Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-01-29

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The wurkwaz throan on the sholders
81 sgrikulteHrists like my kuzzen and
sum Crate Northern land aients, Az
tor thay had gon throo the presses Of
making Jim Hill saint, and had
rasseld with sum resso ooshuns until
thay diddent no whar thay waz at, the
name part Of the program waz tax
keld. This waz speach by Jim him
self. ]. diddent git short hand. re-
poart Of It, but ez neer ezs ]. kin. re-
member it ran sumthing like this:
Teller farmers: It gtvs me crate
pleshewr to meat W wons moar and
sea how faithful yu ar to the trust I
hev impoasd on W. It Il meat and
proper tibet wons q yeer thar be held
q meating to CIV prase to me fer hev-
ing made this CRATE northwest. L
wood OF koors be pleesd to shev the
farmers themselvs do this, but ez thay
ar so blind ez not to sea my troo
grateness and the benevolens L hev
shoan in giving them q chans to pro-
docs ritches from the soil, I hev to
relic on w agrjkultewrists to do the
pras1Dg akt. Ez yur trOo karrakter
IL not moan in the eest, WHARF I am
floating the stock of my new kompany
the effekt will be the saim ez If yu waz
jenewine farmers.
The northwest IL my produkshun
and belongs to me in fee simpel.
What wood this vast TERRITORY hev
bin without ralerodes? A bowling
wilderness What IL it with the rodes?
A bowling suksess. Sum one may
say tibet Their IL lots of rodes I diddent
bid. Troo; but 1 ALOUD others to
bid them. 1t diddent maik mulch
differens to me hoo bilt the rodes, ez
I he'd maid up my mind to- swaller
them when the proper time kahn.
Fer instans, I diddent bid the North
ern Passifak, but I hev got it now, and
when I got it I got all the things be-
longing to the rode, inklooding the
grattitood of the peepel. fer hoom it
he'd opend hoam.
And yet thar IL sum peepel so deef
to awl theas repoarts of my benevvo-
lens ez to aktewelly oppoas my plans
fer benneftting the peepel by taking
Charlie of awl the rodes. Now, I will
tell yu why I organizd the sekewrytis
kompany. While liv thar il no alb
soloot mead fer this, ez kin run the
rodes to SCOT myself without ENJOY
murger. But sposing I shood die,
whar wood the northwest be? At the
mursy of the onfealing p'ootokrats
tibet run publik affares fer thare Dan
game insted of running them ez I do
fer the bennett of the: peepel. I he'd
to maik ths ewnyun of the rodes SO
strong tibet nothing but the law kood
brake it, and Amt mulch afeard OF
the law. Thus yu sea I am thinking
of yur wellfair even after I hev got
the wings and harp. But how it
greevs my hart to sea my kind inten-
shuns misunderstood. It il too
mulch, too mulch"
Hear Jim break down kompleatly
and wept SEVERED teers, which he
kairfully gatherd up with blotter,
which waz afterwards. kut up into
SEVERED peeses to be presurvd in tie
hisstorikel arrives Of the "a ifferent
northwestern Stats e. q prissls l.1e 5;;
mentoe Of the grandfather. Of the koun-
try. Dooring this impressiv sean the
awdyens sat spellbownd with emoshun.
Jim toad them tibet he wood hev likd
to hev wept enutf to civ them eech a
rellik OF tibet kind, but ez the stock
he'd taken so mulch water laitly he
he'd kept himself on short drinking
ray shuns and konsekwently hiz teer
wells waz kinder dryed up.
I newer realizd how CRATE Jim wa2
until he toad it himself. And eaven
now, when am owt of the spell of hiz
ellowkwens and hiz teers kin hardly
feal graitfull enuff to him fer what he
klames to hev dun. am ]yabel to
fall back into the mistaken noshun
tibet he bi't the rodes bekaws he saw
thar waz monny in it, and tibet the
O WHY differens between him and the
other ralerode ploots il tibet Jim il q
blaimd site moar longhedded then the
others. :
Rams Horn Sayings.
It is worth while making many foes
to make one true friend. - - 3:
We could not bear pleasure but for