Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1908-04-03
Not a Corporation Tool

The very ferocity of the attacks
made by such insurgent sheets as
the Grand Forks Herald, St. Thomas
Times, the Times-Record and a few
other papers of like Xix, upon United
States Senator Hansbrough, withing
the past few weeks, indicate that they
are getting "skeered." The Herald
charges him with being the tool of
the corporations and every yelping
of an insurgent editor, from Grant
Hager and Walt Taylor, down to
Peewee Packard, yelps tool OF the
corporations. But not one Of them
makes a specific charge. They are
either barefaced charges or vile in
situations, with not even shadow
of foundation in fact. The real facts
give the lie to their assertions. Dur.
ing the winter of 1904-O5, with the sen.
atorial election three years in the dis.
lance, even before Our Teddy" had
entered the field or had become ia
nous as trust buster, Senator
Hansbrough, singie-handed, opposed
and fought to a finish the millers trust
in its efforts to rob the farmers OF
North Dakota of their legitimate profits
by the abrogation of the twenty-five
cent duty on wheat imported from
Canada; and while not entirely sue
cessful. he succeeded in breaking ii
to the extent that the trust found il
iuexpedient and improbable to import
any more Canadian wheat. Who will
say that Senator Hansbrough was
playing to the galleries" then in view
OF distant senatorial election: OF
that he was the tool of the corpara
tlons?' Again, years and years ago
when as it's political agent, Alex Nc
Kenzie, the same old Alec whom they
charge as being hand in glove with
Hansbrough, sought to fasten upon
the state of North Dakota the louisa
ma Lottery-a corporation with mil
lions behind it-who was it thai
"Scotched the snake?" not only TO,
North Dakota, but the entire nation
but Senator Hansbrough, by introduc
Ing into congress and having enacted
into law a bill to forbid the Louisiana
Lottery the use of the United States
mails, making that corporation sc
dead one?" Was Hansbrough "playins
to the galleries." or was he "a tool O.
the corporations then? Again, wher
the whiskey trust, another corporation
with hundreds of millions behind If
tried to strengthen it's system of de
bauch1ng our soldiers, Senator Hans
brough introduced. and successful,
!; engineered through congress the anti
, canteen act. Was the senator ther
playing to the galleries" and was ht
the tool Of the corporations? Nov
he Is after another big trust-the In
ternauonal harvester trust, corpora
ton capitalized at $4,000, 900. which
is fast absorbing the control and out
put Of all the farm machinery Of tn,
country. These are only few of thu
many facts that give the lie to the as
sertions, Instructions and charges o
his enemies; who after repeated in
yitations have not yet developed ;
single fact to back MP their allegations
n everyone of: the above instance.
the senator has been In line with thu
people and sentiment Of his state ]; AMI
th the only 4l,y,s hope his enemies have is b,
sf 1l'''l the people through a canpafgr
' @of prejudice ana naisre esentatio1
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