The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-02-06
sion Il you want any taxes paid next
fall.
Yours respectfully.
J. .. Hanlos.
"A GENERAL COMPLAINT
Falkirk, N. D.,
January ~, 1888.

Falkirk, N. D.,
January ~, 1888
Editor, Tribune:
have been reading what the leg
islative bunch has been trying to dc
down there and don't see, SO far a
farm relief Is concerned, that they
nave accomplished very much. Janu-
AIRY Is almost gone and not thing
done.
Here are hogs selling at .o2c on foot
IS an example.
II 1t takes q man eight months to
year to raise hog, am sure he
should get more than 02c lib. for It,
It takes a butcher or packing
plant usually 10 days to get that meat
ready for the public. Now they buy
these hogs at .02c on foot and sell
it to the consumer as smoked and
cured meat all the way from zoe a
pound up to 35c and 40c. His only
loss is the squeal and his only exc
pense is q little salt and smoke.
I claim the way to change this is
Ii the butcher or packer must have
PIC for his cured meat, let him pay
the farmer at least ! 70 Of this or .07c
rer pound and at least give the man
who has all the grief and worry a
little something for his time, labor
and feed.
And II there are too many hogs
raised let the farmer keep them. I
have never heard Of any packer or
butcher taking q train load OF hogs
out to the dump grounds. This over
production is all q joke. Why all
the hungry people If there is such a
surplus?
And as for wheat, flour and bread,
wheat sells at Csc per bushel, flour at
$40 and $500 per hundred and bread
at 10c q loaf. Does it look reason.
able? And still the big guns expect
the farmer to be satisfied.
II an axe could be used and the
heads chopped off the grain gamblers
and SPECTATORS there would be no
such thing as two-bit wheat. Just
think of Csc wheat. Just the thresh-
ing and hauling. Where IS the rest
Of the expense coming from?
II we had bunch Of monkeys in
congress and our legislative halls they
could see this thing will not work out.
We have tried to put hard thinking
honest men at the head Of this great
ration but am afraid we have fall
ed.
Now you men at the head of this
government had better come down to
earth and start building up, like the
contractors OF the capitol built from
the ground up. Likely had it been
our political gang building it they
would have started at the cupola, like
they do everything else.
II the U. s. A., and especially the
state Of North Dakota take So per
cent Of their laws and put them into
the discard maybe white man would
he able to live here and abide by the
few remaining laws. AS far as law
IS concerned 1t doesn't take a bunch
OF men to make them, for the U. S. A.
has now the one-man law. II one
man says build more roads, the tax
payer builds them, and If the game
ana fish, one-man commission, says
plant more birds, they get the money
and send them out to the farmers ia
feed so that the sportsman can hunt
and drive through his fields at the
farmers busy season, cut his fences
and destroy his grain with not even
50 much as by-your-leave or per-
mission from said farmer. Then ii
the farmer gets caught hunting after
sun down or out OF season arrest him
and give him 80 days. If he hap
pens to have $500 or $1,000 on his
person, take them as well as his gun
and ruin even his reputation, as that
Is the calibre Of some Of our sports
men.
And yet this game and fish COM
mission will sell hunting license for
$500 or $1,000 to hunt when there
Is no place to hunt.
Now you legislators and congress
men might as well go home and save
this piece Of tax money and give it
to the one-man law maker. Maybe
he can dig the farmer out as you
fellows have got him in so damn"
deep that he will never see daylight,
Now II this man Roosevelt has the
same stuff in him that Teddy had, he
and Bill LANCER can take a double
bitted axe and send this political gang
cut to farm and show us farmers how
to grow this two-bit wheat and .02c
pork as we can't do it. Then we
would soon see a change.
As 1t Is congress cannot agree on
any one thing for this reason, what
does q northern man know about
raising cotton or peanuts and what
does . southern man know about rails.
ing wheat and hogs? Why does no!
the north and west tend to their az
fairs and let the east and south dc
the same and stop this eternal jangle
for that's all congress Is doing.
It Is wrangling over something thai
Just amounts to filling the pockets o,
the Spectator and gambler, and thu
bootlegger.
i A TAXPAYER.
i FLAYS DEMON RUM