Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-12-18
BE FAIR, FUTILE, BE FAIR.

for the editication of his readers, to man
ufacture and publish some yarn calcu.
lated to prejudice and excite Mandan
and Morton county people against Bis.
marck. Certainly no good can come to
either Mandan or Bismarck from such a
course, and Mr.. Tuttle ought not to in.
duIge in it. His latest fiction is a pre-.
tended interview with a New York maya
zine writer-Julian Ralph-who spent a
day in Bismarck last week gathering
information about the Missouri slope.
Mr.. futile met him at the train and had
just a moments talk with him, but
found Mr.. Ralph surprised to find such
a town as Mandan after what he hard
in Bismarck" where he met "Mr. Jewell
in the TRIBUNE Office" Then the Pho
neer goes on to quote Mr.. Ralph as being
surprised that all the Ignite coal used
in the state was mined west of the Mis-
souri, river; that he was astonished to
hear that the country over there was
good for anything but stock; was COM
pletely astounded to see the railroad
shops in Mandan and other evidences of
prosperity. Mr.. Tuttle then goes on to
moralize as follows:
Why should it not tell the truth, when it
talks about its coal? Let its people, who
meet travellers, tell them il they desire it,
that the best coal in the universe is in
northern Burleigh and southern Mclean
no,,O%;nc l>,t III ., ,>0t foil tknr, t,ot ali thn
Ignite now being burned in the state is
mined at Sims? Mandan does not tell the
traveller that Sims mines no coal, and that
Mandan mines it all. We believe here in
telling the truth. There is nothing to be
gained by lying, even aside altogether from
the moral effect it has upon the sinner.
These are days in which harmony, is the
fashion among business men and cities
that are competitors. Fargo and Moorhead
don't quarrel; st. Paul and Minneapolis
have buried the Ratchet. Bismarck and
Mandan, too, might as we'll be happy TO-
gether. and love each other with a
brotherly love; but this will be impossible
so long as Bismarck people are caught
telling untruthS about this county.
Either Mr.. Tuttle has made up a story
out of whole cloth or else Mr.. Ralph
talked with MI. Tuttle for the purpose of
o1d"1uS I'LL OuUs " 4lls 1ed1pA NC4AS NIL.
Tuttle that he will be back in afew days
and will spend a day in Mandan. All
right. If Mr.. Tuttle will ask Mr.. Ralph
tc show him his note book be will find a
memorandum of the "information gained
from MI. Jewell at the TRIBUNE Office,
and it will be found entirely different
from that given in the Pioneer.
It will be found that the West Mis-
souri, county was fully and %impartially
explained; that it was represented as
a farming as we'll as a stock country.
The reason of the sparse settlements was
fully explained and the fertility of the
soil over there was demonstrated by crop
statistics received by the TRIBUNE from
Morton, Mercer and Stark counties
which we're given to Mr.. Ralph. The
coal question was fully explained and
the note book will show that all coal now
used is mined in Morton county;
that the mines in Mclean and
Burleigh counties could not be
developed until the 500 road is extend
ed; that the mine in connection with
which the barges on the river are to run
is in Mercer county, west Of the river,
and so situated that the coal can be
loaded on the barges by means Of a
chute. Mandan was represented as a
busy town Of 1000, people having the
Northern Pacific shops and favored in
many waye. The reason why Mandan
would continue to grow as we'll as Bis
marck was given. 1t was because the
Missouri river was a great river dividing
this section as completely as a Chinese
wall. It was represented that it costs9 a
million and a half of dollars to bridge
the stream and the only means of CON-
munication in the summer time is the
Northern Pacific road. 1t was repre-
sented that a town on the west side of
the river was a patural necessity and
that as the country developed the town
must grow. Dickinson was also spoken
of as one of the busiest towns on the
line, from which over BLOOD, 900 worth of
cattle were shipped this year besides a
large amount of farm products.
The TRIBUNE desires to advise Mr..
futile that Mr.. Ralph'e note book will
show all these things and that in no
place was Bismarck and the east Mis-
souri, slope given wen a shade the best
Of it. Mr.. Ralph was after reliable, i'm
partial and general information about
North Dakota and as far as the TRIBUTE
had anything to do with it he got the
information desired.
1t is feared Mr.. Tuttle makes up a
great many Of these stories about Bis
marckers slandering Mandan-"what a
Bismarcker had to say about Mandan
on the Sheridan house PLATFORM" etc.
in fact the TRIBUNE knows that Mr..
futile has a guilty conscience-or at
least did have until he mastered and got
his conscience under complete control.
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