The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-21
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Canadian northwest, but that nevertheless
the Canadian people, we've going. to annex
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Canadian northwest, but that nevertheless
the Canadian people. we've going to annex
tho United States. - - !.
r. 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 fol-
low it and carry 1t further and further.
Put when the was was over we thought
the goyernrne emit would go about reducing
the debt But it did not. The govern
ment,- however, did continue to foster its
infant industries. Our infant industries
have grown to an extent that $780, 00,-
900 represent one OF them, that is, the
paper price, Now they have got it down
to IA or Is per cent on the dollar. I think
it is worth more than that myself, but ]
am not taking on new jobs.
Lefthander for Opponents of;..Merger.
| When some of the gentlemen who were
spending their congressional vacation in
Alaska came to me and wanted me to
build a railway right off there, I told
| them 1t was too cold. -.
I may possibly build a few more lines
! in North Dakota and some in Washing
ton. Maybe we will put In a 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 I do now-to arouse
them, and harder than I 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 comparison between you
| in prosperity; none whatever and you de-
serve all you have. got. --s 3. -
Now don't say that the people Of Min
nesota deserve what they have got, be-
cause 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. be-"
! Now If this man Chamberlain carries
| out his plan and there is great danger
that he will carry it out, England will lay
la tax; of IL cents a bushel upon your
wheat and you will have to pay it unless
you can find d market for your wheat out
over the Pacific coast.
| Last fall we carried between the months
of, January and April about 10000 tons OF
gran; or -four and provisions by way OF
Seattle, and that carrying continued along
1 this summer We now are carrying II
from Minneapolis, but the man on the
Pacific coast says you ought not to move
that way, you should leave the market fol
JUS; it belongs to us. So you. see that we
I are sometimes between the devil and the
ldeep sea. ! We can get more out Of 1t by
hauling 1t from here to- the coast and by
| carrying it up thru the Pacific coast coun.
/ try for the farmers there, and we owr
i some of the largest freight carrying ships
| in the world, not for the purpose of run
ming them as ships alone but as an Incl.
dent to our railway.
How to Flight Chamberlain.
Now the way to cenbat Mr.. Chamber
lain's proposed policy is to sell your wheu,
| in the east; carrying it by way of tho
Pacific coast trade, This would leave the
! British without enough wheat and would
make them change their plan. but If vol
go on the old lines you Will certainly
have to pay the tax.
!. II we should undertake to haul YOU
4 grain for nothing 1t would do you nj
1 good in the world and it would ruin US
i On the other hand. what would do yol
4 good is to create new markets. and tina
is what is coming up--crea ting new mar
4 kets and reciprocal re: atfons with Grea
Britain and her Canadian colonies. w,
want to get ourselves into better line wi.f
Il them than we have been I think Can
ada last year bought about one hundred
and forty millions from US, and we bough