Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-11-03
UNRELIABLE NEWS SERVICE.

UNRELIABLE NEWS SERVICE.
We note in the Fargo News the
following dispatch which largely re-
sembles a news account in the Valley
City Times-Record:
Valley City, Oct 31.-At its meet
ing in Valley City last week, the
American Society of Equity IN exec
utive session declared that Senator
McCumber had not made good, and
that the society must make its own
fight for federal inspection or gram.
The action was taken as the fourth
of series of resolutions before clos
ing the meeting.
The convention repudiated Senator
Porter J.. McCumber's federal grain
inspection bill and took steps to
have one drafted and introduced into
the next session of the United States
congress. This bill is to be drafted
by committee named by the parent
body with Theo. G. Nelson as chair
man, if the recommendations OF the
North Dakota union are carried out.
Willie the McCumber measure itself
was not in for much censure and al
though Senator McCumber's name
was mentioned but once when 0. G.
Major declared on the floor of the
convention that Senator McCumber
had not made good and that the So
ciety must fight their own battle for
federation inspection, their action
ignoring the McCumber bill and TAX
ing steps to have an equity bill draft
ed and handled by the authorized
committee of the American Society
at Washington amounts to repudia-
tion of McCumber's bill and his
claims of being the champion of the
society.
An analysis of the above dispatch
is interesting as showing to what ex-
tent news is manufactured in the
interests of or for the purpose of
prejudicing some public official or
candidate. The dispatch makes the
statement in the opening paragraph
that "the society of equity declared
in executive session that Senator Nc
Cumber had not made good" The
second paragraph of the dispatch
says that "the McCumber bill itself
was not in for much censure,, and
Senator McCumber's name was men,
toned but once on the floor Of the
convention when o. G. Major declar-
ed that Senator McCumber had not
made good" There are several i'll
ferences possible from this dispatch.
One is that O. G. Major is the So
ciety of equity in executive session,
since he was the only one who de-
c1ared that Senator McCumber had
not made good. Another is that
somebody is especially anxious to put
Senator McCumber in a bad light
with the members of the society, and
this is indicated by the last para
graph of the dispatch where it is
stated that @'the action ignoring the
McCumber bill and preparing a bill
to be presented amounts to a repud-
iation of McCumber" etc. This last
statement Is the purely gratuitous as
sumption of the correspondent who
prepared the dispatch and has no re-
1ation whatever to the action of the
society. 1t might as well be sug-
gested that "this action Of the So
ciety Is taken to mean that President
Roosevelt is to be censured for kill
ing white elephants" It depends, of
course, entirely on the point, of view
of the person who draws the con-
c1usion. *..s
We have thought and expressed
the. belief in the past that the society
of equity was deyoting too much time
to political matters, and that the OBJ
jects OF the society should be more
economical than political. Senator
, McCumber, In the interests of the
farmers OF the state, has urged a
measure Tor, the federal inspection of
grain. He has been in touch with
leaders Of the movement for better
inspection, and has worked hard for
the advancement OF his bill. 1t may
be that the bill is not perfect and 1t
is entirely proper for the society to
prepare bill for recommendation
to our senators and congressman.
This does not mean reputation of
anybody. It means that the princi-
pie IL sustained but there Is DIFF.
ference Of opinion as to the best