Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-09-20
GRAIN BOARDS ARE
in Death GRAPPLE

That there is war to the death be
tween the Minnesota and Wisconsin
grain commissions Is beyond question
1t is a fight between giant of mature
years and an infant of a few months.
OF it he Superior Leader Clarion
says: --.-
At the present pig-sticking there is
something doing in this city. The
fight is on for Wisconsin inspection
and it is going to be bloody fight
as nasty an affair as ever happened on
the American continent-a battle that
is going to leave more ugly wounds
than were sustained by our soldiers
during the whole of the Spanish-Ameri.
can war-a battle of the weak against
the strong, but a battle in which right
is on the side of the weak.
It is another case of the Russians
declaring war against the Japs-of a
great big over-grown bully jumping
onto a little boy and attempting to
stamp him into the earth It Is a
fight for Superior as against Duluth
for the state of Wisconsin as against
the state of Minnesota. 1t is a fight
with corporate interests that have
hitherto been all powerful interests
that have plundered and robbed the
producer at one end and the consumer
at the other-interests that know no
law except the law of greed and
respect the rights of no man under the
sun. 1t is a fight for our rights and 1t
might just as we'll be a fight to the
death.
During the ten years have run
paper in this town have always stood
by Superior institutions. Time and
time again have 1 asked the people OF
this city to buy only Superior-made
flour, smoke only Superior-made
cigars, drink only Superior-made beer
and buy only of Superior merchants
And that is rule that up to this time
has alays been good rule. But in
this inspection fight the rule is, nc
good. <.
There are institutions here that
have during the last few days, shown
themselves to be hostile to Superior,
and these interests ought to be made
to feel the displeasure Of every man,
woman and child in this city. refer
me now to the Superior -four mills
every one of which was either built
by Superior money, or bounsed so
heavily that it almost broke our backs
institutions that wouldn't be here to
curse us today had 1t not been for the
generosity Of Superior people.
There is now not the shadow Of a
doubt but what these mills have taken
sides with Duluth and against Superior
in this fight for Wisconsin inspection
The Duluth board of trade has adopted
a rule that NO man can do business on
that board who is a member of the
Superior board, and that no member of
the Duluth board shall buy a bushel Of
grain within 100 miles of Duluth, ex.
cept from members Of the Duluth
board. This resolution was acquiesced
In by the managers of the Daisy, the
Freeman and the Commander mills
So far as I know they may not have
voted for the rule, but it is a dead
moral cinch THAT they did not vote and
work against it. They were apparent.
ly dead willing to allow the Duluth
board of trade to make ruling that
the Duluth board hoped would sound
the death knell to Wisconsin inspec
ton. Yes! Great God! think of that
Think OF the audacity of it and the
infamy of it. Think of flour mills 10,
Gated in Superior, built or heavily
bonused by Superior money, asking fur
Superior patronage on the ground that
they are Superior institutions, and yet
refusing to buy bushel of grain from
members of the Superior board of
trade. Oh, it is infamous, damnable,
hellish to the last degree. If didn't
know" absolutely that such was the
case swear / would refuse to believe
1t. The thing is so damnably damna.
bic as to be almost beyond belief.
Nick Barbie has opened his tailor
shop and is ready for business. If
you think of getting good-fitting and
stylish suit, or have a frst-class Job
OF cleaning, pressing or repairing done,
go to Barbie's tailor shop over Jones'
drug store. IL s&a s,.@ .. +. rs.