Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-10-21

vi any. III LONDON DANISH DulteT anu
cheese takes first rank. Formerly
that first rank in butter was alone in
the bands OF butter-makers of the
county of Cork where their grasses in
the southern part of Ireland made the
best butter. But Danish butter out
classes it today in every respect. The
per capita income of that little country
is enormous; and it arises from its
dairy products and from its feeding
the separator milk to the hogs.
From the kindergarten to the col
leSe, the child and the student should
be trained in the art of agriculture,
in the processes of nature, in the ele-
ments OF fertility in the soil. in the
methods of its cultivation, in the
Investigation of its crops, in the best
methods OF harvesting and marketing
ing them, in farm mechanics and such
engineering knowledge as is necessary
TO enable the farmer to cope with the
engineering problems of his own farm.
No Fear of Over Production.
One point more before | close.
Sole of our good friends of the east
have opposed national irrigation from
a fear that the products of western
farms would be increased and compete
with those of the eastern farmer.
There is no danger of this. The prod
ucts of the fertile lands of North Da-
kota. however great they may ever be,
however much they may contribute
to the prosperity of those who till
that soil. will find in the markets of
Asia an outlet which will absorb them
in all the years of the future that are
yet to come. applause
Now we VIII take up the subject of
government irrigation. The govern
ment has an enormous income and
your representatives in Washington
and the other representatives-are
sometimes sorely taxed to see how
they can get their share of what is
collected from the people. They want
to get the proper share for their con-
!. stituents. | don't always agree with
them; | sometimes think the best way
would De not to collect it. just leave it
in the hands of the people. For in
stance, we are in many cases what
might be called a river and harbOr i'm
provement firm. 1t is a scheme in
which every body wants to get his
share. Many of these improvements
are of the greatest value and impor-
lance. Making harbors. cutting away
sandbars SO that large ships can enter
the harbors and carry away the prod
uct is a very beneficial enterprise to
the country. But there are many OF
these enterprises where the money is
absolutely thrown away. | think the
river and harbor bill mounts to some
thing like sixty million dollars. Now
they could spare twenty million of this
for carrying out the promotion of irri-
CATION. And so used it would not be
money thrown away because by the
time they have expended ten or fifteen
million dollars the returns from the
enterprise would pay for what it cost
and in addition. make a revenue fund
that would go on forever increasing
as long as there was any land TO irri-
:. gate. Now the government likes tc
spend money: | don't know but what
!. the next contract they let will be fol
, lathing and plastering the bottom OF
> the Missouri river. (Laughter.) Over
3 there on the Red river of the NORTH
. they nave been very good to us fol
many year: you would not think tha'
. the government would be good to us
hut it is. We own all the boats on The
!, Red river of the North and have ha(
for years; although | would be glad *
sell all the boats for half of the INT
. appropriations that are spent on TIL
: river for the purpose of improving thu
= navigation. Now we have all TIL
= boats and most of the railroads Gap
= plause) but the government is so fra
ternal and S good to us that they sen
out their engineers to throw away tn
:, public money with the greatest liber
!, ality on that river.
What Makes the Price.
You raise you crops out Of tn
e ground. Now. what makes the market
: What fixes the price here and tn
h price at which our surplus product
sell for when exported to other cOun
tries? In getting into France w
e have to pay a stiff duty. Great Brit
n ain II her colonies buy from u
S about three fourths of everything w
h sell abroad. Britain and her colonie
It are not in a position to put any OBJ
struction in the way of our exports
S on our products getting into thei
e markets. But they have got a rasl
} young fellow overt here by the name o
r Chamberlain and he says he wants +
take a leaf out of our book of pro
It lection. Now. if he succeeds in hi
s effort to get our British friends T.
r adopt the Leaf out of our book our eX
II ports will be taxed about four shilling
a a quarter-about twelve cents pc
y bushel-and they do not propose t
n put the tax on the wheat that is rails
# ed north of the Canadian boundary
IS Now the British have awakened from
d their slumber because the newspaper
are saying that the enormous numbe
of people going from the Unite
n States into the Canadian NOrthwes
is going to annex this country. | say
4. a statement the other day to the eft
h feet that this great influx Of Ameri
If cans was A~mericanizing the Canada.
Northwest. but that nevertheless tn
h Canadian people were going to anne
a the United States.
v Infant Industries.
r At the commencement of the Span