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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-04-16

tice, whether in politics, in business,
or in social life II hail as a benefac-
Tor every wrdter or speaker, every man.
who, ON the platform, or in book,
magazine or newspaper, with merci-
less severity makes such attack, pro
vided always that he in his turn re-
members that the attack is of use only
If it is absolutely truthful. The liar
is no whit better than the thief, and
If he mendacitly takes thesfornof SLAM
der, he may be worse than most
thieves. It puts a premium upon
5knaYery ,untrut hfully to attack an hon
est man, or even with hysterical ex-
aggeratiOn to assail bad man with
untruth. An epidemic of indiscrimin-
ate assault upon character does no
good, but very great harm. The soul
of every Scoundrel lis gladdened when
ever an honest man is assailed, or
even when a scoundrel is untruthfully
assaulted. h
Now, it is easy to twist out of shape
what have just said, easy to affect to
misunde rstand it, and. if it is slurred
over in repetition, not difficult really
to misunderstood it. Some@persons
are sincerely incapable of under
ing does not mean the Endorsement of
embarrassing; and both the Interested
individuals who need WhiteWashing,
ana those others who practice mud
Singing, like TO encourage such con-
fusion Of ideas. One of the chief
counts against those who make indis-
criminate assault upon men in bust
ness or men in public life, is that
they invite a reaction which Is sure to
he'll powerfully in favor of the I'M
Escrupulous scoundrel who really ought
to be attacked, who ought to be ex-
posed, who ought, if possible, to be put
In the penitentiary. If Aristides is
praised oVermuch as just, people get
tired of hearing it; and overcensure of
the unjust finally and from similar
reasons results in their favor.
Any excess lis almost sure to invite
a reaction and, unf ortunat ely, the
reaction, instead Of taking the form of
punishment of those guilty of the ex-
cess, is very apt to take the form
either Of punishment of the unoffend-
ing or of giving immunity, and even
strength, to Offenders. The effort to
make financial or political profit out
of the destruction of character can
only result in public calamity, Gross
and reckless assaults on character,
whether on the stump or in newspaper,
azine, or book, create a morbid
and vicious public sentiment, and at
the same time act as a profound dat-
|riment to able men or normal sensi-
tiveness and tend to prevent them
from entering the public service at
any Yt,.i 10 Acs d n "a IN S,,,iY,4
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-04-16

| to excite a foul class feeling on be
half of some other labor leader who
is implicated in murder. One attitude
! is as bad as the other, and no worse
! in each case the acc1sed Us entitled
to exact justice; and in neither case
is there need of action by Others
which can be construed into an ex.
preston of sympathy for crime.
1t is prime necessity that If the
present unrest is to result in perma-
nent good the emotion shall be trans
lated INFO action, and that the action
shall be marked by honesty, sanity,
and seIf-restraint There is mighty
little good in mere spasm of reform.
The reform that comes is that which
comes through steady, continuous
growth; violent emotionalism leads to
exhaustion.
1t is important to this people to-
grapple with the problems connected
with the amassing of enormous for
tunes, and the use of those fortunes,
both corporate and individual, in
business. We should discriminate in
the sharpest way between fortunes
weIrwcn and fortunes in-won; be-
tween those gained as an incident to
performing great services to the COM
munity as a whole, and those gained
in evil. In some form exercise super
vision over corporations engaged in
interstate business-and ALL large cor
porations are engaged in Interstate
business by license or other.
wise, so as to permit us to deal with
the far-reaching evils of over-capital-
ization. This year we are making a
beginning in the direction of serious
effort to settle some of these eco
nomic problems by the railway rate
Legislation. Such Legislation, If so
framed, as am sure it will be, as to
secure definite and tangible results,
will amount to something of itself;
and it will amount to great deal
more in so far as it is taken as a first
step in the direction of a. policy of
superintendent and control over
corporate wealth engaged in interstate
commerce, this superintendent and
control not to be exercised in spirit
of malevolence toward the men who
have created the wealth, but with the
firm purpose both to do Justice to
them and to see that they in their turn
do justice to the public at large.
The first requisite in the public
servants WHO dIS W utdI III tulS SutpC
with corporations, is honesty. This
honesty can be no respector of per
sons. There can be no such thing as
unilateral honesty. The danger is not
really from corrupt corporations; it
springs from the corruption itself,
whether exercised for or against cor
porafions. ,:S,sa : @
The eighth commandment reads,
thou shalt not steal, It does not
read, thou shalt not steal from the
rich man. 1t does not read, thou
| shalt not steal from the poor man.
1T reads simply and plainly, thou
shalt not steal. No good whatever
will come from that warped and mock
morality which denounces the mis-
deeds Of men Of wealth and forgefs
the Inisdeeds practiced at their ex-
fpense; which denounces bribery, but
lblinds itself to black mai Itch
lfoams with rage If a corporation Sc
cures faVors by improper methods,
jaaa merely leers with hiieous nirth
| III the corporation Is ITSELF wronged,
The only public servant who can be
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-04-16

has idisgraced Expose the crime, and
hunt down the criminal; but remem-
Der that even in the case of crime, il
it is attacked in sensational, lurid,
and untruthful fashion, the attack
may do more damage to the public
mind than the crime itself. 1t is be
cause I feel that there should be no
rest in the endless war against the
forces of evil that ask that the war
be conducted with sanity as we'll as
with resolution. The men with the
muckrake are often indispensable to
the well-being of society; but only if
they know when to stop raking the
muck, and to look upward to the
celestial crown above them, to the
crown of worthy endeavor. There are
beautiful things above and round
about them; and If they gradually
grow to feel that the whole thing Isl
nothing but muck, their power of USE
fulness is gone. If the whole picture
is painted black there remains no hue
whereby to single out the rascals for
distinction from their fellows. Such
painting finally induces kind of NOR
al color-bh ndness; and people affected
by 1t come to the conclusion that no
ly white, but they are all gray. In
other words, they neither believe in
the truth Of the attack, nor in the hon
esty of the man who is attacked; they
grow aus suspicious of the accusation
as OF the offense; it becomes we'll
nigh hopeless to stir them either to
wrath against wrong doing or to en-
thusiasm for what is right; and such
a mental attitude in the public gives
hope to every knave, and is the
despair Of honest men. 49,.
q To assail the great and admitted
evils Of our political and industrial
life with such crude and sweeping
generalizations as to include decent
men in the general condemnation
means the soaring of the public CON
science. There results general atti-
itude either Of cyndical belief in and
indifference to public corruption or
else of distrustful inability to dis
criminate between the good and the
bad. Either attitude Is fraught with
untold damage to the country as a
whole. The fool who has not sense to-
discriminate between what Is good
and what Is bad is well-nigh as
dangerous aus the man who does dis
criminate and yet chooses the bad.
There is nothing more distressing to
every good Patriot. TO every good
American, than the hard, scofffng
spirit which treats the allegation of
dishonesty in a public man as a cause
for Taught len, Such laughter Is worse
than the cracldling of thorns under a
pot, for it denotes not merely the
warrant mimi htlf III q hes ~ n, mn, iJ.l,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-04-16

cal Sensationalism Is the very poorest
weapon Wherewith to fight for lasting
| righteousfiess. The men who with
stern sobriety and truth assan the
many evils of our time whether in the
public press, or in magazines, or IN
books, are the leaders and allies
of all engaged in the work for social
and. political betterment. But If they
give good reason for distrust of what
they say, if they chill the ardor of
those who demand truth as primary
virtue, they thereby betray the good
cause, and play into the hands OF the
very men against whom they are
nominally at war.
In his ecclesiastical polity that fine
old Elizabethan divine, Bishop Hook
er, wrote: '-
"He that goeth about to persuade a
multitude that they are not so well
governed as they ought to be, shall
never want attentive and favorable
hearers, because they know the mani
fold defects whereunto every kind of
regimen is subject, but the secret let's
and and difficulties, which in public
proceedings are innumerable and in
evitable, they have not ordinarily the
judgment to consider
This truth should ;be kept constant
ly in mind by every free people desir-
ing to preserve the sanity and poise
indispensable to the permanent sue
cess of self government. Yet, on the
other hand, it is vital not to permit
this spirit of sanity and se1f-command
to degenerate into mere mental stag
nation. Bad though state of hysteri-
cal excitement is, and evil though the
results are which come from the vio-
lent oscillations such excitement in
Eariably produces, yet sodden &C
quiescence in evil Is even worse. At
this moment we are passing through
a period of great unrest--soieial, politi-
cal and industrial unrest. 1t is of the
most Importance for OUR future that
this should prove to be not the I'M
rest of mere Righteousness against
life, of mere dissatisfaction with the
inevitable Inequality of conditions,
but the unrest of a resolute and eager
ambition to secure the betterment of
the individual and the nation. So far
as this movement of agitation through
out the country takes the form of a
fierce discomfort with evil, of de
termination to punish, the authors of
evil, whether in industry or politics,
the feeling Is to be heartily vel
coined as a sign Of healthy life.
If, on the other hand, 1t turns into
a mere crusade of appetite against
appetite, OF a contest between the
brutal greed Of the have notss and
the brutal greed of the HAYES" then
LIT has no significance for good, but
only for evil If it seeks TO establish
la line of cleavage, not only hhe line
which divides good men from bad, but
along that other line, running at right
angles thereto, which divides those
who are we'll OFF from those who are
less well off, then it will be fraught
with undesirable harm to the body
polite.
We can no more and NO less afford
| to- cendone evil In the man Of capital
than evil in the man of no capital
The wealthy man who exaiilts because
there Is failure of justice In the
effort 10 bring some trust magnate to
an account for his misdeeds Is as bad
| ais, and no worse shan. the sc4railed
labor leader who ciamoFously strives
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-04-16
.IYNCHED The WRONG men
Three Negroes Met Horrible Fate at Hands Of uriated
Mob Woman in Case Declares They We're
Not Her RaViSherS

statute of the Goddess of Liberty AS
the two men squirmed and turned, at
the foot of the rope a fire of damp
wood was started under them and
shortly afterward their lives went out
Sunday morning another negro was
lynehed for the same crime, and
whom the woman also declared inno-
cent 49, - .-zz a.... i:
The mob was wild all of yesterday
and the negroes of the city have fed
for their Lives and are now in hiding.
Six companies of militia are now on
duty and it is thought a horrible race
war has been averted.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-04-16
NEieHBoRHooD NEWS.

Napoleon Homestead: Mrs. s. H.
Rossiter, wife of the manager of the
Independent Telephone company of
Ipswich, S. D., was here yesterday at
work on the project of installing a
telephone system with central office
and headquarters at Napoleon. A
local exchange will be put in at once
and connecting lines will be. extended
to Wishek, Braddook and other points,
making connection with long distance
phones Of other lines. About thirty
phones were subscribed for yesterday
and it is expected the number will
total nearly fifty by the time the work
of installation is comm enced.
Mannhaven Journal: 1t seems to
be a fact that the second survey of
the Northern Pacific railroad Co.
through parts of Mercer county, will
be the one selected. Mannlhaven as
well as Stanton, while located in
corners of the county, promise to be
good towns in the very near future.
The unexpected often happens, and
those lucky ones holding real property
there ought to stick to it.
Garrison Times: A flickertail head
ed into his hole last fall on the
prairies Of North Dakota in close
proximity to a wheat field. This week
he aroused from his long sleep and
after rubbing his eyes and stretch
ing he appeared on the surface only
to be surprised to find himself in
Main street of one of the best and
busiest towns in North Dakota, that
town being Garrison. Think of a
town the size of Garrison being built
entire since last September and 1t
gives you correct idea as to how the
whole state is moving to the front.
l. Garrison Times: As a result of us
ing kerosene to start fire, the home
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-04-16

A couple of boys were arrested at
Aneta for discharging fire arms within
the city limits, and it is hoped that
this will serve as warning to num-
Der of lads who have been guilty of
the same offense.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-04-16
BIG Steamers COLLIDE
Two of the Largest Steel Steamers Crash Into Each Other
in the 500 Canal Channel Blocking II and
49, Causing Heavy Loss

norman sank at once, but the tSaxona
got outside the channel before sinking.
Both steamers are among the highest:
class make of vessels and the loss on
their bulls and cargoes will sbe heavy.
No lives were lost. Is, . /.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-04-16

sault Ste. Marie, Mich, April 10
The most disastrous collision of many
years in the 500 passage occurred to-
day when the steel steamers Saxona
and Eugene Zimmerman came togeth-
er at the foot of the dyke. The Zim-
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-04-16

!. Garrison Times: AS result of us
ing kerosene to start fire, the home
Of MIR. and Mrs. J. F. Smith, in the
northwest portion of Garrison, came
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-04-16

Linton Record: Miss Sadie Bales,
a young-lady teacher residing in the
The Ordway new era., 1906-08-17
riaers Tap Rubber Trees.

Near Perak In the Malay peninsula
is a prosperous rubber factory run by
a long headed Scotchman. In order to
obtain the sap from which the rubber
is made II is necessary to puncture
the bark OF the trees. Laborers arc
scarce in that district. but there are
an abundance OF tigers. There were
not enough men to tap" the treos. but
tho Scotch proprietor hit on n brill
liant idea. He knew that tigers are
fond of valerian, SO he gave orders
that all the trees should be rubbed
with this stun. The tigers came up
and caressingly scratched the bark in
the most approved herringbone fash
ion. after which all that the coolies
had to do was to walk around once q
day and collect the rubber.
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NO BAN ON SMALL SOLDIERS.
Government Lowers the Standard to
Admit Porto Ricans.

washington.-Conc to tho
slight stature OF the Porto Ricans is
made in a general order Just issued
By the general staff OF the army pro-
yIding that five feet two inches shall
be the minimum height of men admit
ted to the Porto Rican provisional reg.
Iment. Heretofore the minimum
height for the insular regiment has
been five feet iive inches. which is
the height required for admission to
the regular army In the United States.
The new order does not extend to Off.
GERS OF the Porto Rican regiments.
who will still be required to come up
TO American standards.
Other minimum measurements arc
also reduced by the general order in
proportion to the height. Recruits
five feet two inches tall are required
to have chest measurement OF 80
inches at expiration and mobility OF
the chest amounting to two inches.
One hundred and twenty.four pounds
is fixed as the minimum weight for
this height.
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TAKE MILLIONS FROM AMERICA.
Records Show That immigrants Send
Earnings to Home Banks.

misunderstanding of dollars In
American gold is being boarded an
nually in the banks of Italy by tenn.
porary Italian residents of the United
States. This is the news that has
just reached the government. along
with a statement from the general
commissioner of immigration at Rome
that the total immigration to the
states from Italy In the year 1866
approached the 100000 mark.
The idea OF most Italian emigrants.
says the immigration commissioner.
Is TO accumulate something like n
fortune in the states and return with
II to Italy. The intimacy OF the home
connection is shown by the exhibit
of the Bank OF Naples. which. hav-
ing advertised that sort OF business
as Its specially. has more than $4,000
accounts opened by Italian emigrants
in the United States and placed to
their credit during the fiscal year Just
closed more than 100000.
During the same period Italians in
Argentina sent to this single bank
sS2S.0OO and si25.000 came from Bra.
zil.
Tho total receipts from such
sources at the Naples bank were
100000 above those OF the year be.
fore. And that Is only one bank
among dozens In Italy.
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BRICKS MADE BY LIGHTNING.
Elements Are Kind to Man Living
Near Columbus, Ind.

Columbus. Ind.-Nathan II. New.
som, a farmer of Sandcreek township.
has brought to this city some samples
or bricks made by lightning. During
a thunder. rain and hail storm on his
farm recently lightning struck shock
of wheat and burned 1t.
Several hours later Mr.. Newsom
was walking through the field and
found the ground so hot near the
burned shock that he could not stand
on 1t. The next day the ground
was still hot. and he took shovel
and dug down to see for his own
curiosity how much of the ground had
been affected.
Ten inches down he found that the
ground was thoroughly baked. and
pieces of earth which readily hold
together were taken out. The earth.
which was fine black soil. is cooked
to a brick red. and every bit OF vege.
table matter has been roasted out.
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Easily Heads List-cIay Products
IA Limestone Next In lmpor-
|t,nee According to Figures
Of Geologist.

3eago.-The annual productios of
klneral wealth OF Illinois has been
bed By the state and government
gieal surveys. 1t has been fo,ind
d 1905 the state produced a total
3,,sss. 900 In minerals. or this
900 was coal.
Il products and limestone come
to coal In Importance. Other
decorations from home ahin-
are sandstone. Portland cement.
hl rock cement. fiuorspar, tain-
spfing water. spclter. lead ore.
sand and molding sand.
startling thing discovered In
Us research. according to +. u.
Horn. In the Mining World. Is
lerease In the amount OF spring
sold. At one time there was
to the amount OF s3.03S. 900
RON springs In Illinois. In 1905
Popped to $4,000. The explana-
that resorts have been found.
the different springs and the
is used for bathing purposes
loi sold In the market.
production OF Portland cement.
Is becoming one OF the most
rant factors In building. is In.
as On this question Mr.. Van
says:
output Of Portland cement for
sas l.5i5.j00 barrels. valued at
.i5o. In 1904 l.326.70t barrels.
= value OF si.ii?.l14. were pro-
The natural rock cement was
at sl66.555 In 1905. as com.
With $4,000 In 1904. There
-Four concerns manufacturing
lhd cement only. three manufac.
natural rock cement and one
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Convenient English.

I'VE become accustomed to .
phrase" observed an educator at .
teachers convention, but when We
introduce n new one along exactly
the same lines. It startles the hearcr.
"A number of ladies' were seated In
hotel parlor. and one OF them. COM
menting on a woman who was stand.
ing in the hallway, said:
Mrs. Lorraine seems unusually hap
by this morning.
YES answered companion.
knowingly. the ladies' OF Newark gave
tea in her honor yesterday. But
doesn't her husband look gloomy and
dcjected?'
That is true admitted the first
speaker. I presume the gentlemen
OF Newark gave q beer in his honor
last night"
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To Cook Without Fire.

make one In the course Of day ac-
cording to the army standard. The
commissary department is highly
gratified over the success in the eN-
periments made in the west. and the
officers are devoting their attention TO
developing minor improvements. such
as the application of devices for her
metically sealing the cooking vessels
and tightening the weight of the out
fit.
The large six.compartment cookers
first made weighed 450 pounds each.
but they have been lightened. and one
development is single compartment
cooker weighing a little over 100
pounds which has found much favor
because it can be packed readily on
mule. assuring hot supper for de-
tachment at the end OF days scout.
Another Improvement about to be In
troduced is the adoption OF aluminium
vessels, made after the departments
plans, which are expected to be inde-
structible.
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rn,svlMo sov,aasL DRlvGM orr
RebIns successfully Defend Nsss
Against Msraudsr.

A pair Of robins proved too much
Tor . marauding squirrel in Independ-
ence square yesterday. While on .
midair cruise he suddenly stopped ~
though something special had attract
cd his attention. and then he came
down the tree In a slow. unconcerned
manner. The secret was out when
he shyly began the ascent Of another
oak. in the branches Of which o pair
Of the redbreasts had built their nest.
His little eyes gllstening and his
whole manner that OF a thief, he
moved up the tree trunk. and had al
most reached the little blue eggs in
the nest when the mother bird and
her mate saw him and flew down from
their upper perch. They were on Mr..
Squirrel In an instant. and the fur
flew when their beaks got into action.
The retreat Of the squirrel was quick
ly effected. The watchers were
amused. Then a second time the rob
ber advanced, and was SO successful
as to get one OF the eggs in his paws
before the birds came to the rescue.
The squirrel was nonplussed, as he
couldn't back down with the egg with
the birds pecking him. and he was
loath to relinquish his hard-won prize.
His hesitation was fatal. though. as
the birds. with concerted rush, fair
ly showed him out of the nest. and the
robins followed him 30 quickly and
furiously that the egg was dropped
and smashed on the ground. The
squirrel then gave up his purloining
expedition.-Philade Record.