Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-06-24
CORPORATIONS

CORPORATIONS
The Grand Forks Herald brings out
that time-tried and fire-tested bugaboO
about corporations in the closing days
of the campaign. That old ghost has
been shaken so often and so vigor-
ously that it's bones-if ghosts have
bones-are nearly ratified apart. The
Herald sees great hordes OF grinning
corpora tons descending upon the peo-
pie of this state and swallowing them
I'D in an atmosphere of blood and fire.
Every few days the Herald throws
an anti-corporation fit for the benefit
OF the insurgents.
If any of the corporations OF this
state have suffered at the hands Of
the Herald's candidates for reelection
to Office we have failed to discover
that fact. The insurgent officials who
have been il Office have been remark
ably placid and serene in their con-
temptation CT corporation domination.
Certainly none of the corporations of
the country have received any severe
jolts at the hands OF Messrs. Mar
shall and Gronna We believe Mr..
Marshall did attack the Standard Oil
company will a denatured alcohol can,
but the contents seem to have leaked
out, and the oil can has gone to tine
political rubbish heap.
1t is a fact that most of the big
industrial corporations and the peo-
pie prosper together. Corporations
do not prosper when the purchasing
power CT the people is limited Rail-
roads do not prosper when the people
along their line are not prosperous.
Corporations want business and bust
ness does not thrive in hard times.
There are no corporations especial
ly Interested in the election OF North
Dakota beyond the natural desire to
see levelheaded and sensible men in
office Corporations do not want agi-
tators, demagogues, tirebrands and
ranters in office. Neither should any
one else. Demagogues are a poor
class of officials. Ranters are usually
poor administrators. Shouters are
poor officials. What this northwest
ern country needs at the present time
is the presence in office of nard-head-
ed business men who have good
knowledge Of the needs of the north
west and the courage to speak the
truth-not officeseekers who are will
ling to swallow any ism" in the cal
endar for the sake of getting votes.
The Herald's anti-corporation cry
is purely demagogic. 1t is the last
resort OF defeated candidates. 1t is
the old populistic-democratic thunder
that has been so often exploded in
an effort to prejudice voters.
Senator McCumber is North Da
kotan. His interests are those of the
state. He stands for the best good
of the state. He has never betrayed
his state or it's people. He will not
do so. He is a clean, able and deserv-
ing official. The desperation Of those
who are trying to ride into office on
a wave of prejudice and demagogy is
evidenced by this "anti-corporation"
cry of the Herald.
Neither Mr.. McCumber nor Mr.. En-
gerud is wealthy. Both Mr.. Gronna
and Mr.. Marshall are very wealthy.
Wealth is not to be charged as a
reason why a man could not serve the
people fairly in an Office. But wealth
protects itself, and the people of the
state are not to be befooled into be-
ieving that Mr.. Gronna or Mr.. Mar.
shall will fail to protect the material
property interests they have accumu.
lated. This talk about their being
against wealth and property aid in
favor of the people" is all bosh.
Neither Mr.. Gronna nor Mr.. Mar.
shall has ever been accused of inor.
dinate philanthropy. The leopard, in
one brief generation. does not change
his spots. Both were stalwarts when