Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-09
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what do you want to SO to Denver
for? WaitH I get time and I'll move
the mountains here. Any mountain
will be tickled to death to locate
here once We get the White Way. in!'"
The town welcomed Mr.. Blausser
az fully as Carol snubbed him. He
was the guest of honor It the ca
>mercial Club Banquet at the Minnie
mashie House, an occasion for menus
proof-read). for free cigars. soft damp
slabs Of Lake Superior whitefish
served as fillet Of sole, drenched CT
gar-ashes gradually filing the saucers
Of coffee cups and ~oratorical refer
ences to Pep. Punch, Go. Vigor, En-
terprise, Red Blood, He-Men, Fair
Women. Gods Country. James j. Hill,
the Blue Sky. the Green Fields, the
Bountiful Harvest, Increasing Popu-
lation, Fair Return on Investments,
Alien Agitators Who Threaten the Sc
curity of Our Institutions, the Hearth
stone h Foundation of the State.
, Senator Knute Nelson One Hundred
Per Cen Americanism, and Pointing
I with Pride.
, Harry Haydock. as chairman, intro
duced Honest Jim Blausser. And I
am proud to say, my fellow citizens,
that in his brief stay here Mr.. Blaus-
ser has become my warm personal
friend as we'll as my fellow booster,
and I advise you all to very carefully
, attend to the hints of a man who
knows how to achieve"
Mr.. Blausser reared up like an ele-
plant with a cancels neck-red faced,
red eyed. heavy listed. Slightly belch-
ing-a born leader, divinely intended
to be a congressman but DETECTED
to the more lucrative honora Of rea!
estate. He smiled on his warm per-
sonal friends and fellow boosters. and
l'boomed:
IT certainly was ~astonished in the
streets Of our lovely little city, the
other day. l met the meanest kind
er than the horned toad or the Texas
l~allapaduza! (I4aughter.) And do you
know what the animile was? He was
a knocker! daughter and applause.)
Il want to tell you good people. and
its just as sure as God made little
apples, the thing that distinguishes
u American commonwealth from
the pikers and tin-horns in other
countries in our Punch. You take a
genuwine, honest-to-Go homo Amer
icanibus n there amt anything he's
afraid to tackle. Snap and speed are
his middle name! He'll put her across
IT he has to ride from hell to break
fast, and believe me, I'm mighty good
and sorry for the boob that's 50 un-
lucky as to get in his way, because
thai poor slob is going to wonder
where he was at when Old Mr.. Cy-
clone hit town! (Laughter.)
Now. frien's, there's some folks
so yellow and small and so few in the
pod that they go to work and CLAIM
that those OF us that have the big
| ViC1rn 0Pn nF nv tr1Yln,,c r~ -
we can't make Gopher Prairie. God
bless her! just as big as Minneapolis
or st. Paul or Duluth. But femme
tell 0 right here ard now that there
ain q town under the blue canopy 1T
heaven that's got q better chance to
take a running jump and 90 ~scootine
right up into, the two-hundred class
than little old G..sP.! And il there's
anybody that's got such cold kismets
that he's afraid to tag after Jim
Blauseer on the Big Going Up, then
we don't want him here! way / fir.
ger 1t, you folks are just patriotic
enough 30 that you aint going to
stand for any guy sneerinE and knock
ing his own town, no matter how
much OF a smart Aleck he is-and
just on the side I want to add that
this Farmers Nonpartisan League
and the whole bunch of socialists are
right in the same category, or. a.
the fellow says, in the same s~cateeory
meaning This Way Out, Exit, Beat Ii
While h Going's Good. This Means
You. for all knockers OF prosperity
and the rights OF property!
Fellow citizens there's a lot OF
folks. even right here in this fair
state. fairest andt richest OF ali Inc
glorious union, that stand UP on their
hind legs n claim that the East