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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-19

helping hand and on all sides institu.
tons are being endowed by political
and social organizations for relieving
them Of the burdens of despair and
dependency. We are writing on our
statute books legislation to protect
them from the exactions of the more
powerful elements of society,".
Social Legislation Betters Conditions
In the United States, as a nation,
and in the individual states we have
adopted Legislation limiting the hours
of labor, preventing the employment
of children, safeguarding working
women, securing better sanitation in
our workshops: we are providing
parks and Fairgrounds in our con-
gested cities; we are erecting sani-
tariums for the care Of tuberculars
and epileptics and the other classes
of mentally and physically unfortu-
nate. And this legislation is not po-
litical or partisan-it is purely hui.
manitarian.
And with this more purely social
legislation we are writing statutes
tending to shift the burden of sup
porting the government onto the
shoulders of those better able to
carry it. We have already the fed.
eral income tax law under whose
terms those of small or moderate in.
comes are exempt. In many OF the
states we have inheritance taxes pro-.
viding for the appropriation by the
states Of a portion of the larger es.
tates which have hitherto been hand.
ed down from generation to genera
ton on the theory that they have not
been earned by the labor of those to
whom they descend
And with this tendency we have
come to Judge our public men by
much higher standards than we ap-
piled even a generation ago. More
and more We are insisting that men
who hold high places in the public
service shall sever their ties with
corporations and we no longer view
with unconcern the idea of men hold
ing elective Office while receiving re-
tainers from corporations to repre-.
sent them in various capacities. Yet
a generation ago this was the COM
mon practice and no disposition was
shown to question the propriety of
such dual allegiance.
Too Little Thought Given to Politics.
With the tremendous industrial and
physical development of our country
we have unfortunately given too little
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-19
TOO RENE.

Mr. Weaver's war tremors, heard
iii Bismarck Monday evening, sound
ominous, but all statements OF this
kind must of necessity be discounted
There are two extremes of every
question. Mr.. Weaver represents one
and William Jennings Bryan the 9th.
er. Somewhere in between the so.
luton lies. National defense is need
ed and ,badly so, but it is better to
accomplish that end through sane
discussion. The American people do
not need the prod Of war scare to
act. Neither is the problem of ma.
tional defense to be decided by the
manufacturers of war munitions or
their representatives.
Let US have national preparedness,
but by all means approach the mat
ter temporarily.
Put the soft pedal on the war agi.
tation.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-19
THE CONSUMPTION EVIL,

It's interesting, the way the Erit-
ish people have changed their minds
about CONSUMPTION. Three months
ago the London Daily News said:
"The strength of the enemy is very
great, and defeat would be fatal to
all the causes that England has stood
for in the past and stands for still
today. No price is too high to pay
for victory-eXcept one, and that is
the open betrayal and abandonment
of these causes themselves. 1t is
nothing less than such abandonment
which is implied in the acceptance of
CONSUMPTION"
It's safe to say that most English.
men agreed with the Daily News at
that time. 1t was accepted as liter
ally true that compulsory military
service was worse than disastrous
and humiliating defeat.
And now, the fight started nearly
a year ago by Lord Northcliffe is win.
ming. Parliament is passing the con.
scription bill. The Irish Nationalists
have withdrawn their objections to it
which is easy enough for them, be-
cause it doesn't apply to Ireland, any.
how-and even the labor party, which
was willing to wreck the empire rath.
er than compromise it's rights and
liberties is, yielding. .,.... ~-.. II
Six months ago CONSUMPTION was
tn worst of evils. Today it is toler.
ated as a necessary measure. Six
months hence the British people will
be acclaiming it as essentially ad-
mirable, and in accord with British
ideals and institutions. 5000
And they will be nearer right about
it then than they were at first. For
there's something essentially demo
cratic about conscription. 1t treats
everybody alike, preventing strikers
from protiting at the expense of the
patriotic and unselfsh.
The reason compulsory military
service is in such bad odor here and
elsewhere is that it has too often
been the device of tyrants to force
an unwilling people to fight their
wars of ACKNOWLEDGMENT. If conscrip.
ton is adopted by majority vote or
preponderant opinion of free peo-
pie. then CONSUMPTION is democratic.
When a free nation in a fight for ex-
istence needs more soldiers than it
can get by voluntary enlistment, uni
versal service is the only way. If the
United States today were in Great
Britain's place. we should adopt con.
scription, and do it without violence
to our ideals.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-19
Americans Are Returning to Sane and Rational
Ideals of Nations Founders Says Senator Burton

of our time to the study Of the ques'
lions of government and the polltlcai
issues of the day. Indeed it seems
true that as nation our genus is
not political, but rather industrial and
commercial. We insist that our doc
tor be highly trained in his protes'
sion and that our lawyer be skilled IN
his work and that our ministers De
thorough students of theology. But
there is a general feeling that certi-
ficate of election is the only diploma
required to make of the ordinary man
in any walk of life a trained public
official. There is unfortunately feel
ing that one utterly without training
or experience has the same capacity
for the management of the intricate
and delicate affairs of government
possessed by one who has devoted his
entire life to study of its problems
and who is fitted by experience and
natural aptitude. Nothing is more
unfortunate than the lack of interest
in public affairs manifested by
large portion of our best educated ell
ectorate.
The average man pays no atten-
ton to these public questions. Dur
ing the artificial excitement of a cam
paign and the stimulus then created
he gives some attention to the issues
which are debated, but otherwise, ex.
cept in times of popular Z danger, lie
is disposed to permit public affairs to
administer themselves. Quick to crit.
icize the public official, he is motor,
iously slow to commend the states
man who labors industriously to
serve the public welfare For after
all we must remember always that. no
government was ever created, no
government ever will be. created, cap
able of properly administering itself
when ignored BY its citizens and
those whom it is established TO- serve.
We must divert at least part Of
that remarkable energy Of our peo-
pie into public channels where it can
be devoted to the social welfare of
the nation instead of the enrichment
of the individual. For our success as
a nation will depend in it's last analy-'
sis upon providing the fullest meas
ure of justice to all of our people and
insuring equality of happiness and op-'
portunity for those who by chance
are born to the lesser things of life
for that after all was the purpose
of our forbears who first settled our
shores. .%'-
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-19
WOMEN ATTENDANTS.

In all the asylums for the insane
in the state of Illinois, women are to
be installed as attendants in place
of men. The state board Of admins
tration has decided upon this move
for the sake Of a new policy toward
unfortunates, summed up in the
phrase, More kindness and less
force er. .- .o~.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-19
van. !. j. sshheRehy, H. q Deugherty'
Frank Gqlldalm II and tJeosephl, Doyle.
Emperor Yuan S $! Kai.

-@- R3HtfN ''7~@ y Il ~
Grand Forks: The. northeastern
district basket ball tournament to de-
termine the district high school cham
pionship will be held here Feb. rs
and 26, according to announcement
by IF. l.. Thompson, director OF ath-
letics at the University of North Da'
kota. .En it8h
Fargo: The jury sitting in the
case of Taener, Brothers. contractors,
of Wahpeton. against the city Wah-
peton, seeking to recover Is per cent
due on contract for construction of
filtration plant in that city, was dis
charged by Judge Amidon in the Fed
eral court, a settlement having been
effected.
Fargo: Ell Zagal temple Shriners
installed the following officers Thurs
day evening: IllustriOus .potentate.
James McGuigan; chief rabban, F.
Leland Watkins; assistant rabban.
Will Johnson; high priest and pro-
phet, j. Pa Hardy; oriental guard. Art
Fowler: treasurer, Fred A. Irish re-
corder, A. G. 'Arvold. - %
A sheriff in one of the lsOutll.end
counties is said to have captured So
much booze from the bootleggers that
he has converted it to the use of ami.
freeze in his automobile, and it is al
SO stated that he maintains deputy
to watch the machine while he is not
around so that many of the old soaks
about town cannot tap the radiator.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-19
CITATION HEARING PROOF OF
.r, WILL.

State of North Dakota, County Of
Burleigh.
In County Court, Before Hon. II. c.
Bradley, Judge.
In the Matter of the Estate Of Will
liam II. Bratton, Deceased.
Eliza G.. Wright, Petitioner,
~ ... VS.. ;i'-a
Charles B. Bratton, William. M. Brat
ton, Robert w. Bratton, Warren Il.
Bratton, and William p: Bratton,
Respondents. ,....
The State Of NORTH Dakota, To the
- Above aNanned Respondents and All
Persons Interested in the ESTATE Of
ae William H. Bratton, Deceased:
You and each Of you are hereby
notified that ElizanG .dWrighta the pc
titioner. herein, .1assffled i'm this court
a document in writing supporting to
be. the last will and Testament Of
William II. Bratton, late Of the city
of East Orange, in the county of Els.
sex and state. Of, New Jersey, de.
ceased, with her petitfo1 praying for
the admission to probate 81 Said doc
uments as the last Win and Tesla
ment of said deceased. and for the
issuance to her of letters testament
airy thereon, and that the said petit.
ton and the proofs of said purported
Will and Testament will be hearu
and duly considered by this Court on
Tuesday, the 18th day of February,
A. D. 1916, at 10 o'clock in the fore
noon of that day at the Court rooms
of this Court, in the county Court
House, in the city Of Bismarck, cOun-
ty of Burleigh and state Of North
Dakota; and. You and each of you
are hereby cited to be and appear be-
fore this Court at said time and
place and answer said petition and
show cause, if any there be-. why the
prayer Of said petition should not be
granted
BY the Court.
III. C. BRADLEY,
Judge of the County Court
Dated the I'd day of January. A. D.
1916. -. ~
Let the foregoing citation be serv
ed by publication in the Bismarck
Tribune three successive weeks.
~. H. C. BRADLEY,
Judge of the County Court.
G-5, IL, 1917
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-19

CURED that wealth. We are replace
ing legal standards of honor and
honesty by moral standards. We talk
today more of the rights of mankind
and less of the rights of property.
The man of the street, the mother
of the tenement and the children of
the slums today receive more of our
attention than the Croesus of the
brown stone front on the city's b0ule-
Yards. AS nation we are becoming
more essentially humanitarian. Those
of the submerg classes, as they
have been called, are extended the
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-19
IS SPEAKER FOR
-Fe=r. a.. NATIONAL MEET

Valley City, N D., Jan. 1S.-N. C.
Macdonald has just received word
that he has been assigned a place on
the program of the National Associa.
ton OF State Superintendent and In.
spectors of Rural and Consolidated
Schools at their meeting to be held
in Detroit. Mich. February % to %.
His subject will be "The Problem of
Rural Education in North Dakota. -
Mr.. Macdonald is we'll qualified to
speak on this subject, as he has had
an opportunity to obtain first.hand
knowledge Of these schools in every
section of the state during the past
five years, and in which field he has
made a national reputation for him
self
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-19
DIRE DISTRESS
1t 10 Near at Hand to Hundreds o,
Bismarck Readers,


Don't neglect an aching back.
Backache is often the kidneys cry
for help.
Neglect burryiHg to the kidneys
aid @ F.s ~
Means that urinary troubles may
follow. IS - mr.
Or danger OF worse kidney trouble.
Here's Bismarck testimony. r4,
d. Hill. SIS Broadway, Bismarck,
says: my experience with Doan S
Kidney Pills has been so satisfactory
that I recommend them to anyone
suffering. from kidney and bladder
disease. 1 suffered from a stitch in
my back whenever lifted anything.
My kidneys were weak and had to
get up often at night to pass the
kidney secretions, Doan's Kidney
Pills quickly cured me-"
Price SOC. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the. same that
cured Mr.. Hill. F0ster-Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-19
NORTHWEST BRIEFS

re Eagles of jamestown are to
build home costing between SlO,0OO
and $4,000 in the near future.
.Ranchers near Chadwick and Sell
fridge have lost number of head of
young stock through the prairie
wolves.
The city authorities of Wilton have
decreed that horses cannot stand on
the streets unblanketed during the
cold weather.
The quarter section known as the
old Charles Goss place, IL miles east
of Eessenden, was recently sold at
$50 per acre. ~
Stanton expects to have large
two-storv garage and hall in the near
future. A concrete block plant is now
being installed.
The new Congregational church at
Regent has been dedicated with APP
propriate ceremonies. = The program
lasted all day -
G. w. Stapleton, who was conduct.
ing revival services at Esmond, was
taken ill with what appeared to be
the grip, and died.
Sheriff Nelson. Of Divide county, has
brought back bunch of wheat thiev-
es from Mckenzie county, and lodged
them in jail at Crosby.
The Max German Lutheran church
is building alarge barn for the bene-
fit of the farmers who drive in from
the country for services.
Mrs, F. f. Burchard, the new post
mistress at the state university, has
had her appointment confirmed by
the United States senate.
~ H#.."
The flax crop OF John lsaak of Gold
en- Valley, and a new grain separa.
tor belonging to Ed Miles of the same
place, were destroyed by fire.
~
"A young mems 5club has been or
ganized at Langdon, the initiative
having been taken by a deputation OF
students from the Agricultural col
lege. IN
The Mandan Commercial club is
becoming interested in good roads. A
committee of prominent citizens has
been appointed to- push the move
ment.
The Burleigh County Farmers
union has gone on record as. being
opposed to further increase in the ap-
preparations for army and navy pur.
poses.
w. C. Glib OF Stanley, county audi
tor of Mountrail county since it's or
ganization, has resigned and will &C.
cept.a position as manager of a flour
mill at Havre, Mont.
Solicitor Akre Of the Northwestern
college, says that subscriptions are
coming in rapidly, and it is probable
that something will be done toward
building next year:
Minot: The excessive use of the
city waterssuppIy Tuesday for the fire
at the Blakey-ROell block has made
such heavy drafts on the source that
water direct from the river has been
pumped into the mains.
The Walcott Reporter. tells of Earl
Hubbard of Thinner. He is profess
sfonal Skunk raiser and raises stink.
less skunks with pleasure and profit
He deOdorizes the skunks when they
are young just bit of surgery.
|. * 49, IL 80 *-<
John G. aCronlie of De Lamere, 81
years of age, was taken to Wahpeton
last week on charge of blindpigging
and received sentence of 80 days in
Jail and a fine of $780, On account of
his advanced age the Jail sentence
was suspended;
Grand Forks Stockholders of the
Implement Dealers" Fire Insurance
company held their annual meeting
and elected: President, George E.
Duis; vice president, d. G.. Mcintosh;
treasurer, Joseph Donovan; secretary,
J. e. Sheehy; directors. George E.
r.,s. n - McJctoch ToocrL 49,.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-19
By THEODORE BURTON.

Generally speaking, the history of
the United States since the war OF
the Revolution may be divided into
three eras. During the first fifty
years our efforts were devoted to the
discovery and settlement OF this vast
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-19

continent, W / t h
it's resources OF
every description.
The second fifty
years was devot-
ed to the pursuit
and acquisition
of wealth. We
are now embark
ed on the third
eras when the
most vital prob
lem facing us is
the proper distri-
button of this
wealth. In the
solution Of this
new, problem we
find much of the
reason for the
present sOcia ]
and industrial
unrest.
~ We no longer
glorify wealth as
We did a genera.
ton or even a
decade ago. We
are returning to
the more sane
and r a t on a !
ideals of our
fOrefa Tiers. We
no longer inquire
merely as to a
mans wealth. We
now desire to
know by what
methods he &C.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-19

If the reluctance of presidential
possibilities to enter the primaries
keeps up, some of the states will have
to resort to CONSUMPTION.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-19

BRYAN'S APPEAL
Tic editor Of the Tribune is i'll re-
t,.pt of a marked copy OF "The Com
moner," and notes that the leading
editorial contains this query to Presi-
dent Wilson: why Not Trust the
Democrats?" 1t is signei WI.
Bryan. T., 1 .aE1
&" POLITICAL POT Boll,NG. -
The democrats of the state are
busy. At meeting of the executive
committee, held in Fargo. the candi
dacy of H. H. Perry of Glendale for
national committeeman was endOrs-
ed. rt 4.h: rnz&
The FLOWING have. either ANNOUNCE
ed themselves or their friends have
made announc cement for them as can.
didates for delegates: 49,, -
John l.. Cashel, Walsh county; j.
Nelson Kelly, Grand Forks county;
John Burke, Ramsey county; Dr. w.
F.. Robertson, Rolette county: w. E.
Eyerly, MGHenry county; F. o. He'll
strom, iBurleigh county; w. d. Pur.
cell, Kichland county; T. D. Casey,
Stark county; w. P. Porterfeld, Cass
county, and James Peterson Sargent
county. Efforts will be made to Sc.
cure the candidacy of others from the
various counties of the state.
D. !. Armstrong of Ward county
was announced as a candidate for the
appointment to the position OF receiv.
er for the land Office at Minot.
Alta meeting sof the Trail County
Democratic acon1nHttee3 81 resolutions
endorsing Perry for national commit.
teeman, and DR.. l.. S. Platou of Val.
ley City as candidate for governor,
were passed.
Down in Barnes county, the legis-
lative campaign has opened with for
NAL announcement by Percy Trub-
shaw, former president Of the North
Dakota Press association, that he is
candidate for the house of repre-
sentatives from the Fifteenth dis.
trlct. :ag tn - J. s.ar.Ert
In his announcement Mr.. Trub.
shaw says Frank Ployhar gof Valley
City, long prominent member of the
house, has definitely determined to
become a candidate for the state sen.
ate, to succeed Senator Mudgett,
who will retire. r.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-19

oAS oooAoSsAAoi N>~>'Si ~ '~-''~ -
and handing him the gayel.
That would be worth a trip to Chi
cago. s
But stranger tsfihgs have happened
in politics. 9s A}. S"'
FlFTY.FIFTY
According to d poll taken recently
by the Chicago Tribune, Senator Nc
Cumber is for Intervention in Mex
leo. Senator Gronna lines up with
the democratic side of the house in
support of the Wilson administration
fs*
NOT STRANGE
With a campaign staring them in
the face is it strange that Congress.
men want the high price OF gasoline
probed?
WHY NOT?
Some wag writes us:
"Why not favorite son movement
for North Dakota? l propose the
name of Dennis Hannifin, the Squat
ter Governor. His name would be as
good blind for the Republicans as
Rurke's was four years ago for the
democrats. II not why not?
Opinions on this momentous ques.
ton are solicited.
"BILL'S" SACRIFICE
Bill" Barnes of Albany has de.
clined to be delegate to the ma
tional convention. That's paving the
way for harmony. .-.
A*
PARTING OF WAYS
Alas! Teddy Roosevelt and Jane
Adams have parted company. This
may recall to many the part Miss
Adams took in the Bull Moose con
vention in Chicago. 1t has beer
thought that she wrote into the pro
gressive platform many of the human
rights with which it bristled.
II can no longer follow Roosevelt,
explains Miss Adams, because o
the stand he has taken on prepared
ness. The Colonel is willing to fgli
at the drop of the hat and far b.
it from me to defend him.
Does Miss Adams views presag'
split in the suffrage ranks! Man!
of the "pros' are for national de
tense. Then we have the militan
Pankhurst whom Wilson's agent:
held at Ellis Island as an "undesif
able alien"
How will Wilson and Miss Addam:
explain to the sisters?
4&*
REDUCED TO ALGEBRA
1.-THE republican presidential con
test is problem with two unknown
quantities." said . republican United
States senator recently. All th'
mathematical experts in politics arr
trying to figure it out. They let x
equal Roosevelt and 'Y' equal !lnghe.
but all they produce is figures.
"This pretty clearly sums up tn,
present condition of the convention
fight for the republican nomination
for president. The half dozen candi
dates avowedly seeking the nomina
ton will go into the convention will
from Is to 100 delegates eaca.
cit would be merely a proposition
of figuring out the chances of eacf
as compromise candidate If i "ert
rot for those overshadOwing figure:
in the background : Hughes ant
Roosevelt"
BOON EXPLODES
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-19

CRUSHED FOOT IN ENGINE.
Bentley, n. d., Jan. 1S.-Haryey
Knight in starting an engine. at the
Farmers elevator had his foot eau ht
in the fyweel and badly crushed.
Amputation may be necessary.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-19
sRAREBITn DREAM

The political grapevine is busy
these days. Some fertile brain has
doped out the Great RECONCILIATION"
anticipated at Chicago next June. It
proposes Taft as the temporary
chairman of the convention. The
next step in extending the olive
branch would be the selection OF
Roosevelt as permanent chairman.
Just frame mental picture Of