The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-06-02
CITIZENS OWE
DEBT TO CITY,
SPEAKER SAYS
Bismarck Needs Men Who
Will Make Sacrifice, DIR.
Roy Smith Declares
PLEADS FOR SERVICE
Noted Author, Lecturer and
Minister Gives Address
at Forum Meeting

able to return to it, no matter how
energetic he may be in the discharge
of his civic duties," said DR.. Roy l..
Smith of Minneapolis in an address
given last night at the Association
of Commerce Forum banquet in the
Grand Pacific hotel. I'VE need men
who will serve the needs of the COM
munity forgetful Of what the influ-
ence on business will be. We need
men who will sacrifice their time
and personal convenience for the sake
of the common good" the speaker de-
clared
DR.. Smith, who is pastor of Sinp-
son Methodist church in Minneapo-
lis. author Of Sentence Sermons,
q newspaper feature that has daily
circulation of five million day;
writer for trade magazines and bus
mess journals; author of ten books,
and for Is years lyceum and cnau-
tauque lecturer and humorist. held
the careful attention of his audience
of about $50 persons.
"Wells Beside The Way"
"Wells Beside the Way was the
subject of DR.. Smiths address.
"rhere can be no civilization with
out water" the speaker said. "There
can be no life, culture, progress, ed
ucation, religion, government or
prosperity except where an adequate
water supply is assured. Some Of
the greatest wars of history have
been fought for the possession Of
waterways, harbors and outlets to
the seas.
"The man who makes provision for
an adequate water supply is laying
the foundations for the civilization
that is to follow him. 1t is not al
ways a spectacular task. 1t is usual
ly humdrur, routine. But he who
digs the nations wells is father to
the nations life. David wrote his
psalms. Solomon built the old Jew
ish temple, but Jacob went through
the land, a migrant. digging wells.
Each became. immortal. The people
sang David's psalms in the temple
as they were worshipping, but they
drank from Jacobs wells as they
went about their daily work.
"Have you ever stopped to real
ize the fact that we are forever
drinking from wells that we did not
dig. Very little of this present gen.
eration's convenience has been pur-
chased by it's own efforts. Every
generation inherits the accumulated
benefits of the labors of all the gen.
erations past.
Well OF Privilege
1--WE have been drinking deep from
the we'll Of political privilege here in
America. Our fathers brought forth
upon this continent a new nation
with new ideal dedicated to the
proposition that there is something
kingly in every man and that every
man ought to have the right to be a
king if he was good enough and wise
enough. The American experiment
in government is one of the most
daring conceptions that ever sprang
into being by the will Of man.
"When the Constitutional Conven-
tion met in Philadelphia in 1889 to
draft the constitution which was to
supplant the old Articles of Con-
federation the members of that i'm
mortal body little dreamed that they
were digging we'll of political pri-
vilege from which millions of the
worlds highest thinking and farth-
est seeing peoples should drink for
hundreds of years to come. But that
little group of students, than whom
no other group has ever studied more
extensively nor more carefully the
science of government, toiling
through almost insuperable Difficult
ties in absolute secrecy created a
system of government that has en-
dured for hundred and forty years
with increasing prosperity and liber-
ties for it's peoples. In this period
of time the struggling and impover-
ished thirteen colonies have grown
from weak confederation of war
ring states into a great, unified ma
tipn-the richest in the world.
II do not believe that the govern
ment of the United States is per-
feet. In fact there are elements Of
weakness that have justly called for
criticism for years. But until some
one can show me nation Of 100000
600 people under another scheme Of
government who have lived for one
hundred and forty years in greater
prosperity, enjoying greater liber.
ties, privileges and opportunities
than the people of the United States
am quite content to leave the Con-
stitution intact and pass the new
tangled scheme Of frensy and fanci-
work on the other side.
Welcome To Immigrants
II will bid welcome to any man
from any country whs wants to come
to America and become an American
citizen. All ask Of him, 10 that he
shall undertake to become what we
are and not try to make Us what he
was. E.p<r,
"The government under whose flag
we live has been bought by the
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