The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-09-10
COMMENT on A PAMPHLET
Bismarck, N. D.
Sept. I. 1894.

I got a pamphlet on the street last
night. It seems that THE Unem-
ployed Council" Is again ready to 60
out and make trouble for the relief
workers and for the workers on re-
lief. But let me remind your relief
workers about something. You and
me are in the same boat. Any new
stupidity you are willing to be led into
you and must pay for and not those
troublemakers and damned traitors,
those self-elected leaders" who have
been pulling you by your sneezer to
where they wanted you and then drop
ping you like wet rags, to jump over
to,a fat job.
II you can remember from your
sneezer to your mug-which I have
reason to doubt-you can probably
remember doc" Miller, that self
elected Leader" Of yours who arranged
your last strike. He was big shot
that time but what did we win? Re-
lief In kind! That was what we won!
But what did the Doc win, eh? And
the others Of your leaders? II you
could get any sense into your ivory
you would hardly wish to repeat it.
Let's take look back on that trouble.
The Doc led you to the court house
and Banning and Bamboozling Bill
came down and gave you q piece Of
his best judgment" And the Doc
yelled: Thank heaven for Banning
Bill" Il mean Langer) he feeds our
women and children" Did not the
Doc know that Promising Bill had not
had q cent Of the states money for
that use? II he didn't know that you
must agree with me that he must have
been a plain sap and q benighted
bonehead. And you followed such
leader, eh2 But II he knew better,
that Banning Bill had not had dol
lar to feed us with, 1t must be clear as
mud that he was q traitor to US and
our cause! And you pick such lead
ers", Ell? Yeah, you have reason to
pat yourselves on the back-or kick
yourselves In the pants! And Bam-
ming Bill gave you piece Of his best
Judgment" to raise holland the us
ual bla! bla!
'You are absolutely right, you have
my sympathy, Ill stand behind you,
and you 60 ahead" and in addition to
his nice bla! blal you got hearty
handshake and nothing more-alas,
nothing more! And you never did. Yeah.
you got holland relief in kind! That
was the result Of Bamboozling Bill's
'best Judgment! Didn't he know
better? He must have known that for
Washington Bismarck Is only small
town, spot on the map. and we only
a handful-and Fort Lincoln only
mile away, and the Guard -.
It Is as pitaibly ridiculous as It pos
sibly can be that we could have raised
hell against the government! But
you glorious guys believed that-What
Bamboozling Bill, the Doc and the
rest OF your leaders" feed you up
with! But Banning Bill got you
where he wanted you, to raise hell.
And then he got out the guard-to
keep down your hellraising!
Yeah. you were great guys. But
you didn't understand that he wanted
to have q reason for calling out the
guard. But the Doc knew! It was
therefore he pulled you by your
sneezer to where he wanted you. And
from there to fat job-Oh yeah, you
were great guys.
williams and Mrs. Clendening are
working under orders from the gov
eminent; they have to follow certain
rules put down for them. II they do
not follow the orders they get the
government will ask them to clear
out. They cannot do more because
they are not permitted to do more.
Get that! The government gives
them so much money every month
and no more, and that money must
be shared out for us all, see? But you
guys think that they are fixing It.
It seems to me 1t Is time you begin
to use your own bean now. and not the
brains OF those damned leaders" Of
yours. And as for getting enough; /
have got enough and this forenoon
I interviewed seven families and they
all said about the same: I'VE are sat
isfied, we get enough, We do not
starve." And neither am ]. but We
have to manage our budget In . COM
mon sense way. We are not throwing
part of 1t away on gambling and beer.
Get that!
And that childish stuff that was
said about the meat that "rotted in
the relief office" You know as well
as I that II you ask for meat you
will get q ticket and be told when 1t will
arrive. You know as we'll Is II
YOU come for 1t in the morning you
will get it as fresh as In any meat
market in town. But II you come
merrily rolling along in the afternoon
on q scalding hot day. what can you
expect? Be your age and show some
common sense and cooperate with
the office! AS for the starving child
rem those 'leaders" Of yours usually
sing for you about, I have heard