The Saint Paul globe., 1902-10-30

nave started this. we have three large
the water which will be the largest in the
world, and today if there is a mill in
Crookston that wants to ship flour to
China. bring it down to the station and we
will carry. it for 40 cents hundred to
Hongkong. Now, there is not anywhere
in the world as low rate as that. What
you want is a new market. You want
new people to come and buy your stuff
and pay for it, You do not want to have
surplus around the world trying to sell
it. The laws of supply and demand are as
gravitation, you cannot alter them; but
if you can create new demand, it will
take away from these European markets
a portion of your surplus; then you have
that while we are doing this, we had not
asked for any subsidy for our ShipS-not
ST. We asked fair play. we asked only
have, and one of your senators from this
state put a clause in a bill that we could
not have it,
and that is the way most of these men
are helping you-they run around and ask
you for your votes, they are going to
do this, that, and the other thing. Now,
have wintered them and summered
them, and know them by their backs.
Some of them are what would call a
hard lot, but if they have ever done any
good in the state. or in any public place.
or in any public way, want to give them
credit for the good they have ever DONE
but want to say that my glasses are
magnifying and read some every day,
and have not found a sentence yet, not
one intelligent act anywhere in any book
that can be traced to them to help you or
the state they represent to a better mar
ket. In a new country there are many
changes. People want authority to do
new things, but because they do it ought
not to furnish the reason why the bust
ness of the country must be obstructed
a in, nf-da tn
please someone, or to allow somebody
to hoodwink great number of people
and tie them up to the tail of their cart
and lead them around.
Purchase of the Burlington.
"You people here are pretty reasonably
of wood. We have been. charged With With
doing something awful: We bought the
Somewhere over 5000 miles of railway
Now, what did we buy it for? We want
ed to reach a section Of the country
where there was market for this lumber;
for the cattle. where they feed and
slaughter them ALI the large slaughter
houses are on that road. Most all the
smelters, over four-fifths M Of the silver
are located on that road The state of
Illinois is one of the largest manufactur-
ing states in the Union. and in the coun--
Ties reached by the Burlington road 90
per cent of all the man4act turing in the
state Illinois is located It is worth
something to reach these markets; they
change and intercourse with them Let
every man for moment consider that if
the road Were not SO bought but that
we raised millions of money to go and
their hands and said, it was a great,
grand thing 1t would be a great thing,
| agree, but we bought it, and when
we bought it, it kicked up q great deal of
a row. People having interests between
the Missouri river and over to San Fran
cisco wanted it, and were quite put out
sd o hsy bn it. foa Me not got have ThsS hsS
not that road it might have been a Sc
rious thing for US. The Chicago & North
Western W. n was was under contract with the
ing bought and extended into Texas.
We bought that road for anetherare
son; We found for the last three years
that it was absolutely impossible to get
$4,000 tons of coal last spring to be de-
livered from the East by the first of No
ly here and we have not 100000 out of the
men who sold it have have the H coal nm mined 1d
and they cannot get it transported, and
from Lake Erie, not as, far as, from here
to Duluth, You would think it very
strange If We could not haul from here
United States east Of Chicago are block
ed at their'fternlinals and you cannot
the country Think -ofrit.e They cannot
handle it at the terminals, which are not
big enough: The business of the country
cannot go East no. matter what yod do.
Where cars moved ten years ago thirty
miles day, they noBa move twenty or
less because at theterminals they can
not be handled, arfd you are. face to face
with the question of freezing. ~ If we
could not get ollrs SfIDDIF of coal from the
South by the 9Th or 10th of February
you would not have a train run in North
wood. and tell me where the wood isl
do not know. Now, that is the condition.
We bought that road and we bought a
large field Of coal in order that we might
runs right through the, center of the en-
tire field of Illinois, $40 or $50 miles, and
with its branches reaches more than one
h: half of the coal production of the entire
but we have a purpose beyond the coal
we burn in our locomot:ves- You are
wood enough for a time, but these people
on the prairie, they are not near wood.
If they cannot live there, where is our
investment? What is it good for? We
live there comfortably. We must look
to all your welfare that you and we may
prosper together, because you must get
the money before you pay it to US. You
We are so intently Interested in that
question that it is the foremost one with
us. From the day you commence your
plowing in the fall we have reports from
our stations as to the amount of plow-
ing. as to the amount of seeding in the
spring, as to the advanced condition or
the retarded condition. We watch it
with the greatest interest because it
means our life, and it's failure would mean
our failure.
Wishes Minnesotans We'll.
Il have gone over these questions with
you today, and as. some. of you have
long way to go, I will try to bring what
l have to say to a close in this way:
want every man here and every woman
the Seople of Minnesota any better than
l wish them. Nobody will go SO far to
assist them in any way that will add to
their prosperity, simply because it is my
fortune to represent nearly 1000 miles of
railway in this state. Ten years ago we
paid $3.50, 900 taxes; this year we paid
$3.50, o00 taxes; ten, years hence we will
pay $750,O00 have no doubt, or more.
And as our earnings increase, the taxes
increase. There is equity in that but
am not discussing equities today. want
of the. railway and the people on the
lands, because tie towns are Just as de-
pendent upon the land as the railway.
The state Of Minnesota, if you would
analyze 1T, three-quarterS of it's popula-
tion depends upon its farmers. You will
find the towns scattered through the
country. If the farms were not there
the towns would not be there. With the
disappearance of these farms would go
the school house and the churches, and
the professional man and the merchant
they would all go. We have nothing in
Minnesota that produces wealth more
than first, always the farm and next the
forest. The forests of Minnesota are
| now reasonably exhausted. The trees
are actually counted today. Go to the
mines in the eastern part of the state, the
iron nines-all are very great concerns.
state, and they employ great many
people, and these people must live and
eat, and you must furnish them with
their food. So then Minnesota has the
! field, the. forest and the. mines, but of