Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-03-24
THE LOUISIANA

THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE.
Arrangements arc being made III
several western cities to celebrate the
Louisiana purchase, the purchase
made by President Jefferson in 1903
AS is known that purchase was siren
uously opposed, and 1t would he inter
esting to design, in ones imagination,
the result that would have followed
the failure of the purchase. The
Louisiana purchase would have separ'
atcd Texas from the original states
and perhaps cancelled all possibility
of that states interesting fight for
amalgamation with the older republic
by example and political c%ontagion,
the Louisiana purchase would have
become, in all probability. Il western
republic, breaking away from Napo-
leon in the hour of his dissolution.
This newer, western republic could
not have been so grand or rs mighty
as the republic of today. and it was Il
precious destiny which prevented any
such division. But the western re-
public would have been the greater
nation Of the two republics. 1t would
have had Il coast line on the gulf of
Mexico and on the Pacific. For, the
Louisiana purchase. together with the
conquered Mexican territory. would
have been able to have supplied the
world with it's wheat, with its cotton.
with it's gold. with it's silver, with its
rice. with it's meat of its table. Chi
cago with its great territory for live
stock cut off by II national line would
have remained a village.
II the trans-MiSsissippi country We're
today a nation. it would lie the richest
nation on earth. Still, forming as it
does the major portion Of the United
States. it has never had a president,
but very few cabinet officers and its
portion of national appropriations is
meager indeed compared with that ac-
corded the states lying east of the
Mississippi. But the great west real
lies that political preferment naturally
flOurishes most in the older and most
populous section Of the country. and it's
tagging desire is towards its own COM
mercial bettermcnt. Political control
will come afterward.
With the waters of the Pacific and
the Atlantic meeting in the Nicaragua
canal, with new possessions in the far
east, temporary o T. otherwise. to he
supplied, the west has Il new CONNER
cial and industrial opportunity, which
it must grasp, and grasp quickly and
intelligently. To the minds of most
men the opportunity can be realized
upon best by a concerted movement of
the entire west.
Hawaii and the Philippine Islands
and the Nicaragua canal were not
thought Of when. nine years ago Il
ans-Mississippi Commercial Congress
of these western states was estab.
lished. This great congress. embody.
ing Il great commercial idea. was
formed to protect existing industries
OF the west. Destiny has moulded
events until the congress has become
no longer Il protector of industries. bu,
a developer of them. The transmits
sissippi Commercial Congress holds its
next session at Wichita, Kansas. Ma,
3lst, June LIST, I'd. and 3rd. There thu
western states, through their represen
t%atives, will meet and pledge their wore
anew to western union and strength
in minting the golden harvest Which
the opportunity of new commercial
fields will yield.
The editorial excursion appears +,
have been productive of more troubl,
and the Hope Pioneer takes a shy at the
matter as follows:
Yes, there We're ii few bonificd news
paper men on the editorial excursion
but there were more lawyers, doctors
merchants, harnessmakers, liverymen
farmers, politicians, bankers and such
than editors. But we will bet 81 the,
don't go again. If we have an editoria
asso%ciation-let us have one-or els'
throw up the sponge.
We believe the names of the "bonitied'
newspaper meI should be set forth
They must be hard cases.
The bill for the appointment CT a dair,
commissioner, and the prevention of tn,
sale of adulterated dairy products in the
state except under their proper desig
nations, should be of substantial benefi
to the dairy men Of the state. The st
Thomas Times observes:
1t is reported that Prof. Kaufman, O
the agricultural college, has discovered
that 100000 pounds Of butter and cleo
margarine are annually shipped into tn,
principal cities of the Red River valley
The Times rises to remark that thi
$4,000 pounds of butter could be pro
duced by the wheat farmers of the val
ley without any of them farming an acr,
less of wheat.