Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-16
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WHERE THE SHOE PlNcHEs.

WHERE THE SHOE PlNcHEs.
Senate bill No. a seems to bother
some people, and their newspaper, a
great deal. This bill prescribes the
qualification of persons for elective |
Offices to the extent that one is not
qualified to hold two or more certain
elective offices at the same time.
The Tribune never heard of the bill
or knew of such measure before the
legislature until it was taken up by
the senate committee. Simply be-
cause it has local application It is
opposed-in Bismarck-by those Of
fcials who either maintain or rent
buildings to blind piggers and are now
shaping matters up to flag around the
law by means of mayor and ma
jority of the city council, if this can
be had. that will a fine the piggers
monthly. 1t is discovered that senate
bill No. 4 would break the system,
or disarrange the combination be
tween the city and county to carry out
1 q plan OF this kind. [. ..ss5ss
Now, SO far as the Tribune is con.
cerned it does not care rap about
senate bill No. and doesn't want it
I passed as q local proposition. The
Tribune believes there is merit in the
measure and has discussed it from
That standpoint, its application locally
being mentioned merely to show how
Offices are punched in this city. Mem
bers from other parts of the state
know how they are likewise punched"
In other counties. possibly not SO much
SO as in this part of the state
This measure should either stand or
i fall on its merits Independent OF local
considerations
Members of this legislature. have
commented on the improved conditions
in Bismarck over two years ago.
There are fewer and less noisy drink
ing resorts than two years ago. ma
There is less gambling. There is
less hurrah. The moral tone of the
community has improved.
The elaborate lay-outs of tin-horn
gamblers and open pigs up and
down the alleys and streets that had
been fitted up for legislative picking
have not fourished as they expected.
The night before New Years, the
d mayor and the sheriff, after confer
ence with forty or fifty of the leading
N citizens Of Bismarck served notice
ON the gentry engaged in these pre-
4 parations that there would be some
thing doing il they did not close up
and remain closed. Some it is said
have not remained entirely closed,
and this suggests the prediction that
there VIII be g something doing later
ON. s$
ss People who are looking for trouble
faW-breakers who daring their fellow
citizens and defy them usually are
called" in the long run
There is an element in Bismarck
that hopes to prevent any retrogres-
sion Weare building good city we
J have better name than we had when
& the MAYOR and other officers openly
boosted Of how they ran the city and
defied the good people OF the state.
Our present mayor is not blind.
bigger and he is not renting buildings
for that purpose.
Senate bill No. may incidentally
have local application but how in
significant compared with the local
application some other measures be-
fore the legislature instance the
bill prohibiting officials from renting
buildings for blind pig purposes Such
law would cause speedy transfer
OF title on the part Of several officials.
It is curious fact that has been
noticed by all members and readers of
the newspapers Of Bismarck that any
measure, any movement, any organ
: ization having for It's object curtaiL
ing of vice, an encouragement Of civic
pride, an Improvement IN the moral
tone OF the community, meets with
Immediate and violent opposition from
the newspaper organ of that element
IN the Capital City that profits BY the
prevalence Of vice, the presence Of
iaw-breakers, and Misrepresentation Of
crime.
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4 Is understood that Senator Sirnp-
SON win soon Introduce a bill for the
addition OF few townships to the
north OF Stark county to that bail
fwIck, the aforesaid territory lying III