The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-06-17
DECLARES
THE RED FLAG IS
NATIONS MENACE
Progressive Statesman Insists
No Quarter Can Be Given
BOlshevism
AGAINST STANDING ARMY
Says Military Cult Cannot Be
Grated Upon Our Democratic
Traditions in America

Senator Thomas P. Gore, the blind
statesman of Oklahoma, made a fav-
orable impression upon a large audi
ence composed principally of farmers
at the auditorium last evening, when
he brought the days conference con-
Quoted here by the national board Of
farm organizations to a close. The
senator discussed principally price
fixing of farm crops, but In his long
discourses he touched upon univers.
al military training, which he op-
posed; the league of nations, upon
which he appeared luke-warm, red
flag terrorism and Bolshevism, which
he bitterly denounced, and the ills
ills which affect the farming idustry.
1t was significant that Senator
Cores denunciation of universal mill
tary training was accorded twice the
applause that greeted his declaration
that Bolshevism and the red flag
should receive no quarter in America.
The senator asserted that America
was not by principle or tradiation a
militaristic nation; that 1t never
would consent to support a large
standing army nor to cultivate an
autocratic military caste, and that the
recent war, in which America placed
in the field in the course of two years
nearly five million of the finest troops
that the world had ever known had
demonstrated the utter futility of a
large standing army.
Senator Gore intimated that the
league of nations might be a good
thing in a general way, but he sug-
gested that the world would continue
to make war so long as human nature
retains it's selfishness He appeared
confident that, whatever else the
league of nations may accomplish, it
will not put an end to war. -
The statesman declared the red flag
a menace which must be stamped out.
He asserted the agitator should have
no place in America. He took a firm
stand for evolution as opposed to rev.
olution; declared America the most
progressive of nations, and, while ad-
mitting that abuses existed, he insist.
ed that they could be corrected with
out. first wrecking the nation and
turning everything into chaos.
Senator Gore introduced the bill
through. which wheat farmers are as.
sured a price of $2.26 at Chicago for
their 1919 crop. He declared this no
more than simple justice, inasmuch
as the farmers had been encouraged
to plant or break a large acreage, at
time when the government did not
expect the war to end as abruptly as
lit did. AS a general theory, however,
he opposed price-fixing, asserting that
when the scale was raised on one
commodity all otherse automatically
ascended to the same level. and that
in the end nothing was gained by in
terfering with the law of supply and
demand. He referred to Great Brit
aims meatless days and wheatless
days as a failure in food conservation.
On meatless days, he stated, everyone
filled up with wheat, and on wheat
less days there was consumed enough
additional meat to more than wipe OUT
the saving made during the day OF ab-
stinenCe.
Looks Like Gore Boom.
The auditorium was we'll filled for
the evening meeting, and altho the
big theatre was stiflingly hot. Gore
succeeded in holding his audiences
attention through an address which
consumed some ninety minutes. Gore
is southern type of orator who H.
lumines his discourse with many wit
ty stories, some of which are new.
He is a progressive republican, po'
litically, and there we're some in the
audience last evening who expressed
the opinion that Gore boom for the
presidency might lie back OF the pres
ent tour.
At the close of the meeting cards
were distributed among the audiences
requesting pledges for the support OF
a temple of agriculture to be erected
at Washington, D. G. This was sig
nal for general breakup, and no very
large percentage of those present
signed the pledges.