The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 11, 1918, Page 4

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Morning or Evening by Mail in North Dakota, one | fir Seale Korniag or evening by mall outside of North Dakot. one year Sunday in Ce mail, one year .. THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) iy 6.00 ening or Morning by 5 DAN MUST BE SOME JOKER Mr. Daniel Guggenheim is only president of | the American Smelting & Refining Co., but he} might have won undying fame and much emolu- ment on the lecture platform as the greatest living | economical humorist. We draw this opinion from} Dan’s annual report of his company’s doings last ear. u “Owing,” says Dan, “to government’s doing | contract and other business of great magnitude on | t . commission, ¢ sters It is a funny tion when cannot skin or have no interest in siiining labor for profits. Another thing, reports Dan, is that the govern-' ment’s fixing of prices of metal products jeopard- izes the ability of the company to pay a fair return to its stockholders. Then, Dan reports that his company’s earnings for the year, atter general expenses, fixed charges and taxes, aggregated $25,035,938, earnings upplicable to the common stock equalling 22 nt. Je velvet. WHEREIN THE DRIVE SUCCEEDED First thing. right off the reel, the German drive awakened America as this country never, was awakened before! Hindenburg may rush on through the break in, British lines. The horde of Huns he is forcing} through rivers of German blood may retake Bau- | paume. They may devastate the whole of northern France. They may level every French port.- They may destroy Paris. They may drive every allied soldier out of France. ‘And that is all the war machine of Wilhelm and Hindenburg can do. This possible, but not probable, result of the German drive, would bring more horrible suffering to the brave French people, and it might even crush that gallant nation into temporary sub- mission under the iron heel of the oppressive con- queror. But it will strengthen England’s resolve to fight on and on, bequeathing democracy’s war to) their children’s children oppressive conqueror. Should the improbable happen, and the Hun stand victor over the prostrate form of France, he still will have to do what he set out to do long be- fore he plunged the world into war. He will have to leave behind him his poison gas, his trained land fighters, his 76-mile guns, and go out upon the waters, to gain the world domination for which he became the wholesale murderer he now is. The United States has for the first time awak- ened to its supremest duty and its greatest might. The Hindenburg drive through British lines has * ghown us that war has come to us in reality and in} dead earnestness. It is as though the horrid hand | of the Hun groped through the British break and cluiched its bloody fingers about hunting for the throat of America! And we see the hand. We see those fingers dripping with crimson dye of huma: hearts. We are not afraid. We are not, panic-stricken. We are not quaking. i But we are more in a fighting mood now than ever before! That, Wilhelm and Hindenburg, is the fruit— the real fruit—of your “successes” in northern France.” What you did was to sound the alarm to America. We now know that we must put aside very other consideration, pleasure, recreation, ess, for tha! of war. From now on until this onds in world victory for world democracy, the and ean be our only business. THE DAWN OF REASON. Word comes from Fargo that out of the rather stormy state convention of the Nonpartisan league the farmers of North Dakota have won a great victory—the right to manage their own political organization in their own state as other political organizations are managed in other states. Down at the bottom the Nonpartisan league is purely political. The various economic schemes which Mr. Townley has fostered are managed by Mr. Townley and a few of his lieutenants. ank and file of the farmers who make up the league have little to do with these enterprises ex- cept to finance them. North Dakota farmers rocks. It was managed and directed by a small coterie of men, who had their headquarters in St. Paul. Things were done under the direction of these men which cast discredit upon the farmers’ porty, things which did not truly represent these farmers. Now, if The Tribune’s information is correct, the farmers have wrested from the political bos- ses of their party the right to name their own executive committee for North Dakota, a board of five, to be selected by the farmers by popular vote—five men who are North Dakotans, who are farmers, and who are not professional poli- ti ho have changed their shirts’to: meet a The! have been wise enough; to realize that their party was heading toward the, the farm. This is a democracy where majorities must rule. The farmer should and will rule North Dakota, and when the farmer does rule we shall find a vast improvement over present conditions. But that improvement could not come under the Nonpartisan league as originally constituted, with | a few profesional politicians, a cheap demagogue or two and a bevy of red flag socialists absolute- ly controlling its destinies. In all its history, | North Dakota never has suffered such gang rule |as has prevailed during the last year, The reported ; farmers’ revolution; their alleged declaration of independence are most favorable signs of a return of sanity. AN EDITORIAL BY A CAPITALIST “The big idea is that this country has to get ships—and get them ina hurry. We've got to get a bridge of ships across the At- lantic. “We can bungle the whole thing by con- scripting labor. Or we can build ships fas- ter and faster by displaying a cooperative attitude. “Ht’s a mistake to try to get more out of a man than he is able to give. On the other hand, we expect to get a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay. “American workmen will get ships into the water unless we blunder on the labor problem. We have learned that labor will respond when labor feels that it is getting just consideration. Our job is to see that labor feels that way. “The credit for what we have done so far belongs to the army of men in overalls.” The editor had started out to write an editorial. He finds that he doesn’t have to. The above quo-| tations are enough. They are the statements of a/ level headed business man—a business man who is turning all his resources to the aid of his govern- ment in wartime, and who is getting away with job! Wis name is D. &. Skinner, and he lives 1 doe ttle, Wash. 10's Sk A nali Harare) bus in Seg ion ur inswe! Shipbuilding Corporation—which is some corpora- tion. from Uncle Sam’s point of view. Here’s why it is some corporation: Skinner & Eddy have broken two world’s rec- ords in speedy shipbuilding in the last two months. They completed and put to sea the first ship to be ered to Uncle Sam’s shipping board in 146 ix was the S. S. Seattle, which steamed tile harbor, January 14, after just that ime on the ways, counting from the day vid covd-smashing accomplishment of di c tr the Sk Canoga, completed in 993 working days. Canoga is en 8800-ton vessel. She left Seattle har- bor ready for service March 23. The Skinner ‘method seems to bring results. It is respectfully submitted that the nowers that be at Hog Island, Sparrows Point and other eastern| Turks claim “a great success” in Palestine. | yards might at least study up on that method. Must: be that some of them have outrun General Allenby. Cleveland woman asks divorce because made to move 30 times in five years. Well, it depends on| who took down the stove and packed the kitchen- ware those 30 times. WITH THE EDITORS weccecccccc coco cocoon nn onowooooooooess ABOUT PROFITEERS A few days ago State Press emitted a few words concerning the riotous strikers at Kansas City, who sought to prove their loyalty by carry- ing American flags while they were acting like Huns. From Waco comes a protest from a gentle- man who writes of “we of the working class,” and asserts that the “profiteers” are endeavoring to grab all the wealth of America “and subjugate its pepole.” Now, State Press is far from defending any person who makes the war an excuse to extort money for his own use from any individual or group, but there are numerous embryo seditionists and disloyalists in this country who, having been shamed into the abandonment of their warfare on “canitclicm.” are now bringing their guns to bear on “profiteers,” by which term they mean just what they meant when they spoke of “capitalism.” In short, these malevolents are aiming at the de- struction of the nation’s business in the hope that in the turmoil they may grab off something that »elongs to scmebody else. As a rule any publicist, joratorical or editorial, who proclaims himself of \“the working class” in America is insincere and |mischievous. In this country of equal and abun- \dant opportunities there are no differentiated | “classes” except in the minds of demagogues. The “age-earner may become a proprietor if he wills it so, and practically every conspicuous employer in America today began as an obscure and very ¢ r. On the other hand, the sons of i Americans not infrequent- ly by reason of losses or mismanagement of inherited property. These con- stant movings up and down inhibit the sort of eco- ‘nomic stagnation which, in Europe, where there are inherited social distinctions, congeals into ac- cepted class lines. But, getting back to profiteers are all the profiteers in the so-called “capitalistic” group? The government is now taxing war profits earned on capital to an almost confiscatory extent. But there are profiteers among the workers who are not paying a red cent to the federal govern- ment in the form of taxes. State Press submits that tt ‘kmen on any government job who in this crisis lay down their tools and refuse to carry on until some one-sided demand is granted are manifesting the same blind and distempered d loyalty that the Bolsheviki employed in the wreck- ing of Russia. For example, several thousand car- penters engaged on ship construction in the Balti- more region have quit work pending an increase of five cents an hour in their pay. It is very likely they deserve the increase, but considering that there are more than half a million Americans in France whose lives may depend on American ships, and that these Americans are working for less than.a fourth of the money the ship carpenters are earning, it can not be seriously contended that this strike is not disloyal and shameful. If the leaders of it are Americans, which is doubtful, they ought to be examined by the federal authorities concern- ing the sc K 2 jration. This is a time 4 ‘farmer state: Eighty per cent-of its population are farmers. More than eighty, ner..cent. of all, ta, wealth ia, produced.o when ev y not only to declare hi loyalty in words, but in works.—Houston, Tex. apts EARRING fib ek Here is. Skinner is president of the Skinner & Eddy) s inner concern was in the case of the S. S.| The} | T IN THE WHIRLPOOL WHAT THE U. §. TREASURY HAS DONEIN OUR FIRST YEAR OF WAR Secretary of the Treasury Eighteen days after the declaration of war, congress passed the first bond ac’ and on the 14th of May, 1917, the secretary of the treasury offered the First Liberty loan for public subscrip- tion in the sum of 32,000.000,900. The ubscriptions were ‘losel on June 15. vhen the record showed that more bun 4,99.090 patri- Americans had | 6.850, or nearly 52 per; cent more thau the amount offered. | On the 24th of September, 1917, con-| igress enacted the second bond act,! and on Oct. 1, the second Liberty loan | was announced by thes secretary of| the treasury in the sum of 3,000,000,-| (00, with the right to allot one-half | of any oversubscription. After aj month’s campaign, the loan was over- | swoscribed in even larger proportion than the first loan. Approximately 9, 400,000 men and women of the ecoun-! try subscribed for $4,617,532,300—an | over subscription of 54 per cent of} the amount offered. Of this amount, | +8,808,766,150 was alloted. In December, 1917, the secretary} of the treasury offered. $2,000,000,000/ of war savings certificates to the peo-; ple of the country. Aside from the} money which this enterprise will yield to assist in financing the war, it is designed and expected to produce large permanent and fundamental ben- efits in promoting thrift and economy umong the people. | In addition to the bond issues the treasury has periodically issued large quantities of certificates of indedted- ness in anticipation of band issues ind tax receipts. The following is a summary of the ‘ssues of bands, certificates of in- febledness and war savings certifi- ‘ates and thrift stamps up to March 1918: Liberty lean... .$2,000,000,000.00 -ond Liberty loan.. %,808,766,150.00 tes of indebtednes: "otal issued $6,544,435,500.00 otal redeemed. 3,888 ,698,000.00 | Y | Total outstanding.... $2,655,737,500.00, PEOPLE'S FORUM [ ANOTHER SLAP ‘AT “SAPPY BRINTON.” Garrison, 'N. D.,, April Brinton, one of the' ardent supporters of the Consumers’ United Store Com- pany, was called here today, to heal matters up owing to the fact that some of!the purchasers of the “Privi- cge to Buy” at Townley's store, were; coming somewhat dissatisfied and after. the meeting was on for about an hour, the wr/er of this article went up to see t/iat was being said,! 1s I heard that this aforesaid animal was using my. name without permis-; sion., And to my knowledge, now he was and; upon my entefing the hall, he, Brinton, spoke directly to me, and said that he had left his “goat” at home, and that he had decided to, make me that for this occasion; and after considerable time’ had been spent upon just how he was going to; dispose of me, he invited, me to the nlatform. ‘Whereupon T ‘accepted un- oklon ny ane all the quection = I wished about the Store plan and the vere asking for their notes back. And, ‘He raved and raved for some three der the promise from Brinton that) tell you that have By William G. McAdoo ' of the United States | Var savings certifi- cates and — thrift stamps . é 96,298,402.96 Toial $8,560,302,052.96 In addition to supplying the neces- ary money to pay the expenses of \merica’s. part in the war, the treas- y has made loans to foreign coun- r engaged in a common cause gainst Germany. These loans, the irst of which were announced on Way '1, 1917, aggregated on March 1918, $4,456,328.750. noney is %eing raised by increased .xes, collection of which is also com- ritted to the treasury department. While the greater part of the war in- ecme and excess profits taxes are not due until June, the treasury had col- lected in internal revenue taxes a to- tal of $566,267.000 to March 12, 1918, and had sold $1,255,090,000 in certifi- cates of indebtedness which will be receivable in payment of internal rev- enue taxes, The collection of the new levier has necessitated the reor- ganization and enlargement of the in- ernal revenue service throughout the country. The war has imposed a great bur- den upon the bureau of engraving and printing, as shown by the following ; summary of its output from April 6, 917 to March 13, 1918: 247,522,000 United States notes and gold and silver certifi- cates. 26,344,248 National bank notes and federal ‘reserve curency. 1°8.548,000 Federal reserve notes. 11,296,500 Bonds of First Liberty loan. 16,239,597 Bonds of Second Liberty loan. 939,977 Certificates of indebted- ness. 3,360 War savings stamps. ,060 Internal revenue stamps. ‘$7,200 Postage stamps. miscellaneous, him as a gentleman. As to:the term “gentleman” used in connection with him I am now forced to speak it rather quickly and with some shame; for Brinton in his performance here displayed none of the. requisites, but (showed himself as he confessed he . was, a “hot-air-artist,” and the con- crete exponent of Prussianism. He is one of those “political shysters,” whose ardent desire is to get people wrangling. And in this he is meet- ing with success. Well, I need not tell anyone who has met this creature of disrest that his promise is no good. hours about things- foreign to” the store, and at each dirty remark that would be said about anyone who might differ from this “hole-in-the- wall” plan, his “High-jacks” would ap- applaud and applaud. Yes, time after) time they applauded at remarks that were said against Our Country .and against themselves. He told them that 20 per cent of their notes were uncol- lectable and they cheered and cheered. and when he told them that only 50 per cent of them were any good at all, and to this they cheered and applaud- ed. Now I am not going to try and never heard thi y DaD bie So par: Now be it 1 ir apy: In addition to. the sale of securities, is 169 Sheets of checks, drafts one else, there should always be some evidence that shows what we state re- late to facts; rambling statements and exaggerated ideas get you no place. And again I cite that for for this sea- son he will not submit himself to be- ing questioned. Neither will he debate | it. He wishes to discuss it alone and undisturbed. Mr. Farmer, it matters not who may bring out the facts, be it L or any other man, if this: meeting would have demanded of him to allow | this meeting at Garrison. And he, too,. \is one of their successful organizers, land secured most of the members jabout here. Great s‘uff to indicate | what the farmers should do, I charge \that the Nonpartisan league is led, dominated and controlled by traitors, | who have deliberately cultivated sedi- tion for personat gain; ‘who are it - citing disloyaliy, encouraging treason and seeking to Bolshevikize ‘North Da- keta, and every other state wherein ‘they are plying their shameless trade | clad in the crimson robes of civil pros- titution, I feel that-in dealing with | these spies and traitorous progapand- lists, patience no longer is a virtue, mercy is misunderstood, gentleness is mistaken for meekness, The deliber. jate spy and propogandist can under- stand and respect no authority, but | orute force, and we sometimes feel | the necessity of urging that form to lour federal government. We must ve- }come aroused before the criminal be- comes more powerful than the law | Any movement which will draw all jche pro-German ‘element of the state, and where its leaders have been so closely associated with the lawless 1. '\. W.'s and with red card socialists. ! pacifists and peace advocates, whose | doctrine are a benefit to Germany are {all among their members—and_poli- ! ics tor politics’ sake is avout as popu- lar now as a snake at a picnic dinner. We know of many good fellows in this } league, and would ‘say to them: it is your duty to jboth you and your coun- | «ry to investigate, (the pro4ierman jwon't want to) AND DO SOM THINKING FOR) THEMSELVES. | Why the league only imposes an extra | burden and upon the very people they are supposed to relieve. ; Now coming back to this (creature |of disrest) brinton, he raved and de- j cryed everything constructive, praised | the league, and as to some of the ques- ; tions he did not want to answer, he | would write them on a blackboard borrowed for that purpose, as a one Ormie Hall, an organizer from Ray, N. WD, secured it of me, and placed it there for that purpose, and in a mo- ment or so later, he saw fit to put some other matter on the board he would erase those questions 80 handled and disposed of. were: “Have che farmers who subscribe for the stare any vote as to the board of ‘di- ; rectors?” Are there any farmers on this board?” In fact he only answered one question I asked of him to com- plete satisfaction, and that was: “How many members are there in the Consumers’ United Store company?” He said, “Ten.” When | asked, “Who are they?” he answered, he was. When I asked him the amount of each share; and the length of the life of the contract; and if there was any guarantee to the farmer interested as io how long the store would continue? He waived his hands towards me and emphatically told me not to disturb the meeting. And then I asked’ him me to question this (creature of dis-| sixteen questions in sixteen seconds. rest) known as Brinton, fully and to ‘Then I asked ‘him if I would he ‘al- my entire satisfaction as he-agreed,lowed any more questions and. he you possibly would have accomplish-| answered, “NO}. You are through!” ed: something. You took no. chances! Then [ asked ‘it’ I could make just and.to all there, there was only one’ @ short statement. to the audiencé. He that did not want questions asked and that was this “Sappy Brinton.”’, And said you will take up too much time. said -1 would not. He-said, you. will the chairman seemed to be dead from, Want two minutes; I said that,1 pos- the shoulders up. He never peeped,/ sibly could get ‘through in one min- he has become so artful and efficient! ute. Then I told the: \people:that I in acting the part of the “dummy’.’ in | would make a fair proposition to them his legislative (activities?) Steady now, hold ‘er—that it is now second nature for Pussy-foot Bob, Why, the devil is a has-been and a piker when it comes to handing out rough stuff s compared with this (creature of! rent of the hall, and at some. future date we would discuss this store issue. disrest)-and his supporters, Fair play is the mark of a good sport and no/ honest man will object to it, and will demand it many times without being asked for it. Tere is going to be no hedging and no. soft pedaling here. Going to get down to business and tell you just some of the things that were said and done at this meeting: He raved and raved as we have said for hours, in his Mother-Hubbard talk, covering everything and touching nothing. We heard all about the steel trusts and the prices and profits made by them. He told us “one steel com- pany made $70,000,000 the year before : we were in war, and when war started they called the directors together and raised the price of steel from $29 per ton to $92 per ton making an advance profit of $63 per ton, and made $270,- 000,000 the next year. Where did it go? Robbing corporations making mil- lions make it hard for us to raise wheat. And gasoline has gone up, twine, shoes and other things. We claim these organizations are pro-Ger- man. We are compelled to take mon- ey out of the children’s savings banks to buy War-Saving stamps to pay for big prices the government has to pay for steel. The reason why we have to buy Liberty Bonds is because the government pays all the money for excessive profits to Du Pont Powder Co. and other corporations. The Du Pont Powder Co. made $70,000,000 last year.” I don't want to go to jail or I could tell you more, he said. Now I submit to any reasonable man, how far, and in what. way, does such talks assist? And who do they assist? “ Allow me to quote from Hon. Judge Wade of Des Moines, Iowa: “Three things we need, men, money, and spir- it. If we keep the spirit up we will have the men and money. | If we don’t win the war we can't have these re- forms. We. won’t be even permitted to suggest them... Every ‘American citi- zen is one one side of the other. The aim of the socialists is to plant the seed of suspicion in the heart of one man against another. And a man who persists in dividing our people, FOR ANY CAUSE, that man is an enemy to this country whether he knows it or not.” Let us look at some of the advice from General Pershing, at the front: “I will smash the German line in France if you will smash the damn- able Hun propaganda at home.” Now I am‘ going to say right here too, that the seditious agitator is no more a traitor than the coward who | sits in ice during this great erisis ‘in our national existence. There is {but one live and burning issue before us today, and that is the winning of the war. We must now show our faith in the honesty, integrity and judgment of our national administra- tion. I must condemn all egitation which seeks to arouse class prejudice and distrust of faithful and dutiful pubic officials, With regret and ehome we are compelled to recognize, that there is disloyalty and sedition in McLean county. Anc some of our citizens have been duped and deceived by German. propagandists under, the ide.of socialists, Nonpartisan leagi @onsumers’, Waites: Storps: CA: i \a and ‘brinton, and.I challenge him, | Brinton,. to accept it. It was. this— for both Lrinton and myself. to, de- {pbsit in the First--National bank at ‘Garrison, \. D., the -price for. the And we would charge a reasonable fee and this income from the ‘fee of admission would go to the Red Cross: Now he, upon this challenge, accept- ed, but to this date he has never com- plied with any part of it. et Instead of answering questions he spent his time telling about the silk stocking white collar I. W. ‘W. (Milloy of (Minot, Fargo Forum, Grand Forks Herald, Bismarck Tribune, Steel Trusts, Dupont Powder Co., war prof- iteers, and our loyal paper here: - He seemed to be greatly afratd that the farmer would find — out something about the store plan. Yes, people, this was what worried him most or he would have let me ask any and all the questions 1 wished. to. And would have shown: a willingness to debate it iwth me upon my challenge. Now I understand that the chairman: ofthis meeting, R. L. Fraser, in his opening address told the audience that he,,R. L. Fraser, lays claint for the Original Consumers‘ United Store company idea. :And I also learn that this, (crea- ture of disrest) Erinton, repeated it when he took the floor. If this is true I extend the same challenge to 1, L, Fraser of Garrison, N. D., as 1 do to Brinton. ‘Now Bob, if you don’t know what you started, accept this challenge .and we will endeavor to show you. So ended the Gobs from A.C. Town- ley’s Gobbling. (Signed): J. BE. SULLIVAN. $50,000 MORE TO LOAN FARMER PROCURED FROM ‘RETIREMENT OF BONDS Through authority conferred by the state board of university and school lands, State Treasurer John Steen. to- day retired $50,000 worth of state hospital for the insane bonds, produc- ing $50,000 more which can immediate- ly be loaned to needy farmers. The bonds did not mature until 1919, and by retiring them now, the hospital saves a year's interest. — THOROUGH WORK How a Bismarck Citizen Found Free- dom From Kidney Troubles. If you suffer If you suffer from hackache— From urinary disorders—- Any curable disease of the kidneys, Une a pare Kidney remedy. oan’s Iney Pills have bee: * ed by thousands. Senne Bismarck people testify: Can you ask more convincing proof of merit? + % D. Hill,’ 515, Broadway, Bismarck, says: “My experience with Doat’s Kidney Pills has been-so satisfactory { recommend them to anyone sutfter- ‘ng from Kidney and bladder trouble. [ suffered from a.stitch in my “back vhenever | lifted, anything. - My, kid- aeys were weak and I had to get up often at night to nass the’ kidtigy”e- cretions. Doan’s Kidney Pills quick- ly cured me.” : Bey / Sanizers..; Why, a,one, H. inflicted by the last gral