The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1918, Page 4

» PAGE 4 BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, Bismarck, z attersy ISSUED EVERY DAY GEORGE D. MANN - : - - Editor G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, | | Hntered at the Postotfice, Cla: Special Foreign Representative. NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; | BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ED PRESS. | The Associated Pres! 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 pub-| lished herein. | All rights of publication of special dispatches herein | are.also reserved. % ay MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE, Daily, Morning and Sunday by Carrier, per month ....$ .70 Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday by Carrier, per month ~ - sacha ter seah eee: 90 Daily, Evening only, by Carrier, per month . 50 Daily, Evening and Sunday, per month .. 60 Morning or Evening by Mail in North Dakota, one year .. ee . a -- 4.00 | Morning or evening by mail outside of North bakota, , | one year ache tcbe saedt ene coca Pet 0 | sunday in Combination with Evening or Morning by | mail, one year .. 5.00 | , THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER, | (Established 1878) | | | ———= oon == | | THE LEAGUE OF THE FUTURE | Unnecessary as the special session may have been, | the people of North fakota will not fave paid its} expense of $14,000 and its appropriations of tens of thousands in yain if The Tribune reads aright the} message of the special session, which seems to be} that gradually this great organization of farmers ~| Jess powerful by 20,000 votes than it was a year ago, but still unquestionably in position, if it uses its power wisely, to be a factor in the polities of North Dakota—gradually is recovering from its socialistic delirium. The eague, in North Dakota, gives promise that) it is approaching a point in its development where } it can distinguish between socialistie doctrines, | where it will adopt that which is constructive and valuable and will promptly reject that which is dan-| gerous and destructive. The history of the league has been that of every reform movement which has gained a foothold in America. It was launched as an extremely radical | growth, and it first attracted to its folds the most | radical extremists. Many of these men were pro- fessional agitators who have fattened on jus movements in other states and in other times. The sober, sound-thinking farmer who forms the | backbone of the league was foreed to xeeept much | that was distasteful, because he believed the organi-} zation ultimately. under conservative control, could be made a power for the good. Slowly but surely the predominance of this con-} servative element has made itself felt, President Townley, nothing if not an astute judge of men and! conditions, has quietly removed from the North Da- kota field his most rabid agitators—socialists of the Bowen, Thomason type. The Richardson boys have} gone. The organizers who are left may be thorough-| going socialists, but they are not preaching the red, | ranting type of doctrine which the pioneers deem necessary to get a hearing. The change has been made because Townley has been far-sighted enough to see the inevitable evelu- tion of the league into a sound, well-balanced polit- jeal organization which would rebel against such’ teaching Now comes the announcement from Townley’s own lips that North Dakota will see little of him! henceforth. Ile predicts that this will he good news for many people. Ife aims that satire at his enemies, but it may be accepted »plying with no less foree to many of his friends who, however much they spect Townley for his ability as an organizer and leader, have come to feel that the best interests of the league demand a more domestic control centered in men more responsive to the needs of and more familiar with the conditions obtaining in their own state. “Townley is not the statesman type,’? said a thoughtful and well-read socialist employe of the league during the special session. ‘‘He is the born agitator; the character of man who will always be found pioneering in movements of this kind: the sort of man who goes out and ‘riles them up.” Townley has succeeded in ‘‘riling up’ not only North Dakota but all of United States. As an agitator none can question his suecess, As a con- structive organizer his ability may be doubted, Tis value to the Nonpartisan league movement in North Dakota, except as an object lesson, is believed by many good leaguers to have lived its day The league movement has outgrown Townley. is bigger than he, and those who have studied it | carefully, hope that it may become better than he. | No movement found solely on hate and distrust and} class prejudice can long exist under a republican form of government. The laborer of today is the in-} dustrial chief of tomorrow; the farmer of today is the banker or the merchant prince of tomorrow. As he changes his economie position, his prejudices and | his preferences change. | The league is big enough, and, its friends believe, | broad enough, to cease living upon hate, a meagre} and unsatisfactory diet at best. It is big enough | to introduce its reforms and make them permanent } without tearing down the whole fabrie of society and} endeavoring to piece together an entirely new pat- tern. On the other hand, if North Dakota fe | had not had a greivanee to begin with, the agitation which built the league would not have found an ear} so receptive. It is futile to rave against the league while these greivances persist. Attacks on the league movement as a movement have and will continue to| only strengthen its sinews. Like every revolutionary movement that ever has gone down in history it will best drive on opposition. Opposition to the teachings of Townley and the ill-advised acts of Frazier are one thing. Opposition | to the league is another. It has served the purpose of Mr. Townley to} make them appear one and the same, and he: has sueceeded with a small percentage of league mem- bers. But Townley’s attacks on his enemies have, like many of his enemies’ attacks on Townley, fallen of their own weight. They have been too vicious, so reeking- with animus, so lacking in logic or judgment or poise as to forfeit serious consideration in the minds ofsgerious people. The Tribune has seen reforms come and go. In its almost half century’s existenée here in Bismarck it has seen gr arties made and unmade. From its experience Ii ted to Bch = puxeent that yi It ‘ofi ices: it has ceased to become excited over the Nonparti- san league, as we know it here at home. It cannot N. D., as Second} join with hysterical newspapers in this state and| elsewhere which blame the league for everything that Townley says and docs and appears to be. The Tribune intends to centinne its course of pointing out to leaguers and non-leaguers anything in the movement wi cither to the state or the nation. The erOUS, Tribune, however, intends to continue to be fair—/ to be as prompt to recognize any good that may come from the league, For Mr. Townley and hi Tribune has no tolerance, To antidote, The Tribune believes the time is not far The wild schemes, distant when Mr. Townley shall stand forth re-! vealed in his true light, and it will not be a pretty peetacle, ar PEACE? CERTAINLY! Now comes the dove of peace and perches on our shoulder! We open the messaze bound about its leg and discover peace proposals from Germany's well-known autocrat, Chancellor Von Hertling, All that is necessary to peace is England give up her fortifications at Gibraltar, Malta, Aden, Hong Kong and the Falkland islands: may tions of Heligoland, the Kiel Canal and so forth, Later: On looking the dove over closely, we find that it’s a buzzard that hasn’t been fed for a long thine, ONE, OR THE OTHER “The people under.” George, Thi the whole thing ina natshell, and there is no other alternative. Especially does it apply to the American peop We must fight, save, sacrifice—go en—with all our might and soul or go under, tered the war to secure permanent peace and that is what Prussian Militarisin will not permit, if tr The allied nations could, and we the bulk of the i ity in territory, pay our indemni ings of the comm indemnity and p country under for the common people! The people have get to vo on with this war for all that’s in them, or go under for all they've got. [_WitH THE EDITORS. _| THE STRAIGHT TRUTH This allopathic dose of pure truth, undiluted with any honeyed ex *, comes from a Nonpartisan league news . published by one of the recently organized mers’ P) companies. The Tribune respectfully com it to the ‘small town”? merchant in any village of 509 to 500,000 population as the one certain cure for the mail order evil: **The Forum and the | ispatch ‘exposed’ in glar- ing searchead articles how Townley was organizing a farmers’ owned store system in North Dakota and Minnesota that exceeded anything yet before at- tempted. The magnitude of the scheme was so gi- Lloyd must go on or we e ld have to pay We would dd to billions of war self the peace in our the total from re | gantie and unheard of, that it should eause the people to be greatly alarmed. “According to these papers every industry of the states mentioned will be damaged to such an extent as to bankrupt them. Among the lines of business mentioned are the country newspapers. Just how they can be damaged any more than they have al- ready been done is beyond understanding. The amount of advertising the country stores are giving the d nce to them, “The Tribune believes that it will have a tend- eney to awaken a good many of the country mer chants to the realization that there is more to sue- ful merchandising than to get a few articles, place them in a building, repose at ease by the stove and patiently wait for a customer to arrive—while the prospective eustomer is making out an order to Sears & Roebuek because THEY had advertised at they had to sell."’-—MelHenry Tribune, a Non an Newspaper. e WEERE FARMERS DRAW THE LINE : There should be no difficulty in keeping clear. | in the minds of the people of Minnesota, the distine- tion b ner. een the farmer and the Nonpartisan leag he terms, Nonpartisan league and farmers’ | organization, are not interchangeable. They do not 1 the same things, though it is the cunning en- leavor of the Townley concern to create the impres- sion that such is the faet. The repeated efforts of the Nonpartisan leagne to break into Glenéoe, siiée its first repulse by the loyal spirit of that community, brings this stre into not It is the hope of the tainted org: tion to create the impression that it is a farn movement and that the unanimous uprising against |it is nothing more than an anti-farmer protest. And this is the point the people of Minnesota w clearly before them. There is nothing, in all of the indignation < eG against the Nonpartisan league’s activities, that i directed against the farmer, It is an intuitive ar- raignment of the disloyalty with which the league has been associated since the La Follette seditious speech. There has been sound criticism of the pur- pose of the league to stir up class prejudices, and in normal times this would have been sufficient to condemn the organization: but at this moment th loyalty of nesota against the disloyalty of the league is the main issue. . The Townley league, in its insistent effort to break inte Glencoe for a meeting scheduled for to- iil keep morrow, has played upon two strings—the loyalty of | the farmer and the right of free speech and peace- able assembly. But the answer is plain. There is no question of loyalty of the Minnesota farmer, but there is of the Nonpartisan league, and there is a vast difference between the farmer and the league propagandist. There is no doubt of the right of free speech and lawful assemblage; but the league has a record of seditious speech and of unlawful assem- blage. _ These points join the issue clearly and on that issue the meeting at Glencoe should and undoubtedly will be prevented..-It-is significant that the most distinct protest to the meeting comes from farmers, and the reason is that they object to anything that will question their loyalty merely because they are farmers. They want to draw a line of sharp dis- tinction between farmers and Townlcyites—St. Paul a telimesibieseenteinin chs sate ich may appear to The Tribune as dan-! ynley is his own best | Advices en route | close that Germany gives up her fortifiea-| The carn: | untry newspapers now would make very little) “ecard re RBIS xe eae ao NL THURSDAY, JANUARY 33, 1018 DONNERWETTER! | CONSTANT SHIFT GP ces TRADE COMITMENTS | Rails Dull and Uncertain on | Conditions | PRESSING FINANCIAL York, Jan. 3 New | ditions jet, f arg ing of traders’ committments. | night dev fiuence, r price changes the Rails were trend and news regarding tray | ation conditio | Traffic is mo | ern points, 1s to have yielded none of it | ious aspects. was Traders were interested in reports | that the administration would oppose | the proposed amendment to th |ate bill to take the railroads out of 2uerai. control a year after the war. A loan by bankers to the Baltimore | &Ohio road pointed to the pr | reeds of the railroads pending | nent of legis: Announcement of een American ioup and metals were respon: j mterests strengthened the s Pools relieved the monotony | dull afternoon by fresh activity in a y of specialt and allied es of the cl including es. Higa lass represeat Variable gains ruled at the United States Steel and a fev: leaders rallying f1 seack of the Bonds were irregular a few lative industrials advancing 1 to 214 the issu: points. All Liverty corded new minimums, the 314’s de- clining to 97.30, first 4's to. 96. second 4’s to 96. Old United bonds were uachanged on call. NEW YORK STOCK American Beet Sugar . can Can American Smelting American Tel & Tel .. American Zinc . Anaconda Copp tchison . | Baltimore & Ohio ; Butte & Superior California Petroleu: Canadian aPcific Central Leather Chespeake & Ohio Chicago, Mil. & St. Paul .. Chino Copper ........ Colorado Fuel & Iron . Crusible Steel Cuba Cane Sugar rie | Great Northern Ore Ctfs | Great Northern pfd . | Inspiration Copper | Int. Mer. Marine pfd ctfs . | Kennecott Copper .... | Louisville & Nashville {Mexican Petroleum . | Miami Copper .. ‘Missouri Paeific Montana Power .... New York Central Northern Pacific Ponnsylvania .. s*, Ray Consolidated Copper eading . Republic i Southern Pacific ../.) ..42. of Mixed Transportation NEEDS OF RAILROADS .—Technical con- ed today’s stock mav- tacable to the constant s lopments exerted little i outcome sof the Unit | Siates sicel meeting evidently hi dull and uncertain ot again mi: ng more easily at east- jut elsewhere the problem ation by congress. r nm agreement be- d British Marine n influence of private consumption. ionally from i intermediate period. Sales amounted to 465,090 shares. (par value) aggregated $4,175,000. TIBUP PROSPECTS PRODUCES A SLUMP. Prices Firm at Yesterday's Finish, News with Oats Region of Cent Advance SUNNY SKIES GIVE CORN BEARISH SLANT Chicago, iil, Jan. 39.—Prospects of a new tieup of the railroads west of | ‘ago hartified the corn market to-; after a temporary sag due to bet- eather here than had been look- res d firm at the y's finish to 4% and 4 with March 127 and May being Ov por- d.| ter ame its ser- cent hig s and the com- temperature in Chi- sHghi advantage to the fiuence in corn. The fore- however, @ sen- essing enact- hortage continued. Nev- the market remained rts began to be c g§ of severe low temper- a and of snow rg badly. Then the prospect stwarl progress of the storm bring about more or less com- ockades all the way to} ned prices in favor of the ive to ipping at drifti of the t fertil paid | t ed by of immediate supplies, | er with chances of further tight- tions, had much to do Se) hoisting the value of oats. There seaboard inquiry. ing off in hog arri ons. In addition, it was sa: been liberal buying for ex-| ‘CHICAGO GRAIN ~ | clo: other 2 their specu- a ~ Corn—- | ve de March « 127 126% | ) and | May... 1255 12 tates | Cats | Sales| March .... 8314 84% 82% 84 May cco 80% = 81¥ 79 5-9 81%) MINNEAPPOLIS GRAIN , | Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 30.—Flour “unchanged. In carload lois standard four auoted at 975 a barrel in 98 Ib cotton sacks. Shipments 33,445 arels. Berley 145 @ 165. Rye 213 @ 215. Tran 3259. | Wheat receipts 71 cars, compared | with 241 a year ago. | yy nber 3 Yellow, 367 @ 375. | umber 3 White 8414 @ 85% 362 @ 366. CHICAGO LIVE STOCK Chicago, Ill, Jan. 39.—Hogs,. re-} i 00; strong! 30 to-40c above @| pigs 1300 @ 1525. | Cattle receipts 7,900; strong; native | steers 875 @ 1415, stockers and feed \ers 750 @ 1975; cows and heifers 65!) 4} @ 1200; calves 925 @ 155 Sheep receipts 1 4 wath: ers 1000 @ 1363; ew 131954 u lambs 1475 @ 17! ! OMAHA iive Omaha, Nebr., Jan. re-! 69% | ceipts 15,000; higher; he. | 83%'| 1615; mixed 1585 @ 1609; ‘light 1573} 46 |@ 1615; pigs 1000 @ 1000 @ 1500; 23%4'| bulk 1585 @ 1660. 73Y%'|_ Cattle receipts 4,700; active; native 76% | steers 875 @ 1315; cows and heifers «.82141700 @ 1050; western steers $50 @ there | G | their future home. Mr, Vallancey had 'been employed by the ‘Missouri Valley | Grocery company for a few weeks but | resigned. | Dancing’ Party Announced.—Invita- |tions have been issued by Mr. and | Mrs. Joseph P. Hess, Mr. and iMrs. J. ‘W. Hintgen and Mr. and Mrs. R. A. | Countryman for a dancing party to be i given at the Elks hall Saturday eve- ning. | — | Dr. Beach Here.—Dr. R. H. Beach, }noted railway physician, who has charge of the Northern Pacific hos- | pital at Glendive, arrive] in the city | yesterday and is a witness in the Kas- | per Schnatz case against the North- ern Pacific Railway coinpany. Home From Ohio.—A. W. Farr, | manager of the ‘Mandan Transfer Co., |who had been in College Corner, O., \for a few weeks visiting with rela- | tives and friends, returned home yes- | terday afternoon. Mr. Farr says there jis lots of snow east of ‘Mandan. | Mrs. James Wilson I.—Mrs. James | Wilson slipped and fell on the icy side- | walk while coming out of the Dr, Hen- jderson home a few days ago and | strained her back. She has been con- fined to her bed for several days on | account of the injuries sustained. Hayward Goes Home—Thomas Hay- | ward, president of the.Beach State ‘bank, formerly associated with the as auditor, and Mandan, was here for days visiting with friends. He returned last evening on No. 1 to his home at Beach, ‘WOUNDS OF WOOD ~ PAINFUL BUT NOT AT ALL SERIOUS Paris, Jan. 31.—Maijor General Leo- |nard Wood, United States army, who | was wounded recently while visiting |the French front, is confined to the | Ritz-Carlton hospital, where he is re- j ported to ‘be doing well. He expects {to be out in about a week. He is suf- fering from a fiesh wound of the arm, ; Which is painful, but not dangerous.. | Lieutenant Colonel Charles E. Kil- bourne, chief of General Wood’s staff, who was wounded in the face, may lose his right eye. Major Kenyon A. ‘anners 659 @ ; stockers and feed-' Joyce, wno was wounded in the arm, ers 650 @ 1100; calves 900 @ 1300; is improving. bulls, stags, ete 709 @ 1000. | ni Sheep receipts 11709; steady; year- BERMAN SS SOCIALISTS eo Sarrengiel ~ 1150; cows and heifers 700 @_ 925; wethers 1100 @ ATTENTION ; lams 1625 gpecial Meeting Woodmen of the World All members are urgently requested to attend the meeting at the K. C. hall Thursdey night, Jan. 31st at 8 9 @ 1600; bulk 1570. @1585. o'clock When a large class is going H i tillers, strong; /i n. ‘Election and instalation of of- : cows and heif-| ficers and very important business is veal calves steady; | to be transacted. and feeders | 0. C. JOHNSON, State Manager. ST. PAUL LIVE STOCK | South St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 30—Hog pts 700; 29.to 25 ¢ higher; range 950; @i1 ; stockers ‘ong, 660. @ (3 1590; steady; lambs | 84) @ wethers 700 @ 1300; ! “YOUR.BOY AND MINE.” ewes 509 @ 1173. | vi Al NE. | Our brothers and sweethearts, FIREMEN WILL NOT | eur husbands and our sons, r f AE | Who a few months ago | Were with us in our quiet homes. HOLD TOURNAMENT ... scattered over land and sea, In many a foreign clime | Where ’ere Uncle Sam thinks best ‘To send your boy or mine. Board of Directors of Nort D kota Ascociation Decide: i kota Asrociation Decides on |Some are in the training camps War Measure. | And some are on the sea, aio Others are in England and ting of the state fire! In France and Italy. office of Fire | The board is} But, Oh, where ’ere he may be, mbers: President,| Where ‘ere he may go T. Craswell of Vall y; secre-| The same far Heaven smiles over him H. L. Reade of I ; and | The same Dear God will know. R. E. Giese, Jamestown: ster, Glen Ullen and R. S.| God knows the noble sacrifice : | Our boys were glad to make, been the rule in times past; He heard the sigh at parting for the board to meet*and transact s smothered for our sake. the regular ‘business, but owing to} the fact that these are war times it) The finest thing he carries, was th advisadle to call in 2|To that land by bullets ri 's from the differ-/Is his faitn in home and country, tioas of the state to deliberate | In himself, aye, and in Heaven. h the members of the board.} Those who responded were Arthur) Faith that we at home are with him lgeford, a. Kel That will care for every need, P. Glasrud, Northwood; | That will send him help and comfort Goldamer, Lakota; I. H. ,Smith,| And applaud each noble deed. ton; R. C. Fields, Beach; L. C.| msted, Hettinger; L. D. Snell, Faith that we will find the traitor Lake; R. L. Nordal, Rugby; | Who would aid our common foe, %. S. Norton, Velva; and M. Tschide,; That we will expose his actions Glen Ullin; A. Currie, Minot, and) So that all the world may know. Theodore Kahellek. It was the sentiment of the board) That he alas, unworthy and the efs of the fire departments | Of his flag and country fair, that the annual convention ‘be dis-| That we gladly would transport. him pensed with for the year of 1918. This; To the gentle kaiser's care. question wil be taken up with the various fire departments of the} He would teach him sweet submission, state and there is no dou2t but that | That for years he had not known, there will be no convention this year.| And obedience undreamed of : The money which is used in paying| Here in his adopted land or home. the expenses of the delegates to the fi convention the payment of prizes, etc., will he diverted into other channels,| And the best that we can do to be used for the purchase of Liberty Is to borrow from the kaiser bonds, Red Cross, Y. M. C. A, and) Just a little rule or two. war relict causes. There will be between $600 and $1,000| Then with energy apply them bie for these various causes. | To his allies over here STS RT ee So that they may not get lonesome | For their fatherland so dear. The anz beard For the present we must keep him MANDAN NEWS. | s . e It will please our boys in khaki Just to know we're on the Job Entertained Club.—Mrs. W. H. Ord-| While they do their very utmost entertained the members of the| Fighting on a foreign sod. Hiats club yesterday after- —By L. M. M. CURED HS RUPTURE Guild Meets—The Episcopal Guild Ww: is being entertained at the home of petted van ree Dots ‘ irs. James Noakes on Fourth avenue/ said my only hope of cur? was an ar his afternoon. | 2ration. Trusses did me no good. In Richardton on Business—J. P.|inally I got hold of something that Hess and L. A. Tavis, associated with | hae a and completely cured me. the First National ' bank, returned| {CaF have passed and the rupture houle.tollads. tromanichurd tow “where tas Bae returned, although I am do- they had becn several days on busi- as era None ee, 8 carpenter. There ness. was no operation, no lost time, no ‘rouble. I have nothing to sell, but will give full information about how vou may, Sad a prmcts cure with- out optration, you. white Rugene M. Pullen, Soe b, Marcellus Avenue, Manasquan, N. J. Better cut out this notice and show it to any ‘others Who are ruptured— vou may save a life or at least ston the misery of rupture and the ‘worry x Helpful noon. Hebron Attorneys Here.—Counsels! Jungers and Halpern of Hebron were} in Mandan. yesterday attending dis- trict court. Tackaberrys to Leave.—Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Tackaberry will leave Sun- day for various points at the coast, where they will spend the rest of the winter visiting with relatives and friends, Vallenceys to ~ Seattle—Mr. and Mrs. Oscar ‘Valiancey will soon leave for Seattle, where they expect to make | Cafpenter, 308 D,” 4 i ee oy e rs ? ¢ Y | te i 4 | aa) @ | { ny ey «