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

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have many cases that might be called Z
river n harbor Improvement firm. II. is
sonlsaoW a kind of scheme In which
efetSDoay wants to get his share. Many
est value II Importance. Making har-
nors. cutting away SAND bars so tina large
snips ean enter the harbors and carry
away the produce Is q very beneficial en-
lefprlse to the country. But there are
many OF these enterprises where the mon
ey Is absolutely thrown away.
think the river and harbor bill
amounts to something like 500, 600, 900.
NOW, they could spare $1,000 600 of this
for carrying out the promotion of irriga~
thrown away, because by the time they
nave expended $4,000, 900 or SIS, 900, 600
the returns from the enterprise would pay
LOT what 1t cost n in addition make a
revenue fun that would go on forever
increasing as long as there was any land
Now the government likes to spend
money. don't know but what the next
contract they viii let will be for lathing
and Ir plasntering the bottom Of the Missouri
NORTH, they have been very good to us
Tor many years. You would not think
that the government would be good to US.
put 1T Is. We own all the boats on the
Red River of the North and nave for
years. although 1 would be glad to sell
AZ the boats for half of the annual APP
proprlations that are spent on the river
FOR the purpose of improving the naviga-
ton; Now we have all the boats and
most OF the railroads but the govern
that they send out their engineers to
throw away the public money with the
What fixes the price here and the price
at which our surplus products sell for
when exported to other countries ? Into
B ETanf we and haY her to c 8lg n Z sti nuS duty fyom Gre at
about three-fourths OF everything we sell
abroad. Britain n her colonies are not
IN position to put any obstruction in the
WAY OF 1Olr PXnnrfC or nlr f,TnHnnfS pof.
ting into their markets. But they have
got a rash young fellow over there by the
name OF Chamberlain n he says he
wants to take a 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 win be taxed
about 4 shillings a quarter, about ~ cents
a bushel. and they do not propose to put
that 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-
States into the Canadian Northwest It IS
going to excel this country. l saw a
statement the other day to the effect
Americanizing the Canadian Northwest,
but rnar nevertheless tic Canada. pee
We're going to annex the United
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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, /
told them 1t was too cold. / may possibly
build a few more lines in North Dakota
and some in Washington. Maybe we will
put IN little Inc orEt#e in s.-fi.s,ssaszsrt
II the people of Minnesota would wake up.
l have tried hard in former years-I used
to try, harder in former years than l do
noW.to arouse them, and harder than
had to with your people. But 1t was not
or 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.
Now I don't say that the people of
Minnesota deserve they have got,
don't often tur;i their b aelss o. their own
welfare. A man will come round and
see what he thinks belongs TO him. but
is their fault. o
out his plan, and there is great danger
that he will carry it out, England will
lay a tax of u cents a bushel upon your
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 10000
YEA g .a 2e ssa }bilse SAN and IT. that CARRYING contin-
rying 1t from Minneapolis, but the man
the Pacific coast says. you ought not
to move that way; you should leaye the
see that. we are sometimes between the
devil and the deep sea. We can get more
out of it by hauling it from here to the
Pacific coast country for the farmers
there. and We own some of the largest
freight-carrying ships in the world, not
alone, but as a incident to our railway.
How to EIuht Chamberlain.
Now the way to combat Mr.. Chamber
lain's proposed policy is to sell your
wheat in the East, CARRYING it by way of
the British without enough wheat and
would make them change their plan, but
If you go on the old lines you will GER
IF we should undertake to haul your
grain for nothing. 1t would do yon no good
in the world and it would ruin us. On
Is to create new markets, and that is what
Is coming up-creating new markets and
reciprocal relations with Great Britain
get ourselves into better line with them
than we have been. | think Canada last
year bought about one hundred end forty
millions from us. and we bought from
them about forty-five millions. They
cannot go on in that way indefinitely.
Il am not saying much about the area
much frightened about their climate or
the quality of their soil. They are pref
", near where Sir John Franklin met his
misfortune-that is, somewhere near the
north pole. / rave seen fields of their
wheat and it was some of the handsomest
wheat I ever saw, but IL would not WELD
a bushel to the acre. 1t was a handsome
growth with nothing in it. I knew these
things when / was Interested in the Cam
adam Pacific. Our people who have gone
there VIII, q great many of them, come
back. At the same time, they can raise
a great deal there.
There is one thing that I wish to say
fQ Won before I close md u,bjnl, T x,i.I
to impress upon every one of your mem
bers of congress in both branches. and
that Is this; See that the public domain
occupy it as a whole. / think IN the past
three of four years about 90,0 0 600 acres
Of n have been taken under various
acts of congress- and II helieua IL 10 q