The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-11
Take Paint and Brush, Then
Make a Map Of
the j. S. A.
news TRUST TO BLAME
N. p. L. Papers Of West Are veritabie
Voices in a Vast Wilderness
Of Sophistry and Cen.
sorship.

lncrG are TOUR Culcl HCL1iOuS "
which the invisible government in
America keeps professional journal
lists under it's complete domination: In
the first place, by owning the newspa-
pers; second, controlling the owners ;
third, advertising business; and fourth,
outright bribery. Through the adop-
ton of this plan there prevails a con
troll Of news and current comment
more complete and ~unchallenged than
monopolies in any other realm Of in
dustry. Statements like this may
sound extreme to some Doubling
Thomases, but when you come to an
alyze the situation you will realize
that the very conditions of the special
privilege system make it so.
To instance:
It does not injure the steel trust to
any great extent when there are a few
independent steel manufacturers; it
never troubles the money trust when
there are q few uncontrolled men of
wealth, but it plays genuine havoc
with the news trust if there are any
fearless, independents newspapers like
the farm-owned publications Of the
Nonpartisan League to let the cat out
of the bag.
An Astonishing Fact.
The far-reaching extent to which the
complete domination of American
newspapers and magazines has been
n .n,,;,,oI hry tho ,Ono c1iorn Yohu vryor,11
cause the world to pause in a.
ment were it written down in black
and white. An unprejudiced statisti-
clan could take a map Of the United
States in his left hand and a paint
brush in his right one, then, make
rough smears Of color, showing how
big business dominates the newspapers
in whole sections, some Of entire
states.
The Upper Peninsula Of Michigan
could be represented by a yellow
smudge-representing the copper in
terests. All of Montana and the great
er part of Arizona would be celored
the same. Even a school boy knows
that Copper is King" in these COM
monwealths. Two black smudges for
Colorado-one in the northern and n
in the southern part-wOuld show the
iron heel of the coal barOns . A gray
smudge in Pennsylvania and another
in IllinOis-these represent steel. A
green smudge in Wisconsin and the
same for Oregon and Washington
these indicate the sphere of influence
of the lumber kings. A cement-colored
smudge in central California wouiu
show the ground in which the South
ern Pacific railroad, reinforced by the
Merchants and Manufacturers associa-
ton and the United Railways, have
their pickings.
N. p. L. Papers Embossed.
Since the Nonpartisan League be-
came such a potent factor in the north
west, an artist preparing such a map
as thu, would find it necessary to
smudge several states twice with diff
ferent colors. This is particularly
true of the North Dakota counties,
where both white and dirt-colored
paint would naturally be seen. Fifty
three white NEAR would show the
farm-owned newspapers established by
farmers and laboring men for the pur-
pose of telling the truth, while a like
number of dirty smudges would serve
to indicate the stamping grounds Of
the prostitute journalists who work
for the milling trust, railroad grafters
and banker-politicians.
The same coloring plan would also
have to be followed in several other
states Of the west, notably Minnesota,
| Wisconsin, Montana, idaho, Washing
ton, Oregon, Nebraska, Kansas and
Colorado. Thriving and aggressive
Nonpartisan League newspapers have
already been established in all Of these
commemorative.