Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-16

that general conditions through the
country have improved, and business
is moving at high tide. Labor Is
employed, prices for az; products are
firm, farmers are enjoying their
share of the general prosperity, AID
the whole country is a hum of indus
try.
The especial attention Of republi-
cans is directed to that part of the
presidents address In which he urges
arty unity and warns the people o.
the country against condemning in
discriminatory all aggregations OF
capital. The president says:
"Mr. Roosevelt aroused the country
and the people to the danger we were
in of having all our politics and all
our places of governmental authority
controlled in corporate interests and
to serve the greed of selfish but pow
erful men. During his two terms OF
office, which may be almost compar-
ed to religious crusade, he aroused
the people to the point of protecting
themselves and the public interests
against the aggressions of corporate
greed and left public opinion in an
apt condition to bring about the re-
forms needed to clinch his politics
and to make them permanent in the
form of enacted law.
"But as an inevitable aftermath of
such agitation we find condition OF
hysteria on the part Of certain indi-
viduals and on the part of others, a
kind of hypocricy manifesting itself
in the blind denunciation of all
wealth and the impeachment of the
motives Of men Of the highest char
acter and by demagogic appeals to
the imagination Of a people greatly
aroused upon the subject OF puriN
and honesty in the administration of
government.
''The tendency is to resent attach
ment to party or party organization
and to an assertion of Individual
opinion and purpose at the expense
of party discipline. The movement
is toward factionalism and small
groups rather than toward large
party organization and the leaders OF
the party organization are subjected
to the severest attacks and to the
questioning of their motives without
any adequate evidence to justify it.
II am far from saying that the re-
publican party is perfect. No party
which has exercised such power as 1t
has exercised for the last seventeen
years could be expected to maintain
either in its rank and file or in its
management men of the purest and
highest motives only.
"And l am the last one to advocate
any halt in the prosecution and con.
demnation of republicans, however,
prominent and powerful, whose con.
duct requires criminal or other pros
ecution and condemnation.
1T should be we'll understood that,
with the republican party In it's pres.
ent condition, with its various divis-
ions subjected to the crossfire of its
own newspapers and its own factions
any halt or failure on the part OF
those in authority to punish and con
denim corruption, or corrupt methods
will be properly visited upon the
party itself, however many good men
it contains.
1--WE shall be called upon to re.
spond to the charge in the next cam
paign that the tariff, for which we
are responsible, has raised prices. II
the people listen to reasonable ar
gument, it will be easy to demon
strate that high prices came from an
entirely different cause, and that the
present tariff, being largely a revis-
ion downward except with respect to
silks and liquors, which are luxuries,
cannot be charged with having in
creased any prices.
But this will not prevent our dem
ocratic friends from arguing that the
high prices followed the tariff, and
that, therefore they are the result of
it.
And we must not be blind to the
weight of such an argument in a,
electoral campaign. The reason for
the rise in the cost of the necessities
can be easily be traced to the in
crease in our measures of values, the
precious metal, gold an6, possibly, in
some cases. to the combinations in re-
straint of trade.
1.-THE question of the tariff must be
argued out. The prejudice created
by the early attacks upon the bill
and the gross Misrepresentation of
its character, must be met by a care.
full presentation of the facts as to the
contents Of the bill, and also as to it's
actual operations, and statistics
shown thereby. u
II believe we have g. strong case
II We can only get 1t into the minds
of the people. Should disaster fol.
low US, and the republican majority
In the house become a minority in
the next house. it may be possible
that, In the democratic exercise of
power, the people OF the country will
see which is the party of accomplish
ment, which Is the party of ardueus
deeds done, and which is the party
of words and irresponsible opposi-
ton"
WEALTH IN WESTERN COAL.
The Technical World says that for
three wears the United States has