The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 25, 1918, Page 4

onl agircatsny cies - THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Htered af the Postollics, Biomarcl, ND, os Second n ostoffice, Bismar . D., as ni _ Class Matter GEORGE D. MANN - =. Editor peal Fore’en epresentative’ jal Forei; epresentative NEW YORK; Prifth ‘Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; STON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF 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 pub- lished herein. ‘ ates Gs publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein oe EMnEE at U_OF CIRCULATION ER AUDIT BUREAU O SURRCHIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year: Daily by mail per year.. Bally BY mail Dutatle of North Dakota 0! 101 ota. Licolkodias SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In North Dakota) Se Ss eeek 353 One year by mail.. 4.00 Six months by mai Hey Three months by ma 1 (Outsi 5.00 One year .. 2.50 Six months . 125 Three months ... 2 12 One year .. $6.00 Six months 2880 Three months . : “50 ‘One month sees oe me 2 OLDEST NEWSPAPER. THE STATE'S Be (Batablished 1873) ES> = * SWATTING THE WILDCAT Sometime ago this newspaper published the re- port of an investigation of the ‘so-called “wildcat” oil companies, operating in many cities from pro- motion headquarters principally in Oklahoma and Colorado. It was learned that hundreds of mill- ions of dollars are being taken each year from small investors, workingmen, scrubwomen and others. The investigator found that nine out of ten.of these oil companies were promoted with the sole intention of extracting money from the pockets of persons who need every cent of their earnings. He warned readers against the “get-rich-quick” advertising of oil companies. The national vigilance committee of the Asso- ciated Advertising Clubs of the World, has con- tinued the investigation. Included in its report is the following: “The investigation of the committee shows that practically all promotion oil stock advertising is misleading. Little of it gives the investor even a fair run for his money and. practically none of the bombastic promises of the promoters are ful- filled.” War Savings Stamps are a much better invest- ment. ~ GAINS The great conflict seems to have developed three kinds of gain—the species Me und GOTTen, the sort Ill-gotten and the kind Forgotten. For the first, Hindenburg, Ludendorff and the imbecile crown prince mass their minions and build a slaughter barrage behind them so they cannot retreat from the death ahead. Then follows a grandstand play to appease the restive dupe populace. A few hundred yards are advanced, a price in life-sacrifice paid for each inch that exceeds in worth every rod of sod se- cured. . * But Bloody Bill offers thanks for the nation, for the nation itself finds naught to be thankful about. In truth, each drive may well add to their ap- prehension. It: weakens them and strengthens our determination to tumble Berlin upon their thick skulls. Me und GOTTen gains are quick- eners of defeat.., The-lll-gotten, plain-rotten fyains are those that line the filthy pockets of the profiteer. Uncle Sam at home must be a “gun-packer” to / “get” the Hun packer, leather slacker and theit ilk; . } Money-filchers who rob them: that give a son to face the Hun or a daughter,’ who ’mid/slaugh- ter stauriches wounds and eases pain—corporate thieves who victimize those that place protecting \ bodies twixt them and the kaiser’s hell, we must erush with out mercy, as would the Hun horde Were it to pass! <4 The Forgotten, or overlooked gains are those ., Which make this horrible holocaust an inevitable victory for the allied. cause and a perpetual bless- ing toall. § It is the purification by fire. It is the vestibule to that*brotherhood, of: man about which dream- cers;dream and: praters prate. <" As steél is wélded. under intense heat and at pressure-great, s¢ will the unification of mankind be“aceomplished in the hate-fanned flame at the forge of war ’neath the battle blows of Mars’ mighty.sledge. .) ci Leti us to-the task with a will, steeled in the strength of. Right, tempered by Justice, keeping us the goal—FREEDOM, FOR ALL, always bef FOREVER!” WITH" THE EDITORS | THE TRAM: OF THE SNAKE It was no surprise.to hear. that the New York Mail, which was for several years an American spokesman. for therkaiver's cause, has been all that time under the direct control of the Potsdam gang. Re SO A _ Nor is it any_strprise to"hear that the govern- | ment‘sleuths who have. b¥en toaking into this mat- ter believe that the mortey pi into the Mail, a ; little over a million dolar’, is only a small part ' of-e-slish fund. of thirty: millig® Uollars that Ber. lin has spent in acquiring influence with news- papers and magazines wherever it could get a toe- hold. . These purchased organs can be of very little use to it now. They have to be patriotic or be closed up, so they are intensely patriotic on the surface. But wait until Germany hurls her gas bombs of peace intrigue, and then listen for the chorus American people, through their hatred of war and their weariness of the inconveniences of war- time, into accepting a German peace! > They won’t get away with it. Very likely the chased agents are and expose them before the time comes when they will be expected to earn their bribes. At nay rate, nobody is likely to heed the peace clamors of papers or people who were pro- German until the torrent of American patriotism awed them into temporary silence.—Duluth Her- ald. GOING ROUND AND ROUND North Dakota’s council of defense has accepted a heavy responsibility in attempting to restrict public charges of disloyalty and pro-Germanism to thost that have been proven in court. As it stands the council seems to have obligated itself to the utmost vigilance in taking the initiative in prosecution of any and all ‘cases of questionable loyalty. There are only two other suppositions that can be drawn from the order.. The council may be- lieve that nothing like disloyalty exists anywhere in North Dakota or else it is unwilling that dis- loyalty should be challenged and brought out in the open. 2 ‘ There:is no doubt:but many loose and unsup- ported charges of'disloyalty have been made. These are highly objectionable and tend to disturb the unity of the country. Had the North Dakota of pro-Germanism that will seek to beguile the government’s agents will find out who these pur-| order forbade such a charge unless it CAN be proved it would have some justification. If the council forbids a charge of disloyalty un- til after disloyalty has ben proved in court, it is difficult to see where any prosecution can origi- nate, for it is necessary to charge an individual with crime before he can be prosecuted and con- victed. g In some ways the rule has some resem- blance to the more or less mythical hoop snake— ewececocoaterecocon, North Dakota's. first actual non-par- tisan. party: was formed at Minot this it works ‘in a.circleand-it is hard to distinguish between the beginning and the end of it. More- over, since no penalty has been fixed for diso- bedience to the order, it. is hardly probable that it will prove very effective—St. Paul News, a pro-League organ. SOCIALIST ‘BAIT. FOR VOTES It is one thing to seize control of an American labor organization and use its name formally in promotion of a political cabal. «It is quite another thing to deliver American labor at the polls to serve the will of the cabal. The wide gulf. be- tween these two achievements will be shown in Minnesota next November if we have judged aright the sober thought and sane impulse of the electorate of the state. ‘The socialists and otherwise radical element of the Minnesota Federation of Labor succeeded in putting through the. convention at Virginia a resolution in favor of a new party and an addition- al state ticket to be voted on at the fall election. This political enterprise bears the Townley-Le- seuer brand. Candidates will be hand-picked for the indorsement of a convention to be held in St. Paul on Aug. 24. Doubtless a platform or. dec- laration of principles will be promulgated at that time. ‘ < This movement will be proclaimed by its spon- sors as a union of forces of farmers and wage earners, but that will not make it so by a long shot. Laboring men and tillers of the soil who are quite competent to do their own thinking will have something to say about that, and they will say it most effectively by what they go at the polls. Men of that stamp—and there are a lot of them in the shops and on the farms of Min- nesota—are not the sort to be herded into a corral, branded and counted by manipulators of a round-up. The alliance, whatever it may amount to, will be essentially a Townley-Van Lear-Leseuer-Mana- han affrai. We had that kind of thing to deal with at the recent primary election and we all have vivid recollections of what happened at that time. The men who tried to put it over labeled their champions “the candidates ‘of labor,” but it was noteworthy that these men had no stand- ing in the convention of the American Federation of Labor in St. Paul.’ So many farmers and wage earners repudiated them at the polls that. they were lucky to land, one candidate a winner for a regular party nomination. The Townleys, Leseuers and others of their bund will use the new movement to try for con- trol of the legislature and to land a governor who will support their socialistic program. Failing that, they will mobilize whatever power they may have in the capitol next winter to give color and direction to legislation. i Voters of Minnesota are cautioned again that if they sleep at the switch in a false sense of security they may help pave the way for Town- leyism and Van Learism to do great harm to the good interests of this state even if these “isms” should not gain numerical control of the two houses. A well articulated minority often plays hob with a loose-jointed majority.. The duty of istic scheming along.the whole line of the battle- patriotic citizehship is to fight the forces of social-| week, when : the’ independent .republi- cans of North’ Dakota. cast’ partisan- ship to.the winds.and threw in their lot with the ‘demo¢ratic ,minority for the purpose of electing -S. °J.; Doyle, democratic ‘candidate, and to defeat Lynn J. Frazier,-the Townley:league choice. The Minot: meeting. is report- ed to have been*unanimous. Stand- pat, stalwartrepiblican newspapers which have had- nothing good to say of a democratic candidate «in‘ all their history, have come out flat-footed for Doyle. Republican; leaders. who never before have swerved -in their allegi- ance are preparing to take the stump for Doyle. : The difference : between Frazier's vote and John. Steén’s vote in the re- cent. primarfes ‘was’ 16,000: “The nor- mal democratic -vote:in'North Dakota is 25,000. The coun r league, which early; recognizeas*the © danger of a union between the}independent repub- licang and the democrats, has been diligently at’ work-‘for the last two months in an effort to create a split in the democratic ranks. No indica- tions of success are yet apparent. The democrats, for the:first time since the days of Burke, have-a splendid oppor- tunity to establish themselves in pow- er in, ‘North Dakota. There is a lot of patronage to he distributed, and this is especially true because for the next two years at least, and probably for a longer period, the national as well. as .the state administration will be democratic. The democratic’ mi- nority, small engugh *to ‘be compact, out of power long enough to be hungry, ambitious enough to be wiley, is not likely to forfeit the plumb which is dangled in front of its eyes by per- mitting any factionalism within its own ranks. $ To defeat Frazier, Doyle will need every Steen vote, which the Indepen- | BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE “ THE BEAR THAT WALKS LIKE A REGIMENT dent Voters’ league promises him; he will need as least 16,000 of the state’s 25,000 democratic votes, and demo- cratic leaders say he will have not less than 20,000 of the 25,000, and che will require 9,000 of.the state's 15,000 sol- dicr and sailor absentee-voter ballots, ‘and the Independents claim for Doyle as a loyalist candidate: whose record for patriotism is clean at least 10,- 600 of the’ state’s 15,000 warrior. votes. If Doyle sliould--win' al!’ thesé;. he has an.excellent: chancé' to defeat Frazier by '2;000 to 5,000 majority, and to.car- ry with him»a-congressman or two and probably a.‘nymber of legislative candidates: . f ee Confidence in ‘the progpects ‘for a successful campaign for. the election of 'S..J./Doyle_as governor of North Dakota in :the.November election .was ‘evident: jong: .the Republicans and Democrats‘who held’ a conference in Minot Monday and Tuesday,.and who closed their sessions. yesterday after- noon. 2s : Plans for the campaign wiil be made immediately by the; committee that has been organized by the two politi- cal parties, and the headquarters in Fargo will'be opened as soon as pos- sible. Resolutions Adopted. Yesterday afternoon the conference adopted the folowing resolutions: The Independent Voters’ association andthe members of the Democratic state central committee, in joint con- ference assembled at Minot, N..D., this 22nd- day of July, 1918, adopted the following, resolutions: 1, Our nation is at war.. .The.most important work of every citizen‘in the state is to give his full support’'to the government. and the, present) na- tional administration in. the present national administration. in the prose- cution of the war, to the end that it may be brouglit:to a speedy and suc- cessful conclusion, that the principles EVERETT TRUE You DON'T CARE THAT 1 BROUGHT MY KNITTING WITH ME, 8 ee a = SAM AKRNITTING — WHY, BLESS Cou, Welre GlaD TO SES. KNITTING SOCKS. POR THES OH, IT'S NOT SOCKS — IT'S “A FANCY YOKE Fork MYSELE TH By Conde Mas. SMC THE? SES. You el SOLDIERS Sou'cu Nor THIS ROOF KNIT ut i pence aur front and keep them from:taking trenehes.or. ter- [economic Lenzance, hy, ap acreage. 48% o— GatreRHe & ACTUAL NONPARTISAN PARTY FORMED AT MINOT ‘ WHEN REPUBLICANS UNITE WITH DEMOCRATS IN’ eg ENDORSING S. J. DOYLE OF FARGO FOR CHIEF upon which our . government was founded maybe’ preserved for future generations of Americans,;, We.com- mend the carnest and untiring efforts of evesident Wilson’ and his adminis- tration to curtail unjust profitecring incidental. to the prosecution - of: the war .regarding the war profiteer and the German prppagandist as equally disloyal. 2. We endorse the attitude of Pres- ident Wilson on the use of foreign language in publicmeetings, in. relig- fous services and the ress, h ublic pres We further believe that the regulation thereof is the prerogative of the fed- eral government. Any other attitude on the part of state officials can not be in good faith, for in any conflict between state and federal authoritics the federal law must prevail. 3. We condemn. the present state administration for its utter failure to keep its pre-election promises to the people of this state, to conduct the public affairs in an econdmical and efficient manner, and we call atten- tion to the fact that there has been an abnormal increase in the cust of conducting every department of the state government, with the exception of the state treasury. 4. We also condemn the attempt of the administration to convert unlaw- fully the last legislative assembly into a constitutional. convention and to pass the so-called house bill 44. Our pres- ent constitution provides a specific method of amendment, and also pro- vides the safeguard that cach pro- posed amendment must be voted on separately, Any attempt to over-ride such provisions is a violation of the oath of'office of any legislator making such attempt, or any official urging or recommending the same. A general revision should only be made by a regularly elected constitutional con- vention chosen for that purpose, but in fairness to our boys at the front, and so that we may meet changed conditions resulting from the war, such should not be held until after the war. A careful considera- tion of house bill 44 will convince the people of this state that it is vicious legislation, dangerous to the future welfare of the people, and if enacted into law would only result in the destruction of the credit of the state wit -hlarge and inevitable loss to all taxpayers. 5. We are opposed to all forms of gang-control in the political affairs of our state, and belicve that the people will not knowingly give control of our government to a gang ‘of Socialists who, while parading as governmental reformers, are cunningly, conspiring to leadvus into a brand of socialism that has no reverence for the Divine, and who by secretly fostering athe- ism and infidelism are attempting to undermine our Christian civilization, and by a propoganda of arraying class against class are destroying the com- munity life of many localities in our state. 6. Agriculture is the chief business of this state. We believe the farmers thereof are entitled to have a termip- al elevator built at once at the ex- pense of the state, and that the _con- stitution should be so amended that a mill can be built and operated in ‘connection therewith. Whether such enterprises will of certainty prove successful is beside the issue. The farmers are tntitled to them as an experiment if nothing else. A mill is particularly important to determine the milling values of our wheat, as well as~the cost of changing wheat into flour. 7. Two. large packing plants are now in the process of construction within this state, This is a new en- terprise within our borders. Its suc- cess will be determined in the future, and it is admitted that no more plants are needed for a few years at least. With private individuals within our state willing. to make the necessary experiment, we are opposed to risk- ing, public moneys in additional simi- Jar,.enterprises at this time before its success: is more reasonably assured. 8. We are in favor of state hail in- We recommend t! he unqualified “lof our present nonpartisan judiciary AHURSDAY; JULY 25, 1918. ‘as a sound’ method .of providing fed- eral aid for Rura) Credit associations. 10. We ‘recommend the extension and-school ballot to county and legis- lative offices, and we urge the careful consideration by the next legislature of the present. primary law in so. far as it relates to, state candidates to the end, that.it may be simplified. and more fully reflect the will .of the people. 11. We pledge our’ support to an energetic program looking toward the betterment of our rural, school- sys- tem that the best possible educational advantages may ‘be available to the boys and girls of the farm . 12. We heartily endorse the candi- dacy ofS. J. Doyle for governor of this tate. We invite the fullest in- vestigation of his sound business and political judgment, and particularly. of his legislative record, where he work- ed for’ and: supported the terminal ‘ elevator ‘constitutional amendment, for anti-pass législation, for non- partisan judiciary ballot, for the pop- ular election of United States .sen- ators and’ other: progressive legisla- ’ i} tion. , ~ We are in favor of clecting as mem- { ; bers of our supreme, court only micn of the highest ability and intergrity, and we unqualifiedly endorse the can+ didacy of former’ Chief Justice Charles J. Fisk, for judge of the supreme court. We heartily endorse Miss. Min- 4 nie J. Nielson as an experienced and % progressive educator familiar with the needs of our schools, and urge her election as superintendent of public instruction. 13. We urge most. strongly the election at this critical period, of can- didates to all the offices in this state who are not controlled by the Town- ley gang, and men who will-exercise their own judgment and do their own thinking, and-not follow the dictates of.self-appointed political bosses. 14. We commend the various ‘news- 1 papers in this’ state that have fear- lessly taken a patriotic stand ‘against the autocratic. bosses of the Towfley machine in the political and. commer- cial. affairs of the state of North Da- kota. We realize. that in many. ‘in- stances this stand. has been taken to the detriment the individual busi- ness.of the newspaper, and we believe that all such newpapers are entitled ° to the unqualified. support of all the citizens of this state who: believe in the {ree discussion of public ques- tions, and who are opposed to the autocratic rule of a few men, In editorially espousing Doylé’s can- didacy, the Grand Forks Herald, life- long. Republican in politics, says: “The state of. North Dakota: is in urgent need of the adoption of. certain war. Measures, and it is. as a war measure that. Hon..S. J. Doyle has been: endorsed for the position of gov- ernor of the state by. representative democrats and republicans, who met at Minot. for the purpose of agrecing ' on: some-united action which should meet:.the needs of the state. | “In the past the citizens of. North : | kota have aligned themselves on the basis, of a wide variety. of -pollti- cal differences... Today there can. .be no such alignment. Such alignments as there is, must: be on other issues. j The great issue before the, country,is J the war,.and, the first. business..of the nation, is to, win the war, and to keep { at it until the war is. won properly. } And it,is.the business: of the state of ' North Dakota, with ‘all of. its. power and through ‘all of its agencies, to aid in that: work. : We need a state gov- ernment which is first and foremost for the war and the winning of it from s the ground up, an ‘administration a which’ is not only thoroughly loyal in ‘a | the person of {ts “own members, but ‘i which is free from the contamination of association with people who. are either actively. and positively disloyal or whose alleged loyalty is qualified with ‘ifs’ and ‘buts.’ “Two years ago, when the men ‘on what is known ‘as the Nonpartisan league ticket Were nominated as the republican candidates for state posi- 5 tions. The Herald which prior to that ‘ time had pointed out the dangerous ~ paths on which the leaders of that organization were conducting their followers, withdrew ~ its opposition after the primary, accepting the de- cision of the majority of those who voted as members of the republican party, and assuming that the men chosen would perform the duties of their office as: independent men, and | would bring to their offices both re- gard for the cconomic. welfare of the | state and regard for-its laws. “In this both The Herald and thou- sands of other citizens of the etate tl were disappointed. Immediately. upon : being inducted into office that portién of the legislature which was dom- inated -by. the league management, and the state officials who had been elect- ed on the league ticket from the gov- } ernor down, proceeded to show their contempt for the constitution which. they had sworn to support by attempt- ing to foist upon the state a new con- stitution which they sought to have adopted in defiance of the plain let- ter ‘and the unquestionable spirit of the constitution itself. If House Bill 44 had contained all the wisdom-ever included’ in a human document, and if the provisions: which it sought to make had been the most beneficial that { could be imagined, its adoption would ? have been a flat violation of the funda- mental law of the state. Yét the gov- ernor of the state, and his fellow Partisans in state offices and in the legislature, under the sinister domina- tion of.a shyster and adventurer, sup- ported: defended and advocated’ that “These men, disregarding the law of the state; showed equal disregard for (Continued on: Page Six.) —————————— SWAMP-ROOT FOR . f KIDNEY ‘AILMENTS There is only one medicine that Teally stands out. pre-eminent, as a medicine for curable ailments of the kidneys, liver and bladder. Dr. Kilmer’s Swanip-Root stands the t highest for the reason that it has prov- en to be just the remedy needed in thousands upon thousands of distress- ing cases. Swamp-Root, a. physician's Prescription for special diseases, makes friends quickly because its mild and immediate effect is soon reat- ized in most cases.- It is a gentle, heal- ing ‘vegetable compound. a Start treatment at once. 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