Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-07

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wake up? Don't you know 1t fs to
vour interest to do that?
Don't you know you are situated IN
a country where you car get wheat
IN the most favorable basis with all
the railroads, and all the wheat that
would he necessary to keep the mills
IN oneration "a hours a day and six
DAYS a week, and still you allow these
special privilege men to come In ana
close it up on you. ~
Organize a Company.
say it is possible for this gather.
ing 70 get together before we leave
this evening and organize another
company. Each and every man
should come, put down his name, and
organize a milling company, and i
saw Russell Miller will get busy In "a
hours and come in to Bismarck and
open this mill. This is one Of the
concerns-Russell-Miller Milling Ocm.
pany, the Wells-Dickey outft-one OF
the companies occupying the Mime
apolis Chamber of Commerce there.
This is one of the companies Occu.
pving a seat on that organization and
have refused to buy wheat received
in Minneapolis from any farmers CO.
operative company or anyone else
not holding membership in that cham;
Der.
Why Buy Their Flour?.
A.. ,u. +,ll ,ro no~rsona1lv ha
he could not buy wheat. Still you
farmers, whose wheat they have re-
fused to buy, do you think you ought
to continue to buy Occident flour
when they do not buy your wheat?
Now, l have a letter written by
Mr.. Hether to Mr.. kugler OF Valley
City, wherein he goes on to say that
the Russell.M Miller Milling company
does not buy any wheat at Minneap.
oils; that their company has nothing
to do with the purchase of wheat at
Minneapolis; that their purchases are
all handled by the purchasing con.
Germs, over which they have no con-
troll. When they wrote this letter, the
man at Valley City wrote for the
name of the men who bought their
wheat for them. They wrote back
and stated it was the Electric Steel
Elevator company. | dug into the
records, showing that the Ruessell-
Miller company owned the Electric
Steel Elevator company; that they
owned every dollar invested in that
company. They tried to get out by
placing the responsibility on some.
other company i've which they had
no control. | touch upon this Russell.
Miller company, not that they are diff
ferent from any cher institution down
there. They got their start here l
think that institution, which came
from North Dakota, and have, situat-
ed throughout the state, ONE 50 ele-
vators, ought to stand, at least, with
the farmers, even if they do go down
to Minneapolis and are on the Min.
neapolis Chamber of Commerce.
hope this committee appointed on
resolutions this afternoon will see fit
to bring in a recommendation touch.
ing on the Russell Miller proposition.
Boycott Too Strong. .,.
Many OF you think we are too
strong in advising the farmers to
place a boycott on the products of the
milling company. / think if the mill
ing company in Minneapolis does not
buy your wheat, you ought not to buy
their Hour. | think we have that
right. The merchants here in town
know this well. l want to say we
VIII never win this fight by using
%four-ounce gloves. We has to use
skin gloves. We have to nit right
from the shoulder. ~
This movement has taken in North
Dakota, South Dakota and Montana.
This organization occupies a position
so strong that the Minneapolis Cham
Der OF Commerce, or any OF their as.
soclatlons engaged in their gambling
transactions, cannot possibly head it
off.
Ihey DO not come out in the D
and say the Minneapolis Chamber Of
commerce is better than the Society
OF Equity. Realizing, as they do, the
FARMERS are suspicious people, and
the good Lord knows they have a lust
cause to be suspicious, wien you stop
TO consider the farmer takes what.
ever the other fellow offers him for
MS products and pays everything the
other fellow asks, for what he buys.
Do you not think a fellow of that
klnd would be suspicious? Now then.
tne Chamber of Commerce is that
way And they hit you under the belt
To-Day by spreading reports about the
lheh VINO are engaged to carry on
TINS tight. Thus, they hope to be
able 10 retard progress of this move.
ment. They are going to continue
10 ngnt n to say much of this bust.
ness Just SO long as the farmers will
permit them to do it.
Different in North Dakota. .s,..
do not know but what this is the
natural thing to do, after all. And
when Kelley told you awhile ago the
situation of South Dakota was so thew
worked under a margin of from 8 to
1t cents per bushel, Kelley was most
conservative when he said that the
cohdltlons were altogether different
from the conditions in North Dakota.
Don't you think it is about time to
nave some representative for the
farmers down at Minneapolis and Du.
luth? They do not want :, tn ha
represented down there. They will
no9nd the Bismarck Tribune day in
ana day out to let up supporting this
movement. So long as thew stand