The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-06-23

BERG Of LANDA
Gets PUBLICITY
Following is q clipping from thu
l Starbuck Times and is in answer *
4 letter sent into that paper sometime
ago BY Mr.. Berg Of Landa.
In an article in the Starbuck Times
Of April 20, q Mr.. Berg Of Landa. n
D. replies to an article had in thu
Times some time previous. Ny article
was not written to anyone in NORTH
Dakota; it was written to Sayre, be
cause he seemed to know so much
about the terrible conditions in Nortf
Dakota. I received no reply from Mr.
Sayre but this man from N. D. wht
has been stopping the hogs up there
for rs years thinks by so doing is II
much better position to answer my ar.
ticle than Savre. ] at first thot
would not answer this article as there
was really nothing in it to answer
Mr.. Berg practically admits that all
he knows about the League is the in
formation he got during those two
days at the convention that the |. "
AS had at Devils Lake to decide on
holding q recall election which they
never intend to hold. Mr.. Berg says
that ] spoke about grafters without
as well as within the state, but he
thinks that they are Of my political
faith. He says, Take such birds as
Hastings, Box, Brinton and others
who have gouged North Dakota out
Of 50 much money, yes" he says, "it
amounted to millions" Right here ]
want to call Mr.. Berg's attention to
the fact that Brinton was here at
Glenwood recently, and that he admit
ted on questions gut to him that he
was not honest and that bird now be-
longs to your flock as the League
kicked him out after finding out that
he was crook. Mr.. Berg says that
these men were not only crooks but
thieves. Such birds we have no use fol
in the League and always as soon as
we find them out we send them back
where they belong, into Berg's flock,
NJ. Berg writes about bank in
Barnes county that was startei by cne
Hastings and Box about some inno-
cent lambs waiting to be shearc |. Now
/ cannot answer Mr.. Berg on this as
all I know about it is what nv. Berg
says, and / am very much lncIinsd 10
believe that what he knows a1o It j
is what he has been told at the Devils
Lake Convention. Be that as it may.
il las nothing to do with the League
/ rrngfam anyway. We had q bank tere
n Pope county not long ago a'.d lie
nromoters were not League. either
but belonged TO Mr.. Berg's poIi 81
fafth. They also came here 10 shear
50 .1e innocent lambs. 4 believe that
Mr. Berg is an innocent lamb himself
that is being sheared without knnw':.g
i. Hr. Berg displays his ignorance
wien ne pretends tomake belis7e the
the /. v. AS Of North Dakota rece;. ed
no aid from Big Biz, he says Tie In
dependent Voters Association with
headquarters at Fargo Eyes and hind
quarters at Wall Street, have repeat
edly challenged the opposition to cite
q single instance where so called BIG
Biz, or any outside interest has con.
tributed single cent to its finances
Further the books Of the association
are open to inspection, and Mr.. Otte'
y son can no doubt satisfy himself i
he chooses" That man will display
SO little Judgment that he will own W
to that he believes such trash. Die
they tell you that at Devils Lake
Does Mr.. Berg really believe that the.
keep books Of secret, does he really
think they have it down on black ane
white so / could go down there .ant
find out what they have received ant
4 spent. When Governor Burnquist wa
called up there two years ago to hell
them get control Of the state again
and paid him, it was said, about 81
/ dollars day what fund was that tax
1 en- from
Mr.. Berg further says that he hap
pened to be a delegate at the stat
Convention at Devils Lake and tina
out Of eleven delegates from Bottinea'
county there were one newspaper mar
two merchants and eight farmers, &C
tual farmers who plow their ow
fields and milk their own cows. It ma
3 be that Mr.. Otteson uses the strang
mode Of reasoning so common wit
s the N. p. propagandists, that when
farmer uses the brains God gave hin
and as result attends the /. VA
convention, he ceases to be one OF II
common people. Why bless your heal
I really believe that Mr.. Berg is nc
really one OF the common people an
I will bet you anything that when N
Berg was attending the convention b
really thot he was one Of the Big 81
but really do believe that if M
Berg had used his brain that God gay
him instead, As he says himself, {
putting all his time On tilling Il
soil to fatten Big Biz and letting Il
other fellow do I all the thinking f
him he would not have been a.del'
gate to that convention.
4. Berg Says that their count
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