The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 24, 1919, Page 4

SERMON PAGE 4. TH F BISMAR( K TRI RUNE! FRANCE VS. GERMANY, THE COURT'S VERDICT Entere’ at the Postoffi D., as Second - A Cl When your neighbor comes over on your lot - + >___Edffer| and wandtonly smashes up your garage or your OMPA {chicken coop, you instantly go into court to collect ice, arck, N. jase Maw GEORGE 1. MANN G. LOGA Bldy.; BC | damages for the destruction. That is your right, _. Biog.; ) |not to say your duty as a citizen. ited to, the use| d to it or not, otherwise | deliberately and thoroughly destroyed all Sevan fi ats ; St Ee | French coal mines. France goes before the peace ocite of publication of special dispatches hereia are! court for dama: and the judicial judgment ren- Bis reserved me | dered is that the Germans shall pay her with the JEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Hecenceers eae 4 , . pbhtscHieTion RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE _| Saar valley coal district. 1, by Carrier per year fs A ah. nar os Dany by mail per year (In Bismarck) ..... Be The analogy is perfect. Dai, by mail per year (In state outside of Bismarck) 5.00| are exactly alike. Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ... i The Saar valley is tak away from Germany THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. | Ta Gs a INE on OE and annexed to France NOT AS A CONQUES' (Established 1878) | th i but as a righteous verdict to an injured party. i Bia i as a righteous verdict to an injured party. THE LAW OF GOOD FORTUNE “IT am myself good fortune.” = This line, by Walt Whitman, is the expression We are told. And there's a lot of it. of an optimist—not an egotist. i Snobs and democrats (small “d”) never get It iy of a man who assumes himself a part of along. One lives to show off. The other lives to all nature—every animate and inanimate thing. | work and be real. They look at life two different That all nature is good, and to be a part of it ways. is good fortune. | Democracy means a man should pay for his The universe is the supply and exhibition tém- living by doing some sort of work that produces ple of nature in al] her expressions. |wealth or helps the world get through the day She gratifies man in the way of food and | better off. clothing for his body from the fields; she gratifies! know the snob when we see him coming is that his sense of beauty in the numberless unfolding | he always tries to look as though he never works, flowers of spring, in the trees, the hills, the sky, | being a born gentleman who knows all about the the sea, the moon and the starry night. leclairs and eclat of the elite. Man’s only restriction to his part in all of | In Americanizing America, we must make the nature’s gifts is himself! His restriction is self-restriction, when he in| do?” or “What has he done?” rather than the his greed assumes that. he is all of hature rather | question, “How much has he got?” = than, just a part of it. | did he eome from?” son of all n The two propositions SNOBBERY DEMOCRACY—ITS TRUE MEANING | Why not depose the dove as the omblem of Democracy has a finer meaning than that of; peace and adopt the snail? government and which all of us can take unto our- | selves as individuals and for better government. | Democracy is the efficiency of the individual. | Democracy is individual order and system. — | Democracy is co-operation, and which is just! another term for the brotherhood of man. | Democracy is economy to the result of dear men and women and cheap goods. | Society, or what we call all the people, is made) up of individuals, ni gus r =A democratic government is simply individual) state in the union.’ Soé lism had full sway and efficiency, order, system, ¢o-operation, justice,!teigned in-all its glory’ Freak bills, experimental economy on a large scale. | bills} bills 40 reward friends, and bills to punish The quality of the community or society we|their enemies were juggled back and forth be- have, both in the matter of its physical ‘and gov- | twe n the caucus.and‘legislature in almost endless érnmental state, depends upon us, every one of us,| procession, They were so honest they appropri-. 1 as individuals. ‘ jated $200,000 of the public funds and called it an 2 The: quality. of individual grains make up the! “emigration fund” to run a politi¢al campaign in qualjty of the mass of wheat in the bin. {neighboring states. : Any form of ‘government is a means or instru-; ) The tay bill, while gne-of:the many unjust and =ment of self-expression and the results of govern-/socialistic’ measures, ought not to be referred. ment can be no better than we who use the instru-; Nothing will educate the credulous, blind followers ment. of Townleyism like the application of this tax bill. An efficient, orderly, economical government} Vicious class discriminations run through the is the will, the expression of the efficient, orderly | Whole bill. For instance, a farmer with one-half individuals who comprise the unit of government | section of land valued at $16,000 with $1,200 worth —city, state or nation. of improvements and an $8,000 debt, is taxed —_——- equally with a farmer having one-half section val- Man creates as he thinks—not only as indi-! ued at $16,000 with $4,000 improvements all paid H viduals but as a mass—as a community. for. The farmer with $1,000 worth of machinery Public opinion is the mass of individual thought | is exempt equally with the man owning $300 worth or opinion. of machinery. The kind of government we have is very much Farm elevator corporations pay 3 per cent tax up to every one of us, our effort as we think, or jon net income, and then they double the dose on = our neglect as we fail to think at all. {your dividends. This is because you belong to a | robber corporation, : Senate Bill No. 41, taxed oil 3-10 of a cent and ‘asoline 1 cent per gallon. Standard oil (and I presume other oil companies) promptly placed the tax on the price of oil and gas; which Standard Oil says was made necessary by bill No. 41. This corporation, unlike the elevator, is outside the state. Standard adds the tax to the price, and old time elevators get off with a straight tax of 3 per cent. This is the inevitable result of importing a discredited fanatic from Idaho to write our tax laws. The Nonpartisan Leader of March 3, contains a flashlight picture of the much heralded caucus which the boys all signed to stand by, and they appear to be about all there. At the corner of the desk sits Walter Thomas Mills, looking quite well pleased with himself. He appears to have just finished giving the caucus some expert advice. In description, The Leader sa ‘This isn’t a secret caucus. Any farmer, upon being identified, is allowed in; but we do not invite our enemies.” It was before the caucus that Townley said there were just two groups of people in North Dakota, “the robbed and the robbers.” It was to support this caucus controlled by a nondescript: group of A peace conference didn’t use national ambitions as a motive power. —_—$—$—$—$$— ee WITH THE EDITORS | STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER The North Dakota le; A democratic government is of first impor- tance in the fact that it permits of the free devel opment of the individual to a higher state of effi. ciency. The people of kingdoms created the king by their submission to him. They banished him when a sufficient number of individuals saw that he could not be trusted. We of this country created our democratic form of government; for we as a people, as a mass of | individuals, saw that we could trust ourselves | alone in the matter of government—that a peo- ple have a right to make their own mistakes and the mistakes are more often the process by which | they establish truer government. And there are higher hopes for a higher de- ‘ mocracy when we consider that his is the first generation in America that any attempt has been | made at the universal education of the population. | Yes, democracy is up to everyone of us. | It is in every one of us doing well the task! i immediately before him with the service and | } rights and justice to others fully in mind. With this spirit of honesty and efficiency in our social and business life it will soon reflect itself in our political life and to the greater freedom and profit of all. Reforms like charity begin at home—within ourselves, by each of us doing our individual part for the good of the whole. | donald-Walter Mills stripe, that all the Nonparti- san legislators, excepting Pleasance of Mountrail, signed to support, thereby compromising the in- terests of their constituents and their rights as | American citizens. It was at this caucus that the eight or ten political graft and- grab bills origi- nated. The measures above referred to are no part of the industrial program voted on at any election. North Dakota is known all over the country as Wea remem Never swallow a dose labeled Patriotic Duty - until you have learned who put the label there. When we have made it impossible for one man » to declare war, the next step is to make it impos- - sible for any man to get a profit from war. ; : credited in confidence and business. Our state - ‘The state department always wants to kriow can not afford to let such a record stand. She = whether the American citizen in Mexico was mur-| must wipe out this shadow on her honor this sum- greed by gv r ora rebel band. If by| mer, or she will occupy the same position: in.the a rebel band, regrets will be sent to the|sisterhood of states that Chinatown did to San islature lately closed one | - |of the most unique specimens ever held in any} BISMARCK DAILY The German people went over to France and|{ the} Snobbery stands in the way of democracy. Soj The first and high sign by which wel important question about a man, “What can he} his mina r | criticizing the engineering or “Where | io1 | definifet junendurahle. not to socialists of the Townley-Lemke-Roylance-Mac- |' fas to what his nev | might have i! | The first s pw TRIBUNE THURSDAY, APRIL 24,1919. “THE | CHAPTER IX ALFRED s WHILE Celia might well esi | weight than she did to that new p occupled manner of her husband’ ishe might hove taken more {than she did the contrast between by otthand way of announcing that hi ay had 1 raised fro dollars a week, dnd his ment that it had been ri | five, She would have done so, no doubt, but for that preoccupation of her ov about which [ have told you. Gut even if she ad alowed speculation to run riot-—gone to he r inferential Jimit, | she'd hardly have come abreast of the fact 1 For a month indeed, after Alfred {Blair had taken his new job, he had just ax he told her, reveled in the ir- ph more his table from ¢ from one to fiv fore him with an loing the w Imost contemptuous transinuted into instin inner man of him = rejo' sand the de has, Content to lie on the sua-warmed si pressed severe miials of the work b deciding how the th . he checked the im! wrong. of farther r point, he had talked to ¢ the pleasure he routine nature of his worl a But he conldn't keep this ape “in- To the t ed athlete it reise, Heart. loud for the 4 py begin taking b in spite of him. They tisfied, ¢ither, by the mere edgment on his part. of the or the rightness of th have pointed out to. him let him alone until he hi hey have pointed out come tre, 1 enough—the — classical story of the young princess and her pet figer? It: was either in the third reader or the fourth, [ can’t be sure which, At all events, the tiger was 4 perfe the secret being tha fined to milk a in a fit o! the prin tongue pre skin, so that he tas fection, he began leking |; his rough | the e's hand, and wore through ed blood, Whe upon, without remo he procee to eat up the princes I don't clai ction for my analogy, § is the o of the drafting-room, whom I duced to you in the act of hiring Alfred Blair, The parallel would be clo: too, if the tiger in the legend were hot an innocent cub, but. a reformed man. k die fects, howey pretty well, y go0d- natured impulse to help his manifest- ly incompetent superior by showing him how a certain detail really ought to be managed, that led Alfred to take his first taste of blood; that is, of responsibility. EVERETT TRUE of ny tale intro- COMS eee ONW LAD I THe HORN! a socialist experiment station, and is already dis-| - know the Alfrec | Stones, ,| himself, as he had done atchis drafting. | 8 Do you remember--I'm sure you will] « iif you're old ‘| down inside, despite the tempo toothpick-chewing foreman! {| to-doy that he had come back--that his HERE Boy, HER HERE'S A DiIME— You'Re WHS PASS MY AUTO WITHOUT BLOWING ! l ! | + 1 FP don't know vy i surprised or that he had eaten the 1 ished over the jim imate profit out of it juumb-witted grafter could The position Alfred's incautions ¢ jay of talent had got him into wa for the ade h. get- nd whiff of the ill have some hotion of Alfred state of mind, | It's importunt to remember that he} was Hereules—was in the habit, any-| 08 ing with things in a Her- now turning the cour: of ers through them, if “necessary. | What Jo mean is that he really Clipse of the 4 and: man tha med loads of responsibility upon his capa- should ; to the exe Poof & tnd unquestioned authority ; mplishment of hig thing st few months, tte in the ranks, though barely—to (keep alive the pretense that the big man Celia had married was, as he had told her the night of the dinner-ps done for, never to come hack. To-da j with a eant's chevron on his sleeve, the prete xe was demolished. He knew jald: powers had: come bac knowledge disturbed him (To Be Continued.) DANCE AT ARMORY | Thursday night at Armory. O’Connor’s Orchestra. 4-23-24 :- BY CONDO And the nfully. McK ew ane HAVE GVER SGENR He could ao longer. absolve | * | States will be committed as follows: THOROUGHBRED” BEWARE ALLIANCE WITH DEBT Bu Henry Kitchell Webster | Author of “The Real Adventure,” “The Painted Scene,” Ete. BURDENED EUROPE, STUYVESANT FISH'S WARNING TO AMERICA Famous Financier Sees Great Objections to League of Nations Plan; Declares War Debts, Now Enormous, Are Certain to Be Increased, and America Is Nation Best Able to Pay Them Off. BY H. P. BURTON Special Correspondent nterview e League of Nations was given today by Stuyvesant Fish, famous railroad financier, in his office at 52° Wali St. : In his talk Fish analyzed the finan- cial hazards of the league from the eco- nomie point of view, as they touch the pocketbook of the United States, and, in his estimation, they constitute a complete indictment of the proposed covenant. Being asked to give my views as a business man,” said’ Fish, “of the League of Nations as a business proposition, I shall do so frankly—at the risk of being criticised for counseling on higher mo- tive than enlightened self interest. If Mr. Cleveland was right in saying, ‘Pub- le office is a public trust,’ those who er our government, alike in the tive and in the legislative branches reof, will no more be justified in sac- the material interests of the States without obtaining adequate eration therefor, than would the dent_and. directors of a corporation justified in’ thus“ sacrificing their olders’ money, “Representative J. W. Good of Iowa, who will be chairman of the’ appropria- tions committee in the next, congress, gives $47,110,935,160 as the net appro- ar and for the fisca] year ending: June 30, yuble the ttoal of all the ordinary government throughout the fifty-séven years from elves amounted to $24,492,776,763, MONTHS OF WAR forced the 1UCH ag they had spent in the in which were included the Spanish-American war, and. the Wilson’ waged ‘against’ President hat United States to s' preceding FIFTY-S four years of the Ci personal war which Huerta of Mexico. of the expenses of this our first European war have been as we all know to our cost, But meanwhile our national less than one billion ($989,219,021) in 1916 until it is the year 1920 at twenty-six billions. 000,000,000 thus made in our national debt largely 14 the sum of the combined debts cf a ‘status quo’ tisfactory to them. ative Good ‘From the close of the Civil War until penditures never exceeded. §1,150,000,000." For: the fiscal ear ending June 30, 1921,'the interest'on our debt alone will amount to more han $1,050,000,000,.a sum almost équal.to the total annual. expenses ofthe overnment prior to 1916.’ ie “Good estimates the total of the expenses of government for the figcal incurring fresh President year ending June.30, 1921, as ‘more’ thai $3,800,000,000,’ Surely it behooves us to reduce expenses and to ja¥ol of any kind. ¢ the tenth article of. the League of. Nations ‘covenant’ the United ‘The high contracting parties shall indertake to respect and presetve as against external aggression the“ter- ritorial-integrity and existing: political independence of all states members of the league. In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat. or danger of such aggression the executive council shall advise upon the mgans by which the obligation shall be fulfilled’ ee dies “While it is true that this draft is still under advisement and liablé to be changed in any pavticular, to, make. it..amoyn! thereto must in some’ manner. be.committed' By tued' in. Article X above . |quoted—to preserve not only the territorial integrity, but. also the political .|independence of all present’ and future members of the league. yj entering into any such-covenant--the- United ;Statesshould realize that of all »|the powers which have been at war on either side, they are the only. power Before which is today alike bn a gold. basis.and perfectly solvent beyond any doubt. Without questioning the credit of some of the other powers, let us look a little ‘| before going into partnership with ALL OF THEM, to see’ what the assets and liabilities of the stronger ones are. Taking up paper money. * NATIONAL DEBTS __, “The Mechanies & Metals National Bank of New York: put out early. in February an interesting pamphlet, ‘The World’s War. Debt,’ from whieh I extract the following figures: Jan. 1, 1919. Gross debt of— $ 21,000,000,000 first, national debts, and later Aug. 1, 1914. United States «+ -$ 1,000,000,000 Great Britain 3,500,000,000 40,000,000,900 +| France 6,500,000,000 ——30,000,900,000 +| Russia 4,600,000,000 27,000,000,900 Italy 2,800,000,000 12,900,900,900 Entente Nations ..........+...eeeseee $18,400,000,900 $130,900,900,000 “Further on’ there ‘is: giver /the’ follwing fable, which presents in Sone column the aggregate wealth of those nations as calculated’ before the war, and in another their gross indebtedness ds it.stood on January: 1, 1919, together with the percent of debt to wealth in each: Gross Debt P. C. Debt Total Wealth. Jan., 1919 . .o Weaith United States .. . ..$250,000,000,000 | $ 21 300,900,900 Be Great ' Britain 30,000,000,900 40,900,900,900 44.4 oe 65,000,000,000 30,000,000,900 ek Russia 60,000,000,000 27,000,000,900 Italy 30,000,000,000 12,000,900,900 peace: $495,000,000,000 $130,000,900,000 26.8 Still further on it is stated that the average rate of interest, which 1913 wa 9 per cent, is now 5.5 per cent. There is also a table showing on the ba of annual peace-time income, as it was figured in 1913 (when infla- {tion and other war conditions had not come to confound the national cur- rencies), what the writer calls the annual income of those nations in one column, the taxes in 1920, (which for the United States at least are greatly underestimated) and the per cent of taxes during that. year: . Annual Income. _ ‘Taxes, 1920. United States on -$40,000,000,000 $ 2.100'000,000 : Percent Great Britain + 12,000,000,000 3,400,000,000 40.0 France / 7,500,000,000 3,000,000,000 40.0 Russia 7,000,000,000 3,200,000,000 45.5 Italy ... 4,250,000,000 1,100,000,000 26.0 Entente Allies -$70,750,000,000 $12,800,000,000 18.1 “Now, I submit as 5 Proposition that even if the perce: taxes in the United States in 1920 shall be 10 per cent of our annual fees jit will not be wise to go into a partnership with other nations whose taxes run from 26 per cent to 45 1-2 per cent of their 4nnual income. and i for the protection of the territory and the forms of government which, ies Buronean maton may, for their own reasons, see’ fit to establish for the preservation of the balance of power, in which the Unit i Preservation: ct th ich the Uni ed States have neither “Now as to paper money: Arthur Richmond Marsh, i i World, New York, March 8, 1919, quotes the London Tesnaction ae ‘giving the total note circulation of all the world at this time as $123,000,000,000 against a total before the war of $7,600,000,000, with the qualification thar some ninety billions of this post-war paper currency belongs to Russia alone. and in large part represents Bolshevik finance, Omittin® Russia, however, we have an increase in the fiduciary note circulation of the more ‘important modern countries from seven billions six hundred millions, to about thirty- unree, billions. This, of course, apart from the increase in national debts. Peete not at a Condition to attract a solvent nation, like the | : oh aia e 7 ve cient Pg partnership with it, even for a time, still less for : “We would all like to see perpetual Peace, and I ieve fi i in the millennium. Meanwhile this proposition of Mr. Wises ee be ake ing more than a ‘rider’ to the agreement among the powers which hav won in the late war for the establishment and maintenance of peace. Much al desire to see peace, I can’t help looking upon this iridescent dream of Mr. Wilson’: vhi i Muod 5 eomew iat as John Randolph of Roanoke, did on another treaty, “Tt shines and it stink: it sti it shi A - lying in the inoontightr inks, and it stinks and it shines, like a dead mackerel “To get the taste of that o the fourteenth chapter of Sti liukes Gort en det me: add finally, from | ‘Which of you, intending to build i "I |counteth the cost, whehter he have suffisiect rf rial eae Lee ace fee the hath. laid the foundation, and is ‘not ish i begin to ‘k him, saying, This alan mee a build, Il. that. behold: i Ae by an American business man of inter- to anutting. sesmartios : <