The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-10-07

government and better conditions for
North Dakota people.
That's why you will vote for Will
liam Lemke, and that's why you'll
elect him with a tremendous major
ity.
Since Job Wells Brinton failed to
get a Nonpartisan League endorse
ment for Congress, and then, losing
his head entirely, went off into q tan
trum, some funny and strangely-in-
congruous incidents have happened.
It has remained, however, for the edi-
tor Of the Stutsman County Press To-
Gated at Jimtown to cap the climax.
This farm-owned newspaper jocularly
considered making Brinton a novel
proposition when it received a circu-
lar from him recently, offering it a
series of articles from his harmless
pen for the insignificant sum of $18.
The Jimtown editor in part says:
ibid we wish to take advantage of
this offer on a trade basis, we could
use up most of the articles coming
from that source in exchange for
checks for stock in the Press which
were cashed by H. M. Brinton and
used for his own benefit.
1--WE have several of these checks
in our possession and they will be
placed in the hands Of the proper au-
thorities in the near future to be pro-
ceeded with according to law. On the
other hand did we desire bunco ar
ticles we would in all cases patronize
home industry, and pay Percy, the
peerless detective, to spin a few yards
of fiction for the edification Of our
readers; but the fact that owing to
the paper shortage we have been
forced to suspend our funny section,
we are unable under any circumstance
TO use dope Of this Sort"
The Grain Grading law is in the
estimation of all intelligent farmers
and business men, one of the best
laws on the grading Of grain that any
state is fortunate enought to have. It
pays the farmers millions by forcing
an honest grade and pays for the
dockage which formerly was stolen by
the old line companies. If your grain
happened to be wheat and had twenty
pounds of barley or oats to the. bush
ell you were simply "docked" twenty
pounds and then some and the oats
or barley was cleaned out and sold
as oats or barley by the company and
you got nothing for the dockage. Now
the dockage is RETURNED or paid for.
This law is viciously attacked by the
grain gamblers of the Twin Cities
and their attorney O'Connor of Grand
Forks-the Democrat candidate for
governor who has been approved by
the I. v. A. lefty also states in his
speeches that he is against
the law. He says it is bad for the
farmer and helps the gambler. Re-
the gambling combine refused
to pay the cash price for wheat and
only allowed the December price which
was IL cents lower. The Fargo Cour-
Ter News and other Nonpartisan pa
pers Of the state exposed the steal and
forced the combine to pay the cash
price or lose their licenses. In two
days the combine was brought to time.
100000 would have been lost to the
state farmers if this awful graft had
been continued to the end. In this
splendid fight between gamblers and
farmers the Fargo Forum never said
a word and others Of the kept press
also remained silent. Is anyone fool
enough to believe that the Forum and
similar sheets kept still without being
well paid for doing so? Are the bust
ness men who approve Of this method
Of the Forum by giving it their sub
scriptions and advertising really wise
in thus lining up with graft against
honest toll :? Had they not better hesi-|
tate and consider lest some day it
might be too late? w.
Last weeks edition Of The Advo-
cate in an article presumed to be an
editorial, but in truth another ranting
lie, entitled League Law Boomer
ang", which editorial or lie states that
House Bill 81 (the O'Brien Anti In
junction Act) approved by the Lea
que caucus, camouflaged the opening