Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-02-10
AFTER BARRETT:
A Grand Forks County Farmer Takes
a Vicious Fall Out Of w

SAelVuS Adii#@S s5ss G -
Barrel.
Editor Bismarck Tribune.-Being q
reader of your daily during the legisla-5
tive session, / take quite an interest Id
the proceedings and work of our law
makers doings. ', 5z5i
From one of the late issues OF the
Daily TribuneI see that w. w. Barrett,
the ex-ishery commissioners, wants to go
to the Pan-American exposition with
that lot Of pawn-shop trinkets that he
has slowed away. down in the capitol
basement he calls the >"sylvaton." |.
want to say here, and in behalf of
many of my neighbors and taxpayers
and I believe I am sounding the senti,
ments of thousands of hard working
taxpayers of the state-that North Da-
kota will not suffer any in the least if
we don't expend any money on that ex-
position. The only benefit that I think
the taxpayer derives from it, is to know
that a few public pie hunters have been
satisfied, and several thousand dollars
has been placed on the shoulders of that
class of our citizens.
I think that our state has been adver-
tised plenty now with the principal re.
source we have, which is our wheat.
And I trust that the legislators will see
it in that way too-as we'll as the Gov
ernor. - r-1G
II you take into consideration our
state finances IS they stand today
nearly complete failure of crops last
season. Every other farmer short of the
necessary seed to SOW his farm with
next spring, and barely no seed in the
country, but what has to be bought
from the outside. I think we have all
we can do for this year to try
and mend up our " affairs.
It has been but a short time since our
state footed the bill to the Omaha expo
sition and what have we gained by it?
We have got a class of immigrants that
I think in the long run will not be the
most desirable. Russians and Dunkards,
will be the last class of settlers to Amer
icanism, in the sense that Americans
should look at it; and I will further say
that North Dakota should now, at least
for a while, be relieved of pestiferous pie
and Office hunting.
When an individual has mustered as
much gall as W. W. Barrett has, in tell.
ing the farmers of North Dakota that
they can raise fish in a duckmud pond and
that he could irrigate the prairies with
artesian wells in a dry season like last
summer-such exhibitions tax the com.
mon intelligence of a North Dakota
farmer too much. Barrett comes along
in the papers and says that he has done
everything for the state out of his owl
Individual pocket--and that his trinket:
in the capitol basement are all his own
Now, I ask Barrett to tell the taxpayer?
how much he has drawn on the STATE
treasury. And he also should admi
what was paid to him and others on ths
Worlds Fair exhibits from this state.
think that Barrett got his share cut O
that $4,000 that was blown in there.
want to tell those who seem not to be
informed that North Dakota has paic
ten times over for the few shop trinket:
at the capitol, which Barrett calls his
"~Sylvaton."
AS we have got no benefits in any wa,
whatever for the money there has beer
expended, I shall at any time be able te
prove my statements made in this article
and I trust that the legislature and the
governor will put a stop to all such ex
travagance.
@. J. SUNDAHL.
Orr, N. D., Feb. Z, 1901.