The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 23, 1917, Page 4

eS AO ES LD FOUR THE TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. ISSUBD BEVERY DAY EXCEPs SUNDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANC ‘E by mail or carrier, per 4.00 Dally.: by three onths Paetrerr ree 1.26 Daily, by mail outside of North Di ne ~» 6.00 1.51 akota, one year ...- Daily, by mail outside y 1.51 ‘ta, three months ‘Weekly, by mall, per year G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Special Foreign bg ae He RK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; Ci ; NET ohne’ Bldg; BOSTON, 8 Winter Bt; DETROIT, Kresge Bldg.; MINNE- APOLIS, 810 ‘Lumber ng “Memeer Audit Bureau ire fon "HE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPE STAT Established 1872) i WEATHER REPORT for 24 hours ending at noon June 23: ss Temperature at 7:00 a. m. . 58 Temperature at noon . 70 (Highest yesterday . . 78 Lowest yesterday . - 53 Lowest last night . . 47 Precipitation ...... 01 Highest wind velocjty 12—W eee Forecast. For .North Dakota: Fair tonight and Sunday; not much change in temperature. peneearay Lowest [ ah 4 Temperatures Fargo .. +. 52 Williston 50 Grand Forks 47 Pierre ... 54 St. Paul . . Winnipeg 52 Helena 46 Chicago .. 56 Swift Current 40 Kansas City . - San Francisco . - 50 ORRIS W.:ROBERTS, Meteorologtst. ONLY LINE OF ATTACK. While it is the duty of the press, of the state to criticize the dema- gogues now in control of the destinies of the Nonpartisan league, some con- structive program must be proposed also. It is the opinion of a considerable number of people in the state, busi- ness men as well as farmers, that there are abuses at the great term- inal markets, but socialism’ such as practiced. by. Townley, Coates, Bowen and Brinton is not the panacea. Farmers’ organizations are neces- sary and no one is hostile to the league, merely to the socialistic pro- gram which Mr. Townley and Gover- nor Frazier have mapped out. Like the trained demagogues chey are, Townley, Frazier, et al., try to stir up the farmers by telling them that all criticism urged against the league leaders is abuse of them be- cause they are organized. The farm- ers of the state are. too intelligent to be led into such an old trap. But the farmers are going to ask this question: “If Townley, Frazier and the rest are not qualified leaders what have their critics to offer? What is their program? The question is a fair one. Unless the opponents of Townley and Fra- zier have a workable program and a platform fair to the interests of the farmers of the state, the league lead- ers will remain in the saddle. Critt- cism alone will not hoist them from their perch. It is gratifying to note that the con- vention which nominated Burtness as the Republican candidate for con- Bress in the First district proposed something definite in urging federal inspection and control of the market- ing of grain. i Townley and Frazier seek through House Bill 44 to foist on the state an expensive system of state owned utilities which,, when built, will af- fect less the prices at terminal points than the North Dakota farmers’ gran- aries do now. The convention platform hits the nail on the head in this: “We favor national legislation that will further the best interests of our state; and, to that end, we endorse legislation for national inspection and grading of grain, for the federal- ization of chambers of commerce and grain exchanges, preventing and pre- scribing penalties for extortionate profits exacted by dealers in food products, to prohibit speculation therein, and to render the producer a| fair and legitimate return for his la- bor and investment.” Federal legislation is the only so- lution of the evils that surround ane are attendant upon the marketing of the products of the soil. ‘How evident this is must be apparent to the in- telligent farmers of the state, when they realize the absolute failure of the league's grain inspection _ bill. This bill imposes additional burdens upon the farmers of the state without affording them any possible relief at | where Duluth, Minneapolis, Chicago or Buf- falo, the great grain terminals of the world. Townley, Frazier and the rest know that federal legislation will give the leaders of the league no plunder fund, rio jobs, no political pork and no emoluments for the socialistic pack of henchmen at their backs. The farmers of North Dakota are gradually learning that House Bitl 44 ‘was a mere ruse to rob the school fund and squander the millions held in trust for the present and future fogenerations on wild dreams of social- FM qiigePOry weeks ppst,:the; official organs == | ownership. ALS oe BISMARCK DAILY. TRIBUNE of the league have been printing sto- ries relative to state owned utilities in Washington and Louisiana. Not a word as to the tax load. Not a word as to the bond issue. Louisiana bond- ed its state for millions to build its public enterprises. New Orleans is the second port of the United States and probably was warranted in build- ing public docks, cotton warehouses and grain elevators, but what justi- fication is there for a bond’ issue of ten million or more to build elevators in a state without a terminal market except that Townley sees visions of pork and political prestige at the ex- pense of the tax payer. The farmers had better support Burtness, with his program of federal legislation as against Baer and state One is workable, while the other is doomed to disastrous failure. North Dakota has more storage than it needs at present. The farm: ers do not need more laws, but they need better equipped and more mod- ern elevators. This can be achieved by the applicaion of better business methods and the installation of mod- ern machinery in present elevators. Additional laws on the statute books of North Dakota will not affect the ‘Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce any more than a flea bite excites an elephant, but socialistic lawson the statute books of North Dakota mean fresh plunder for Mr. Townley. Take your choice, Mr. Farmer, fed- eral legislation to correct marketing evils with the prospect of results, or Baer’s program of state ownership and increased taxes. Townley’s first grain inspection bill placed a tax load of $500,000 on your backs and at the same time relieved the track buyer of the Cham- ber of Commerce from any supervi- sion. . (Must you have millions more in high taxes assessed against your farms and buildings to wake up to what the socialistic plans of Town- ley really mean? Wake up and ask your neighbors if they have read Townley's grain grading act. You bet the Chamber of Commerca has, and is laughing at the way Town- ley and Coates fooled you last win- ter. | { r Don’t wait until a; house falls in on you. i ‘ The Tribune does not want you to take its unsupported word. Ask your elevator man. Townley, et al., ate typical of what Roosevelt once referred to as “the lunatic fringe of reform. WHY GIRLS GO WRONG. Of course, it’s a very old question —and some people despair’ of ever. finding the answer. “When Ruth Cruger disappeared in New York /the. police, hardened to crime, concluded Ruth was a bad gir) and didn’t trouble themselves over much about what happened to her. A woman lawyer concluded Ruth was a good girl and looked for the tracks of a man in the case. She suddenly gave the policé a very stun- ning surprise. Grace Humiston believes most girls are inherently good. ‘So they are. And so are most men. Most human beings are inherently good.. But a great many persons get into surroundings in which it is very dif- ficult to be good’and they are switch- ed from the paths of virtue and hon- esty and decency. Most cases of humanity gone wrong lead back to some kind of sodden sur- rundings, back to ignorance and bad influences. Every Ruth Cruger case is a red- hot argument for striking back at conditions that tempt people to go wrong—or drive them to. Education is one of the most pow- erful weapons against wrong-doing. Most crimes against the person are committed by the ignorant, by the desperate, or by mental weaklings. Fill the human mind with knowl edge, give the human body envugh good food and pure air and sunlight and you drive a mighty force for de- cency into the stronghold of crime. SHUT UP.OR BE LOCKED UP. We Americans are extremely jeal- ous of our rights. Among them we hold none more precious than free speech and a free press. In most of our cities we have permitted such freedom of speech that we have per- mitted, with good-natured tolerance, the free utterance of the ravings of disordered minds. In some cities certain places have been set apart in public squares anyone might freely rail against government and established institutions, and say most anything he pleased. Even the steps of government build- ings have been favorite rostrams, wherefrom wild-eyed fanatics might talk themselves black in the face against the government itself. | So long as it kept clear of libel laws jthe press might go as far as the ed- jitor pleased to go with his thunder. {bolts against anything and anybody. And a good-natured public found no | fault. went Yj }| Sp BE TOUGH ON‘ | ME, 00-000! A Clean Victory eS & EAT MO FAT, See Jack Spear courd | Wo LEAN. a oe eS" ck 2b = OQ CAAA | i A Fl ui +4\5 WIFE COULD EAT THEN Bott WERE ee | | ) \\ Anne il UIT of this democratic republic. The gav- ernment declared war and the people approved its action as their will. That settles it. Frenzied attacks on our government npw are attacks on the people. Ap- peals to any of our citizens to rebel against any of the laws passed by congress to carry out the purposes of our war, are attacks on our govern- ment, ) Whatever lends aid and comfort to the enemy is treason—and attacks on our government and appeals for resistance to its laws lend aid and comfort to the enemy. Hence they are treasonable. The time has come for treasonable editors and orators to shut up or be locked up. Goldman and Berkman are locked up. They're in jail. That’s where they belong. Neither is a citizen of this republic, yet both have been per- mitted’ to ‘roam whithersoever they pleased within our borders and give voice to their hatred’ of this govern- ment and all government. It was time to:lock them up. And it’s time to go right down the line and lock up others ‘who use their liberty in free America to lend aid and comfort to the Prussian enemy of democracy and civilization. And this goes for editors, as well as orators. GOOD-BYE, OLD DAYS. When we went into the big war we said farewell to the old days of peace and ease. We went into a job of hard work. It was curtains and dim lights for what had been. We said good-vye to the old ways, too. Many of us didn’t suspect’ at the time that we were closing the book on things as they were. But we were. We will have peace some day— peace with victory for’ democracy. But a lot of things we had in the peace left behind we will not have in the peace to come. And most of thém we will not want. We are going to do things more efficiently in the new peace. We are going to take better care of our- slves. And so, entirely aside from the great question of world denioc- Tacy, we are going to have a better democracy among ourselves. We are not going to stand for a lot of the robbery we used to put up with. We are going to regulate food administration for war purposes Today Uncle Sam is saying to pro- ducers of war commodities: {o much shall you charge, and no more. . Will Uncle ‘Sam ever again stand for the good old scandals, we used to read so much about? And we are learning how to eat— for the first time in our lives. We are learning to eat less and to count the cost of what we eat. The drilling we get in proper ‘eating during the war will stay with us. Ws will be a stronger race when peace comes. War is going to purge our souls. War is going to clean us up. We have got to be 100 per cent fit in war. We shall remain 100 per cent in peace. That will be one of the greatest of war's blessings. War is the great purifier in many ways. It is good to But that was in times of peace, Now we are at war. The government represents the people, the citizenship mal think about these blessings of the Peace to come. It will help us through the ‘trials of the war. sale Saturday Evening Letter By Justice J. E. Robinson 1 think we:need a. Baer in congress. Now it issaid the United States supreme court has adjourned for the summ (abd much of the autumn, de- spite the-fact that;phere are on the docket, 532: cases. %q not that awful? It mustbe that the judges do not read our létters or’ the command, “Thou shalt not steal. ‘When a per- son receives for work a thousand a month and fails to do the work, does he not steal one thousand; is it not grand larceny, is it:not a just cause of shame‘and reproach? ‘Why do not the lawyers of great corporations’ go fishing and leave their work undone for a yearns ?*They could not do itsand held*their jobs; but under the laws the federal judges are ap- pointed for life andthe state judges are elected or appginted for a definite termsof.years, and they all work with- out’ any reporting? or accounting and withdut any*stipefvision or control. And in many cases they assume to be the Lords and masters of the people and do just as they please. The ques- tion is, what are you going to do about it? There is nothing to do only to change the laws or the public sen- timent so that derelicts may feel the sting of public censure and reproach. TRe custom of appointing judges for life or for a long term of years is monarchial and is contrary to all bus- iness principles. The corporation law- yers are never hired in that way. No business concern ever hires a man or a set of men for life or a long term of years, or leaves its hired men to work without any supervision or re- porting. If public /business were done on business principles the people would have more confidence in public ownership. 7 ‘Here is my syllabus and decision in a Grand Forks tax case: i G. Ni Railway company vs. County of Grand Forks. In a statutory action where a party claims land under a tax sale the case presented is one of law and not of equity. When by the answer or the evidence an adverse claim of title is shown to be void, it is adjudgell void as a matter of law. The remedy is assured by the constitutional guaranty of due process-of law. Robinson, J.: This is an action to determine adverse claims to real prop- erty. The complaint avers and shows that the plaintiffs have some title or interest in certain property in the city of Grand Forks, to-wit: A part of lot 7 in block: 28, ard a part of ‘lots 9 and 11 in block 28, which parts are described by -metesand bounds. \It avers that the defendant claims some estate or interest in said property ad- verse to the’ plaintiffs. “ The answer-is in-effect that for sev- eral specified years, the property was duly listed and assessed for taxation, and taxes were duly levied against it and for such taxes the property was taxes and the tax sales on the ground that the land description is fatally de- fective. In the dssessment book for each year the description of one H tract is: ’ (Northeast 100 feet of lot 7 in block | f 28; name of owner; ‘Nash’ Bros., ‘or lot 7 in block 28; name‘ of-owner; Gti} Nor. R. R: Go. : <0 oF The description of thé other tract is: 3,800 square feet; Original town, opposite block 27, city of Grand Forks; name of owner, Swift ‘Co., or Gt.-Nor: R. R. Co:; lot’ 9, block'28. jo. ‘There is a‘ first ‘and sécbnd ‘descrip- tion” of each’ fract* and ‘each ' descrip» tion is 'in'a different assessment book. All of lots 7, 9 and 11*are:a:part ‘of the Great ‘Northern right of way. Onty @ part of each lot is leased and: the part not leased ‘is not subject to such || taxation. As the leased property con- sists of only a fractional ‘part of each lot, it was not, possible to describe tt: by. giving the number, of 'the'lot and |} the other descriptions are too -vagne. They describe nothing. It is established by the decisions of this court from its organization that before there can be any valid tax against land there must be a-descrip- tion sufficiently accurate and definite to enable the owner and others to identify it. The descriptions as given in the assessment roll is to be used in all subsequent proceedings. There is no provision for changing the de- scription in order to correct it or make it more certain, and extrinsic evi- dence is not admissible to show what is meant by the description, “A sufi- cient description is necessar ;, Hot alone for the denefit-of the oWneér. It ‘becomes the basis of all further pro- ceedings and future titles. (16 N. D 123). Land is not assegsed unless ‘it is described with sufficient accuracy for complete identification. The rea- soning of Judge Cooley and the au- thorities cited by him are absolutely conclusive and show that there was no reason for taking this appeal. In a statutory action like this it is sheer folly for counsel to talk about rules of equity. It ts a case of strict law and not of equity. The statute gives the right of action and the form of the complaint. It avers that de- fendant claims some title or interest in the land adverse to the plaintiff and challenges the defendant to set forth and establish his title or to abandon it. The defendant becomes the plain- tiff and tenders the issue and of course the other party must have a right to. defend against the claim of title: When the answer and evidence show that a claim is based on a void assess- ment, tax sale or tax deed, then it must be adjudged void as a matter of law and there is no equity or dis- cretion about it. It is time to cease talking of equity unless when the power of the court is invoked to re- lieve against some hardship, penalty duly sold to;Grand Forks county. The courty appeals from a judg- ment holding vold the assessment, the or forfeiture, or to mitigate some se- verity of the law. Judgment affirmed. Se CUBA BUYS AMERICAN PAPER Manufacturers of United States Get Most of Trade Held by Germany Before the War. Cuba imported $3,300,000 worth of paper in 1916 and American manufac- turers furnished over 70 per cent of that total, according to a bulletin is- sued by Uncle Sam's bureau of foreign and domestic commerce recently. This itrade has been growing rapidly in re- cent months and from. all indications has not yet reached its limit. t A large share of the new business and the business formerly going to Ger- many has come to-the United States, but unless unusual care is taken there will be a tendency to‘return to old sources of supply when the war is over, Spatn and Norway are the next most important sources of supply after the United States, but Spain is not wholly @ competitor, as its exports to Cuba consist principally of | handmade writing paper and cigarette paper, with which American manufacturers are ap- parently unable to. compete. . Norway is an active competitor in newsprint and wrapping paper, and the exports. from that country are likely to in- crease as soon as normal shipping con- ditions are restored. The trade that Germany formerly had, consisting largely of coated book paper, en- velopes, wrapping paper, . cardboard, and lithographic goods, amounting to $250,000 a year, has gone principally to the United States, although in litho- graphic goods England: has, increased. its sales $25,000 since Germany disap- peared from, the market, +e 5 maby 6 ned] «f Dunham LumbetCo.” ’ Dunkelberg, Nathan HONOR ROLL People Who Sent Their Dollars To the Front for Democracy Purchasers of Liberty Bonds These names published by the Bismarck Clearing House Association A: Allen, Ernest Allen, G. B. Anderson, J. C. B Benson, O. H. Buggy, W. C. Bankston, J. L. Baker, Weston Bronson, H. A. Bergeson, R. M. Bro’ Emanuel; Ay». Baker, Lyman A. Breslow, Joseph: Baker, C. A.) »* Bolt, G."Fes) [+ “t ° Birdzell, Robt.’A. Battey, R. C. : Bell, J. L. ‘ Beach, Henricka B. Bird, George F. * Bismarck Grocery Co. Bonham, C. A. Bonham, Mrs. S. P. Brown, James A. Bowen, E. G. Bruce, Andrew A. 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