Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-16
]. HILL to the
GRAIN
Hills Speech Before the Grain
Growers Convention at Fargo.
North Dakota.

the source from which this enormous bal
ahce or trade comes, we find that about
thfee-fourths of our experts are fur
nlshed directly and Indirectly from the
cultivation of the land; the farmers have
done the w7rk and have benefited the ma
ton. Now let us consider what the ma.
ton has done in return for the farmers.
or what 1t can do in their behalf. The
hrst Il great object is TO provide them
means to sell the product of their land
and their labor, at the
Highest Possible Prices
l. will bring. / win ask you to look over
The statute books OF the nation and the
different states, and find. if you can. any
Intelligent step that has been axe to
ind new markets for our agricultural
exports. ! a examined these records
carefully and up TO the present time l
do not find one intelligent sentence or
line the object OF which has been to find
new markets for the products of the
land, except as to Southern sugar and
rice, and some wool. In order to adj
n the price of every commodity the
first step Is to increase the demand for
IT; rs long as there is a surplus in the
market seeking a buyer the price must
remain low, and whenever there IS a
shortage and the demand is greater than
the supply it follows that prices must
advance, Great Britain buys about 20
per cent OF all our exports. She is our
one great customer, and the single nation
that does not in her markets or through
her tariffs discriminate against the prod
uct of our soil. In order to buy from us
she must be able to sell her own prod
ucts and get the wherewith to pay for
her purchases. England and Germany
seek for markets over all the world; they
are nations of merchants, and their ships
go to all parts of the earth where a
harbor can be found and trade relations
established. During the past ten or ff-
teen years our consular service has been
greatly improved, and is now furnishing
valuable information as to the conditions
under which
Our Trade Relations
might be extended. but our consular
agents are comparatively few and their
action In that regaru limited.
| Twenty years ago the foreign rad
OF Japan was not to exceed 81 per capita
OF it's populations; to-day this trade Is
equal 20 So or 81 per capita Of it's popu-
lation. twenty Yeas apo 1t mount
to about $40, 600. 900 inc to-day It amounts
to about $3.50, O00. 900, Of which the United
States share is less than one-hfth. The
total foreign trade of China in 1890 was
about 70 cents per capita; should IL in
crease in the nexr twenty years In the
proportion of one~lalt tina the trade
OF Japan mas increased III the past tWen-
ty years the foreign trade Of China would
amount to 81, 300. 600, 900. The Chinese race
is a commercial race. Their merchants
in point Of commercial ability and integ-
rity win ank with those OF any other
nation. The Russian-Siberian line will
soon extend Though Siberia to Man.
churia and Port Arthur. an open port
all the year round. This will give Russia
an opportunity to distribute more OF her
products in hin and will place her in
a strong position. The treaty between
China and Japan at the close of the Jap
anese war secured to Japan the right to
trade in China and to make use Of ports
and rivers and provide facilities for
hat purpose. Under the most favored
nation clause in tire treaty, each nation
has the s4me privilege, as respects trade
relations. as is secured by japan by its
treaty.