The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-11-06

from $4,000 to. seS, 900, Rosla from s2S, 900
Kssu saS : SIS ss ;e9 o.o to slss.s 800; Barton from
sgss TO ooo $4,000. omenee from SIG, 1000 to
3hss, wy. Now on the main line, where.
+ me wa .otai revenue last year was SIS, 600
Nlle. Ninot from S124,o00l to 1891. 900.
now take Souris, a little station north
wesa or Bottineau. The first year the
S2S9, 0e0.
Growth Was Unexarnpled.
ona Ihese figures are encouraging to me
ana they ought to be to you. They mark
q sIs arG ~ that you cannot find anywhere
nor come from any fluke or boom or from
any other source mMrree than the good old Moth
I think mkt thew I Mil, 9 &c Ihem are aslvs well nnd to , do:
ARMS justice and all will be well with
nnem. II they got their farms for s1.25
per am acre e. Of hemesteaded or pre-empted il,
land Is worth $40 to s2S per acre today,
and they won it fairly. With ali this
gfGWIh ;, he oS company gets Just the same
It. We get Z per cent on our money just
as We did before: II we wanted to raise
sstE.ooo 1t would be a simple thing to
600 ssas.of tre:s al.y u sG9 geayi aa1 Eve glse
us eioa 2o ood ooo tons upon which to raise that
ton; n II you should raise 400, 900 tons
IN crop. it would be a rate of Is cents per
ton; 1t is as simple as that.
We have been able to reduce your
ttrheight rate IN thirty,one years to less
IMAM a third OF it was, a saving to
year yeaI o 70 s 5ae aopp eS9 1np on our eo lines Inc in n
Inns reduction in freight rates has been
~ offotgna ABOUT by increasing the volume
or franc. That volume has been in
enable shippers to develop new lines of
trafhc and the building of additional
mileage that would create traffic. To re-
auce the cost of transportation in the
race OF continual increases in wages and
advances IN prices of material the only
way was to increase the amount Of work
large increase for the train mile. These
ngures appeal to me by reason of their
mag magnttude' and 6 am glad to tell you right
20 sem your grain to market at a lower
IWTelgtnt rate than they are able to in
OF Me freirbt io ysfss T. I took oos = up the schedule
tinental lines south Of us, one of the
lines that struggled hard to get the
Northern Pacific because this country was
growing too O. fast. and found that their
freight 100 miles. Orr ate Is SIS cents.
Take the big lines running out of Chi
the Chicago & Northwestern, for in,
stance, and you will find that although
an older line than we are, it is paying
than the Northern Pacific as well. L
speak of that to show you that we mean
what We say that Your interest is our
interest, that your prosperity is our pros
peritv and our injury your injury.
Mutually Prosperous.
The prosperity of the railway COM
panles. and the prosperity of the people
old North ea aoL Dakota nus e up together
jure the people without injuring the rail
ways, When you injure us you injure
yourselves; Suppose a case, and there are
into court in a physical injury case, al
though We never mean to. and always Of
fer to pay the injured man heaped meas
ure, but sometimes he does not want
heaping measure, He wants sometimes to
get three or four times as much because
ne relies on the popular prejudice against
l can tell You that ii is not paid by our
stockholders. They get their Z per cent
Just the same. The amount of that bill
Every time it is added to the cost of
conducting the business.
We have only two sources from which
and the other way is to borrow it. If
you feel like paying the amount of such
a bill and are willing to make the con-
of the pocket Of the mpan You can
see in a m that II dues not. But,
on the other hand, l wish you to bear this
it is because we think the party wants a
great deal more thar he is justly entitled
to-. If he wanted to take what was right
and fair and in heaped measure he would
have got into court.
Now I have been running away from
irrigation. I do not get an opportunity
have transgrressed a little; The public
domain of the United States. that por-
ton of it that can be cultivated without
used to say that Uncle Sam is rich
enough to give US all a farm. That is no
longer the case. He is wealthy still, but
many people holding out their hands to
him for a part of his money. You have
contributed your share. Your state has
what we can do for the future generations
is one that is hardly given its proper
prominence or the prominence it deserves.
about the Des Moines valley in Iowa.
There were some settlers in Kansas at
time, but 1t was very, unsettled. Now
coast states and cities nave grown up and
communities doing business inland and on
cities that are marvels of growth.
five. years g we took up the subject
of irrigation. Now / am going, to tell
you how this came about.
How Irrigation Movement Started.
son an investigation of the entire ques-
ton it was found to be absolute folly to
bring forward any measure in Washing
ton. Nobody would listen to it. To look
the government protecting the
pUDllS Ild " lis StlllSlS LII lOI u
ture generations was considered absurd
by many people of the East. And 1 was
satisfied that it would take a long period
a campaign Of thorough education.
five railway companies got together.
had no land, had no iand and was
not ooktng for any, but we put our
hands In our pockets and subscribed $685.
BOO a year among the five companies to
pay for a campaign of education on the
subject of irrigation and started In all
over the country.
SIT went slowly at first. and CONGRESS-.
men would not listen to It. But as time
and they found that their people
at home We're interested, hen they found
they Were passing resolutions on
the subject, then the gentlemen began to
tOh, l am interested in that; I
think hat you said has merit. After
awhile the question reached out and got
into congress and into the White House
and e1erYhodv felt that it was something
to take notice of. And last year Tor the
first time we were able to get it success
are lots of men who are the original
Jacob. men who did it themselves, lots
of them. But 1 know how it was done.
know that the SIPS, 900 of good money
scattered through the country in lee
lures, in meetings, in publications for the
purpose of bringing the question before
the people.
And they were brought to understand
how absolutely necessary 1t is to save
what is left of the public domain, to save
the people Of our country the farming
driven to expatriate themselves and go
foreign lands to find a farm. Now /
will give you the figures of what some
Of the states have got In land that can he