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'MONDAY EVENING, 'FEBRUARY 3, 1919.
A "PEACE OF LOOT'
The dispatches say that President Wilson referred
to the distribution of the German colonies among the
Allies as "a peace of loot.1' The president may have used
that term, but if he did it is not at all probable tjhat he
used it in the offensive sense which might be assumed
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estimate which might at some time by others be placed
upon the distribution of colonies which he opposea.
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of settlement of the colonial or any other question which
will not be subjected to the offensive .interpretation of
small minds and the injurious characterization of veno
mous tongues.
THERE ANALOGY FAILS
There is a peculiar thing about humanity, Mr. Presi
dent, and that is this In its ordinary days it loves pleas
ure. I understand why it loves it. I love it more than
anybody. But when the days of crises come^ the great
days that invoke the human soul, the ordinary man rises
above the measure which the senator from Wisconsin
meted out to him. He becomes inspired as by the voice
of God running through all the history of the world. He
sacrifices himself, 'his property, his children—and above
all, his children—that is the hardest part of it. He is
willing to see it all go into the. melting pot rather than
that anything false should exist. God calls to him from
the depths, and he answers with his whole soul and an
swering with his whole soul, he has no patience—not only
not a little patience, but no patience at all—for any mai\
who makes his appeal to his ordinary, everyday life, fie
rises above it all. He becomes the son of God. Nine
years out of ten, or ninety-nine out of one hundred, he
does not know that he is the son of God but in those pe
culiar days he does know it, and he knows that he would
not fight for "the Morgan Interests," nor for "capitalis
tic enterprise," and that he would not fight and that he
would not die and that ho would not sacrifice his chil
dren for any of the base purposes mentioned in that
speech of the senator from Wisconsin at St. Paul.
It is given to all of us, Mr. President, just about once
in our lifetime, to rise to the heights. That time was given
to all of us during this war and those of us who did not
rise to the heights were just comihon clay, miserably
common clay ,devil-impulsed common clay and those
who could rise to the heights rose, and the American
people as a whole rose. There Were traitors, of course.
There were profiteers, of course.
Men generally may be likened to animals of some
sort or other. One is like a lion, another is like a fox,
another is like a wolf," another is like a vulture and
when you come to measure them up at a great time like
the breaking out of the Civil war—especially in the South,
even more than in the North, but in both sections—
and when you come to measuring men at this time, you
find out w^iere the man is. There is the watchdog,
the English-mastiff man the Newfoundland, who rushes
to the rescue of home, the watchdog of the household.
Nine-tenths of the American people resemole him. Then
there comes a vulture who swoops down and tries to get
some little bit of carrion out of what is left, somehow,
and who tries to feed himself and his little vulture fam
ily with it all. Then there is another ti-pe for which the
morning and
postofflee as
animal kingdom does not present any analogy, because jKl3y
no wolf was ever unfaithful to wolves no fox was ever|vSsions
unfaithful to foxes no vulture* ever was ever unfaith
ful to vultures. We come to the disloyol among human
beings, for whom there is no analogy in animal life at all.
—Johi\ Sharp Williams.
A JEWISH COMMONWEALTH
The purpose of the Zionist movement id the rc
e&tablishment of the Jewish people in control of Pales
tine, the land of promise to Abraham, and which was
the home of his descendants for so many centuries. Tnat
movement has been under way for years, and has had
the financial and moral support of influential Jews
throughout the world during a period when the cause
could be viewed through the eyes of faith alone. How
or how soon the great work was to be accomptlsned
was beyond human ken.
A LETTER FROM
AN N. D. FARMER
have been reading your notes on
the doings at Bismarck nowadays gad
as I am j* Carmer I expected' to see
some laws passed to the benefit of us
farmers, but. the way things are go
ing it looks me we have Big Busi
ness ln fftti fore* up there. would
like to heAr front some of tb£ sen-'
nlorir and representative* where thelr
*r«e speech and free win have gone
to: ItsMmi tlkejr^v^Mnd han# and
ttr g»ng rule/ *nd if anyone
mty
sometlUng ho Is kicked out, so
in
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With startling suddenness the%ay has been opened,
and there are few tl^lnn in the history of the Jewish
people more dramatic than the manner In which assur
ance has been, given that at last, after centuries of home
lessne
the Jews are once more to be'constituted, as one
of the nations of thfe earth.
Mention of this matter just now is prompted by tne
fact that a meeting is to be held in Grand Forks tomor
row evening at which Rabbi Matt of Minneapolis, and
Dr. Willis of the university will be the speakers, which
is called for the purpose of presenting to the Jewish
people of the city particularly the need that exists for
wHat is known as the Palestine Restoration, .fund
$ 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
The United States and the nations associated with
it in the war have ..expressed their -approval of the Zion
ist movement, and have agreed in principle to the cre
ation of a Jewish commonwealth with headquarters at
Jerusalem. The work of restoration and settlement, in
fact all the practical work connected with the develop
ment of this idea will be cared for by the Jews them
selves, and in this work they should have, as they will
undoubtedly receive, the cordial and sympathetic co
operation of ail our people.
THIS IS THE LAW
The f.ve proposed constitutional amendments whose
status^ has been for soma time -before the state supremo
court for decision were legally adopted .by the people at
the November election when each of them received, a
majority of the votes cast on that separate proposition,
according to a decision just rendered by the court. In the
section of the'constitution covering the case it is dis
tinctly stated that amendments so' submitted must re
ceive a majority of all the votes cast at the election at
which the propositions are submitted. Another section
of the constitution, dealing with amendments submitted in
another manner, says* that such amendments must be
given a majority of the votes cast thereon. The lan
guage is entirely different. In neither case is it obscure.
The provisions are so clearly stated that the people gen
erally have taken both at their exact face value, and
have acted on the assumption that two different things
were intended by the two very different forms of lan
guage. It was with the idea of that difference distinctly
in their minds, fortified by instructions and exhortations
and recommendations from their political committees,
that voters of all shades of belief, league, independent
and what not, went to the polls last November. Nothing
was heard of a contrary opinion until after the election,
when it developed that five of the seven proposed amend
ments submitted under the initiative had failed to re
ceive "a majority of all the votes cast in the general elec
tion," according to the universal interpretation of that
language. Then it was that a new interpretation was
sought, and it was suddenly maintained that the people
of the state had been entirely mistaken in supposing that
the constitution meant what the average individual would
naturally suppose it to mean, and that a majority of all
the votes cast at the general election meant 'merely a
majority of the votes cast on each proposition, be they
few or many.
The matter has been before the supreme court for
some weeks, and the decision just rendered is entirely in
accord with the view that the English language is to be
construed, not according to its plain meaning and obvious
intent, but that it is to be twisted, and tortured, and
forced into conformity with whatever meaning it is de
sired to plkce upon it. I
Three years ago A. C. Townley, the present Socialist
boss of North Dakota, standing on the platform of the
Fargo auditorium and discussing the candidates who had
been secretly named for the aproaching primary, said in
substance: "We've'got to have a supreme court that
will hold constitutional the laws that we pass in the
legislature.' The candidates who had then been chosen
by the league leaders, and who were subsequently elected
were Messrs. Birdzell, Grace and Robinson. Last year
the league added H. A. Bronson to the court. These
four concur in the decision validating the five disputed
amendments. The fifth member of the court, Judge
Christianson, is ill, and did not participate in the de
termination of the case.
cost the
remain
farmers, let three or four men that
nave not
got
lf
25®*
one cent's worth of prop-
erty or one acre of land in their own
name in this state have the full pow
er to dictate wha$ they shall and shall
not do. What do they care if we
poor farmers get taxes that will prove
a hardship to us and our children as
long as they get their scheme
through?
Now I have not joined the Non
partiMn .league y'et because I have
not met one 'of thf leaguers that
has been able to show mis where 1
farmer would be any better oft,
ot
the Power.
it
**2!W.fWW Wile at th« Mito
eapitoKK is tliere now, I have beon
Thmf are a few things In their
iroramtliat Is all rlghtr but I *o not
J" bpnd« In millions
all at
Why not jyo a little slow at first,
Jh
WtW.-.gy:
ot
The decision rendered by the court is the law, no
matter how contrary it may be to the common under
standing, to that tVhich is known to have been the in
tent of the framers of the constitutional provision under
which the amendments were submitted, and to the n- they'ar'e'lhrough, that
terpretation which would have been placed upon the
language used by all but a negligible minority of* those
whose mother tongue is English.. That decision is tne
law of the state regardless of the steps by which it was
reached, and regardless of the fact that it obliterates
mo'st of what has been left of the safeguards of our
constitution.
The practical effect of the decision is to validate
all of the important economic measures upon which the
legislature has been at work. The legislature is now
at liberty to incur, on behalf of the taxpayers of the state,
any indebtedness whatever. All limits have been re
moved. By the mere passage of a bill the state can be
plunged up to the neck in business enterprises which
Pe°Ple millions. No constitutional pro-
to protect the state against this risk, or
to reqiMrc propositions of such far-reaching importance
to be considered carefully and soberly, and to be sub
mitted, each on its own merits,
tQ
the people for approval.
Nothing now stands between the people of the state
and the wildest kind of Socialistic extravagance but the
good sense and independence of members of the legis
lature. As evidence of what we have to expect along
these lines we have the character of most of the legis
lation proposed by the majority at this session, and the
fact that most of the majority members have subordi
nated everything of their own that makes for human
fredom and independent judgment to the decisions of
a secret caucus which moves solely in response to the
will of one man. It tnust be confessed'that the outlook
Is not encouraging, but there Is an eleirient of conso
lation in the fact that a high fever sometimes has a
or it
*n debt that
if. to years to. pay?-—it is
to blow Now may
since this is a
aztsrUls
^1 should think that each'and every
one of our senators and representa
tives should ask himself this question
whenever a measure or bill comes up
for passage. Will this be a benefit to
me as a farmer or the state as a
whole?
Then if you thittk It would be a
good thing and y.ou could come back
and look your neighbor square in tfye
face, then I would do so whatever the
gang said or did. Their talk before
election was a government for the
people and by the people, but it looks
to me now as a government by the
Bosses and for the. Bosses, and I be
lieve that if some of the bills that
*re up for-passage now ware put to a
vot« by the people of thia state they
would be' snowed under so bad that,
they wonld not be able to get Mt for
years to eome.
wrong in tWa. but
ee state YBT and we
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ET every citizen—native arid foreign
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fortify national unity, ,.
mote commercial prosperity strengthen
individual loyalty. On Jan. 3,1919
ex-President Roosevelt,
President Wilson
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A Farmer,
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JUST FOLKS
THE.BETTER DAYS.
The better days lie just aliead—
Not with the past among the dead.
Our finest hours are all to be,
Life's best our eyes are still to see,
And yet men' sigh and dwell upon
The joys that were and long have
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Wise men deplored, in centuries old,
That men had turned their thoughts
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And seemed to present glorias blind
While treasuring those they'd left
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And those that followed grew to
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