The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 29, 1919, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Peabered) Ak the (Rostottios, | Risinkreky “ND. 68; fecoad Foreign Representatives MP, G. LOGAN RAENE (CO! PANY, eraorr, Marquette ° « Bids. NEW YORK, = + 1 - MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news publiahed All rights, of publication of special dispatches Kerein are reserved, MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION BUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year..... steeeees $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (In Bismarck) - 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (In state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by_mail outside of North Dakota..........+- 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER, (Established 1878) i> ARMING AGAINST FLU It is announced that Harvard research men have developed the use of a serum in the treat- ment of influenza which greatly reduces mortality and decreases the perilous after-effects of the disease. The epidemic which swept the country last winter found medical science and public health agencies alike unprepared. No one knew much about the disease and its treatment. Drastic ef- forts to minimize contagion were about all that could be done. Health officers predict that there will be a recurrence of influenza in the United States in the coming winter. No louder warning should be needed. The granted possibility that influenza will appear again should stir authorities to take every precau- tion within their power. State and city health departments should get possession of all information relating to influenza to be had from the United States public health service and should make sure that physicians are fully instructed in the best methods of handling the plague. Schools can do their share, and the public be on guard. Epidemic, depression and panic are ab- solutely needless when notice of the enemy’s plans have been given thus far in advance. SALARY AND WAGE There is a fine distinction between salary and wages. It is generally understood that on a job where a white collar can be worn, a salary is paid. Wages go with overalls. A man earning $25 a week gets a salary; $8.50 a day would be wages. Too often the salary-earner and the wage- earner do not understand each other. They think they have little in common. Wage-earners are largely organized. They can put up a fight for what they want. Salary-earners accept, more or less gracefully, what is handed to them. The state industrial commission of New York has found that the pay of clerks, bookkeepers, ac- countants and stenographers has increased 28 per cent while the cost of living necessities has in- creased 73 per cent. i In proportion to what they earn, salaried work- ers must spend more than wage-earners. Clergy- men and teachers are called upon to “keep up ap- pearances” ; they must conform to the living stan- dards set by those far more prosperous. Clerical workers are compelled to pay outa great deal more for dress than mechanics or other craftsmen, earn- ing more. In England, where class distinctions are boldly acknowledged, there is a “lower middle class” which coresponds to the struggling legions of men and women in this country holding positions rather than filling jobs; drawing salaries rather than wages. No doubt salaried workers are entitled to a measure of sympathy, but a great many of them need educating. They lack social consciousness. They forget that they belong to the vast majority —they lack the practical mind of those who sub- sist by handicraft. Labor is not always above reproach in its methods; labor is not infallible, but in this democ- racy, the balance of the power rightfully lies with those who toil for their daily bread, whether that toil be at a desk or a forge; a counter or a lathe bench. The league principle that every people has the right to choose its form of government is a guar- antee of freedom to every people that can win it in a fair fight. If we don’t believe in militarism, why is it that we go into Mexico to catch offenders against our army and navy, and: merely write notes when ranchers are killed? aN Lodge says America is the best hope of man- kind, provided it keeps out of foreign entangle- ments. Not keeping out but getting in made us the best hope of humanity. In effect, an official demand to know Japan’s intentions concerning Shantung is a statement that we consider the first promise a lie and would like to have another to back it up. Bishop Cannon thinks that no intervention is advisable in Mexico except that of the church and school. This might at.least guarantee the safety of the next generation of border ranchers, et WITH THE EDITORS | oe PROHIBITION AND THE STRIKE Before the steel industry strike is ended or- ganized labor is likely to discover that prohibition is a good thing for its cause. There has been com- paratively little rioting in the present situation— very much less, in fact, than was anticipated by those of both the labor and capital sides who have memories of what happened in previous strikes when intoxicants were freely for sale in licensed saloons. In a dispatch from Pittsburgh Carl W. Acker- man says those who are watching closely the con- ditions in that district attribute the lack of violent strife to prohibition. Federal and state authori- ties are co-operating in enforcement of prohibi- tion. They have come near eliminating liquor from the situation—the first time this has been possible, or at least the first time it has been done, in a time of extensive strikes. One result is that the strikers and their supporters have clearer brains with which to do their thinking and plan- ning, and that they are conducting themselves in a way better calculated than hitherto to win public sympathy. Another result is the saving of money from the coffers of the liquor sellers, with a con- sequent easier financing of the strike and ability to prolong it without serious inconveniences to strikers and their families. As a rule strikes that affect the interests of the general public succeed or fail according as they enlist or fail to enlist the sympathetic interest of the general public. The chances of winning popu- lar support are much enhanced in a strike that is conducted without disorder. Liquor is an inflamer of minds and a feeder of the spirit of violence, hence the assertion that effective prohibition is an asset to labor in such a situation as the steel strike has brought about. Prohibition is far from being a perfect preventative of violence, but it contrib- utes very materially toward the maintenance of law and order in times of social unrest and stress. —Minneapolis Tribune. DOES NORTH DAKOTA STAND FOR THIS? Fine talk to come from the governor of an American state is this from the Labor day speech of Governor Frazier, the Nonpartisan league gov- ernor of North Dakota: Our forefathers in 1776 had no voice in the taxes they had to pay, so they organized the revolution and broke away from tyranny. It was a just revolution. I hope to God we can change things here by the use of the ballot. I think we can. But if we can’t, it may be necessary to have an- other just revolution. “If we can’t change things by the ballot, then; revolution.” : The next thought after that, especially in minds easily unbalanced, is this: “Getting results by the ballot is slow. Maybe we can’t ever get the results we want that way. Why not revolu- tion anyway?” Now let’s see what this comes to. U If they can’t change things the way they want them by the ballot, it will be only because they | have been unable to convince a,majority of the people that the changes they want are good. That means that, after full hearing, it is only a minority that wants to make those changes. Revolution, then, would be a minority attempt- ing to impose its will upon a majority by force— by blood and terror. It has been the practice in America—and that is why America has lived and not become as Mex- ico or Russia—for a defeated minority to grin and bear it, at the worst resolved to keep up the fight and to try again. But according to Governor Frazier, the Town- ley governor of an American commonwealth, that practice is to change. If a minority remains a minority through inability to win by the ballot, then it is to change its tactics and resort to revo- lution. Reason failing, it will use force. The American system of government refusing to yield at the behest of a minority—which MAY be wrong, Governor Frazier!—the minority will wreck it. Or try to. Incidentally, the American system of government was built precisely for that cE IS gon BISMARCK DAILY ‘TRIBUNE een tte i ttre tt te th a NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT W. A. Falconer Writes Entertainii Familiar Landmarks. The following ‘old-timers, Jacob H: mer, Stephen Welch, Tom McGowan, Thomas Welch, Patrick McHugh, T. J. Tully, Wesley Baker, John Yegen, A.j A. McConkey and the writer, had the pleasure of meeting General Hugh Scott on his recent visit to Bismarc’. Many of these old-timers knew Gen. Scott when he was a second lieutenant in the 7th cavalry at fort A. Lincoin in 1876. oF : During the eyéning. General Scott told many interesting stories cf frontier life at old Fort A. Lincoln, and of the many officers who were sta- tioned at Lincoln in the early di: most of whom haye passed to the Greut Beyond, said General’ Scott. ‘MISSOURI ALONE UNCHANGED In speaking of the many changes that have taken place during the past} forty or more years, he said the only thing that has not changed, is the Mis- souri river. Gen, Scott said that he remembered Camp Hancock, the oid Sheridan house; Sam Whitney’s opera house, the “Hole in the Wall,” and the old M. Lean & Macnider store, but) could not locate the places now. Gen, Scott was brown these sites before he left Bismarck, by Captain’ Baker and myself. Camp Hancock} was located on the ground now occu- pied by the theatre bureau, and was composed of one company of the 17th infantry, commanded by Capt, Clark,! and Lieut. Humbert. The old Sheri-| dan house stood where the Northern Pacific depot now stands, Sam, Whil- ney’s opera house was built on the Ict now occupied by George Gussner, The “Holg in the Wall” was a little place not over six feet wide directly west of Whitney’s opera house, and was run by Ed. B. Ware, a typical western character, Tife M. Lean & Macnider store stood on the lot now occupied by the Grambs Plumbing Co., a frame building, 25 feet front and one hundred feet deep. This store was the general headquarters for army officer, steain-| boat captains, Black Hill miners, gov- ernment fighters and contractors and from 1873 until 1883, was one of the busiest places in Bismarck. OLD FORT A. LINCOLN Fort A. Lincoln was built on: the purpose—of preventing a wrong-headed minority from overcoming the will of a majority. If a minority cannot prevail over a majority under our system of government, then the system of government is to be wrecked! This is the doctrine of Haywood, Trotzky, Le- nine, Townley, and Frazier! This is fair warning to the majority, and it should be enlightening to those to whose distant view Townleyism seems a harmless granger move- ment. The majority will be wise if it begins set- ting its heel firmly on the necks of men who talk this way, thus cutting off this revolution before it is born. : No minority shall force its will upon America, and Frazier and his ilk should be made to under- stand that. A good way to begin would be to impeach the governor of North Dakota for thus sowing the seeds of a propaganda that is designed to Mexican- ize or Russianize the nation whose fathers died to provide the free bajlot which Frazier and his ilk, with their class hatreds borrowed from Europe, west side of the Missouri river in 1872, If you will look to the southwest of Bismarck, you will see two trees grow- ing on the hills about six miles sduth- west of Bismarck. On this hill the first buildings were erected, and the ‘fort was called Fort McKean, but later, in 18738, the name was changed to Fort A. Lincoln. On July 2, 1864, congress passed an act granting aid to the Northern Pacific railroad to build a Sound. In 1869 operations were com- menced in the’construction of » this road, about twenty miles west of Du- luth, Minn., and the road was finally completed into Bismarck during the falt of 1873. The grade was original- ly constructed from where the peniten- tiary now stands southwest across the bottoms to a point on the Missiouri rived opposite Fort A. Lincoln, In 1872, during the construction of the railroad, the surveyors were run- ning a line west of the river to the Yellowstone. The surveyors. had + military escort commanded by Major Whistler. This expedition left old Fort C in the summer of 1872. The next summer the railroad had its engineers in the field, and on June 20, 1878, an expedition left Fort Rice for the Yellowstone, commanded by General Stanley. General Coster was are teaching men to despise.—Duluth Herald. Perhaps a lot of this radical talk you'hear is a reaction from the months when a man. couldn’t express an opinion without flirting with a jail. in command of the 7th Cavalry. On this expedition the sulter and tte dian ‘reservation, Rain in the Face wag arrested and brought to Fort A. veterinary surgeon were killed by the Indians, It was learned later tha* these two men were killed by Rajn in road from Lake Superior to Puget), VISIT OF GENERAL HUGH SCOTT RECALLS EARLY DAYS IN CITY ingly of Time When Capital City Was Frontier Post and Indians Carried on Their Depredations Within Earshot of the Town—Old Military Man Misses Some (BY W. A. FALCONER) GEN. HUGH L.SCOTE Old-time Indian fighter whose visit) uty marshal, with two troops of the to Bismarck inspires some interesting) 7th cavalry and several government reminiscences, | General Scott left for the east on the North Coast Limited with Capital City friends, was living on the Standing Rock In- Lincoln and placed in the guard house. it is stated that Rain in the Face sWore that he would have revenge on Captain Tom. Custer, who arrested him, EVERETT TRUE —== = ee cumunpanammmiemersant He escaped in the spring of 1875, and) This incident inspired Longfellow to Ree —— — PRES write his famous poem, “The Revenge of Rain in the Fac.e” THE BLACK HILLS EXPLORATION On July 1, 1874, General Custer with surveyors left Fort. A. Lincoln to ex- iplore the Black Hills. The regiment returned to Fort A. Lincoln on August 31, 1874. General Custer reported on his return from the Hills, that gold was to be found in paying quantities in the Black Hills. When this news became generally known there was a regular stampede for Bismarck, which was the nearest point at that time to the Black. Hills. Many of these men who left for the Black Hills were killed by the Indians. In the fall of 1874, John Wright, who was herding cattle on Burnt Creek, was Killed by the Indians. This created a scare’ in Bismarck, and a troop of the 7th cavalry, commanded by Capt. Yates, was sent from Fort A. Lincoln to the scene of the mur- der, but the Indians swam their po- caped. CUSTER’S CHARGE.ON BISMARCK In the spring of 1875, General Cus- ter made his famous charge’ on Bis- marck. General Scott spoke about this incident the other. night, and re- membered it well. General Custer claimed that several sacks of govern- ment grain had been takén from the government warehouses at Fort A. Lincoln, and stored in some buildings in Bismarck. Before the ice broke up in the river in the spring Gen. Custer, Capt. Jack Carland, father of Judge John E. Carland, and Matt Ed- gerly who wag then Unitel States dep- wagoners came to Bismarck after the grain, and after considerable excite- last Friday aftey a second day’s visit} ment they got the grain and took it back to Fort Lincoln. Judge J. C. Carvell, who was then probate judge, wrote a poem of about ten verses, which was a take-off on Custer’s charge. I can only remember a few verses. Carvell called. it “Ruster's charge,,’ and in part, it was as fol- lows: “Did you ever hear of Buster, and the wild charge he made, AND GENTLEMEN: | ALL THE CRYSTALIZED WISDOM OF THe AGES; Aue THES ACCUMUS LATED KNOWLE—"—~ “HOLD ON, THERES, Tice 1 CAN MAKE MY QVETAWAY SS 1 UNDER STooD ov WERE GOING To MAKE A SPEECH, \ {QuT & SES } YourRS GOING To} READ IT Goon,, EVENING «- the Face, an Uncapapa Indian, who nies across the Missouri river and es-|° BY CONDO| B| AHEM. — CaDdies MONDAY, SEPT. 29, 1919. SPENT MANY A ~ DOLLAR IN VAIN “ft Cannot Praise Tanlac Too Highly,” Says Hanns— Feels Fine Now “T spent a lot of hard earned moncy on medicines and treatments during the eight years that I suffered, but nothing I ever took helped me like Tanlac,” said Helmer H, Hanna, a farmer living at Westlock, Alberta, Canada, while in the Owl Drug Store in Edmonton, Alberta, recently. Mr, Hanna formerly lived in Minneapolis, Minn,, where he was employed for several years as motorman by the Minneapolis Railway Co. “I suffered with a bad case of stom- ach trouble,” continued Mr. Hanna, “and had to be mighty careful what C€ ate, because if I ate anything the least bit heavy I was sure to be troubled af- terwards with gas forming in. my stomach and it was so bad sometimes that the pain would almost double me up. At times this gas pressed s9 against my heart ‘that it would make it palpitate and I also suffered a lot with dizzy spell, and when these came on me I had to sit down just any place to keep from falling. I was troubled a great deal with sour stomach and had a disagreeable taste in my mouth when I got up in the morning and I could’t sleep well and many a times would lie awake for hours and hours just wait- ing for daylight and then when I got up in the morning I felt more tired than when I went to bed. I was also mighty nervous, too, and the least little noise would sometimes make me jump Uke I had..been shot at. I was living ia Minneapolis and working for the street railway there when I was in, this fix and during the time that I suffered I guess I must have taken gallons of medicines, besides other treatments, but nothing I did. for my. trouble teemed to help me a. bit. “Then. I. started taking Tanlac ant I just want to say that it helped me sight from the start, It seemed to get right after my trouble and soon put me in the way of getting back on my feet wwain. I can eat anything I want now and nothing I eat ever hurts me a particle and my nerves are so steady that no noise whatever bothers me a bit. I can sleep like a log at night and get up in the morning feeling per- fectly rested and full of energy for my day’s work. I am feeling so fine nov that I cannot praise Tanlac too high!y and will gladly tell anyone about my experience with it.” Tanlac is sold in Bismarck by Jos. Breslow, in Driscoll by N. D. and J.-H. Barrette and in Wign by H. B. Homan. rr, Vv Upon some sacks of corn and bran, he said was stole from them; From Dandy Jim, across the stream, The U. S. A. Q. M.?” (James Dandy was the acting quar- termaster at Fort: Lincoln at. that time.) Of another verse: “They carried away the grain in sacks upon their backs, But. they found more grain else- u Swhiére ‘than’ what” they got’'at ‘Mac’s.” The poem’ ended with these ee “Then Vive la Republic, Vive la Bagh- telle, We're chief of all the nations, as sure as the devil’s in hell. The devil take the hindmost, we don’t wish him any harm, For Unclé Sam is rich enough to buy us all a farm.” THE CENTENNIAL The year 1876 was the. Centennial Year, celebrated. at Philadelphia. Or as Longfellow termed it, “The Year of a Hundred Years.” Many of the officers of the 7th cav- alry before leaving Fort A. Lincoln on May 17, 1876, on what was de- stined for many of them to be their last march, remarked ‘before leaving’ the Fort, “We are going out and have a brush with the Indians, and then we will be back in August, and we will go to the Centennial.” Poor fel- lows, over half of them never ‘rey turned ! : Old-times will remember William H. Stimpson, an ‘old bachelor who Kept a fruit and confectionery. store on Main street, on ‘the lot now occu- pied by Register Sauling. One :day some of the ‘boys went into his store and said: “Stimpy,-are you going to the Centennial?” “No,” he replied, “T am not going on this one, I am going to wait until the next one.” Bismarck was the terminus of the Northern Pacific railroad from 1873 to 1881, and during the winters of 1878-4; 1874-5, and 1875-6 no trains ran into Bismarck, and there was only one mail a week during the winter, The mail was hauled from Fargo to Bis- marck by government teams from Fort Lincoln. The Northwestern Stage Transportation Co. started its first stage coach from Bismarck to Dead- wood on May 1, 1877. This stage line was as well equipped as any line in the United States, and it ran daily stage coaches (except Sundays) from Bismarck through Fort Lincoln to Deadwood, in the Black Hills. Fort Meade was’ established August 31, 1878, and was occupied by part of the 7th cavalry. I could write a great deal more of the early days but will have to:stop. At the Church of the Sacred Heart in. Paris, a -22-ton, bell is, tolled by electricity., A“choir boy now does the work. which formerly required the services of five men. Locusts in Algeria have found a dangerous enemy in a fly which fol- lows them and.lays its eggs where they lay theirs. A larva issues from the egg of‘the fly and devours the locust eggs. John Hanson was first president of the United States—for“he bore that title as president of the first con- gress of the Confederation in 1781. Bowling on the green was played in England in the 18th century. ‘