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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-31
WILTON N. D., HAS
NARROW ESCAPE
FIRE ACCOMPANIED BY HIGH
WIND THREATENS FOR Al
TIME TO WIPE OUT THE
WHOLE CITY.

Wilton. N. D., Aug. 31.-F'ire threat
ened this city with total destruction
last evening. At o'clock flames wero
discovered coming out of the build
ing of the Washburn Elevator Co,
and before water could be turned on
the building was beyond all hope of
saving. There was high wind blow
ing at the time and it was with great
difflculty that the other buildings in
the city were saved but the fire was
finally confined the one building.
Lineas Thor and Charles Crockett,
who were running an engine which is
operated by gas and used to supply
fire pressure for the water plant, were
overcome by the gas fumes and for q
time their lives were despaired of, but
they were finally brought back to
consciousness.
Besides the elevator, there were
three cars of the 500 line destroyed
and the top of a water tank burned
off. The depot was also badly scorch-
ed. At midnight the flames were UNI
der control and there was no danger
of a further spread Of the fire.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-31
DOG THEFTs MAY
BE ExcUsA5LE

Buffalo, N. D., Aug. S1.-To The Fo-
rum: 1 have been wondering, who the
indignant gentleman is, who gave his
views of the dog business in your pa
per, of recent date. This dog bust
ness is a very peculiar business. A
good chicken dog, should have a good
nose His rose will pick out good
man, and he likes to follow him; a
good man can't stay at home, just to
keep a mean mans dog from want
ing to trade homes A good bird dog
will pick out good, trappy gated,
pair of hookers, and he likes to fol-
low them, because they look like they
were going somewhere. There are
many men, who are dog stealers at
heart, but don't smell right, to a good
dog, and they pass through life, as
honest men. 1 would hate to smell
so rank that a good bird dog would
not like the smell of me.
Some men get indignant over los
ing dog, when in reality they have
not lost anything. l had five follow
me from neighboring town, and there
was only one good one In the bunch
and everyone staunch and had a good
nose. Believe me, you can't tell a
good one until you get him in the
field. have a license from an ex-as-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-31

and charity; an indispensable lesson to
us Of today. But this wise kindness
and charity never weakened his arm
or numbed his heart. We cannot af-
ford weakly TO blind ourselves to the
actual conflict which faces us today.
The issue is Joined and we must fight
or fail.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-31

dollars worth of service rendered.
The really big fortune, the swollen
fortune, by the mere fact of its size,
acquires qualities which differentiate
II in kind as well as in degree from
what Is possessed by men Of rela-
lively small means Therefore / be-
lieye In graduated income tax which
Is far more easily collected and far
more effective-a graduated inheri-
lance tax on big fortunes, properly
safeguarded against evasion, and In
creasing rapidly in amount with the
size of the estate.
The people of the United States
suffer from periodical financial panics
to a degree substantially unknown
among the other nations which APP
preach us in financial strength. There
Is no reason we should suffer what
portance that our financial system
should be promptly investigated, and
so thoroughly and effectively revised
as to make 1t certain that hereafter
our currency will no longer fail at
critical times TO meet our needs.
The Efficient Army.
1t Is hardly necessary for me to re-
peat that / believe in an efficient army
and navy large enough to secure
for us abroad that respect which is
the sure3t guarantee of peace. Justice
and fair dealing among nations rest on
principles identical with those which
control justice and fair dealing among
the individuals of which nations are
composed; with the vital exception
that each nation must do its own part
in international police work. National
friendships. like those between men,
must be founded on respect as well
as on liking, on forbearance as we'll
as upon trust. In all this it is pecu-
liarly the duty Of the United States to
set good example.
Give Every Man a Chance.
The fundamental thing to do for
every man is to give him the chance
to reach place in which he will make
the greatest possible contribution to
the public welfare. No man can be a
good citizen unless he has a wage
more than sufficient to cover the bare
cost Of living, and hours Of labor short
enough so that after his days work
is done he will have time and energy
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-31

to bear his share in the management
Of the community to help in carrying
the general load. We keep countless
men from being good citizens by tho
conditions of life with which we sur
round them. We need comprehensive
workmen's compensation acts, both
state and national laws to regulate
child labor and the work Of women,
and especially we need in our COM
mon schools not merely education In
book learning but also practical train.
Ing for daily life and work. We Iced
to enforce better sanitary conditions
for our workers, and to extend the use
Of safety appliances in industry and
commerce both within and between
the states.
Also friends in the interest of the
workingman himself we need to set
our faces like flint against mob vio-
lence just as corporate greed; against
violence and injustice and lawlessness
by wageworkers just as much as
against lawless cunning and greed and
selfish arrogance of employers.
National Efficiency.
National efficiency has many factors.
1t is a necessary result of the prin-
ciple of conservation widely applied.
In the end it will determine our fall
ure or success as a nation. National
efficiency has to do not only with nat
ural resources and with men. 1t is
equally concerned with institutions,
The state must be made efficient for
the work which concerns only the
people of the state and the nation
for that which concerns all the people.
There must remain no neutral ground
to serve as q refuge for lawbreakers,
end especially for law breakers of
great wealth, who can hire the vulpine
legal cunning which will teach them
how to avoid both jurisdictions. 1t
is a misfortune when the national
Legislature fails to do it's duty in pro-
viding national remedy, so that the
only national activity is the purely
negative activity of the judiciary in
forbidding the state to exercise power
in the premises.
I believe in shaping the ends of
government to protect property as
well as human welfare. Normally, and
in the long run, the ends are the same,
but whenever the alternative must be
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-31
REVIEWS PAST OF us.
and DISCUSSES PROBLEMS OF TODAY

the republic owes it's all, for to them
1t owes its very existence.
The Application Today.
| do not speak of this struggle, Of
the past merely from the historic
standpoint. Our interest is primarily
in the application today of the les
sons taught by the contest Of half a
century ago. 1t is of little use for us
to pay lip loyalty to the mighty men
or the past unless We sincerely en-
deavor to apply to the problems Of the
present precisely the qualities which
In other crises enabled the men Of
that day to meet thase crises. II is
half melancholy and half amusing to
see the way in which well-meaning
people gather to do honor to the men
VINO, IN company with John Brown,
and under the lead of Abraham Lin
coin, faced and solved the great prob
lens of the nineteeth century, while
at the same time these same good
people nervously shrink from or fran
tically denounce those who are trying
to meet the problems OF the twentieth
in the spirit which was accountable
for the successful solution of the prob
lens of Lincoln's time.
Quotes Lincoln.
OF that generation of men, to whom
We owe so much, the man to whom
we owe the most is, of course. Lin
coin. Part of our debt TO him is be
cause he forecast our present struggle
and saw the way out He said:
Il hold that when man exists il is
his duty to improve not only his own
condition but TO assist in ameliorating
mankind. And again, Labor is prior
to and Independent of capital; capital
is only the fruit of labor, and could
never have existed but for labor. La
Dor is the superior of capital and de-
serves much the higher consideration.
Capital has it's rights which are as
worthy of protection as any other
rights. Nor should this lead to
war upon the owners of property.
Property is the fruit of labor; prop
erty is desirable; is a positive good in
the world. Let not him who is house,
less pull down the house Of another.
but let him work diligently and build
one for himself, thus by example
showing that his own shall be safe
from violence when built" 1t seems
to me that in these words Lincoln
took substantially the attitude that we
ought to take; he showed the proper
sense of proportion in his relative
estimates OF capital and labor, of hu-
man rights and property rights. Above
all in this speech, as in many others
he taught lesson in wise kindness
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Continued From Page One.

justification of all that we had done
earlier, and which marked the second
great period of growth and develop
ment within.
The name of John Brown will be
forever associated with this second
period Of the nations history; and
Kansas was the theatre upon which
the first act of the second of our great
national life drama was played. 1t was
result Of the struggle in Kansas which
determined that our country should be
indeed as well as in name devoted to
both union and freedom, that the great
experiment of democratic government
on a national scale should succeed and
not fail.
1t was a heroic struggle; and as ls
inevitable with all such struggles, It
had also a dark and terrible side. Very
much was done of good, and much also
Of evil; and, as was inevitable in
such period of revolution, often tho
same man did both good and evil. For
our great good fortune as a nation.
we, the great people of the United
States as a whole can now afford to
forget the evil, or at least to remember
It without bitterness and to fix our
eyes with pride on the good that was
accomplished.
Even in ordinary times there are
very few of us who do not see the
problems Of life as through a glass
darkly; and when the glass is clouded
by the murk of furious popular pas
sion the vision of the best and the
bravest is dimmed. Looking back, We
are all of us now able to do justice to
the valor and disinterestedness and
the love of the right as TO each 1t was
given to see the right shown both by
the men of the north and the men of
the south In that contest which was
finally decided by the attitude of the
west
We can admire the heroic
valor, the sincerity, the self devotion
shown alike by the men who wore the
blue and the men who wore the gray;
and our sadness that such men should
have had to fight one another is tenn
pered by the glad knowledge that ever
hereafter their descendants shall be
found fighting side by side, struggling
In peace as well as in war for the up
lift Of their common country all alike
fesolute to raise to the highest pitch
OF honor and usefulness the nation to
which they all belong. AS for the
veterans of the Grand Army of the
Republic, they deserve honor and rec
ignition such as is paid to no other
citizens of the republic; for to them
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-31

faced am for men and not for prop
erty. am far from Understanding
the Importance of dividends, but
rank dividends below human charac-
ter. / know well that the reformers
must not bring upon the people eco
monte ruin, or the reforms themselves
win go down in the ruin. But we
must be ready to face temporary dis
aster whether or not brought on py
those who will war against us to the
knife. Those who oppose all reform
will do well to remember that ruin IN
its worst form is inevitable II our
national life brings us nothing better
than swollen fortunes for the few ana
the triumph in both politics and busl-
ness of sordid and selfish material
ism.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-31
Hoodwinking
Clergymen

When small clique Of men put up a
scheme to harness the clergy of Ameri-
ca and induce the ministers to, in turn
hitch up" the members of the church
es, we should all take notice.
They couldn't harness the preachers
in a bad cause except by deceiving
them.
Ministers of the gospel are essential
ly and fundamentally honest but, like
all men who work for the public good,
they are at times mislead by false
statements.
Trust them when they have exact
truth to speak from.
Now for the story which should in
terest every one for we are all either
receivers of wages or we pay to wage
earners and the freedom of each in
dividual is at ISSUE
In various papers the following state
ment has been printed. Read it care
fully at least twice.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-31
INTEREST IN LABOR SUNDAY


Labor Sunday-the Sunday preced-
ing Labor day-will be observed gem
orally this year and in future years
throughout the United States. This be-
cause of the American Federation Of
Labor declaration for the observance of
that day. The numerous letters re-
Gently received at American Fedora
tion of Labor headquarters from minis :
tiers is an assurance that interest In the
idea of giving special attention to the
cause of labor from the pulpit one
day in the twelve months is widespread.
Our readers are urged to try to bring
about an understanding in their re-
spective districts with representatives
Of the church so that ministers will
make addresses that may attract trade
unionists to the churches in large
numbers for the day. Ministers should
say what they think on the occasion in
order that their trade union hearers
may put the right estimate as to where
the church stands on the question OF
the organization OF labor. The more the
subject is discussed the better will IL
be for labor. Union ethics are sound.
American Federationists.'
Observe that Labor Union men
''are urged" to induce ministers to
make addresses that will attract trade
unionists to the churches 'tfor the day.
ministers should say" ETC., and winds
up with Union ethics are sound" OBJ
serve the hidden threat.
This is clipped from the American
Federationist the organ of Sam Com
pers. ct al.
This clipping has been sent to papers
throughout the country and the Typo
graphical Union men in the newspaper
Offices instructed to urge" that it be
printed.
That is one of the ways of the ina
chine"
1t looks harmless so the papers print
IL.
But Let's lift the cover and look
under.
The hidden motive is as dangerous to
the peace and liberty of the citizen as a
coiled rattlesnake in the grass.
Organization of workmen to peace
fully and successfully present their side
is necessary and most commendable.
There are such organizations now
rapidly winning their way to public
confidence without strikes, dynamite OF
killing fellow workmen
| (Some facts on this matter a little
| further along in this article.)
We see here demand on the minis
| ters of God. that they endorse and help
build up the strike producing, boycott
ting and violent American Federation
! Of Labor.
Think of the man of God who teaches
brotherly love being covertly ordered ia
praise and help get new members for
| an organization with record for vio-
lence, crime and murder done by its
members the like of which the world
has never seen.
Think Of the thousands Of women
made widows and the increasing thou
sands of children left fatherless by the
pistol. club, dynamite and boot heel Of
members of this Labor Trust.
/ Anyone who recalls the countless
murders done in the multitude OF
strikes in the past few years will agree
this Is no exaggeration.
Take just one az an illustrations:
There were some thirty men murder
ed and over 5000 bruised and manned
lin the Chicago teamster's strike.
/ There IL seldom day passes but
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-31
HANDICAPPED BAGS

Wanted to buy, secondhand carpet
bag Address 391, care Forum.
sistant states attorney of Fargo.
which would allow me- to let "a dog
follow me home, but never used 1T
don't think it is such a wicked thing
to let a dog follow you, il II is legal
lied by the assistant attorney, but 7
do think 1t is wrong to steal a cur
dog. at any time, and any place.
l. S. Smith.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-31

"Honor Brand Is Better" Ask Es-
CERT
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-31
Revisina the Tariff.


There is a widespread belief among
our people that, under the methods
of making tariffs which have hitherto
obtained, the special interests are too
influential. Probably this is true of
both the big interests and the little
interests. These methods have put a
premium on selfishness and naturally
the selfish big Interests have gotten
more than the selfish small interests.
The duty of congress is TO provide a
method by which the interest Of the
whole people shall be all that receives
consideration. To this end there must
be an expert tariff commission, wholly
removed from the possibility cf po-
litical pressure or of improper bust
ness influence. Such a commission
can find out the real difference, be-
tween the cost Of production, which is
mainly the difference of labor cost
here and abroad. AS fast is it's rec
concentrations are made, / believe in
revising one schedule at a time. A
general revision of the tariff almost
inevitably leads to log rolling and the
subordination of the general public in
terest to local and special interests.
Inc dDS6uC6 Oh 6Il6CLlNe state, dnO
especially national restraint upon I'M
fair money-getting has ended to ere
ate a small class of enormously
wealthy and economically powerful
men, whose chief object is to hold and
increase their power. The prime need
is to change the conditions which en-
able these men 70 accumulate power
which it is not for the general welfare
that they should hold or exercise. We
grudge no man fortune which rep
resents his own power and sagacity
when exercised with entire regard to
the welfare of his fellows. But the
fortune must be honorably obtained
and well used 1t is not even enough
that it should have been gained with
out doing damage to the community
We should permit it to be gained only
so long as the gaining represents ben
eft to the community. This, / know
implies a policy of far more active
| governmental interference with socia
and economic conditions in this coun
\ try than we have yet had, but / think
we have got to face the fact that such
an increase in governmental contro
is now necessary.
Believe in income Tax.
No man should receive dollar un-
less that dollar has been fairly earned
| Every dollar received should represent
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-31
Believe in income Tax.

No man should receive dollar UNI
less that dollar has been fairly earned.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1910-02-25
Che DeEavdI


them all they Stays with them all they Runs
the the ean the longest Never has failed
and reduced from last year. Call and them
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1910-02-25

For years no man who would give the peo-
pile square deal in legislation has been elected
lieutenant governor, and observing editors with
no axes to grind have long been disguised with
the way this place handed out to some
political ally of the interests, and committees
appointed and legislation Influenced with little
regard to what the people wanted. This year,
a movement was started for the nomination of
a man on whom the editors could rely to give
the people a square deal They picked one OF
their number whom they knew to be honest
without consulting his nationality, or geogra-
phical location any of those other fallicies in
which the machine politician glories. If office
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1910-02-25

from Indiana
Black Birch the from
yellow finished like buggy Every abso
better made.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1910-02-25

The supreme court of the United States
has affirmed the decision of the Minnesota
supreme court that all the railroads of the
state must pay the four per cent gross earn
ings tax. The Great Northern and the Great
Western fought it the ground that their
territorial charters contracts that they
should never be called upon to pay more than
three per cent and two per cent respectively.
The decision will bring in $8OO,OOOin back taxes
and 100000 year additional hereafter. The
decision handed down by the state supreme
court was written by Justice c. L. Brown, and
in writing the opinion of the United States SUI
preme court Justice Harlan followed Justice
Browns opinion closely.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-07
AGREEMENT is REACHED.
All Roads to Abide by Pledge to With
draw Rates.

Washington June "A complete
agreement between the government
and the recently enjo.ned railroads of
the Western Trunk Line Association
was reached a White House confer
ence, which lasted more than four
hours yesterday afternoon.
The railroads represented agreed to
withdraw all rate increases filed to be
effective ON or after June / and agreed
to file no more Increases until the bill
in congress which gives the interstate
commerce commission power to investi-
eat .r:l rt..r>nnd Increases that are not
justified, becomes a law and goes into
effect.
President Taft thereupon stated that
the administrations purpose in bring
ing the Injunction suit had been ac-
complished and the suit would be dis
continued. The discontinuance will not
be entered, however until after the
new railroad law is signed.
The belief was expressed last night
that ali of the other railroads OF the
country which have filed increased
rates or have had such a plan under
consideration. will abide by the agree
ment reached today with the twenty
four railroads named as Defendants In
the Hannibal suit.
There will be q conference at the
White House tomorrow In which Presi-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-07
rHtRTY!THREE KNOWN DEAD.
Greatest Loss Of Life at calitri and
San Sossio

Avellino, ITALY, June Up to noon
It is impossible to determine the ex-
tent of the devastation wrought by
the earthquake in this province, Avel-
limo. Only one death resulted in this
city and that was the result of terror,
but many houses and church steeples
were damaged.
At Calitri twenty are reported dead;
at San Sossio ten, at Chianche one, and
at Castel Baronia one. The shock
came in the darkest hour of the morn
ing and the 10000 inhabitants Of Avel-
limo were thrown into panic and
rushed half naked and screaming with
terror from their homes to the squares
and open districts outside the city.
Here they threw themselves upon the
ground and implored the mercy of the
Almighty. AS soon as they were quiet
ed the religious fever found expression
in q procession to the shrine of st. An
drews. protector Of the town. Others
climbed to the sanctuary on Monte
Vergine.
Word that the king and queen were
en- route here on special train
brought new courage to the people and
had a good effect in restoring order.