Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-06-22

There are many different brands OF
stupidity, but the most hopeless Of all
is that which questions any kind of q
statement without due knowledge Of
the facts. vi
Properly, perhaps, this tendency
might be better described as ignor-
ance, and it certainly would be were
j it not for the fact that some really
intelligent men are guilty. Of it, which
perforce, necessitates different char
acterization.
There are number of people in
Fargo who deliberately tag themselves
with this most hopeless type Of stup-
ity, because they affirm in ignorance,
assert in the absence of facts, deny
without knowledge, and, most heidous
of all, condemn without proof.
It is incredible to this class in stu
pidity that two North Dakota farmers
could by any chance become possess
ed a great big magnificent mining
property, reaching the conclusion by
inference, and in no other way, that
if it were one-half as rich as it has
been represented to be, that others,
perhaps two South Dakota farmers,
would have gobbled it up.
And herein that stupidity is intensi.
fed to a degree that something more
than the language one is permitted to
use in print is required to properly
characterize it. Really, you know, it
would be all that is claimed for it
had some one else .gobbled it up! But
what right did two North Dakotans
have to go and grab it of? And
there you are.
When the fellow who was locked uD
in Jail down in Texas sent for his
lawyer and explained what the trou-
Bile was, the attorney told him he
couldn't be jailed for that. aBut
here / am" was the reply. History
does not record what the legal light
then said, but it was doubtless to the
effect that the man was mistaken
about being in jail at all. 4
s We relate this little incident BY way
of illustration only, and because It
fits the situation in Fargo SO per
fectly. People who have never even
been in the state of Montana declare
most positively that we haven't got
any such property as we claim.
There are others who insist that ii
there was such property in exist.
ence its ownership would be else.
where, in some mysterious way over
looking the fact that money from
North Dakota is Just as potent as
money from any other state; in other
words, standing pat on the PROPOSE
ton that it is impossible for two
North Dakotans to buy the right
thing at the right time, because If ii
had been right, some one else would
have gobbled it up. &.
rs 6 49, o. eaOoO1uIS Hl6LLcT5 Oh TACT, THIS
property was gobbled up, and gobbled
up by experienced mining men a,
that; but it very often happens that
the keenest and shrewdest bunch
ever came get the worst of 1t. This
was exactly what did happen. with
the result that two North Dakota
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farmers gobbled the gobblers, and
did it because the gobblers had over
reached themselves.
Now, these two farmers were sub.
seauently gobbled themselves. but II
was Dame Nature that turned Inc
trick on them. She decreed a cron
failure in the Red River valley. she
decreed a second crop failure in the
RED River valley, and then to make
matters worse. she deliberately d..
creed third crop failure In the Red
River valley. &.
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