The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-04-05
LET'S HAVE A NEW DEAL.

The people of the state know little of the issues or merits of the grain
trade investigation being carried on by a committee of the House. But one
that the socared investigation is being conducted without dignity, without
plan or point. Indeed, it would scarcely be Gbelous, if snkind, to declare
that it is being carried on without intelligence.
There appears to be little accomplished but the consumption Of time and
the making of hard feelings. Either the chair is bent o indulging som po-
Gtical or personal gudge or else it is incompetent to conduct tn nvesuga-
ton OF scientific, judicial and dignifed lines.
Undoubtedly there is a big issue in the subject of grain marketing ss-
TENS. More that likely there is a right side and a wrong side in the present
controversy. But in the name of reason let US have n investigation that
gets somewhere or 10 Investigation at all. The Legislature should not lend
this committee to time and direct it along a definite, legitimate track Or put
it out of it's misery-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Nonpartsan League is "going to pieces" all over the state, accord
ing to those who would jump up and crack their heels together if such were
the case. The writer was informed by a Buxton man "a prominent anti
leaguer) that at Hatton all the league people had deserted. An inquiry
from a Hatton a told the very opposite story. The Hatton man, O the
other hand, asked if there was any truth to the runnor that all the farmers
in Botineau county had "gone back o. the league" The same day W. were
informed by a Rugby ma that the league in Pierce county we "shot to
pieces" When We asked a Pierce county farmer if such were the case, he
denounced the statement as a fabrication in terms SO violent as to be wholly
unprintable. Notice, however, that it is always in some other county where
the desertion is taking place.
The little town of Kensal, North Dakota, has the distinction of having
originated a plan that may become far-reaching in its scope. An organiza-
ton known a the Observation-Disclosures has been given birth in this
little North Dakota town and a campaign has been launched to extend the
organization throughout the entire northwest. As indicated by it's name,
the league proposes cooperative buying by the merchants direct from the
manufacturer, eliminating the many middlemen's profits, and thus enable
the local dealer to successfully compete with the big mail order houses. The
plan appears to have the hearty endorsement of the farmers, as well as the
merchants in the vicinity of Kensal.
week had a splendid opportunity of personally observing the unrehab1Hy of
the Grand Forks Herald. Its distortions of the meeting were SO utterly
absurd that even opponents of the league upon reading the Herald version
the next morning we're sliced with nausea.
It is not a particle too early to start a quiet, grnshoe campaign against
the elusive disease germ that turks in the garbage heap of the back alley.
The sooner these breeders of pestilence as disposed of the better for the
health of the city and community.
viii anyone opposed to the Nonparti.an League program assert that he
marketing conditions in the state are what they should be? II not, will
they suggest some remedy?