The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 7, 1921, Page 4

THEBISMARCKTRIBUN ca Un eR ‘Wntered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. ‘GEORGE D.MANN) -, -- GAN PAYNE COMPANY . PAYNE Sa eeaeh DETROIT Kresge Bldg - Editor Fa CHICAGO. rt juette bi arauete “PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITE ‘NEW YORK - - Fifth Ave. Bldg MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is’ exclusively entitled to the usc “for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or tot otherwise crecited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ‘All rights of republication of special dispatches hereit: | “are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION + SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year......++ 7.2 -Daily by mail, per year (in Bismar Daily by mail, per year (in state outs ;Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.... THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) > DISSOLVING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY Whatever the merits, demerits, propriety : or " fexpediency of the recall election into which the state is now plunged, Republicans and Democrats i doubtless will rally to the defeat of the-honpar- jtisan election law which is sponsored by the I. V. _A. organization. oo ae i The Tribune is opposed to the entire schedule _of laws proposed by the I. V. A., and upon each ‘and every one of the program measures suggests sthat the voters affix an emphatic NO. # But the really vicigus piece of legislation is' the 7:20 5.00 6.00 i ' proposed law to dissolve all parties in the state, except in the selection of presidential electors, | congressmen and United States senators. Minnesota has a nonpartisan election law on her ; Statute books which removes party labels from| “ every office except state officials. Members to; ‘the state legislature and all but state officials are [selected without party designation. | "Phat law has broken down party unity. It has j made the task hard to rally Republicans or Demo-; { crats to the support of great issues to which the: parties may be committed. The presence of such ia law made the fight of Governor Preus against | _ Townleyism in Minnesota twice as. difficult. If i North Dakota is unwise enough to adopt such a! , fantastic election law as proposed by the Tv. A, ' it will rue the day that it delivered over to group} ' bosses a most powerful club. Senator McCumber has set forth the objections | to this law in a manner that defies successful con-| tradiction. Experience of other states is against such a law. Interviews by The Tribune of Minne- sota officials and Twin City newspapermen re-| flect an unanimous opposition to such a law. Gov- ernor Preus of Minnesota has been outspoken in } his opposition to the measure. A leadership that proposes to dissolve the Re- ’ publican party is not, a safe one jin this state’s crisis. The people of the state should be on their guard against the passage of a measure that would t legalize a mugwump party in North Dakota. Setting the primaries ahead to March is a piece of political trickery that goes well with the entire ? intent of the law. Fairminded men, whatever their . convictions upon the league program—(and The *< Tribune has changed not one iota in its opposi- : tion to state socialism whether sugar coated by “J. V. A. or Nonpartisan League)—will not vote :! virtually to disfranchise thousands of farmers by :{ fixing the primaries at a time when climatic con- ditiops are far from ideal and 80 per cent of the :! population is busily engaged in preparing the soil for seeding. The primary system was the entering wedge to ii : destroy interest in party organization and politi- | cal experience has shown that more inferior men 2: are selected under the primary than were nominat- ied under the convention scheme. ‘The pendulum : ‘has swung almost to its limit in the primary direc- ; tion and there are many evidences in other states, ‘notable Minnesota, that party conventions will ?'be restored. ; Vote NO on the party. i daw to legalize a mugwump WHO NEEDS A GUARDIAN? ** This very remarkable advice from the Fargo ;| Forum: i ' “Only two printing establishments in North {! Dakota are in a position to bid on state printing. ;:If these two printing establishments, the Bis- F : marck Tribune company and the Normanden Pub- i lishing company of Grand Forks, have not formed j i a working agreement as to prices they are so lack- *: ing in financial sense that they ought to. equip $i themselves with guardians. They were the only two bidders on the publicity pamphlet job.” ¢; It is inconceivable that The Forum, that poli- , tical monitor which thunders each day its call *' to pure politics and sound government, should j | Suggest such an unholy thing as an alliance tc rob the taxpayers—nay not suggest but even de- { { clare that unless The Tribune and the Normanden i do get together to rob the public treasury both ut should “equip themselves with guardians.” *{ The Tribune can hardlly take seriously such twaddle. It is a matter of record that the bid $!of The Bismarck Tribune company on the pub- 3; lity pamphlet was $1,000 less than the bid of- 1: fered by the Normanden. 4; For the last few years, The Tribune has sought to secure as much state printing as possible. It + has secured the work in an honest bidding against : the biggest plants in the state. On all contracts but the. publicity pamphlet it was thrown into competition with the Fargo plants’ which until -ecently: have had practically all the state print- ing. : | The Tribune is trying to build an industry here | for Bismarck, not Fargo. “State printing done in |Bismarck means a larger payroll for this city, ;more people employed and more: money in circula- | tion, It is characteristic of the I. V. A. program and ‘the scheme fathered by Fargo, that everything; \at Bismarck must be-shut up completely, “salvag- jed” to use a favorite expression of the Forum, 'while in the Red River Valley more than a million} so is to be squandered in trying out Townley’s; | program under I. V. A. auspices, ! | Bismarck citizens probably will awaken soon | to the plot to reapportion political spoils in the in- | {| terests of the Red River valley. But The Tribune; fighting to build up Bismarck and its institu-| tions. It refuses to join in any movement that: | spells salvage at Bismarck but expansion at Grand | |Forks and Fargo. at the expense of the Slope dis-' trict... t ‘ y i i The Forum’s suggestion that unless the two! ‘printing plants get together and fleece the tax-| ‘payers they are lacking in financial sense, may) convict The Tribune of a crime in the Forum’s| leyes., But The Tribune’s record-is clean. It wel-| ;comes a complete investigation of the letting of, the publicity pamphlet contract. The difference’ lin the bids is a sufficient reply to the Forum’s! ‘slur which in company with the Grand Forks Her-| ‘ald can see nothing west of the James river. ! | The Tribune is fighting every day for Bismarck | and the Missouri Slope. It hopes to secure for: ‘the best little city in the world the most favorable! ‘economic conditions, advantages that will attract; industries to that end that Bismarck will achieve’ the destiny to which she is entitled because of her} superb position. Aa Those men who are joining forces with interests hostile to Bismarck’s commercial progress should explain to the voters of Burleigh county why ity is salvage at Bismarck and expansion at Fargo and Grand Forks? { 1s, lig | _ LINCOLN | Galesburg, Ilinois, celebrates October 7, the 63rd anniversary of the debate that took place there between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen’ A. Douglas. | Lincoln at that time said of Douglas: “He is! blowing out the moral lights around us, when he| contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them.” On that issue, in 1858, Abraham Lincoln lost the senatorship: But it gained him the presi-| dency two years later. Right gets sidetracked at times, but it always wins.out in.the end. \ | FOOLISH Seo | |. For $1 you can buy five times as much crude} irubber as you could in 1913. Being a rubber farm-' er is a sad life these days. ; | In England, the great rubber kings are urging the owners of rubber plantaticans:to cut their out-' [put in two, to boost prices and make profits. j That is an unsoud policy. Under-production| in any industry would only further chloroform a} world convalescing from the economic losses of} war. The rubber market will right itself if given but it leaves a hang-over. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments réproduced 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 isstes which are being discussed in the press of the day. | THE BEST POLICY, AFTER ALL | Cy Thomson was, by all accounts, an exceptional man. He had brains, organizing ability and initi- ative. He was energetic and constructive. As men go, he stood intelligently above the crowd. He was a big man. But he was a crooked big man, and today he begins to pay the pepalty that crook- ed men, big or little, eventually must pay. The trite lesson in his case, as in all similar cases, is that honesty is not only the best but the only pos-; sible policy if you want to get on in the world. Thomson had his big chance—and he betrayed| himself as well as his employer. He was not con- tent with traveling the long, hard road to emi- nence, mile by mile. He wanted to make it in one leap. And to do it, he stole more than a million dollars from people who put their trust implicitly in him. As a result, life for him is over. The splendor which attended his spectacular career ends in a} narrow room, shut in by steel bars. While he may) earn a commutation of his 15-year sentence by/| good beheavior he must expect to spend the best years which remain to him in prison. When he emerges, it will be acter Thomson. An elderly ;man, he will have to begin life anew—without his| lorignial prospects. without his friends, with out even the citizenship which belongs to the humblest of those who have chosen the other path through |life. Entirely regardless of other. considerations, failure is written at the end of what was an un- icommonly promising life. As between the man who takes a ten-dollar bill \which doesn’t belong to him, and the man who jtakes a million dollars which doesn’t belong to him, the difference, morally, is only one of degree. The case of “Cy” Thomson is, therefore, import- jant only because it lays a special emphasis upon | the homely old truth that we cannot afford to tear} up our moral code. One way or another, we must \travel the rocky road.of the transgressor if we 'do.—St. Paul Pioneer Press; -.-» 4. Fete til ‘the dupe. Primaries when under time. Artificial famine is a temporary stimulant | through party regularity. * ok | convictions. By: The Pot Boiler ! “What an awful web we weave when we practice to deccive,” used} to be the top liner in the school copy books and fourth grade readers. Sound philosophy packed away in a brief sentence. Those politicians who are weighing the destinies of the state in the hollow of their hands can park their brains before this motto to good effect and let the wisdom of it soak m, ‘All of. which brings us to the Minot Daily, News' defense for accepting the compromige ‘program, of the I. Y. A. It heads“ that apology with thé old legend: “Half a loar is better than no’ bread.?;; es : The ‘Tribune is content to wait un- Republicgs anners, the house can], ght, and state socialism: tely. An I, V. As’ vdo Wittle to restore the}! thé “state because it; is nd éontemplates gambling itate’s:. credit. we weave when we |} Wok be ‘cleaned eliminated victory: sredl : socialis withthe the, <a practic To thosg;-who advocate. compromise with sdcialism and the 4yading: of}! sogialisti¢ < bosses for_meré\ynenta}|i excitemeng, the ‘Pot Boiler desirex'to t recall. the’ famous Bull Moose attack upon the Republican Party. ye oe & wnat William Howard Taft was adamant against the vagaries of ithe progres- sives who stood for the recall of judicial decisions among other fantas-. ies. In‘ some respects the program framers of the Bull Moose party re- sembled the wild eyed platform makers of the I. V. A. and the misled visionaries of the Nonpartisan Lea- gue who are hunting the rainbow. There was'an editor in Ohio by the, name of Harding who refused to be stampeded by the “half of loaf” boys. He stood by his guns,and upheld Re- publican ovrinciples’’ and stood for sound _ representativ government | t Associated. with him was one| Daugherty, who directed the Taft campaign in Ohio; He was lone-} some holding up the tent pole against} the attack of the comvromisers and! those who had. drifted from their! political moorings to scek out taise! and unstable gods. | These three men ‘went down in the Republican defeat. But today those; | principles for which they fought, and; never deviated from, have triumph Mr. Harding is in the White Hou William Howard Taft is chief justice and Daugherty is a member of the! cabinet. Call it poetic justice, or} what you will, but:there a things than defeat in polities | These men triumphed ultimately | because they stood for their political! i They refused to hej Stampeded into a mugwump organiza tion and adopt every vagary pro-! pounded by long haired men and the! short haired other type. i + 8 | The time has arrived in the opinion} of the Pot Boiler to cease compromis-; ing with state socialism and political vagaries. The Tribune is willing to wait its time. Political normalcy: will return, but nevew through a pro- gram that smatters/of the same} doctrine 2s that of thr Nonpartisan! League. Swapping socialists is not) progress. | The “Half a Loaf” editorial of the} Minot Daily News. follows: | “The Bismarck Tribune _ takes; exception to a recent editorial in The Minot Daily News which criticized the | Bismarck paper for its failure to de- monstrate its sincreity in its d ‘a-| tions of, uncompromising anti-social-! istic sentiments by taking the logical course of energetically supporting the ; recall ticket. In ‘a letter to The News, George D. Mann, editor of the Tribune, says: We do. take exception; when you insinuate that the senti- ments of The Tribune are dominated | by what you call the McKenzie’ crowd. “How The Tribune can reconcile its} professions of abhorrence of all things} socialistic with its failure to aid the! forces that are battling socialism inj the state—and the only forces which RECALL CAULDRON {thé calm observér ‘tor cajclude that Tisis ly 2 game of nolitics instead, of doing its F foe hduty. by getting into the fight and !'Tribune’s defe ‘mot distant day when the lea; are doing’ so. at present—does not appear. The Tribune appears to pre- fer no bread tothe half loaf which 1t contends the recall campaign offers. It should be apparent to all that the: sweenine away of the Nonpartisan) league government means a vast im- peveeMuny vi conaitions, will prevent any further aabbying in, socialism. or other unsound political and industrial heresies and: will turn the state back toward sane ° progress. and normal conditions. {t gives the people, the opportunity to express their will, and surely The: Tribune does not wish to deny them that privilege especially in view of the very abnormal and dis- tressing conditions which prevail. “It is so extremly obvious ‘that. the recall is the only, hone of immediate relief and that it represents the only tive and <practicable ‘effort to rid ‘North Dakota’ ofits monstrous incubus ‘that the attitude of Thé Tribune forces the Bismarck. paper ‘is merely playing ‘battling with the. rest for the destruc- tion of recognized evils and the speedy betterment. of conditions. “Talk of compromising. opposition to. socialism and. all its work at such ‘atime as this is all poppycock. It jis! the camouflage of .the: politician rather than the honest, exuression of ‘a sincere, good citizen: The Tribune ae no more consistent foe ‘of socialism an The News, The Forum and The Giand Forks Herald. The Tribune’s attitude is aiding, as far as its in- fluence aes, the Nonpartisan league campaign. “{he surest proof of this is the mranwey «if which the league vress.is taking ‘up the cudgels in The e\ against independ- ent criticisms. . ‘ “And with The Tribune recognized as a backdoor support ono the league} it is interesting to specultte uvon ‘the Bismarck paper‘s position in that e will "be gone and its press will have nassed ‘nto the limbo of discarded things. ‘The Tribune will be as alone in North Dakota as Guy Faulkes, Benedict EVERETT TRUE ( Arnold and the man who tried to in- vent a perpetual motion machine.” They said the same things of the men who refused to sign the Bull Moose» Bill of Rights, but truth is mighty and will prevail. There is still a God in Israel. ee ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts i Urchy Urchin did not nave the Fairy! Queen’s pink pearl, hidden’ in his! Wushy coat.- The Twins and Cap'n Pennywinkle searched him all over and there was no sign 07 it. So Urchy | waddled away to a secret place under} some frocks that he knew about to, sulk. ; i “We'll ask al the oysters and clam- next,” said Nancy; brightly “I’m sure they’d tell us if they’d found it.” _She and Nick were off at once and ‘knocked at the door of each sleeping cysters’ as though the British were coming. But each one assured them Politely that po pink pearl had come his . One even remarked that to have ‘a*pearl, any one kind of a pear!, had been the height of his ambition all hig life, but-had he found one as large as the rainbow, in it, the Twins should‘ have it, because they had been; so kind. The Twins thanked him and skipped on, continuing their search. They climbed over rock beds and asked the! barnacles, but landee, tiey didn’t seem; to know what a pearl was, even! And the sponges’ didn’t know anything about if, either, the dummies! And thé shrimps just walked off and waved their feelers. on their own troubles as the shrimp- nets. had been put out and they had to watch their step. don’t get caught in one of them!” warned one old fellow. “Badge or no badge, Magic Shoes, or none, you'll be; in a nice pickle if you get caught, and | that’s not a joke, for it’s the very | thing they do to you, the shrimp-| fishers, pickle you-and put you up in; cans.” if 1 “And mind, you! for 60 cents a package. Mend thatLeak 3 SAVE PLUMBERS BILLS. + FRIBAY, OCTOBER 7, :1921 With this advice, he departed and the Twins started away, but to their dismay they found they couldn’t move. A fine gray gauze thread was wrap- Neer and (sound and ‘round (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1921, NEA Service.) = = m > Bolshevism slipped on the soap. Feathers have always been down. Aviators are good to the last drop. | { | Opportunity often finds the door- j bell broken. ' i | | | Politic‘ans believe it all comes out in the whitewash. | Some men suffer in silence; some |for lack of silence. Tariff makers have an exaggerated jidea on their duties. | The pen is mightier than the sword |and not as expensive. | More sensible than saving daylight is saving electric light. Some neighbors will borrow any- thing except the baby. Some folks should be more forgiv- ing and less for getting. | i | More overcoats and fewer watches will be worn this winter. This bean soup must be. made by washing the ‘cooks’ head. | ‘Time for propheteers to start. talk- ing about the turkey shortage. Suppose you lived at the North Pole and hubby stayed out. all night. | i Astronomers say people ‘réally’ live on the moon. They must—stayim# out all night. i Treland is shortage in Centinved rioting in causing a policeman America. ; Early to bed and early to rise makes you healthy and wealthy but not very wise. Heredity or not, a boy whose par- ents can’t work arithmetic is handi- capped at school. ’ PEOPLE'S FORUM | © PEOPLES FORUM | Union, N. Dak., Editor, Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck, N. D. Dear Editor: I want to takeoff my, hat to you ‘one the stand you are taking on this jrecall orgy. It is unthinkable that this I. V. A bunch—many of its star performers _ being renegade Non- partisan Leaguers should capture the State Goevrnment. It’s a wonder so many people fail to see how two- faced and ‘ineonsistent the I. V. A. program and many of their most prominnt leaders are. Here’s hoping | the recall will be defeated, so we can jhave an honest housecleaning next | year. Yours truly, 5 From one of your Cavalier Co. readers. W. L. 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