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Bismarck N. D.,
March 8, 1882.


Bismarck N. D.,
March 8, 1892.
Editor. Tribune:
In your editorial in the Tribune of
February IL, entitled, Man Made
Dangers" We read the following: 1--WE
are, these days, more or less in Kubla
Kahns position: we hear ancestral
voices prophesying war to say moth
ing OF other dire possibilities, such as
revolutions, economic breakdown and
q general collapse of civilization; and
We do not seem more able to cope
with the dangers of future earth
quakes. Yet they are dangers that
We ourselves have brought into ex-
istence. They do not come from OBJ
scure natural forces that are be-
yond our control; they come from
things that we have and are doing.
Living in a world whose Illuminated
forces demand our best thoughts and
our greatest energy. we have some
how raised other problems for our
selves that are infinitely greater"
In 1887 there was erected at our
country's main gateway The Statue
OF Liberty" enlightening the world;
a gift Of the French nation. intended
to symbolic our national attitude. In
Liberty, we have believed, and we do
believe, that We have found magic
healing power for the many ills most
chronic to man. and that it has
tendency to make the world sweeter
and Saner.
Forty-five years have now gone by,
since this smybol, so cherished. was
placed at the entrance to the New
York harbor and now many believe
that this our former attitude has ma
terially changed At the close Of our
Civil war we believed that by the con-
flict of mind truth would prevail and
all differences would disappear and be
corrected, and In the main this should
be considered right. Reading an ar
ticle In the Tribune some time ago. by
q gentleman who used the expression,
I'VE Americans" caused me to ponder
over what he actually meant. So
comes Mrs. F. U. Hobart. the head OF
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton, and says: Our children are
rubbing shoulders with the children
of those we have brought into this
country and this creates bad influ-
cnce."
The writer wonders If Mrs Hobart's
residence is In close proximity to Chi
Cages Little Italy
To those men and women in whom
the traditions of Liberty have been
sunk by the experience of generations,
belong the responsibility If any indif-
ference is now being shown in the en-
lightenment Of those who have come
into this country at our invitation to
assist In the development Of our coun-
trys great resources. The question II
you were born across the pond or
from what race of people you origin
ated in the old world should never be
raised. They came here to establish
homes and build communities and
they have been most faithful to their
trust. In the building of the greatest
trunk railways from the Atlantic to
the Pacific: in the building OF the
greatest waterway in the world, the
Panama canal. skilled engineers OF
European birth were employed.
Since 1918 there has been estab-
lished a new order of things In this
world by circumstances over which we
had no control. During the late World
war shrewd men successfully gathered
around them very great wealth and at
this time it seems to be menace to
our country in that they dictate and
seek to control our country's policies.
We may ask. How long is this to con-
tinue? It Is plainly not the idea OF
the American searching for better
things.
It may be that this nation is due for
q decline, which Almighty God forbid,
but we can not live forever and II 1t
shall now come those who are salts
fled and contented must bear the re-
sponsibtlity.
I'LL fares the land, to Fastening
Ills q prey
Where wealth accumulates and
men decay
It may be that the day is here when
history shall repeat itself. In other
ages great nations were obliterated
by the accumulation Of wealth In the
hands of the few.
Germany, q very wealthy nation, be-
came dominated by an aristocratic
military caste and is now in the throes
Of grief, but it is safe to predict that
from its wreck will rise strong In
dustrial nation. England, the Mistress
Of the Sea, the former clearing house
Of finance, is fighting hard to main
tain it's equilibrium" The worlds
wealth, as measured by gold. has
shifted to our country and to France,
who, with her astute politicians and
her powerful army, and her strong
wall Of Notifications extending from
the North Sea to the Mediterranean,
now is trying to dictate the policies OF
Europe. Her hand will undoubtedly
reach out for the dictation of world
policies.
Our own Washington warned US
against European entanglements, but
Wilson, the idealist, forced US into
seemingly disastrous entanglements on
the European continent. During the
Civil war . delegation Of New York
bankers waited on President Lincoln,
requesting that battleship be sta
toned at the entrance OF New York
harbor in order to protect the money
wealth which, already at that time,
was being centered there. He replied
that II he had as much money as these
bankers said they had he would build
his own battleship fcz perfection.
90 We have travelled onward swiftly,
placing all the power Of the wealth
OF our land in the hands Of the few,
until we are mere puppets In their