The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-06-15
The Business Man
and the Farmer

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In discussing the attitude of
the Nonpartisan League to-
ward the business man too
little distinction has been made
between the business man of
North Dakota and Big Busi-
ness outside of North Dakota.
This distinction, or lack of
distinction, has been played
upon by certain daily papers
until some of our business
men in our smaller towns have
come to think that the success
of the League would spell
disaster to them when the
exact contrary would be true.
A careful study of the
Leagues program will reveal
the fact that it's most power
full appeal to the farmer is that
it will leave in this state the
vast sums of money that now
60 out of the state, If this
is true, land it is true) will
some one explain how that
will injure the state as a whole
or any individual living in the
state?
Will our merchants suffer
because the farmer has $4,000, 90
where he only has 100000
now?
True, there are some business
men who are so short sighted
as to believe that his interests
lie in siding with the gang
politician who "whoops and
hurrahs" for any old political
hack that may have the en-
dorsement of some political
party. Such man never
considers that his welfare lies
in the welfare of the COM
munity in which he does
business and the better the
economic condition of that
community the better will be
his own economic condition.
Commercial Clubs and
Booster Clubs can not put
money into the pockets of the
farmers and until the farmer
gets his money Mr.. Business
man you don't get yours.
If the local business men are
content to let the Big Interests
outside the state get the first
whack" at the farmer then
Mr.. Local Business Man you
will have to rem ain content to
do business with the farmer on
what he has left after the 9TH
er fellow has gotten his.
There is way you can
boost and that is by boost
ing the other fellow and in the
measure that you can help him
into better and a freer &C.
onomic condition just in that
measure will you better your
own.
The business men of North
Dakota could do no more
valuable service to che business
interests of North Dakota than
to help in every honorable way
the election of those men en-
dorsed for public office by the
greatest farmers organization
in the history of this country,
namely the Farmers Non
partisan Political League.
You can not afford to anita
gonize the very elements that
60 to make your prosperity
possible. You can not afford
to favor the present system
that permits the Big Interests
outside of the state to fatten }
at the expense of not only the
farmer but the business in
terests of this state also.
The curse of any City or
State is the foreign capital
in those cities or
state in public service corpora
tions.
BY obtaining franchise
they fasten themselves upon
the body polite and there re-
main as a perpetual blood
milking the public
year in and year out and send
ing all their surplus earnings
outside the state never to come
back except in the form of
loans at 10 percent and another
blood sucker is born to be-
come a leech on the public
purse.
The next biggest curse to
this state is the fact that all of