The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-28
the he isn't using our real name!
Some consistency that! AS a general

NAC AC ASIl using our real name
Some consistency that! AS a general
hot air dispenser, wiffit, you are a pip
pin, but as a detective, to say that
you are a fizzle is putting it mild in
deed. Before forcing us to a show
down concerning that alien stuff you
might enlighten your readers as to
whether or not you we're the hero (?)
OF that Peterboro, Can, fleeing stunt.
Lie on, Witfit, lie on. We don't ex-
pect you to tell the truth for if you
did the Messenger would have no use
for your services.
Wiffit tries to camouflage his read
ers concerning the here (?) part he
is supposed to have played in the
quick exit stunt from Peterboro. Well,
we've got that black and white infor-
nation, wiffit, and will be pleased to
show it to you any time you might
see fit to come around. We notice
however that he made no specific dem
ial of his being the one who hit the
high spots between Peterboro and the
good old U. S. A., when there was
danger of him being the recepint of
a white feather. His statement that
we are not in his class is certainly
word in our favor. We'd hate to
be classed in with a bushy-haired liar.
AS for the libel suit, wiffit, you'll no
tice we wrote "editor of the Messen-
ger" in u articles, so hop to it. The
sooner the better.
The Minot Messenger is so good at
asking questions we consider it in or
der that they might be asked a few
also. Please inform your readers
as to where, and from whom, did that
$4,000 come from that helped out in
the mortgage proposition just before
the Messenger took up the fight to
oppose the league? Is it not a fact
that the farmers of the Northwest
were skinned out of over $1,000 900
in the st. Paul stock yards by the
Big Biz packers; that the farmers
were charged several dollars profit
per ton for hay used as feed in the st.
Paul yards; that the farmers were
charged exhorbitant prices for feed
corn used in the yards; and if such
is the case why haven't you, as the
friend Of the farmer you claim to be,
published some of the facts concern
ing the evidence that was brought
forth in the Federal investigation in
st. Paul? Is it not a fact that the
Big Biz packers delayed the investi-
cation twenty months? Of course
if divulging this information to your
readers will cause you to tread upon
the toes of those who saw to it that
those 1000 mortgage lifting iron men
were forthcoming we won't demand
Of you a reply. Incidentally is it not
a fact that the wild-eyed, bushy-hair
editor is an alien and if such is the
case what right has he to question the
patriotism of league members and
leaders. whose fathers before them
have been good true patriotic Amer
lean citizens? Also, is it not a fact
that the wiffit editor told some indi-
viduals in this county that this was
no country in which to raise a fam
lily; that the people here had no edu-
cation; that he questioned the wisdom
Of one of his relatives in raising a
family here because Of the class of
people in this country? Are such
expressions as the above examples Of
true A~mericanism; charges that the
people of this country are an unedu-
Gated class? Some of the citizens of
Omemee assert that we are knocking
their. fair city by stating that wiffit
was an adopted product Of that COM
munity. Herewith we extend to them
a humble public apology for having
so disgraced their fair city.