The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-07-24
MAKE AN EXAMPLE.

MAINE AN CNfNWV.Is
Members of the Morton county
have made an example in the remov-
al of Johann Handtmann, who, with
the assistance of the Herold at Dick
inson, has been writing letters unbe-
coming an American citizen, when the
nation faces such grave crisis.
The Tribune had something to say
about the utterances of the Herold
some time ago. Since that time the
Herold has made cheap attacks upon
the Tribune because it challenged
the spirit of that papers comment.
Until the current issue the IHerold
has been anything but pro-American.
This week it sandwiches in patri-
otto article with some very ques'
tionable matter.
| ., 1t seeks now to establish conten'
tion that the Catholic church ap'
( proves of the divine rights of rulers
and because the Tribune challenged
the kaiser's !, conception of his God.
given ,prerogatives, the Herold brands
the Tribune anti-Catholic.
OF course, this is foolish in the ,ex-
IRENE: The great Catholic party in
Germany today is challenging the kali
ser and demanding peace terms and
a more democratic form of govern.
ment. Cardinal MERCER of Belgium:
one of the foremost churchmen of
Europe, is one of the worst foes Prus'
sian autocracy has. Coming closer
home,I Archbishop Ireland, in a recent
address at st. Paul, brought tears to
the, eyes of the Belgium commission
when he discussed the outrages Of
the Hohenzollerns and attacked their
conception of divine rights.
The editor of the Herold is tying
to hide his own unpatriotic senti-
ments by injecting controversy up
on another matter. The Tribune
never INDUCES in religious discussion.
All creeds have fair treatment In IT,
columns and it knows that the Herold
of Dickinson is not speaking for the
Catholic church in North Dakota,
which in this war against :Prussian-
ism is devotedly patriotic and Amer
lean.
Here are some translations from
the Herold of July 10, which tend to
discourage enlistments and are yelled
attacks upon the government:
In the legislature at Ottawa, Can,
the bill for compulsory military serv-
ice was at the second reading and &C.
cepted on July g. The vote stood 116
for CONSUMPTION and Sc against. It
caused very heated scenes. Sir Will
frid Laurier, the leader Of the liber-
ais, desired and proposed that the
whole matter be submitted to a refer
endum Of the people. This proposal
was rejected by a majority of 40
votes. In Canada it is just as it is in
the United States: The people have
nothing to say; they have only TO
bleed and to pay and to hold the
tongue.
! Because President Wilson will fur
nish only the most necessary provi-
sions and other wares\to the neutral
countries. Switzerland and Sweden
find themselves in a situation which
appears sufficiently desperate. The
president fears that through these
neural countries Germany still here
and there receives provisions and 9th
er goods, and so he will, so far as
possible, hinder this. Therefore, Swift
zerland and Sweden have much to
suffer.
! The American press rejoices over
the open and keen language which
| Macmillan Harden. Theodor Wolff
and George Bernhard carry on against
the German government. That these
men should be allowed to carry on
such language gives evidence of the
favor and freedom given to the Ger
man press
Unfortunately for the argument of
the editor of "Nord Dakota Herold'
the open and keen language" Of
these men brought about the suppress
sion of their papers and their own
consignment to the severest military
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