The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-11-06

have many cases that might be called a
river and harbor improvement firm. 1t is
somehow a kind Of scheme in which
everybody wants to get his share. Many
of these improvements are of the great
est value and Importance. Making har-
bors cutting away sand bars so that large
ships can enter the harbors and carry
away the produce eo is very beneficial en-.
many of these enterprises where the mon
ey is absolutely thrown away
Il think the river and nd, ha arb Or bill bill
Now, they could spare $4,000, 900 of this
for carrying out the promotion of irriga-
ton. and so used 1t would not be money
have expended SIC, 100000 or $4,000, 600
the returns from the enterprise would pay
for what it cost and IN ADDITION make make
increasing as long as there was any land
to irrigate; a,. a..
money / don't know but what the next
contract they will let will be for lathing
and plastering the bottom of the Missouri
river. Over there on the Red River of the
North, they have been very good to us
for many years You would not think
that the government would be good to us,
but it is. We own all the boats on the
years, although l would be glad to sell
all the boats for half of the annual ap-
preparations that are spent on the river
ton Now we have all the boats and
most of the railroads. but the govern
ment is so fraternal and so good to us
throw away the public money with the
greatest liberality on that river.
What fixes the price here and the price
at which our. surplus products self for
France we have to pay stiff duty. Great
Britain and her. colonies buy from us
abroad. Britain and her colonies are not
in position to put any obstruction in the
way of our exports or our products get
ting into their markets l,Ia But they have
name of Chamberlain and he gays he
wants to take leaf out of our book on
protection.
Tax 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 4 shillings quarter, about II cents
a bushel, and they do ,, not propose to put
north of the Canadian boundary.
1.-The British have awakened from their
slumber because the newspapers are say
Der of people going from the United
States into the Canadian Northwest it is
going to. excel this country I saw a
that this great influx of Americans was
Americanizing the Canadian Northwest,
but that nevertheless the Canadian peo-
pie were going to annex the United
States.
Too Cold for a Railroad.
"When some of the gentlemen who
were spending their congressional vaca-
ton in Alaska, came to me and wanted
me to build a railway right off there. I
told them it was too cold. 1 may possibly
build few more lines in North Dakota
and some in Washington. Maybe We will
put in little line or two in Minnesota,
if the people of Minnesota would wake up.
have tried hard in former years. used
to try harder in former years than 1 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
parison between you in prosperity, none
whatever, and you deserve all you have
got -. - .,o. A. n,o -
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 it and it
is their fault
out his plan, and there is great danger
that he will carry 1t out, England will
lay tax of IL cents a bushel upon your
wheat and you will have to pay it unless
you can find market for your wheat out
over the Pacific coast.
Last fall we carried between the
months of January and April about 10000
tons Of grain or flour and provisions by
way of Seattle. and that carrying contin-
ued along this summer. ave now are car
rying it from Minneapolis, but the man
on the Pacific coast says you ought not
to move that way you should leave the
market for US; it belongs to us So you
see that we are sometimes between the
out of it by hauling it from here to the
coast and by carrying it up through the
Pacific coast country for the farmers
freight carrying ships in the world, not
for the purpose of running them as ships
alone, but as an incident to our railway.
How to Fight Chamberlain.
Now the way to combat Mr.. Chamber
lain's. proposed policy is to. sell your
the Pacific coast trade. This would leave
the British without enough wheat and
would make them change their plan, but
tainly have to pay the tax.
IF We should undertake to haul your
grain for nothing it would do you 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 markets and
and her Canadian colonies. We want to
get ourselves into better line with them
than we have been. think Canada last
millions, from US, and we bought from
them about forty-five millions. They
cannot go on in that way indefinitely.
II am not saying much about the area
Of their land up there, and / am not so
much frightened about their climate or
the quality of their SOIL They are pref
ty near where Sir John Franklin met his
miSfortune-that is, somewhere near the
north pole. I have seen fields OF their
wheat and 1t was some of the handsomest
wheat ever saw, but it would not Weld
bushel to the acre. 1t was a handsome
growth with nothing in 1t. I knew these
things when / was interested in the Can
adam Pacific. Our people who have gone
there will, a great many of them, come
back. At the same time, they can raise
a great deal there.
"There is one thing that / wish to say
to you before / close and which l wish
to impress upon every one of your mem
bers of congress in both branches, and
that is this: See that the public domain
is preserved for the people who want to
occupy it as a whole. think in the past
three of four years about 10000, 600 acres
of land bave been taken under various
acts of congress, and l believe it is a
fact that at least not 10000, 900 acres
of the 100000 have been actually &C.
cupied at all.
Representatives Must Do the Rest.
Now these gentlemen who were ac-
tive in bringing this matter of irrigation
forward in congress and making it a
law remember once would not listen to
any discussion of the matter whatever.
I remember then they could not have
time for any consideration of it and con-
s:dered it arrant nonsense. But now