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endowed the nan who could write
language under which the Secretary
could establish it.
Not only did it empower the Secre-
tary to establish federal grading and
inspection of grain, but after such
inspectors were appointed, if they
did not give satisfaction they could
be fired at once. This latter proyi-
sion is what would make the law eff
fective, a thing the McCumber bill
lacked.
Talk about any man, not a knave or
a fool, denying the power of the Sec
rotary to establish federal grading
and inspection of grain, ii he so de-
sired, under the above provisions, is
like denying that the sui shines on a
bright, clear day.
Under it's provision could the Secre-
tary not appoint whom he pleased, if
they did not give satisfaction could he
not dismiss them at will? What more
power could written or spoken words
put into his hands?
Is it any wonder that Nelson wants
to quit the controversy? Is it any
wonder he calls it q dead issue? 1t is
not a dead issue and never will be till
the farmers of the Northwest secur
their full rights and have impartial
men grading their grain who are not
responsible to the grain dealers for
their positions. No other language
OF paragraph in the Lever bill modifi-
ed in the least, the above quotation
from Section 8. Did anyone ever read
a line from Helgerson, Young or
others whom Nelson has been naming
why the Lever bill would not be effec-
tive? Not a single line. Nelson tried
it just once, but he never tried it
again. He then started in with a cam
paign of obtaining bald statements,
double dealing, trickery and falsifca-
tons.
| am ready to meet any man on any
platform in the Northwes: in defense
of the Farmers committee and its
%grandest achievement = the amend
ments to the Lever bill.
Now, if Congressman Helgerson
means what he has been saying of me
wien we were two thousand miles
apart, here is his chance to say it to
my face; and | guarantee that no
Fargo editor will censor what he may
wish to say. Here. he shall have full
him, with ali of his ferocity, l will
take the consequences.
Nelson Insults South Dakota's State
Organization
Nelson is still at his old tricks.
Not being able to say anything decent
chat would be of advantage to himself
in his frenzy at the attitude of the
resolutions passed by the South Da-
kota Cooperative association, he has
done just as he did with me, when he
couldn't meet argument, and told his
readers that he had it on the best OF
authority that while at Washington /
was against federal inspection of
grain. Now he tells his readers that
the officers of the South Dakota asso-
citation are idiotic. They are domin-
ated by this writer; and finally con-
cludes by telling his readers that the
directors of the South Dakota asso-
citation own stock in the COOPERATIVE
journal and are accordingly under
the influence of the Chicago Board OF
Trade.
But nobody will be deceived by this
rus of Nelson's. There is really con.
siderable cunning in that move, tho
not much manhood, His purpose is
to draw the fire from his own perfidy
80 the farmers will not see that his
treachery defeated real federal grad.
I ing and inspection Of grain. l was
forced to point out the merits Of the
amended bill against his attacks; the
} grain dealers got on to the situation
: you have the result.
But who are those South Dakota
Co-Operators that Nelson says | made
idiots Of, whom l dominated and who
he would have his readers believe ART
under the influence of the Chicago
Board of Trade?
1t may be needless to ado
that those men are all above domino
ton by any a They are men who
do their W thinking, and each one