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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-06-19
WANTS A REPUBLIC HERE,

To The Editor of The Forum:
Sir:-I notice that you retained the
platitudes in my creed and omitted
the two articles that makes the creed
worth while namely: "We believe that
the United States should become a
republic, and, We believe the rulers
of a republic may be such through
heredity as the rulers of a despotic
autocracy may be such through popu-
lar election"
l was a candidate for congress on
the Republican platform. No one has
discovered it, and the convention will
probably meet and indorse standpat
Republican, and he will receive at
least one per cent of the votes cast.
/ am the only man in the state with
whom Mr.. Townley is disinclined to
debate the economical theories that
he advocates-and / am the only man
who can obtain votes from the Non
partisan leaguers.
realize, of course, that a paper is
a money making proposition; but
can assure you that you have a much
greater interest in the national good
and if something extremely radical
is not done, this national government
is going up in smoke. There have
been no German plots sprung in the
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-06-19
EDITORS MAIL BAG
ASKS a OIJEsTIoN

To The Editor of The Forum:
Sir:-As a farmer who has put $50
in the Nonpartisan league / have a
good right to have one question an
swered. President A. c. Townley says
we should conscript wealth to run
this war because we have already
conscripted the boys.
The government has conscripted the
rich mans boys and the poor mans
boys just alike. Does Mr.. Townley
mean for the government to conscript
all us poor farmers barns and prop
erty just like the rich mans property
Please answer through your paper.
N. D. FARMER.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-06-19
WOUNDS FUGITIVE
Officer at Wahpeton Fires on Fleeing
Men Who Resist Arrest.

Wahpeton, N. D., June 19.-Offlcer
Nick Holman shot and wounded one
Of two men who resisted arrest here
and started to fee from the officer
and Mayor Fligelman. The mayor
and the officer interrupted the men
who were fighting at the time and in
attempting to make an arrest they
suddenly took fight.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-06-19

New York newspapers are busily en-
gagged in finding a slogan for the war.
They have finally reached a partial
agreement ON Lets Co..
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-06-19

Paris newspapers are trying to en-
tighten their readers on how to pro-
nounee Gen. Pershing's name. The fav-
orite rendering was "Pareshang" but
The Figaro eOrrects this, and says 1t
should be "PeWrchigne". The Figaro
Is a lot nearer being correct than the
average American. who slurs it into
''Purshin'."
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-06-19

The German Kaiser is still the SEN
Tor partner of the firm Of Me and God.
In his letter to King Constantine.
William says: The mailed fist of Ger
many with further aid from Almighty
God will restore you to your throne Of
which no man by right can rob you.
The armies of Germany and Germany's
allies will wreak vengeance on those
who have dared so insolently to lay
their criminal hands on you
Pleasant little creature. William.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-06-19
IN THE OPEN FORUM

Devoted the Keeping Dakota Editors
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-06-19
N. DAKOTA BRIEFS.

N. D.. June Is.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-10-03
with. the famous New Salem strain Of

with. the famous New Salem strain of
Holsteins.
Marmarth-For the FIRST time in the
Ave years J. II. Kramer has served as
United States. commissioner here, he
has taken as a proof Of homestead
entry in which the claimant listed
with other improvements an automo-
bile garage. Mrs. Dan Gerth is the
homesteader who is first to introduce
the automobile in Slope county home
stead history.
Bismarck-Last rites will be held at
St. Mary's pro-cathedral tomorrow
morning for Mrs. J. j. Harrington, of
Jamestown. who died here Monday.
BIsmarck-Benton Baker. chairman
for the Bismarck district Of the War
Y. NJ. c. A, Tuesday attended. a na-
tional conference in Chicago address
ed by DIR. John r. Mott. at which was
mapped out the campaign for 1918
funds. Attorney Baker will have
charge of this campaign in the Bis
marck territory.
Jamestown-Despit the fact that
Dan Cupid stopped at the Inflated No.
13 in wagfng his ''merciless propa-
ganda" in Stutsman county during the
month of September, he proved him
self to be a hustler, beating the Sep
tember, 1915, record by seven.
Jamestown-Jamest city suffer
ed a S400 loss when the stables at the
fair grounds were destroyed by fire.
Jamestown-Despit the inclement
weather conditions, fall blowing is
progressing fairly well in all parts of
Stutsman county. The soil is so dry
that the work is maSS difncuit.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-10-03
N. D. BRIEFS

Bismarck-Capt. I. I. Baker has
completed digging his potatoes on the
bottoms, using a mechanical digger,
and he finds that he has an excellent
crop Of tubers, although the spuds in
many sections Of the slope are prov
ing light.
Bismarck-A charter was issued to-
day to the Jack Sherman Memorial
Methodist Episcopal church, to be es-
tablished near Steele. in Kidder
county.
Cavalier-An 1S-months-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Staples was run
down by freight car and one arm
was so badly mangled that 1t became
necessary to amputate the member.
Lisbon - Travelling in pneumatic
tired trailers pulled by automobiles,
two elk and two young deer, present
ed to the city of Lisbon by the Valley
City park board. have arrived here
and gone into winter quarters.
Linton-Konrad Vetter, while NOV
Ing a separator, was caught between
the machine and the engine, and his
right leg and hip were crushed.
Tdttle James Grover. who left
Tuttle two weeks ago in his car, writes
from Boston that he made the trip
over the Red trail. distance of 2,2l6
miles, in ten days, with only one
blowout and two punctures.
Bismarck-Sibley Point ranch, ia
nous as the scene of the first Indian
battle in Dakota territory, fought by
Sibley in the SOS, and also as the
burial place of the first Mason who
died in Dakota territory, is being
stocked by F. ]. Celtgen, the owner,
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-10-03

Amidon-"I am going to march at
least one mile with the boys" said
Col. l. E. DeSart, 20, a veteran Of the
civil war. as Slope county's contin-
gent Of thirty-two soldiers turned out
to entrain.
Amidon-Charges of desertion are
said to be pending against Henry H.
Lund for ignoring orders of the Slope
county exemption board to report
here to entrain for Camp Dodge, but
insisted upon joining them at Mime
apolis.
Bismarck-The capital city lost a
landmark SundaySafternoon when the
old Spice milT', one of Bismarck s
initial ventures in wholesaling and
jobbing. large frame structure south
of the tracks, erected more than thir-
ty years ago by Captain Smith, was
completely destroyed by fire.
Bismarck-Jack Bennett, returned
from San Antonio, Tex, where he was
serving with the regular army, to an
swer to charges Of white slavery, was
held under $4,000 bonds when arraign-
ed before Judge Bleckreid.
Bismarck-Sec. ]. III. Calderhead, of
the railway commission, is expected
home today from Williston, where he
appeared last week in behalf of the
board in an appeal taken by the Great
Northern from an order of the railway
board that the company make East
Fairview q passenger station.
Dickinson A bevy of beautiful
schoolma ans invaded Dickinson Mon
day for the annual Stark county insti-
tute and training school which will
continue throughout the week.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-10-03
Germany Stands ConUicted of Fnghtful
BrutdlitieS In Her Conduct of the War
Belgium Are And
Their Own Troops With Belgian Prisoners

tion, in German minds, that might is
right, that the end justifes any
means, no matter how brutal.
We are a clean and humane peo-
pie. We would not believe these
things at first. A million and a half
Belgians fed to England with the
story. We were still incredulous
Noncombatants were sunk at sea.
We still felt there must be some
Justification. New and ever new
cruelties Of death came from the
German trenches. and we have said:
This is modern war"
But the score is mounting higher
day by day. The politics Of this war
are lost in its inhumanities, father
ed by German skill. It was not
enough that men should die. They
must die horribly.
1t is for the home we are fighting
today. Democracy will live because
the principle of free people will
never die. Liberty will survive, so
long as the soul is greater than the
body. But the world will go on and
progress only when we have placed
on the Intel Of each door in every
land the sign, in blood If it must be,
that the covenant of the weak and
the unprotected must be kept.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-10-03
HAIe's OBJECTIVE.

General Haig's army seems to be
in a fair way to solve the submarine
problem, in part at least.
For nearly a week. dispatches from
the British front have been strictly
censored. That some major opera
+ion is in progress seems certain.
That major operation is, in all prob
ability, a drive on the Lille-Cstend
railroad. With this in the hands OF
the British. a retirement of the Ger
man troops along the coast would
be necessitated, and that would
mean the abandonment of the sub
marine bases in Belgium, which
would greatly handicap the useful
ness Of the U-boats.
The forced retirement from the
Belgian coast would mean more tnan
torpedo nets; more than sub
marine bombs: more than a new
fleet of destroyers; more than any
one factor that has been used against
the undersea pirates. If Germany
were forced to remove her submar-
inc bases to the other side of Hol-
land. it would be the hardest blow
yet dealt them.
The local La Toilette organ has
not. as yet accepted the invitation to
make good" but it has shut up
Temporarily. The identity of the
Fargo citizens who used patriotism
to further their base and personal
ends" Is as yet unknown.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-10-03
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE
YEGGMAN.

Defenders of the l. w. w. including
the local mouthpiece of the organ
ization, will have some little difficulty
in explaining and smoothing over the
statements credited to w. D. Hay
wood, in the evidence the government
investigators have collected.
From a book sent by Mr.. Haywood
to be translated into Finnish, this
morsel is taken:
I'VE are going to take over the
Industries some day for three
very good reasons: because we
need them, because we want
them, and because we have the
power to get them. Whether we
are ethically justified or not, Is
not our concern.
That is the argument Of a yegg-
man. He robs a bank because he
needs the money. because he wants
it, and because he has the power to
get 1t.
Followed to it's logical conclusion,
II would mean that the next band Of
revolutionists who needed the indus
tries, and wanted them and had the
power to get them, could take them
from Haywood's followers. Mexico
experienced several years OF such a
system OF government.
Here is another extract from the /.
w. w. newspaper:
I'VE are absolutely and ire
revocably dissatisfied with the
present system Of society. We
consider it a useless system and
we mean to destroy IL. -- The I.
w w. Is lighting for himself
self preservation, like the copper
trust knows no law.
But the ]. w. w. isn't even a good,
honest outlaw. The moment his ac-
tivities are interfered with, he ap-
peals to the very law which he con-
dsmnn. to protect him. The parlor
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-10-03
THE NEW PARTY.


Deeply significant is the confer
ence called for Chicago today. when
plans for a new political party to
unite all the radical elements in a
new organization. will be considered.
The Socialist party. as a political
organization, has been thoroughly
discredited in America since the out
break Of the war. Its biggest men
have left it in disgust at its un-
patriotic tactics.
Leaders Of the !. w. w. have made
the name of this organization a
synonym Of disloyalty, mob rule, and
violence. No loyal American has
any alternative but to fight both of
these organizations with every ounce
of his energy, and without COM
promise.
Yet the very existence Of these
organizations is evidence Of a condi-
tion that demands attention, and will
demand more attention when the war
ends. The war is making America
think on social and political prob
lens as she has never thought be-
fore. Unfortunately a very large
percentage of the population can be
swayed by catch phrases that play
upon the emotions rather than ap-
peal to the intellect.
Just now the only considerable
T. -
It's successful prosecution must come
first. If the everyday citizen can get
the necessities Of life for himself
and his family, he should be willing
to sacrifice the rest If IL is needed
to push the war to a successful con-
clusion.
But with the war over, the people
of America will be looking for
leaders, and the leaders with a COM
prehensive program of reconstruction
along the most sanely progressive
lines will have no trouble finding a
following.
Fortunate indeed will the nation be
IL it can find such leaders-men with
a broad vision, a real patriotism,
and an unselfish aim, who will not
seek to advance their political for
tunes by appeals to prejudice and
class hatred, but who will work for
the greatest good of the greatest
number, without rancor and without
demagoguery.
Russia today is a pitiful example
OF a nation that has fallen under the
control of the '1unatic fringe. 1t is
threatened with anarchy and even a
reign of terror similar to that of the
French revolution.
Americas 'lunatic fringe" is far
from being in control, but it is plan
ming to make a bid for it under La
Follette's leadership. The conference
in Chicago is but a straw showing
the trend of thought. 1t may develop
nothing of Importance or value, but
it shows that there is a division
among the radicals and progressives
and that a big faction of them can
not stomach the Obstructionists.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-10-03
GOVERNOR ERAZIER,s CHANCE.

Now that Governor Frazier has
eliminated the but" from his loyal
tv, he should head a movement in
North Dakota to have Senators La
Toilette and Gronna removed from
the senate.
Minnesota's safety commission
sDpointed by her loyal and fearless
governor, has petitioned for the re-
moval of the man who. looked upon
the Lusitania as technically"
Let Governor Frazier head such
petition in North Dakota. There will
be no difficulty getting signers. and
It will prove that Governor Frazier
meant what he said to the boys at
Bismarck, and that his words were
not camoufage. or in plain English
''hunk"
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-10-03

Hettinger-Rev. Father Folkins, Of
Strool, is confined to the home OF Rev.
Father Halloran here by injuries sus-
tained when his automobile turned
over.
EgeIand-Carl Moe lost four good
horses when the animals nibbled into
a sack of grain which he had saturat-
ed with gopher poison.
Jamestown-WiIliam p. Hayes. 80,
cashier of the Spiritwood bank, died
Sunday at his home OF diabetes.
Bismarck-Emmons Petrie, son Of
w. e. Petrie, an Emmons county
farmer, was killed in Chicago in an
elevated railroad accident.
Amidon-To commemorate the 400th
anniversary of the reformation, five
churches of the Norwegian Lutheran
parish, presided over by Rev. c. B.
Ingebrigtson, will hold a joint meet
ing at Midway Sunday, Oct. z. "
Bowman-Amputatio of the right
arm above the elbow was necessary
as the result OF the 3-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Clarkson,
near Cox, S. D., getting her hand
caught in the cogs of a wringer.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-10-03

Socialists who defend him take the
same attitude and bespeak for him a
meticuIous observance of the same
law. II society adopted the same at
titude toward the I. w. w. that he
adopts toward society. there would
be a price upon the head Of every
one Of them. Fortunately for him,
the law and the social system he at
tacks, still exist. and will exist, in
modified form perhaps. long after the
last /. w. w. has died in bed.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-10-03
SOME "rEcHNIcALITIEs"

Read the article by Mary Roberts
Rinehart in another column of The
Forum this evening.
That will explain why good Am
ericans see red" when they consld-
er La Toilette and his technical
ties. 1t will explain the "hysteria'
with which everyone with red blood
in his veins views evidences of sedi-
ton in America. 1t explains the
"intolerance" of anything that
smacks of a half-hearted conduct of
the war.
And it justifes all of them.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-10-03
The American Face
From The Manchester Guardian.

The chief thing that struck you
was their faces (of our soldiers in
LondOn.) They looked grim and set,
and however loud the cheering by
the way and however racy the Lon
don greetings. there was never a
smile to be seen. The Americans
seemed conscious Of being on show
so different from the British soldier
on march out, who always gives
the crowd as good as he gets In the
way Of repartee and never allows
nifty.
This unyielding appearance SEEM
ed especially to impress the volatile
French and Belgian soldiers among
the spectators. Every one said they
looked like business these men with
set. rather hard, faces. strong jawed
and close Tipped.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-10-03
The Editors Mail Bag

To The Editor of The Forum:
The following estimate of the cost
of the new Wilson school building is
approximately correct.
Taking the method employed by
Mr.. timer as quoted by Mr.. Frame,
the Wilson school contains SOC, 1896
cubic feet, which calculated on a
basis Of 1914 cents per cubic foot
will bring the total cost up to $112,-
275.76. Add to this per cent
architects commission, $5,613.7S, and
the equipment for the gymnasium,
manual training. desks and general
furnishings, $4,000, and cost Of site,
$4,000, and you have a total of
$149,SS9.54 of expense before the
plant can be efficiently used.
To show that this estimate is
about correct the following actual
figures are here given:
Contracts ct.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-10-03

Total cost of plant. ...... $149, $685.
These figures prove that a fire.
proof school building of the plainest
and most economical kind cannot be
built in Fargo for less than 1914
cents per cubic foot. much less a
highly equipped modern high school
Of any architectural pretentions
whatever such as the board of
education proposes to erect.
One glaring defect in Mr.. Frames
estimate as given in The Courier
News Of Sept 26 is in regard to
proportionate cost Of the plumbing,
heating and wiring. He states that
he is advised by Mr.. timer that such
work will cost one-fifth Of the whole.
This is a mere guess and cannot be
borne out by facts as a simple COM
parison with the Wilson school now
being erected will show, and IL Mr..
Frame had taken the time to COM
pare the actual figures at his dis
posal he would not have been led in
to making such an erroneous state
ment. AS a matter of fact this
same work in the Wilson school will
cost more than one-third Of the
whole; and it is fair to presume that
the same items will run still higher
in a properly equipped high school.
Therefore Mr.. Frames statement as
given in The Courier News can
not be considered as being reliable in
relation to such matters.
GEO. HANCOCK,
Architect.
Fargo, Oct. 2.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-10-03
35 Horses and 49 Buggies
At Auction

Carriages, hearses, sleighs, IS sets
harness, rs robes. ETC., at Doyle's big
sale, Fargo. Saturday. Oct. s. Going
sells them.-Advt.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-10-03
ToDAY's oUoTATIoN-

We are very slightly changed
From the semi apes who ranged
lndia's prehistoric clayj
Whose drew the longest bow,
Ran his brother down you know
As we run men down today
-kipling.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-21
Short Term Bonds
Urged in Congress
New Issue To Be Discussed by
Ways and Means Commit
tee This Week

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2O.-The al
visibility of issuing for domestic neeus
along with long term war DonGs' q; d
series of short term bonds, payable IN
from three to five years, TO prevent
payment Of high interest charges
through a cheap money period whlch
experts believe may follow the war
will be discussed by the House ways
ard Means Committee when 1t meets
late this week. ,.;.
Not enough war bonds for domestic
needs have been authorized thus Tar 10
give the Administration financiers
much concern about their duration, but
the prospect of mounting interes.
rates and realization that further Is
sues are inevitable have aroused IN
terest in the short term bonds pro-
posal. .,,.I
The new issue of bonds for Allied
loans will carry 4 per cent interest IN
I'll probability, an advance of 2 per
cent over the first Allied loan bonds,
and a 5 per cent rate on all bonds II
the war continues long is predicted by
many. As the bonds are convertible
each new issue at advatced rates IN
creases the rate for previous issues.
General debate will be INDUCED IN
by the committee. Some members
favor abandoning the plan, holding that
a sufficiently high rate will be reached
by the next issue to satisfy the in
vestor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-21
Many Champions
To Compete in
Senior Game

Eleven Of the nineteen senior ua'
and field champions Of the Meiro't.
tan Association will defend their n't
in tie annual competitions which "a
place at Celtic Park next Saturday 8
ternoon. The committee passed W
the eligibility Of the entrants lasting
and failed to Reject any Of the ~ y
plisants.
While the New York Athletic 0'
will not be represented in the e'1P
tition. as II does not favor ehamss.
shin contests during the wsr q ls,'
group of its members have taSen :.
vantage OF the permission 70 eh
themselves as unattached Macy
the men COMPOSED the winning W
last year. and had the " lnged r0t, -
ganilation elected 20 defend rs rye
il would have succeeded WIKI HPps..--.
ly little trouble. Some OF the .sh
nent Winged Foot men VINO wiz ir
part without club afliiatioh ai Usi,
Lincoln, the jayelin channion' "p% D..
Gordon, the one-mile chamo'ohi ~
mond Geors. and many others; .,,r
During the inspection Oh ne "a ~,
blanks Il also was discerned tha'
Irish-American Athletic CiuD mas ~
many of It's famous athletes lnuS S c,l.
mating any. chance the few !o{a., C ,ss,
had of regaining the title y nsD J,a
nine wears previous 70 last year 90 -
Eller, the veteran hurdler, WAC 10.
competed since the sensation e.. 81. :,
by his wearing spiked shoes a. ]; .nf so,,
door championships, viii star hr,Is
the reward and 220-yard low ~, Ne,
as an unattached athlete m.Sns,tic,
Grath has also severed his eo .,Ii,s Ps
with the Celt club, along Wv" VIZ sew.
O'Connor. William J. Rolker ana
eral others. 49,, .,ho will N
Another Irish athlete VINO .;,..er
missing is Pa; Mcdonald, tae soi ,,s,
mound Shot champion, who mas h hy 70
in his entry. owing TO his s,. oSlic,
obtain leave of absence rom 80 srd
duties. Pat Ryan is SUI ,isossr.cOssi
will compete in both the slS.s w .pound
hammer throw and the hiU
weight for distance.