The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 10, 1917, Page 4

‘WEDNESDAY, OCT, | THE TRIBUNF Entered at the Postoflice, B narck, D., as Second Class Matter. | ISSUED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY. | GEORGE D. MANN, - + Editor | ENSLEY A. WEIR, Pusines: G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. i NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg; CHI-, CAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON,! 3 Winter St.; DETROIT. Kresge Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF A ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively! entitled to the use for republication of | all news credited to it or not other-| wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. i All rights of republication of special | dispatches herein are also reserved. Member Audit Bureau of ( reulation. ‘su: BSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE! IN ADV. Daily, by carrier, per month. Daily, by mail, pe’ year. Daily, by mail in three months ....... Daily, by mail outside. of Dakota, one year Daily, by mail outside of North Dakota, three months Weekly, by mail, per year THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (eatabiished 1878) Manager | WEATHER REPORT. i for 24 hours ending at noon Oct. Temperature at 7 a. m. f ‘Temperature at noon. Highest yesterday . Lowest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation .... Highest wind velocity . 1: Forecast for North Dakota: Partly cloudy to- night, with warmer east and central portions; Thursday generally fair colder; fresh southwest to northwest winds. Lowest Tempe Fargo ... . AVilliston Pierre .. St. Paul ... Winnipeg Helena . Chicago Ss Current . Kansas City . San Francisco . ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorogolist. | SOEs “If you cannot fight, b’gosh “s “ Buy a bond and biff the bosche! + ° % See o SEO e COULD BE NO DEFENSE. No one was greatly disturbed over | La Follette’s “defense.” There could be no defense of the indefensible. Pacifist Bob was silent upon the in- dictment—the .St., Paul Nonpartisan league speech.” He carefully avoided any reference to the sedition prac- {iced in Minnesota and launched into a defense of free speech, which cer- tainly no one has denied him. There are others whose silence is as damning as La Follette’s St. Paul! speech was disloyal. PERVERSION OF THE PRIMARY. New York’s mayoralty election rep- resents how easily the political bosses can corrupt a primary. An eleventh hour candidate for mayor appeared on the republican ballot. Tammany, un- opposed, swarmed into the republican primaries and selected Bennett, a much weaker candidate than Mitchel. As a contributing factor to the suc- cess of an old and overworked poli- tical coup, many respectable citizens failed to vote at the primaries. Their “slacking” made it easy for the pro- fessional politicians to get the desired alignment. Now Mr. Bennett is the republican candidate for mayor of greater New York, while Mr. Mitchel, a victim of Tammany plots and deals, must run as an independent. In a threo cor- nered fight, the chances of the evil forces returning Tammany to power seems imminent. Friends of good government have their eyes on New York and trust that Mitchel ‘will put the reaction- aries to flight. OFF TO WAR. Again we are in a great struggle for mankind. We hear the sounds of preparation —the music of boisterous drums, the silver voices of heroic bugles. We see thousands of assemblages, and hear the appeals of orators. We sec the pale cheeks of woinen, and the flushed faces of men, and in those as- semblages we see all the dead whose dust we have covered with flowers. We lose sight of them no more. We are with them as they march in the great army of human freedom. We see them apart with those they love. Some are walking for the last time in quiet, woody places, with the maidens they adore. We hear the; whisperings and the sweet vows of| eternal love as they lingeringly part.} Others are bending over cradles, kiss- ing babes that are asleep. Some arc} receiving the blessing of old Some are parting with mothers who, hold them and press them to their) hearts again and again, and say noth-! ing. And some are talking with wives, | and endeavoring with brave wor spoken in the old tones, to drive from | -their hearts the awful fear. We see | them part. We see the wife standing | in the door with the babe in her arms, | men. | ——_——J | fighting. | tion seems to be the only prospect, standing in the sunlight sobbing. At the turn of the street a hand waves: she answers by holding high in her loving arms the child. He is gone. ware vened and it will have before it the most momentous question since those famous slavery cases. barbarie autocracy. this crucial issue between human free- dom and brutal autocracy, we sec stalemate. The greatest navies of the y world aro unable to decide it. The | \ H | Is the draft law constitutional? ‘This is a question in which the} nN whole world is vitally interested, for | upon it largely depends the power of civilization to defend itself against Rverywhere, in \ “starvation policy” is at stalemate,’ and so is the bloody work of land Utter ruin through exhaus-| New Map of Europe A: As x eT, é Pea $i iN Ni JUGO SLAVIA. il ~ , Ks K ~~, > TiN ae > <i eA RUMANIA MN pane” re goria § BULGARIA ecoccoccs : 9 4 “A Dog-erel” to a “Pig-Headed” Senator | cs. Laaceseensseeowensorseree te ray s world, in all things there is some Follette’s case, I fear 1 would be mis imself and tried to make a fool of our veins, to fight until we win kid thought he would wallop me got rough and my strength and his d, “You're out for, Democracy’s g to show the kaiser just how we gging the boys on and making them they will be ashamed of you, they A READER. We see them all as they march proudly away under the flaunting ‘The optimist says that in all thi flags, keeping time to the grand wild thing god, ‘i fob La music of war, marching down the ‘ i Were to apply that to streets of the great cities, through the Mm Hl anf Py niderstoo ‘ou onais a fool fort towns and across the prairies, down » i ns! : ihe U.S. A ; to the fields of glory, to du and to die ane ome He roused the red blood in all of + the eternal rig! the da for the eternal right. a » When I was a boy, a red-headed We go with them, one and all. We i lt FIND rf “y round: are by their side on the gory fields, | h But when he got “tough,” then ! in all the hospitals of pain, on all IN fl i) weakness | found. a. : i is: ce to a soldier sai the weary marches. We stand guard I 4 Hehe Idealist once to with them in the wild ‘storm and under / ‘c Democracy, yes, but we are goin the quiet stars. We are with them g can fight. irae tie in the trenches running with blood, in| | i hear ea 5°. heresy “Old Bob” who is ni s| or S ed fields. anxious to fig! the shell craters of the blasted fields. fil § ous LO SM ay came home:th We are with them between contending Pal i low, _ will be proud of America’s right. hosts, unable to move, wild with st () * G if ing slowly away upon the eee ee re re x ! ri yar ling 1 would not wait for the United torn and trodden earth. We see them i / 2 7 rod MG ts conate to pase upon the ques pierced with ‘balls and torn with ' ul os r¢ tion of my loyalty or disloyalty. 1 shells, in the trenches, by the forts, | A ou nh : pum ) RUSSIA would seek the companionship of! and in the whirlwind of the charge, | i" ag ‘ aaa Ww ne: those whom my discussions and ay where men become iron, with nerves ! ae Lg, a! ey Gu joutecn are calcula of steel. We are with them in the ae f C bo} POLAND \ : : Speech at St. Paul. prisons of hatred and famine. ! ‘Vf Ww - ' ~ “The scnator from Minneso.a (Me | ‘We are with our heroes and they PARIS. ‘co. 8) res 4 4 Kellogg) fae dlecisted : an adaye s vi 3, wha : comes, till time! {S-, crediled to the senat “ with us, whatever comes, till time; S ‘ + fOOHE NS Sy, D Hee ee en paal yams Ak onde: AND’ See , . ago. that address the senator The foregoing is almost exact) Don from Wisconsin is charged with say- baat sale \heoreel aaa ne i FRANCE ¢ 4 Y ia ~ gover pay om ing that the United States went to! Habeontaie aces ee paee + VIENNAO LS aS Neen _ ff: \e war for the purpose of vindicatins the MS aa eee pie ms rY-7 ~ right of venturesome citizens to ride, 4 i m-! wo ce —' BU ei on passenger vessels transporting an DEADLINESS OF DELAY. Fae haat ne i? Fy ° munition, 1 want to know from sen- , Inited States supre’ court; | 2 a Suk, HUNGARY « jators now assembled whether th:y The United States supreme court, co mellve that. that'ta actrankexercles after a restful vacation, has recon- : ‘. BN’ lof the right of free speech. “The senator from Wiscorsia is t One of the best informed men in the | United States senate. | want to {know from you, sirs, whether ur not you believe that that was < statement of the sentiments of the senatur from Wisconsin. “If be ~ibelieves that the United States is involved in this conflict | that cause or if he believes that the principal cause which brought the Uniled States into this conflict, his af ool he get his information? Forced Into the War. “The whole speech of the scnator from Wiscongin is based por the 9) | States declared war agains’: Germany and forced war on her. We did no isuch thing. The United states recog EA attitude is justified; but where dees} *8° ; TO THE THE UNITED STATES THROWS ALL OF ITS POWER, IN MEN, MONEY AND MATERIAL, IN: BALANCE. This is the naked question before that court, and there is far more in This is how Roosevelt would make over the map of the world: First, he would restore and make Germany in- demnity Belgium. Then he would cre- ate the following new independent states—Finland, Lithuania, Arabia, Ar- menia, Poland, Jugo slavia (Serbia), a Chech commonwealth, composed of and French would belong to the cap- Bohemians, Moravians and Slovaks, | tors. According to this plan Austria- e : st Hungary would be practically dismem- Hungary and the free city of Constan- beied, Germany, Turkey and Russia tinople. France would get back all! would lose territory, but Russia would the territory taken by the Cermans in| rain in having a free outlet from the this war and Alsace-Lorraie. All Ger-' Black sea, of tremendous importance maa colonies taken by’ the British | in that country. nized a state of war wach had al- ready been existing between the tin- ited States and Germany for many months, fer: .some years; and that state of war was ‘brought about by the brutal, lawless disregard ci the German government of the rights of | American citizens and of th: sover- eignty of this great nation, aud a [iste it than mere governmental law. In it is involved not only the constitution: ality of the draft act, but the life of the constitution itself. GOD HELP OUR CONSTITUTION- AL IDEALS OF GOVERNMENT, I? GERMAN AUTOCRACY IS NOT WIPED OUT! i ng Not only is this drat ‘case of para- mount importance but it is vital that decision on it should be rendered at the earltest possible moment. We; have declared war on the most power-/ EDITOR'S NOTE—Senator Rob- inson of Arkansas uttered a philippic in the United States senate Saturday which will go down into history. The Tribune ful martial nation this world ever herewith. reprinis the 0-ficial knew. Constitutionally or otherwise,| draft of that address. The we have already spent billions, broken| editor's onv regret is tnat when La Follette uttered his sedi- tion in the presence of Governor Frazier at St. Paul that the execu- tive of this state did not answer disloyalty with loyalty so that North Dakota rather than Ar- kansas might have had the im- perisnable fame of defending the nation against one of her most vicious traducers, The Tribune commends the sen- timents of Senator Robinson to its many loyal readers: up millions of homes and ‘business | concerns in order to prosecute our war to the best of our ability. A lingering doubt as to our aivility to make war would make us a thing to be laughed at and scorned by Rus- sians, Mexicans, Chinese or any other; nation impotent to carry out a great national purpose. It would spell| wrack and ruin, if not downright an- archy, in these United States. Under the regular order, this draft issue would not come up in the United States supreme court for 18 months. Picture our allies, picture ourselves, under 18 months of doubt as to wheth-! er we can make war! Shall the bloody slaughter of the best men of Europe, the outrage of her women, the burn- ing of her homes and public institu- tions, the universal massacre of in- nocents go on for months because our hands are tied fast by the red tape of courts? Shall we continue sending our beloved sons, brothers, husvands into the camps as heroes, under months of doubt as to whether they may not come sheaking back home as nesota, Senatar Mohican frat rem able spe in the United States sen- ate last inaluruay vlvague Dena) oo Follette before the var of the Ameri- an people. The full text of the speech has not vem circulated gor erally throughout North Dakota. Its patriotism is the kind of gospel the times call for. The speech follows in full: | “The senator from Wisconsin,” Sen- ator Robinson said, “seems to me strangely inconsistent. in insisting up- on his right under the constitutional guaranty of free speech to declare in substance that this government has entered upon war for no just cause, and to assail the executive depart-, ment of the government for its .man- ner of conducting this conflict, to as- sci sail the legislative branch of the gov- discredited, dishonored and defeated or vont for their failure 19 perform buffers? Far better that we drown jt; alleged duty, and even to attack our courts and burn up our coustitu- the courts of the United States for tion. | their failure to protect the citizeas | of this country in the cajoyment of chts. Wouldn't it be well to observe how i thele Poteet ay senator of. many of the office holders who are the United States to speak freely up-| exempt from income taxation wear the on topics of this Character, why | “I've bought a bond” badge? | sia or not the senator from Wiscon-; sin or any other senator entertain-| | ing these views denounce newspaper | men and other citizens of this coun-; try who, in the erercise of the same/ right of free though rents German consulate forces at Barce-| Jona have been greatly . increased. ail frce speech, | so! "re goi Look Outi pono: You're going 0) nave declared that the senator ought be knifed in the back. to abandon his seat in the United Aristocracy ey ‘By: BERTON BRALEY. Aristocrats; we need them in this land. Not Gold-Aristocrats or those of birth, jut ,true Aristocrats of valid worth, Fitted to follow or to take command. — | Whoever trains his intellect or hand To serve the world more ably than his ne Whoever dignifies his dai'y labor With zeal to learn and zest to understand or; Is an aristocrat. To such as these Who dream more nobly, think more wis To better purpose and. with Srain and plan erve, Senator Robinson of Arkansas Gives La Follette the Answer ~ Which Frazier Failed’ to Do Following Senator Kellogg of Ng = ity bee 3 ore Hay nate and seek-mcnm Sership. i the German ‘yundesrath? , ' Lincoln and Wekster. © ‘The senetoy from Wi sin has sought to j fy his attitude in this ; debate upon thd’ record of Abraham Lincoln and Daniel Webster, It may be recalled that Mr. Lincoln, who in- troduced the resolution “denouncing and criticising his’ govertinént for en- tering the Mexican war ‘and for its manner of conducting that conflict, was defeated for re-election by an INinois constituent. ‘Daniel Wester is not remembered, his name does not linger in the mem- ory of millions of American citizens, because of the act of which the sen- {tor from Wisconsin has spoken to- iday, because of his criticism of his government for entering the Mexican senator who can find it in his heart to war; but Laniel Webster will live as say, here or elsewhere, that’ the long as men love liberty in the hearts United States went to war for the ot thé American people because he trivial cause is, to say the least, hick- stood in this sacred presence many, ing in information which 2 senator years ago and declared himself for should possess. of the preservation of his country and “The senator, during the course ot the maintenance of his flag. his address, referred to the <ailure of Says Senate Should Quit. the courts to protect citizens of the “it is a singular thing to me, that United States in the exercise of their a senator of the United States should rights as citizens.» vou ae two and a half or three hours “ ! ugeat’ In’ Bundesrat” in denouncing his government and “f was astounded when. at'the verw _have not one word for that flag, not beginning of his address, he made the one word to utter for the commander statement that governmant ag2ncie, in chief of the armies of the United acting under the authority ct the ex: States, not ong word to express en- ecutive, are invading’ the p-ivaie courag»ment of the men who have al- homes of the citizens, are arresting ready ‘been sent to the far-stretched and ‘confining citizens, innocent and battle fronts of Europe, and who are loyal American citizens, in jail ‘vith- now upholding with their lives, the out warrant and without cause: thai honor, the dignity, the safety of this they. are violating every private and great nation. ' sacred right of the people of this “If it is a privilege of free speech government. for senators to test the patience of “I say to you that, while ' cannot their colleagues and the patience of find language within the rules of the the citizens of this nation, it is equal- senate to appropriately characterize ly a right of other citizens, in the ex- the sentiments uttered on this floor ercise of free speech, to criticise the this morning by the senator from conduct of senators. + Wisconsin, If I entertained those sen- “If I entertained the sentiments timents | would not think I had the which the senator from Wisconsin has right to retain a seat on the flcor cf expressed in this presence this morn- the United States senate. 1 would day night. Mr. Morosco will send the original New York production and ex- Devote themselves to life’s brave argosies, The world belongs. Th2y are the blue-bloodclan The Aristocracy of Those Who Serve! this season. “THE BATHING GIRLS” WITH OLIVER MORCSCO'S BIG MUSICAL SUCCESS, ING TO THE AUDITORIUM ON THURSDAY. “So Long Letty.” Oliver Morosco’s geous. The musical numbers, of which | “SO “LONG LETTY,” COM. Unlike the former-production, which' tional musical success, will be there are 18, contain a number of the was laid in a cottage, thi % 2 | the offering at the Auditorium Thurs-| iis Geen popular whistling variety. many of wll be seen first in the exterior of which are well known to the local two street cars in the street colony of cellent cast which gladdened Broad-| play goers. Probably the best remem- San Francisco Bay, the second being way for 20 weeks the early part of! bered being “So Long Letty,” The costumes are all! Come the Married Men” bright and new and:the seenery is gor-! Around the Apples Once Again.” “Here the interior of one of the cars. The and “Pass ' orchestra will be augmented by | number of novelty instruments. a apply to the kaiser for a seat in the Lunuesrath. Refuses Help to Belgium.” Senator Robinson read Senator La Follette’s pending resolution against annexations and indemnities. “The correct construction of that language,” Senator kobinson said, “is that it is designed to prevent the al- lies, in case of victory, from compel- ling Germany to indemnify Belgium for the misery and desolation waich she has so lawlessly wrought to that Kingdom, for the wreck and . ruin ‘ which has followed in the path of the German armies as they lawlessly in- vaded the kingdom of belgium. “It will be remembered that at the outbreak of the war Germany invaded both Belgium and France. ‘She justi- hed her invasion of Belgium on the ground of alleged military necessity, the end of the war. He recognized that he was violating international law. He recognized that he was tear- ing up statutes and denouncing them as mere scraps of paper. He said that in order to carry out the mili- tary purpose of the German army it was necessary to violate the sover- eignty of Pelgiwn and to invade her, and that when the war was over they would make reparation for that dam- "(To Be Continued Tomorrow.) ———— oor | WITH THE EDITORS crroneous assumption that the United | NOW, MR. BAER. (Minneapolis Journal.) John M. Baer, North Dakota's Non- partisan league congressman, prompt- ly consigned Colonel Roosevelt to the Ananias club for charging him with saying in his campaign for election that “Americanism-is not an issue.” The charge was made by the colonel on the occasion of his Twin City visit, and it evoked from Mr. Baer a long telegram in which he denied. “once and for all” that he had ever made the statement that “Americanism, is not.an issue.” . But the files of the Fargo Courier- News, organ’ of the Nonpartisan league, furnish evidence that Mr. Baer | did make precisely the statement that Colonel Roosevelt ‘accused him of mak- ing. On’ June 28, under a Cando, N. D., date line, the Nonpartisan organ printed an account of a speech by Mr. Baer, and quotes him as saying: “Bread and ‘butter problems are be- fore the people today. Bread and but- ter problems have to be solved. It is no time to attempt to make American- ism an issue and win the campaign by flag-waving.” Really, Mr. Baer owes Colonel Roosevelt an apology, unless he means to consign the Courier-News, which is supported, maintained ‘and edited .by the league whose condidate he was, to that same Ananias club whither he advises the colonel to retire. » GOOD AMERICANISM. Governor Norbeck is doing a big, broad, patriotic, constructive work -in the speeches he is making throughout the state this ycar of our entrance into the war. It needs just some such talk of loy- alty to the ideals of our nation as he is delivering in so many places in the state to bring home to a great many persons the fact that this coun- try is in the war for good reason and that the only way out of it is straight through to a victory that will end for- ever the possibility of one man or one nation setting its hands to an ambi- tion to rule the world. The calls upon his time have been many, but they ate worth heeding, for this is important work to be done:-— Aberdeen American. THERE’S A LIMIT, ° Did you ever stop to think that Uncle Sam is very, very lenient? Nev- er entered your mind? Look here. Uncle Sam has found hundreds. of men, since the war broke out, that have openly defied him. He imposes a small fine, with perhaps a few months in prison, in some cases, and lets it go at that. Ask any German- born citizen what the kaiser does with men that openly defy him, and the answer will be that they are put on the firing line and closely guarded. And it is perfectly rigat. What did Russia do a short time ago to a lot of traitors—she sent them to the happy hunting grounds and they deserved it. —The Burford Times. MIGHT CONSULT FRAZIER. Mayor Thompson of Chicago is suing the papers in that city for defamation of character to the tune of a million, and a half dollars. Hasn't “his hono got a war price attached to the dam- aged article? A million and a half. With all that money he could give Max Eastman a swell ‘banquet—in some cfty that would stand for it— Cogswell Enterprise. NOT ENOUGH OF ’EM. Senator ‘La Follette of Wisconsin would dearly love to be president of the United States, but™pe will need more than the support’@f the social- ‘ists, I. W. W. element and pro-Ger- ; mans to land the big job. Portal: in ternational. WHO COULD TI THEY MEAN? “We have with us today,” Governor Peter Norbeck, who talks sound. Amer- icanism, real patriotism, and boosts his home state and for the United ‘States in a fashion startlingly lacking in one or two governors in the United States—Aberdeen News. Caheateat sd and the kaiser promised indemnity at.