Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-03-25
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AN EMPHATIC PROTEST.

We protest at this SANDER upon
us by the esteemed Grand Forks
Times, which, in. arguing for an ex-
hibit Of products to be maintained
by the city of Grand Forks, says:
This method Of advertising
can hardly be overestimated.
The state maintains such an ex-
hibit at the capitol at Bismarck,
but so few people except Office
holders and politicians visit that
point, much of it's value is lost. If
a city like Grand Forks, which is
visited by several hundred stran-
gers each day, and which is the
gateway to the rest of the state,
and in fact the states of Montana
and Idaho, were to make such
display it would be viewed by
thousands of farmers. Grand
Forks should not neglect the OPP
portunity of advertising the
richness of the lower Red River
valley.
It would not do to permit this
gratuitous reflection upon Bismarck
as a commercial and business center
to pass unnoticed. We can readily I'M
derstand some Of the base .insinua-
lions and sights put upon Fargo by
Grand Forks, and vice versa, but we
cannot understand why the Times
should go far from the path of truth
and rectitude in heaping indignity
upon Bismarck. Fargo and Grand
Forks have opposite ends of the
state fair, and it is only natural that
there should be some growing. But
Bismarck and Grand Forks have no
such bitter rivalry, and we look to
the Times promptly to discharge the
offending editor who penned the
above paragraph and make the
amende honorable.
: For there are many strangers in
Bismarck, coming and going every
day, and there are many visitors
from outside the state who profit by
the display Of the states resources
that is made at the capitol. Ever
and anon there is a citizen of Grand
Forks who strays down this way,
sees the exhibit and returns to his
native city refreshed, encouraged
and willing to exist for little while
longer in the dank morasses and
swamps incident and adjacent to
Grand Forks. The example of this
splendid exhibit, gathered largely
from the grains and grasses of the
Missouri Slope, has it's effect upon
the people of the Red River valley
who come to visit us, and we see it's
beneficent effects in the diversified
tiOn of farming and in honest en-
deavors to rival the wheat, oats and
other crops of this great western
section. What the Times should do
is to gather an exhibit of crops from
the Missouri Slope country to display
to the farmers of the Red river coun-
try, and say Go thou and do like
wise!" All this it should do instead
of casting mean reflections upon a
commercial center and highway for
traffic and business like Bismarck.
Few people except Office holders
and politicians" forsooth! And sup
pose there were only Office holders
and politicians? What better ex-
ample could be set for the Office hold
er or politician than the great and
sure rewards of agriculture? How
better can he be divorced from the
business of Office holding than to
convinced that he should get into the
field and raise for the world? What
more beneficent example can he have
than that of the Industrious agricul-
tura1ists who are up with the dawn
and at bed with the sun, gaining
health, strength and appetite, and
enjoying sweet repose and dreamless
nights? Such a display as this of
which the Times speaks should be
continually before the eyes Of the Of
fee holder, to encourage him to- be
Of service In the field Of agriculture.
u The Times is narrow, envious
and contracted sheet, thus to have
made light Of the capital Of Its state.
and II there should be another strug-