Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-05-22
of them men who split with Mckenzie

of them men who split with Mckenzie
over the senatorial episode.
But you, Willie-you are not of that
class. The Chinese -lsundrymen who
have worked their aatirons in Bismarck
while ysu lsbored with your jaws have
been greater forces In building up the
Slope country than you have been. :
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In a.silly lot Of deliriun-tremens slush
printed IN last weeks Setter, and reprint
ed elsewhere in the RECORD, the young
Pecksnlf points the finger of scorn at the
editor Of this paper because, once upon
a time, in company with q number OF
other settlers, he was, unwlttlngly, fed
on dog by wicked French duke who
for many years has been living IN disguise
in this county. Yet, dog is better phys
ical food than the mental psbulum Willy
puts before his readers each week in the
columns of the Setter. Furthermore, his
dudeshlp himself has been eating crow
ever since Hansbrough was elected sen-
stor.
Al to the intimation in the Setter that
the writer is = drunkard in the commonly
accepted or any other sense of the term,
you wrong him, o gentle Willie. He i.
not. In fact, for years he couldn't have
been in these parts. because the demand
hcreabouts has been insufficient to call for
regular supply. He has had little all
these years in the form of red liquor. The
principal substitute has been mild and
feeble beverage crushed from the wildgrape
or the juneberry, the untamed currant or
the astringent chokecherry-nst half as
strong as that imbibed by the primitive
Christians along the shores of Gslllee.
This dearth. of dampneaa h.o not always
existed, however, for, IN the days when
Burleieh and Emmons vers in the same
legislative district, each alternate year
divers and sundry Bismarck politicians
came and brought with them the Flood.
But now all--all is changed. and EN-
mons county's citizens have accepted the
spirit as we'll as the letter of the sumptu-
ary law. That is now the only spirit
they can be prevailed upon to accept At
this writing, in Emmons, as in Burlelgh,
one cannot obtain amber colored internal
irrigation juice-unless he has funds to
exchange therefor which Is practical
prohibition SO far as tho country press
of the Slope counties 10 concerned.
Why, he whom Holy Willy would hold
up to public condemnation as . guzzlel
Of beer went straightway and bought Z
hundred-barrel water-tank as soon as the
blue law was declared constitutional and
should Willy ever happen to come this
way he will be welcome to bathe his fe
vsred brow IN the rsfreshing waters--pro
vlded he can get his head inside the tank
As to McKenzis's Burleigh county taxel
We know nothing. But in other counties
of the Slope he pays large sum. Taxa
tioa in Bismarck IS somewhat peculiar
arrangement we will admit. The write
has had to pay $9@11 yearly upon a 10
and James Grow cottage there, while, al
he has heen informed, two OF the Capita
City banks last year paid less than $25 OF
their personal property and credits.
As to the money furnished by McKen
zie to Burlelgh county farmers in 1891
to buy seed wheat, 1t would be more fai
for Willie to tell us at the same tim,
whether the rate of interest was exorbi
tant; whether the loans have all bee,
paid; if not, whether any foreclosure
have taken place and whether 1t is no
customary for the loaner of money .,
crops to insist that insurance be taken ii
some company by him considered mos
reliable. Al to the $3.50, 900 regardln,
which the Setter's usual dark intimation
are made, and which come to Motif
merely as hearsay, it seems strange tha
Mckenzie, At time when he had no op
position to speak of in Bismarck, shsult
refuse to again be candidate TO
an office in which there existed such vas
opportunities for financial peculation
Charges of official extravagance and NAL
feasance have been made against NOR,
than ono public servant In Burleigl
county-and some Of them have beef
friends Of Willy. Yet most outsiders lool
upon these charges ana csunter-charge
as mere political clap.trap.
After re.examining the part of this art
icle in which the hypecrite and the insec
are compared, We are constrained to be
lieve that the comparison is unjust It,
the latter. We therefore withdraw it ant
| aP0logize--to the louise.