St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-11-20
half, and was as follows:


know will occupy it. All the best ef-
forts that l can bring to help you and
those who are working with you in
the development of the country are
with you. We have accomplished a
great deal in the Northwest since 1
came here We have accomplished
most of it in the. past twenty years.
We have everything that tends to
make people strong, happy and pros
porous. We have soil of the greatest
fertility. We have climate that is
unsurpassed; l may say for eight
months of the twelve it is unsurpassed
by any climate of the world. We have
cold winters, but they are seasonable
winters. But we always want season.
able weather to get the best results.
1t is well understood that the farther
north that either animal or vegetable
life is developed the better the devel-
opment is. A better quality of grain
can be raised to the northern limit at
which grain will grow than at any
point south of that northern limit. 1
know that the agricultural department
at Washington, aided by the best scien-
tific men they can find-I know that
they seek our northwest latitude for
the purpose of securing the supply of
seed grain of every kind, and seeds of
every kind for distribution through
out the country for the reason that
they understand a better quality is
raised in the northern latitude. We
have here the advantages that nature
has given us. We have the further
advantage of cheap transportation. We
have good system Of schools-educa-
tion is and should be well looked after
by these states and the communities
of people within these states We have
always been blessed with a peaceahle
straightforward class of settlers This
morning | might be called upon to quail
ify my statements, but crime has new
er thriven in our country. Let us hope
that it never will
All the wealth of the world comes
from the earth or the sea, 1t either
comes from the mine or the forest,
or from the field. Now, where else in
the whole world can you find more of
Natures providence for man than be-
tween Lake Superior and the Pacific
Ocean on our Northern belt. We have
the mine, we have the forests, and we
have the field. Some of you have more
than others. In Minnesota we have,
iron mines that are unsurpassed if
equalled by any in the known world.
Certainly none where iron can be pro-
duced and marketed at as low a cost.
But these mines send their ore, and
thsir properties are owned by people in
Ohio, Pennsylvania and the East. The
benefits that we derive are through the
payroll, the labor-the labor that is
a affnr6a6 To md VIZ +ho
this payroll provides for our agricul-
tural products. Our butter, our eggs,
.our best, our pork, our flour, potatoes,
and so on. Our greatest wealth, by
far, our greatest wealth is in the soil
i'm the field. And now. l want to i'm
press on this convention that the gen.
tlemen who have the work of this con-
.xention to. dol, want to impress on
them the fact that three-fourths or
seyen-eighths of all this wealth, of
all the qualities that go to support
large population, country, villages,
towns and cities, farmers, merchants,
factories, engineers and everybody else,
must come from the soil. 1t will come
from the soil. There is no use in look
ing anywhere else, because you will
not find it. We have a soil that has
made a development, a growth, in
the Northwest, that has never been
equalled in any other section Of this
country in twice the same length of
time. 1t took about a century,
about one hundred years, to settle the
country between, we will say a line
north and south from Niagara Falls
to the Ohio river and from there to the
Mississippi river, or practically to Chi
cago. For when came here
forty years ago, 1 rode over bald, naked
prairies between Chicago and the Mis-.
sisSippi river, and our worthy old
pioneer Gov. Ramsey (applause), when
he camel don't know that he had to
walk here, or that he had to walk
part of the way-but if he came in the
early spring he would have had to
carry a fence rail on his shoulder to
pry the stage out between Chicago and
the Mississippi river in his time.
Now, to go back twenty years. In
1873, what were the conditions here?
Depression, almost discoura cement
The conditions that have prevailed
since that time have resulted in a
growth that has never been equaled,
l believe in the settlement of any new
country; and certainly never in the
settlement of the United Stats. In
order to continue that, you must look
about you and see what means you
have to do the work you desire to do,
and what you can do. Now, we do
not raise figs from thistles, and you
must undertake and encourage the work
in Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana,
Idaho, Washington and Oregon, that
the soil and climate is best adapted for.
You have all these alliances. Nature
has been most lavish. You have, as
1 stated before, you have schools; you
have an abundance of cheap fuel in
Minnesota, it may be new to some of
you, but we have found within a few
months that there is coal in Minnesota.
How much has not been settled, but
there is coal in Minnesota There is
an abundance of Ignite coal in North
Dakota; and in Montana and the States
West there is an abundance of both
coal and timber. Building material
is cheap-lower L may say, than any
where between Manitoba and Mexico
under the same conditions. Now, you
have the material condition to en-
able you to invite settlement, to in
vite immigration. to invite people to
come and occupy the land; and de-
pend upon it, your cities, your build
ings, your factories, your merchants
stores, all the conditions that result
from an active business, they all must
be maintained, and will be maintained,
or they will fail, unless you have be-
hind them men who are Industrious
and intelligent and who take advantage
of all Natures provisions. Unless the
man on the farm is intelligent in his
work and unless he is self-supporting,
all the rest of you will find it an uphill
and long road.
twenty-five years ago Minnesota
was the frontier state Minnesota was
anxious at that time to have settlers
make their homes within her borders,
and maintained bureau of immigra-
ton, and kept a record of statistics that
were useful and would increase the
knowledge of that subject. Later they
became Indifferent, and the work was
turned over to the railways. Possibly
it was handed over to the railways not
because the state lost interest, but the
railways had large land grants, they
were anxious to settle them, they