The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1899-09-23
They That Battle With and Con-
quel Dirt and Disorder in
Cities
Win Greater Victories Than
Those Who Destroy Fleets
and Armies.
League Of American Municipali-
ties in Session.-.Golde Rule
Government.

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SYRACUSE, N. Y, Sept. 2O.-Ths
third annual convention of the League
Of American Municipalities opened here
with 400 delegates in attendance, and
many more are expected during the
day. Mayor Mcclure of Syracuse made
the address OF welcome to the city.
Governor Roosevelt, who was to have
delivered the address of welcome to the
state telegraphed that he could not be
present. Former Mayor Samuel L..
Black of Columb bus, O., president of
the league, responded to the address of
welcome. In his annual address. Presi-
dent Black said:
I'VE are not here to lose ourselves in
8 abstruse and abstract speculations.
Our purpose is only practical one.
We deal with the human life; we seek
to prolong it's to suffer it to run its nat
ural course, unchecked and unha,n-
pered by disease. We aim to work this
out by disposing of such severely prac-
tical questions as garbage disposal
water supply, civil service reform,
saloon regulations and similar meas
ures. Neither the physician nor the
minister of the gospel go before us in
the humanitarian character of their
work.
It IL q Great victory.
If we and others working along this
line can increase the general effect of
the health and happiness of the mill
ions who dwell in cities, we have
gained q victory. compared to which
the destruction of fleet or an army is
as nothing. Since the last meeting OF
the League our people have been called
upon to undertake or at least to regu-
late the government Of cities in new
countries, and in Havana. Santiago.
Manila and other cities of the East
and West Indies, our vigorous soldiers
and administrators are enforcing the
first principles Of our municipal system
cleanliness and order plans
are proposed and whatever hopes we
indulge The hulk of oar soters srru nor
educated upon municipal affairs and
are not informed Of the advantages.
they can secure by a proper exercise of
their suffrages. The voter should be
taught what he can secure by intelli-
gent voting. This must be done by the
object lesson and example of other cit
les were so much has been done for the
public at large. Tell the voters what
to vote for, and put your examples in
the concrete"
Atlanta. Ga., is represented by Il
large delegation which is making great
efforts to have the next convention.
st. Paul and Milwaukee are also bid.
ding for the convention.
.sGolden Rule Government"
The principal address was made by
Mayor Samuel Jones of Toledo, o., upon
the subject: ''New Patriotism; a
Golden Rule Government" He said
in part:
las it stands today it is simply can
dor to say that the word patriotism is
to most people a meaningless jingle.
the one conception they have being as
sociated with red fire, bunting, flags,
frecrackers and Fourth of July. The
new patriotism, however, is the old
patriotism. The flag, the Stars and
Stripes, still represent the love of mill
ions, but we have been so busy in the
chase after wealth that any just con-
ception is we'll nigh lost in the hurly-
burly Of the scramble.
I'VE have reached the point where we
are discovering that wild beast ethics
are not good enough upon which to
base permanent and enduring repub-
lie. The ethics of che wild beast, the
survival Of the strongest, shrewdest and
the meanest have been the inspiration
Of our materialistic lives during the
last quarter Of century. This fact in
our natural history has brught as today
face to face with the inevitable result.
We have nation in which few are
wealthy, few are in what might be
called comfortable circumstances, vast
numbers are propertyless and millions
are in pauperism and crime. Certainly
no reasonable person will contend that
this is the goal that we have been strug-
Cling for; that the inequalities that
characterize our rich and poor repre-
sent the ideas that the founders of this
republic saw when they wrote that all
men are created equal. And the new
Patriotism is the love Of the millions
that is already planning for and open
ing the way to better things, to con-
dition of life under this government
when every child born in it will have
equal opportunity with every other
child to live the best possible life that
he or she can live.
The steps most likely to contribute
to bringing about the better days and
better times for which we all long are,
to- my mind, those thing that will
unity the people; that will serve to weld
them together into one common mass;
those things that will help them to un-
derstand the oneness Or solidarity OF So
5clety and the things that are the great
est hindrance to this sort Of develop
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