The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 12, 1918, Page 4

PAGE 3 BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE pct elec eaten tes Se Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter, GEORGH D. MANN : : - Editor ———G. LOGAN PAYND COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Asociated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in thig paper and also the local news published rein. nent rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Dally by carrier per year .. Daily by mail per year (In Bismarck) 720 Daily by mail per year (In State outside @f Bismarck) 5.60 Daily by mail outside of North Dak ¢ THE STATE'S s (Bs GERMANS FIT FOR DEMOCRACY BUT ARE | THEY YET FIT FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT? |! Germany is becoming more disunited and riot-| ous every day. | Germans may not be fit for self-government. They’ve had no experience. Government has been thrust upon them from | the days of the robber barons and the first Hohen- zollerns until now. Their “free cities” of old were| petty tyranies, nothing better. Olden Germany was the home of the se t | tribunal, the Vehmgericht, not of popular ele = ia shows what happens when people get rid of autocracy. Intoxication. Bolshevism. Germany reels even now. Autocracy didn’t produce unity in Germany. } Jealousy, hatred, hedged Prussia. North hated! south Germany. Factionism developed in spite of verboten signs from Potsdam. Now the harvest of disunion. Germany always misgoverned alien peoples. Examples? Alsace-Lorraine, Bohemia, Poland, African colonies, invaded territories. Is the genius of government in the German mental outfit? We'll see, shortly. The affirmative side looks dubious. If Germany can’t govern itself—then what? Tutelage? By the allied powers? As the Fili- pinos are and have been tutored by the United States? Perhaps! Is that what Arthur J. Balfour meant when he said the other day: “There will be a great many states created in Europe for which the League of Nations must care for. “Democracy is not a suit of clothes that can be put on at any stage of development. No. Nor do autocracies teach and fit men for democracy. MR. LANGER’S OPINION In all the history of American commonwealths never has there been a time when so much hinged upon the opinion of one man as now depends upon the opinion of Attorney General William Langer. Mr. Langer has assumed the responsibility for a declaration that the five amendments embodying: the league’s economic program and which did not secure a majority of all the votes cast in the recent election are passed by a:majority of the votes for and against the amendments. The constitu- tion holds otherwise, but Mr. Langer asserts, and quotes eminent authorities to support his conten- tion, that the plain wording of the constitution does not mean what it sa Mr. Langer takes it upon himself to say that when two legislative assemblies and the people of North Dakota by a vote of almost 50,000 to a trifle more than. 20,000 decreed that a majority of all the votes cast at any general election would be required to change the constitution by initiative petition, these legis- lators and the people at large did something quite radically different. ; ale, Ae This conclusion did not occur to Mr. Langer, nor to Mr. Lemke, chairman of the republican state central committee, nor to Mr. Townley, president of the National Nonpartisan league, until they be- came convinced by a canvass of the semi-official returns that the league program had been defeated | by a majority of all the votes cast at the last gen- eral election. Mr. Lemke was first to announce a change of face, and Mr. Langer promptly produced | a very long and learned opinion to support Mr.| Lemke’s new views on the situation. Two league members of the canvassing board joined with Mr. Langer is acting under authority of this opinion, and as a result North Dakota, which had been' congratulating itself on the preservation of consti- tutional government, awakes to find that its con- stitution is little more than a plaything which may be changed, amended, added to, deleted or suspended entirely at the whim of any small ma- jority of the voters who care to express their opin- ion as to the advisability of such change. Under] Mr. Langer’s ruling, amendments may be initiated! now by 20,000 electors at large—they may be con-| fined to four or five counties where the league has} concentrated strength—and if only fifty people| vote on these amendments at the next general election, and 26 of these approve such amend-| ments, they shall become the organic law of the state. ; x * * * * If Mr. Langer’s mind had been open and en- tirely without bias when he took up his considera- tion of the wording of the second section of Chap- ter 16 of the constitution, which reserved to the —| may not have regi |view that “a majority of all the legal votes cast t | .|ery and chicanery have wrecked other political not have occurred to him that the legislature fore. More than ninety-four thousand votes were polle¢ November 5. proved any of the five amendments which Mr. Langer has declared a part of the constitution of thi sstate. | as well as the opposi amendments withheld their final approval. polls, but they refrained from voting on the ques- tion at all, and in so doing they as positively withheld their approval as though they had marked a “No” after each of these amendments on the official ballot. x k ok * League officials and league organs are silent now when confronted with the admitted fact that previous to the election they held the common at the general election” meant just that and noth- ing less. President Townley just prior to elec- tion, in a letter published in the North Dakota Leader said: “So the first thing you do, if you want any state elevators, flour mills and banks, is to vote ‘yes’ and pass these ten amendments. It’s a hard fight, because more than half OF ALL THE VOTES CAST FOR GOVERNOR MUST VOTE ‘YES’ ON THE AMENDMENTS. That is, if 85,- 000 vote for Frazier and 15,000 vote for Doyle, and 40,000 vote yes on the amendments and 10,000 vote no on the amendments, the amendments would not pass.’ Again in the same letter, published October 26, Mr. Townley sai “If you vote ‘no’ or if you fail to vote at all, you are counted against the amend- ments.” | On page 15 of a litile political pamphlet entitled “The Truth About the Constitutional Amend- ments,” distributed by the republican state central committee during the campaign, Chairman Lemke said: “In order to carry, the constitutional amendments must have a majority of all the votes cast, so that the citizen who does not vote at all on these measures is helping defeat them as much as the man who votes against them.” Mr. Townley and Mr. Lemke were honest with themselves and their followers when they made | these statements. They were giving league mem- bers good advice, as they saw it. Not all league members chose to follow this advice, with respect to approving the league amendments. There is a conservative element, even within the league, which does not believe thé state is ready for a reign of pure socialism. And this element was large enough, when combined with the anti-league fac- tion, to withhold from the amendments a majority of all the legal yotes cast at the general election. * * * * The action of the state canvassing board un- | doubtedly will be attacked. It is to the everlasting \eredit of Secretary of State Thomas Hall, leaguer though he be, re-elected by the largest vote given any candidate on the leauge ticket, that he was so possessed of the courage of his convictions that he dared join State Treasurer John Steen in opposing this action. It is interesting to conjecture the stand which Commissioner of Agriculture Hagan and Insurance Commissioner Olsness would have taken, had they stood in the shoes of State Auditor Kositzky and Superintendent of Public Instruction Macdonald. But they did not, and Kositzky and Macdonald voted with Langer, which was to be ex- pected. The state canvassing board’s action will be attacked, how, when and where cannot be said. The matter ultimately may find its way into the federal courts, but the proper course to take is now a question, | Cr We do not believe that the rank and file of the league, honest, substantial, God-fearing farmer folk who believe in fair play and who detest a poor loser and a quitter, will unqualifiedly endorse the action of the state canvassing board, even though a majority of the Nonpartisans may regard the result a victory. It is a mares which may turn bitter in the mouth of the victors, for no perma- nent good can come from ill-gotten gains. Trick- parties which started out with full as great prom- ise as the Nonpartisan league. Mr. Townley, Mr. Lemke and Mr. Langer may live to rue the day they set aside the will of a passive majority and elevated as the rulers of the land a meagre but clamorous minority. This is the heart and essence of Bolshevism. It is class rule translated to the ’nth degree, and even the class in whose interest this cheat is perpetrated will recognize, when they have had time to think, the danger which lies in such practices. “Many senators are strong in the belief that the surest guarantee of a lasting peace for America lies in a strong military policy, with universal saw this very contingency, and that it wished to insure a real rule of the majority by insisting that the constitution could not be changed by any; ; small minority which chanced to constitute a tem-! porary majority balloting on this specific question? Of this number less than 47,000 ap- For months there had been dinned| into the ears of the people, both by the league and by its opponents, the fact that a failure to {vote on any of the amendments would be a vote 20 against them. Leaguers understood this situation | ion faction, and at least five 0 | thousand leaguers who assisted in initiating these | They tered a positive negative at the THURSDAY, DEC. 12, 1918 i | >| i TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT AN HONOR DAY EACH MONTH TO WELCOME THE KHAKI AND BLUE; Now that the fighting has ceased of business, on the streets, in the and the boys are on their way home|press and elsewhere. A large meet- trom the battlefields of France and/ing place should be selected where Italy, and from the training camps!all men who have returned from ser- “Over There” and “Over Here,” the| vice the previous month should be in- problem arises as to how we at home: vited, and a suitable program ar- cen accord them the hearty welcome! ranged—or a parade could be planned, that we want to give them, and to/if more suitable to local conditions. show our apreciation for the part they{| It will undoubtedly require several played in bringing home Victory.;months before the army is demobiliz- None of us want to conceive the idea| ed and the boys will probably be strag- of our brave soldiers and sailors re-| gling ack in small numbers every turning to civil life, unnoticed and un-j day. This makes it impossible to‘hon- honored—and the man who never got) or them all at one time and without as far as to actually fight with, gun/due recognition of their bravery, we and a bayonet is as deserving: of rec-|could hardly blame them for feeling ognition as the man who did. | slighted. They weren't here to see us But how to arrange a fitting re-|go wild with pride and joy when the news le of the armistice came, and they not credit us with being appre- ception is the question, and in this connection we have evolved what we believe to be an ideal 1 is simply this: 'To se each month to be known as Day,” on which day the whole should unite in a patriotic celebr: tion. This should be done in place SWAMP-ROOT FOR KIDNEY AILMENTS | ‘hearted. reception. | The Honor Day idea seems to be |the solution to that prodlem. | The st one should be set for the first |part of January when all the boys | who returned in December would be linvited. The second one during the lifrst part of pruary, for the boys who returned in January. According to this arrangement no man would come home without pesonally know- {ing the gratitude of the city. There is only one me ® that] ae ; The day should ve officially desig-| really stands out pre-eminent as al, : ilo medicine for curable ailments. of: the | "ted by the mayor of common coun: cil and committees should be assign- ed to make all arrangements. A def- inite program should be planned and it might also be well to include in the plans, the welcoming of soldiers | and sailors whose homes are in near- {by towns and suburbs. LAST DAY This is last day to place your Xmas Suit or Overcoat order. Open this evening till 10 P. M. Klein Klothes are selling on their merit and price. Klein, Tailor and Cleaner. Phone 75, City Fuel Co. For the Beulah Coal kidneys, liver and bladder. Dr. Kilmer’s'Swamp-Root stands the highest for the reason that it has in thousand: tressing ¢: s. cian’s pres makes friends quickly mild and immediate effect is s realized in most cases. . It is a gentle, healing vegetable compound. Start treatment at once. Sold at all drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medium and large. However, if you wish first to test this great preparation send ‘ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample bottle. When writ- ing be sure and mention the Bismarck Daily. Tribune. EVERETT TRUE ' i 2 ATPACPAUNTN OH,— IS THAT Your UMBRELLA t training as the keystone.” This policy was highly successful in Europe, where it has preserved peace for 47 years, with only one little four years’ war, costing only 8,000,000 lives. Luckily, the secret of that wireless telephone used by the Yanks was never discovered by the Huns, or S. O. S. Solf would have been inundating the whole American public with mercy appeals electorate the power of the initiative, might it every twenty minutes, Ip tive if they are accorded a helf-!N. [ Fallen For Freedom | Killed in Action. Private James R. Spitzer, Cando, N. Dak, Died From Wounds. Private Earl Kneeland, Medina, N. Dak. i ohn Kybus, New Rockford, } Private J N. D. Severely Wounded. Sergeant Howard L. Pierce, Rocky- mount, N. Dak. Private John Selm, N. D. penate John Pawlukojtis, Fargo, N.j ak. Grand Forks,| Private William IF, Lotzer, Wahpe-} ton, N. D. Private John T. Mayer, Lako, N, D. Private. Wilhelm Wu ‘Private Bennie Peders N. D. Pleasant t, Heil, n, Nor’ D. Private Samuel A. Anderson, Donny- brook, N. D. ‘Private Henry L. court, N. Dak. Sergeant Edgar E. Foster, Miller, N. Dak. ia ‘Private. Roy T. Thompson, Cando, N_D: Private Roy C, Railing, Lansfora, N. Dak. 4 Private Andred M. Nelson, Voss, N. 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Guarantecd to give absolute satis- faction or raoney promptly refunded. The Pinex Co., Ft, Wayne, Ind. SMILEAGE BOOKS SALE CANCELLED Coupons Now Available Wanted at Debarkation Points Washington, Dec. 12—The war de- partment commission on training camp activities has decided to dis- continue -further sale of Smileage books. This course is taken because the war department believes that enough Smileage is now outstanding to proyide entertainment for the sol- diers. Smileage will be honored as long as the Liberty theatres operate Smil- eage books will be especially appre- ciated if sent to the commanding of- ficer of the camps near the ports of debarkation for the use of returning soldiers, A good many of the men re- turning to this country are not over- entertainment. Smileage is a token of admission to Liberty theatres, issued. in coupon books of the value of $1.00 and $5.00. While the government bore the cost of erecting the Liverty theatres in the camps, there was no appropriation for running them and they were made self-supporting by charging small ad- mission fees to cover administrative costs and the expenses of the attrac- tions booked at the camps. The smil- eage scheme was. devised to let the general public take part in entertain- ing the soldiers in their spare hours in the’ camps. Smileage books were placed .ou- sale all over the country so that friends and relatives might provide, theatrical. entertainment in that fashion for men in the camps. About 6,000 volunteer agents—some organizations, but mostly individuals —have been engaged in the sale of Smileage. Actual cash’ remittances to the Smileage department of the com- mission amounted to $904,186, at the first of this month, though the sales have been larger ‘than that sum, since money is always in transit. FROM FRISON CAMPS. Washington, Dec, 12—The names of 51 officers and 22 men released from a German prison camp at Vil- lingen, who passed through Switzer- land Nov. 29th on their way to France were made public today by the war department. LAST DAY This is last day to place your Xmas Suit or Overcoat order. Open this evening till 10 P. M. Klein Klothes aré selling on their merit and price. Klein, Tailor - Wounded ‘Slightly, ‘Private Tycho Weigelt, Drake, N. D. Children Cry ys SS and Cleaner. for Fletcher’s ~\ which has been years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his per. The Kind You Have Always Bought, and in use for over thirty CMa sonal supervision since its infancy. fe ‘ Allow no one to deceive you in this, All Counterfeits, Imitations and ‘* Just-as-good” are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Expérience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. 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