Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-09

kill off not only the movement. but
any men connected with this move
ment. but we have been able to kill
off a good many Of the line elevators
and. / believe, we have been able to
reduce to a minimum the influences
of that man McHugh, SO today you
could not drag him ont before IN
audience OF farmers with a team OF
oxen.
Challenged Ntzhugh,.
I will tell you what l did. and show
YOU | mean what | say. The Equity
people will pay the expenses Of Nc
Hugh, or any other member, II they
will come out here in Burleigh coun-
ty and meet us today. We will take
any. speaker we have. We say, we
will pay their expenses II you can get
them to come out and meet us In the
open. We make the statement, in the
presence of their lieutenants here.
that they do not dare do It, You
boys from Driscoll or Turtle Lake
can write to MFR. McHugh in the morn
ing and ask him to come out here
and meet the Equity people in July.
Bismarckers Public Spirited.
There is one thing think we ought
to take action on today, and that is
that -four mill proposition. 1t is a
grand thing for the people here in the
city to get this grand municipal op.
era house. You men here, who do
things, must be public spirited, must
be interested in the welfare OF this
community. II I'M not mistaken in
sizing up the sentiment of the people
of this town, l think we can make a
success of the proposition of the flour
mill here today. You farmers get to-
gether and take some action; see how
quickly the Russell Miller company
will coined own here and start the
wheels of that mill, but SO long as
you fellows are chumps enough to al
low them to come in here and sell
you -four, plus the freight rate from
Minneapolis, they will do it. VIE
ought not to 60 back home salts.
fed; 60 right back where we we're
before without accomplishing some.
thing. The people down there in
Wisconsin have established a pack.
ing plant in Lacrosse. They have
raised 100000 and bought a plant
there and they are going to make q
success of it. The same principle
applies right here in North Dakota.
Start in on this milling proposition.
1t might be well, before the meeting
adjourns, to take some action. be.
lieve the Equity people will take some
interest in this stock to help this
thing along. ! want to say this. /
feel very grateful to you for the at
tention you have given me here to.
day. If any statements have been
made here today about the public Of
ficials that are unfounded, It is only
fair for the officials to be given an
opportunity to explain their position.
Refers to Officials.
Certain reference has been made to
public officials of your state, and it
may be that they may be able to ex-
plain their position, and If they can.
you men ought not take without dis
count statements about them. We
should be just as quick to commend
an efficient, honest public official as
we are to condemn q man we think
wrong. Down there In Minnesota, we
AVE established a record, whereby
we keep a record of officials. l have
a book giving the names of every man
who represented the people in the leg.
islature. l can turn to it and show
the record of every man in the leeis.
lature, and when a man m up for
election we want to see if he is the
right kind of a hairpin He was in
the legislature, he voted wrong, he is
not fit for the house. That is what
we do In Minnesota. That is what
we want YOU to do out here. We do
not have an opportunity to meet with
you very often. This dope that you
have been getting here in the news
papers about us has been against us.
A great many men came to this mee..
ing today feeling there was something
wrong about this movement: feeling
this movement was in the hands OF
politicians, because that information
Is peddled to you day after day by
the papers controlled by the combines
we are fighting. Boys. when we sto,,
to think of the control this Chamber
of Commerce has over our public
agency and the manner in which this
Chamber of Commerce has been man
fpulating the political machinery OF
our state-I mean this, that the
Chamber Of Commerce crowd have.
for a great many years, exercised
greater control over our government
than in other business enterprises
operating in the state of Minnesota.
They have been able to divert public
attention to other interests. One way
is, it is against the steel trust; but
they have v allowed the politi.
clans to go far enough to make a cam
pa1gn against the grain combine.
This is the first year we have been
able to come out and fight this prop
osition. That is what we are doing
down there. We do not ask them
how they stand on the steel question,
We put this question up to them: are
you for open market? Unless thew
endorse the open market, we "a
against them. This is what you ought
to do in North Dakota today. They
are either with you or against you:
no middle course. Just so long as
am with you. we are going down the
line n are going to tell the truth.
l want to say to you this afternoon.
tnere is no question but that we are
going to win this battle.4DWe are 2
ing TO continue to turn the searchlight