Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-10

help a righteous, just and benefcent
lively called to address ourselves; and
all the signs of the times indicate that
we are about to undertake to find a So
luton for these problems. The discon-
tent and uneasiness of w%orkingmen
everywhere clearly show that labor Is
not satisfied with it's present position.
To their reasonable complaints the ma
ton is determined to listen with that
respect which is always due to honest
and honorable toll. Upon this mighty
class of our citizens depends, and
must always depend, a large
part OF our prosperity. Every
citizen is, therefore, bound to pay re-
spectful consideration to all reasonable
demands of labor. The problem is to
determine where the line is to be drawn
between reasonable and impracticable
reforms in the relations of labor to CAPT.
tai. But always the benefit of the doubt
should be given to labor, if doubt con-
fronts us as to what is best to be done in
legislation and usage. Human life is
more sacred than property, and every
human heart should hope for, and help
to produce, that happy settlement of the
relations of labor to capital which shall
insure to the toilers of the land the larg-
est possible return in the comfort and
advantages Of life compatible with a fair
treatment of capital. The latter can al
ways take care of itself, and we may rest
assured that no impartial class wishes to
cripple capital. It is only contended
that too much favor has been shown it
as against labor. If this be true, the
times are at hand which will resolutely
make the necessary corrections without
fear or favor.
Meantime there is no duty we can full
till for our state more important than
the duty upon all within her limits to
aid in all ways the general advancement
and improvement of stockraising and
agriculture in all it's branches. TO us in
North Dakota they are the very breath
of life. Every public encouragement
and assistance which our Strengthened
means will permit should be freely and
generously bestowed. It is a giving
which will surely be rewarded with the
best returns.
Upon these absorbing topics we must
not dwell too long. We are here not to
amend, but to note our national dangers
and troubles, and in the midst of our pa
triotic rejoicings to remember our short
comings and some of the tasks that re-
main to be wrought out.
and to our past to make a splendid fu-
ture. OF that we may have no doubt.
One of the ways in which we must be
true to American precedents and tradi-
lions is to be found in the education of
our children. Here is a great and sacred
responsibility. Most generously do we
provide in district, in township, in city
schools, and in all grades, up to and in
the universities, for the material needs of
education. The little white school house
is everywhere abroad in our own North
Dakota. Let us guard and help it on to
the best efficiency; let us treat it gener-
ously in every respect. But while doing
that, we must remember that we can all
greatly aid the schools by more personal
attention and intelligent interest. They
can be made centers of patriotic growth.
The American nation should stand guard
over the school-house. Every incentive
that will promote intelligent citizenship
should there be brought to bear, The
national flag, the national history, and
all the duties of citizenship should there
be honored in every possible way A
high morality, consistent with this chris
tan nations place in the world, should
ever be enforced. A high sense Of re-
sponsibility should always be held up to
the boys and girls, upon whom the fu-
ture solution Of America must depend.
Devotion to principle should be taught
as the only basis of life. And always are
our duties to others to be presented as
the only foundation for doing our duty
to ourselves.
Our young state is but just starting
out upon its development along the lines
of the ideas of American statehood with
in the nation. There is always danger
that we may be so taken up with the zeal
to advance her material interest as to
neglect or forget important and necessa-
ry elements of state life and growth.
We have been having hard times in
past years. There is no call for us to
ignore that. Indeed we commenced our
career in the very midst Of Universities,
anxieties, and fears. Severe droughts,
in some localities, have been prolonged
until discouragements came, with their
gloomy faces, to dwell in our homes.
Every department of business, every
interest Of Jul state, is SO intimately de-
pendent on the prosperity of our farmers
that all classes have felt these discourage
ments. But a better day is at hand.
Everywhere in North Dakota to-day are
the abundant evidence of a bountiful
harvest. Go where you will, the waving
fields of rich and promising grain glad
den the eye and comfort our hearts with
the assurance that hard times are to
give way at once to times much better.
We are going to astonish eve the nation
with our crops, to say nothing of that
great mass of people who have been lis
tening to the woes of Dakota. We are
going to attend to our own woes. and
give them a d cent burial, and ask nobody
else to dig the grave, or shovel in the
earth over the corpse of old hard times.
We give him a hearty farewell, and feel
that we can confidently assure HIM that
he is leaving the country for the coun-
try's good; and for ever, let us hope.
The marked rise in the values of our
lands is a good sign of a healthy state of
things; and we can confidently look for
ward, IN the near future, to a steady
natural, solid growth in population and
in all orr industrial. Everv sion indi-