Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-05-10

ocratic method of computation in
making up his average of wages paid
in that industry, of taking the total
paid out to all employees and dividing
it by the total number employed, all
or part of the year, even if the en-
ploye had worked but day or two,
neglecting to state that in this indus
try. as in most industries of it's kind,
large proportion Of the force was
employed only during the rush" sea-
son and was engaged at other work
during the remainder of the year. He
also neglected to say that he had tax
en- the one industry in which the
trade union propaganda has made the
least Roadway, and said nothing about
the more than a hundred organized
trades in which the wages had kept
pace-in some of them more than
kept pace-with the increased cost
of living. He did not ask the farmers
present whether the wage of farm
labor is higher or lower than it was
under the Cleveland administration,
and the working of the Wilson-Gor-
man tariff law, and in fact he used
only the textile fabrics situation to
workers had not risen CORRESPONDENCE
with the rise in the cost of living.
Neither did he advise the farmers to
initiate crusade against the high
price of farm products, and he did not
demand that they voluntarily reduce
the price of their grains, their meats.
their horses, their butter and their
other products, to the end that the
cost of living might be reduced to
the consumers of the output of the
farms. Once he pronounced hurried
ly the name mckenzie" as one would
jump from behind door at band
of children and shout "Boo!" But
he neglected to state, also. that in
the long years during which McKen-
zie led the republican forces-first on
state-there was never a shadow of
suspicion that state officer was do
ing the gouge game, and there never
was in all those years, a single in
stance where state superintendent
of public instruction had attempted
to tuck down in his own capacious
trousers pockets portion of the fees
wrung from North Dakota teachers
for certificates. He neglected to say
that it was McKenzie's ability as an
organizer that placed the capital at
Bismarck and brought other institu-
tions of territorial days to what is
now North Dakota. He failed to tell
his hearers that, in the early days of
crop failures here on the Slope, Nc
Kenzie was one of those public spirit
ed and big hearted me1 who advanc-
ed several thousand dollars with
which to procure seed grain for those
who otherwise would have had to
leave the country, and that many a
well-to-do. elderly pioneer of the Mis-
souri, Slope owes his success and the
independence and comfort of his de-
clining years to the men who raised
that seed-wheat fund. And friend
Helgesen also failed to inform his
hearers that for more than twenty
years he himself, struggled for the
leadership-as to his opponents he
would term it boss-ship-of Cavalier
county, until at the present time he is
leader, or boss. more powerful in
that county than in McKenzie's palm
lest days the latter was leader or
boss of the republican forces of Bur.
leigh county and the Missouri Slope.
He failed to let his audience know
that even as popular resident of
his home county as Speaker Burdick
was compelled to PROSTATE his am.
bitiOn for congressional touch
down before the political juggernaut
of the Boss of Cavalier.
Just as everyone in the audience
had come to the conclusion that Mr.. !
Helgeson and a democrat were a dis
without difference, he as
the audience by bouncing on !
the democracy. He ridiculed their :,
pretensions and adversely criticised |
their ability to do anything should