Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-06-20
DOWN With The
CORPORATIONS!

We have been told from time to
btime that this glorious republic of
ours is fast going to the dogs, Stall
warts or other ferocious and blood
thirsty animals, because of trusts,
corporations and other moneyed in
fuences, and having fifteen minutes
leisure the other day we determined
to Investigate the thing thorough
and probe the matter to the deepest
depths or deeper at our own personal
expense and without thought of re-
ward other than the tender and low
ing appreciation Of our neighbors
and fellow citizens for saving the
country from utter ruin. Any checks,
| drafts or other cash evidences of
sympathy with this movement
should be made payable to our or
der, and the names of all donors will
be entered upon the roll of honor in
| our next issue.
| In passing down the street, with
| our eagle eye cooked three points to
starboard on vigilant lookout for
corporations, we discovered portly
Individual, with horsehide watch
guard and wearing a pair of w. L..
Douglass three-do1lar shoes, entering
the palatial clothing emporium of
! Mr.. Moser of the Fair Store. We i'm
mediately spotted him as one Of the
4 tentacles of murderous corpora
tion octopus, and with stealthy foot
4 steps and all our brilliant faculties
on the alert we traced him to the
scene of his crime.
Entering the store from the much
i frequented front doorway we found
the object of our search standing
brazenly before us. 1t was just as
we had suspected. He was a section
4 foreman on one of the great rail-
4 roads, or corporations, which, in ut
j ter defiance Of the laws of gravita-
i ton and the ultimatum of Sitting
4 Bull, went through the state endan-
4 gering the lives of the citizens, ap-
4 propriating our grazing lands and
raising the value of our farm lands
to $40 per acre, thus causing us to
a be taxed the enormous sum and ex-
cessive amount of SIS per quarter
4 section.
This murderous and lawless rail
4 road corporation has ever since beer
4 engaged in the unholy and nefari
ous occupation of transporting oul
4 grain and other products Of the farm
to market a thousand miles or more
away and bringing in goods from
the east and west which we could MOI
think Of buying unless we could gel
them; besides completely democrat
izing the ox-cart and stage coacl
q trafic upon which we had depended
Ito develop our enormous resources
After stalking the villanous char
acter before referred to we found
4 that he was in the possession Of en-
ormous wealth in the shape of a sill
yer quarter of dollar and wa
spending his i'll gotten gains for ,
pair of Is cent socks and 10 cen
suspenders; and after the purchas,
he had the effrontery to put salt
socks and suspenders upon his per
!, son, feet or pants respectively as thu
! case may be and parade up and dow1
the street thus gaudily attired in or
der to humiliate and embarrass tn,
poor citizens Of Bismarck, and faun
before them the excessive wealth ant
crushing power of corporations.
Acting as promptly as our leav
of absence would permit, we tele
phoned the chief of police who ar
. rived the next day but our victim
had just moved to Seattle and SO es
5 capped Arrest. We have today writer
} to Teddy Roosevelt and Bill TAT
, about the matter and if they do no
take immediate action we are goin,
) to consult Pat Byrne.
The corporations have got to b
squelched even if we have to do i
/ alone and single handed. persona
: checks not taken unless properl.
J certified. Bank drafts and r. @
: money orders Q. K, currency prefer
t red.)
Don't forget that we are agains
everything, including corporations
measles and smallpox.
]. S. KNAUSS. I