The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1919, Page 4

PAGE 4 ~ HE BISMARCK TRIBUN Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. ! GEORGE D. MANN - -_ = G. Togs PAYNE COMPANY: Special Foreign Represent NEW YOFK Fifth Ave. Bidg; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, g.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated press is exclusively entited to eae ublication of all news credi or not = Brice credited in thin‘paper and alao the local news Pub Ai rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ACULATION MEMBERS AUDIT BUREAU OF CI SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year .....---- 0 Dally by mai Por ear (ln State outside of Bismarck) hi ear outsi y By mail outside of North Dakota...... 6. {HE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. : Established 1873) GE LEAGUE OF NATIONS FOR BY JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS, Dem. United States Senator from Mississippi I think everybody nearly is in favor of “A League of Peace.” The trouble is that a lot of marplots want to know how many people are going into it before they agree to recognize it as a league. Of course, the thing to be de- voutly wished is that all the civil- ized nations of the earth shall come into it, but, if not, the association’ of nations for the purpose of car- rying on war against Germany will form a sufficient nucleus for a ; league and, if some of them, for sel- : fish territorial reasons, decline to WILLIAMS come in, then the great confeder- acy of American states are of themselves suffi- cient to’ start a league and to take the others in from time to,time as they may request it and find it to their interest. I think that “the league of nations” ought to be formed’ contemporaneously with the treaty of peace, and as a foundation for it, in fact. If we fought this war for nothing except a treaty of peace, we have fought it for very little, because we-will have to fight another, one.in less than a juarter of a century, and a worse one than’ this. BS would vote to ratify any sort of a league of, Rafions that is agreed upon by Great Britain, ince, Italy, Belgium, Japan and ourselves. In that if hot‘dctomplished; I would vote for any Het is agreéd.upon by France, Great Britain and ourselves; and, if I couldynot get that, I would agree to enter into any league of peace entered into by Great Britain, her self-governed colonies ecoming signatory to it, and by us, representing ese statene™ 9" \ Two distinctive: American. achievements stand ‘out for the guidance’of the world for “a league of peace.” One is the method of the federated states of:delegating to some authority certain narrow, prescribed powers, and the second is the almost accidental invention of the supreme court of the United States. .Of course, a fool who enters upon the discussion of the problem with the expression Non possumus can not find his way out. That key will not unlock any door that was ever even ap- parently locked. We overcame very many more serious difficulties in forming this federal nation than we would need to overcome in shaping “a league of nations” with very limited powers; in fact, with but one power: the power to prevent war. 20 00 00 AGAINST BY JAMES A. REED, Dem. United States Senator from Missouri At a time like this when peace is about to be declared it is proposed that we shall abandon our ancient and traditional policy. of steering clear of ‘permanent alli- ances with foreign nations and shall become entangled in every broil of Europe. It is the most mon- strous doctrine ever proposed in this republic. The sanctity of no great name can render it holy. The opinion of no man can make it safe. An international court to be ef- fective must be backed by an inter- national army. An international army will be ineffective unless it be powerful enough to conquer any single nation or any combination of nations that may be formed to defy the décrees of the: court. Whoever then commands such an army is powerful enough to conquer the United States of America. I unhesitatingly declare that the citi- zen of our republic who will wittingly help create an army great enough and strong enough to con- quer the United States of America and give the command of that army to an alien is a greater traitor to the country than was Benedict Arnold. What is to be the policy of this league of na- tions?’ Is England to disband her mighty fleet which we are now being told has saved the world and civilization? Is there anybody on: this earth bh Re ripen BISMARCK DAILY. TRIBUNE T attempt to put it into practical application without being startled at once by the impossibility of the task you'have assumed. All through the European countries we will find rival races, rival bloods,! hatreds that are 2,000 years old, that will spring| into flame so long as there are men and women on this earth. There will be wars in Europe, wars | that have an European origin, wars that have back of them European ambitions and hatreds. Into all of those wars, into all of that mael- strom of hate and ambition, it is proposed to thrust the United States for all time. It is pro- posed that every time there is a quarrel in Europe the United States must draw her sword. Because Germany violated our rights on the seas and we were obliged to enter a controversy against her, is that any reason why we should, by solemn bargain agree to become a party to every European quarrel that may hereafter.occur? Is that any reason why our boy should be’ taken from his home, why the draft should be imposed, why we should plunge ourselves into endless debt? The man who proposes to thrust America into the broils and wars of Europe, binding her for all time te the intrigues and conspiracies and ambi- tions of the courts of kings and czars and such other governments as may exist, who proposes to reverse the policy of Washington, the opinions of Jefferson, the doctrines of the fathers, advecates that which may unmake this great republic. While a diplomat is extending the right hand of fellowship, he doesn’t let his right hand know what his left is doing. The class in patriotism will, now: stand and| sing: “We love.-cur allies like blazes, but America comes firs PERCHA The desire of Canada and Australia to associate with cther nations on a basis of equality seems more a condescension than an ambition. There is no longer doubt that the Mexican Bol- sheviki is the real thing. They have announced their ambition to kill all the officials and all the well-to-do. James R. Mann spoiled his political chances by accepting a steak from Swift & Co., but.a man who owns a steak in these times would doubtless feel above @ mere speakership anyway. “Can mankind survive?” asks a book writer, Destroy opportunity and ambition, as under Bol- shevism and who'd care to, survive? Hii We shall reserve judgment about Germany’s new soul until we see whether the assembly ac- cepts the first principle of democracy and estab- lishes a pork barrel. 2 Te Oe ee eee | WITH THE EDITORS | a GOVERNOR LOWDEN AND THE’ PRESI- DENTIAL NOMINATION Governor Lowden has invented no mouse trap and he does not dwell in the woods, but there are numerous paths leading to the door of his political domicile, and they are becoming more and more distinct as they are traversed by persons who see in him an ideal candidate for the Republican presi- dential nomination. One of the latest trails leads from North Da- kota to the Illinois executive’s office. It was TEXT BOOKS’ COST GREATLY EXAGGERATED FOR A PURPOSE eS Greatly exaggerated ideas prevail | Arizona, 3 yr. peripd, 12 to 14, per concerning the total number of text| child enrolled ... books sold in the United States each Teuistana, 4 yr. per year and the annual profits resulting per child enrolled from such sales. Ry Mississippi, 4 yr. period, ‘The national bureau of educatiun hns | _ enrolled tly... obtained,..confidential data from. 48 text, book publishers, in the United States relative to the total sales of 1913. ‘These companies do 99 per cent: of the. total text book business. The total of the sales. for that year were $14,261,768.25. The total, enroll- ment: in Seer and. high schools, | excluding California, which publishes | ticed that in the very small states the its own books, was 18,213,786 children. | cost js higher than in the larger states. Therefore, each child gnrolled in the| ‘phe average is low in the southern public schools of the United States ex-' states because the negro children are pended the average umount of 78) jess favorably supplied with text books cents. , To this should be added the Ty than: the whites. {i9:1 tf Y tailer’s profit as fixed by law. On] me statistics, however, are, stiff! the basis of school population the text | ciently complete to confirm the follow- book: cost would be. 56 cents or m:MMt-)ing estimate for North Dakota: Ac: tle more than) 15. cents for each man,|vording to the report of Supt, Tay woman and child jn.the country. for.the year ending 1915, North Da: Many states handle school text books | ;ota’s text book bill. was $83,045.03; through state depositories. From the! for 1916, $81,198.56. ‘These rey arte ear records of some of these the following | er about 80 per cent of the districts of poprteey been gleaned by the bureau! the state, Hence, the annual text book oF eles Hed bill in North Dakota is probably about rginia, 4. sr; netlod, -41..to | $100,000. North Dakota enrolls 162, ; Per child’ enrolled 36) children, so the per capita expense Nevads, 5 yr. period, per child would be somewhere from 60. to 70 5 our ed" cents per child enrolled. These figures New Masco, 2) effectively disprove the claim made er -enild: enfo} that North Dakota is expending $500,- Oklahoma, 5 000 $65 enrolled . Bi bane to $650,000 for text books annu- Kansas, 5 New York, from 28, cities, includ- ing New York Gity.,.... age il Oregon made“a' complete change ‘ot books jin the ‘short. three-year’! period covered by the record, thereby: greatly increasing the ‘cost. Te will be no- rolled ... Colds Cause Grip and Influenza. Oregon, 3 yr. period, 10 to 1: LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tab- child enrolled ............-... lets remove the cause. There is onlv blazed by a country sheriff, who turned up in Springfield with faulty requisition papers. He insisted upon a conference with Governor Lowden, who received him with accustomed cordiality and in his usual genial way advised the puzzled official how. to correct the errors in his papers so that they could be recognized by the state of Illinois. _ Instead of being compelled to go back to his native state for new papers, the sheriff was en- abled to revise his legal documents, making suré of his prisoner, at a great saving of time, expense and embarrassment. Naturally, he appreciated the democratic courtesies which were so freely ex- tended to him. “That’s the commonest governor I ever met,” was the sheriff’s delighted comment. “I wish I could go back home and vote for him for some- thing. He ought to be nominated for president.” It was only an incidental bit of routine in the day’s work of the executive office, but it marks the character of the man who presides over the destinies of the state of Illinois, and it accounts for the wonderfully strong impressions Governor Lowden’s personality is making upon the people with whom he is brought in daily contact. Whether it is the farmer, the merchant, the professional man, the working-man, the capitalist, or the humblest individual, all get substantially similar impressions.of this great Ilinois leader. All alike appreciate his very evident capacity and availability for the highest. office in the land. They not only realize it, but they persist in talk- ing about it and spreading their infection. That is why the Repub presidential nomi- nation seems to be seeking O. Lowden and beckoning to him. It invites him Alabama. 5 yr. veriod, 10 to 1 per child enrolled one “Bromo Quinine.” E. W. GROVE'S $| Signature on the box. 30c. Valentine TRANSCRIBED Gy GOMUND VANCE COOKE DemP.; - ge : -UNLE22 SOME ONE HA? wi 2BD You ue; F bet Your BE 2ERPRISED To GET THISNOTE FROM ME, OI?GISED LIKE A REAL LETTER PLEAZE PRETEUD\ 1116 ANOREAD IT TO THE END CAUSE ITS FROM ME AND IME_your PA yeaTeRDay wHEn,you wA2 CROz2 ANO SED I WAZ A TOTAL LOSS . AND NO SAIN MAN COULD STAND My soz I FELT 20 BADI Went OO ibe a AnDONE 2AID YOU WAS NI Andyou Soot BET. / LAMMED Hie HIDB PA SOMmETIMES,IFYOU ONLY COULD pen ME Mage LIKE | was Good bereeve ibe TeyTOes AND woupD. ai crimes I evi2tt THAT you COL aE Higa Like what L USET TOBE “| Gauze THEN youd TAKE ME On YOUR A, Lire you DOS2bEh yET, THOUGH sng. {eLouGeR IN THE LEGS THAN ME. your. THINK I GoT A RNB, ™miz isA VALENTINE TOBE MINE 000 | such. > Chief Exegutive Declares It Is Nothing Better Than Tool of Big Business of Nation (Continued trom Page One.) {the room and dumping him on the stage. Then Lemke became oral, op- ening up with a story and winding up with an exhortation. : Addressing a crowd. which ,went wild at the | mention’ of ‘his ‘naif, Wndunting ‘chairs, whistling, taniping a@et ‘and waving handkerchiefs in |such a demonstration as probably has ‘been ‘accorded no other man in Bis- marck, Arthur C. Townley, president of the National Nonpartisan’ ‘league, again last night pleaded with the league legislators for immediate and positive ‘action on the league pro- gram. He declared that if the members of this ‘legislature were cast sufficiently in the image of God, that if they pos- sessed enough of thé character of ‘Lincoln, they would carry out the league program, and would make this legislative assembly a beacon light ‘forall eternity. Ifthe legislators failed,- because of their known enemies from: without— enemies whom. Townley, declared could not be changed by anything he could say—or because of the traitors with—and Townley intimated that traitors existed—they would proven the people of ‘North Dakota in- capable of self-government, asserted the big chief. Frazier was given a real demonstra- tion; there was a very fair modicum of plaudits for Walter Thomas ‘Mills, who proved, as Mrs. Speaker Howard R. Wood said in her introduction, “particularly popular with the ladies.” and there was a good round of ap- plause for “Bill” Lemke, who was routed out of bed at the request of President Townley: and stood on the stage and compelled to say some- thing, but the man who brought the crowd up standing and frantic in its spontaneous outburt of homage was ; | Townley. BAD BREATH ) ’ Olive Tablets Get peter ell and Remove It oon teem : w by all ards Olive Tablets but firmly on the Is act gently g ural ection, stimulat them to nai action, eee blood and gently: purifying the entire system. They do that which dangerous. calomel does without any of bad after effects. All the benefits of nasty, sickening, cathartics are derived from Dr. Olive Tablets without griping, dis ble effects. Edwards discovered the tients with "and: liver -coniplaint, with the attendant bad breath. Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets are purely a. vegetable compound mixed with olive oil; you will know. them by their olive color.. Take one or two every night for a week and note the effect. .10c and 25¢ per box. All druggist- Mr. ‘Townley said among other things: “14stand here these days watching and waiting: to see, whether there be manhood enough in you, whetner you be ‘big enough, whether you jbe enough like God,.that you will CARRY OUT this program, and forever determine that-question and pave the way for democracy for, all. men. * “[,belleve you ‘WILL... I have not any doubt about it: It feel sure that We.are going to succeed, “With me this.is not.a matter alone ofa. terminal elevator ‘pil,’ not alone ‘a matter of a home savings associa- Y bill, “of a hail. insuratice bill; not “Vony @ step in the direction of indus- trial democracy. With me the big question is this: whether your col- lective intelligence is, great enough; whether the character of Abraham Lincoln is far enough developed in the men who have been sent here, 80 that they will grasp. their opportun- ity, so that they will apply themselves to their work, and so that they will make this first important step in the direction of common justice. I believe you will succeed. But I want to warn you—I want to warn |you against those things that may {tear you down. If you don't succeed it will/ be because you are not BIG enough. If you don’t succeed it will be, because you are too little. Jf you don't’ ucceed it: would. be! becadse you aré,itoo petty. .jlf) you don’t succeed it will be becatse you have not de- veloped yet enough of the character of the manyou, are gathered; here to do homage: to; IT;. WILL, BE BE- CAUSE. YOU. ARE!NOT;; (ABAPLE OF SELF GOVERNMENT}, | “{ think that the great majority of those who were sent here ARE big enough, see far enough; are sincere enough, and honest enough; and are so, far developed that they will'grasp the BIG things.” That: they will make a vision, a picture, of’ the:future: That they ' will’ see ‘where'we ‘até igoing: and ‘that ‘they will’ ‘not be ledastray, either’ by those tricksters serving our étiemies, who! would lead them atray, or by those of their own number who betray them.” TAKES ADLER-I-KA! “T-had serious bowel and liver trou- ble. Lost 50 pounds and could eat only liquid food. Began taking Adler-i-ka and now weigh more than ever. Eat and sleep splendidly.” (Signed) George LaFond, Little Falls, Minn. One dose Adler-i-ka relieves sour stomach, gas. and constipation IN- STANTLY. Removes ALL foul matter which poison: Often CURES constipation. Prev appendicitis. |We have sold Adler-i-ka many . It is a mixture of buckthorn. cascara, glycerine and nine other simple drugs. Jos. Breslow, druggist. Carney Coal Phone 94 O. E. Anderson Lbr. Co. INPANTS CHILDREN ——— CASTORIA For Infants and Children, Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria For Over pe rd “Thirty Years > - \ ' oe ( »