Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-10-22
MANOAN VOTERS
GIVE P|NCH0 7
GREAT OVATION
Conservationist Thrusts Facts
Home With Force in TEL
ling Address
PRES. WILSON HAD NO
BACKBONE SAYS SPEAKER
Flays Executive for His Part in
Passage of Celebrated Ad-
amson Measure
By STAFF CORRESPONDENT.

Mandan, Oct. 21.-Gifford Pinchot,
renowned in the United States as the
great conservationist, delivered tell
ing address before large audience Of
Mandan voters tonight Mr.. Pinchot's
remarks were sent home with force
and he was given a great ovation by
the enthusiastic crowd in attendance.
He said in part:
1T is true that we have spent be-
tween one and two hundred million
dollars in warlike expeditions into
Mexico that more of our citizens have
been killed in Mexico than were killed
in the Spanish American war, and
during Wilson's term in the White
House we have always been on the
verge OF trouble and have skidded
from one crisis into the next.
ut is true that citizens have been
murdered with impugnity and we have
been bluffed into eating our words in
the sight Of the old world.
1T is true that we have lost the re-
spect OF all the great nations Of Eur
Ope and are left to face the coming
readjustment of international relas
tions without friendship Of a single
one of the countries which will control.
Wilson Had no Backbone.
ut is true that all this happened to
us because the Wilson administration
displayed its colors and did not mean
what it said. 1t is true that Wilson
kept US out OF war and saved our self
respect in the, Venezuela incident, and
that Roosevelt did the same when the
Germans threatened the Monroe doc
trine in Central America. It is true,
that an administration with courage
and common sense and a habit OF
meaning what it said would have kept
US out of war, far more than Wilson
for we have actually been at war with
Mexico-and would not have lost the
place of influence and consideration
which Cleveland and Wilson maintain.
All this is true, but still they say
THANK God for Wilson, he kept us
out of war;"
Dad Semple And His Nephew.
1T reminds me Of the story of Dad
Semple, and his nephew. Ned kept
his store at country crossroads in
the middlewest. He came out of the
door one day with pail of lard in
his hand and his eye lit on the lad.
See here, lad, said he, run down
with this to your Aunt Marie. She
wants this before she starts to get
dinner. 1t won't take you a minute
"'Alright Dad, will if you will let
me drive your auto IT'S too nearby,
said Dad, and anyway, how do know
You can drive the car Sure, ! can
said Ned. Let me show you Well,
said Dad, your Aunt's in hurry and
l will take a chance: jump in So
Ned jumped into Dads car, stepped
on the self starter, threw off the brake,
threw in the clutch and the car start
ed and jumped across the road, scrap
ed Dad, who just managed to jump
away, and grazed the path to the wat
ering trough on the other side of the
road. Ned gave the steering wheel a
twitch, shot back again, almost ran
down Dads old black COW and pune
tured his tire on an old nail in the
grass. BY this time he forgot to let
20: he hung to The wheel and yanked
it again: the car headed for ditch,
crossed the road and crumpled mud
guard against the telephone pole, got
away from Ned and just managed to
wiggle over the bridge, leaving a
track behind him like black snake in
the sand. Once across the bridge, he
scared chickens into Mysteries and
was scared about as badly when he
saw team ahead. In that in
slant, he remembered the emergency
break. and threw it on and came to a
stop in front of Aunt Maria's gate.
Ned was pale and breathing heavily,
but not for long. AS his aunt came
out to the road. she heard him say in
q tone in which relief and pride were
mingled: Can drive the car? Well,
say, I'll bet there isn't another boy in
Mandan that could have slipped as
many chances for trouble in the same
length of road
What Happened to Ned?
when Dad Semple, in haste and in
dignation arrived from the store, did
he throw up his hands and breath?
Thank God, for Ned, he kept my car
out of trouble? Hardly. What he did
say, he got his car back safe, to abuse
himself for letting Ned have it and
to tell his nephew precisely what
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