The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 14, 1919, Page 4

MACE 4. i THE KISMAK( hy TRIBUNE Euterec at the Postoffice. Bismarck, N. D., as Second Euterec fat Class Mutwer, 3 GEORGY. p. MANN > "ZMiditor an G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, ~~ NEW YORK, Fifth Ave sldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Blig.; BOSTON, 3 Winer St; DETROIT, Kresege Kldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 310 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Yyhe Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use fos puddication of all news « edited to it or not otherwise ers ‘ited in this paper and also the local news be. ein. ey se: ed. ae a BER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION $USSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Daiji) by carrier per year ....,seeserseer 0000 $7.20 Daily by mail per year (In Bismarck) .. eoee 7.20 Daily by mail per year (In state outside of Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota .......+++++ THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) <p> SS THOMAS TO LYNNIAS The average reader who has attempted to fol- low the exchange of pink papers between Secre- tary of State Hall and Governor Frazier no doubt has begun to wonder what it is all about, A sim- ple explanation may be in order. * * * * hits of publication of special dispatches hereim are The Independent Voters’ association when it attacked the Nonpartisan league legislation of the 16th assembly through the medium of the referen- dum, deemed it advisable to offer the farmer in place of some of the more important program acts substitutes which the association believed safer and more workable, Therefore when the association began the cir- culation of petitions for the referendum of. the}, printing bill, educational bill, immigration bill, industrial commission bill, banking bill and:,judi- cial redistricting.bill it also circulated. initiative petitions proposed a new mill and elevator bill, a nonpartisan election law, a new rural credits act and a new homebuilding bill as substitutes for those passed by the legislative assembly. * * * * These important “program measures” were not assailed through the referendum. They were in no wise confused with the measures which were to be referended. The only opportunity which could have been given the people of ratifying or rejecting the acts of their legislative representa- tives in this connection was through the initiative petitions. The proceedure would have been very simple. The voter, if he believed the substitute better than the original legislative act, would have voted for the initiated measure. ‘If he preferred to abide by the acts of the assembly he would have voted against the substitute measure. Any child:who had finished the eighth grade should have been able to vote intelligently on the matter. Not so Governor Frazier. : The chief executive, resorting to the old gang tactics which brought about the revolt which developed the league and which are now leading up to a revolution which ‘will destroy the same ‘or- vanization, deliberately set about to. prevent the people of North Dakota from availing themselves of the initiative amendment to the constitution, so strongly advocated by the league leaders a-year ago as one of the most valuable instruments of democracy. * * * * Initiative petitions containing more than 20,000 signatures, or over twice as many as the league amendment to the! constitution requires, were filed with the secretary of state early in April. They were checked over, verified, and cer- tified to the governor as valid. Since that time some 15,000 additional signatures have reached the offices of the Independent Voters’ association in Fargo. More than 35,000 North Dakota voters, or more than a third of the whole number who cast their ballots in the last general election, have asked, therefore, that they have an opportunity to vote on the four measures initiated by the Inde- pendent Voters’ association. And Governor Frazier says flatly that they shall not have that opportunity. The petitions call for a special election July 8. The governor states that he has purposely called an election to vote on the referendum petitions for June 26. The initiative amendment to the constitution re- quires that ninety days must elapse between the filing of the petitions and the election at which the questions initiated are voted upon. These ninety days will not have elapsed June 26. * * * * In his haste to resort to old gang methods in frustrating the will of 35,000 electors as expressed in the initiative petitions, Governor Frazier ap- pears to have overlooked constitutional and statu- tory provisions designed to safeguard our elec- tions. Secretary of State Hall, as was his duty, last week respectfully called the governor's atten- tion to the fact that the time allowed by the con- stitution for the filing of referendum petitions will not have elapsed until May 30, and that the elec- tion laws require that any question to be voted upon at a regular or special election shall be cer- tified to the county auditors at least thirty days prior to such election. The date set by the gover- nor would allow but 26 days for this certification and for the printing and distribution of ballots and of some 130,000 publicity pamphlets, containing the questions to be voted upon and arguments for and against them. * * * * The governor replies to Secretary of State Hall in an impertinent, childish note, school-boyish and humptious, in which he intimates that he knows his business and that the secretary of state is |" © _atside of his province in attempting to re- (00| 130-days’ limit. As a matter of fact, the governor } mind so exalted an individual as the governor of { his duty, The-governor states what,is.manifestly il not a fact when he says that the constitutional provision that referendum elections shall be held not less than 100 days nor more than 130 da, following the adjournment of the legislative a WAST! ERGY oye WEDNESDAY, MAY 44) 1919. sembly at which the legislation referred was | adopted would be violated were the thirty days): required by law for certification allowed. The} constitution provides that referendum petitions shall be filed with the secretary of state not later than ninety days after the adjournment of the session, which in this instance would be May 30, and this would then allow the governor forty days’ lee-way and still permit him to keep within the could call the special election for July 9, if he! really wished to abide by both the spirit and the |! letter of the law, which he very apparently does not. * * Secretary of State Hall is not pleading in be- half of the initiative petitioners. He accords the governor the autocratic power which he has as- | sumed to deprive 35,000 electors of the right ac- corded them by an amendment which the league, initiated a year ago. He-merely asks that the gov- ernor abide by the law as clearly construed by our courts and that he set the date fer the referendum election as June 30, which would still exclude a vote on the initiative petitions, but which would allow the thiry days’ time which the statutes insist must elapse between the filing of petitions and a! vote upon them. ‘ * * * The governor has placed ‘himself and his party in a bad light. He has-out-Caesared Caesar in his high-handed over-riding of a clearly expressed public will. One need not over-exert his imagina- tion to conjure up-the storm of indignation which would have swept the state had Governor Hanna been guilty of such an act during his administra- tion. ' Governor Frazier appéars before the people * of North Dakota as a glittering exponent of the|”” doctrine that might makes right. He is riding with Townley and the latter’s imported advisers to a hard fall, and the sophomorish tone of his original statement on this subject and of his let- ters to the secretary of state seem to indicate that this tumble is overdue. * GIVE U. §. AIR F Mexico City thinks General Blanquet -is dead Seventeen Men because it has photographs of his dead‘head.. We have dead-heads in this country who are'live ones. (N. |. Special, (o, the!T'ribune.) An airdrome,incpvery large comner- cial ceiter:and flects of airships for the raptd. exehai f important, mes- sages and materi his fone of the’ recommend: adopted® by the: 2,000 delegates National “Foreign: Trade Counci cention. ‘The, committee that report had 73: men: on «it WITH THE EDITORS’ LAIN MATTER OF FACT® The Fargo Courier-News says: i “The plain matter of fact is that Clemenceau is wrong and Brockdorff-Rantzau right.” |‘ ations That is certainly. specific: enough. “It leaves $40,000,000,000" of capital, . with nothing: to'be guessed at, The two leading Social-| President Jqmes.'4.\Ferrell of the : Jnited * States: Steel corp jon as ist dailies of the state, the one at Fargo and :the other at_Grand. Forks, have recently expressed themselves at some length in denunciation of: the taetot! peace 'tepms?ds tod!feviere:on Germany. But col=}:mait’btid awenvice’ M & umns of ‘discussion sand; ‘denunciation could not Amer cuit. § neerpelee fonipe' have set forth the attitude of, those two papers] and requirement’ of ofr ' sate . i tracts, this convention W congre: more clearly and distinctly than is done in those rae tty emataorudlon of ailtalie cl two lines from an editorial in the Courier-News.—| for developing acrial navigation, 7 y “The establishment of the ne Grand Forks Herald. aids to‘such navigation, the im tion and development of the funda- mental principles of commercial nero- Th 18, THE PRINTING BILL AGAIN Each one of the fifty-two Brinton newspapers scattered through the state, is publishing a stereotyped defense of the printing bill, which contains the same malicious and deliberate mis- statement of the issue that has characterized the icq to overseas couhtries, a which demand the present establish- parate department of the government. One of its chief duties should be to provide the necessary 4 formation which will make possible the use of aerial navigation as an old to foreign trade. Until the necessary ment of a LEETS, TRADE COUNCIL URGES Who Represent 40 Billion Dollars Capital Point Need «for Fast _ Flying Service belief that: the Department ‘of Com- merce should make @ effort ‘to: pro- mmote in all possible ways the. pr Of aerinl’ aids; to both fore domestic: markets, ‘iia “The convention’ suggests “te local chambers ‘of commerce the advixability - Pof-having public dirdromes* i all epn- ters.that expect, to. developlarge. foreign ~| trade’ in order that), prompt delivery of plans and, specifications, ¢ blueprints and invoices, may be made from’ sea- ports to the* interior: Until such air- dromes -are: batijt,Jocal_ manufacturers will bv denied the ptivilege of Speedy fédeipt. of © desired \-doctiments * fram | great centers of distribution.” The largest ba factories in delegat ay es ks, mills, mings, and America, through? their ed the following “metis- om offexport «trade sible completion of gov- ipbuitding’ pro- ing, navigation, tion and measurement. laws. Establish coal and fuel oil depots on all great foreign trading routes. Build American ships fox American foreign trade. ablish free zones at principal American ports where products) from all countriés can be assenthled, classi- fied and reshipped? thus-developing full cargoes both ways for| the new ‘Ameri- bargainin’ tari without wait- general revision of tariff law. legislation can be passed, it our EVERETT TRUE league bureau’s defense of this bill since its in- ception. BNE a The league bureau’s papers continue te harp. on the claim that the “old gang” is trying to pre-| vent a reduction of the number of official papers |” which publish such public records as county board: proceedings. : The Férum, for one, isn’t worrying about the reduction in the number of official papers to two, or to one, or to their complete abolishment, if the taxpayers do not want a published record of offi- cial proceedings. That is not the argument against the printing bill. In words of one syllable, here it is: The bill permits three Nonpartisan state officials to say to John Jones, “you must not publish your legal notice of a mortgage foreclosure sale or of any other legal pro- ceedings in papers which fight the league, but you must publish it in one of Mr. Brin-, ton’s league papers. That is the whole case in a nutshell, and it is an argument that the league bureau has never fairly met or tried to meet. It is exactly on a par with a law that would permit the governor to say to any housewife: “You cannot buy your groceries of John Smith who is against the league, but you must buy them of John Jones who is for the league.” ’ To repeat for the seventh or eighth time: The independent papers are not worrying about the official proceedings of public bodies, the publication of which is paid for by the state. All they want is that indi- viduals may buy their legal advertising, which they must pay for themselves, in the open market. Surely there is nothing unreasonable in that jtequest.—Fargo Forum, 'DIRECTARY OFFICE, Now, WHAT IS Your NAme € : Nou SMEUL AND 'y AM FROM THe CITY \Distrawerry ! NAME To BE SPELLED RIGHT CORRECTLY Ut Extend international, parcel | post. th Qo BACK TO THS ERDIRGC TORY OFRICE AND TELL THEM TO SEND SomEBODY OUT HERE WHO DOESNIT LKS A WAMISKGYT 2 WANT MY MY ADDRESS Given ! i } The United States at present enjoys} such communication with, but approx- imately one-half as many countries as jhave such communication with Great | Britain. Put diplomatic and consular service jon compensation basis which will at-| tract competent and ambitious young} | men into our foreign service as a per- ; manent career. i TANLAG SHOWS BIG STRIDES otz08 ta fa iat _» (By HARRISON VAUGHN, Atlanta, Ga., May 14.—(Special Cor- respondence)—Phis: is ‘a story Of; suc: cess—the kind everybody likes “to lends the telling of how a great busi- ness has been ‘built; This city. pre: ts a very, striking instance’ of re: EY hieved in-a very short space The announcement has just been made here that ‘Tanlac, the well- known medicine, which readery of this paper have often seen mentioned ‘in the advertising columns, is today the most widely sold medicine of its Kind on the American market; in lit- tle more than tour years’ time it has attained a definite position of pre- eminence among proprietary medi- cines. Without doubt this’ statement will be read with the keenest inter- est, not only by druggists’but by the seneral public as well. Briefly summarized, the outstandi incidents in this story\of success aren The discovery of Tanlac; the pertec- tion of its formula by painstaking research and exhaustive ‘tests; the beginning of its “manufacture in a small way; the instant deman:i for the product -by .successful use, and finally the establishment of the large and magnificent laboratories at Day- j ton, Ohio, occupying more than. 60,000 square feet of. floor space, to supply 'the ever-increasing demand. for Tan- lac. The daily capacity of 30,000 bot- |tles at this plant has at times, in. j fact, been found insufficient to sup- ; Ply the trade requirements. A branch | laboratory with 8,00, bottles daily ca- pacity has been established at Wind: sor, Canada, in order to supply we Canadian demand. _ The marvelous expansion will eas- ily stand comparison with any of te remarkable business achievements of recent times. As one ‘of the largest drug jobbers of the United States said recently, it required some effort. of the imagination to realize the amount of business that is now being done by this concern, adding his belief that the nation-wide popularity of Tanlac gained in such a short time is nothing less than phenomenal. This latter statement was mae fol- Jowing the announcement in the daily papers that over twelve million bot: ties of Tanlac had been'sold in four years, up to Jan. 1, 1919, and that during the first ten weeks of the. pres- ent year over one milion bottles had been distributed—thereby — establish- ing a record which has perhaps never before been equalled in the history ofthe drug trage. The statement that Tanlac is now the most popular preparation and the biggest seller among all re4f-made medicines is declared to be neither a surmise nor a estimate, but it based upon careful investigation and is sup- ported by the signed statements of scores of the largest drug jobbers of the United States and. Canada. This now famous ‘remedy has become just as well known across the international boundary line as’ it is throughout the United States. The broad and progressive policies and the ssplendid selling organization originated and perfected by Mr. G. i. Willis, international distributor of Tanlac, are among the best examples of method and system yet produced in WO YEARS read. Surpassing interest always ‘at:|"” ‘Kelble business success, which has} "’ EDWARD RENO FAS Takes Tanlac Following Attack of In- fluenza and Results Are Wonderful. “For anyone sulfering from the after effects of Influenza and necding some- thing to build them up,” said Mdward W. Reno, a well known employe of the American hailway Express Company, living at 1721 broadway, Kansas City, Kansas. “‘Tanlac is the fivest thing in the world, and/I’ll tell you why. “During the recent epidemic I was taken down with the ‘flu’ myself and ror two weeks was just about as sick as one gets to be. | finally managed o pull through, but my, I was as aveak as a baby afterwards. I lost twenty: pounds in weight or more, any every ounce of my strength seem- ed to be-gone. ‘Of course, I wasn't able to do a bit of work and it was just about all I could) do. to walk around and my legs would just com- plecely give out sometimes. 1 had no appetite, either, and’ never cared for a thing to eat! “[ knew 1 wouldn't be able to go back to work at all feeling like 1 was, ant as | had heard, so much about ‘Tanlac 1 decided to test it out. Well, it seemed to help me right from the first few doses and has put me in shape to where | have actually gained twenty-five pounds in inicty days’ time. I have just finished my third bottle, and it is nothing short of as: tonishing the way it has inereased my strength and built me up in every respect. I have not only gotten back all my old strength, but I reallly be- lieve | feel better than. I did even be- fore I had the ‘Flu.’ My appetite was never better, all that tired feeling is gone and I am getting in ten, hours of good, hard work every day, and it really: doesn't bother me one bit. To say I’m strong for Tanlac is making it very mild. I am constantly telling some friend aout it, and I think ev- erybody who is in a run-lown~condi- tion would do well to give it.a trial. As has been stated, there is not a single portion of the body that is not benefited by the, helpful action of Tanlac. Tanlac conains certain me- dicinal properties which.enrich the blood and promote a healthy appetite for. nourishing food, thus helping to build up health and strength in the natural way. And, as in the case of Mr. Reno. Tanlac will prove invalu- able to all persons suffering from the after eqects of influenza, lagrippe, ty- phoid and pneumonia; -bronchial trou- bles, ete. “Tanlac is a prowerful. re- constructive, tonic and always, pro- duces most gratifying results. Tanlac is sold in Bismarck by Jos. Breslow, in Driscoll.by N. D. & J: H. Barrette and in Wing by F. P. oman. —Advertisemient. j t i } APL 4 PRENG DRIVER mio HOURS SLEER BRING Pp WHY NOT BOX JASK DEMPSEY — BES FAMOUS FORHIS SLEEPING POTIONS —~ CK BYE MUM BABEE ¢ business and they have been closely followed by many other enterprising and successful concerns, THIS TREATMENT OFFERS TEMPORARY RELIEF