The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-10-09
GOD TRUSTS
AND BAD ONES
|DarsIDENT HILL SPEAKS
AT GRANT COUNTY FAIR
-. saw. That IL N Man Does Wrong
N. should lie Punished, hut That
3, He Does Right He should
lie Protected.


mn on the second day
when Mr.. Hill was introduced he was
,rasted with cheers, and frequently as
"a proceeded with his talk he was APP
a,anded or Joined in with the audience,
n laugh, He dwelt largely on the re-
ls,ions between the farmers and the
railroads.. He drew on his own person
4 i axperience for much of what he told
h,s audience, but with terse and perth
pent comment on present conditions.
Ne gave President Roosevelt's cure for
trusts sly dig. and justified in an alb
stract way the formation of the North
arm Securities company. Mr.. Hin spoke
4 as follows:
,Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
I want to assure you this afternoon that
4 II a matter of unusual pleasure TO meet
Won here ] am glad to see the farmers
here with their wives. Il Is a privilege
that enjoy to meet the people who have
come into this part Of the country and
made 1t what we see 1t to-day.
cit is a few months more than thirty
years since l first passed through this
part Of the state: At that time the
outpost was a little store on the hill
BY the old-what we may call the old
snsvile we stopped all night at Mrs.
Burne's, and the next night we r'opped
on the prairie all night and walked to
keep warm. IL was on the 10th of March,
and assure you ii was very cold. Now,
10 me this is an unusual pleasure, ami
there is no place where ] could meet
with more pleasure than i'm your county.
The change that has occurred is graft
flying, and 1t must be gratifying to you
IN that you have been able
To work the Change,
and II is always gratifying to me TO know
that / have been able In some way TO
aid in bringing about this change The
country looks beautiful to-day. End l
see within and without the town rot
only the cause of the change. but the
fruit Of II as well / see good stock. 1
see nice cattle, and just as good sheep
as you will find in any part of the coun-
try. Years ago, back In 1888. we had
a very dry season after the grain was
planted. Until July not drop of rain
fell in the northern part OF the state,
particularly in the Red river valley. but
Notwithstanding the long drouth. after
the rain fell they got three-quarter
crop. / felt then that the farmers should
not have all their eggs in one basket
! thought they should have a greater
diversity of things on their farms. If
a man lost his wheat crop and he had
half a dozen good fat steers TO sell he
could get some money and bridge over
for another year.
Il decided to raise cattle on my farm
at Lake Minnetonka. l had 10 buy my
experience. | bought some fancy cat
tie at very extravagant prices. My fences
were let down. With little reward 10
the men could find the cattle. Some
times they would come after / had re-
warded them a few times and offer to
tell me where the cattle were, and said
they would find them for so much. i
presume IL was the ferocious stare OF
the bull that tore down the fences, but
j made up my mind that j could not
In my lifetime succeed as / wanted. ana
! sent men to the country and bought
up large number of bulls for three or
four years. and to-day ! saw as handsome
cattle in your own county as a man would
wish to see. 1t, did me good as ! saw
before me proof that my endeavor
Had Not Been In Vain.
Now. / can say to you that no one In
the state or out OF it has such great
interest in the people Of the state and
the people who are cultivating the land
as myself. No man has a greater IN
terest-put 1t all on selfish gain If you
want to-in the welfare of the producers
than l have. because II your labor Is
wasted what becomes Of me- II you
are poor. / am poor. | am glad 10 see
the evidence of your prosperity. for we
must share your prosperity with YOU
1t can't be otherwise.
IAN that we have been doing, all that
] have tried to do in the way OF building
up the success of the country. Is on the
hot he ,I,a ps,ltI Nat 100 no
soil must make the money before he can
pay 1t, and In that we have the
foundation OF our own prosperity, and
cur company has been prosperous All the
transcontinental lines that have been
built across the continent either In Can
ada or the United States have been sub
sidlzed, with the exception of our own.
All OF those OF this country have failed
from one to three times, except our own,
and the only credit we can take to our
selves for being able to avoid these fail
ures Is that we have tried TO bring the
ordinary Principles of Business
TO apply to railroad enterprlse--never to
Undertake 10 do more than we could az
FORD TO do and not to run ahead in wild
speculative career but going ahead
cautiously; IL the soil good and the
climate is good to be patient and encour-
hi'S pcOple. WI you nave AiANsN
IDEAS flxed in your mind you have the key
mat must solve the difficulty. We we
now come to the point where our road
mas been extended TO the Pacific ocean.
we have there the largest forests of pine
lumber growing on this continent and the
nhest have seen in the world. The
lumber trees In Minnesota are practically
Gil counted.
few years ago the country east OF
Detroit north of the Chesapeake and
south OF the Great Lakes drew it's supply
OF lumber from Michigan and later from
Wisconsin. During the earlier times In
Aalchigan lumber was worth 80 TO 60 cents
thousand. but to-day II is worth So
= thousand In the tree. Fortunes were
nsde in Wisconsin rine lands. Inc
foundation for Cornell university was laid
: ON an investment In $ isconsin timber
'ahos. We have on the Pacific coast
Enormous Forests.
;, Yoc want them here. They want
mem as far south as Baltimore and as
~. VI east as Portland. Me. Now, bear
'fls IN mind: What helps you. what you
need and what we need In the assistance
- each other. and TO help each Other
oear our burdens. The people who own
Ahu manufacture that lumber on the
LAST =. are seeking a market for It. These
1norts anect you hey ond the price OF
lumber; they affect you by contributing
- many tons OF freight to haul over our
ines we have gathered all these tons
n.y. tne Pacific coast and from beyond