The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-01-16

equal to Sc or 81 per capita Of its popula-
about $40, 900, 600 and today it amounts to
about $3.50, 900. 900. Of which the United
States, share is less than 9n one,if 1aao The
about rs cents per capita; should it in
crease in the next twenty years in the
gapan has IN pneseali in 'f the i past tr tWent tT
years, the foreign trade of China would
amount to $12.0 100000.
race. Their merchants in point Of COM
mercial ability and integrity will rank
with those of any other nation. The Rus
sbro,ssb sibar,a line te M will soon anS sx tend
Arthur, an open port all the year round.
This will give Russia an opportunity to
distribute but many of her products in China
The treaty between China and Japan at
the close Of the Japanese war secured to
Japan the rights to trade in China and
vide facilities for that purpose. Under
the most favored nation clause IN the
treaty, each has the same. privilege as
respects trade relations, as is secured by
Japan by it's treaty.
IF we are to enjoy a fair share Of the
trade it must come from finding a markte
for the necessities of life, nearly all of
of which come from the farms.
ket, and a vital point Of national pros
perity and a happy social condition will
be in proportion to our success In Sc
orient men get from 10 to 50 cents per
day; they cannot buy luxuries; their
wants are restricted to the mere necessi-
ties Of life-food and clothing. A few
years ago I sent a man to China and
Japan, keeping iii thre a yaer, to find
out and report upon the commercial, con-
ditions of these countries and to learn
what was necessary for this country to
do in order to create a new market, for
our rapidly increasing products which
to the highest. but I might say, to the
lowest bidder, because of the surplus we
had to sell.
Cheap Ocean Rates Means Millions to Us.
During the past six years the -four
trade of the Orient has grown to 15,OOO,-
GOO or a 20; 9o 2 600 tba bushels Eas 9 of s Whgat Of Fer cbs cam
ocean transportation, this amount could,
In my judgment, be very or m 6n1 oho In.
s5 .ess, sSS b If wH e a yaer take aat g 81 5io0 the Goo su or
plus that is sent to Europe, 1t would
nearly offset the average exports Of the
argentine. If the new order Of things
secure a stable government and protec-
ton for life and property. the develop
ment of China cannot fail to be very
not be as great as that of Japan. In
that case we would be called on to fur
nish one-half Of our entire surplus grain,
taking this amount out of the European
markets n greatly advancing the price
Try;
japanese gentlemen were in my. office,
and 1 asked them why they did not
use American cotton to mix with the
short staple cotton from India? They did
so much superior to that which they
were in the habit of using. 1 told them
t eot shsy a MSpli If try tHe a t diS G not fiad 1t It 0a ae
the cost Of the cotton. They ordered a
few carloads, The result has been that
we have not been able to find transpor-
tation to supply the Oriental demand for
American cotton from that time to this.
During the months of september, Octo,
Der and November just past we shipped
about 60, 900 bales of cotton to the Orient.
This was all we could find shiproom to
carry. The amount could have been dou-
bled had the ShiprOom been available.
During this time other roads have also
carried their share of cotton to the east,
and their experience has been practically
the same as our own.
Remarkable Increase in Land Values.
Five years ago land in the Red River
at from 50 to $40 per acre; today the de-
mand for this land has made it worth
from $40 to $50 per acre.; AS we have
eSten nds our railway al ! fIst labisct haa heen
to settle up the country, along these
lines. A comparison of the census re-
ports of 1890 and 1900 shows that in
Minnesota in forty-three counties reach
ed by our lines, there has been an in
crease of 2S9, 600 people; in North Dakota
in twenty counties, over $4,000 people,
''In fifteen of the counties in North Da-
kota, most depending upon the Great
Northern for their railway service, l
find that the vacant land in 1893 was g.,
$3.50, 900 acres; in 1901, 4, 3OO,O 900 acres, show,
ing that in the eight years there had
been settled upon in fifteen counties on
the lines of the Great Northern road g.
n-p nnn ---@~ " NGnrfnnn tho InornnCn
in counties on the line of the Great
Northern was about 10000, people, and
in Washington 10000. people. This yaer
the indications are that the iniux of
new people will be greater than at any
previous time in tie history of the coun-
try. More people will come in to make
neighbors and fellow workers in the de-
velopment of your state than ever he
fore.
Community of Interest Takes in Farmer.
EAT the presnt time we hear much
about the Community in interests be-
you here and now that the only com
munity of interests that there is, or
ever can exist is the community of in
terests between the producer OF tonnage
and the carrier; the man on the farm,
in the forest. and in the mine must be
able at all times to sell the products
of his labor and his lands " with n a profit prom
ing to sell. The railroads depend for
their existence on the tproducts of the
lands served by their lines; they have
no other source of income. Individuals
may come and go, we will all sooner or
later pass from active life, but the land
the country-its resources and the rail-
roads, will be here permanently. and they
will either prosper together or be poor
together. There is no other community
of interests that can ever exist against
this one. While ii is necessary for the
railroads that the farmers, the lumber
men, and the miners shall be prosperous,
it is also necessary that the railroads
should prosper.
much is being said about combination
between railroads, and that the country
%tinuance of competition. The law of the
urvival of the fittest must inevitably
end such competition as exists by the
destruction of the weaker by the strong
err. This has already been done In the
East. and to the extent that throughout
all New England the hundreds of original
railway CORPORATIONS are now mostly con-
solidated into three or four, and the peo-
pie are better off than ever before.
twenty-five years ago 1t was supposed
that competition was necessary to re-
the Northwest that, without competition,
rates have been reduced faster than any,
where else in this country. Today the
farmers can ship their grain from the
Red river valley to the Twin Cities or
the head of Lake Superior at from Is to
20 per cent lower rates than the farmers
living in the Des Moines valley and
Western Iowa, where there are many
lines, can ship to Chicago, the same dis
bring thousands of farmers from the
Middle and Western states. including