The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-21

these Western states, and think he
will be able to meet whatever storm
comes. But, when the people in the
East who feel that everything begins
and ends there, come to settle their ac-
counts they may want help. have no.
doubt they will, and l have no doubt
they will ask you for it. Let them
deserve 1t, then. If you are going to
give them the help let them deserve it.
They can do things for themselves that
/ they are not willing to do for you.
They are not willing to do for us in
the West, and for that reason find
fault with them.
As l said before, for you to build UP
large manufacturing districts west of
the Mississippi will be slow work. You
can build up some; you have great
packing house products.
The Sources of Wealth.
+ Take the commerce of the nation,
take that balance of trade that I spoke
OF, analyze our exports, see from what
\ source they come. Sixty-five to rs per
cent of them come from the farm. The
great prosperity of the nation about
. which we hear from one end of the
country to the other, Is due, we are
told by some, to this public measure
and that public measure. I want to
Il SNAA JOos AAldt yOd u dCG II QOWH ana
comes absolutely from the. cultivation
of the land. (Applause.)
You have your large packing
| mouse establishments. / have a little
farm-not very small one either-out
here, and raise some<cattIe and hogs
| used to sell hogs short time ago for
3 1-3, 81 and cents a pound. but 7
have been getting Z for them. And
somebody kicks because meat is high
er. l am not, for my farmer thinks he
is doing we'll. / am not kicking at the
price of meat nor the price of hogs.
daughter.) The last time I was out
ne sent eighteen pigs down to the
stock yards and he got $425 for them.
| That sort of thing is going on through
out the country. Everything that is
built up on the foundation of your ag-
riculture is successful.
The Oriental Market Is Within Reach.
But where else is your success? In
isolated cases you will find a gold
mine, or a silver mine, or copper
mine. In this state we have rich iron
mines, and as long as they last they
Will bring a great deal of wealth into
the state and furnish market for a.
great deal of our local product. But
west OF the Mississippi-depend upon
lt-your great growth will come out OF
your agricultural development. Follow
If you have flour to ship to the ORR
ent this fall, we will take it for SO a
ton from anywhere north of here where
we reach it to Hongkong-at SO cents
hundred. 1t is a long distance, but
we will be glad to take it. Better that
than to haul an empty car out to the
Pacific coast to bring load of lumber
back. (Applause.)
Buy Home Grown Sugar.
Now there are many things that can
be raised west of the Mississippi river.
You can raise rice and cotton and to-
Daeco; you can raise in Louisiana, some
| sugar, and you can raise in the North
ern states more sugar. Some of our
beet sugar friends are setting I'D
claims, and if they can do it in Ger
many and France and in Russia, we
| ought to be able to do it in America,
and we ought not to be compelled to go
TO cuba for our sugar and pay freight
on 1t. (Applause) There are some
people who think we ought.
But l feel, Notwithstanding my great
interest in transportation, that what is
best for everybody is best for me, and
l am perfectly willing that everybody
shall buy where he can buy the cheap
est, and l do not want to compel him
Tor any reason to buy where he has to
pay the highest price. If we can raise
sugar at home. let us raise it. If you
can raise 1t down In Louisiana better
than we can, and cheaper, we will buy
1t from you. We won't be able to do
that, or to settle which is the best, as
long as somebody is trying to shovel
IN lot of money behind anybody's in
terest. Let us have these things put
on their merits. Let every tub stand
on its own bottom" (Applause) That
| which is right ought to and in the end
/ Will survive. Ii it is wrong, it ought to
die.
/ Tariff Legislation That Failed.
I remember some years ago we had
a notion that taxing the poor mans
coffee was a dreadful thing. Conse-
quently we took off the duty on coffee,
and Brazil Immediately put it on, just
the amount we took off, and they got
| the money. And few years ago we
tried reciprocity, and we gave them in
| the duty that they did not pay on their
sugar more than we ever sold them in
! any ten years. Now, / do not think,
while we all pay taxes, that we are
called upon to pay taxes for that sort
! OF thing. do not want to discuss this
from a political standpoint whatever.
| care nothing as to party politics. 1
| want to state the fact and l want ev-
| erybody to approach 1t in good nature
| and take it up and see how the shoe
fits his foot, and if it pinches him let
him find out why. He will settle it for
| himself
AS to the Isthmian Canal.
| I could talk for long time on the
subject, but I want to say one word
| more for the Mississippi valley and
| the Trans-M Mississippi states as to the
! question of transportation. We see
| every once in while that we are go
| Ing to spend a great lot of money.
tremendous amounts, we don't know
| how much, $4,000, 600, $500, 900 900,
/ maybe 100000, 900 before we are done
| with 1t, to build a canal across the
| isthmus. Well, now, we may want
one and it may do us good. and I am
not going to lay the obstruction of
| straw in it's way; but suppose, in
| place of spending $100, 900, or $780,
| 100000 or $S00,000,000 or $500, 00O, 900 on
! that canal, that we spend $25, OO0. 900
or $30,000,000 in deepening the Missis-
| s1ppl river from st. Louis to New Or
| leans. (Applause.)
+ If we deepen it to ten or twelve feet.
there is an abundance of water in the
| Mississippi river to furnish ten feet of
| water at low tide
We hear Of canals around Niagra
Falls and of improving the New York
| canals. There is only one practical
/ Improvement for the interior water
| ways to the Atlantic ocean, and that is
| through the Great Lakes and the st.
/ Lawrence.
But we do not own the forts on the
| St. Lawrence; we do not control their
| commerce; we don't know when we
| would have to pay tolls. 1t has been
said that we could go down on the
| American side and then turn in to the
valley of Lake Champlain and down
| through the Hudson. But in going to
the valley of Lake Champlain we
would be in sight of Victoria bridge.
! Montreal and who is going to pay
| the freight from Montreal to New