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...Revolutions of 1348," Professor Langer, Harvard...
...rolling cowboy gait. The one who looked like a church deacon, Clyde Herring of Iowa, marched along sedately. Wrinkled Albert George Schmedeman, who had been debating with himself all day whether or not to proclaim martial law in Wisconsin, looked troubled and tiny beside moose-tall William Langer of North Dakota, who chews cigars with the cellophane wrapper peeled halfway down and whose wheat embargo was one of the starkest symptoms of the matter they had all come to discuss. Accompanied by big, rawboned George Peek and cadaverous Secretary Wallace, their briefcases bulging with statistics, they were shown...
When spring wheat fell below 75? a bu. last fortnight, tall, oratorical Governor William Langer of ever-radical North Dakota, taking advantage of a law passed by the last Legislature empowering him to curtail "an unwarranted drain upon the natural resources of the State," ordered an embargo on North Dakota wheat. Last week this embargo took effect. First effect was upon big wheat-carrying railways running through the State. The Soo, Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul let out a concerted yelp of dismay...
Attorneys for the roads held a joint meeting, found that if they obeyed Governor Langer's order they would run afoul of the Interstate Commerce Act. Yet Governor Langer's militia was mobilized, prepared to stop grain shipments with bayonets if necessary. The roads chose to be impaled on the Governor's embargo rather than on the Federal law. They jointly informed the Governor that they would have to accept wheat for shipment, although they "realized the paramount necessity of higher grain prices for our farmers." The roads hoped that "if the people of North Dakota obey...
Meantime to South Dakota's Governor Berry, Iowa's Herring, Montana's Cooney, Minnesota's Olson, Kansas' Landon and Nebraska's Bryan, Governor Langer dispatched invitations to join him in an effort to bottle up the Northwest's output until prices rose. Doubting the legitimacy of the measure, Governor Langer's neighbors declined to join his embargo. But Charles Wayland Bryan of Nebraska, brother of the late Great Commoner, took the Langer invitation for a text, delivered a sermon of his own on the woes of farmers. Governor Bryan dramatically declared...