Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-21

We cannot disobey the law. (Applause.)
YOU We have from the beginning. =
: we have led II every Reduction 81
: rates on agricultural products that !
= the Northwest. We have never need
= ed spur. We have increased the =
= traffic as fast as we could. and by !
larger tonnage we are able to reduce
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When We took the road. twenty-five
sss shs rate from na St vHssSt
is Is cents hundred. (Applause.)
All we need is our dividend; we get our
z per cent If we earn it. and We earn it
there is not much profit in carrying
barrel of -four from here to Hongkonk at
40 cents hundred. Whether We do it or
much figure in our treasury. Our stock
would know it. Your cities would know
Of Minnesota will know it. If Mr.. Cham Z
berlain's policy Is put in effect you will
know It greatly to your sorrow.
with You to the very farthest limit that is
criminals in the eye of the law.
doing to help. He said the people of
Washington were awake and when they
round that the Interstate commerce COM
all rates made to or from Asiatic points
shall be published they petitioned the
commission to refrain from making such
give our rates to foreign competitors and
/. they would underbid the American rate
and so divert the shipments Of produce
ter is now pending before the Interstate
commerce commission. He read an ex-
tract from the memorial sent by the ship
against having Amer icn' p eommerce
handicapped in the interests Of foreign
nations by such unwise action as this.
rn we are in comps siti IN China with
Dutch and Italian lines and if We are
compelled to make our rates public they
simply take advantage of it. He said he
wanted business men,. the merchants, the
bankers, the milers, the farmers in fact
everybody. because we all depend upon
the man; as said before. who cultivates
hands are not tied, that the markets are
not closed to us. and If the farmer is
taxed 10 cents bushel on his grain and
visions. his hogs, his cattle, his lard his
taiiow; his cotton which he has to sell.
gGng sS Great ass t sFta bear in mind you
then they will come here and compete
for your f fed If they they need t.
You may say "Oh' well. they have got
to buy their bread from us or their peo-
PIE will Starye." | will call your atten-
ton tor to- the fact that twenty years ago
bushel Of wheat. OF the last crop it ex-
ported $4,000. 900 bushels. At the rate your
american. farmers are going, into that
the wheat Great Britain needs. Then
you will pay the tax. or you will hold
y yet wheat n or you will find a new mar
of the Oriental market Possibly it's in" in
ception was in the mind OF IAN Oriental
afeame H. put it makes no difference
comes true. (Applause.) When that time
comes; want You to bear in mind that
an 3id man called your attention to it
10 show that Minnesota was not maxi
1ng the progress which she should, Mr..
Hill took the receipts of the Great North
Vile Thief River Falls. ST Hilaire. Stew
ems; Hallock and st. Vincent
five years ago was $o5O.OOo. The he . Year
ending June 80 last il was 81 .4s5 900. the
increase being $485. 600. of which S14s, 600
was at Thief River Falls.
NOW. l commence in North Dakota
I.arimore (west of Grand Forks about
11aaa5pnty miles, s,e increased from $io1.OOO in
$4,000 to s170,0Oo; Langdon from SCI. oO,
70 SD goo: Devils Lake from si32.OOO
' to SS3sooD: Cando from $4,000 to S235.-
"", HNuSUN from TO $lGCN0.
Granville from nothing to $133. OO1. Mint
from $124OOO to $4,000; Souris, where
the road was built two years ago and
ins back i've years ago to cor compare pare w H1n
S:cSS9,OoO; Bottineau from $4,000 to $1s3,-
business of $752OOO. against $3.50, 900 in
the Minnesota towns. Minnesota has
grown to 81 ,435 900. or an increase Of
5000. Dakota has grown from S75o.-
0M to $o.S04.O0O or an increase of ST.
552. 900. w.
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The time has come when you are Z
= not growing as fast you think YOU Z
q are. There are large areas Of the !
. best farming land in the State of Min :
= nesota where there are not as many .
. acres under cultivation as there were {
q twelve or fifteen years ago. Some Z
parts Of our road in Minnesota I go :
i! through at night because don't want =
q to see the absolute neglect and in .
q famous farming. Z