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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-06-25
WILSON CAUSED
RAIL STRIKES,
LEE DECLARES
Officials of Unions Meet in Chi
cagO to Stop Spread of Un-
authorized Strikes
FEARS RAIL PARALYSIS

Chicago. June 25.-Oficials repres-
enting all the recognized railway
unions met here today in an ecort
to keep their men in line and put
a halt to the serious unauthorized
strikes sweeping the country.
w. G. Lee, president of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen, laid re-
sponsibility for the present situation
to President Wilson in a statement is
sued before the meeting opened.
DaIIied Along
Mr.. Lee charged that the president
had permitted the railway administra-
ton to "dally along" for nearly a
Year after the men presenter their
demand and that it took the presi-
dent forty days to appoint the rail
way labor board after the Esch-Cum-
Minis bill authorizing it had become
a law.
"Unless immediate action is taken
we fear the transportation system will
be paralZed," Mr.. Lee said.
He denied that the unions were
planning to call general strike to
force a speedy decision by the rail-
way wage board.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-06-25
GUNMEN ATTACK
JAILIN EFFORT
TO FREE BANDIT
Are Beaten Off in Wauseon, O.,
After Night Watchman is
Shot in the Arm

Toledo, June rs. Five gunmen
wounded Lester Slough, 65, night
watchman and bombarded the Voulton
county Jail at Wauseon early today in
IN unsuccessful attempt to liBerate
)'Neill. alias Malady, awaiting trial
for alleged participation in $4,000
bank robbery at Delta, Ohio, month
ago.
Slough. with bullet in his arm,
Sheriff McQuillin and Deputy Walter
Stevens exchanged rs shots with the
invaders who had forced an entrance
nto the Jail Shots from the gunner
sawed-off guns riddled the prison win
dows. The men escaped toward To-
ledo in a touring car ONeill was the
only prisoner in the building.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-06-25
LABOR FINDS NO
HOPE IN RUSSIA

London, June pa Reuter- dis
patch from Stockholm today quotes
AIrs. Philip Snowden, and Dr.. Guest
members of the British labor delega-
tion which went to investigate con-
ditions in Russia, who have arrived
in Stockholm on their return. as .lc-
claring that in their view Soviet Rus
sia could teach Western Europe moth.
ing. Socialism, they predicted, would
prevail in Great Britain long before
it would in Russia, the message adds.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-06-25
RIOTS IN IRISH
CITY ARE ENDED:
II ARE KILLED

Londonderry, June 25. Civil war
has been quelled. at least temporarily,
in the city by the activity of the Brit.
ish troops rushed here from Belfast
Last night and today troops drove the
warning element off the streets and
out of their strongholds. Before mid
night. last night machine gun fire was
heard in various parts of the town but
later only isolated shots were heard
The death toll since the riots start
ed last Friday now stands II, two per-
sons having died today.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-06-25
MAKE PROGRESS

Paris, June 25.-Great progress is
being made in the work of reconstruct
ton in the devastated regions of north
ern France. says the Matin. Traffic
has been completely re-established on
1913 kilometers of railway track which
was totally destroyed by the Ger
mans.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-06-25
GOOD RAINS IN
NORTH AND EAST

Good rains are reported to have
fallen in many towns in the
north and eastern part of the
state in the last twenty-four
hours. No rain fell in the west,
Dickinson and Dunn Center re-
porting none to the weather bu-
reau. The rainfall shown on the
weather map follows:
Bismarck, trace; Devils Lake,
10; Moorhead, .0S; Williston,
.O4; Ellendale, .06; jamestown,
.13; Lisbon, .G5; Langdon, .oS;
Grafton, 40; Pembina, .06; Lang
done, .23: Fessenden, 20; Bot
tineau, .03.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-06-25
SHRINERS BOOST
NUMBER 74,725

Portland, Ore. June .25.-The An
Gent Arabic Order. MOBILES of the
Mystic Shrine, made net gain Of
74.725 in membership in the last year,
according to the report submitted by
3. M. Powell imperial recorder at
the annual imperial reunion.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-06-25
WE'RE OUT TO WIN" is SLOGAN OF
LANCER FOR -G0V CLUB WHICH,
H0LDSENTHUSIASTIC MEETING HERE
Frank Sreeer Cheers Workers With Report of Conditions in
Twenty-Five Counties Throughout the State Six Weeks
TourMnnesota Victory Cheers Workers. He Tells Bismarck
Men

I'VE are in the harness and out to win"
With this statement Frank Streete brilliant young Victory
Ticket candidate for Lieutenant Governor fired with enthusiasm
active field workers of the Langeror Governor club after din
ner at the Grand Pacific hotel last night.
Coming in from long trip though tired he declared the fight
would not stop until the polls close Wednesday, November 80
After this meeting he impaired enthusiasm to meeting of
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-06-25
TURKS REFUSE
TREATY.; RI \ IT TURKS ! | )
BEGIN new WAR
Offensive Continuing Success
fully Against Nationalists,
Says Greek Report
1000 PRISONERS TAKEN

Constantinople, June 25.-The Tur-
kish peace delegation in Paris has
been instructed from Constantinople
that the Turkish government will un.
comprisingly refuse to sign any peace
treaty which deprives them of Smyr-
ma or Adrianople.
In the main it is indicated the
government agrees with other terri.
torial limitations fixed by the allies.
GREEKS ADVANCE
Smyrna, Asia Minor, June 25.-The
Greek army, which on June Fl be.
gan an offensive against the forces
Of the Turkish nationaists, is con.
tinuing successfully to advance north
ward in Asia Minor, it was announced
in the Greek army headquarters COM
munique issued today. Salhili has
been captured by the Greeks, whose
cavalry is pushing on.
TAKE PRISONERS ...... {.
London, June 25.--The Greek lega-
tion here has received official inform
alton that the Greeks are gaining
against the Turkish nationalists in
the Smyrna district, surrounded 4
Turkish army corps in Philli, (Alla
r,ehr) SO miles east of Smyrna, TAX
ing a thousand prisoners with guns.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-06-25
PRINCE is. MARRIES

Port Said-Prince Feisul, who was
the head of the Arabian commission
to England, has married his first
cousin, the daughter of Mohammed
Ibn Saud. She is II and he's 16.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-02
: SCUTTLING OUR
FOREIGN TRADE

1t is difficult to understand the &C.
ton of the House Appropriations
Committee in cutting down by almost
three-fourths the estimate of the De.
partment of Commerce for its foreign
trade activities and in allowing only
one-half the sum hitherto appropriat-
ed for this purpose. If the commit
tees stand is approved it will reduce
cur governments foreign trade acfiv.
ity to the inadequate state of de.
eade ago. and this lust a. u li~e
when any one with the sIgbf.tt
sumption knows that we a. ~. at4
in the midst of the hottest struggle
for foreign markets the Uorll +,
ever known.
Secretary Alexander officially de.
elares that the effect of the proposed
bill will be to abolish the commercial
attaehe service and to close the
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-02

| inclined, like many OF their Republi
can associates to kill the treaty by
verbal hairsplitting, they will give
more attention to message from the
President over his own signature
than to any mysterious communica
ton received by a secret messenger
Regardless of what he may have said
in speeches last fall there is not a
word in his letter of January 26, pub
lished February 8, to indicate that
even the Lodge amendment to Ar.
ticle X, however distasteful it might
be, would cause him to pocket the
treaty. A reservation approved in
substance is not likely to be rejected
solely for the defects Of its style. In
any event, he and not the Senate is
the judge.
ID is the duty of every member of
the Senate to meet this issue square
ly. The President made the treaty
and is responsible for it, The Sen
ate may concur III any manner agree
able to itself or it may refuse to con
cur, but whatever its action may be,
1t should be taken in it's own name
and by its own authority and not de
ceitfully and timldly in pretending
fear of what somebody else may do
This attitude on the part of Demo
cratic Senators believed to be favor
able to the treaty is the more objec.
tionable because it gives them the
i appearance Of making common cause
with the Republicans whose whole
course has indicated purpose to de-
feat the peace aud kill the covenant.
What the President will do with
the treaty after it shall have been
concurred in by the Senate in good
form or in bad form is not for that
body TO determine Jealous of its
prerogative, 1t has evaded It's respon-
sibilities too long. II it dare not re-
ject the instrument outright it should
at least have the courage to approve
il with it's own interpretations, leav-
ing the consequences to Chief Mag.
istrate who may be depended upon
not to shirk them.-New York World
tDem)
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-02
LET HOOVER
RUN INDEPENDENTLY.

AS the Oregonian says, the pro
posal is to elect Hoover because
he is Hoover, not because he be-
longs to one party or the other, not
gecause ne made this speech or
that, but because he is Hoover
Such an attitude may be fallacy
from a party standpoint, it is not a
fallacy from the standpoint of the
country or its people.-Medtord
Mail Tribune.
Belonging to no party. the clear
and honest course for Mr.. Hoover
is to submit his candidacy to the
people of the United States on an
independent platform OF his own
making. The theory of the Hoover
propaganda is that he is superior to
party: that party is controlled by
the politicians, and that the mass
of the people are tired OF partisan
ship and want a new deal and Will
get it through Hoover.
Why, then, submit his candidacy
to either party? If it is correct
that party is for the politicians.
and not for the people. neither the
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-02

are Canadian affairs in general. That
is the demand for Canadian repre-
sentative, a formerly accredited
minister at Washington.
Relations between the United
States and Canada have been a pat
tern for neighboring countries
everywhere for more than a hun
dred years. Differences of opinion
in that time have never been seri-
Gus enough to impel either country
to erect defenses along the border,
Canadians come to these states
every year in large numbers, and
Americans settle permanently in
large numbers on the farm lands of
the Canadian northwest. Canada is
a self-governing dominion adhering
of its own will to the great partner
ship of the British Empire. 1t seeks
to stand among nations as a free
country, an independent unit. Only
when the affairs OF the empire are
involved is there any reason for
transacting it's affairs among ma
tons through the British colonial
office. This is the chief argument
in favor of sending a minister TO
the United States. The success of
the Canadian Mission here during
the war proved the point. A Cana
dian representative who would CO.
operate with the British ambassa-
dor, but who would put purely Can
adian-American relations directly
before the government of this coun-
try Is the proposal now. There can
be no doubt concerning the effici-
ency OF this method compared with
the cireuitous alternative Port
land Express and Advertiser (Rep).
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-02

don theory for fact in desperate
attempt to save himself and his
country from further misery.
According to dispatches received
in Washington the Soviet govern
ment pledges the establishment OF
democratic principles in Russia and
the calling OF Constituent AS.
sembly. 1t promises To withdraw
the decree annulIing the foreign
debt, restoring so per cent of the
libility and also to pay arrears of
interest, giving as a guarantee con,
siderable mining concessions of
platinum and silver to an Anglo
American syndicate. 1t is also pro
posed that the United States allow
a credit to Russia conditioned upon
considerable concessions 10 this
country. The only other condition
mentioned is that the Allies and
this government refrain from fur.
Their Intervention In Russian affairs
This peace proposal differs from
ali others put forward by Moscow
in many important respects. 1t
meets the issue raised by President
Wilson in his last pronouncement
against dealing with Russia ruled
by thirty-fiye men. and the offer to
convoke Constituent Assembly
probably means an end OF Bolshev.
ism. The offer to pay 60 per cent
or Russias debt should go a long
way toward breaking down French
opposition to a renewal of rela.
tions, while the bid for financial
support from this country and Great
Britain, if accepted, definitely end
the fear of German domination pf
Russia in the future.-Brooklyn
Eagle Ond. Dem.).
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-02

son to be proud of her attorney
general, or of the lgure he cuts be-
fore assembled nations. Europe,
threatened by imminent dangers,
has kept a saner head and sound
or courage since the war than we
have been able to manage. Casual
bits of news from beyond the seas
and the patent establishment of
foreigners when they first learned
of our treatment OF radicals show
that we have been more terrified
and less reasonable lately than any
other great nation. England's toll
erance OF every sort of discussion
Is we'll known. Perhaps it is not
SO we'll kown that there are TWEEN
ty-seven declared Socialists among
the hundred men who make up the
Dutch parliament, and three de-
clared Bolsheviki. Three Bolshe-
Wiki in the parliament unmolested,
and no fear of revolution, no sedit-
ion bills, no punishment for belong
ing to the Communist party. That
is one way OF putting down revolu-
ton, and a more workable way, on
the whole, than Palmer's.-New
York Globe CInd-).
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-02

republican not the democratic con-
vention will nominate Hoover, but
one of their own kind That sordid
and humiliating prospect is proved
by the fact that party conventions
have nominated every president
from Jackson 10 Lincoln and from
Lincoln to Cleveland, Mckinley.
Taft and Wilson. One of their
kind, to be sure, in every instance.
Has not Mr.. Wilson more than once
referred to himself, in his own mod
est but definite phrase, as the cap
tain of the democratic team?"
But the Hooverites would have
everybody abandon party, or, fail.
ing that, would have party abandon
the practice of naming one of its
members, and take Hoover, who in
turn will define the principles on
which he stands--a duty to itself
which party will abdicate. 1t is an
assignment of a function to party
which is abject and absurd
Portland Oregonian (Ind. Rep.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-02
MAKING THE
MAJORITY REALLY RULE.

Chicago has had her first election
on the plan familiar In Europe for
a generation, the plan of requiring
a candidate to receive a majority
Of the votes cast before he can be
declared elected. IN twenty-siX
wards this majority was secured.
IN nine, there Will have to be an
other election. at which the two
candidates receiving the highest
vote will compete.
1t will be time to eulogze this
system when we see how it works.
The arguments in its favor are OBJ
vious; it insures that an official
shall always be the choice of ma
jority of his constituents and makes
useless the time-wOrn trick of null
tiplying candidates so that the one
having a solid minority back of him
can slide through on a plurality
vote. But have Americans any idea
what changes this plan would have
wrought if applied to their highest
offices all through their history.
From 1856 to the present time.
this country has had sixteen presi.
dental elections. At only seven of
these did the successful candidate
receive a majority of the popular
vote. In seven other elections the
victor won by plurality only, and
in two. thanks to our electoral col,
lege system. the man who got the
largest number of votes was de-
feated. Tilden in 1876 got 250,000
more votes than Hayes: Cleveland
in 1883 got $4,000 more votes than
Harrison; vet Hayes and Harrison
won,-Chicago Journal tDam).
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-02

is to no good purpose except for the
plot of Gilbert and Sullivan comic
opera" and the St Joseph News
Press Qnd) thinks the episode has
decidedly Wild West flavor
The movie scenario writer who
couldn't make good with such mater
fal would be a failure in any line, "
A great body of opinion holds with
the Cincinnati Times Star (Rep..)
that instead of a rebellion, 1t is a
conflict OF the powers. national and
state" This paper further points
out:
IF the officials OF Iron County are
correct in their interpretations, the
federal officials are in rebellion aga
inst the laws of Michigan, just as
much as the officials of Iron County
are in rebellion against the United
States"
Another interesting question is
raised by the Springfield Union
(Rep)
On the legal principle that a case
once adjudicated cannot be adjudi-
Gated again except on appeal .
could a man found innocent of a
charge in the state court be tried on
the same charge in United States
court under the concurrent process :?
Perhaps he could. Mary remarkable
things seem to be possible these
days"
The Greensboro Daily News (IndD
calls the incident only one more evi.
denee of the impraetieability of con.
current Jurisdiction" and the New
York Times (Ind. Dcm.l predicts
many such "reyolts" due to honest
difference OF opinion about interpre-
tations OF sections of the law" But
on the whole, thinks the New York
Tribune (Rep0. while "one may talk
of splitting blood for red wine, or even
whtskey," and "a few reckless souls
may actually do SO, still the bulk
of us prefer to fight for other causes.
For the greater part, Americans will
obey the law because it is the law.
That is the American way The
Tulsa Tribune (Dem.) also believes
that American sentiment IS with the
law.
The conclusion reached by the
ittSbuI III ItdN1l tliNlS. Atp.I Hflu0
much acceptance. There was no re-
bellion, no revolt against law says
the Leader, the district attorney OF
Iron County has done no more than
compel the federal agents to act
within the limits of the law, and the
Grand Rapids Press tlnd) agrees
that the rebellion. -. existed only i'll
the imagination OF Jealous federal
officer oYerestimated by sense OF
his authority aud power The New
York sun Qndl comments that If
the federal officials would show re-
straint and good sense to match that
of the public all would go well. I'm
fortunately a good many clustering
chumps appear to have got Jobs ea-
forcing the prohibitory law
The salt Lake Tribune (RepD at.
tributes the incident TO "A clash be.
tween federal and local authority.
which III the threshing out. doubtless
will be determined in favor of the
&adonal llW-enforeing officials
while the Charlotte Observer END.
pem.l thinks the Department at
Washington appears in a mood to
move slowly in the matter. Much
depends in future enforcement OF the
prohibition laws on the manner in
which tire Michigan situation is han,
died"
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-02
N, y. WORLD FOR RATIFICATION
WITH LODGE SERVATOlNS
If NECESSARY

because Democratic members have
been informed in a roundabout way
by person not named that If they
accept the treaty with the Lodge res
ervatlon to Article Y the President
will refuse to exchange Publications,
it is said that the instrument win be
formally rejected by the United
States Senate some time this week.
Thus excused, such action by that
body would be fitting climax TO a
record uneXampled in Elementary
impotence.
\ month ago, in an , Il letter to
Senator Hitchcock. the President re-
terred TO a compromise reservation
as 10 Article \ in these words:
ITO the substance OF it l of course
adhere, am bound to. Like your
self. ! am solmenly sworn to obey
United States. But | think the form
of il very unfortunate. Any reSerya-
ton OF resolution stating that the
United States assumes no obligations
under such and such an article unless
or except would, am sure, chill our
relationship with the nations with
which We expect to be associated in
the great enterprise OF maintaining
the worlds peace"
The compromise reservation thus
adhered to IN substance does not diff
fer much from the Lodge reservation.
Some Democrats prefer the latter.
The form complained of by the
President is the same in both. What
is sought in each case is to notify
the other parties 10 the treaty that
the army and navy of the United
States cannot under the Constitution
be employed 10 preserve the indepen.
dence or territorial integrity OF any
other country without the assent of
Congress. In giving expression 10 a
act which nobody disputes,
ma. fae War power rests with con
gross IT would seem that the wording
might he inofensjve but it is on this
erauto exhibition OF bad manners
that -enate has been QuibbIing
for m IS.
Tnlez5 Democratic Senators are
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-02
EUROPE Is
AR MING.

Now that the secretariat OF the
league of nations is in full opera
ton and the opening speeches have
been given proper space in the
newspapers, the people of England,
France and Italy have practically
dismissed the organization from
their minds The newspapers of
those three Countries are giving
columns Of space to the question of
proper military preparedness and
debating the probable time and
place of the next European war.
Poland, they concede, will be one
Of the rouble centers, and may even
outrank the Balkans in that re-
spect.
Those nations that have joined
the league and ratified the coven'
ant have wisely decided that they
will not be dependent upon league
support if their existance is ever
. threatened. They accept the lea
que as a sort of insurance against
another confagration, but mean
while they intend to keep their
armie sand navies in good shape
just as a wise city keeps its fire
department in a state of efficiency
Idaho Statesman (RepD.
KEEPING
REVOLUTION DOWN.
The United States has little rea
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-02
KEEPING

The United States has little rea-
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-02
TREATING CANADA
AS \ NATION.

The Parliament at Ottawa has
opened with a program of legislation
that so far is particularly moderate
that have been felt in Canada as a
result Of the war and the radical
currents OF the times. But there is
one proposal that is Of even more
interest to the United States than
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-02

AS far as Colonel House reels con-
cerned Congress can go the limit in
abolishing free speech.-Anaconda
Standard.
In the coming election, free gaso-
line would make much more pop
ular issue than the full dinner pail.
Lincoln Star.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-02
THE RUSSIAN
PEACE PROPOSAL.

There should be no dllflculty In
verifying Soviet Russia's latest pro-
rosal for peace. If it proves to be
genuine it should be accejted by
the United States and the Allies as
basis for negotiations. The terms
laid down simply mean that Lenine
proclaims the failure of commun-
ism n Russia I'd s. r., =. - ahan-