The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-12-15
OUR REPUTATION IMPROVED
tGrand Forks fIerald)

Inc Herald expressed the opinion
that the carrying Of North Dakota
for Coolidge would be Of the ut
most benefit to the state in that it
would indicate TO the outside
world a return to sancr ways OF
thinking and that the benefit from
this source would outweigh what
ever drawbacks might be expert
enceu from an apparent reversion
to league policies as indicated in
our state election. Comment from
many quarters has shown the ac-
curacy of this forecast. One such
comment is the following from the
Portland Orcgonian:
"fou cannot make laws that will
regulate rainfall, sunshine, or the
appetite of the world. As clas
sic illustration Of this truism take
North Dakota, that has tinkered
for years with applied socialism,
that has known deprivation and
financial failure. in part due TO
that same tinkering, and that now
sits pretty atop the greatest crop
the state has ever known. Do you
wonder that North Dakota refused
to fall in line with Wisconsin for
LaFollette. they two against the
sound judgment of the country?
North Dakota has glanced at her
wheat fields. and looked at the
market quotations, and weight
lifted from her heart and she was
exceeding glad. Nature had done
what the political nature takers
could not do, however boastful
their promises.
THE North Dakotans. SO we
| reaG in a news account of the
states prosperity, are actually
humble about it," After all. there
is no legislation like to the legis-
lation of providence. and they arc
! saying little about the nonpartisan
league while they plan hereafter to
embrace crop rotation to SOW bet
ter seed. and to raise livestock.
You see. it was this way: The
state was the first of all to turn
| progressive" in an olden and re-
! liable sense Of that much abused
term. North Dakota banged
heavy ballot over the head of boss
ism, some dozen years ago. and be-
came ruler Of herself. This hap
py victory. however. encouraged
the victors, largely of the agricui-
tural class. to believe that they
were omnipotent in reform and
that by law-making they could so
ADJUST their affairs as to yield
them an invariable profit. No
wonder they are humble now.
They saw their banks fall by the
score, and the whole socialistic
fabric tumble for lack Of funda
mental strength, and when the
crops were lean and prices poor
actually they went in tatters. APP
piled socialism left them peculiarly
unprepared for hardship.
In northwestern North Dakota
this year the crops Of eleven
counties were worth more than the
land on which they were grown.
All over the state the banks are
bullying with money TO sucl de-
gree that directors are meeting to
consider what shall be don, with
it. North Dakota had almost for
gotten what it was to have ready
money in the bank. And the bank
crs are in a great pother. Admit
ting that probably one half of the
agricultural Indebtedness will be
paid by the first of the year. they
are in no hurry to cancel the notes.
Too much money. How is that?
The nonpartisan leaguers. scheme
and contrive as they might, could
l "a ~ On n
would be half enough We reau
that:
"'Ole Holunn, living eight miles
from Minot, liquidatc1 $500 ow-
ing the bank on notes, and took
his family to Norway on the pro-
ceeds of a half section OF wheat
and rye
Have a good time. Ole. a far
better time than your profesScd
friends. the economic experiment.
lists, ever were able to afford you.
And when You return, remember
, the admonition about carrying all
, the eggs in one basket. Nature
will attend to the rest, as she at
tended to the crop of 1924. having
by way of preliminary precaution
seen to it that the wheat crop OF
the world would be short. Nature
will attend to it as she did when
she sent rains in harvest. Fol-
though You fretted, and while you
TUNED, and as you wondered wher
you'd ride a binder through the
golden wheat, the price went stead
r., lily upward. The world was bid
ding for the last grain, in the leas
OF your fields. And we read, a!
= we'll that:
!. Ed. IL. Livingston bought /;
. quarter section in Eureka town
ship, Ward county. for $4,000 ant
broke 145 acres. lie put 100 il
wheat which brought him 2,2O'
bushels. SOLD at $129. The A
acres of flax returned GA bushel
and sold at $40 per bushel. Hi
a, gross return was $4,235, or $23
Il more than he paid for the land
e "For some years the stock quer
Of the middle west has been
: What is the matter with Mort
5 Dakota" The case has since bee
e diagnosed as a typical case q
8 European rash. political malad
attended by a high economic fever
There is nothing in the worlQ Xix
u good crop. and good prices {
cure it. Indeed. you may say tina
4 the remedy is a specific"