The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-06-12

1t1TIueT CHI make money Oy IN0 CUlllvAs
ton Of his land. either through selling
his wheat: his grain. his cotton or his
stock. with profit to himself. the time
must come when he win cease to Guilt
vate the land. and the railway II left. as
1t were, In q desert. e,45
Low Rates on Necessities.
For the past twenty years or more I
and peopling new states. and have all
ways adopted as fixed policy the maxi
ing OF rates on the products OF the coun-
Of life. such as coal. lumber and building
material. at the lowest rates the COM
pany could afford. looking more to our
chandise and shelf goods consumed in the
cized for this. this criticism mainly COM
ing from merchants who have desired q
The following will illustrate our an
swer and the reason for the course we
have pursued: Take a farmer in Iowa
say. twenty bushels to the acre. two
thousand bushels, or sixty tons. A re-
auction Of five cents q hundred; or 81 a
mum Il he visits the Country st store re- once
a week for fifty-two weeks and takes
away, from the store each week fifty
pounds Of merchandise. in year he VIII
have averaged 40 cents a hundred, or
5000. SO that If the railway carried the
additional s cents q hundred on his grain.
the farmer would be worse off by nearly
$50 year. This Illustration hope makes
the people served by ". the az railway is the
only path to prosperity for the railway.
The railway and its patrons must always
or sns tS
the rates can be made If. for instance,
a railway has to raise 100000 on, a
ton: If there are 1000, 900 tons. 50 cents q
ton. and II there are 100000 tons. Is
cents a ton will bring the same profit In
order to secure this
Additional Tonnage 'f''
Fintenigent railway management is con-
producers on its various lines market
for their productions, and, II possible.
return load for the ,,, car carrying s such NC
cific coast the largest body Of first:class
saw timber left in the United States
When I first visited that country. with a
saw at onee that 1 Unless e we 20 could carry
their lumber to market at a price that
would enable them to manufacture and
Shp no Th paS at and ea
made rate Of 40 cents a hundred fol
two thousand miles. or four mills q, ton
might load back the cars that carried out
the merchandise to the West. This rate
was necessarily met by other roads and
Der trade Of Washington and Oregon, 50
that today 1T Is oyer ten times what II
was nine years ago. and. In place of seek.
ing additional loads for on. cars flom the
loads for our westbound cars going out
to be loaded with lumber for the grea!
treeless states Of the Middle We Nest, and ID
lumber traffic will work a greater change
in the Oriental trade Of the country thar y
n enao,s fo nee th,s umSer ~
the moving cause Of our building the
Largest shIps-in the World, s
through which we will be prepared this
fall ito meet not only the rates of othe!
States and Canada, but we will meet thu
rates made by steamer from the Atlantic
ports via the. suez canal Every manu-
a states y SHIP hnY ITS
Orient by rail to- the Pacific coast ane
thence by steamer. at rates that vii
ta ta ps east By
isof the Mediterranean and Suez canal
Were it not for the certainty that Their,
lis carload Of lumber waiting for ever!
flempty car that we can furnish on thu
EPacifc coast. we could not carry TIL
Oriental business at twice the rates w
Much has been said about the increase
~ Traffic In the East.
will uso as an Illustration what has oc
curred in Japan- Twenty years ago tn,
81 per capita Of the population. Toda,
Of its population. Twenty. years ago. I
to about about S@ and =" ,c,
the United States share is less than one
fifth. Ten years ago we exported abou
a rom es sbo5 to SsPs% and NOW
| our exports to Japan amount to 100000,
900. or six times as much as they wer'
ten years ago. and the increase in ou
| entire foreign trade with China amount
good stable government which viii pro
son why the Chinese trade should not in
crease as rapidly as that Of Japan ha
merchant Of the two. Should the Chimes
would amount to more than the entire
tsaSe the n Unite s1a an 96r
Oriental trade has built up. cities Of tn
Old World which are now IL ruins. IT
value runs. back to the very dawn Of his
time. and later on, 1t built up Venice, tn
city Of merchant palaces. which TO
tyears was the gateway from the Eas
into Europe. When the Portuguese sen
their ships around the Cape Of Coco
Hope. followed by the Spaniards, the!
| took possession of this trade and trans
their galleons. From them It passed un
and the cities Of Holland and Belgium
Early in this century. Great Britain
| through wise and farseeing policy. in
augurat ted by-her. ablest statesmen. tool
possession Of the trade; and has retained
| it to the present time. for the reason
that she. Furnished. the lowest rates O
/ tran4poEtatton TO: and from these coun
tIies.We are now preparing to challenge
ther for such share Of this business a!
the United States: A country where Ia
not indulge In many luxuries, and ou
trade with the Orient must be largely II
| the necessities of life and such article!
| as they cannot produce.
We have already built up large de
| mand for American cotton, which. few
years ago. was unknown in China ant
This cotton mainly. goes from Texa.
and and other Southwestern states, and !
eigRths q It. during the past Year. s Ia,
gone by the way Of Puget sound ports
With Manila as an American port in tn.
East, and the best ships that can bt
built. we should be able to maintain our
| selves as nation in the control of {
large share Of this traffic.
Our balance OF trade some years ha!
been double the production Of gold ant
silver, in the whole world. and logically
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