The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-22

talks and sangs and music and so
forth. The Hon. r. A. Walker OF
Dunn county will preside DR.. A.
.McG affney Beede of Sioux county will
offer some remarks. There will be
selections by the Nonpartisan league
quartette composed of Senator Carol
D. King of Menoken, and Executive
Secretary Nelson Addison Mason Of
the governors staff and Secretary
Charles G. Boise of the board Of con-
troll and Chairman George E. Wallace
of the state tax commission. The la
dies auxiliary quartette. composed Of
Mrs. Lieutenant, Governor Howard r.,
Wood and Mrs. DR.. Stucke and Mrs
Editor-1mmigration Commissioner Wal
ter w. Liggett and Mrs. Secretary OF
the Council OF Defense John %.
Rev c. i. vermilya, superln cad
ent, OF the Bismarck district OF the
Methodist Episcopal church and a
member Of the state board Of regents.
Governor Lynn ] Frazier and John N.
Hagan, commissioners Of agriculture
and labor will, deliver the principal
address. There will be solo by Fred
Hanson, and the program vii close
iwth the community singing OF Amer
lea, led>by the league Quartette. The
public is invited and assured a vel.
come. "u 81 -
Was An Aristocrat. ""
George Washington was an aristo
crat. a landed proprietor, in league
parlance, member Of Big Business.
He fought Indians with Braddock and
surveyed q lot OF the Ohio valley with
grapevine for u chain, and head
ed Americas first Continental army
and gave Johnny Bulls Red Goats and
hired Hessians the "only important
beating Great Britain has suffered III
the last 300 years. II, =. ~
He was Al years old when he be-
came commander in chief Of the COl-
onial forces. He was 81 when in 1888
he became the first president of the
United States of America. He served
two terms and quit establishing a
precedent which never has been brok
en-. He, was still "a young man. only
g. when he did in 1899. = -'
=, His Farewell Address.
George Washington might have
been speaking tas. a, member of the,
minority in the present assembly
when he said in his farewell address
in 1896:
GAS a very important source of
strength and security, cherish public
credit. ~One method Of preserving it
is to use it as sparingly as possible,
avoiding the accumulation of dj,t, not
only by stunning occasions of ex-
pense, but by vigorous exertions in
time Of peace to discharge the debts
which unavoida ole wars have occas-
toned, not ungenerously throwing up
on pOsterity the burden which we orr
selves ought to bear
THE execution Of these maXims be.
longs to your representatives, but 1t
is necessary that public opinion should
cooperate. TO facilitate to them the
performance of their duty. it is essen
tial that you should Ieoally bear
in mind that towards the payment Of
debts there must be revenue; that to
have revenue there must be taxes;
that no taxes. can be derivd which are
not more or less inconvenient and UNI
pleasant that the intrinsic ,embaf-
rassment, inseparable from the selec-
ton. Of .thep roper objects (Which IS
always d choice of ~difficultiesy Ought
to be a decisive motive-for a candid
construction of the conduct of the
government in making it,
On the League Of Nations.
| OF the league of nations. whose pro,
gram President Wilson will reward
next Monday, President Washington
said: .% " tst
Europe has set Of primary in
terests, which to us have none or a
very remote relation. Hence she must
he engaged in frequent Contingencies,
tha.s caYRs of which are. Essentially
foreignsb soin*c concerns z fences fFe;
fore, it must eupWise to implicate
ourselves by artificial ties in the ordi-
nary vicissitudes of her politics, or the
ordinary combinations and collisions
Of her friendships or enmities.
1T is our true policy to steer clear