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

i used to try harder in former
years than | do now. to arouse them.
and harder than | had to do with your
people. But it was not of any use.
And now you have grown in advance
of them until there is no comparison
between YOU in prosperity. None
whatever. And you deserve al You
have got. Now. | 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 L
and it is their own fault. Now if this
man Chamberlain carries out his plan
and | say to o that there is great
danger that he will carry it ont. Eng
land will lay q tax of twelve cents
a bushel upon your wheat and YOU
vii have to pay it unles YOU can find
a market for our wheat out through
the Pacific coast. Last fall We car
ried between the months of January
and April about thirty thousand tons
of grain or flour and provisions by
way of Seattle and that carrying o
tinued along through the ummer We
are carrying it from Minneapolis now.
But the man on the Pacific coast saws
you ought not to do that, YOU ought
to leave that market for us-it be
longs to us. So you 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 coast
than by carrying it up through the
Pacific coast country for the farmers
there. and we W some of the largest
freight carrying ships in the world,
not for the purpose of running
them as ships alone. but as an Incl
lent to our railway. Now the way to
combat Mr.. Chamberlain's proposed
policy is to sell your wheat in the
East. carrying it by way of the Pacific
coast trade-this would leave the Bri-
fish without enough wheat and would
make them change their plan. but if
YOU go on on the old lines you will
certainly have to pay the tax. Now,
if we should undertake to haul your
grain for nothing it would do you
ne good in the world, and it would
ruin us. On the other hand, what
would do Won good is to create new
markets. And that is the question
that is coming up-creating new mar
kets, and creating reciprocal relations
with Great Britain and her Canadian
Colonies. We want to get ourselves
into better line with them than we
have been. | think Canada last year
bought about one hundred and forty
miiliOn from us. and we bought from
them about forty-fiye million. They
cannot go on in that way indefinitely.
| 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 pretty near where Sir John
Franklin met his misfortune, that is
near the north pole. | have seer
fields of their wheat-and it was some
of the handsomest wheat | ever saw
but it would not yield a bushel to
the acre. 1t is a handsome growth,
, with nothing in it. | knew these
things when | was interested in the
Canadian Pacific. Our people who
! have gone over there will a great
many of them come back. AT the
: same time they can raise a great
deal there. | will tell you what they
!, have done there. At the feet of the
! Rocky Mountains the Canadian gov
+, rnmen gave to Mr.. Gault a land
! grant of | think ten thousand acres il
$ he would build an %irrigating ditch o.
{ canal. He has done so and the scheme
Z is a success-the number of tons PEI
mile carried over the Canadian Paci
fc through that irrigated district i
I as heavy as it is between Barnesvill,
{ and st. Vincent. and that is east o
the Rocky mountains. But they hav
a magnificent scheme of irrigation
and they gave about ten thousan
e acres of land. Mr.. Gault | think get
? for this irrigated land from fifteen t
e twenty dollars per acre.
. Save the Public Land.
q There is one thing that | wish L
say to you before | close and whicl
S | wish you to impress on every one o
e vour members of congress in bot
s branches. and that is this: See tina
the public domain is preserved for IL,
people who van to occupy it as
r home. | think in the past three or fouI
h years about ninety million acres o
+ land have been taken under various
acts of congress. and | believe it i!
a fact that at least not twenty million:
s of the ninety million have been actu
n ally occupied at all. Now these gen
: tlemen who were active in bringing
s this matter of irrigation forward il
r and making it a law re
o member once would not listen to an.
! discussion of the matter whatever.
remember when they did not have
time for any consideration of it ant
considered it arrant nonsense. Blu
now some of them have gone after thu
d irrigation project and provided for thu
appropriations to promote 1t so tina
v certain individuals who have go
hold of some of the land to be irri
gated by one means or another ma.
n have their lands irrigated for them b,
e the government for their benefit
x And the proceeds of the disposal o
the public land, the fund that yol
people have contributed to by the pur