The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 12, 1919, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE a Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEO! Dc MANNE isc 2 3s ene G, LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Forei ww Mere Bide ys CHICAGO, Marquette Fiftl ve. g-5 OPK TON, 8 Winter S¢7, DETROIT, Kresege idg.; 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- ed herein. 3 tabi rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ULATION MEMBERS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIR SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANGE 5g Daily by carrier per year .......+---+00+ Daily by mail per year (In Bismarck).... wee 1.20 Daily by mail per year (In State outside of Bismarck) ats Daily by mail outside of North Dakota.........++-- JHE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. Established 1873) fs ad | |r LINCOLN THE PIONEER The frontier precipitated and won the Civil; War. The commercial draining of the northwest through the Erie canal and the railroads to the Atlantic seaboard rather than to the Gulf of Mex- ico decided the eleetion of 1860 and the resulting military struggle. The conflict for the free land of the frontier made the war inevitable. The undivided west was the common prope! “the union forever, one and inseparable.” It was the democratic, individualistic spirit of the frontier that revolted from human slavery. That spirit saw liberty everywhere; in the forest clad hills, in the rippling reaches of the prairie, and, most of all, ‘mM the*centinnoug enfranchising conquest of natural forcés, $ Lincoln, was the incarnation of the frontier. He was the culmination of its spirit of equal strug- yw gle for individual development. Because the fron- % tier was an idedlized competitive system Lincoln ® was the apotheosis of that system, expressing all that was best and free from its most evident de- fects. Lincoln directed his hatred against whatever restricted man’s freedom to develop or hampered the voice and impulse of the individual in society. The, poverty he knew was an_ inspiration. Wealth was attainable to a large percentage of the people. It was the time that gave whatever of truth ever did in here in the belief that every workman was a potential capitalist. Lincoln saw somewhat beyond this freedom to fight the obstacles of nature. Frequent phrases show he glimpsed the coming of economic forests, #. swamps and jungles moxeydifficalt for’ the indi- 5 vidualj to ‘conqder than’ thosé éf ‘nature. i In winfiing the Civil War, preserving the union, abolishing chattel slavery and insuring the domi- nation of a society built upon individual initiative Lincoln and his generation started this nation upon, its marvelous conquest of the continent and its‘atmost limitless accumulation of wealth. 4 Today the development born of Lincoln’s gen- & eration, dnd largély of {Rincoln’s impulse’ has > reached a new set of barriers. It is control of his job, not his person, that confines the worker to- day. The frontier is now blocked by social not natural obstacles. Individual initiative is choked by monopoly, not by forests, deserts, mountains and swamps. A government of the people, by the people and for the people threatens to perish from off the earth because international conflicts, not sectional divisions. Lincoln would have as little patience with one who today applied only his methods and fought only the obstacles of the 60’s as a frontiersman would have with a person who feared to break with an old society when progress called him on to a i new one. are (The poverty of the open prairie, deep woods and reluctant rugged nature required one solution. Tne poverty of slums and exploitation requires an- other. In abolishing slavery, freeing industry, devel- oping a nation, lincoln handed on another set of problems for us to solve, just as each generation is to refuse to learn the lesson of the need of pio- _ neers for each new problem. BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. Let us have faith that right makes might ; and in that faith let us to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. see Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? * eee It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river. \ eee The Almighty has his own purposes. N se. 8 # Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between| the Almighty and them. eee You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. ese 8 @ ___ Liberty is right, for Christ teaches it, and Christ is God. eee @ Let us care for him who has borne the battle, AFTER 5,000 YEARS Herman J. Stich, a New York court reporter, has broken the world’s shorthand record by taking down 1500 words at the rate of 300 words a min- ute, with only 10 mistakes. Five words a second! This is important in the history of man’s de- velopment. ‘It represents the supreme writing achievement of 5,000 years. Fifty centuries ago men clothed in skins and armed with flint-headed clubs invented. hierog- lyphics—the first attempt to express thoughts in writing. The stone age man wrote a word a day. The history of alphabets and writing teaches us that man is never satisfied. Eternally he seeks a quicker way of doing things—a shortcut. As far back as the Romans we find shorthand ih use. The first system was invented by Marcus Tullius Tiro, the slave-secretary of Cicero, The typewriter, by which man called machin- ery to his aid in penmanship, was introduced in the year 1714 by Henry Mill, an,Englishman. Laborious, indeed, were man’s first attempts at writing. No alphabet was at his command. Only by a series of crude pictures could he set down his thoughts. If we believe the scientists, man’s struggle to perfect a writing system extends back to the Ice Age 100,000 years ago when the first writers drew rty that laid the foundation oftpictures on the walls of caverns near Niaux in the Pyrennes mountains between Spain and France. These pictures, drawn in outline with a mixture of greasé and jblack oxide of manganese, show horses, cave men and‘bisons. © The <artist- writer, ignorant of any language, was trying to leave a message for future men about a great hunt. ¥ What is most important. in the shorthand record established by the New York court re- porter? vt R First of all, it marks the highest point attained by the human race in an effort-that has gone on. unceasingly through from 50 to 1000 centuries. Man’s progress is slow, painfully slow, but also sure, The exploit of Herman J. Stich further illus- trates the wonders possible to the finger skill of man. It shows that when hand labor is backed by effort of the brain, the individual has unlimited possibilities. A few weeks ago it was. thought that 180 words a minute was the limit possible in taking down shorthand. Now comes an cbscure court ‘reporter and al- most doubles the speed. ‘ Man hgsfpentécted nothing. “All ig subject’ to change, impravément. The god] toward which we strive is like tHe horizon—it moves forward as we advance. ¢ We can never reach the last word in any- thing, for, once we reach it, it becomes only a milestone on the path and new possible.-goals emerge from the fogs ahead. As man hasjlapored throughycenturies to per- féct writing, do has he tdiled: to’ better the’ living conditions of the common man. It is a hard fight —slow, wearisome, at times discouraging—but always there is improvement and a greater vision of the better things that lie ahead if we continue the struggle. It is good to dream of Utopia, but better to lock the stable. Add to the price of peace the guaranteed price of this year’s wheat crop. | Fear of seeming disloyal to our allies may make us disloyal to America. All good men go to Heaven, and the others go to H—er, that is, Holland. The Huns relied on mass formation, and now they rely on mess formation. Man is insignificant, and we call a city great be- cause it is massed insignificance. There are encugh good lawyers in the senate. to find the jokers in the peace treaty. The crown prince is wearing. wooden shoes now, probably as a delicate compliment to his, head. We ask God for help, and then give all the praise to the man He uses as an instrument. Germany’s proposition was that might made right, and eventually we demonstrated the truth of it. There is nothing in this clamor about profiteers. The three big packers made only 95 millions in 1917. Germany’s big job after things settle down will be to select as ambassador someone we have re- spect for. The most astonishing thing about the war was the way a white flag changed a battle fleet into a white elephant. Historians will decide that the Hun had the courage of his convictions, but didn’t have eny Ik BE GSS TERE EERO SORE AALS iN ‘and for his widow. and orphan. ; convictions to back his courage, E ® eeese : - —— t < achieve and cherish a| Ford has ten millions to spend, if necesagry, in st ‘peace onhenies and with| making his country paper a success, No less back- ing would justify « policy of rigid truth telling. BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE WHICH IS TRUE LINCOLN MEMORIAL IN. apis 0th THE LIVING | fe se ae ° Above is the new Lincoln me- morial $3,000,000 hall of marble now being finished in Potomac park, Washington; below is sthe | old fashioned brick house on 10th | street, Washington, in whieh Abra- | ham Lincoln breathed h st, and im which is stored Lincoln relics which never can be duplicated. BY, A.-E. GELDHOF. N. E. A. Washington Bureau. Washington, D.C. The United States government has paid nearly $3,000,000 for a magni- ficent marble. memorial to Abrahiin Lincoln in Washington. i For one-tenth of that sum it cen perpetuate for coming generations 4 jemorial which in sentimental talus will in the future be worth far thore to the Amerfcan.people than the beau- tiful:. memorial building in Potomac park. Down on Tenth street, in the heart of Washington, across the street from Ford's theater, where Lincoln w sassinated by Wilkes Booth, stands the house in which the martyred presi- dent died. In it is the largest single collee- tion of Lincoln relics in the country. The room in which Honest Abe breath- ed his Jast?on April. 15, 1865, is the same today as it was that morning, except that its walls are covered with Lincoln pictures and relies and it eon- tains no furniture. The flooring, even the wall paper, are the same. The house is owned by the govern- ment, but the collection is owned by Osborn H. Oldroyd, a modest, unas- suming little old man who ‘has. made his life work for half a century, the ‘collection of articles pertaining to. his hero, Abe Lincoln. With limited means and almost unaided, but inspired by a devout worship for the character ‘and personality of Lincoln,-he has amassed a collection which is today pricele Oldroyd warits the government. to buy. the buildings adjoining the¥ old house on’ each: side, tear them down and erecta flreproof structure around he historic building which contains his_ collection. “T will never consent,”. he saidy, “to permit the collection to lea house where Lincoln died: .The ernment: -permits sme; to: o¢éupy. & the house, rent free;iF live..qwith' my Wife on the two upper floors. If, congress should pass this appropriation, 1 would move out and devote the Whole house ct jection is made safe from fire, many pleces of furniture that were in the house when Lincoln died and other ar- ticles valued for their connection with the martyred president would be in- eluded in This year—the one hundred and tenth an rsary of the h of Ab- raham Lincoln—wwill witness the com- pletion and dedication of the magni- ficent Lincoln memorial in Potomac park, on the banks of the Potomac river. ij Ot The superstructure of the building, which is built on ‘the stvle of the Par- thenon at Athens, of white Colorado, marble, surrounded by 36 massive mar- ble columns, is already completed. The interior decorations and the approaches are now being finished. * 4 The act. of congress authorizing the Lincoln memorial! was. approved Feb. 9,°1911, but work-on the building was not begun until Lincoln’s birthday, 1914, when the cornerstone was laid. The fact that its. construction has which completely upset the ‘plans of the Lincoln memorial commission, headed by former President William H. Taft. x Dantel Chester French, ngted New York sculptor, is working on the eol- lossal marble statue of Lincoln, which will be the only object inside the beau- tifal memorial. The statue, for which French is to be paid $88,300, will. be ready to place within the building when it is completed. will be placed a memorial of Lincoln's second inaugural address, and on the south wall the Gettydburg address, Over each of these will be an oil paint- ing 12 feet high and 72 feet wide, ident in each speech. are by Jules Guerin, artist. Piles Cured in Druggists refund to 14 Da: Stops Irritation; Soothes first aplication. » Price 60e. Carney Coal Phone 4 Phone 75, City Fuel Co. MEN ; Keep your clothes cleaned, Wikis -B ‘Jered in -by the roar'‘of cannon, and taken five years is due to the war,’ On the north wall of the buijding| ‘ r HEARTS OF AMERICAN PEOPLE— MARBLE PALACE OR LOWLY BRICK HOUSE? [Nation Spends $3,000,000 to Honor Abe Lincoln But House Where He Died , Is Left Prey to Time and Fire. : HENRIETTA a By HENRIETTA. BETTENGA. No period in ‘the! world’s history was ‘marked "by so' many’ great, called into the arena of pub teenth -century. 2°" esi eee The beginning of thé second halt) of this’ revolutionary period was ush- Crimea’ ‘became the’ battle ground of the nations. ‘Scarcely had the clash of arms given way to the pursuits of peace when onithis! side’ of’ the ‘Atlan; ic was heard: the swelling ‘itirritr | of contetiding parties, miriitts (hit grew louder until® they’! déepehed into” {He thurders ‘of ‘war ‘and Columbia's" sors! marched: forth’ to the “wild,’#rand ‘mu sic of heroic bugles,” and gave ‘their lives “to-make men free.” Unfortunate land, rentcby® civil dis- cord, and yet. most happy: land, for in. that long night of the nation’s peril, when Columbia bowed in her dark Gethsemena, her bravt sons shrank not, but willingly drank the cup of death, that their country might not be destroyed, but that liberty and union eee ] met 8 man who knew Whose memory Time m Adown the years to vu: representing © allegorically’* the « prinel- ples enunciated by the great war - These paintings e world famous money, sf PAZO OINTMENT faith jto cure. Itching, Blind, Bleeding or’ Protruding Piies. and Heals. You can get restful sleep after the 0. E. Anderson Lbr. C. nT esa! ‘And were you friend to It is as much to stand Frien® to the larger fas Leading men's ptrer O12 ATA. pI a SE Di aT ABRAHAM LINCOLN—AN ESSA Ashley, N. D.. ach alae He had known, Lincoln's self! Te was A thoush He had known Moses and had Ld mé 0 Between two commonplaces.."Yau the friend | Of the Immortal ? What word did he send On the same planet where he wrought sowell? [ | Was?there ,miyhap.one word for me - fr one \@ Whose Breath, when Lincoln left, had not begun™ Then spoke his friend ;-"Our. Lincoln's. every breath Sent you his mesage even as did his death. His days. were such as these. Men lived and died Tar the Great Faith, with souls all satisfied. One day: some youth as yet unborn, shall ask, Js Greer than a Lincoln's?’ Then what shal! Sou sy? Friend to the higher hopes, half understood , Friend to the men whose vision looks sheal. BETTINGA might evermoré’ 'be'“one ‘and’ ‘insena- rable," ' vos If fea, :|-udustly .do..we (give praise’! to’ the heroes .of: the. battlefield ;- homage of our, hearts to, the: brave meniiwho of: °c Many great actors as pila the nine; ifer. up their lives on the altar-of, sac- 21M rifice, But to those; who fight their country’s battles there.is the martial niusic, the excitement. of open, conflict, the feeling’ that it is grand to die for one’s country—there* is in'‘these an inspiration that. helps to make the soul -heroic.; Under their potent’ spell “men march to. glory ‘or the grave.” ») But what. tribute, is; sufficient, what, honor is fitting, to, show, our, apprecia,, n of lim, who, remote from, the ‘ e of conflict,“had to hear, the. bury den .of responsibility, unite contend, ing factions, be assailed’ by office-scek, ers, denounced: by ‘disgruntled politi; cians, harrangued: by ‘fanatics, ‘dis- turbed .by jealousies ‘among army of- ficers, and be oft entreated by heart- broken mothers, wives and sisters to save a loved one from some disgrace- ful death “when war's inexorable law had decreed that. he inust die.” How often must the great heart of Lincoln — im! ev ay Ror dark. nor dim. s, who dare to dwell him-to him whose task as. friend today, th, the grester good, purposes . as Linn led!” Sates FRANCEIGIVES AID TO AMERICA Se af The’ pouring out of French blood and the ennormots financial sacri- fices are not the only aid France has given America, We are indebted to the ‘French peasants for a perfect remedy for stomach, liver and intes- tinal’ ailments which has not only been. marvelously» ‘successful over there, but has been equally so over here. The ingredients are imported and put up for. sale in this country by Geo, H. ‘Mayr, for many years a leading Chicago. chemist, under the name. of. Mayr's Wonderful Remedy. It is a simple, harmless. preparation that removes the catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and allays the inflammation which causes prac- tically all stomach, liver and intes- tinal ailments, including appendicitis. One dose will convince or money re- funded. oo have throbhed with pity as he listened to their. sorrowful pleading, and how keen the anguish he must have. felt when he could not grant their peti- tion! i | When, in 1861, he took the presi- dential office, he was ridiculed by the social leaders, cartooned by mocking journalists, and despised by the chief men of his own party. Seven states were in Open rebellion, and with for- eigninfluence in their favor, and he, an inexperienced mariner, must guide the ship of state o’er troubled seas. But it was soon evident that a strong hand was at the helm, a hand that in the Providence of God should bring forth the good ship triumphant, to evermore sail on, “a union strong and great.”” Never in our country’s history were greater men: in the councils of the na- tion, men of wiser judgment, more stal- wart character, yet to ghem President Lincoln’ became & monument of strength from whose calmness they gained new courage, and upon whose strong arm they leaned for support. In timés “of disaster he was not. dis- heartened, nor wa’s he carried away by victory, but was always self-restrained and: determined, manifesting, unfailing cheerfulness ' tnd’ good humor,’ How fraternal the spirit he showed toward the seceeded states when he urged’ them to the union. “In your hands, my dissatisfied ‘fellow country- men,” he. said, the momentous issue of the civil war, The government will jnot assail you, You can have no conflict without be- ing yourselves the aggressor.” He was strongly opposed to slavery, yet it was not his purpose nor that of his, party to legislate against it where it already existed, but to pre- vent its further extension and eventu- ally: it) would become’ extinct. He urged the slave states to abolish slav- ery, pledging the financial aid of the government t6. compensate the owners. -He, said to: them, :‘So much good has notyheen .done. in all past: time as is now,iin the, Providence of God) your high privilege to dob-\May the vast futureonot ‘have: cause)to‘lament that You jhave neglected iit, piel 119% It was President: Linéoin’s'\: para- mount. purpose to ‘save the union,’ but in, doing) so: he was destined to be- come, the: liberator of the slave. .. When urged \to. follow up. his emancipation proclamation: with a. recommendation of a constitutional: amendment: because it would further, his: political prospects, he _repljed,‘'I have never! yeti :doné an official ‘act; with reference to /its diear- ing, ypon..my renomination, and Iodon’t. like, to, begin. now... Tijean. see -eman- gipation ,coming..,-Who.ever will watt for it, will see,.it too. Who ever gets in the way, of it, will be run over by. it,” 6. Seven years previous, in 1865, when the republican party was being or- ganized, Mr. Lincoln’s advice as to the platform was asked and he said, “Take the Declaration of Independence and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.” His character was sublime in its simplicity and strength, august in its morality, kindly in its magnanimity. He never used his high position as the vantage ground of selfish interest. “He never sold the truth to serve the hour; nor paltered with eternal Goa ‘or. power.” He was perfectly at home in the presence of the greatest ~ Jor the humblest, ‘for to him a king was but a man and ‘a beegar was no Jess. His heart was stirred by the wail that came from the cabin of the slave, for his naturally tender heart was made doubly sympathetic by haying through- out his early life throbbed ‘neath the garb of poverty. Perhaps no higher tribute has been paid to the greatness of Lincoln’s char- acter than is found in the poem of Tom Taylor in the London Punch, written immediately after his assassination. To appreciate the lines we must re- member that the writer had, for four years, made’ Lincoln the butt of his ridicule and cruel witicisms: “Yes, he had lived to shame. me from my sneer— To lame my pencil and confute my pen— To make me own princes: peer, This rail-splitter, a true born king of men.” 5 In the dim vista of years to come no narrative of history will be read with keener interest than the stories of sacrifice, of patriotism and courage of the boys in blue who offered on their country’s altar “their last full measure of devotion,” and not less fas- cinating will be the story of their beloved chief whom the whole united people shall proudly honor, when at Lae the fime shall have come that men en istory with their ey with thelr prejudices, “M7 Det this mind, of SEA ARATRARTIL IS Naas If you want the family to be healthy and active, give them Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea this month. 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