The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-22

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resentative in Washington and the other
representatives are sometimes sorely tax
ed to see how they can get their share
of what is collected from the people. They
want to get the proper share for their
constituents. I don't always agree with
them.
River Improvement Firm.
II sometimes think the best way would
be not to collect it-just leave it in the
hands Of the people. For instance we
nave many cases that might be called
river and harbor Improvement firm. 1t is
somehow kind of scheme in which
everybody wants to get his share. Many
or these improvements are of the great
est value and Importance. Making har
large ships can enter the harbors and
carry away the produce is very bene-
nclaI enterprise to the country. But there
are many of these enterprises where the
money is absolutely thrown away.
L think the river and harbor bill
amounts to something like s6O,000 600.
NOW, they could spare $4,000. 900 of this
Tor carrying out the promotion of irri-
cation. and SO used it would not be money
InfoWn away, because by the time they
nave expended 100000 or SIS, 600 600
sne returns from the enterprise would
pay Tor what 1t cost and in addition make
revenue fund that would go on forever
increasing as long as there was any land
TO irrfgate.
NOW the government likes to spend
money don't know but what the next
contract they let will be for lathing ana
piastering the bottom of the Missouri
1 rI over there on the Red River of the
Nortn they have been very good to us
iof many years. You would not think
mat the government would be good to US
put 1t is. We own all the boats on the
Red River Of the North and have for
years. although I would be glad to sell
all the boats for half of the annual an
propriations that are spent on the river
tor the purpose of improving the naviga-
tlon. NOW We have all the boats and
most OF the railroads, but the govern
nent IS SO fraternal and so good to US
INA that they sent out their engineers to
sLroW away the public money with the
greatest liberality on that river.
What fixes the price here and the price
aI MilIcn our surplus products sell for
Mnen exported to other countries? Into
france we nave to pay a stiff duty. Great
6rltaln and her colonies buy from us about
three-fourths of evrything we sell
abroad. Britain ana her colonies are not
IN position to put any obstruction in the
way of our exports on our products get
ting into their markets. But they have
got rash young fellow over there by
lne name or Chamberlain and he says he
wants to take leaf out of our book on
protection.
Tax on Jonathan's Wheat.
Now, If he succeeds In his efforts to get
our British friends to adopt the leaf out
OF our book, our exports will be taxed
ABOUT shillings a quarter, about II cents
bushel, and they do not propose to put
tnat tax upon the wheat that Is raised
north OF the Canadian boundary.
The British have awakened from their
slumber because the newspapers are say
ing that on account of the enormous num-
per OF people going from the United States
into the Canadian Northwest 1t is goinr to
excel this country. 1 saw statement the
other day to the effect that this great in
nux OF Americans was Americanizing
the canadian Northwest, but that never
the less the Canadian people were going
to annex the United States.
AT the commencement of the Spanish
war nobody would refuse the government
whatever was necessary to carry on the
war and support the flag, and no matter
where the flag went you were ready to
follow it and carry it further and further.
But when the war was over we thought
the government would go about, reducing
the debt. But it did not. The govern
nlent, however, did continue to foster it's
have grown to an extent that 81 500, 000.-
1000 represent one Of them, that is, the
paper price. Now they have got 1t down
to Ia or 10 cents on the dollar think
1T is worth more than that myself, but
am not taking on new Jobs.
Too Cold for Railroad.
when some of the gentlemen who were
spending their congressional vacation in
Alaska came to me and wanted me to
build railway right off there, I told
them 1t was too cold. I may possibly
build few more lines in North Dakota
dfQ sumo IN washing Ou. MAYBE we Will
put in a little line or two in Minnesota,
If the people of Minnesota would wake up.
Il have tried hard In former years. used
to try harder in former years than I do
had to with your people. But it was not
Of any use. And now you have grown in
advance of them until there Is no COM
parlson between You in prosperity, none
got:
Now I don't say that the people of
Minnesota deserve what they have got,
because many of them are misled. Men
don't often turn their backs on their own
welfare. A man will come round and
hold his hand out and will take if he can
see what he thinks belongs to him, but
some OF them there have not got 1t and it
is their fault.
Now If this man Chamberlain carries
out his plan, and there Is great danger
that he Will carry it out, England will lay
a tax of IL cents a bushel upon your
wheat and you will have to pay 1t unless
you can find a market for your wheat out
over the Pacific coast.
Last fall we carried between the
months of January and April about sc, 600
tons OF grain or flour and provisions by
way of Seattle, and that carrying contin-
ued along this summer. We now are car
rying 1t from Minneapolis, but the man
on the Pacific coast says you ought not
to, move that way, you should leave the
market for US; lit belongs to us. So you
see that We are sometimes between the
NStA1 anu ZIG OS0p SSds-- we CAN get more
out of 1t by hauling It from here to the
coast and by carrying it up through the
Pacific coast country for the farmers
there, and We own some of the largest
freight carrying ships in the world, not
for the purpose of running them as ships
alone, bait as an incident to our rail-
way.
How to Fight Chamberlain.
Now the way to combat Mr.. Chamber
!ain,s proposed policy is to sell your wheat
IN the East. carrying it by way Of the
Pacific coast trade. This would leave the
British without enough wheat and would
make them change their plan, but If you
go on the old lines you will Certainly
have to pay the tax.
II we should undertake to haul your
grain for nothing it would do Won no
good in the world and it would ruin US.
On the other hand, what would do YOU
GOOD Is to create new markets. and that
is what Is coming up-creating new mar
ketS and reciprocal relations with Great
Britain and her Canadian colonies. We
want to get ourselves into better line with
them than we have been. I think Cam
ada last year bought about one hundred
and forty millions from US, and we bought
from them about forty-five millions. They
cannot go on in that way Indefinitely.
- am not saying much about the area
OF: their landrup there, and I am not so
much frightened about their climate or
the quality of their soil. They are pretty
near where Sir John FRANKLY, ,,oa+ III,