Bismarck daily tribune., 1903-04-14

American manufacturer, the employer
and the director of labor is infinitely
superior to his British prototype. The
chief reason America Is pushing ahead
as an industrial nation Is through abil-
ity in administration. Give the British
workman time and he will turn out
better article than anybody else, but
the American is alert, has rest for his
work and is more or less Of an in
ventor. While we creep in England,
Mr.. Fraser says, America bounds.
Dun's Reviews quarterly statement
of railroad traffic of St. Louis and Ind
annapolis indicates the enormous
freight business being done by the
railroads and the consequent business
activity. During January. February
and March of this year the number Of
loaded cars moved at st. Louis and
indianapolis was 123,O0O,OO0 against
$4,000 during this period of 1902 and
$4,000 in 1901, both in themselves
highly prosperous periods.
immigration and irrigation are
words which are sometimes closely
associated. When any large western
irrigation project Is contemplated, with
cheap land, the transportation compa-
MES begin to talk about securing for
eign settlers. Their desire is to Sc
cure the transportation Of people to
occupy the land at once, and If they
can bring them across the Atlantic and
then haul them clear across the cOun-
try to the far west SO much the bet
ter for the transportation companies
They are but slightly concerned wheth-
er the prospective settlers are desira-
BILE citizens or whether they are a riff
raff of Huns, Italians, etc. But the new
lands of arid America which the gov
ernment is beginning to reclaim should
not be devoted too largely to home !
making for foreign citizens. however |
worthy or Industrious nor should the !
question of giving this kind of en-
ployment to steamship and railroad
companies be considered. The latter
will secure their share of the increased
business which will result from the
settlement of the reclaimed lands.
This is not the object of making the
lands habitable and productive. They
should be utilized for the increase from
the loins of our own people. 1t is un-
doubtedly better to take emigrants and
spread them out over the country than
it is to dump them in solid communi-
ties into the great cities, but the time
has come for us to ask ourselves how
much further we should go in the d.
rection of providing homes for the !,
surpluses of other countries. Are we
going to be forever the asylum for !
the lowest and the poorest and the
most vicious of all nations?
Sargent's new portrait of the presi-
dent. now hanging in the White
House, looks straight out at you with
power, spirit and force, much after
the nablt OF the original
The new German Ambassador, Bar
on Won Sternberg was a close personal
friend of the president when he was
assistant secretary of the navy. Since
then both men have received substan-
tial promotions.
American protective wool is max
ing money for the sheep raisers. Ohio |
Xxx washed has sold in the last four
years from 281c. to 31kc. a pound
against 19 cents pound during the
three years in which the Wilson tariff
act. with its free wool clause, was in
operation. This rise in price has
greatly stimulated wool production.
the clip of 1902 being 346,341, 900
pounds against 259,153,021 pounds in
1897, at the end Of the free wool pc
riod. This has occurred in spite of
the fact that the high price of meat
during part of this period has in
duced many farmers to kill both lamb
and mutton.