Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1911-09-15

halted only by the last ditch interior
ence of the president with his veto.
To shout "demagogues," Jewellers, y
"revolutionists" at the men who speak
these things and do these things, SET
ties no issues, alters no conditions.
Hard name, true names, do not change
word of record or rewrite a single
page of what is now history. What
ever they are, whatever they were,
the majority of the men whom the
people pick and send to Washington
to make laws for the protection OF
the life and property Of us all, did
and spoke and voted to bring about
the conditions which we have out
lined-the conditions under which
within twenty years reign OF ter
or, a twentieth century reign Of ter
ror, would sweep this nation into a
vortex of woe such as the modern
world has never seen.
Nor is that ALTAR from it. While
these things were doing and saying
in the supreme law maki1.; body Of
the land, the administrative part of
the government was neither silent
nor idle.
The attorney general of the United
States, chief law officer of the nation,
head of the United States department
of justice-of justice, mind you-and
a member of the presidents cabinet,
came to the middle West and, in a
public address, proposed that the gov
eminent be intrusted with the power
to fix the prices at which the principal
articles that the people make, buy,
sell, eat and wear, shall be transferred
and acquired throughout the United
States.
The government to take possession
of the industry of nation of 90,0O0,'
900! The government to wipe out
the livelihood rights in one one makes
in his occupation and to leave him
only the duty of providing the cost!
The government of the United States
to undertake what even medieval tyr.
ants shrank from after trial. The
government of the United States to
accept Karl Marx as its prophet, Karl
Marks Capital" as its constitution,
Karl Marks socialism as its policy,
and Karl Marks Confiscation as it's
manual of procedure.
And this proposition from the head
of the department of justice of the
United States and chief law officer of
the nation. And, worst of all, from a
man who is still a member of the
presidents cabinet:
A member of the cabinet of the
president of the United States pro-
poses to do what Bebel and Leib'
knecht in Germany, to our knowledge,
never ventured to propose, what
Jaures in France would shrink from
as a practical measure, what the Par
liamentry Socialists of England would
scarcely dare to suggest in their offlc'
ial capacity, and the proposition trips
from his tongue as if contiscation were
an approved government policy, the
American republic a crumbling she'll,
and the day of liberty, the day Of in
dependence and personal rights were
already fading away into the tyranny
which bygone ages tried to reach but
failed to realize.
Enterprise is watchful, capital is
apprehensive; money is the sensitive
part of most mems affairs. Perhaps
these conditions are wrong; but they
are as they are. A man with $4,000
to invest looks ahead; if it is his all.
he looks ahead as sharply, as intelli'
gently, as does q man with a million.
He sees, he hears. he considers, he
calculates. He does not need to have
the house fall on him before he wakes
up. He wakes up as soon as the first
blow strikes the cornerstone, the foun
dation crumbles and he is gone. He
does not wait even for the walls to
crack. He does not have confidence
in another miracle of Mahomet. He
does not believe that the roof will
swing over his head in midair If the
walls and foundation should once be
removed.
In other words, this man-this av.
erage well-to-do man with his $4,000
of savings-abandons the structure,
to which the attorney general Of the
United States and his senatorial as
sistants are dealing such terrific blows
takes to the banks. and waits there
with his money to see what is going