The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-10-27
the regaining of the Garden. It is
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| the Iegalnlng OF the Garden. 1t Is
| timely and-non-taxable.
The Almighty still pronounces His
creation, Good Land and waters
produce abundance for His creatures.
The caverns of the earth are heaped
with treasure for mankind. The store
houses of our nation are bursting with
grains and fruits never dreamed of
by Egypt. Babylon and Rome. Cloth
ing lies moth-eaten on the warehouse
Shelves
l wonder why the ragged bread
line from coast to coast?
With eleven million able bodied
willing Americans wholly unemploy-
eG: fifteen million part time and un-
derpaid; the farmer receiving no re-
turns for his toll; labor at stand
still
I wonder why 100 American fac
tories have been taken across into
Canada in the last year or 5000
within the past seven months? Why
three thousand more have been taken
to Europe and South America in the
same time? Why the owners of these
factories should be accounted good,
substantial American citizens: lead
crS and counselors in church and
state; should receive public emolu-
ment and honors while the American
shop-girl unemployed who seized
the bun or so in order to appease a
three day hunger should be given
ten days and chance of losing citi-
Zenship?
1 wonder why after all our kindness
the depression and rumble of revolu-
ton in Canada?-Has she grown
weary of being "Set in the Crown of
the Stranger" l wonder about the
HaWley- Smoot Grundy- Hoover tariff
act. If the Hoover moratorium re-
leved the starving European masses
or merely aided the war barons and |,
paid the private debts of the Ameri-
can Millionaire? If the American |
masses eventually will pay the cost |
Of the European war?
l wonder at the patience. patriot |
ism, gOCd-humor, and on the whole |
the orderliness and trust in God of |
the American people during the worst !
since the landing of the |
Pilgrims.
1 wonder if the Few dreamed the
American farmer forever would take
peaceably his confiscations and evic-
tons; lacked manhood and courage
to forestall peonage? Why farm
strikers and bonus-marchers are less
patriots than were the strikers of |
1888; the revolters against the Stamp
Act; the men of the Boston Tea par
ty? If yon is the rumble of another
war we hear: Send young malcon-
tents abroad and the women and chill
dren into the fields
I wonder at the recent demolish-
ment of substantial public buildings |
in our city beautiful to make way for :,
edifices at cost unknown to Solomon
and NebuchadnezZar. and with but |
little benefit to the American laborer.
I wonder if in November the small |
underpald federal employee will vote
along with the munificently remuner-
ated political whipper-ins and bill
lionaire receivers of federal tax re-
fund for the hand that took away his
half loaf?
I wonder if the American people !
can be smoke screened into believing |
one political party to be more wet or
dry than another? If our present |
concern should not be: General eco
nomic health; the preservation of the |
family; open church and
school: fear of mob-violence and |
other immortality brought about by
enforced idleness and poverty and Of
a good dose of Communism if things
do not change q bit?
I wonder if we as people are not
overwhelmed with and beWildered by
useless laws and regulations; courts
and councils: bureaus and commits
sions; societies and associations; dis
play of embassies and retinue of |
presidents; peace congresses that PIE
vent peace; armament conferences |
that breed war; jauntings hither of |
foreign diplomat and banker aimed
to undermine our Americanism and |
to wheedle the last ounce of gold out |