The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-01-21
annual parliament OF northwest Farmers
A Notable Address by J. j. HILL in which He Out
lines the Importance of Finding New rlar-
kets for the Products of the Northwest.


irrigation works shall proceed as rapidly
as the land is utilized for small farms
by actual settlers. 49,,
grants and INDICATED land scrip shall be
located within a reasonable time or else
surrendered at fair valuation to the
nrtlonal government. No more script OF
any, kind shall ever be issued.
&c. That every state shall enact laws
that beneficial use is the basis, the
measure and the limit of all right to wat
right to the use of land for irrigation
shall inhere to the land irrigated. =,
~. That it should be the law that all
first belong to the state where they orig
mate, without regard to state lines, that
Is, the rain falling from the heavens on
IS. That the national government
shall preserve it's existing forests, plant
floods and save for beneficial use, the
fioodwaters that now run to waste.
80. That the states shall enact home
to actual settlers and that no lease Of
state land shall be made
Making New Markets.
ter. he went to the state of Washington
to attend a meeting of farmers. They
were getting less than SOC a bushel for
their wheat: The railroad gave them a
reduction OF ten per cent on the freight
rate, but what he tried to impress upon
them was that they needed new mar
kets. There We're not enough people to
eat wheat in the markets they were SELL
ing in to consume all they had to sell.
Well. now. our efforts to find a new
market have been successful sue
cessful than I had hoped for.
Last February and March the mills in
Minneapolis began, in a small way, to
ship flour to Australia and to China and
flour n9FEpf-frnno Minnaan
way Of the Pacific coast to Australia
but by taking advantage of all the con-
ditions entering into the question, Of
directions with full loads. we were able
to give a rate from Minneapolis to Hong
kong of 40 cents hundred-4O cents a
mill a ton a mile-the lowest transport
tation that ever was thought of on the
face of the earth. The rate of transport
miles5 IS g e eenes hundred 0t S tsH
1t is 1900 miles of rail transportation
from here to the Pacific coast, and then
5000 miles of water.
from being IAN Oriental dreamer" to a
crank Qaughte), but 1 am ready at all
times to plead guilty to any Intelligent
in getting new markets for what we
produce in this northwestern country;
because every bushel that you take out
send to a new market, every bale of cot
ton you send to new market, every
thing that you. send to a new market,
so much less, and it is not here to com
pete with our own shipments to Liver
pool or Antwerp.
1T is just as much advantage to the
man raising wheat in Ohio that the farm
er in Washington shall send his wheat
to the orient or the farmer in Minnesota
shall send his wheat to the Orient, as
cause that much wheat is taken out of
We'll. now. our efforts in that direc-
success. think 1 can give you some
that subject"
He quoted in detail the ports in Aus
tralia and the Orient where shipments Of
wheat and flour had been made, showing
that for the fiscal year. ending June
SCI. 4ss barrels Of flour had been shipped
That business has only begun, and yet
the largest orders for -four that have ever
come to Minneapolis from any quarter
this demand that today. it is making it
self felt in the price of every bushel of
wheat that is sold in this market The
lowest estimate that he could make of
the enhanced price Of grain, owing to
cents. and he thought that actual figures
would show it to be cents a bushel.
Now. if it is cents a bushel on $780,
in our hrse north ao
1t is worth saving, it is worth making an
effort to bring it about, and We have in
every way in our power tried to make it
Efforts Distracted by Legislation.
Now. what help do we get? When We
make a rate that is the lowest rate that
ever was made for transportation in the
world. we have to defend ourselves from
tie state. and from the nation De cause
We are Restraining trade!" daughter
selves. from restraining trade" 1t is
said that if We had the power, the power
must be used to restrain trade. They for
get that in order to compete with the
merchant marine Of every nation flying a
commercial flag on the high seas We must
have power to carry that trade forward.
1t takes power to carry that trade to the
their hands for it? But they forget the
greater contains the less. The power
ship a barrel of flour from here to Hong
kong at 80 cents more than it costs to
takes some power. The power to expand
trade makes US criminals and we are de-
Tending lawsuits today because we are
charged with the power to restrain trade;
carry the trade on, you must have some
power somewhere, no matter how you
exercise 1t, you are a. public criminal
against the law Of your country. Uaugh-
Now, the time is coming when it won't
be nay funeral-it will be yours. Mr..
Chamberlain. a year ago, took leaf out
Of our political economy and started out
a political campaign in Great Britain in
favor of a preferential tariff, in favor of
tariff under Yhich Great Britain would
admit the agricultural products of her
colonies free, and the colonies in return
would give her free access to their mar
ketS, and tax everybody else; Great Brit
ain. on the other hand, agreeing to put a
tariff or a tax on the imports of every
other nation.
1.-THE agricultural industries of this
country are enormous. Last year the
figures. as I remember them, furnished
by the agricultural department of the
general government, gave three thousand
million dollars as the value of the pro-
ducts of the farms of this country. Great
above 20 per cent of all our exports.
Suppose they put a tariff of IL cents a
hushel on our wheat. Remember that the
surplus wheat we export fixes the price
on the entire crop-that which We sell
among ourselves and that which we sell
fixes the market price. II your wheat is
taxed 10 cents a bushel. on $4,000. 900
bushels in your three northwestern states
it would amount to $Is.000.000. That you
have got to pay. These conditions are
not far from YOU. Every day you see in
winning his way: He has made more
progress in the first year than he ex-
pected to in the first three years when
he took 1t UP year ago, and 1t is only
a question of time when you have got
to pay this tax If you send your wheat