The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-29
THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
AS THEY APPEAR TO CHAUNCEY NJ.
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thing for our work people; but have
a little safety in my iOcKer,' and ne
produced bottle. After the Old gen.
Cleman Left the two sons came in and
said, Senator. are you fond of live
stock?" The senator by that time was
fond of everything and everybody. He
said, Yes, love livestock. ! have
plenty of it on my ranch" They said,
Come out to the barn and we will
show you some" They took him out
to the barn, closed the doors, and said,
a hard time last night. We have no
livestock, but we have bottle in the
haymow' Senator Nye then said to
the General. "The trouble with a pro-
hibition town is that when you most
need it you can't get it, and when it
does some it is line western llooa,
too much of it."
History Will Date From June, 1914.
Has it ever occurred to you that
! this overwhelming tragedy lhA)ugn
which we are passing will obliterate
ali past history? We feel it already
History will date from June, 1914. the
literature which the world tragedy
will inspire will be our reading mat
ter for the future. During these three
years and a half there is no part of
the sixteen hundred millions Of people
who inhabit this earth who have not
felt it's effects. More than thou
sand millions of them have been d.
rectly concerned. According to the
latest estimates, fifty millions OF pe0-
pie have died in battle, but mainly by
starvation and hardships in the de-
wasted countries. Fifty millionsy
Equal to one-half the population OF the
United States have been 4blotted out
by this war. The debts of the various
countries in 1913 were about twenty
billions of dollars. They were a stag
gering load to all the countries but
the United States. A financial expert
has estimated that by the end of the
year 1918, these debts vii amount to
one hundred and sixty billions. Ger
many's appropriations for all purposes
civil and military, the army and the
navy, were in 1913 between eight and
nine hundred millions. The interest
charge alone upon her present debt at
five per cent is sixteen hundred mil
lions. II we add to that one thousand
millions for her civil and military ne
cessities her taxation will rise from
eight hundred millions to two thous-
and six hundred millions if the war
should close now. The increase Is
quite as large for all theOther coun-
tries. The entire wealth Of Belgium
Northern France, Serbia, Armenia and
Poland has been practically wiped out,
There must be in the financial settle.
ment a realignment, restoration and
PREPARATION that staggers the imagina-
ton We thought at the close Of the
Civil War that debt Of four billions
would be burden so great as to keep
us under the harrow for generations.
The thrift, energy, enterprise and gen
ius of our people and vast resources,
IA pidly developed, negatived all these
prophecies. ..- -.
We have been more than year in
this war, but we have already spent
and loaned over twenty billions OF
dollars. When the reorganization and
reconstruction are completed there
will be a new era in this world, with
new problems The vital things Of
the past will have no relation to the
present, and in the evolution OF In
dustry the undreamed of former
times will be the realities Of the hour.
Every nation will be too absorbed IN
it's sorrows, it's losses, it's burdens, the
problems Of its reconstruction and OF
ITS relations to the rest OF the world
and it's future safety to. care for the
past which preceded this war.
Homer pictured the heroes and the
conditions of his period so graphically
and with so much c. our common hui
man nature that his epic has survived
the centuries. Dante did the same for
his time, and Shakespeare visualized
his period In Rousseau, Mill, Spen.
Ger and Emerson we can find the Gre
alton and disqualification Of ideas for
whose preservation most Of the civil
ICED world is fighting.
There are thirty-seven millions OF
men on the battle fronts in all the con-
tinents and seven seas of the world.
The problem Of their absorption. al
ter the discipline and experience OF
the camp, in the economic life OF ma
ti0ns, is to be one of the most serious
which ever engaged the attention OF
statesmen. Therefore believe this
new world will be wholly absorbed
in it's craftsmanship and its literature,
with world which has been devastat-
ed and is to be recreated.
The Dream Of the Socialists, its Real
ization and Results. .
The dream of the socialists, a gov
eminent controlled by the princiDles
of Karl Marx, was realized. They had
Russia with her great armies, uA-
limited resources and absolute power.
They killed or imprisoned those who
disagreed. with them, they arbitrarily
suppressed the press, they confiscat-
ed property They tried TO destroy
the church and it's influence anu
ruled more arbitrarily, automatically
and tyrannically than the Car and
the bureaucracy which were over
thrown by the revolution On the the
DRY that internationalism is to sue
coed nationalism, they disbanded the
Russian armies and navy and signed
a treaty of peace with Germany with"
out reading it's terms, under which the
ports of Russia, her mines and whea:
fields and vital resources and terrltor-