The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1919, Page 4

PAGE Y THE BISMARCK TRIBU ‘there ghould iheve been flaunted im this ace ‘bar el ee ec moe ES WEREIOS, taunting phrases. Eaterea wh the Foswtivs, See DD, a6 Second The Tribune does not attempt to fix the r= CHORE DL. = ST edie sponsibility, but it was 2 Sorm of reception 1 ; Go LOGAN PAYEE COMPARY, typical of Bismarck, and on behalf of the cap wEW york fats h ig ne MN sacapetie “HY the Tribune wishes to disclaim eredi Bite; BOSTON, 2 Winer Sty DETEON, Krcsege : ie Big; MISNELPOLS, 015 Lusier Exetange Congress is determined that posterity shill WREE OF ASSOCATED PRESS : sigan The qin fae fe exclusively entitled to the mse OWE 19 de wept one of gretionde. for repuviicution of al ewe credited to It or uot vtiuer- wine credited iy thle paper wud aley the lucul mews put PUTTING “SOMETHING OVER” Maes bers AS rie i, vi pln , Ee YEMELES AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIO: SUES CLIPSION PLATES PAYABLE IN ADVE Deby by carrier per yeor ....-+ Desy by sail per your bo Bieewarck)- Daily by soa) per year Uc State oulsice by souil outeide of Nortn Danvt Belly yy a2 Sup SILTES OLDEST NEWSPAPER. _Tawaviiatocs W276) SS ~* = a LEAGUE OF NATIONS FOR BY JAMES D. PHELAN, Dem United States Senator from California z siber of smz There are in Burope « We nave pver Yar wales. : and yet the gift woud ve UK ‘ ‘ vit of asnee ©: VHEL AS the idebyation of the ¥ AGAINST BY WILISAM £. BORA, Hep. United States Senztur from Idaho no plan for a leegue ff geitons of my I pave ywh, 2ud tirae Ax J pelieve in the old-ume A caniesn the policies ana ples de us grest 20 which dione wil keep us ye What we need is 2 re-vaplic f the national spirit apdea re-wti-\ nations ideas us aemgyple bound together. secretion of the oF; 4 by the tieg of respect and qonth € devoted to 4 common vountry. Gly BOP Ai 4 men are willing to dle, and you wil) hay 4 Americly which wil! exert far more influence and, “) diopemse ab hapoip: ' pod lead more cere : tainly Ww, wold content men than gn America’ shorn by Ser thdividnally and embarrassed in per! - | free moyernents by alliances or sickened and en- feebled by the international virus, God pity the ideals of this republic if they shall have no defenders save the gathered scum of the different. nations organized into a conglomerate international police force, Peace delegates the opinion that it isn’t safe to trust anybody ex e +t cept Unele Sam, TARTS VISIT Marred as it was by the hoodlums who trigd to force some cheap political heroics into the re- g ception, Former President Taft's visit to Bismarck | wis significant coming as it did upon the very} ( day of the publication of the propor for a league of nations, A league of nations is coming as surely as day light follows darkness, The League to inforee) Peace has done much ta prepare public opinion to} necept the arrangement as a partial guaranty at a St te least against the cruel ravages of war, ‘The idea re of the league of nations rests on the broad prin- i ciple of human righteousness, ¥ All power to Former President Taft, and the " distinguished men who are devoting their time, t % not. to stimulating a class confliet, but to bringing , about a better\ understanding among all peoples, | all classes and all nations, ; i They will carry out some of the fourteen dicot points, and some of them have already been car- i 3 ried out on a stretcher, 1 2 BISMARCK NOT RESPONSIBLE 3 { Fy Blamarck was not responsible for the tenor of 1 4 the reception given William Howard Taft yester- day. ‘The capital city does not make a practice of heetoring public men who are kind enough to favor ua with a visit. Even when we disagree with them politically or economically, we extend them that courtesy due a guest, Bismarck, as a capital city, has alwaya considered itself an open forum for the diacuasion of any question before the pub- lic, and it haa received and heard Townley, Mills, Judson King and Taft, Roosevelt, Fairbanks and others of radically differing views on this basis. 1a public spot v It Is to be regretted thai it whould have been Pere te IOAN. lor a man who han served the country | fast, highoat executive officer to beg a disorderly} fast, We will have sporadic upheavals, in Biamarck to be qufet for a few mo-|nation muat hold fast, Before we know It, cling- in order that he might deliver the message| ing to our ideals still, the cloud will have pasaed. he came here to give, It ia unfortunate that|—Chicago re Wee ‘ heir gew friend mignt ve. After due deliveration and observation, they the wax only another of the farm- (4s “y nt be . BOUL The world is safe, and WIT | suspINON ds discussed who and whet is impossible now can sensible pu ut something over” on their fellowmen?- once =@ LUE Il OMe In Freel Pies. tne Then 2 convention wz tne 2nd helped themseives w the corn. Some ring ones even set on the head and ike scarecrow. to £ ov] inngcemt birds by done for uny greet length he person you think you wre fouling the is up. £ drow let him pay the bil. Ss, but it can’t repez) the law of Ss us to knows we won't gobble on and the lamb lie down together. But the lemb should choose ion, H. THE EDITORS I THE As pear as and Wo what purpose? The unjons teen, synallize houses, There 4 4 4 ps Jines will not. will he : the city-owned lines operate, SEATTLE SOVIEL - 4 av gifiecided ty dose all save fif- ry: C4. ‘ ts, whidp ered sve ae soup A Lhe 7 fh no transportation, presumably, The private farmer who tied every ow 10 keep the cows out of the birds. He put the a field next anc #yee Lae new- mun Deings ex- of time. i bs ne he needed, and it! i 2n national assembly may repeal 4) j A the i i abletad, judge from this eves by Heir vot stray, at he dence, inepired by 2 common hope, cismontaneMPtengbt is only middling step from | asons Megson which s in part Petrograd to Beatle, The “workmen's council of |pentralize the Hdeuie ideas us something thet is our-very OWN yeople’s commissare” has decreed an effective? which we love and for the preservation of which change in city government. How long is it to last | purported re Apts (Tati env | ‘The newspapers will suspend for the period of | the strike. Publie schools and perhaps wi The str wages, The pt ers are jn charge, Vi] be “allowed” to continue re communication, There is ni rikers have a fund of course, { , former president's car with che wor oY ranier for president in 1920.” This |guished guest did not disturb Mr. Tatt. ete ; 0 WOrk. |Fie eve refuses to be alarnion with |. are apparently unanimous in ‘There is no production; no work, no production, no the “We stick” threat on the other sid [tof the placard that A | canna, Jast forever because a strike fund is) strike fund, It again, Only 4 part WALES 5 need? Let's see; shipyards and ships ata treme the others in sympathy, sod platform | that. a couple of million fighting men are coming {buck to private life prepared for work, while they, \the strikers, # all comes round to the same place of the men are striking for higher purn the very work the soldiers Most, of the strikers walked out of contract shops, We are building endous loss; it is an emergency pro- gram; the value of the ships is at least doubtful; the very exped yet they strike, iency of the work debatable, And Who are the strikers? Certainly there are not 65,000 shipbullders and allied trades- men indigenous to Seattle, The kindest thing that can be said for most of them is that they are “non- fighters,” The 2 is another word to designate the man who prefers to clamor for high war wages while his fellow-citizen bears arms, { Soldiers didn’t go to war for $8 a day; nor did they tie up American industry nor sacrifice the daily needs of t selfish needs, housands of persons for their own We don't need ships built that way and we don’t need slackers to build them, However, this doesn’t cover all the unrest in the country, There is an undercurrent of trepida- tion; not so much a fear of a présent condition, but of one that som e one fears may arise in the future, It is a mood that comes over the household when a black cloud appears low on the horizon, bring rain or it may blow round the other way. |- It may The Paris council is bewildering, we wonder what's doing in Ruasia, and Germany is a prob; lem, only whetting We wonder if wars are done or if men a their blades anew, We are still going about with our hands on our holaters, We muat hold fast, Fret if we must, but hold Tribune. Investigate each human action, but hold -d from contributions out of the wages of | who work; no work, no contribution, nOlints the deep glow of the young + | | | Do they realize|” vot oe W, H. TAFT BACKS UP STATEMENTS OF MILL CITY WITH EMPHASIS One of the Townley kept press re- porters who tried to convert former President Wiliam Taft 10 the tenets a# Wapinute ride between Bismarck and Mandan Tailed, Mr. Taft not only stood by his ptate- ment made to the Twin City press tat the farmers were trying to hoist 1b« rAMe €x- he wbigaitous 1: er 21) A the (3 * ing. eyed an emphatic yer: “She theory of Lo WE Wiem finds an nvalogy in the Monparti- sen leaghe, but wait until those farmers of North Dakota begin to | gay Ube il) for their support of ‘Townley’= program, At. present~ they don't seem to understand how Smpossible it is to Mitt them- selyes by their bootstraps, Dut thes wi} learn.” ; Outside there rattled ja the bree: the placard flung on the rear of the evidence of Biseourtesy to n+ tin 4 pnd train rated over the 3 “Yes, J made substantially statements in the win Cities,” ce pies Mr, Tatt, unafraid, ax he looked former's eyes and gazed upon the high dome of his Intellectusl area, “Fisp, Nap, flap,echoed the Frazier banner on the rearrend of the peace al, "Where did you derive nr infor- mation eomeerning the Nonpartisan league,” demunded the reporter jn his most earnest: manner, Smiling broadly Mr. ‘Taft that he had been reading the papers, Then the former president listened to the nsual tirade against “big biz,” the mulefactors of wealth, the preda- tory ‘futeresis and all the rest of the xlory so fymiliar to North Dakotans, “Flap, fap, fap, Bap.” punctuated the Frager banner on the rear, Baiting Taft neemed so interesting that the reporter insisted on knowing whether the Carpenter brothers of Minneapolis gave Vuft a Vine on the Jeague, ‘ The rest of the stary we reprint just AK the reporter says it war told in all Ste ubiquity: “PARDON ME, DEAK SIR” “Pardon what may seem impertinent questions,” explained the reporter, “but we in North Dakota wre very much interested in thi, movement, “We feel that you made these assertions upon false and Ansufflelent information, and we would like to know from just what source you got this misinformation, Hence L would like to avk you whether you dineussed the Nonpartisan league with anyone in the Twin Citl bewy “T don't remember doing wo,” return: od Mr, Taft, “Did you seq Fred HW. Carpenter while you were. in Minneapolls,” per- wisted the reporter, WHO 18 FRED? (Fred VW, Carpenter 1s the head of the Lincoln. Republica club, which has spent thousands of dol- Jura fighting the, farmors' . moye- ment, Mr. Carpentér ts a million- aire Jumberman and tt was proved that he tnapired Theodore Rooxe- velt's attncka on the Nonpartisan Jengue, Warly tast year, Mr, Car- enter attempted to hire a league organizer’ to betray. the move- ment, ) : i “Oh, yee, ¥ tritked with Mr, Carpen- but the] ter and bis, brother while £ was in Minneapolis,” anawered Mr, Taft. “T know them. yary woll't “Did you get mny of your impres- atonn front them?” the. reporter con- tinned, i " be ia ey else except Reattle.” When confronted with the folowing) interview forneg Presiient | |ploying the state’s credit ‘certain public utilities, {That ix foolish. lemphasix, ma bed in the northwest, M porter ¢ economic inj order) shev think the e ane ee ee a gaiccapels 2 wont Mr. must be righted and that unless they are righted by meuns the methods of the and L W. W. may prevai onpartisan league is really) ockubsorber und the very Bol- We best protection against I. W. W.ism or Bolshevism so-called. What is your ; , _ ‘opinion about that?” “I don't remember . Alex the Mr. Taft reflected a moment and league with them,’ se “I then continued with great energy. wight ave, bat I don't er it “Of eourse, it is always best to have if 1 dig. lreforms by orderly methods, but the “Do you really think ‘here is un analogy between the LW. W. and the, Nonpartisan league?’ wee the next! question. { “Kome one told ne the 1 WW. sym-! pathind with the Jeague.” replied Mr. | Tait, “and J know the LW. W. are) stronger in Minneapolis than anywhere of th great econo! in the Taft war asked. he tion stands for the principie of em-} to finance at is wrong. | You will find ydu ye made a great mistake. 1 don't in any kind of public owner- conduded Mr Taft with great “St bas failed wherever it as been tried and it 5 SM fail. “OL course, it fs not iy funetion | shave I time to debate} tiers with you,” the reporter “Tam merely here to ascertain if you imade certain statements and your reasons for making them, But to get at your viewpoint I am com- pelled to ask you whetber you are still prepared to maintain that the is analogous with the Nonpartisan Jeague, in view of the that the | Nonpartisan league belieyes in orderly constitutfonal process of reform, Here | SVERETT TRUE ee HERE'S YOUR KNIFE, EVERETT, 7 MUCH OBLICED,. zs mnethod.”” peculiar canditions think it is, “Tet me tell WHEN 2 LET You Tak KNIFE THC HANDLE WASN'T reforms you propose are all wrong. “Do you depy that the farmers: northwest labored ie injustices and had legitimate grievances, particularly matter of markets?” Mr. his; sshoylders.| GETS A TIP “Men who have-studied the problem for 26 years and who probably have 4 more intimate knowledge of these that answered the “Since you have no remedy of your own to propose how ure you s that their’s is the wrong one?” something, young man,” announced president with evident indications at the same time Jaying his heayy hand on the re- porter’s knee, “Prophecy is dan- gerous, but I will make a predic- tion: In ten yeurs from now thé name of the Nonpartisan league * will be an anathema. Thank God,” he continued with great earnest: ness, “you are going to confine you = my ALL under 9. 1 don’t doubt it in the least,* anawered with great cuando: That seems “Who told you this?” the reporter} feel sure they had. asked, | to be generally admitted.” “Y have forgotten just who it was) “Well, then. what remedy would iMr. Taft answered. 5 Hoyo suggest.to right those griev- | “Was tt one of the Carpenter broth-| ances?” the reporter asked. fern?7.:2 | “I can't tell you.” returned Mr. To realy don't recah.” sid » Taft, - shrugcing Talt, a truce of annoyance @ouding |) “Certainly I have nothing to ‘sug-' his countenance. ny way ix (© gest offhand. “But 4 Gmow. that jmaterial. I know that thix dpganiaé | Kymblie ownership is not ‘the right you have, reporter. sure the ex- SUMMED UP WITH SOME THING = SS) STICKY 6 \¢_ Furthermore, "6 snoring eRDETIBELTS to Ope eae He worry for Sorth Da- kota, bit L a ad that it is your stale and not mine Uiat bas been solorted ne the laboratory for the expertnents tion. of there danger- gus socal doctrines,” | po you know exactly what these ‘dowtyines that you cal) dangerous wre?! the reporter asked. : “O), J have a general impression” lrepled Mr, Taft. "L know yom ro y Jeyd the credit of the state pose Ue f 1 asa ier lio certain public utile leonversunt with the details, have po sympathy attitude op the d, diverging rather suddes! former subject. | “What Mr, Townley’s attitude?” neked the reporter, owhy, be was disloval.” answered lotr Vuft, Jooking rather wideeved with wonder tat anyone should ask oh questions, What makes you think be was dis- ”” asked the reporter, L have seen quotations fhom apeccher,”” replied Mr. Taft. “Ley pre very disloyal. “Did it ever occur to you that Mr. irownley would be behind the bars of la federal juil if these quotations were correct’) asked the reporter, “Didn't the probabilities make it appear that jit was more likely the quotations were Incorrect 2” “Ho js under indictment pow, isn't 4" yeplied Mr. M1 with Mr. war.” be frou reporter, under farelul circumstances, but the supreme court of Minnesota dismissed the in- dietment und said the pamphlet in }question was patriotic.” | “I did not know that,” said Mr. | Tuft. PARDON ME “If you will pardon me.for saying so,” said the reporter, “there are a good muny things about the Nonparti- san league which you do not seem to \know and on which your misinforma- tion seems to have been obtained from sources that to say the least are | biased. Mr. Taft accepted this statement with perfect amiability. | “Well, I do know one thing, young {man,” he rejoined, “and ,that is the | Nonpartisan league is a class move- [ment and therefore un-American—dis- itinctly un-American, We must be before we are farmers or y particular organiza- i “Do you conclude the Nonparti- ; san league is a class movement | because the people of a state | where 8O per cent of the voters are farmers prefer to be represent- ed in the legislature by low furmers instead of lawyers?” was the next question fired Mr. Taft. ‘ertainly, a lawyer can be just as good an American and repre- | sent the state just as well a | farmer,” returned Mr. Taft. “We should not attempt to create class distinctions in this country, It is mn-demor and un-American, at ass government is true, Mr. Taft,” jthe réportér went on, “and in view of the fact you deprecate; a North {| Dakota legislature composed} of 80 per mers, how would you de- scribe the government of Minnesota, where the 186,000 farmers constitute about 45 per cent of the voters of the state, but the 4,000. Pawyers compose 7 per..centvofsthe:st e% Could that by any chance led class government?” «tThey ‘Nave’ free selectiondiin Minne- 4 sota, haven't they retorted Mr. Taft, showing a little heat for the-first time. “They most certainly did not have free elections last, November,” returned jthe reporter. “War hysteria was de- !liberately fanned into flame and mob violence was ‘deliberately fomented by the governor of ‘the state while pub- lie money appropriated for war pur- poses was spent to carry on a private political campaign.” “know nothing about the conditions of which you speak,” said Mr. Taft. The train was pulling into Mandan. “Well,” said the reporter, “I merely was sent here to ascertain whether you made the statements attributed to you and to get. your point of view. Now I will trespass upon your time no further.” e AGE. WILL HELP IT am very’ gind’ to givesmy opin- ions,” returned Mr. Taft, AL always say what I honestly feel and I don't care whether it is popular or not. You {are at perfect lberty:to make publie what I have told -you.; I am warning the people for their own aa: a mes no difference whether they ve me now. Some day 1 know I was right.” vey wily “You still persist that the movement is analogous to the I. W. W.7" the reporter asked as he prepared to de- part. (The train was grinding to a stop ub saciraat:) “Well, ‘I might disclaim W. W.,” said Mr. Taft, “perhaps that was a little strong. They are more like the populists. Prob- ably I said they were like the I. W. W., but I really think I had the populists in mina.” “Good bye, good bye,” genial ex-president as he gee ie the rear platform. in at I am right w little older.” eee Phone 75, City Fuel Co. 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