The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 21, 1920, Page 4

be e PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE t the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second TV ie Class Matter. i GEORGE D. MANN \- © = + ° Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT tte Bldg. Kresge Bldg. Marquette PPAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK | - - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. i. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwis' credited in this paper and also the local news published herein, ‘ All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year .......+++++ vw $7.20 Dafly 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 1873) <> FOR DOUBTING THOMASES There are still a few who seem unconvinced that the leaders of the Nonpartisan league are socialists. The proof of Townley’s socialism and that of his followers,is a matter of public record. He registered as a socialist in Golden Valley. He ran for the legislature on a socialist ticket and just before the league came into being and before the label of the Republican party was appropri- ated, Arthur C. Townley was state organizer of the socialist party of North Dakota. That Governor Frazier himself is a socialist at heart and in favor of their movement for an in- dustrial revolution is well known to all students of the nonpartisan ledgue movement. * : "On Suly 15;*1920, Goyernor Frazier over his own sigiature and waiting) upon his own official stationery. admitted ‘meeting Frank Bohn a notor- jous Red in New York and at the state capital. This so called “Dr.” Bohn was influential in get- ting Gov. Frazier to address a socialist gather- ing at Cooper’s Union, New York. Frazier has frequently conferred with Arthur Le Sueur, na- tional committéeman of the socialists and attor- ney for the I. W. W.’s. The governor's intimate associates are all socialists. The writer has before him a letter head of the Organization Department of. the Socialist party of North Dakota when Townley and Le Sueur were operating as Reds. Running down the list of workers we find the name of N. A. Mason who now signs himself as “secretary to the governor.” Mr. Mason was socialist secretary of Wimbledo local, in 1914. , Governor Frazier picked for his bank exam- iner O. E. Lofthus, socialist candidate for gov- ernor of Minnesota in 1906 and candidate for senator from Nelson county, on the same ticket. The chief executive’s first choice for warden of the penitentiary was \Thos. Hennessey, social- ist candidate for state representative in 1914. Lynn J. Frazier selected as a ‘member of the state bar board examiner R. Goer, socialist candi- date for attorney general in 1916. Then there is §. A. Smith of Beach who was selected by Frazier as a land appraiser of the Bank of North Dakota. Mr. Smith was a candi- date for presidential elector on the socialist ticket in 1912. The instances of his selection of socialist léaders for prominent positions could be multi- plied. Those who doubt the socialism of Lynn Frazier have only to remember, Stangeland and Signe Lund, Kate Richards O’Hare and others high in the international organization of socialists. Frazier placed two of these on the state payroll and assisted the third out:of the federal peni- tentiary where she was incarcerated for sedition of the most, revolting kind. Even the judiciary of the state has been in- vaded. R. H. Grace, picked by Townley for a position on the state supreme bench was socialist candidate for state’s attorney of Renville county in 1912. Of course it was within Gov. Frazier’s consti- ~ tutional privilege to place as many socialists on the payroll as he saw fit, but it comes with very poor grace for league workers in Burleigh and adjoining counties to tell the voters that the lead- ership of the nonpartisan league ig not composed of socialists. There is not an important official identified with the nonpartisan league who has not been active in the councils of the socialist party. Socialists and socialism rule ‘and dominate the leadership and economic program of the nonparti- san league. ‘ The voters want to bear this in mind when they cast their ballots November 2. THE GOLDEN GIRDLE One of the twelve great labors of the Greek god Hercules was to fetch the golden girdle worn by Hippolyte, the queen of Scythia. Scythia was what might be called the first woman’s suffrage state. It was governed exclusively by women. Hercules, it might be said, was the first anti- suffragist of history. The idea of a state well and | strongly governed by women gave him a pain, and he made up his mind to humble that government by seizing the queen and taking from her the girdle the fame of which had spread over the then known world. Strong man though he was, Hercules did not feel equal to the task of single-handedly doing the job. So he took with him a large company of powerful followers. And a rough time they had of it. He first demanded the girdle but the queen of Editor | the Scythians told him to run along and mind his own business and that it was a silly thing anyhow for a man of his reputation to be de- voting his great energies to such a trival matter. She said, in-effect, there are so many great evils in the world, so many vicious dragons and monsters that he with his great energy and enter- prise could suppress, that he was foolish to be wasting his time trying to take her girdle away from her. But Hercules was obstinate and when he couldn’t get the girdle by peaceful measures, he resorted to violence. The queen and her country- women fought with such obstinacy that only by intercession of his fellow-gods was Hercules able finally to obtain’ the girdle. The efforts certain anti-suffragists now are making in the courts to deprive women of their hard-won right to vote, is not unlike the silly campaign of Hercules against the queen’s golden girdle. But the gods are not on their side as they were with Hercules, the first of the anti- suffragists. The golden girdle of equal civic rights, buckled by the votes of 37 states, is on to stay. And, to paraphrase the words of the Scythian queen, why should Americans waste their ener- gies fighting an established fact approved by the conscience of the nation,, then there are so many genuine issues to command the attention of ener- getic Americans? WORKERS OWNERS American railroads are bidding for an entirely new set of stockholders—their employes. This, not unknown in other lines; has been the unusual with railroads. N@t much had been done to tempt the engineer, brakeman, ticket seller, or track walker in becoming a partner in the rail- road system on whose pay roll his name appeared. Then came a change. Profit-sharing was in the air. Railroads now are headed toward a part- nership of capital:and labor in which labor will be partly capital, too. At the coming meeting of railroad financial officers this will be discussed and all roads will be encouraged to follow the example set by the Le- high Valley, the Illinois Central, and the Pennsyl- vania, pioneers in the movement to put workers’ names on both the pay roll and the stock. roll. Already this year 1028 Lehigh employes have purchased 4483 shares, paying for them by de- ductions at the yate of $5 a month per share from their wages. The Pennsylvania has sold 3300 shares of its stock to 1500 of its employes. “It is beneficial both to the employes and the company,” asserts’ C. H. Markham, president of the Illinois Central, Don’t-be contented with your lot—until there’s a house on it. \ Has Cuba’s 50-day moratdfiumn anything to do with that island’s morals? ~ Skeleton of nine-foot. prohistoric man dug up near Pittsburg. Boy, page Barnum! —$_-_-_-— : 4 There’s a bit of pathos in the news that “Fight- ing Bob’’ Evans’ flagship was used as a target. Judge Steir of Philadelphia’ says 4 wife who doesn’t read the newspapers should be divorced. EDITORIAL REVI Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important lasues which are being dis- lay. cussed in the press of the PRAISED BY KATE O’HARE Mrs. Kate Richards O’Hare shows a proper spirit of appreciatioyt afial at the Nonpartisan league did for her, when she declares that the league and the Socialist party are the only po- litical organziations in the Northwest still faith- ful to the principles of their organization. ; She should be grateful to Governor Frazier of North Dakota, who sent a message to President Wil- sonj.urging him to pardon the offense of sedi- tion of which she was convicted. She should’ be grateful also for tha efforts of Madame Signe Lund, the radical who was employed as a music teacher in the North Dakota normal school and spent much of l:er time circulating a petition for Mrs. O’Hare’s release. ‘She should be mindful also of the constant demand of the league papers for release of “political prisoners,” one of whom she considered herself. This coupling of the Nonpartisan league and the Socialist party is interesting and valuable, coming from one well quaiiied to speak of social- ism. Nobody has accused the Nonpartizan league chiefs of abandoning their “priaciples.” They are as socialistic as they ever were. They are even more outspoken in that regard than when organized. The legislative program of the af- filiated organization known as the Working Peo- ple’s Nonpartisan league, in its fifth and tenth paragraphs, calls for sovietism, when it demands that ultimately the workers shall have control of industry and commerce. . Mrs. O’Hare will be in line for some good state appointment if the league should win in Minne- sota, after she has lived in the state six months. —St. Paul Dispatch, RISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE THURSDAY, OCT, 21, 1920. “Hiram Wise” is a farmer of the old school who believes in the , “emancyashun o’ humanity.” Be- ing:a forward looking man, he is one of the first to join the Non- partisan league when its organ- izers visited his community. While his.varied experiences are tdéld in story form, practically ev- ery one of them has been dup- licated in real life. “Bobs’” speech has heen writ- ten in dialect in order to carry out the general‘idea. It is “Hir- am” who is doing the talking, tell- ing the reader of his experiences with the Nonpartisan league in emancipating Ndrth Dakota. —The Author. XII—THE BOMBSHELL On account o’ hail last year we, had no trouble ,with hired help but this year it wuz different. I went to Hen- roost Center the latter part o’ July an’ hired four men to help harvest the ‘crop. Wal, somehow them fellers szemed to think it wuz a disgrace to work. They loafed an’ done all they could to show me they considered work, good honest work, beyond their dignity. Then finally they quit alto- gether an’ said they wanted $1 more per day than we had agreed on. Help bein’ scarce an’ the crops all gettin’ ripe at once, I told ’em if they buckled in an’ ‘worked I would, pay ’em that much extra an’ so things went all right fer a day or so. Then they wanted shorter hours, said the work wuz too hard an’ instead 0’ workin’ till seven, they would quit at six, so I said all right: I aint forcin’ no man to work but in that case they would get a dollar less which they didn’t like at all. Wal, they kept shirkin’ an’ findin’ fault an’ finally they said they wuz goin’ to quit because thar wuz no vonveniences, no bathtubs an’ such like. f Now I'd o” been willin’ to have wag- ered a five dollar bill against a ten cent piece that none o’ them had had a bath fer the last six months, but bein’ a peaceable man I told ’em they had a good clean room, plenty to eat, an’ as fer bathin’ there wuz a was tub hangin’ in the wood shed, plenty 0’ soap, an’ hot, water always in the kitchen reservoir, ‘an’ any time they felt like takin’ a bath they wuz wel- come to do so. | But somehow m3 suggestion did not appeal to them, finally they quit. But what I wanted to speak of wuz the talk I had with the feller who wiz the, ringleader o’ the crew an’ seem- ed to be a fairly well educated man. One day when I told him I thought he might eggsert himself a little more in my behalf, seein’ I wuz payin’ him over six dollars a day, givin’ him his board an’ room an’ besides this me, a man o’ sixty odd years workin’ every day while he loafed on his job. “Yes,” sez he, ‘an’ what good will it do you in a year or so? Don’t you know that the land will all be taken over by the state, under the “New Day” you varmers have started, what good will all your work do you then when we ‘ail get our share?” Gosh, I wuz plumb flabbergasted: “Do you mean that because the farmers want term- inal elevators an’ mills, rural credit banks an’ a few other state indus- tries they are goin’ to lose their farms?” sez I. “Certainly,” sez he, “that’s just what I mean, that's just what the Socialist program calls for —the nationalizashun of land. Did you think you could force the miller out o’ business, the grocer out 0’ business, the merchant an’ all busi- ness men out o’ business, by state owned industries, an’ still Keep your tarms—the biggest private enterpris? in the world today? Gee, you are even greener than I thought you wuz.” | gled-up nostrils and the air passages | nice, no quinine. Pasien ES. SPARKS > oy i = | The Experiences I i i | ; . : THE FARMER’S GRIEVANCE |___ Of Hiram Wise ie By FLORENCE BORNER | INTRODUCTION L | Has the farmer a just grievance, or are his troubles largely imaginary? Be that aspit may there is certainly | such a wave of dissatisfaction sweep- | ing over the country that it makes even the bravest of us fear for the fu- | ture, unless some means is found to! satisfy the farming population. | Not only ‘is the wheat belt farmer | complaining but the farmers ftom the cotton fields, the farmer from the corn belt and on to the great fruit belt) farmers. Each of them is telling al story of unjust appression. When millions of our countries citi- zens are lifting up. their voices in complaint we may well decide some-; thing is.‘rotten in Denmark.” | The farming class has long been! looked upon:as the great conservative | element of,our population. We felt} that nothimg serious could befall us} as long as the farmers kept sober—' and we were right. But what shall we! say when the farmers, our most steadfast citizens rise up and decl: their wrongs? When they tell no uncertain terms that they refuse to longer be the “goat.” t “But,” sez I, grasping at a straw, 30 to speak, “our league program is nt socialistic.” “Ain’t it,?” sez he, “say you git any socialistic paper, look up their program an’ if it ain’t essen- shally the same as your Nonpartishun league program I'll work fer, you a month fer nothin’.” “But,” sez I they tell us they. ain’t socialists.” “Sure,” sez he, “if.they told you the truth there wouldn't be members enough left to flag a breadwagon. They're wise, them guys, they-tell you rubes anything an’ you believe it, but you’ve got an, awakenin’ comin’, an’ oh boy it’s goin’. to be.some reseruction. Pev- sonally, I believe Townley an’ his bunch are hand in glove with Lenine and Trotzky.” “But not the.farmers,", sez I. “No,” sez) he, “not the.farnmers, ‘but what o’ that while you are under their thumbs? You refuse to take any pers but them faverable to your oj ganizashun. Townley can put any- | thing, over on you boobs, an’ believe | me, he’s. doing it right along.” Could ; his words be true? Wuz the farm- | ers indeed the unsuspecting tools 0’ a master mind that wuz leadin’ ’em to. destructshun: an’ destitushun, or | wuz these the vapering o’ an idle bum. I'd a give a good deal to know | the truth an’ I made up my mind to! learn it in short order, as I knew the very fellow who would tell it to me without any fancy fixins. | (To be Continued.) Ks a | With the Movies * BISMARCK Petite, charming Shirley Mason is; on her way to visit us again. She will be seen’ at the Bismarck thea: | tre, beginning tomorrow in a new sl Fox production, “The Little Wander~ questions where I ate, during the day / er,” the work of Denison Clift, well jed D Well, it’s enough to make a good many of us begin to wonder what will happen next. Who can tell of the rosy pictures of future independence that were pic- tured to the mind of the Russian peasant ere he consented to take up arms against his government? Then look at the outcome, at Russia/s piti; able condition today., Whom of us’ would care to see our’ beloved country in_such.a condition? ,,.. Yet it is oppression and unjust con- ditions other lesser evils. A peaceful contented people need have little fear of the agitator. It is only, where conditions flourish that make for anarchy that he is a danger: to the community. You cannot stop up the moyths of} the people by abolishing free speech. You ‘cannot correct evils by calling names. You’ can only correct wide. spread dissatisfaction by finding out what causes .it and then taking steps to abolish there causes. In this way alone can the farmer problem be: met and solved. known as a scenario writer. The story shows, a star role of extraordinary appeal—a role that should fit, Miss Mason like a glove. She appears as a friendless girl who flees from a hard taskmaster and, disguised as « a tramp on a coal train. Forced by circumstances story begins, and is carried forward with extreme cleverness and /acute human interest to a'final climax that is forceful, legical and in every way’ delightful. ; Miss Mason's support includes Ray- mond McKee as leading man, Creil Vanauker, Alice. Wilson and Jack Pratt; Howard M. Mitchell directed the picture. és i | PEOPLE'S FORUM | en o Miles City, Mont., Oct. 19, 1920. Editor ‘Bismarck Tribune, Bis No. Dak. My dea : It may not be interesting to you to learn that I listened to a two-hour discussion of the Montana political} situation by Senator Myers, Demo- crat, from Montana, denouncing the “So called Democratic State Ticket” ‘as NOT being Democratic but Non- partisam and dictated by a noh-resi- di {dent of Montana, and in the course of his discussion the political situation in North Dakota was grilled and Mon- tana was warned that if the “So Call- mocratic State Ticket in Mon- were elected Montana would be n just as bad shape as North Dakota now is. He discussed North Dakota’s banking and school system with a derision that made my blood boil. He was talking about OUR family, and I was a target for much discussion and following, and there were a number of Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blowing and snuffling! 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The ‘Prescription’ has done won- ders for me. I think it the only medicine for weak women.”—Mks. CARL GUELL, JR., 290 9th Street. Good looks in woman do not depend upon age, but upon health, You never see a good-looking woman who is weak, run-down. r. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip- tion is the best women’s tonic ‘there is. It.is 50 years old, and its age testifies to its goodness, =—————————————_—_— things I said in defense to such an extent that I was considered as favor- able tothe Nonpartisan program, and padded “the warning that unless Mon- ¢| tana take*into confidence and due con- sideration ‘the interests of the farmer and laborers it would be placed right jine'the.embarassing position of a farmer and labor legislature enacting <\laws of a cla¥s legislation, that the farmer needs the business man to buy his products and pay his cash, that the business man needs the farmer to raise his food, that the laborer need the capital and capital needs labor, in short we need each other. My defense of the North Dakota bank was that there was a question as to WHO should have authority to ex- amine the bank, but I was “stumped” when asked how interest coupons from unsold bonds could be consider- ed earnings,,as was I when asked if “North Dakota were not able to gov- ern itself WITHOUT the advice and interference of a non-resident of the , State to preside over secret caucuses |which passed upon NORTH DAKOTA LAWS.” 5 i We may have a famfly difference, politically, but I was one to vote for the admission of North Dakota into the union and it hurts my pride to hear U. S. Senators from other states, point to OUR political situation as a WARNING which other state should avoid and I most sincerely hope that {the voters of North Dakota on Novem- ber 2, 1920, will decide that tHe laws FOR North Dakota be introduced and passed upon ‘by RESIDENTS of the state and that WE are capable of self government and that WITHOUT inter- ference or advise from residents of | Minnesota and California, or any other state in the Union. This letter is your’s and if there be any excerpts that you endorse and might be the means of showing ONE voter that HE is an American Citizen {and has a full right to HIS or HER {vote WITHOUT being pledged to any PROGRAM conceived and attempted to set into operation by any resident of ANY other state or country on earth, you may use them. Yours very truly, D, ERNEST HALL. 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