The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-08-29
ANANIAS

The splendid force of county agents for
merly engaged in North Dakota is being
rapidly disintegrated. Because of the dis
turbed political conditions and the Townley
control, many OF the leading workers are
going to other states. A. P. Henderson, one
of the best, recently left Bottineau county
to accept a position in Pope county Mime
sofa. d.;
The above paragraph is one of the latest
wholly untruthful detractions originated by the
st. Paul Dispatch and which was reproduced
by it's scavenger contemporary, the Grand
Forks Herald, with avidity. The truth of the
matter is that Mr.. Henderson, who is one of
the most efficient county agents in the entire
state of North Dakota, has never mixed in poll
tics in any manner during the five years in
which he has resided in Bottineau; he has de-
voted his time exclusively to the onorous duties
of his office, with the most highly gratifying
results, and his departure to other fields of USE
fulness at this time is due wholly to. the fact
that an organization of wide-awake, progress
sive Minnesota farmers, having been attracted
by the fame of his excellent work here, and en-
tirely unsolicited by Mr.. Henderson and even
without his having been first consulted, made
him an offer of so fattering a nature that it
would have been rank foolishness' on his part to
refuse. A further consideration in favor of the
new location was the fact that his family of
grown up children are located at or near that
locality and was an added inducement for him
to make the change.
To a Courant representative Mr.. Henderson
expressed his sincere regret at leaving Botti-
neau, and was most emphatic in asserting that
his departure was occasioned solely by the reas-
ons above given, and that neither politics nor
the "Townley control was in anywise respon-
sible therefor.
The Courant is becoming decidedly weary of
the frequency of which it = is being called upon
to refute falsehoods of this character, which
for months past have been regular features of
the anti-Nonpartisan league press, and particu-
larly so in the case of the Dispatch and it's
faithful echo the Herald. The latter, altho to
It's shame be it said, a North Dakota institution,
demonstrates in almost every issue that the
good name and welfare of it's home state are
OF no consideration if by origination or repro
ducing a rank libel on it's fair fame it may hope
to succeed in scoring a point politically over
the Nonpartisan league or it's leaders.
From whom do our land titles come? Dead
man after dead man. Suppose you get on the
cars here going to New York or Chicago. You
ind a passenger with his baggage strewn over
the seats. You say, Twill you give me a seat,
# you please, sir?" He replies, mo; I bought
this seat" Bought this seat :" From whom
did you buy it," That is the way we manage
this earth Of ours. Is it not a self-evident truth.
as Thomas Jefferson said, that "the land be-
longs in usufruct to the living" and that thew
Who have died have left it and have no mower tn
say how it shall be disposed of? Title to land!
Where can any man get any title which makes
tne earth his property?-Henry George.