Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1890-12-26
THAT CAR OF FLOUR,

That car OF Hour from Fargo
seems to be creating quite a distur-
bance in the county. Through the
the representations Of distress pres
ented by Rev Witham the Fargo
Roller Mills presented car of flour
as Christmas present. The car
was billed to the commissioners and
Mr.. Schuyler in behalf Of the mill
wrote "to miss no one, and those
who eat may they enjoy. And
with this flour goes to the people
to whom it reaches an earnest and
warm hearted Godspeed you and
yours and may future seasons place
you all in sucG position that should
Others need thou may do likewise. :"
The donation was apparently made
in the utmost good will to relieve
suffering which they had been in
formed existed. The commissions
ers refused to accept it and wired
Schuyler ''Dickey county needs no
outside help, car Of -four here sub
ject to your order" A little latter
another message was sent saying
"Wc'll accept this car -four only.
We need no outside aid. See letter. "
The letter referred to was printed in
the Argus and reads as follows,
ELLENDALE Dec. 24.-I'o The Ar
gus: Rev. Whitman was on hand
yesterday according TO advertise.
ment, to take charge Of distributing
flour. ETC., and to initiate new mem-
bers into the secrets of the new Sc
cret order of Farmers Alliance. A
great many farmers were in town
but could not be admitted to the
alliance meeting owing to the fact
they had not yet been given the
secret work by Elder Whitman, al
though they are all members Of the
alliance. The gentleman in the
course Of his remarks made the state
ment that the alliance was a pollti-
cal organization. He made ademand
on the county commissioners for
the car Of flour. etc, contributed by
Fargo people, and claimed he should
name the parties to whom it should
be distributes: that it was not dona.
ted to the people at large but to the
Alliance Aid asso ,iation, and he as
the representative Of that association
should be given the privilege Of dis
trlbuting it: that he held letter
from the Hon. Smith Stimmel that
that was the way it was intended,
but that some OF the members Of u
committee who had the matter in
charge, who by the way could not
have been i'll possession OF the secret
work" had oycrrulyd the wishes Of
the Hon. Stimmel and had it con-
signed to the county commissioners.
The county commissioners. after
consulting, decided it would be i'm
possible for them to accept it, as
they knew OF 10 destitution in Dick
ey county: and Of no poor except
such as they can care for without
any great expense or burden to the
county. The commissioners wish
it understood that they are as CRATE
full to the people Of Fargo as though,
they needed the provisions, but
Dickey county is being greatly mis-
represented. If any Of these gentle
men who are making begging a
business can cite single instance
where a party has applied to the
county for aid, or can show that
the county is not able to care for
its own, then it will be admitted
that there is need OF aid, but when
that time comes the county will
make an appeal for aid i'll the pro-
per manner through the county
boards, and the people can contrib
ute without fear Of being imposed
upon, but we trust that time will
never come.