Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-08
Bismarck Tribune washington Burea

| Robert M. MeWaGs.
Bismarck Tribune Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON. Aug. S.-Arrange
ments are being made TO have struck
off at the U. S. minis 5000 additional
medals for already about 200 medals
and badges have been issued TO offic
ers and enlisted men OF the navy and
marine corps who fought in engage
ments and campaigns deemed worthy
o commemoration and il now turns
out that the distribution has been
made only to about one-third OF those
! entitled to those decorations. and he
supply had run short.
Roosevelt aad the Negro Question.
Mr.. Rooserelt's explanation of his
queer position on the negro question
| fully SATISFIES Southern members OF
the House and Senate that it won't
| help him in any way in his attempt
| 10 build up a bull moose party in
! the Sunny South. Some of them laugh
| at what they call his peculiar and
| characteristic antics" whilst Others
take him a bit seriously Among
the latter is Oscar Underwood, re-
| Gently alleged candidate for tine demo
cratic presidential nomination, but
for this session the leader of the DOM
inant majority in the -Aouse OF Rep
resentatives. He says: 1T is so pat
ent that the policy advocated by Mr..
Roosevelt toward the negroes of the
South is not sincere or consistent as
to ensure the fact that il Will fail
flat in its general effect upon the
white voters of the southern states
Congressman Burnett. OF Alabama,
insists that the white republicans OF
that Land OF Flowers" and of the
southern states generally. would want
some very strong evidence that the
Silent Clam of Oyster Bay is sincere
in his position with reference TO the
southern negroes. Il am of the opin-
ion," says the doughty Albanian,
that many of the republicans OF my
state will be from Missouri on Roose-
yelt's negro policy in the southern
states, and that they will have to be
shown some things and, besides, will
have TO have iron-clad evidence OF
good faith before they fall for it,
Congressman Blackman, of the
same state, is pessimistic too, for he
says: Il would not be surprised at
ANYTHING Roosevelt would do or say
do not believe the white people OF
the south, who have dealt with this
perplexing question for so many years
will take kindly TO te Rooseyeltan
position 10 eliminate the negro polit-
ically in the south and hold onto him
in the north | cannot believe that
a white man Of the south will follow
the erratic and underlined views of
Roosevelt, especially in the face of
his past negro policy. SO well known
to the people of the north, who have
had ample reasons for remembering
them
Congressman Dent, another Ala
bamian, is of the same opinion. He
asserts that the alleged hero Of San
Juan Hill is too recent convert to
white supremacy in the south for
even the followers of that third-term-
er TO take his declarations seriously.
He is simply playing one end of the
string against the other. Active par
ticipation of the negro in politics is
just as distas1eful to the white man
in the north as it is in the south,
and he right of the northern negro
over his brother OF the south is not
clearly defined by Roosevelt, and no
legitimate reason advanced why one
should be admitted and the other ex-
Guided from full fellowship in the
party councils
Prominent Hebrews here agree that
few spots on the earth are develop.
ing in more modern fashion that is
ancient Palestine. They say that rail-
roads are now being built there be-
tween principal cities, and that troll
ley lines wi shortly connect all of
the smaller places of historic note.
English capital, keen to transport
sigheseers of the whole Christian
world, and prepared later to adveT-
tise and increase the aumber of such
tourists, is supplementing that of the
Jews
The Jewish development, it is
claimed, has brought charity to an
end and replaced it by business meth.
DDS. Go-ahead improvement is max
ing in farms, in common shops, in
the wages of laborers, in agrcultur-
al experiment stations, and even in
the founding of health bureau. More
remarkable still is the establishment
of a publicity department. New ef-
forts are being made to induce Am
erican Jews, especially those in the
crowded cities, to emigrate to Pale
slime, and there help to create a polit'
ical state. Already many Russian and
German Jews have migrated there.
The Turkish constitution has removed
some old restrictions, and the new
blood furnished by the Zionist re-
cruits has SO developed possibilities
that hardly a foot of modern Pal.
estine can be said to be barren.
A. To Labor Measures. i.
Congressman Willie Wilson, the
cannie Scot frae Blantyre, insists tina
labor men all over the country ought
to vote for Woodrow Wilson for pres
ident because of the accomplishments
Of the House Labor committee, the,