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


The conspicuous feature of the meeting
was the fullowing address by j. J. Hill.
president OF the Great Northern railway.
on the afternoon of the 18th. He was
greeted with great applause when he took
the platform.
Mr.. Hill's Speech.
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 1t
IL a great pleasure to me to be here to-
day. and may say 1t is pleasure for me
at all times and in all places to be able
to raise my hand or voice in whatever will
help the country in which we live. The
nation always has and always will de-
pend for everything that goes to make
the country worth living in upon the men
who cultivate the soil. There is more In
teiAgence, more patriotism, more Of every
thing that goes to make good citizenship.
On the farms than anywhere else in the
country. <Applause) 1t has always been
So from the early days to the present.
Many OF us here can remember what.
few years ago. we called the late I'M
pleasant ness. The men left their plows
In the furrow. half way across the field.
to follow the flag of their country. and
the farmers sons were the men who most
distinguished themselves. Country life is
q better fife to develop man than that
IN the city. 1t gives him better oppor
tunity. If he will take advantage of it..
And I want to impress upon the fathers,
and the mothers. if they are here. that
their children in growing up on the farm
should not look forward to the time
when they can leave IT,. when they can
have their hair banged and soaked down
and come to tho town to look for job.
Better men and better women live in the
country. 1he time will never come when
this country can afford to lose sight OF
the interests of the people who live on the
land. Everything that is of value comes
out of the farm, the forests. the mine.,aNd
tOh swan
thing that is worth having comes.
Farms Must support Everybody.
Now. we have not got the sea. We
Where are they? They are so far gone
out entirely. The trees that are left stand
, coxuts tn os You 0f havs In Minnesota tho
most valuable iron mines in the world.
but you have no coal. you. cannot make
with steam shovels and take il to other
parts of the country where they have coal
and coke and can make the metal into
things are to-day. and ills very doubtful
II iron will ever be successfully made 1r
Minnesota.
That leaves you the farm. from which
every man in the state must draw his
living. Your cities. your churches. your
schools, your universities. your lawyers.
er uur eVerybody o make their living out Of
the men who cultivate the soil. and this
must 60 on In Minnesota for all. time :,
faSmer what A. he,p yo him n0 Means to help
yourself The state has most excellent
expert mental farm. or q department a as.
tached to- the STATE hne 81 get
Was Younger Then.
There was time--twenty years last
the northern part Of it. when no rain
fell from seed time until the LIST of July.
The grain stood green in the fields. barely
tell. and they made a little more than
half crop. didn't know as much the,.
as I do now. was Younger and had
the farmers Of the state. SO that they
would not depend on one crop. I thought
I would help them to some good stock
cence uaughter) I thought when they
vantage OF It,; I got together some excel
myself. and ! brought out within two
years, mainly from the North of England
and Scotland. about 900 thoroughbred
distributed in this state and less than Nv,
that the people Of North Dakota derived
people of Minnesota did from 600. What
did they do? Most of them sold them.
, daughtSe ter gave gay the pigs and and they
good winter pork! Iaughter) This is
actually what they did with pigs that l
brought from the old country or with the
which paid as high as $500 for a single
animal. Those sent them were just as
good. They were misled. A lot of de-
who care no more about the farmer than
they do about the wind that whistles "
they can get his vote. told the farmers
great wheat-raising State of Minnesota,
trying IT, inJure it's good namely bring
ing the best stock that ! could find and
distributing it free of price to the people
kept 1t up and showed them that they
might in Minnesota feed cattle success
compete with our friends from Illinois
fed stock ten miles from here, raised the
fodder they ate. and l have a hatfull OF
gold medals that took in competition in
and Missouri, and Iowa and Nebraska,
and Kansas. and Indiana. tApplausc
he sent only a single steer to the live
stock show at Chicago because they had
pis1ro pneumonia ,1rnt down there and he
sweepstakes against all OF the states
when he showed four or five animals He
said he held for a Minnesota fed steer,
percentage OF dressed to live weight 74A
per cent killed in Chicago in competition,
with all the states. AS illustrating profit
In stock raising in Minnesota. he related
steers and took them to his farm ten
miles from Minneapolis. He paid $50 for
the steers. gave them $40 worth Of food
and sold them at sc per head. a profit
of $50 per head.
Now. if 1 can do this. any farmer In
the state can do it. if ne only will The
time will come when he must do it, and
ct is everybody's interest in the state to
Gee that he has fair opportunity
Speaking of the public domain. he said /:
There was time when our popular
campaign song was Uncle Sam is rich
enough to give us farm" To-day he
"a a n OILY hal ~