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RESOLUTIONS INDORSE
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ACTION OF MIR. HILL
Capt ID. B. WelIman then announced
that the committee on resolutions were
ready to report and they were read by
Vice President Hoverstad. After the
usual thanks had been suggested. Secre-
tary Wilson, of the department Of agri-
culture, was indorsed for his efforts in
behalf of the farmers in the West, %orth
Dakota's plan of farmers institutes.
rural school consolidation, and the teach
ing of the elementary principles Of agri-
culture in country schools.
The last plank in the resolutions was
as follows:
THE natural and logical line of trans
portation for the prooucts Of the North
west American states is from the nearest
point on the Pacific coast to the next
nearest point on the great lakes
through and traversng the great basin
of the upper Mississippi. the valley of
the Red River of the North, the head
waters of the Missouri, and the fertile
lands lying between the Canadian border
and the Columbia river on to the Pacific
coast. The trade of the Orient enteriue
the United States and destined for the
North, Middle and Eastern states, can
best reach it's destination by this route
and TO divert to the South or encourage
it's transportation through the province
OF Canada, would not only add to the
cost of the delivered goods, but would
deprive the states from which it would
be DETECTED of their share of the tax
upon the gross earnings of the roads
carrying it, and thereby deplete the
revenues of the states through which it
would be carried were the ordinary rules
of commerce followed
1T is the sense of this melting, there
fore, that in resisting the attempts of
the Union Pacific road and it's allies on
the one hand, and the Canadian Pacific
railroad and its feeders on the other, to
secure control of the Northern Pacific
railroad, James j. Hill has performed
notable public service, and once more
displayed the far-sighted and business
like policy that has chara cterized his
long career as the great developer of
Northwestern resources, and the most
watchful guardian OF Northwestern in
terests.'
Mr.. Hill built a great transcontinental
, railroad through wilderness that has
grown through his efforts into the rich
est empire on earth, and never asked a
bonus or a subsidy. He has connected
| that railroad at one end with a fleet of
vessels that carry American products to
the Orient and bring back the Oriental
trade to the Northwest and to the whole
nation, and at the other end with shin
ping facilities by water for the Atlantic
seaboard; all this, too, without dol
lar of bonus or the semblance of a sub
sidy.
Trusting to the resources of the coun-
try for the traffic to justify extension.
he has entered every section that needed
transportation facilities and constructed.
often at loss to himself, lines into
l1y 1nI md
munities. During all the years of rail-
| road building there has been a regularly
marked reduction of freight tariffs ac-
cording as the volume of traffic increased
! and warranted it and uniform disposi-
tion to make temporary Sacrifice for the
permanent improvement of the country.
In view of this record and in recog-
| milton of the honorable and upright
course of James j. Hill in his dealings
with the farmers of the Northwest. we
congratulate the country upon his sue
cess in preventing the absorption Of the
Northern Pacific by Union Pacific inter-
est on the one hand and the Canadian
Pacific manipulators on the other, and
express our confidence in the purpose and
ability of Mr.. Hill TO give to the states
of Minnesota and North and South Da-
kota the best and cheapest transporta-
| ton facilities to be had by the people
of any section of this nation
The resolutions were adopted by r1S-
ing vote Some time afterwards Henry
| Henderson, of Halstad, moved reconsid-
ertaion, but was ruled out of order
DELEGATIONS FROM
THE MINNESOTA CITIES.
President Hills special arrived in Far
go at 145
Mayor johnson and Hon. G. S. Barnes
State Senator Lewis and Contractor
t., Of ho M
the president at the depot, wheresa large
number of admirers had assembled to
welcome him to Fargo. President Hill
was in splendid spirits and greeted many
acquaintances. He declined the proffered
| carriage and walked with the commit
| tee to the opera h. use, about four blocks
| from the depot.