The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 1, 1919, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Rntered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN, - - . e Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, ¥ CHICAGO, : : : - DETROIT, Marquette Bldg. : - - Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK, : - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use tor publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise eredited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of pubiication of speciai dispatches hereim are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU: OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year ... 8 Daily by mail, per year (In E Daily by mail, per year (In state outside Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota... THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) WHY THIS BILL? If Governor Frazier proceeded legally and in conformity with the constitution in his seizure of the private property of North Dakota coal mine| operators, why the necessity for the Levang bill, advancing legal authcrity for just the things the} governor has done? Governor Frazier is not adept with explana- tions, but may we not hope for a word of en- lightenment‘on this important point? Editor FREE SPEECH; FREE PRESS When Governor Frazier's committee of inquis- ition shall have been made a. fact, freedom of} speech and the freedom of the press will become} a censorized freedom which complies with the ideas of Messrs. Townley, Lemke, Mills et al. With the unlimited powers which the league would confer upon the governor's committee, an end can be put to criticism, to revelations of fraud, deception and chicanery. Under the Frazier censorship the public would | never know of such matters as the Valley City bank deals, of the cloe ceonnction between the Scandinavian-American bank and the Bank of North Dakota, and of Governor Frazier’s efforts to suppress investigation. : Citizens of North Dakota would do well to ab- sorb the truth while they may, for with the close of this “extraordinary” assembly, if Townley and] Mills and Lemke prevail, free speech and the free press will have become a thing of the past in North Dakota. In their place we will have only such freedom of speech and of the press as may serve to advance the cause of Townleyism. JUDGE ROBINSON In years Judge Robinson is a half century older than many of the league men who jeered at him Saturday when he appealed to the Nonpartisan legislators to undo the wrong which they did in the last assembly in doubling and trebling the farmers’ tax burden. In experience and in under- standing Judge Robinson is centuries older than many of the chosen representatives of the people who elected to sneer at him. Judge Robinson is a leaguer. There never has been a time when the success of the real farmers’ movement was at stake when Judge Robinson could not be depended upon, as a member of the supreme court, to uphold the farmers’ program. He has, it is true, ruled now and then against the men who are at the head of the league movement. But these men are not farmers; they are not citi- zens of North Dakota; in no true sense are they Americans, some of them. Judge Robinson has antagonized these leaders, standing for constitu- tional authority and law and order at times when it may have best served the purpose of these leaders to substitute their own conceptions of the law. But the genuine farmer never has had a better friend in North Dakota than Judge Robin- son, and it was for the farmer he spoke in ad- dressing the legislature Saturday. Some of the legislators who jeered Judge Rob- inson are farmers, or were farmers. before they procured places on the league payroll as organizers at salaries of $200 to $300 per month. A steady income of $200 or $300 per month from any source is quite likely to change the viewpoint of their kind. It is probable that these “farmer” legislators acted temporarily in the capacity of league organizers , rather than tillers of the soil and representatives of tillers of the soil when. they withheld from Judge Robinson the respect which is due his gray hairs, if not his position as a member of the gu- preme court of our state. When Judge Robinson warned the league law; makers Saturday that they were being offered their last opportunity to correct their own mis- takes he spoke With foresight. If the men whom the league has sent here do not relieve the farmer of the ruinous tax burdens to which they have subjected him, in order that Director General Cathro may receive his $10,000 per annum and expenses, and that equally extravagant salaries may be paid other sycophants of Townley and Lemke, other men will return in the places of these misrepresentatives to the next legislative assembly. Charles Barrett tells us that capital is per- turbed. Our capital is perturbed every time we buy a mess of steak. ; : : There would be Jess raising of cain if a greater part of our population would get out and raise its own food, \from a court, he doesn’t hold a meeting and dis- “Our whole life should speak forth our thank- fulness.” Cooties and Bolshevists wonder why we call it the land of liberty. We would get rid of the Reds if we could first get rid of some of our red tape. “O give thanks unto the Lord; for He is good; for His mercy endureth forever.” , The difference between power and authority is that authority has benefit of clergy. It would be a fine thing if we had a few officials able to recognize a crisis before it tears down the house. “No Thanksgiving is complete without its gen- erous thought of those who are not so favored as we are.” “Man must, for the most part, give thanks for his life rather than for the field through which it flows.” “As we gather about the family board today let us remember the houseless and homeless and un- befriended.” “We sleep in the midst of untouched harps of blessing. Let us arise and sweep their strings on this Thanksgiving day.” When a mere salaried man receives an order cuss the question of obeying it. “Some hae meat and canna eat, and some woul eat that want it; but we hae meat, and we can eat it, sae let the Lord be thankit.” Organization means power; power invites abuse; abuse means autocracy. Utopia is a place where there is no human nature. Police in Egypt have found it necessary to shoot down a number of dangerous criminals who were clamoring for. self-determination. We judge from Mr. Palmer’s utterances that this is the proper season for those who have radi- cal views to keep very, very quiet. There are 1,832,132 persons who have incomes of over $2,000, not counting the millions who dodged the income tax last year. Berger’s seat has been declared vacant, and there are many solid citizens who would have con- sidered it vacant if he had been seated. We haven’t read the peace terms presented to Bulgaria, but doubtless they are all that they should be. She is kicking about them. “What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? ‘ What calls back the past like the pumpkin pie?” rich | WITH. THE EDITORS | tee tn eenenncele PERTINENT QUESTION It just happens, too, that’ Amidon ranks consid- erably higher, both as a judge and in intellectual ability, than Nuessle-—The Courier-News. With whom ?—The Forum. ARCK, DAILY TRIBUNE ts yy W ay N \ QW Nuys YN Tow ors $4.50 per day but not exceed $90 in any township, HB 35 {. Olson—Repeal- ing tui pupils attending model high or graded schools con- nected with higher institutions. H. B. 3, Walker. auditor from emergency commission which would consist of governor, com- Be donne | TIED UP WITH ANARCHY | Some interesting features developed in the trial of the libel: suit in Idaho in which Ray McKaig sued Frank R. Gooding for $50,000 for libel. The suit grew out of the election contest in the summer in the course of which Gooding published adver- tisements charging generally that the chief Non- partisan leaders were disloyal, and that in working for and with them McKaig was promoting dis- loyalty. McKaig will be remembered as a young ex- preacher who lived in the western part of North: Dakota, and who was very active in the organiza: tion and early promotion of the Nonpartisan league. He has since moved to Idaho, where he has had charge of the league organization work for that state. Following the Idaho contest he sued Gooding for $50,000, alleging that he had been libeled in a measure represented by about that sum, and a jury of twelve goed men and true gave.a verdict against him. A curious feature of the case was the reluctance |of the plaintiff to admit any connection between Townley, Mills and the rest of the recognized league leaders and himself. He would not admit familiarity with or approval of their principles and utterances, and while he did admit that he had spoken sympathetically to Kate Richards O’Hare during her trial, he declared that he had met her only on that one occasion, and that he spoke to her out of Christian sympathy and not because he knew anything about what she had said or written, or because he approved of her principles. It was evident that for the purposes of the trial, and the $50,000 involved, McKaig wished the jury to ‘understand that he was en. tirely free from the contaminating influence of Townley and the rest of the league managers,— |Grand Forks Herald, CRUSHING iH.» B. 1 school of anni Dakoia. H. H. precincts. 30, $15,000 for use of “| missioner of agriculture and secretary HOUSE BILLS of state, ; H.R. 387, Uglun Relating to audi- Ls tors’ notice of s: for delinquent House Bills introduced Saturday | texes. PY a4 H. 2B. 88. O'Bri Appropriating Krucger—Aiiowing town-| $9,000 for printing commmission, O'Brien 8 to file copy ith Bank of North 1.—Relating to cutting weeds emmoving state! along high s i B. 4 2, Malone, —Defining voting THEM OUT ; | H. B. 43, Burtness—Relating to. ap- pointment of pool hall inspector. H. B. 44, 'McLarty.—Reducing ap- propriations for state auditor and at- torney general. H. B. 45, Miller—Providing for semi-annual payment on seed and feed liens, 1B. 46, Malone—tIncreasing sal- workmen’s compensation com- ners from $2.000 to $3,000. . B. 47, Johnson.—Providing for reduction of taxes fiity percent. I. B. 48, State Affairs—Appointing Frazier’s investigating committee. H, B. 49, Judiciary Committce.— Concurrent resolution urging supreme ANNOUNCEMENT— _ WV E wish to announce to the public that we have purchased the Marshall Oil Co’s Bismarck plant. We come to you with a reputation for first class products and A. 1. service and we assure you that your patronage will be appreciated. | We refine all our own oil and always maintain the same high Standard in all our products. ! We guarantee the highest quality of ae service. : | SINCLAIR REFINING COMPANY BISMARCK BRANCH \ *| North Dakota showing that foreign ‘| JACKSON GIVEN ONDAY; DECEMBER 1, 19191 court’ of United States to advanco “: taxpayers’” action against leaguc in-iy dustrial program. a H. B, 50, Prater—Creating stato trade commission within railway com- mmission, * i HH. B. 61—Increasing salarlos rail- way conimissioners from $2,000 to 000, a H. B. 62, Kellogg and.Hardt.—Pro- viding for licensing salo of cigarettes, H, B. 68, Hanson.—Repealing eight- hour labor law. Bismarck, N. D., ‘Dec, 1.—Alarmed, it is said, over the report of Director General F. W. Cathro of the Bank of monoy is ‘being withdrawn from tho state, the league caucus approved a ‘Dill which was introduced in the house Saturday providing exemption from taxation for money deposited by non- residents in North Dakota banks. A Senate Dill removes some of tho restrictions upon. foreign corporations with relation to the transfer of cases from state courts to the federal courts. Within the last two months probably fifty foreign corporations have served notice on the secretary of state of their desire to withdraw from North Dakota, FINE WRITEUP IN BIG MAGAZINE Willilston, N. D., Dec. 1—William’s county friends of Captain J. W. Jack- son have been pleased to read a lengthy article about his work at Camp Lewis, published in a recent is- sue of Everybody's Magazine, a clip- ping from which follows: “Captain J. W. Jackson, comman- der of the depot, was not without his troubles. He has told of some of the difficulties to be encountered in trying to, make. over.a_ bunch of: hard-boiled cowmen to conform to the ideas of ae the war department. “For instance,” he said, “what we were supposed to be getting at here was not fancy riding, but efficiency in. turning out great numbers of prop- erly broken and trained horses. The fellow who boasts of his ability to ride anything with hair on it is not the fellow we wanted. Our men had to have that ability, but they also had to have the right temperament and the judgment to refrain from useless buckarooing. The war department did not consider this sort of punish- ment an essential part of a horse’s education.” 2 f “There was a hint of pride in his voice as he added, somewhat incon- ; sistently, it seemed: “We assembled here an aggrega- tion of the greatest riders in the world.” ~ .“THE OLD RELIABLE” Sell your cream and poultry pra to our agent. 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