Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-05-16
TELLS OF THE WEST.
NORTH DAKOTAN LAYS DOWN
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William Read, of North Dakota, sat
in the midst Of a group Of western men
at the Gilsey house on last Thursday
evening discoursing about panics and
finance, says the New York Tribune.
1T is thirty years since have been
in New York. was born on farm
over on Long Island, and I went west
thirty years ago. I got to Dakota
braking on a train, and located a
homestead in the Red River valley. 1t
was wilderness then-the land a
baked desert in the summer. and
showling blizzard swept wilderness in
the winter. Now my home in the Red
Rlver valley nestles in groves and I.
can show the finest grain fields in all
the world for miles around. The buff
falo that was there when I went west
is gone forever, but in his place are
magnificent herds of cattle and every
evidence Of aff1uence and prosperity.
New York has changed vastly since
was boy. I>could find my way
about it then, but not now. 1t is
mighty metropolis, and am proud of
the men that have made it what it is.
But it is not New Workers that have
made it the peerless city of the globe,
We fellows. who went out west and re-
claimed the deserts and transformed
the wilderness, we are the fellows that
have built up New York. West of the
Mississippi river dwell a race of men
who have built cities and planted mil
lions of happy homes where a genera
tion ago the Indian and the wild beast
roamed at large.
That population is adding more to
the worlds store of wealth than is the
active population of Germany. Our
surplus food products alone could feed
all the people of the British Isles. We
are digging now $1OO,OOO,OOO a year
in gold out of the river beds or from
the bosom of the Rocky mountains
enough gold to make the whole world
envious. In the selfsame mountains
are stored the great copper, lead. sill
yer and iron mines of the world. It
is that western country that is enrich
ing New York and the world. 1t is
the glorious and prolific land that
makes railroads prosperous. The
west is the real source of New York's
wealth and greatness.
Your Wall street bulls and bears"
continued Mr.. Read, don't worry much
cut west. I laughed when / heard
my friend Jim Hill call your doings
down in Wall street ghost dance.
That is just like Hill. How that rug
ged pioneer of the west, whose genius
brldged the Rockies and linked the
lakes and the Pacific without the aid
OF Wall street or governments, must
laugh at the Wall street gamblers!
Hills millions have been won in part
nership with the western pioneer, and
they were honestly got. They did
not come out of the other fellows
pocket, but from the farm and the mine
that Hill made possible.
II was watching faro game one
night in Bismarck, and saw a crowd
| OF sports and cowboys place their
money on card and occasionally cop
per- the bet. They were playing to
| win Or lose. One big, jovial Irish
man, named Jack Hannihan, seemed
to have lot of fun out of the game.
He never bet more than dollar, and,
winner or loser, he laughed and joked
The rest Of the players seemed fever
ishly anxious, for they were stalking
their all upon the chance of the game.
"The banker evidently wanted Han
nihan to play higher than dollar bets,
and said to him when passing a dol
lar; Jack, if you had bet $10O on that
queen you would have won just as
we'll Hannihan looked at him for
moment, and then at the other play
ers, and said: BY gosh, sir! Jack
Hannihan never flies higher than he
can ,roost!' I was thinking of Jack
today when saw that crowd of mad,
excited gamblers down Wall street way
and felt that few Of them could
roost in the financial skies tonight