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tries, our commerce, our politics, and
our social action. To be Indifferent to
it or independent of it was out of the
question.
And yet all the while we have been
conscious that we were not part of it.
In the consciousness, despite many di-
visions, we have drawn closer togeth-
er. We have been deeply wronged
upon the seas, but we have not wish.
ed to wrong or injure in return; we
have retained throughout the consci-
BUSINESS of standing in some sort
apart, intent upon an interest that
transcribed the immediate issues of
the war itself. AS some of the inju-
ries done us have become intolerable,
we have still been sclear that we wish
ed nothing for ourselves that we were
not ready to demand for all mankind
fair dealing, justice, the freedom to
live and be at ease against organized
wrong.
1t is in this spirit and with this
thought that we have grown more
and more aware, more and more GER
tain that the part we wished to play
was the part of these who mean to
vindicate and fortify peace. We have
been obliged to arm ourselves to make
good our claim to a certain minimum
of right and of freedom of action. We
stand firm in armed neutrality since
it seems that in no other way we can
demonstrate what it is we insist upon
and cannot forgo. We may even be
drawn on, by circumstances, not by
our own purpose or desire, to more
active assertion of our rights as we
see them and a more immediate asso-
citation with the great struggle itself
But nothing will alter our thought OF
our purpose. They are too clear to be
observed. They are too deeply root
ed in the principles of our national
life to be altered. We desire neither
conquest nor advantage. We wish
nothing that can be had only at the
cost of another people. We have al
ways professed unselfish purpose and
we covet the opportunity to prove that
our professions are sincere.
No Longer Provincials.
There are many things still to dc
at home, to clarity our own politics
and give new vitality to the industrial
processes of our life, and we shall dc
them as time and opportunity serve;
but we realize that the greatest things
that remain to be done must be done
with the whole world for stake and
in cooperation with the wide and uni
versal forces of mankind, and we are
making our spirits ready for those
things. They will follow in the i'm
mediate wake of the war itself and
will set civilization up again. We are
provincials no longer. The tragical
events of the thirty months of vital
turmoil through which we have just
passed have made us citizens of the
world. There can be no turning back.
Our own fortunes as a nation are in
volved, whether we would have it so
or not.
And yet we are not the less Ameri-
cans on that account. We shall be the
more American if we but remain true
to the principles of a province or a
single continent. We have known and
boasted all along that they were the
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principles of a liberated mankind
These, therefore, are the things we
shall stand for, whether in war or in
peace:
That all nations are equally inter-
ested in the peace of the world and in
the political stability of free peoples,
and equally responsible for their
maintenance;
That the essential principle of peace
is the actual equality of nations in
all matters of right or privilege;
That peace cannot securely or just
ly rest upon an armed balance of pow
er;
Forged Into New Unity
Amidst Fires of the World
That governments derive all their
just powers from the consent of the
governed and that no other powers
should be supported by the common
thought, purpose, or power OF the IA
mily of nations.
That the seas should be equally free
and safe for the use of all peoples,
under rules set up by common agree
ment and consent, and that, so far as
practicable, they should be accessible
to all upon equal terms.
That national ornaments should be
limited to the necessities of national
order and domestic safety.
That the community of interest and
of power upon which peace must
henceforth depend imposes upon each
nation the duty of seeing to it that all
influences proceeding from it's own cit
liens meant to encourage or assist re-
volution in other states should be
sternly and effectually suppressed and
prevented.
| need not argue these principles
to you, my fellow countrymen: They
are your own, part and parcel of your
own thinking and our own motive in
affairs. They spring up native
amongst us. Upon this as platform
of purpose and of action we can stand
together.
And it is imperative that we should
stand together. We are being forged
into a new unity amidst the fires that
now blaze throughout the world. In
their ardent heat we shall, in Gods
providence, let us hope, be purged of
faction and division, purified of the er-
rant humors of party and of private
interest, and shall stand forth in the
days to come with a new dignity of
national pride and spirit. Let each
man see to it that the dedication is in
his own heart. the high purpose of
the nation in his own mind, ruler of
his own will and desire.
Puts His Trust
In The Unity of America
| stand here and have taken the
high and solemn oath to which you
have been audience because the people
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All, those light-hearted, soft-voiced,
temperamental men and women Of
France, how they have shown their
metal since that fateful August day
when the German hosts, after years
and years of preparation, began the
chanting of the hymn of hate, and in
mighty, seeming resistless, humanity
formed waves inaugurated the move
on Paris, the Beautiful-a move which
Belgian and French gallantry checked
as if the hand of God appeared on
the wall of Fate and wrote these
words: $50 far and no further" Out
numbered, outequipped and taken by
surprise, these men and boys, backed
by their women, rose and smote the
monster of Prussianism, hurled him
back upon his launches, and, damned
in the eyes of humanity, there he sits
today.
But for the sublime courage of that
little band of Belgians, the treaty
with whom was thrust aside as a
"scrap of paper" and the never-fail'
ing glory Of the men and boys Of La
Belle France, the dream Of the mad
relic of the Hohenzollern clan would
have been realized-Paris would have
been taken and tIen-well, what
then? But that dream-that brutal
nightmare of useless conquest, dis
guised as q demand for "place in
the sum-" will always remain just what
it is-the floating bubble of a power
diseased mind. And to France, prin-
cipally will belong the glory of burst
ing the bubble, thereby relieving hu-
manity of q menace.
The spirit that sent Lafayette and
his gallants to American shores to free
US from the British yoke, that con-
verted France from q monarchy into
a frm-founded republic, is infinitely
stronger than France itself, and as
beautiful as its women. 1t is the
spirit of democracy that is reaching
out to embrace the whole world-that
first found foothold on American
soil and now "goes marching on" 1t
is the spirit that causes the French
general to call his followers "ry chill
dren," not to look upon them as hire
lings, and from which the officers #
our own army, and particularly some
"squirts" of the volunteer forces, need
tc draw inspiration.
That spirit will eventually replace
"America," "The Marsellaise," "Rule
Brittania" and "The Hymn of Hate"
with world-soothing lullaby Of Gods
love-will rout hatred, fratricide and
devastation and bring to weary hearts
the meaning and the realization of
brotherhood of Man"
In the following poem of Henry
Van Dyke, true American, is found the
American opinion of France:
Give US name to fill the mind
With the shining thoughts to lead
mankind
The glory of learning, the Joy of
art
A name that tells of splendid part
In the long, long toll and the stren-
uous fight
| OF the human race to WIN its way
From the ancient darkness into the
day
Ot freedom, brotherhood equal right
A name like star, name of light
give you, France!
Give US name to stir the blood
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RESIDENT WILSON TO
he AMERICAN PEOPLE
ington, March 5.-President's
S inaugural address was as

lington, March 5.-President's
S inaugural address was as
ow citizens:
:.our years which have elapsed
list | stood in this place have
DIVIDED with counsel and action
most vital interest conse-
Perhaps no equal period in
tory, has been so fruitful of
Int reforms in our economic
ustrial life or so full of signi-
.hanges in the spirit and pur-
our political action. We have
very thoughtfully to set our
/ order, correct the grosser er-
/ abuses Of our industrial life,
and quicken the processes of
ional genius and energy, and
policies to a broader view of
,le's essential interests. 1t is
/ Of singular variety and sin
stinction. But l shall not at
review it. It speaks for it.
will be of Increasing influence
1ears 60 by. This is not the
retrospect. 1t is time, rath-
peak our thoughts and pur-
,ncerning the present and the
te future.
Ugh we have centered counsel
on with such unusual concen-
md success upon the great
IS of domestic legislation to
@e addressed ourselves four
IL 20, other matters have more
e forced themselves upon our
i, matters lying outside our
as a nation and over which
40 control, but, which, despite
nj to. keep free of them, have
: S more and more irresistibly
r own current and influence.
Die to Avoid
of the War
+, been impossible to avoid
K They have affected the life of
Ie world. They have shaken
l.ywhere with a passion and an
lsion they never knew before.
oeen hard to preserve calm
while the thought of our own
?. waved this way and that un-
~ influence. We are a compo-
), cosmopolitan people. We
\. e blood of all the nations that
d war. The currents Of our
- as we'll as the currents of our
q, n quick at all seasons back
l between us and them. The
-itably set its mark from the
e upon our minds, our indus
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Family Harmony.

81 am very easy on my Shoes" said
the stout lady complacently. Look at
this pair. I've worn them three years.
and they're still! as good as new. I'm
easy on clothes too. There's my tweed
just as fresh as the day | bought 1t,
seven years ago And hats, gloves,
stoclings-in fact. I'm easy on every
thing"
Except father, ehT' said her daugh-
Ter quietly. without looking up from
her book
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She-You remind me so much Of
my brother. He-lndeed! In what
way? She-Well, Harry seems awful
ly fond of me, yet he never offers to
kiss me.
After that it was quite unnecessary
for her to ring In any of her relatives.
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
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No Chance For IL,

That sensation, said to be the finest
in the world. Of finding two dollar bill
in an old vest never happened to us
and never will. When we are through
with a vest there are no pockets or
any lining. City Star
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-03-09
IOTHER SUPERIOR
vinol Creates Strength

Hill Home, Hawthorne, N. Y.
e used Vinol for many run.
ak or emaciated patients with
One young woman was SO weak
te could hardly creep to my door
supplied Vinol to her literally
month I hardly recognized her.
strong, her color charming and
IS rounded out."-MoTHER M.
\ LATHRoP, O. s. D.
arantee Vinol to sharpen the
aid digestion, enrich the blood
9 strength.
1-Stewart Drug Co.. Palatka.
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When to Take Chamberlain's Tablets

When to Take Chamberlaln's Tablets
When you feel dull and stupid after
eating.
When constipated or bilious.
When you have a sick headache.
When you have sour stomach.
When you belch after eating.
When you have Indigestion.
When nervous or despondent.
When you have no relish for your
meals.
When your liver is torpid.
Obtainablc everywhere.
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EARLY AstronomY.

Anaxagoras, distinguished Athe-
pian in 525 r, G. taught that the sun
was not a deity. but an inanimate
fiery mass He also suggested that
the moon shone by reflected light and
correctly explained solar and lunar
eclinSeS
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-03-09
Oils SOOthe
Skin Disease

OIL of wintergreen, thymol, glycerine
and other healing ingredients compounded
in proper proportion into the d. d. D.
Prescription has now become the universal
favorite Of skin sufferers in relieving skin
disease. 1t is mild wash that penetrates
the pores and gives instant relief from all
burning and itching. 1t kills and washes
off the gnawing disease germs and its
soothing oils quickly heal the inaamed
tissues.
Druggists are glad to recommend this
soothing, cooling liquid. Csc, soc and $1.OO.
Come to us and we will tell you more about
this remarkable remedy. Your money back
unless the first bottle relieves you. d. d. d.
Soap keeps your skin healthy. Ask about it.
~ ~ ~ For Is Years
LIZ La q the Standard
: Skin Remedy
j. H. Haughton, Druggist.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-28
OSCAR WILL FUNERAL
Held This AFTERNOON
Bismarck Seed Dealer Was Pionssr
In ndustry-Proved Up Home.
stead On Dakota Prairies.

Bismarck, N. D., aug. 2S.-F'uneral
services for Oscar III. Will, pioneer
seed dealer of Bismarck, well known
throughout the northwest, were held
from the residence at $3.50 o'clock
this afternoon. Rev. Bruce Jackson
officiated, the services being private.
Oscar H. Will was born near
Pompei Hill, N. Y. in 1855. He spent
his boyhood on a New York farm,
and at the age of Is entered the en-
ploy Of a brother, engaged in the
nursery business at Fayetteville. In
this capacity Mr.. Will remained until
1880. In the spring of 1881. he came
to Bismarck, finding employment at
the old Fuller green house. About
the same time he took up a home
stead southeast of Menoken, and
from his savings invested in an OK
team, which he drove to ana fro be-
tween Bismarck and Menoken while
proving up on his claim.
In 1882. the New Yorker purchased
the Fuller green houses and estab@
lished in connection Herewith North
Dakota's first nursery, deN oted at the
beginning to the culture and develop
ment of native shrubs and trees.
Soon after that he added the seed
business, also pioneer industry for
the northwest, and from that date
to this the growth of the enterprise
has been rapid and uninterrupted.
In all of these undertakings Mr..
Will was pioneer in the northwest.
1t was in 1888 that he first began his
experiments with native corns, grown
by the Mandans and Arickaras for
hundreds of years in the sheltered
valleys of the Missouri. The result
of these experiments has been TO
place North Dakota and Montana
permanently in the corn belt; to en-
able the raising of hogs in a terri
tory where this industry otherwise
would have been impossible, and to
add materially to the productiveness
Of northwest farms With him his
work was a religion and a science.
That 1t was remarkably remunerative
was an incident to the deep interest
which he felt as a creator in adding
to the resources of the adopted state
which he learned to love so well.
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SEES rs night
SCHOOLS UNDER
WAY This FALL
Establishment and Main
tenance Obligatory I'm
der New State Law

Bismarck, N. D., Aug. 2S.-That at
at least rs night schools will be
organized in North Dakota this fall
Is predicted by State Superintendent
of Public instruction NJ c. Mac
donald following a conference with
night school experts held at his off,
ces in the capitol. A bill introduced
at the last session by Rep. H. A.
Mackoff of Belfield, and enacted into
law gives night schools for the first
time the official sanction of the state
and renders their establishment and
proper financing obligatory on the
part of the local board of education
when petitioned therefor by ten or
more persons over sixteen years of
age. Half of the salaries of night
school teachers is to be paid by the
local district and half by the state.
Such schools are to be open to all
persons over sixteen. who desire to
attend and such schools shall be
maintained for not less than two
hours, three evenings each week, for
period OF three months in each
year.
Deamer in Conference.
State superintendent Macdonald
called into conference with him Supt.
Arthur Deamer of the Fargo public
schools, who originated a successful
pionCNS night school in LaPorte, Ind,
some years ago: Mrs. Mary Fleming
ton Strand of Glendale, who was a
pioneer in night school work in the
Russian German settlements in the
foothills of the Missouri; Prof. A. p.
Hollis Of the state agricultural col
lege, who organized the first night
school in Valley City; Miss Aldyth
Ward of Bismarck, secretary of the
state welfare commission, who
was one of the originators of sue
cessful night school which has
operated for two years in the capital
city, and Supt. j. Maurice Martin Of
the Bismarck public schools, who
was actively identified with the local
institution.
Will Complete Plans.
These experts form a committee
upon which will devolve the duty of
evolving plans for the establishment
and regulation of night schools which
it is expected will be established in
every good-sized town and village in
the state and in many rural COM
munities. Last year Is to 20 night
schools were maintained in the state,
and they were remarkably effective
in preparing foreigners for American
citizenship. One Russian German
girl who obtained her first smatter-
ing of American principles in the
Bismarck night school, has recently
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have 700 billion tons Of good, old re-
liable Ignite almost at their doors.
Prejudiced Against Ignite.
AS a matter Of fact, prejudice
against Ignite has been deliberately
fomented in the eastern section OF
the state in the past by interests
who could not believe that anything
good could or ever would come ont
of the slope and who were determine
ed to prove the correctness of their
promise by even going to the extent
of actually opposing the development
of this great natural resource. An
thracite coal met with the same OPP
position when q citizen of PhiIadel-
phia proposed that the citizens at
tempt to burn product whose USE
fulness heretofore had consisted
principally of its utility for cobble-
stones.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-28
LITTLE Mac, VETERAN
EDITOR, SUFFERS FROM
COMPLETE BREAKDOWN

Flasher, N. D., Aug. 2s.-aLittIe
Mac" North Dakota's best known and
best beloved knight Of the Fourth
Estate, is in a hospital at Bismarck.
slowly recovering from complete
breakdown.
j. X. Mcleod published the first is
sue OF The Pembina Pioneer In Au-
gust, 1880. From that date to this he
never has deserted the state, and he
has been the father of many of North
Dakota's best publications For sew
eral years past he has been publish
er of The Flasher Hustler. which
with the able assistance Of Mrs. Nc
Leon, he has made one of the breezi-
est and most Interesting weeklies on
the Slope.
This Is the FIRST time Little Mac. a
born fighter. ever has given up. He
feels it keeniy, but he isn't worrying
about the Hustler, which is coming
out every week as bright and as snap
py as though the emcient Mcleod
team were not temporarily deprived
Of It's wheel horse.
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START OF THRESHTNG
BRINGS LABOR DEMAND
Men Particularly Needed in Western
and Northern Parts of State,
Mcdonald Says.

Bismarck, N. D., Aug. %. = With
threshing in full blast in every Sec
ton of North Dakota, there is a
decided increase in the demand for
farm labor, S. S. Mcdonald, federal
labor agent, reports. While the de-
mand just at present is greater than
the supply, Mr. Mcdonald seems to
anticipate no difficulty in filling
orders. believing that men who pass
ed through North Dakota into more
western states during the harvest
will be brought back to this state by
the higher wages and heavier de-
mand for labor occasioned by
threshing.
Wages now offered range from $50
to $65 the month for steady hands
and $3.50 the day and up for thresh-
ers. Men are especially needed at
Dunn Center, Hastings, Sherwood,
Driscoll, Cooperstown, Laverne and
Cannonball, according to Mr.. Nc
Donald's reports.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-28
TAX LEVY FOR
NORTH DAKOTA
Is four MILLS
Assessed Valuation Will Be
$40,000,000 Greater
Than Last Year
LEVY TENTH OF
MILL ON BONDS
Cass County Farm Houses
and Barns Boosted 10
Per Cent By Board

Bismarck, N. D., Aug. ga tax
levy of four mills, the same as last
year for state purposes. except that
the ne-eighth mill heretofore de-
Quoted for the terminal elevator fund
will go. with the remaining rs
mills. into the general fund, was de-
cided upon at a brief meeting Of the
state board of equalization yesterday
afternoon.
The levy for the state bond inter
est fund will be one-tenth mill. and
that for the state bond sinking fund
two-thirds of a mill: Both of these are
levies not made last year. and the
total levy of 4.3 mills will be just
three -tenths greater than last year.
Assessed Valuation Greater.
The assessed valuation will be
more than $40.000,000 greater than
last year. At the session yesterday
additions were made which boosted
the total to $394,559,143. twelve mil
lion more than Saturdays estimate.
The total for 1915 was 1854, 496, 097.
Important items compare as fol-
lows:
1915 1917
Farm lands s1sS,47O,54S 1902 ,Ss2,5s7
H.
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ADJUDGED INSANE
o. p. Abbey, Character Of Slope
Country, Committed 70 Asylum.

Mott, N. D., Aug. 2s.-D. p. Alb
hey, known from one end Of the
slope to the other. wanted in many
places, former preacher. editor.
farmer. politician, schoolteacheF,
real estate dealer and all other known
trades. has reached the end of his
rope. Information reaching here says
that Abbey was adjudged insane at
Casper, Wyo., and has been sent to
the state asylum for the insane at
Evanston. Wyo.
1t appears that Abbey has been up
to his old tricks again, writing
checks on banks in which he had
large imaginary deposits. He is a
well known character here and II
was not long ago that he chartered a
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-28
STATE Mines
OVER-SUPPLY
THEIR MARKET
p 70 d uction Increases
Range From 40 to 500
Says V. FL. Stickney
SOME COMPANIES
LAYING OFF MEN
No Indication of Coal Fam
inc As Far As Ignite
is Concerned

Bismarck, N D.. Aug. 2s.--While
bituminous and anthracite operators
are finding it difficult to meet pres
ent demands and face the practical
certainty of big shortage with the
arrival of cold weather, the North
Dakota Ignite mines are right up to
the minute with their orders and
some of them have over produced to
an extent which necessitates the
temporary laying off of men, report
ed DR.. v. H. Stickney, president OF
the North Dakota national defense
council, on his arrival today from
Dickinson.
Increase In Outputs.
"The Wilton mines, said DIR. Stick
ney today, have increased produc-
ton capacity 100 per cent. Min IS
west of the river have made in
creases of 40 to so per cent. There
is no emergency nor any promise of
a famine so far as Ignite is concern
ed. The difficulty is with consumers
in the eastern part of the state whose
heating plants are not arranged to
burn Ignite satisfactorily, and who
must have bituminous Goals. To get
.bituminous coal to these consumers
is the problem with which we are
confronted now.
DR.. Stickney regards 1t an impos-
sibility for the great mass of private
consumers on the eastern frontier of
the state install this fall new fire.
boxes which would permit the
economical burning of Ignite. The
principal difference between a Ignite
fire box and one designed to burn
bituminous is that the former is con-
siderably larger A better draft is
also required for Ignite, which is a
matter of fues as much as furnaces.
Undoubtedly the experience of this
tall and of several seasons past will
convince eastern coal users of the
adyisability of burning Ignite, but
the change cannot be made on a few
weeks notice, and the situation. as
regards these consumers is practi-
eally as bad as though they did not