Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-03
PHALfN SPOKE
TO The BANKERS
GAVE A RESUME OF THE CON-
DITIONs AND THE LEG
IsLATIQN NEEpED.
hI NJ
SCORED PRESIDENT WILSON
iiAI D.Ilk !. II Il az
Compared incumbent of White
House With Roosevelt and
!, ~. Business.

When the honorable secretary o.
this association informed me recently
that i was expected to make a report
Us chairman Of the committee on leg
islation to this convention l wrote
him there was nothing locally to re-
port for the past year.
felt that | would like to be a list
ener this year, for there Is SO much to
learn. $780, '"
Akin to Emerson, VINO In his jour.
nal OF 1847, speaks OF the avarice with
which he looks at the insurance office
and his longing to be admitted to hear
the gossip of the notables of the vii
iASe there. For an hour to he in
visible and hear the best informed
men retail their information he would
pay great prices, but every company
dissolves at his approach. He so Gag
or and they SO coy
But here 1 am TO tell about how to
legislate. and for what to legislate,
whent1 am q firm believer in the mini
mum of legislation-even to the dis.
appearing point.
Last wee.4 l read with the usual
thirst for knowledge the talk OF Pres
ident Wilson to the newspaper men
on Contemplated Trust Legislation,
and when I had II 1 felt as usual with
the Wils0nian productions regarding
the New Freedom and things like
that.
Il drank At thy fountains false wat
ers Of thirst"
Emerson says, "The learned and
the studious Of thought have no o
opbly Of wisdom, their violence Of dir.
ection in some degree d%isqualifies
them to think truly"
Mr.. Wilson speaks of business men
acting as men liable to undergo an
uncertain operation.
How can business men help feeling
that way, with . continuous warfare
on everything that has been success.
full; with IN idea OF digging up from
somewhere a tribe Of Elusive beings
who may do business and sacrifice all
individual effort without the exper.
ience or Christening influences Of
profit and loss.
Our good President comes under
Pfat0'S designation-"where poets ut
ter great and wise things which they
do not Themselves understand"
When reading Wilson's several vol.
thdes Of The History Of the American
People, The New Freedom, and other
predictions; with all his want OF I'M
detstanding, his lack Of primitive wis.
dom, his scholarship without the
scholars insight into the heart Of
things. I turn to my beloved Emer-
son for sustenance and read things
like these.
For instance, 1.-THE costly charm Of
the ancient tragedy and, indeed, Of all
Old literature Is that the persons
speak simply; speak as persons who
have great good sense without know.
ing 1t, before yet the reflective habit
has become the predominant habit of
the mind"
Here Is another suggestion from
Emerson.
'"f1ete is all Boston,-all railroads,
All manufacturers and trade, In the
head of this we'll known merchant at
my side - Here is Agassiz
with his theory Of anatomy and ma
tire, Fam in his chamber and l do
not know what question to put " -
Here Is all Fourier in Brisbane's
head; all language in K~raitzer's; all
Swedenb0urg in Reeds; all the revo-
luton in old Adams head; all modern
Europe and America in John Quincy
Adams, and l cannot appropriate a
fragment of all their experience. -"
- Now II could cast a spell on this,
man 1T my side, and see his picture,
without his Intervention or organs
and having learned that lesson turn
the spell On another, lift up the cover
Of another hive and see the cells and
suck the honey - -s* They were
not the poorer, and I the richer
Now we can return to Mr.. Wilson
and read again where the diagnosis
has progressed to q point where "no
capital operation was necessary and
this, mind you, after many railroads
have not only lost their appendices
but 1ivers and lights as well. The
Claflin's only Loot 1 million Or more
when the tariff changed and things
like that. If your constitution is
strong enaugh you can sL"nd the oper-
alton, II not, you. can't, and there you
are.
IN the. MEAN time Brother Wilson
resembles 4ohr belo-ed Teddy, who re-.
Turning from the bear hunt in 1907,
besah shooting OF the fire arms 1T
MY eloqdeice In the paolic highway
when all the patients IN the hospital
needed quiet anu repose.
Now we come to the ideal climax
oftsBrothef, Wilson's desire, viz: 70
send us to bed SO we can get up In
the morning and always know just
what ist,going to happen next.
a. worked about machinery and the
rAArQAds tfQrttNentythree years nf my