Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-05-06
Respectfully yours,
r. ANDERSON.

Respectfully yours,
MARTIN ANDERSON.
Bismarck, May S, 1914.
Editor Tribune. Dear Sir-Congress-
MAJ Norton's article in the Mandan
Pioneer, through an INTERVIEW does
not answer to the issue.
l. 1t is now admitted by the In
dian bureau that the beef trust cattle
on the reservation has been greatly
detrimental to the Indians prosperity.
An order has been issued to Xeclude
these cattle from the observation.
Agent A. II. Kneol is trying to carry
out the order while several politicians
r trying in every way to prevent
1t. Ill j. tAN,
9. Has MIR. Norton in any speech in
congress On Indian affairs, or in any
printed letter, or in any way shown
any disposition to protect the Indians
against the beef trust cattle? II so,
when, where and what?
g. We are now promised that old
Indians shall have Il chance to live
out Of their property. 1t is not sutfi-
Client for a man to be kept SO that he
will not "starve or Freeze" as Nor.
ton puts it. A mar with property
should have a right TO a decent living,
and even a good living out Of it when
he is old, whether he is an Indian
or a white man. Has, Mr.. Norton help
ed this? If SO, when and how?
4. The $10O, 900. appropriated for
giving cattle to Indians does not be-
gin to replace the 81 ,50o,00O cattle loss
since the beef trust cattle came onto
the reservation. Somebody will get q
job to give the Indians $4,000 worth
Of cattle or less for the $780, 900 appro-
priated and then the beef trust will
get more profit out Of the cattle Civ.
en than the Indians will, unless 1--WE
get and keep the promised changes in
the management Of the reservation
Instead of talking about plying me.
regretting that "a minister of the Cos
pei should misrepresent. him, etc Mr..
Norton Should answer to the issue
specifically. The gospel should govern
a congressman as much as it should
a minister or priest. But, perhaps,
it will be better in our controversy to
omit such terms as gospel and'dis-
cuss facts as they Aee,nra 4. gtle,! :
II Mr.. Merton will answer to the
issue, emitting personal figs it will
be better.
A. NJ. McGofrnv Beede.
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DEFECTS OF OUR NEWSPAPERS.
When sensational journalism
pleads In it's defense that it gives the
people what they want, the reply is
that it has educated the people to
want the worst. The yellow journal
Is responsible for helping to create
on the part of the public a desire for
stories which are not news, but SEN
sational and distorted "write ups for
the reporting of crimes and scandals
in great detail, and for featuring and
sending over the country every nasty
little scandal the repor, Of which
ought not to travel outside Of its own
local community.
MI. Charles V. Stansell writes in
the New York Post of an inquiry ad-
dressed to twenty-five college presi-
dents asking them to point out three
defects Of the American newspaper.
"rhe chief fault in American news
papers, wrote President Frank l..
l.. McVey Of the University Of North
Dakota, lis their failure to appreciate
proportion in the presentation OF
news. A second fault is their over-use
Of headlines and the presentation OF
" detrimental tie nnhlic morals "
President BENJAMIN Ide Wheele, IF