The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-03-14
FOUNDATIONS OF A RUDE.

whit" MlllOy OF the MlnOt Mes
senger has shown his colors at last.
His charge that some people are yell
low ours has, as a boomerang, re-
bounded and struck him upon his own
truthful (?) ~countenance. Wiffit has
been doing considerable bowling that
the leaguers would not debate him.
The writer is not a debater, but we
| would like to see public affairs, such
as is the Nonpartisan platform,
placed before the public in order to
give the people a clear and thorough
understanding of them. with this in
mind the writer and another young
man challenged wifit and his uncle,
Mr.. Arthur Milloy, who was n of
the thirteen that brought forth the
new Farmers league platform, for a
debate on their platform and the N.
P. platform. Wiffit refused to debate.
Altho he was calle' by telephone and
informed that there were a large num-
Der of farmers in this vicinity that
were a~nxiously awaiting, and hoping
that he should come; that the local
Red Cross ladies were ready to handle
the meeting, the receipts of which
were to go to that beneficial society,
wiffit absolutely refused to come. In
cidentally some of the language that
he used over the phone was not just
what a real gentleman would be &C
credited with. Any man who uses
vulgar language while talking by
telephone, is not, in our humble opin-
ion, a gentleman and is not fit to be
associated with respectable people 1if
this strikes anyone in the locality in
which the writer lives we sincerely
hope that they will take the full bene-
fit of it, But, witfit said that he
could not come up here to debate and
was working for a salary. This, in
spite Of the fact that he agreed to
SO his piper claimed, meet Brinton
in any part of the state at any time
in debate. The writer has also been
working for a salary and because of
making F. operations for this debate,
in which we Were led to believe that
wiffit was man enough to take his
part, have lost several days work. We
charge that wiffit has shown himself
to be a gutter, one who will call
names at q distance because he is
safe, one who has proven himself to
be possessed Of a yellow streak. The
English language does not contain
words which would enable us to ex-
press our contempt for a yellow quit
ter and as we do not handle some of
the language Of wiffit's brand we will
have to let our readers use their inn
agination as to what WI think of him
and others of his brand, Why is it
that .wiffit does not dare to come out
in the open and speak regarding his
stand? Because it will not stand the
light which can and will be. thrown
upon it If he does come before the
public. 1t also seems queer that the
Minot Messenger is SO quite concern
ing the Courant since we asked them
"please inform your readers as to
where, and from whom, did that $4,000
come from that helped lout in the
mortgage proposition just before the
Messenger took up the fight against
the League" We sincerely hope that
wiffit and maggie, will see fit to
enlighten his readers concerning this.
The federal investt.;aylso of the &C.
tivities Of the Big Biz packers-Ar-s
mour, Swift, Morris, Cuslahy and
Wilson, has, according to news re-
ports, shown that they have estab-
lished . Industrial empire il this
country. Figures acquire at the in
vestigation showed that they control
so per cent Of the whole meat ;I.dus-
try and that any time they wish IA
procure the other 10 per cent they
can do 10. Thru ownership q ~
frigerator cars, the packers have a
tioht grip III the fruit md berry
nalxksf Throneh control ~ colda
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