Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-06-20

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| has followed all his life. do not know
how much authority and power is
vested in these gentlemen by the
laws of the United States; doubtless
| the laws upder which they act are
in themselves wisely drawn. But / do
assert, simply as citizen confident in
the just intent of all the laws upon
| the federal statute books, that no
| body of officials has the right to de-
prive man Of his ,proper means of
livelihood without publicly proving
upon demand that beyond reason
able doubt the charges on which their
action is based are not only true, but
also sufficiently serious to justify
them in pronouncing so severe a pun
| ishment There are other officials
higher than district inspectors and
other tribunals higher still. 1t is only
| fair to say to those who are response
bic for the failure of Capt. Grant
Marsh to receive a renewal of his Ii.
cense that if they are guiding their
action by other than proper motives
or permitting themselves to be in
fuenced to a tyrannous use of the
power intrusted to their hands, forces
quite beyond their ability to check
| will carry the righteous demand for
justice to quarters where it will be
heard and needed. When the day Of
justice comes it is always, without
fail, day of reckoning and a day of
woe to her unfaithful servants. Yours
| very truly,
JOSEPH MILL EIANSON. s=
The Journal comments editorially
as follows: i
Inspectors Refuse License.
The Duluth inspectors, Messrs.
Monaghan and Chalk, have issued an
edict that they have refused an appli-
cation of masters and pilots license
to Capt. Grant Marsh, because they
/ (the inspectors) believe Capt.
Marsh's character to be such as not
/ to entitle him to the license he APP
piled for"
4 This is outrageous for a supposed
free American country, two men who
4 are tools of the supervising Inspectors
4 of the district, Capt. John D. Sloane,
| to sit as sole judge and jury as to
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i Capt. Marsh's character, because the
latter had dared to exercise the right
that this country gives every Ameri.
can citizen, to criticise officers, not
secretly, but openly in a letter pub
lished in the Waterways Journal over
his own signature. Capt. Marsh pre-
dicted in that letter that his license
would be revoked. Seemingly they
were not revoked for this offense, but
the local inspectors under careful
guidance and hypnotic influence Of
this supervising Inspector, used as q
subterfuge the fact that Capt. Marsh
. resented being referred to (behind his
back by a pilot under his employ as
a d. s-----. What serious offense
they have made against Capt. Marsh
for defending his mothers name and
honor? He lost his license ostensib1y
for this through the channel of what
we have always termed the inspection
service of this particular district
a mutual admiration and aid society.
The pilot who was the cause should
/ have lost his license for disrespect to
i his superior officer, but what is the
use-Capt. Marsh's license would
have been revoked on some other sub.
terfuge. He was doomed the day he
] wrote that letter for publication.
We have not the pleasure" of an
acquaintance with un-American indi.
viduals composing this board, but
have heard that the supervising in.
spector of the district has the repu
4 tation of being able to see through
a key hole with both eyes at one time,
h and should be transported to the Az.
tee tribe instead of directing inyesti-
4 cations into the character of free
born white Americans who we know
to be his peer in every respect. Such
oppressiveness will soon bring us
i back to the days of serfdom.
h P. S.-To the czars of Duluth and
Dubuque: This is published without
4 the knowledge or consent OF your sub
, ject, Capt. Grant Marsh, but by the
editor. Vent your spite on him. He
] has no license to be revoked, but yor
] possibly might order him sentenced
i TO be shot Tin Russia), but, thanh
God, not in America vet, but soon
!, You have taken Capt. Marsh's mean
!, Of livelihood away from him.
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