The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-01-22

Vincent IN grain wes 40 cents a hundred.
| Today it is Is cents a hundred. Cap
| plauSe.)
"All we need is our dividend; we get our
Z per cenE If we earn 1t, and we earn it
very easily. And want to assure you
barrel of flour from here to Hongkong
at 40 cents a hundred. Whether we do it
much figure in our treasury. Our stock
| holders would never know it. But YOU
would know it. Your cities would know
il. If Mr.. Chamberlain's policy is put
sorrow. / said before, we are ready to
keep step with you to the very farthest
limit that is possible. but we can't make
ourselves criminals I'm the eye of the
| law"
He asked the farmers what they were
doing to help. He said the people of
found that the interstate commerce COM
mission was about TO issue an order,
points shall be published. they petitioned
the commission to refrain from making
such an order because it would practically
| give our rates to foreign competitors and
| they would underbid the American rate
and so Avert the shipment of produce
from this country to others. That matter
commerce commission. He read an ex-
tract from the memorial sent by the ship
pers Of the Pacific Coast protesting
against having American commerce hand
icapped in the interests OF foreign ma
tons by such unwise action as this.
We are in competition in china with
Dutch and Italian lines. and if we are
compelled to make our rates public they
simply take advantage OF it. He
merchants. the bankers, the millers, the
farmers, in fact, everybody because we
all depend upon the man, as / said be-
| fore who cultivates the land, l want Won
to see that our hands are not tied nat
the markets are not closed to us Ind ii
the farmer is taxed 10c a bushel on his
on his provisions, his hogs, his cattle.
his lard, his tallow. his cotton, which he
has to sell, going to Great Britain, bear
you have no surplus or only a very small
compete for your food it they, need it;
| got to buy their bread from US or their
people will s%tarve.' l will call your at
t%ention to the fact, that twenty years
export a bushel Of wheat. or the last
crop it exported 80, 100000. At the rate
your American farmers are going into
that country. in ten years they will raise
all the wheat Great Britain needs. Then
| you will pay the tax, or you will hold
your wheat, or you will find a new mar
ket. You may then appreciate the value
Of the Oriental market. Possibly its in
ception was in the mind of an Oriental
dreamer but it makes no difference
about the dream as long as the dream
comes true. (~Applause.) When that
| time comes / want you to bear in mind
that an old man called your attention to
it before. (Applause.)
Some Comparisons.
To show that Minnesota was not max
ing the progress which she should. Mr..
Hill took the receipts of the Great North
ern road in Minnesota towns, namely:
Anokas st: Cloud, Alexandria, Barnes
! ems, HallOck and st. Vincent,
lions five years age. was $3.50, 900. The
435. 000. the increase being $4S5, 600 of
which $14S, 900 was at Thief River Falls.
He then took the following North Da-
kota towns: Larimore, Park River, Lang
don. Devils Lake, Cando, Rugby, Gran
vile, Minot, and Souris and thus sum-
married. the result:
a business of 1852, 600, against $3.50, 900
on the Minnesota towns. Minnesota has
grown to 81, 435, O0O-or an increase of
s4S5, 900. Dakota has grown from $751;
GOO to 2,SO4, 600. or an Increase of $685.
600.
The time has come when you are not
try is not. There are large areas of the
best farming land in the state of Mime
sofa where there are not as many acres
under cultivation as there We're twelve
or fifteen years ago. Some parts of our
road in Minnesota go through at night
| bCSduSC L "dht " Scc lDS dpSOIulc
neglect and Infamous farming. l don
travel that way in day time. 1 tried
everything | could in the way of teaching
by giving them stock, by helping them in
every possible way to do better farm
ing. There is only one thing that will in
the end teach them to do better farming
and that is when the Reaper gathers
them in and somebody else takes their
place.
'If any of you gentlemen think that 1
have painted the picture in too high
| cOlOrS DIV calling YOUR attention TO what
Mr.. Chamberlain is doing and to what is
the absolute and immediate effect that
ready to answer for the faith that is In
me. l know l am right. and / know the
time Is coming when you will have to
000, 600 to $50, 900, 900 a year in these three
northwestern states unless you can find
a new market for your stuff. Where will
you go? a you take it there for moth
1.-THE African will eat cornmeal. He
4 doesn't care so much for wheat flour. 1t
is a singular fact, but it is true, that
every nation, including India, once they
get wheat flour, prefer it to all other food.
l was talking to an intelligent Japanese
universities. and in his country an emf
nent physician. He told me that the
cause of their great tendency to dropsical
complaint was the large proportion Of
rice which they consume and that an
imperial commission had made this report
to the government. and for that reason
You nave always been in the habit. I
think. of feeling that we are at all times
ready to do anything In our power to
help you, but when the exercise of power
in the carrying of your business to new
markets, to take the place of the mar
ket that you are losing becomes a crime,
and we lay ourselves open to fine and i'm
prisonment, 1 nave got to tell you that
we don't want either. and you have got
to see, If you want to, whether your
representatives are ready to stand for
your interests or against your interests.
AS far as we are concerned we are per-
fectly happy. AS / said before. our divi-
dends won't suffer whether we carry one
barrel of -four or 200, 600 barrels of
flour; There is very little in it. But there
is this in it: l always hold as a principle
that in operating a railroad our greatest
prosperity came from the greatest pros
perity of the people living On the line,
and unless we can take the natural re-
sources of the country land your natural
resources are confined practically to what
is raised on the farm)-unless we can
take the natural resources of the coun-
try to some market where they can be
sold with a profit to the man who raises
i them. who creates them, the time is not
far distant when he will stop creating
them.
You can sell out or abandon your
! farm. We cannot abandon our railroad.
We might sell the shares, but the railroad
must be there; it is under contract to be
operated and 1t has got to be operated.
Now, it is our selfish interest to put the
whole situation where it is within your
reach, within the reach of the people liv-
ing on the line, to develop the local in
terests. whatever they may be, with a
profit to themselves, or else our invest
ment is worthless. And, following that