in three months, and just as grouchy as we are now. All this fault finding and fussing are really nothing more than little asses in licn’s skins which we set up in our own way. But they will spoil any any man undertakes. They will ruin a man’s “vision” of what he can’ do with his ojb. The man who sees nothing but faults in the daily grind blinds him- self to his opportunities—and loses or throws away all his good chances. between Uncle Sam and Germany. Now, bring on you war! | Guess the Germans are right in| saying their U-boat warfare will not be “modified.” They’ve sunk a Dutch boat bound from a neutral port with a cargo for the Holland government. BISMARCK PEOPLE WOULD GET BACK MONEY PUT UP | TO BUILD STATE ARMORY | Bismarck folk are particularly inter- ested in House Bill 389, which was in- troduced Saturday by the house com- mittee on appropriations. The bill car- ries an appropriation of $4,000 to be devoted to reimbursing Bismarck bus- | inessmen who loaned their faith and credit to the state in order that the armory of Co. A, North Dakota na- tional guards, might be erected. A number of capital city folk went on notes required to secure the build- ing of the armory, with the under- standing that the state would get back of the project and that they would not be required to dig down in their own pockets. They felt that inasmuch as the business interests of the city have always striven to support Co. A in all its undertakings, that the armory should be made astate enterprise, and they were assured it would be. But something went wrong, and af-} ter paying interest on their notes for several years, the guarantors got to- gether at the Commercial club roores and agreed to take their medicine, each man drawing a bulky check with | which to discharge his obligation. It is believed the legislature will see fit to reimburse these people, whose pub- lic-spiritedness for’ once got away with their business judgment. Only One “BROMO QUININE.” To get the genuine call for full name, LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for signature of E. W. GROVE] Cures a Cold in Oné Day, 25c. — Your visit to the Twin Cities will be For many months the neutrals have been howling for Uncle Sam to start something. And now some of them have crawled into their holes and pulled their holes in after them. ——_—_—_——s_ PATRIOTS’ DAY. - Today is Lincoln's birthday. The birth anniversary of the lowly child of Hodgenville has become a national holiday. But this year it is than that. It is a holy day—the the most Sie months of our | gathered—not even in front of the BISMARCK DAILY. TRIBUNE. : The Man We Honor Today In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of | real greatness. There are men as! good as he, but they do bad things. | There are men as intelligent as he, but they do foolish things. In him | quality ‘that fastened him to the peo-/ ple and taught them to keep time to, the music of his heart.—David Swing. | se 8 Amid the political idiocy of the times, the corruption in high plac the dilettante culture, the, of wild.and helpless theori swamp, Of, political quagmir coin it.is:retreshing to thir HLA: Delano. | in this | oO Lin- v8 ‘A power was his beyond thg touch | of art Or armed strength—his - pure mighty heart. —Gilder. oe ae | He was the sum of Puritan and} Cavalier, for in his ardent ture} were fused the virtu in the depths of his faults of both were greater than Puritan Cavalier, in that he ¥ and that in his homely forr goodness ‘and, intelligence “combined | pleads for fideli y law, and made, their best result of wis- | Beecher. -+Phillips Erooks. ec ae! wea is + eS | Ambition did not warp, corrupt, nor In there was alw: some | glory dazzle him.—\V. H. Cudworth. . whole life—it was Duty.—Edouard La- boulaye, | tes he man whose homely face you look; | To make his Most Famous Tributes to Lincoln first gathered the yast and thrilling | forces of this ideal government.—Hen- ry W. Grady, eae Ye People, behold « martyr whose blood, as so mi articulate words, for liberty. ee A Single, word explains Lincoln's upon Was one of men, Nature's masterful great | —Stoddard. | se he built the State. Pourin, ndid strength through e of him testing over deed the measure of a man. —Markham. see = the grandest “figure of Je is the gon- * of our worid.—Ingersoll. a oe 8 deep heart of pity and carried him far beyond LINCOLN WOULD -AAVE VOTED FOR HOUSE BILL 44 Coates Says League Legislaters Today Stand Where Eman- cipator Did in 1834 RADICALISM OF. PATRIOT DWELT ON BY SPEAKERS jomason Compares Him With a Second Nameless One—Many Hear Northwest Address | “Asa legislator for eight years in Ulinois, Abraham Lincoln was trying to do the simple things you men in the year 1917 are attempting to do in North Dakota. \An attempt was made in the house of representatives two weeks ago to align Abraham Lincoln against you. If he could have come farmer of today and the downtrodden black slaye of Lincoln's early day. “If some people were to rea dthese statements of Lincoln's they would ac- cuse him of blackguarding the cham- ber of Commerce of Minnesota and would brand him the most dangerous agitator in the history of North Da- kota. The trouble is that the modern agitator hasn't the courage Lincoln had. He lacks backbone.” He quoted from an address of Lin- coln in 1864 as to the dangers of plac- ing capital on an equality with or above labor. “Capital is there today in North Dakota,” said the speaker. “That's why. we're having such a time to get terminal elevators and other things we're trying for.” He quoted Lincoln’s statement as to ability to change governments through changing public opinion. “He would have qualified his statement had Lincoln lived in North Dakota in 1917—he would have said that if -you wish to change sentiment in 1917 you must go back to 1914. He didn’t know we'd have been foolish enough to have elected some people ten or twenty or thirty years ago who would dare set ‘public opinion of 1917 at naught. “Dare say in the senate of North Dakota this coming week what Lin- coln said more than 50 years ago about the farmers’ right to rule because of his being of the most numerous class, and that other interests must yield to his interest, and, they’d have a car- toon somewhere ‘placing you in an in- sane um. But I guess he would have voted for House (Bill 4di—yes, I think he would. into the house that day, he would have said: ‘Shame on you for that lie.} I stand in this year 1917 «where I stood in 1884, and I will vote for House Bill 44." This was one‘of the opening state- ments of .D. C. Coates yesterday af- ternoon in an address which he deliv- ered to an audience which packed the assembly room of the Hotel ‘North- west. His sudject was “Abraham Lin- eoln,” but he announced in opening that he was not going to deal with) the. glorified Abraham Lincoln of fic- tion, but with the real Lincoln, who was described as the most hated char- acter in America from 1862 to 1865, a man _excoriated, cartooned and derid- ed to his death, And when he died, M. A, Thomason stated, in introducing the speaker of the afternoon, America lost ‘one of its two greatest patriots. “And I don't believe he would have sat silent in his seat and been be- littled by the orator of the house. There's lots of fellows who tomorrow will that Lincoln was a great character and that they believe in him who don't believe in him at all, be- cause they don’t ‘know and can’t un- derstand his principles and the things he stood for. They don’t believe in him when he said, ‘Whenever the peo- ple grow weary of a government they muy exercise their constitutional right to amend and change it or their revo- lutionary right to dismember and over- throw it.’ Thousands tomorrow will praise Lincoln, out. of their mouths, but .in. their. brains: and: hearts they do not understand him and ‘do not be- lieve in him, and they’re standing to- day in the legislatures of our country and in the national congress against the principles of Lincoln. Yet they’ll be. glad tomorrow to display their ora- torical powers by shooting hot air The other, he said, he would not name. “Lincoln in death is nothing to; | appointment; me,” said the general manager of the Non-partisan league. “Lincoln in life was everything. Much that is not true has been written of Lincoln and his lowly beginning. Lincoln in boy- hood was in much the same situation as is the North Dakota farmer boy of today. He belonged to the same pioneering period. There was, per- ‘haps, more agitation for the princi- ples ‘of human rights then than now. What but life-time ‘schooling: in dis-| Lincoln's inspiration came from ‘the what but.the. pioneer’s declaration of independence. He be- self-reliance and freedom:from: preju-| lieved that when any form of govern- dice; what but the patiént faith, the’) ment becomes destructive of human clear perceptions of natura) tight, the life, liberty and the pursuiteof happi- unwarped sympathy and :unbounding | ness then it Is the right of the people | charity of this man with’ spitit so hum-| to amend or change or overthrow that the reaches of statesmanship or ora- tory, and gave his words that finality of expression which marks the noblest art.—Mabie. see ried’ him through the labors he wrought to the victory he attained? —John G. Nicolay. ** Great captains with their guns and drums Disturb our judgment tor the hour, But at last silence contes;~” ? These are all gone,..and standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foresee- ing man, Sagacious, patient, _ not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first dreading praise, American! —Lowell. 2 2 8. His most conspicuous virtue was the nee of a spirit of resentment or oppression toward , the enemy.—- Senator John T. Morgan. WASHINGTON REFUSES iW : CET EXCITED More Inte aaa Manifested in Bone Dry Bill Than Probable En. try of Nation Into War ! READERS CALLOUSED TO By GILSON GARDNER. | Washington, Feb. 12.—The outward and visible signs of war—or approach- ing war—in Washington are not spicuous. The Washington pu clined to get excited. There is more real interest apparently in whether the prohibition bill is to come up in} the house and make the capital none- dry than there is in the poss ing of the country’s fortunes wi those of the Allies. After the German “mad dog” notize had sent the president to deliver his message to congress, people }) the German embassy saw one lis: looking policeman leaning against the embassy fence. That was all No- where have any “knots of citizens” newspaper bulletin boards. People do not seem to feel that 7 thing is going to happen which w make things any different from what | they have been. Newspaper readers have become calloused to war sensa- tions and are hopelessly skeptical as to any change in the matter of the pleasant life the country has beea leading for the last two years. Guard Reservers. Some of the government officials have worked up 4 little quiet 2xcite ment on their own account, feeli evidently that there must somehow | be conspiracies and dangers li>hing in the byways or thereabouts. Sun- day the secretary of.state, the secre-| tary of the treasury and a couple of Hirer Hestelry. Excellent Cuisine. -| more enjoyable if you stop at this “Radisson, Minneapolis, 3 | Reomee x 58 t tase other cabinet heads got busy with the local District government and arrang- e@for guards at the reservoir and at other points where the city’s water | been instituted, | nov }the White House. The guards at the navy yard have discarded their peace time sabre and substituted a standard; | 42 calibre army revolver. WAR SENSATIONS | “| cials daily In almost every crowd there is some ;enters from its sourse at the great ut otomac, 16 miles up the d was also placed on the} ilway bridge over the Po- h is the one crossing for + east of Harper's Ferry. about the White House have! doubled, and special arrange* i been made to tag the when he goes to Keith’s and up to the eapitol building. War Regime. At the navy yard a war regime has All employes must e passes on which their photo- ph is to appear, and passes are y iired even of the accredited correspondents in entering » War and navy building ‘or tomac gut tri gu The} n gra newspape the Most of these activities are merely the result of habit’ and convention- y. The only difference in the real in the m is a slight increa: ies of the crank variety. The dent and other prominent _ offi- get-a raft of threatening ; leiters. This always happens when there is any unusual excitement in the country, political or otherwise. President’s Guard. The president’s guards are really to handle cranks of the harmless and occasionally of the dangerous variety. misguided individual, male or female, who has a matter of the utmost im- to be presented personally hief magistrate of the naticn. this is a survival of that Probably simple period hen the head of the! tribe was judge and executioner ott sentences and all his people came to him for justice. The secret service. 'men—so-called—have to ‘keep these! people away from thé president, who always has other more important busi- ness. The talk of guarding the president against assassination is mere talk. No president is ever really guarded against that danger. A man sufficient- ly crazed to be willing to assassinate | Guitean, in shooting Garfield, took one of the thousands of opportunities which a president presents when he walks the streets, goes to the capi- tol or enters a railroad station. Pres- ident Roosevelt always said’ that. he knew this danger to be ever present ble and soul so great, could have car-| Sovernment. “You men get the same cartoons and) iridicule today that Lincoln did. But I haven't lost a moment's sleep about Lincoln.” In closing he pleaded for a revolu- tion effected by the “peaceful ballot” rather than by the “bloody bullet,” and he commended members of the present legislature whom he declared are making history and handing a her- itage to posterity through standing for the things Lincoln stood for. He did not neglect to allude to Gov- ernor Frazier, who, with: Mrs, Frazier, was in the audience, and. his reference to the leadership of the. chief execu- tive brought forth hearty applause. ld BELOW AT MOORHEAD Bismarck Reported 4 Above at 8 ‘O'clock This Morning—Cold Wave Moves ‘Eastward. Four above at 8 o'clock this morn- ing was the official reading at the gov- ernment weather station. At Moor- head it was 15 be- low and at St. ‘Paul 16"below at “the corresponding hour. perature at noon in Bismarck was 8, since I came to North Dakota’ over what the newspapers have said about me or pictured of me. It didn’t make any difference to him how many times they attempted to put. him in an in- sane asylum, nor how often they call- ed him a frec-lover and a nigger-lover. Tt doesn’t matter today. «ayvou * “There's many a man’ Wwhib! témor- row will point to the flag and sing the patriotic hymns of America, shed | tears and slop over in his overflow of patriotism who doesn’t know the first attributes of patriotism or of the prin- ciples of Lincoln so far as the rights of the people are concerned.” Coates then quoted from a book of Lincoln’s “This is The high pres- sure which has caused such low temperature over The tem- ° debates, saying: the greatest book in my library. I have four histories of Abraham Lin- coln, but I'd pitch them all away be- fore I would lose this book. Histories of Lincoln usually are 99 per cent hot air, This is a compilation of all the recorded, utterances of Abraham Lin- coln—it is the real Lincoln.” Statements of the Emancipator as to the right of the people to change their form of government were read ‘REAPPORTIONMENT WILL . North Dakota proposed by Representa- | Stutsman, LaMoure, Dickey, Kidder, |Logan, McIntosh, Burleigh, Emmons, ‘man Norton or Representative Young, and the speaker referred to these a: sertions as having had prophetic bear- ing on the Chamber of Commerce of Minneapolis and the “15 per cent sharks” of North Dakota, “Keep in mind,” he said, “the fellow who is sit- ting in the shade and taking your profits,” and he proceeded to draw an analogy between the North Dakota! and ‘that heyond what he could’ do with his quick fists there was little to be done; -PLAGE BURLEIGH COUNTY this section dur- ing the last few days now overlies the eastern part of the country, An ex- tensive low pressure area overlies the plains states and the Canadian northwest and has caused a modera- tion in temperature over these sec- tions. ‘The outlook is for partly cloudy weather tonight:and Tuesday. Expert Phonography and Typewriting Phone 774 WALTER W. McMAHON AND MORTON IN THIRD i Number of Changes Suggested in Division Along General Geographical Lines A congressional reapportionment of AUDITORIUM, Prices 50c to $2. tive Fay Harding in House Bill 403, in- troduced Saturday, would result in a complete ‘realignment of the second district, which would include Barnes, Mercer, Oliver, Morton, Dunn, Stark, Hettinger, Adams, Billings, Golden Valley, Bowman, Slope, Sioux and} Grant. This reapportionment would gerry- mander out of a job either Congress- as it would place both of them in the Second district. The new third would be composed of Rolette, Pierce, Ben- son, Eddy, Foster, Griigs, Wells, Botti- neau, McHenry, Sheridan, Renville, Ward, McLean, Burke, Mountrail, Di- vide, Williams and McKenzie. The | First district would comprise Pembina, Cavalier, Towner, Ramsey, Walsh, Nel son, Grand Forks, Steele, Trail, Cass, Ransom, Sargent and Richland. The Hotel of Character and Comfort and to give or risk his own life in the Process, has a hundred opportunities every day to carry out his insane put- pose. ‘Every president who has bee. assassinated is the victim of this-con- dition, which is one that ‘cannot be changed nor very much improved. «No vigilance by any number of secret service men could have prevented the man at Milwaukee shooting at Roose velt, nor the, man at McKiniey's el- bow avert the shot of his assasale, Hotel Radisson, Minneapolis. CHICHESTER S PILLS Curtain 8:15 Sharp Messrs. Shubert Present The Sensationa! Musical Comedy TONIGHT Seats at Finney’s TODAY “One Step in Love,” “Win a Pretty superb ¢ast; including John E. Young, ten, George Everett, Sam Hearn, Madéline Nash, Helen Eley, ‘San DIAMOND BRAND.( ceeaen@ Bact atten Safest, Always | “Auf Wiedersehn,” “Here’s to you, My Sparkling Wine,” “I Had a Dog,” Robert Pitkin, Shep Camp, Fred Har- :; Veronica Marquise, and the original Casino Chorus? Widow,” and 15 Others, sung by a Louise Kelley, orn |