Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16

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notices begin to be published. ~. United
States District Attorney Pound states
there is no such thing as a county con
teeting court, and consequently the worl
of the one in Burleigh county was void
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Address,
H. E. BUoKnEN & Co., Chicago, III
Protection or Patronag e-Which.?
EDITOR TRIBUNE: It is to be hoped
that Senator Roach may be able
to see his way clear to vote against
free wool. Doubtless he is master
of two great situation: First, by
voting for free wool he will please
President Cleveland and as a reward
will be able to secure government ap-
pointments for a small number of his
friends. Second, by voting against free
wool he will subserve the second greatest
industrial possibility of the state.
1t has been demonstrated that North
Dakota has immense possibilities for the
production of wool and mutton at good
profit.
All that is needed is adequate protec-
| ton and millions of wealth will bless the
fock-masters of this state and almost
every farmer-great or small-will be
the owner of sheep.
Wheat is no longer king. At present
and prospective prices it will be a losing
occupation. Barley cannot be produc-
tive with fair profit in competition with
| Canada owing to the cheap water tran
sportation enjoyed by u neighbors Ct
the north, and should also be protected.
Tariff is a local issue, and the farmers
of this state prefer to have their own in
terests consulted and protected rather
than that several of their citizens should
receive federal appointments, or that
aliens may be protected.
With adequate protection for wool the
transition from producing wheat at a
loss to growing wool and mutton at a
profit would be natural and rapid and
our farmer population would prosper
under all circumstances.
The highest functions of statesman
ship consist in influencing possibilities
that can be grasped by the productive
classes and utilized for their good. It
can do but little more, though it often
not only does less but positively robs
them Of existent opportunities. Free
wool does this for North Dakota. Grass
is the great natural, ever-plentiful ele-
ment for the production of wealth in
this state. It has no natural enemy but
fre-and that can be controlled-and
comes with the regularity of the season.
Other Localities have coal, or iron, or
timber, or oil, or precious metals as
natural sources of wealth, and none of
them depend upon climatic conditions
for presence d. quantity. The surest
road to wealth and the one that can best
be utilized by the masses is the natural,
especially where it exists on the earth's
surface and can be transformed into
wealth in large or small degrees with
corresponding capital.
Our soil, especially in the eastern por-
ton of the state is a great source of
wealth, it is true, but aside from artifi-
cial considerations which often prove
abortive, climatic conditions and natural
enemies often thwart the producer as
we'll, and over-production or something
else has destroyed all hope of grain from
that source.
We export wheat and import wool.
Our wheat completes in the worlds
market price, and whether we as a nation
degenerate into a free trade country or
not cannot affect the price Of wheat.
England will never pay a bonus on wheat
for the privilege Of flooding our markets
with her manufactures, but will buy her
wheat where and of whom she can get il
the cheapest, and take from us the last
farthing obtainable for her wares. Graft.
tude as a business proposition is no part
of a nations character, and those who
rely upon it will see their folly when toe
late.
We import wool in vast quantities
while we are able to produce every
pound we consume. This vast industry
can be developed into one far v~aster, ad
ding millions of wealth to the farme,
and doing no injury to any other class
Especially is this true Of our own state
Given reasonable protectlon, our flock
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