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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-04-09
KNOCKING KNOCKERS"
By Douglas Fairbanks

By Douglas Fairbanks
How people have said to you today i am not going
to buy any Liberty Bonds and then started in to give
lot of They complain about taxes and the
and that the country no good anyway and that the
they give you any number of reasons 80
Where do suppose they got them? From Knockers!
Every have had for buying Liberty Bonds still
holds good From every angle you can think
Keep your patriotic slate elean eu.. u,.... .u.o
the fact that they were backed by peoples patriotic support
s sn
thusiasm this coming loan fall They are the key to the
lot of knockers are trying that key. They
mixture of ignorance dissention and ana
pot lot of people who ought know Better talking their
Let's stop them right now
ISM right back at em and show em up Turn the tables
on EN- GIVE them s back e
you blow them up with their own stuff .
cism that has so Shifting SPREAD And can't anything
ese Heavens sake don't help these people along by telling
else what have just heard from one of these
i: s. A. is worth living n it is worth supperi9g and
Bonds which Victory Bonds Unlock your patriotic
'''' Knock the Knockers! Buy Buy!' Buy'! =
Opposition the appropriation with which to finance the
among of the state legislature Just why this
in the war of which we may be proud should put
now that single item of Importance be
forgotten neglected. The that history be
written better later wholly beside the point The main
thing the records and them all because
days delay will make that task difficult Even though the
history based these records that is written be
changed somewhat in later the records will not be
changed they the foundation is to be hoped that
spirit Of mistaken will jeopardze the relatively
small appropriation needed to get these records right
while the task of getting them easier than will be
again.
with little anxiety that business of Bemdji
awaited the of Thomas Erwin to whether
Beltram Elevator Milling Company the plant of which
completely destroyed by fire Monday evening would
build and reesabsh business Bemid Before the ashes of
the had become cold the company had secured quarters and
made arrangements to resume activities Immediately and
nounced that just possible uptothemnute plant
would be erected to replace the destroyed The Beram
Elevator and Milling comprises of the clts I'M
poan business enterprises and the that it to
rebuild indicates the confidence and faith which its
ment has in the future of Bemidji.
The 1919 meeting the National Editorial association
be held in the Pacific Northwest and Will Wke of Grey Eagle
Minnesota, chairman of the transportation committee
fecting details planned to leave Winnipeg the latter part
of July and to spend about two weeks in the Canadian Rockies
week the Pacific coast The trip by rail and
sea, will cover 5000 miles.
Put money where it will be safewhere it will work
for youwhere it will render patriotic servce-buy War
Savings to subscribe when the Victory Liberty
loan is offered.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07
Kill the Snake
Says c. f. Goodrich, of Princeton
a letter to The Tribune:

Says {. f. Goodrich of Princeton in
letter to The Tribune:
There is no possible objection TO the sinh
marine per sc any more than there is to
revolver. 1t is the illegal use of the
submarine which should not be tolerated
rang as murderer every captain of a
herman submarine who has sunk vessels
not men n-ofwar without due warninc
search and care that the crews are safe.
then Will their atrocious actions never
be repeated in the future And this is the
only solution of the vcxed question.
The argument has force. We have all
used it. But it seems now to he
doubtful whether prohibition of a mis-
use of the submarine, with penalties
against offenders, would suffice. Some
things are so intimately associated with
CRIME and are of SO little use except to
commit crime that their possession indi
Gates criminal intent The penal law Of
New York says every one carrying q
blackjack, slungshot, billy, sandclub.
sandbag, metal knucklcs or bludgcon is
guilty of crime. Similarly possession of
tools commonly used by burglars is a
crime. Yet these are per Sc innocent
Tor legitimate self-defcnce or other law
full purpose.
The submarine can be effectively en-
ployed as commerce destroyer only in
the unlawful German manner II was
never intended by civilized people to be
used for that purpose. In that use it
most commonly dsregardcd visit and
search rules. 1t is too small to take
aboard large number of prisoners. 1t
is a sneak and the law of it's being makes
it act like sneak.
Against war vessels it can, of course,
be legitimately employed, but if recog-
milton of it at all means that it's tor
pedoes may be plunged into the vitals of
passenger vessels it might be wise to
ask war wagers to get along without it,
1T places dangerous power in the hands
OF a single unscrupulous nation, such as
Germany which is willing to hoist the
black flag doctrines that necessity knows
no law, that a people engaged in desr
perate purpose may do anything
The world can get along without
poisoned wells, gas clouds, submarines
and other barbarisms introduced by Ger
many, has right to forbid the making
of the machines which are the weapons
OF the great crimes
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07
Just Locked Them Tp

IN this same raid the police also searched
the cooperative market run by union labor,
closed and padlccked the headquarters OF
the Socialist party and stopped work at
cooperative shop where l. ". W. literature
mad been printed. In spite OF those two
extensive and thoroughgoing laws against
anarchism and syndicalism there appeared
the following explanation from the Chief OF
Foiice on the closing of the printing shop:
4 Lad no warrant ordering the place
closed. tired of reading the revolutions
airy circulars shat were printed there. and
decided that ! had already let them so
too far, so I JUS locked them up. They
started with very mild articles bat have
now passed the limit. expect no trouble
IN enforcing the closing order"
Perhaps was habit more than *
norance Of The law Sociological modern
isms like criminal anarchy" and ~criminal
aynd.ea..sm' can't be very easy for an old
fashioned three-gun chief who likes 20
drop INTO lit.le d:squisitions on the highly
unprofossional not to say impossible man
ner IN which ". S. Hart fans MS gun
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07

question Of right and wrong does not
concern u.s."
Ihese two acts and the nature of "wob-
bly, propaganda would seem sufficient TO
drive the !. ". ". out Of the State Of
Washington or into its legitimate labor
organizations. 1t has certainly accom-
plshcd the latter As for the first. the
l. W. W seems to be fighting with its
usual determination When the police
rounded up the "wobblics7 after the strike,
the following descriptive paragraph in the
J. W. W. paper, "The Industrial Cnionist,'
indicated the lengths of disguise to which
the organization had gone:
"Ihey the police wendcd their way to
the business Office of John Lawson. archi-
teot John had departed, and the Office
was bare. Gone were the blueprints. Gone
was the drawing set. Gone was the entire
Office paraphcrnalia. And gone were the
supply of red cards and the records that
showed the many hundreds Of workers who
have lined up in the Shipbuilders' Jndus-
trial Union the past few months"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07
The Senate s Duty

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; wish to protest against the league
Of nations as set forth by its Published
draft 1t is true, as the President says.
1t was the British draft tina; was accepted.
We have no controversy with Great Bril-
ain. but we may soon have If we become
party to a league in Winch Britain has
really five votes, while we have one.
God forbid that our Senate should ra.iiy
IT. that we should be forced to bend our
backs to the greatest bondage ever pro-
posed to be saddled on free and inde-
pendent nation. WALTER WINANT
New York. March 8, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07

she'll crateYs and under crossfirc from
machine guns the other elements fought
desperately against odds. In this and in
later actions, from October to October
10, our I'd Corps captured over 5000
prisoners and advanced over thirteen
miles. The spirit and aggressiveness of
these divisions have been highly praised
bJ the British army commanders under
whom they served"
Here, in brief, is the story of the 27th's
part IN one Of the most critical actions of
the war. 1t was a part which entities
the division to undying fame and to the
unbounded gratitude Of the people of the
state which it so nobly represented.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07
Silence as Argument

The World is scarcely happy in illus
tration when it compares the debate over
the adoption of the ratification of our
Constitution with the debate over the
ratification Of the Smuts- Wilson peace
plan.
1T is true that in 1888 the Luther Mar
tins and the Patrick Hcnrys said many
foolish things in opposing the new Fed
eral roof, just as to-day some opponents
OF the Smuts-Wilson plan say MANY fool
lsh things. But if there is parallelism in
this respect, there is vital difference in
more important one
When the draft Of the Constitution was
published, Washington and his co-labor
ers did not refuse to defend and explain
1t. Hamilton, Madison and jaw wrote
The Federalist, which in the most candid
way discussed not only the principles Of
the Constitution but its most minute pro-
visions. They did not contend that they
had gone up a Sinai and had received an
untouchable and undiscussable revelation
from the hands ofssupreme wisdom. No
mus saith the Lord' spirit was dis
played by them.
If Hamilton, Madison and Jay had re-
sorted to present tactics, if they had said
they knew" and implied no one else did
they would probably have brought about
the rejection of the Constitution. What
ever may be the present fashion. orr
ancestors were not fond of ACCEPTING anv
ones pare say~so (not even Washinp
ton's) on any subject. They inclined to
the OPINION that when one side Of a cues
ton ran away from discussion it was tam
tamount to confession of a consciousness
OF a poor case. They did not confjne
themselves to abuse of their opponents or
TO chanting gcncralitics whose truth none
denied
The debate Of 1888 thus has little SINH
larlty to the present debate, or, rather.
lack OF 1t. The roles are quite reversed
The negative side 13l years 500 fur-
hisheo the "wlnd' which now comes from
the affirmative. The biogranhcrs Of
hamilton do not record he rctreated to a
sound-proot cellar, or talked about the
beauty OF She sun, moon and stars whom
asked about the merits of the Consttu-
ton.
If The World wishes to put to good use
lts knowledge Of American history it
might dwell on the similarity between
the articles of confederation, which pro-
vlded everything for the central govern
ment except power, and the Smuts- Will
son peace plan. 1t can show how. al
though the preamble of the articles of
confederation sang the blessings of ma
tlonal union and harmony, they brought
the states to the verge Of civil war. and
that this danger was not over until th..
constitution gave US a real league of
peace here
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07
y hat 'Syndicaiism" Is

The law defines criminal syndicalism as
the doctrine which advocates crime,
sabotage, violence other unlawful meth
DDS OF terrorism as a means of accom-
plishng industrial or political reform.
Any one advocating either by speech or
print ''the duty, the necessity or the pro-
prety' Of such action who prints or cir
culatcs propaganda for this purpose. or
"organzes or helps to organize, or becomes
member OF or voluntarily assemblies with
any society, group or assemblage of per
sons formed 20 teach or advocate the doc
trincs Of criminal syndcaism' is liable
to prison term Of not more than ten
years or a fine of not more than So 1000. or
both.
The essential belief of the I. w. w. in
direct action is derived from the second
of the tirst two paragraphs of it's preamble.
1t reads:
Tho working class and the employing
class have nothing in common There can
be no peace as long as hunger and want
are found among millions of the working
people and the few who make up the em
ploying class have all the good things of
life.
"Bctween these two classes a struggle
must 20 on until the workers Of the world
organize as = class. take possession Of the
earth and the machinery OF production. and
abolish the wage system"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07
The Changeless Hun

Every day that the final treaty Of
peace imposing conditions on Germany
Is delayed the Germans become more in
solent and belligerent The nation that
was whining for pity three months ago
is beginning to recover it's overbearing
disposition.
A Zurich dispatch says that the Ger
man Cabinet, backed by delegation of
party leaders and shipworkers, has re-
solved that Germany could not submit
to coercion from the Entente powers"
and it is announced that press cam
paign has already been started against
the armisticc and the preliminary peace
conditions.
That is the point of view Of the new
revolutionary" Germans. AS match
for it The Associated Press reports
a proclamation issued by the Pan-Gcr-
man League. The Pan Germans, repre-
senting the old regime, demand that re-
sponsibaity be fixed for the Suicidal
armistice" and the guilty persons be ex-
PEELED from the public service These
adherents Of Kaiserism declare that Ger
many was not defeated by her enemies
but was betrayed by traitors from within.
They demand that Germany provide
within her borders a safe retreat for the
deposed Kaiser, and also their proca-
nation with Il vote Of confidence in and
thanks to General Ludendorff.
1t is such Incidents as these that lend
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07
"Packine House" Rules

or the expansion of this principle of
open war and frank seizure of property
Vincent st. John, an officer of the |. w. W..
wrote:
AS revolutionary organization the In
dustral Workers Of the World aims to use
any and ali tactics that viii get the re
suits sought with the least expenditure of
time and energy The tactics used are de
termincd solely by the power Of the or
ganization to make good in their use. The
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07

support to those who believe that the
first business of the Peace Conference
is to make peace. Certainly every day
that passes will render the Germans less
ready to accept the terms that must
eventually be imposed upon them.
Not peace but war is in the policy of
delay the President has seen fit to foster
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07

strike into an overthrow of the govern
mont
There seems to be no good reason why
the prosecutor could not have acted under
still another statute, the terminal syndi-
calism' act. This, like the criminal an
archy act, was passed in the 1917 session
Of the Legislature, but it was vetoed and
not passed over the veto tin January IA,
1919. 1t deals, however, with d narrower
and more special field, field in which the
]. W. W. works almost exclusively 1t is
not the overthrow of government It is
not revolution 1t is Industrial or political
reform by force. 1t Is what the |. W. w.
calls "dircct action"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07
THE VOICE OF THE TOILERS

In the drab days before the A. f. f.
used to work in the Wall Street district
Day in and day out | passed a certain
stationery store Nassau Street I would
encounter the same seedy stoop- shouldered
Individual loungng in the doorway or
standing on the curb in front of the store
He was tell and thin as George Church.
unshaven, collarless, and busted out at knee
elbows, and toes. In winter he wore n
faded overcoat, Worn to frazzle and
fastened at the neck with a safety pin.
Once in a great while he would get lob
for day holding a sign advertising a
sale in the stationery store But generally
he chewcd his tobacco, watching the hurrv-
ing crowds with placid, watery eye, and
just loafcd.
The other day when l received nv re-
lease from the Navy | went around to see
my former boss. AS passed the stationery
store, there Old Faithful still on his
station, looking just the same as he did
twenty months ago. But not exactly the
same either. There was something BRIGHT
and fresh on his shabby ovcrcoat. When
| came nearer, it was shiny cellu
loId button, and the legend on it was:
NO BEER, NO WORK,
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07
FREDDY STEELE.

Nebraska has passed bill making un-
lawful the display of red and black flags
except as railroad or weather signals. Bv
the way, if Freddy Hohcnzolern wants to
give Papa nice birthday present and his
subscription to Fliegcndc Blatter or Jugend
has EXPIRED, how about n years subscrip
tion to an American newspaper, with the
paragraphs marked that show when we arc
stealing his old stuff?
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07
The Coming 7ower
TO MIR. L. H.

March 7. 1919
Good sir and friend, accept, we pray
Remembrance on your natal day,
With every wish that it may be
Serene with all felicity!
How otherwise-for one VINO looks
Deep in the heart of life and books,
And brave without rebellion lives
With that sure calm that wisdom gives
For one who sees across the years
The cleaning pathway OF the spheres,
And carries on the torch Of truth
He lighted in his ardent youth
How good to hail friend who knows
More than our wilful ways disclose
With kindly heart and sense to hold
The values of tradition old
The culture and the steady view
That Emerson and Arnold knew,
In days when sweetness went with light,
And even "lettcrs" were "polite"-
A friend with whom one may confer,
Who is, as those great worthless were,
(Thc phrase is mid-Victorian),
A scholar and a gentleman.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07
Coming of the La,c

But law came at last AS far as a lay
man can be sure Of the matter, theYe ap-
pear to be two acts by which the l. w W.
as an organization, and "wobblies" as mem
bers of 1t, are outlawed. To begin with,
there IS the terminal anarchy charge on
which l. w. W.s have been arrested for
belonging to an organization that breaches
the overthrow of government by force
ITO be an I. w. w. said Prosecuting
Attorney Fred c. Browne during the
"wobbly' roundup following the general
strike, "is to be, knowingly or unkncwng-
ly, an enemy of the government and of
law and order. We can prosecutce mem
bers of the organization as such. BY virtue
of their literature and avowed intentions
they are enemies of the United States.
"a decision of the courts in Pacific
County, January s, substantiates this An
l. W. w. tried and convicted on
criminal anarchy charge, despite appeal.
Characteristic |. w. W. propaganda and
literature were introduced at the trial and
held by the court to constitute indirect
action against the government"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07

The Sovicts Of Russia want to foot
loan here, and the person who is wonder
ing how he can spend his money fool
lshly when the saloons have vanished.
has his answer
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07
Even as Our Clubwomen
lFrom The Dailne Ncusl !

From The DaGds Nc,cs)
Furthermore. if We ever so to the Legs
lature we shall introduce bin making 1t
unlawful for any bachelor under thirty-fse
to look at show window containing lin-
gcrie.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07

wv extra-legal, were taken by the au-
thorities against the Seattle gen
cral strike, there can be no question Of the
high handed severity with which Washing
ngton has dealt with that high handed and
severe organization, the Industrial Work
ers Of the World. For the first year and
a half of the war the police Of Seattle
fought the "wobbies" with their own fire
direct action" Independent of any such
political details laws. Now they have
law, a double barrelled law, by which they
fight legally. And still the local pa
pers record occasional lapscs into the
rough and ready gun law of the West
Mayor Ole Hanson makes no more bones
about it than his great rangy, six foot six
chief of police, J. f. Warren, who carries
three guns in anybody should stand
him up and take away the customary two
"We closed up every 'wobbly' hall in
town." said the Mayor. 1--WE didn't have
any law to do it with, so we used nails
When there was serious opposition we
trottcd out the Department of Health and
had the buildings condemned. We didn't
need any more law than we did to stop
the red flag. We just stopped it,"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07

Inform II. Harrison that I wish to exchange
Tor one hal-dozen pajama coats (Which wear out
hrst'' corresponding number of pajama pants.
have also n limited supply of eft-hand gloves
of assorted colors and weights
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07
4 Sample Of Direct fiction

1T was under this act that Prosecutor
Browne arrested number of "wobblies"
and Socialists who had formed what he be-
lievcd to be the revolutionary centre from
which they intended to convert the general
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07

Our interest in baseball is just enough
revived to cause us to bet one tennis rae
quet to golf ball that the greatest first
baseman in the world won't be with the
Giants on October g.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07
And an Unidcntifiable Lisp
lfrom the Evening Post

IT rom tNe Evening POst
good many scientists appear in the article
among them Darwin. Audubon Du Chaillu. and
an unidentified sper. who once began "A lec,urs
in London with the words: The subject If ,rv
lecture to-day is the vertical slit in the visual
organs of wenemous wpers."
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07

Suggest to your friend who doesn't know what
TO do with his pajama coats that if he sends
them to the S. W. w. r. they can be made into
little dresses to clohe undrossed babies They
would be much easier to handle than the worm
out shirts we've been struggling with
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07

And yet when Mr.. Lee says mans great
fear is the fear he has of himself, his
lack of selfrespect as to his own power
to make himself believed and understood
by other people, and his lack of respect for
the power of other people to understand,
we wonder whether that fear is not just-
fable one. If you say the League of
Nations is good stuff you are understood
to be in the pay of the Democrats, you are
blindly loyal to the President; if you
oppose it YOU a partisan, you are
bought by Big Business Has Mr.. Lee read
the second best paragraph Ed Howe ever
wrote? Owe have been in the newspaper
game so years" wrote Ed or W. to that e.,
land we find that the only safe thing to
attack is the man-eating shark"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07

They did not have the flu in the spacious
days Of Mr.. Pcpys, but the laws of simple
hygiene were as little regarded then as
now MIR. Caesar, my boys lute-masterv
tells Mr.. Pcpys how in the height of the
plague, "in spite, too, i'll people would
breathe in the faces, out of their windows
OF well people going bY.o
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07

Prohibition may make drunkards Of us.
or 1t may make supermcn Of us; but it,,
immncncc is making lot of tircsome
takers of some normally harmless persons.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07
Ultimatum From the Farm
'From Tho Kansns Ctty star,

NO beer, no work. II lot of refractory
c'tizsns are yelling back East. All right
then. No work, no food
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07

AS to "the fear most American news
papers have of the American people,"
which Mr. Gerald Stanley Lee cites in the
current Satevcpost, it would be silly to
deny that that fear exsts-and that it is
common. Most newspapers, and most maga-
zines and theatres, underestimate the
capacity of the American people for under
standing.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07

Private j. Malachy White sang schu
berts Ave Marie. 1.-The Tribune.
Our boys do take to French, DON'T thew
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07

Rather, he won't come back till he puts
|. 1t over over there. f.. p A
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07
THE LEAGUE OF PAJAMAs

Local weather conditions necessitate our sleeping
vicevcrsa or head to foot board this procedure con-
centrates wear on coats get quotation from your
party II. Harrison on coats carloads lots f. O. b.
here you to get usual pajama brokers' commission
VIZ ''e coat pocket H. B. S.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07

why not, in honor of New York's
division, change the name of - say, 26th
Street?
New-York tribune., 1919-03-07
4 ne 4 yugn AD0uf Seattle
" "Wobblies % Nailed LJD
A Study in All Around
High-HGndedness at Seattle
By Kenneth Macgowan

STAT Correspondence Nc,o yorl Tribune