The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-23

Ne picked; you come 8FQMDlD& ana
tlcking, it is true, but you come and
are picked all the same; picked be-
cause you are too shiftless and penur
that IN the word-penurious
70 devote even one day in q month to
attend a farmers meeting and organize
and discuss, and lay your plans to
select aud elect men who viii repre-
sent your interests in the legislature
instead of some other interest or com
bination antagonist to you; to penur-
lena to contribute a few dollars each
year to the fund necessary in various
ways to forward any successful move-
ment on your part; too pcnurious to
support newspapers published in your
interest and which every great move
ment by any party or considerable
number Of people must have, in order
to succeed. That is not all. Many of
you are so Mdicrously Jealous Of each
other when you do undertake to do
anything. The man among you who,
by edtcation, opportunity and ambi-
ton to do, is best fitted to lead, you
will be so jealous OF as to abandon the
entire enterprise If he is to be either
the head OF tail Of it. If you had a
valuable watch that needed repairs
would you take it to a blacksmith you
liked, rather than to an expert watch
maker you did not like? When the
combinations that are working your
ruin want q man for some important
work, they don't ask, who among US ~
best liked, or most hated, but, who
among us is best calculated for this
work We have to do, and that's the man
tn 1T is chosen. That's sense. Personal
feeling is subordinated to the general
interests of all in the combine. Why
can't you have as much sense as the
corsairs that hunt you.
Again, don't be 50 cverlastingly sus-
picious Of your farmer neighbor and
of otl.e who offer to help you. Don't
judge others by yourself, for that may
not be a righteous judgement; it don't
follow that your neighbor is a two
sided, deceitful rascal because you
are; or if he is, if he has a common in
terest in the cause you are forwarding,
he will work squire, because it is to
his interest to do 81. 1t don't follow
because you have been deceived and
robbed SO often that every man is a
deceiver and a robber; bad as the world
is, there are a great many more honest
men in it. than ~rascals. On the other
hand, don't be so vErdant and credu-
lous as to believe that the men and
combinations that have been lying to
you and robbiag you for years, won't
do it again if they get = chance, or
that the men who have been lying to
you year after year when they wanted
your votes, won't try it again. Guilt.
vate . little common sense on this
subject-even the commoncst kind
will do you lots of good; it will enable
you to distinguish a true friend to
your interests, from the political pros
titute who comes honey .fugling
around you about three weeks before
the election, telling you how smart
you are, how influential you are in your
neighborhood, who praises your horses
and stock, admires your farming, COM
pliments your wife and kisses the baby.
and completes his mission by taking
hold Of your putty political nose and
pulling it around in the direction he
wants you to 60 and then leaves you
to follow it to the polls and vote as he
has directed. You are lattered and
elated with the idea that the political
wart that has just left you considers
you the smartest man in yodr town,
when in fact he has set you SHOWN as
the biggest fool and vii $50 report you
to his pals when he gets with them.
Thus you have done for years. Is it
any wonder there is nothing done for.
you? Remember that "God helps him
who helps himself" How could God,
man or the devil help such q man as
we have described?
When you get so that future accom-
mediation, or promised indulgence, OF
pecuniary motive, or scnseless jeal-
ousy, or personal ambition, or fattcr-
ing tongues will not cause you to
desert or turn a deaf ear to the call
for help that is heard in every farmers
home and is borne on every breeze; in
short, whea you will assert and main
tain u true manhood, and faithfully
aid with your presence, your counsel,
your money and your ballot what our
forefathers secured to you by the
bullet, the II Of prosperity to the
farmer and laborer, and to the bust
ness men Of Your towns with whom
you deal, will rise, and it will continue
to rise higher and higher, the people
will prevail and honest men will rule
where rascals have reveled, There
will be equal taxation, equal profits on
capital, whether it be in money or
labor, bank stock, railroad stock or
farm stock; men will be chosen to
Office for blessing instead of eursipg
communities where they live; combin-
~ations to prevent competition in the
prices Of merchandise or manufac-
lures, or to get farmers products for
less than their value, will be made
crimes, and those who engage in it
will be given cells IN the penitentiary
instead of seats III the state legislature
or halls Of congress; the government
will operate telegraphs and railways
and loan national notes to the people
on the people' s Dor d secured on peoples