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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-05-10
THE WEST VS.. THE EAST.

Patriotism in the middle west is at
a low ebb. According to population,
the aforesaid middle west only con-
tributed more than three times as
many enlistments to the American ar
my since the outbreak of the war as
the east. Patriotism is higher in Mas
sachusetts, home Of the Pilgrim de-
scendents and the Bunker Till monu-
ment, where fewer recruits turned up
than in some midwestern towns. Some
thing more than Roosevelt is needed
to wake up" the west. How this
great section of the country got so
unpatriotic as to beat the patriotic
east in getting recruits is one of those
things that is "shrouded in mystery"
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-05-10
AMERICA MUST BUCKLE TO

Secretary Lane held out to the state
governors no false hopes of early
peace. He told them fatty to go
home and acquaint their constituents
with the probability of continued con-
flict and the downright necessity of
! increased food production.
A good many of us leaped to the
opinion that Germany would throw up
both hands as soon as we entered the
war. All we had to do, apparently,
was to issue bonds and loan funds to
the nations already in grapple. But
| tn eeasy days are passed, and not all
things are bought and sold. You can
not be sure of food, for instance, until
it is grown; you cannot coerce the
weather, harness the winds and rain.
The best man can do is to plant widely
and diligently as may be, trusting his
labors will have their just reward.
Likewise Midas cannot wish a ship in
to existence; mines and forests, ores
and logs, plates and planks, lathe and
saw-all these go into the making of
the peak of desire and the peak of
fulfillment stretches the valley Of
work.
Buckle to! Europe is performing
titanic tasks against fearful odds be.
cause stress has drawn forth the la
tent powers of men, women and chill
dren. We never know what we can
do until the pinch, then we do our best.
The pinch is here, and the sooner we
recognize that the better for us, our
cause and our allies. Leave off dream
ing, leave off lazing! Use your head
to save your hands and feet, not so
much to acquire wealth and leisure
as to increase your serviceabiEty,
your productivity. These days we can
not bubble too much over the division
Of the reward of industry; the impor-
tant thing is to increase output in all
staple, socially necessary lines of pro-
duction and decrease consumption of
food. Individual and even class well
fare must wait upon national welfare
| for the time being. Whenever disputes
arise they should be submitted to arbi-
tration Immediately and cheerfully.
The whole is greater than any of its
parts and the nation greater than any
of its subdivisions. Therefore Ameri-
can citizens, rich and poor, should lay
aside non-essentials and grid them
selves to play noble roles in Ameri-
cas- mightiest combat.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-05-10

cloth and ashes.
1t is time to throw our chests out
our heads up, and work valiantly with
our faces to the front, in a grand
cause.
Business is all right.
Business will be all right.
Working people will have plenty OF
money.
Coupon-clippers will have plenty of
money.
The greater part of the billions of
dollars to be loaned to the Allies will
be spent right here in the United
States.
There will be plenty for the North
west to live comfortably and sanely,
and pay war taxes as well.
It is, and will continue to be, the
GREAT, PROSPEROUS and HELP
Full Northwest.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-05-10
CHASING TO THE CITY.

In spite of the high prices Of farm
products, the migration from the farm
to the city is said to continue. Ease
of living and higher wages is said ia
cause the influx from the country. This
leads up to the interesting question as
to what is needed to keep the farm
folk on the farm. If high prices can
not do it, what will happen when there
are lower prices, as is bound to be the
case in course of time?
This route from the country to the
city, under way for several decades, is
one of the main reasons for a faulty
and insufficient food production and
high prices. Some way ultimately
must be found to stop it. What hap
pens if it is not prevented is indelibly
written in the history of the Roman
republic.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-05-10
THE NORTHWEST is PROSPER.


For years the Northwest has stead
lily been adding to its prestige, to it's
Importance in the economic affairs of
the nation and to its advancement in
prosperity.
With the call of the nation to arms,
the great Northwest finds itself splen-
didly prosperous.
Let US keep it So
Let us all get together in vision, in
thought, in plan and in action to real
ize the tremendous prosperity in store
for the Northwest, so that we shall
be even the better fortified to help
ourselves, to do "our bit" for our coun-
try and the success of democracy the
world over.
Let's put our foot on false economy.
"Going shabby" by those of us who
habitually dress well and can afford it,
is not going to help make more guns
and ammunition. If everybody who
dresses well begins to wear old clothes,
he is helping to throw thousands out
of work, he is helping to bring suffer-
ing upon manufacturers and mer-
chants, upon factory hands and store
employees throughout the country.
Don't be over-enthusiastic for Econ
omy.
Don't put stick in the fy-wheel of
legitimate, sure prosperity by inju-
dicious economy.
Let's have economy. But let's have
it with sanity, with cool Judgment,
with vision that shows us clearly
what the effects of this economy will
be.
I o4}e ~ pS@< ,n%, Il
scarce and replaced with difficulty.
Let's conserve our food supply and
grow more foodstuffs than ever before.
Let's pronounce that man a traitor
who hogs and boards supplies. Hoard
ing supplies has, in some instances,
already increased the high cost of liv-
ing.
The Northwest is in an enviable DO
sition this very moment.
The real need of the world is food,
Food, FOOD!
What shall the Northwest put in
the outstretched hand?
Get busy and help fill the worlds
dinner pail!
Weather has been cold. Spring is
still backward; but soil is in good con-
dition.
Good Seed is high in price, but one
of our banks tells us that 144 bankers
out of ITS recently sent word there
is not serious shortage.
And by all means, farmers, PLANT
GOOD SEED, no matter how high the
price. 1t will pay. 1t will pay BIG.
Planting good seed on vastly in
creased acreage will add to the pros
perity of the Northwest as nothing
else can
So let's all live, act naturally, work
and spend our money; spend it not ex-
travigantly, but wisely.
Industrial happiness and success de-
pend upon the free circulation of mon
ey, not the boarding Of it.
Let the carpenter keep on saving
and pounding.
Let the hod carrier keep busy with
his mortar.
Let the miller keep grinding.
Let everyone do his utmost to keep
his business on an even keel.
It is not the time to put on sack
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-05-10
"DO YOUR BIT"

Many apt phrases have been coined
since the momentous days of early
August, 1914, when the German leg
ions poured like a devastating flood
down over the fertile fields of Belgium
and France. Among them the homely
bit of English slang that will be re-
membered long after more majestic
and sonorous utterances have been
buried in oblivion. 1t appeals to the
man of red blood and staunch patriot
ism wherever he may be found. It
brings responsive thrill to every pat
riotic American woman
"Do your Bit"
With the entrance of the United
States into the war the applicability of
the phrase has leaped across the sea,
and it carries as compelling a mes
sage to every patriotic American as
1T does to every one of our new Allies
subjects. 1t expresses the keynote
OF ptriotic personal appeal. 1t meets
no welcome in the heart of the slack
err" of the man who crouches behind
the lines in safety or hides his craven
body behind the shield of a woman's
skirt, of him who contributes nothing
to the bulwark his neighbors are rails
ing to shield him.
To the young man who has not
formed urgent ties Of responsibility is
given the opportunity and privilege to
take the supreme pledge of patriotism
by enlisting in the army or navy.
There will remain behind the lines
many millions Of Americans who in
all probability will never hear the
thunder of cannon, and to them is
given the opportunity to render to the
Nation service that will supplement
and aid the efforts of the brave men
in the army and navy. America must
set an example to the world, SO that
after the war is over it may be said
that the people Of diverse bloods of
this great nation were actuated by one
impulse in an outpouring Of patriotic
endeavor without selfish motives, for
the good Of humanity.
Upon every individual in North Da-
kota as one great member of a great
galaxy of states, who is not too young,
or too enfeebled by age and disability
to contribute aid, there rests at this
time an urgent duty. Though foreign
armies are not trampling our soil, in
one form and another it is at our
thresholds. If we are laggards-if we
do not take prompt and undivided ac-
tion-disasters may overtake US. Do
not be a Stacker"
do your bit!"
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-05-10
ONE WAY no ECoNoMIzE,

New York society women are also
going in for economy and thrift. "A
society note states that they will all
carry swagger sticks this summer.
These sticks come in all shades and
harmonic with or accentuate the
shade Of the gown. The price is q
mere trifefrom $50 to $500. Every
well-dressed woman with an eye for
economy should have one.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-05-10

Mothers day will be celebrated
Sunday, May Is. Wear white flow
er in memory Of your dear mother if
she has passed to the Better Land and
some bright colored flower If she is
still living. If her precious life has
been spared, sit down and write her
and tell her how much you love her.
Time is on the wing and it will be
but very short time at best when
you will have to exchange the red
flower for the white one.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-05-10

Congress has reconsidered the Es-
pionage measure and will now give the
President the power in time Of war
to place an embargo on food stuffs to
any neutral nation. There is reason
why such law should be in force.
There is no question but what Ger
many has been getting large quanti-
ties of food from Spain, Switzerland,
Denmark and the other Scandinavian
countries, besides Holland. It is said
that these nations, tempted by the
high prices, have sold themselves short
of food and now that they will be
unable to buy all Of the food they
need in America, they are in grave
danger.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-05-10
PROBABLY WILL BE LATER.

One-third of the national guard is
being used to guard bridges. This
work could be done by the older citi-
zens in the community, or the ire
serves" as the military men say, leav-
ing the guard to fight at the front.
The guard was ready and not needed
elsewhere so it was given this duty.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-05-10

The United States will send nine
regiments, or $4,000 trained railroad
builders and engineers to France at
once, to assist in building and oper-
ating railroads to be extended along
the front to carry supplies and SOL
diers to the battle line. Thousands of
locomotives and rails will be shipped
from America to France, the various
railroads giving up every locomotive
they can possibly spare. America leads
the world in railway building and the
best trained men in the country have
volunteered for this service in Europe.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-08-16

Socialists and Socialism" by Thos. E.
Watson, has a vast amount of information of
interest and value to those who think they
know what Socialism stands for Price Csc.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-08-16
Thursday, August Is, 1917,

No.
Was there legal process Of any kind?
No.
ham, constituted herself the accuser, the
GRANDEUR the petit-jury, the Judge, and the
witnesses
The Graham woman was the State! BY
virtue Of her office as Police Matron, she de-
str0yed Lau'a Stones constitutional rights.
Without hearing in any sort of Court, the
Protestant girl was deprived of liberty, and
reduced to involuntary servitude, in that she
was sentenced to wash dirty clothes for the
Catholic church, and was incarcerated to
make sure that she did it.
What has become of that poor girl? God,
only, knows. BY this time she has probably
undergone every horror of priestly lust, and
has been put out of the way
Another form of involuntary servitude, is
known to law as ''peonage" This consists
of holding person against that persons will,
to work out debt The Roman Catholics
created this diabolical system in Mexico, in
Central America, in South America, in Cuba,
and in the Philippine Islands,
Under that hellish system, the natives of
those Catholic countries became serfs In the
same manner that Catholic Europe estab-
lished serfage in the Dark Ages
The peasants became ''attached to the SOIL"
and could not leave it: the feudal lord did
not sell them of the land but conveyed them
qciM the land, when he sold his domain.
In the Southern States the term peonage
came to mean, the holding Of a negro, against
his will, to work out a debt that he owed .
white man.
1t was far different from chattel slavery.
as YOU readily perceive; but, inasmuch as
the lab0rer did not work out the debt, qc5zz~
ngly, the y. 5. Courts properly held, that
the system violated the 18th Amendment.
Now, the War-and- Waste advocates con-
tend, that the Amendment was meant to ap-
ply to the Blacks and to prevent i5edustriM
compulsion, only.
But the language of the Amendment is not
limited: it is as broad as words can make it:
"involuntary servitude' shall not exist.
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude
shall exist"
Could it be made broader? Doubtless, the
States had the negro in mind, Just as the
negro was the ject-matter of the 14th
Amendment.
But didn't the corporations seize upon the
18th Amendment, and convert it into corr
poration Gibraltar?
1ney certainty CID. 1t IS their fortress,
m0w. The language of the 18th Amendment
necessarily embraced all varieties Of citizens,
and the corporations are citizens: hence, they
claimed and received the benefit Of the amend
ment.
In like manner, the words Of the 18Th
Amendment are so broad-necca8aq3z
they embrace the whites, as we'll as the blacks,
without limitation as to age or sex.
is any man, any woman, any boy, any girl
being held in servitude against his or her
free will?
If so, there you have violation of the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-08-16
PAGE -FOUR

that when his father began the great cam
paign. for Southern emancipation and de-
mocracys resurrection, the old leaders were
in retirement, some advised silence, some sub
mission, and but handful would meet him
In Atlanta for private conference.
Almost alone, under depressing discourage
ment, Mr.. Hill undertook to arouse the spirit
of our people. At first, it was like fogging
an exhausted horse.
But as the "Notes on the Situation" came
out, and were eagerly read through the whole
country, the effect was like bugle-calls. The
hacked people took heart. Bowed heads were
lifted. and mute tongues found voice.
At length came the grand assemblage Of
10000 at the Bush Harbor in Atlanta where
Toombs and Cobb and Hill addressed the
vast multitude.
No City Government had the smallness to
preempt the available places of meeting.
No d. a. r. allowed themselves to be made
the tools of silence and repression
No daily paper was so far forgetful of fun
damental democracy as to threaten the peo
pies meeting in advance.
The Bush Harbor Day was a Red Letter
Day in the history of Georgia and the South.
1t inspired the whites of dovn-trodden Sec
ton to make stand for their racial integrity
and their Constitutional rights.
The peaceable movement thus lnaugurated;
blessed the whole country in the restoration
of civil, constitutional government
1t was then believed, that the danger of
personal and military government was for
ever escaped.
But that danger is upon us again.
The peaceable assertion Of our rights, must
be made once more. The old foes have come
back; but we can summon to our aid the old
friends.
The bloodless battles of 1867 and can be
fought again.
The stakes are the same. If they were
now.
Howell Cobb is not here, to rouse us with
his leonine presence and sOn0rOus voice Rob
ert Toombs is not here, to strike with the hot
bolts of his indignation the enemies of Mag
IA Charta: Ben Hill is not here to send his
clarion call from the red hills of Atlanta to
the utterm0st bounds Of mountain and river
and sea-
But re are here! And the same old duty
is here.
The duty to fearlessly maintain what our
fOrefathers fearlessly established-a demOc-
racy which rules itself, and whose public serv-
ants will be held to stern account.
WE ARE THE MASTERS!
By the Ering God, re must again make
that UHderStOOd!
BE at Macon, Aug %.
Let everybody who wants to come, COME
Whether elected as delegates, or not
whether GeOrgians, or not; whether dwellers
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-08-16
THE eTEFFERSONIAN

Since 1865
When the 18th Amendment Was
Adopted!
THOSE Morganized supporters of the
WAR AND WASTE policy, which Woodrow
Wilson Hoped to, after he had been reelected
on the policy Of Peace-and- Prosperity, are
extremely anxious to head us off from legal
test of the monstrous Army increase Act Of
May, 1917
These War-and- Waste advocates quote
from decisions made prior to 1865
Consequently, the quotations do not touch
the case.
The 18th Amendment was adopted in
1865, and prohibits the establishment of any
system of servitude which the citizen is not
willing to undergo.
What is meant by involuntary servitude''?
Whatever it is, the Supreme Law declares
it shall not exist in this Republic
All of us know what slavery is. To own
a human chattel, to sell it, publicly or pri-
vately; to convey the title by bill sale, as
you would give written title to horse; to
control the labor of this chatteI, and as you
control the labor of an OK; and to scourge
the slave, as you would goad the ox-that is
slavery.
What is involuntary seryitude?
1t is any sort of service which one person
renders to another, against the acjW Of the
serUitOr.
If Bishop Kelley, Of Savannah, establishes
an institution which imprisons negro girls,
hires them out to mental service in wealthy
Catholic families, and collects the wages due
for the service, the victims of the system are
held to Involuntary 8erUitude
IT, as ALLEGED the Roman church T1IacticnC
that kind Of thing in Savannah, it is violating
the 18th Amendment
In like manner, the Roman church has
established "Juyenile Courts" all over this
Onlon on the specious plea of safeguarding
the morals of "wayward" youth
A Roman Catholic slave-hunter is always
proving In the Juvenile Court, ready to
pounce upon Protestant boys and girls, and
to spirit them away into the House of the
Coed Shepherd"
The House of the Good Shepherd is the
plous name Of the papal slave-pen, in which
Protestant labOrers toll for Romanist task
masters, from 3 O'Clock IN the morning to 8
O'Clock at night.
The work in these slave-pens is usually the
washing Of dirty clothes for hotels boarding
houses, Pullman cars railroads shops hos
pitfalls, &c.
The Protestant serfs do the work, and the
Catholics get the money
any lar for these Jurcnize Courts? NONE!
Every one of them is an abomination to the
law, and should be abolished Most of them
are more or less the feeders to the Roman
Catholic system of involuntary servitude"
The Protestant victims are those who have
been picked up by legalized slave-hunters on
the streets, rushed into the Juvenile Court,
and inundated into c0nSenting to scrvitude
in the slave-pens at San Antonio, Louisville,
Cincinnati, or some other big city, where
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-04-03

Washington April 3The people OF the United States deter
the outag committed by Gemany das
tardy methods of The President the United States in his
pleaded for immediate declaration of
President Wilson said:
Germany stands IS a the world peace.
''Our and daughters who
bed liberty, much than
the battle delicating
in fact everything that have; protect
the principles which birth to the American eagle and
which brought and happiness into the land OF Liberty With God
helping her she can do no
This will be against the German people either in Ger
in uhlenes of the Ger
man submarine campaign which the Staying Americans with
warming
This nhuman has swept aside every restrc
civilized warfare 1t is warfare Gcrmany against
all mankind.
THE longer submit the nhuman methods
which is killing citizens Therefore will the
of sacred rights a nation standing for liberty
Members of Congress- advise you all of power in
placing this country defense; recruit the
strength rush the building of submarine doyer and
carefully guard all lines of invasion and manufacturing plants in
domains.
all bring Germany of
and drcnougt keeping clear all the
whereby supplies be furnished to the armies of
operating Europe and oodstu abundance be sent to
the people Of the Entente powers.
We about into the face of Mars the God of
perhaps into battle with natural foe The standards of
Liberty will be launched against Prussian autocr0Cy
We will conduct operations whatever they be- without
passion with proud punclo always observing what the nations
standards have been built upon.
"Absoue Right and Fair play,
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-04-03
FAYE WINS OUT
IN LAND SUIT

In a session which lasted about
thirty minutes the jury in the cir
cult court returned a verdict in the
Faye VS.. Knudscn case in favor of
H. P. Faye, manager Of the Keka-
ha Sugar Company at five-thirty
O'Clock yesterday afternoon,
The jury held that all of the
land which lies in vicinity of the
Waimea district extending from the
government road to the sea and
which was purchased by Mr.. Faye
from the Kapiolani estate, is the
property Of Mr.. Faye and that the
land which is occupied by the Gar
den Island Honey Company is in
cludcd in the title of the property
which he purchased. 1t is expected
that Attorney Olson, acting for E,
A. Knudscn will note an appeal tc
the supreme court.
The suit which was brought by
Mr. Faye against the Garden IslanC
Honey Company for action to quite
title has aroused a great amount O
interest on Kauai. 1t involves tn,
strip of land mentioned above on
which the Waimea plantation have
their stables and Il lower stretch Oh
which is located the Garden IslanC
Honey Company The Honey Com
pany have been using a roaC
through the portion of property
leased by them from Mr.. Knudsen
When the sale Of the lands wal
perfected by Mr.. Faye, he CLOSED
the road up, claiming that all the
property which was occupied by
the honey company was included il
the sale which took in the private
road.
Mr.. Knudscn's claim was tina
the land was the property of thC
late Waldemar Knudscn who was
entitled to the land through adyers,
possession. In charging the jury
Judge Dickcy presented seven forms
of verdicts which would suit tn,
rendcrition Of "A verdict in the case
Attorneys Alexander Lindsay anC
John w. Cathcart of Honolulu re
presented Mr.. Faye.