The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 16, 1918, Page 4

i . THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Estered af the Postotiice, Banarck, ND, as Booond ice, ae Class = > - Editor 6. LOG: ‘A "ANY, > Special Representative Forei; Fifth Ave. Bldgs CHICAGO, Marquette STON, 3 Winter St; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exc! Larner OF ASSOCIATED PRESS fer se Mecca Pete we credived to fron net ol beng twise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- All rights of publication of special dispatches herein at fait igs of publication of spectal dispatches herein MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Matter will hurt him worse than all the harsh words you can think of. Increasing taxes on things people consume in- creases profits for profiteers. ‘ They speak of raising milk prices again. Milk was never so high since the cow jumped over the moon. ; Wilson can’t go visitin’ round the country while war lasts. Do you ‘feel that way about YOUR job? Hindenburg says he’ll yet pluck “the fruits of SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANC. ' Dally by carer yer your $6.00) Victory.” Foch will see that he’s handed a lemon pany by mail per ear ( ‘“ at least! Daily by mai 6 ———-.,, “British Fail,” says Berlin, Uncensored, the One year by thought expressed would have been “British fail Leer TO STOP despite our resistance.” | ape Eugene Debs may think his “cause” is worth Three mo! 125) going to prison for, but millions : other Ameri- cans have a CAUSE worth dying for. Bir months 3.00 ean Die Fizee monthe saeaeee fa Turkey’s capital has been bombed. If the allies o THB STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Batablished 1878) Ras ad SHALL WE TEACH GERMAN? In almost every American school building, be- fore this world war came on, children were taught how to read, write and speak German. Every high school taught German classes. In some schools German was compulsory. German s0- cieties in America encouraged the teaching of German in American schools. German influences in state legislatures and boards of education were ever at work in attempts to broaden the scope of German study in schools. But when the German rulers engulfed the world in war many American parents did not want their children to study the language of the kaiser. Many school children objected to reading and talk- ing German. Many boards of education discon- tinued German lessons. Many German readers and other German textbooks were burned. A nation-wide movement to eliminate German from American schools did eliminate it in most schools, practically all elementary schools and in many. high schools. This movement was bitterly opposed by the German-American Alliance, by all Germans who opposed America’s entry .into the war, by all German plotters, diplomats, secret agents and by what influence the German govern- ment’could bring to bear against it. Yet it thrived and spread even into those school districts largely populated by those of German birth or German parentage. i Few educators or school officials opposed the widening of this anti-German wave. Most of them joined hands with parents and children in fighting this insidious bond with which Germanism sought to link the minds of American schoo] children to German “kultur.” But there was one man who opposed the movement. He favored the teachings of German in American public schools. In that respect he was ip accord with the German kaiser, with the German world-dominion propagandists, and with the defunct German-American Alliance. That man is Philander Priestly Claxton, United States commissioner of education. Claxton, not only DID oppose the movement} to eliminate German, but he NOW continues his; ,opposition. "These are his words: “I consider ‘the nation-wide movement to eliminate the German language from public | schools and ordinary affairs of social and com- | mercial life, a form of hysteria and oppose such a course.” That is what YOUR national commissioner of education has to say about. it. That is what he thinks about it. And that is what he intends do- ing—opposing your movement to eliminate the/ language of the kaiser from your schools. This man Claxton is YOUR employe. He has been hired by YOUR government to oversee YOUR schools, and to direct the education of YOUR children. . What is your decision? * Tf you do not want your child to study German: . to read, write and talk German, do you want a portion of the school taxes you pay spent on Ger- man teachers and German books? . If YOU do not want German in YOUR schools do you want Claxton at the head of the United States system of education. If you do not want Claxton there do you think} he ought to resign or should he be kicked out? WHAT DO YOU SAY? blow a few syllables out of Constantinople, fifth grade pupils may in future be able to spell the same, Thousands of HUNS have quit going to| chufch. Probably find no solace there for their Potsdam! It was expected that the Germans’ resistance would stiffen when they touched the Hindenburg line. Which is merely preliminary to the allies strengthening their offensive. oan | Two million packages of gum is Uncle Sam’s latest order; to ally thirst on long marches. The line-up may soon be termed Yankee gum-chewers versus HUN gum-shoe-ers. WITH THE EDITORS | EN A NEN EE SC ee Rte seca H '. *CREELING. This is all very fine, to make the newspapers and printers save paper; the «Newspapers and printers will do gladly. But as long as George Creel’s committee on Public Information continues to print its hundreds of thousands of the ‘Official Bulletin” and spread them broadcast over the land where only the postal employees and a few others read them; as long as congressmen and senators are allowed to mail out untold thousands of cop- ies of the congressional record or parts thereof to every voter in the country; as long as the hun- dreds of official and semi-official bureaus and committees and “Statistics for the Promotion of This and That,” are allowed to flood the country with what they call literature which nobody reads and everybody throws into the wastebasket un- opened; just so long will the newspapers have a justificable complaint to make; and -just so long will they continue to make it, and forcibly. The newspaper boys hate to be made the: goats, but in this case it looks like they have been made to bear a burden which the unwarranted extrav- agance of official and semi-official agencies has caused. Uncle Sam should go a bit further with his conservation of paper. ‘He should start in his own offices.—Devils Lake World. ¢ DON'T . Don’t stand around telling the mother of a boy over there how war will make a man of hint. She will hate you for it, because she thinks he is more of a man than you are and perhaps she is not far wrong from it either. He is already considerable of a man or he would not be there. And if you are too old to go to war, don’t tell a man with a sickly wife and family to support how nothing could keep you away from the front if the govern- ment would only let you go. You can’t prove it, you know, and he won't believe you. And he prob- ably thinks his excuse as good as yours, anyway. And many times he will be right in both supposi- tions. In fact, if you can’t or won’t go. the only thing to do is to keep still about it and do your best to put the government over the top at this end. “By theit work you shall know them.”— Medina Citizen. ZOWIE!!! ' is the man or woman who still lets their sym- pathies run toward Germany after we have been at war with that bunch of wild men for over.a Gott is always ‘closeted with Billenzollern at|” ‘great deal of criticism,ypon its mem- The most low down, dirty, rotten, miserable dog | d ues GETTIN A. \oBeLy ANU Ly PD, Doyle Bares Hidden | Meaning of League Movement in Address (Continued From Page One.) H : PRIVATE i the state did not take kindly to so-| Somewnere 2 Branee, Aug. 0 cialiggy, ang: there, Was Little: progr: ust a line to let. you’ know that PretTg Re a the the Dutch haven't, been near us-yet, heath Hares ai a ae fgg, | 284 that Tam still feeling fine, get of she Nene tiene League, 18 >| 1 ami -still the first one dnt the 1e” people ' ave’ morning and:the last to bed at night, twieg yoted. for’ éonstiiutional amend- | 7° "yoe cughtrte hear. that old bugle. ments making “it,possibe.to erect. pur-| 1 am: getting ‘so that I’ can play. “Tur- chase, lease, establish. and. operate ter-| key 4 the’ Straw,” . and ete it mi alevators aot eae eislation sound like,a second section of-Sousa’s nesota iseonsin: - ‘band, including ‘saxaphones. has been enacted, providing ‘for'a tax! "Well, ihe buich and 1 get_ along levy” With’ Which to, créaté-a-terminal | pretty good, only sometimes when my elevator fund, and approximately$119.-| Frerjch type wristwatch; loses a;min- 000.00 have “been ppaumaiated and ute or two and I don’t happen, to ‘blow Pony passed REBeiag for the Iscktine| Cea ee ee eed: : Z good “U. S.A." type watch, they kind- leasing or establishing-of any terminal |p go’ back on Tie sand. start ‘Yelling elevator up to 1915, and the legislative) thrilling stories amongst themselves, asseranly of. shat year failed to make! and due io the:fact that we are. op- such ° provision. 4: “This failure, on the part of the leg- islative assemly of: 1915, brought a | utes ahead of time;: for I’ don't like the M-|}ooks of those little rocks ‘laying berts, and) when. thigpwake ol criti-) around, and I imagine one of them cism was athigh tidestheanonpartisan league appeared ypon,,the~ horizgy, headed by Mr. Townley, Mr. Bowen and these other gentlemen who had always been known in the state as socialists of the most. radiéal type. The situation gave these men an op-|with the now famous House Bill 44, portunity, to attempt at’ least,'to put|and the program of the leaders of the into effect the program of state so-,! movement, stamp it unquestionably as cialism which. they’ had been preach-|a program of radical socialism. Now, ing for years. Under the ~present the question for the people to decide primary law. any man may. declare is whether.or not it is policy for them himself tobe a mémber of any po- to abandon the splendid progress, de- litical-party and take part.in the prin® | velonment and sound economic legis- ary nominations of .that party; and ‘lation of almost half a century and these men, by an 0 ulous campaign, ¢: jred the machin- |socialism, with a man at the helm ery of the republican party and nom-|whose chief qualifcation for: leader- inated their candidates for offiée on |ship is an unbroken line of business the republican’ ticket,” With the birth |failure, financial disasters and ‘repu- of the nonpartisan league the state (diated legal obligations. socialist ‘party died, It willbe argued, | Sogialist Leaders. by some, no doubt, that these men are ‘If there be any doubt as to EVERETT -TRUE - - By Conde “fou NO; X.WANT To SCE THE Man NEXT DooR To YoU — got hit just right. RAR eee the action of these men in connectio x HEARD You BLOWING Your HorRN — DID You WANT To sce MG € | erating a rock quarry I always ‘man- | \age to ‘blow recall. two or: three’ min- | ;could do a lot of damage if a fellow | not trying to put over socialism, but it’ahd unscrup-!embark on a program of state-wide | The rock we are getting out is for the roads’at the front, and we aré sending out from two to three boats tioned road, materiat: | Major Stern. gave us 4 speech the | other night and he complimented our comapny for the good work we are doing and said that our work was ; just as important and, in fact, a little |; More important, than the boys’ at the front, as the artillery cannot’ move | without a good road. ~ Gena Well, this is my allowance of paper short. ! General Bershing said’in a speech at | Bordeaux, “Hoboken or- Hell: before Christmas,” and we sure will do our So say Hello,to all my friends. Always your friend, z ROY KUNTZ, - | Co. D, 28th Engrs. 3 A. M. P.O. 705, Base Section. No. 2, Am. E. F. whether or not an éffort is being made In this state. to establish’ { state socialism in full bloom} with | one*stroke, as -it were, one need only Investigate ‘the life-long po- litical affiliation and activities of practically every. man who Is in charge of any important work of the nonpartisan league, or even | public office by endorsement of the Townley machine. “The last official record of Town- ley’s political faith, prior to the birth of the nonpartisan league and the death of the socialist party, is his own jregistration affidavit signed at Beach, North Dakota, on the 11th day of ‘April, 1914. A. E. Bowen, Townley’s chief speaker and organizer, was twice can- |didate for governor on the socialist licket.. Mr. M. E. Elliott, at one time published a radical socialist paper at | Minot, N. Dak, Mr: Elliott was at one time state manager for the nonpar- now em- |tisan league in North Dakota, {ployed at headquarters at, and his place here turned over t |Strom of Williston, another ‘avowed socialist. Most of you will remember that some years ago. there resided in Minot, N. Dak., a socialist lawyer by +; the name of Arthur LeSeuer, the man |who took quite a. prominent’ part in behalf of the I. W. W, at the time of the riots at Minot some yeats ago. LeSeuer was immediately employed by ;Mr. Townley as cijief counsel for the league, which position 1 understand he still continues to hold. “And so we have the president of the jleague, the chief organizer, the state manager and the chief counsel, all rad- lical socialists. “[ want to say just a word further ‘about Mr. LeSeuer. This is the same LeSeuer, who in the summer of 1917, attempted to foist upon the farmera, | every day loaded with the above men, |for today; I will have to make this | ‘bit and work hard to back his word/PPartisan league, even though the pro- -1The development of, a new country | required. much labor upon the partsof MONDAY, SEPP. 16/.4918.!' of this, state’-a | working agreement, whereby they’ should ’only employ I. W. Wé laborérs.~ In speaking of this undertaking .before the 1, W,.W., lodge No.: 400 at» Kansas City, he said: ‘If we ,(menning the f. W. ‘W.) can bring about this agreement It will mean the transferring of- the balance ef power from the state government of North |Dakota to the nonpartisan league and I. W. W2* You will remember that at a series of meeting held in this state to ratify this agreement on the part ra of the Yarmes, it was rejetced. Now if there are any members of the league present | ‘Want.to ask you if you really believe that ‘when LeSeuer was in Kansas City, trying to put through this agreement, telling the-members of the 1. W. W. that it mean the transferring of the. power of. the state into their hands, he was really working in :the jinterests of the farmers of North Da- ‘kota’ Think it over and ‘see if youcan reach any ‘such conclusion. Walter ‘Thomas Mills ahd Mrs. O’Hare “For'rmany. years’ there was con- ducted at Girard, Kansas, a socialist school, where the simon-pure doctrine of socialism'’Wa8 supposed to be taught to the students. And’I believe, by the way,-that Mr. ‘LeSeuer was a graduate of that school and later on a member of thé faculty. This school i was under the direction of one Walter Thomas Mills. Mrs. Kate Richards O’Hare, the socialist lecturer and'an- ti-war propagandist, who was convict- ed in the federal court at Bismarck last spsing, for the crime of violating the espionage Jaw, and who was sen- tenced to five years in the state peni- tentiary at Jéfferson City, Mo., was also a. graduate of that school: “And I just want ‘to say a word hefe in connection with -Mrs. O’Hare who was in my custody for a short. | time following her arrest and again af- ter her conviction at Bismarck. She ‘ {is a. woman. of. considerable natural talent( possesses an acsve mind and is quite a fluent speaker, but has the . most perverted ideas on governmental gestions with which I have ever come in contact. She says she owes all of her education on these questions to t Walter Thomas Mills; and after I had a » attended her trial at~Bismarck, and . saw and heard Mrs, O'Hare, 1 could not help but think what tragedy it was in her life that she had been so unfortunate ‘as to ever meet with and listen to the teachings, of a man like Mills. “And afterwards. when | heard of Mills speaking at different places in the state, and read in the paper that he-had addressed the students of the agricultura? college and different state institutions, | thought \how. lit- tle the fathers and mothers of this state realize the kind of doctrine that is being impressed upon the minds of ' their sons and daughte: inder the di- rection of ‘this socialist administra- j tion and under, the guise of education doctrines that poisoned the mind of Kate Richards O’Hire. brought her to the bar.of justice in a federal ‘epurt be and- condemned ‘her to a felon’s cell for.a term of. five years. t ‘One. may. ‘continue indefinitely along this line and the farther the in- vestigation is pursued the more .thor- oughly convinced ‘he ‘will become. that all jthe leaders of this movement— all the men holding prominent positions —aré socialists of the most radical type. And the reason the state social- a ist party ceased ‘to’ exist is because these men believed its functions could be bettered exercised through the non- gram be clothed with the name re- publicanisni. 4 Came With $11.25. “4, large portion of this state was settled .and -devedoped by men and worhen of foreign birth, and that the vast majority, have made splendid American, citizens no one will deny. Most of us came to the state with little or no money., I remember when I came to Grand. Forks, twenty-eight years. ago. .I-had $11.25, and I sup- pose that represented about the finan- ak | ciai resources of the average man who came into the state at that time. those who’ take part in its upbuild- ing; but there is something about a new country that-appeals to most peo- ple. There ig something fascinating in. watching the industry of men change what seems to be a barren ‘waste into ‘a land of productive farms, thriving ‘villages and prosperous yhomes. There have been some:hard‘ |years, many privations and some dis- appointments, but no more, than oc- cur anywhere to the aver-~- human -being in the course of an ordinary lifetime. % Revolutionary Changes Dangerous. “Of course there have been abuses and there probably always will be in | proportion or human nature remains unchanged, but in the history. of all countries and all governments we find | that. radical; revolutionary’ changes, suddenly brgught about. result in - chaos to the body polftic rd distress to the common people. We have a‘ | singularly striking example of this in Russia at the present time, where a few men, preaching glibly about de- ‘mocracy, have in reality taught noth- ying. but class hatred and nation-wide socialism, with the result that they shave brought national dishonor upon the people as a whole; and instead of ~ bettering. their condition have led { the mto ruin and disaster to a degree ot without parallel in the history of mod- ern civilization.” Political Platforms. “As every American citizen knows, a political platform is a declaration of (Continued on Page Eight.) SOS { Hy Ff Uncle Sam ‘says petticoats are a luxury. Wonder. what Miss Columbia thinks about it? “Disaster sTares HUN line.” Recent reports favor the substitution of a C for that T! ~~ Seemingly every person outside of Big Business and ‘the U.°S. Senate favors taxing those most + eel - The Socialist vote will be heavy this coming ‘dection—at the federal prison precincts. But it ‘won't be cast. Nor counted. You might, 28. “What would you do to the kaiser? If you are one of these yellow streaked cowardly, pups whose sympathy runs that way we bet there isn’t one of you if offered a free passage to Hun- land would accept it for you know the oppor- portunities (if any) offered you in Germany, YOU know which side your bread is buttered on,, and still you try your utmost to crush it to the’ ground with these disgusting Te- marks. If you are so strongly in favor of kultur we might try it on you by putting you against the j year. Braddock has several of these such people.: tunities offered yqu in this country and the op-|' ' Your knowledge of the Lanpher past will give you implicit faith in its present ‘and future—dependable quality will remain its dominant feature. . ' » VOOR teat