Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-06-18
REMARKABLE SPEECH
}. }. Hill Considers the Railroad Prob
~ lem and Business Interests, Outlining
%N a Method of Regulating the Trusts
as Well


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The Illinois Manufacturers associa-
ZION gave banquet at the Auditorium
III Cnlcago recently, at which Mr.. J.
~ NH was the guest of honor and
maze lengthy and very important
speech, devoted to the consideration
OF the railroad problem generally,
manufacturing and business interests,
ano' incidentally, to trusts. While
the speech is too lengthy to produce in
tull, we append its salient features:
&c Commerce is the exchange of commodi-
yes: and the term is generally unders TODD
individuals, and, in q wider sense he
tween, communities and nations. Behind
n 5S aaH t;nd leadership has followed
hottest parts of the world The CONNER
clal nations of the world have, at all
tlmes. exercised the strongest influence
The development of commerce is the Of
LOTT ny country to find market for it's
own o aoIp productions. or. to supply itself with
i narea 14r ITS necessities, or to further
pansion The commer D ce e4pansion Of sx
nation is the best index OF it's growth.
foreign. Following the Civil war came a
period IN the history OF our country Of
internal development, which has been the
the war in 1865. the enormous territory
west Of the Mississippi has grown from
frontier a,s,1 settlements into great. ,populous
the United States in 1865 was pep about thpr
ty-four millions The Succeeding thirty
FIVE years ending in 1900. carried it to
half a year. The various census reports
snow that the population of the United
so that by 1880 we would. at this ratio,
pave population Of one hundred and
nifty millions Of people.
cultivation Of the soil producing s't every ~
useful crop. has furnished homes for the
multiplying population. Today we have
no n u re ,hd the limit Of our public DO
homes for an intelligent and enterprising
population. In many of the Western
Iand are areas i Of the best
Productive In the Highest Degree.
One hundred and sixty acres of land,
will insure to the husbandman a bounti-
M harvest: is equal to twice that area
where the land is subject t., the natural
tie rainfall One-haf Of the population
OF the United States is occupied directly
or indirectly in the cultivation of the
entire capital of the country is invested
in farms and their belongings. and when
we come to the questions of intelligence,
patriotism and good citizenship the agri-
cultural population stands out today as
1t has in the past, as the great
Sheet Anchor of the Nation.
The wealth of the world comes from the
farm, the forest, the mine and the sea-
While our country has been blest with
wonderful mines Of coal, iron, gold, silver
auctions, with magnificent forests of nse-
full timber still the farm has, from the
beginning, been the foundation Of our
the last three years the balance of our
trade with other nations, that is, the
amount We have sold in excess of what
seven hundred millions of dollars an
nually, and two thirds of this has come
TO US through the export of the produce
to belittle the Importance of our growing
manufactures, or, their relative value in
me me &C commerce rec Of the country: The Sc
rested upon the agricultural growth OF
the nation. and in the future it must
continue continue to rest there: Every manufac-
man throughout the land is most deeply
interested in maintaining the growth
and development of our agricultural re-
In the past we have been in the habit
enough to give US all a farm" but to-
suitable for agriculture. without an ar
ali occupied 40 - ~ ''<'''
In a few limited communities of the
West irrigation has been commenced by
what may be called individual Effort"
Owing to diverse laws. made to suit par
aFsas is tfe1da the be- #
than can be, well surrmounted by in
dividual effort. The policy of broad,
comprehensive, national plan of irriga-
tiOn has haen urged will
but little success in the past. However,
an enterprise of such magnitude and i'm
portance to the nation whole. which
grows. cannot be turned aside or lost
Sight of. for the reason that every citizen
of every state in the Union is
Deeply and vitality Interested
In the question. President Roosevelt, who
arid regions OF the West, has taken an
active interest in this subject, and if his
efforts and those of others who are work.
future generations will rejoice in the
memory If his work while they build for
themselves comfortable homes in the
the country which is now given up as
grazing ranshes for cattle and sheep.
With proper irrigation these valleys viii
dustrious people, and the number of cat
tie and sheep raised on the land will in
crease many fold.
fOI tile liISl lluo Ill Tie history OF CllS
country, thousands of our farmers from
states like Iowa. Kansas, Missouri, Mich
igan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, are seek
OWING to the cheap lands offered in inv that h t
country, and the difficulty of securing
such lands in the United States. A wise
eminent can Be made not only self-sus-
that Without Irrigation are given away or
sold at nominal price. can be sold as
CT thew furnished with tar q
ten dollars an acre or upwards. and the
cost would be little, if anything, more
The United States has many social
questions to settle in the near future,
and nothing in this connection will take
the PLACE q }6dss its ab to p f0 t
their own vine and fig tree.
Land without population IS a wilder
ness and population without land is a
mob,
Railway Importance.
Considering the question from a broad
national standpoint, the next interest in
Of the The dn re Es
way growth is within the memory Of
men living. Twenty-Five years ago j! was
not I'd aRs to- fna
cheap commodities, which were up to
that time almost exclusively shipped by
water Great elevators o+S were built tr+ In
water, in order that it might move to
market at a fair rate. Early builders of
railways never realized the service to be
rendered to the country by railways.
the Christian religion and the common
schools, no other single work enters into
the welfare and happiness Of the people
as the railway; no other work could have
made it possible to occupy the enormous
stretches through the interior of our
country and people them with cities,
towns and villages.
While the railways have to answer for
many mistakes OF judgment. or of in
tent on the whole the result has been to
create the most effective, useful, and, by
tar, the cheapest system of land trans
nortat ion in the world. In England the