The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-17
by RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

Washington, Nov. 1.-THE seven
ticth congress will soon meet and
consider various issues of import
and if the people Of the United
States refuse to get excited about
these issues, it may be because many
of them have been up in one form
or another for the last 1875 or $50
years.
The twentieth century finds May
or Bill Thompson Of Chicago bowling
against King George III just as the
eighteenth century found the fathers
bowling likewise. The administra-
ton of George Washington had its
problems of taxes, debt reduction.
federal economy, ornaments, third
term, foreign relations and SO on,
even as the administration of Calvin
Coolidge. There were blocs and
lobbyists then as now, and there
were statesmen to protest them.
Washington waited until Scptcm-
Der, 1896, two MONTHS before cleo
ton time, to decline a third term in
his famous farewell address. Incl
dentally. he used a form of the word
"choose" when he appraised the coun-
try of his resolution ITO decline be-
ing considered among the number Of
those out of whom a choice is to be
made" He was not ambiguous; he
actually apologized for his decision;
he used about 500 words where
Coolidge used 10 and everyone knew
what he meant. There was no talk
of drafting him and the senate had
no need to pass any anti-third term
resolution.
Every day the increasing weight
more that the shade of retirement is
as necessary to me as it will be well
Gomez" he said. "While choice
and prudence invite me to quit the
political scene, patriotism does not
forbid it."
Washington, too, apparently had
a western wing" on his hands, al
though it may not have resembled
the Norris>Borah group which un-
dertakes to array the west against
the east.
"In contemplating causes which
may disturb our union," he said, lit
occurs, as matter of serious con-
Germ, that any ground should have
been furnished for characterizing
parties by geographical discrimina-
tions-Northern and Southern, At
lantic and Western-whence design
i1.g men may endeavor to excite q
belief that there is q real difference
Of local interests and views. The
inhabitants of our western country
have lately seen decisive
proof how unfounded were the sus-
picions propagated among them of a
policy in the general government and
in the Atlantic states, unfriendly to
their interests. :"
He warned against blocs and lob
bies-"all combinations and associa-
tions, under whatever plausible char
acter, with the real design to direct,
c-ltrol, counteract or awe the regu.
lar deliberation and action Of the
constituted authorities (which
would ''put in the place of the dele
gated will of the nation the will
Of a small but artful and enterpris-
ing minority of the community -
as likely to become "potent engines
by which cunning, ambitious and un-
principled men will be enabled to
subvert the power of the people,"
As4or economy, ornaments and
debts: "Avoid occasions of expense
by cultivating peace, but remember
ing also that timely disbursements
to prepare for danger frequently
avoid much greater disbursements to
repel it; avoiding likewise the accu.
mutation Of debt, not only by shun.
ming occasions of expense, but by
vigorous exertions in time of peace
to discharge the debit which un-
avoidable, wars may have occasioned,
not ungenerously throwing on pros.