The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-01-22
Vincent @ grain was 20 sents q, hundred!
Today It II Is cents q hundred. Cap

Vincent . srair, was 10 sents q hundred!
Today y Z Is cents : hundred. sAp-
aAli We need is our dividend; We Get o.,ss
there is hot much profit in carrylng 9
at 40 cents hundred. Whether we do #
or whether we do not do 1t, does not cut
much figure in our treasury. Our stock.
o0f kaG~ ayes policy xsSa Is H put
in effect you will know 1t greatly to your
keep step with you to the very farthest
limit that Is possible, but we. can't make
ourselves criminals in the eye Of the lt.s';
doing to help. He said the people of
WashhiHst29nt we're awake and when they
mission was about to issue an order.
that all rates made to or from Asiatic
such an order because It would practically
give our rates to foreign competitors and
they wo3S iSa the
is now pending before the inter state
e sast Sy an
against having American commerce hand
toRR By such s anwse aeto1 as so ts
English German, French. seandinavian.
eS%Ss cd NIKE our Sass aa p"elie &c Try
said he wanted business men, the
farmers. '? in fact. everybody s BECAUSE ", we
all depend upon the man. as l said be-
fore who cultivates the land I want you
the 'i markets are not closed IT" to US su and il
the farmer is taxed 1Oc bushel on his
grain and proportionate tax is placed
his lard, his tallow, his cotton, which he
has to sell, going. to Great Britain, bear
in mind, you win pay the tax. When
sur Surplus. s then they Viii vi V Come here and
compete for your food it they need it; :,
Y s" may say oh WELL they hays
people viii starve.' I win call your at
tention to the fact. that twenty years
ago the province of Manitoba did not
e e1Gp 9sse the the a ass
your American farmers are going into
that Sey e re en Kean they nsd ben
you will pay the tax: or you will hold
kst: YeS may then appreciate the value
dreamer, but 1t makes no difference
about the dream as long as , the dream
that an old man called your attention to
it before. (Applause.) =
Some Comparisons. ~
To show that Minnesota was not n:nk-
qE the he weh she shoq NJ
road in to%ns namely
se Ha h1et K Snd e. v st are Stew
lions Ave years ago was $3.50. 200. The
ending s?th Of June last liz i ya aso 81,
He then took the following North Da-
SsV sn aert R RSs Gs aS
married the result:
ten Of ayans asS
on the Minnesota towns. Minnesota has
grown to 81, 435, O00-or an increase Of
na dSo has Erown from 81 szsS
"The time has come when, you are not
Cites as st bnt xoS you
best farming land in the State Of Mime,
er wesfs as a Ssre
road in Minnesota go through at night
R 1eeISse ana o INFAMOUS farming rn dont
travel that way in { DAY time :, 1.o tried
gVng way to do Better
ing: There is only one thing that will in
the end teach them to do better farming
hem 1ha and + else e
III any of you gentlemen think that I
c caSs P by Calling your attention to what
Mr.. Chamberlain is doing and to what is
the absolute and immediate effect that
Sea a " to answer a for the faith that is in
me. know I am right. and I know the
time is coming when you will have to
600. 900 to $50, 600, 900 a year in these three
northwestern states unless you can find
a new market for your stuff Where will
you, go? Can you take 1t there for moth
aThe African will eat cornmeal. He
doesn't care SO much for wheat Hour It
every S1 nation. ineiuding India. once they
I was talking to an intelligent japanese
nent physician. He told me that the
cause Of their great tendency to dropsicall
rice which they consume and that an
imperial commission had made this report
to the government. and for that reason
'" "Yo wa have always been in the habit
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 crime.
and we lay ourselves open to fine and i'm
prisonment, I have got to tell you that
we don't want either. and you have got
to see, II you want to-; whether your
representatives are ready to stand for
As far as we are concerned we are per-
fectiy happy. As I said before, our divi-
dends won't suffer whether we carry one
barrel Of flour or 1000, 900 barrels Of
flour. There is very little in 1t. But there
is this in it: always hold as q principle
that in operating 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 (and 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 q profit to the man who raises
Them who creates them, the time Is not
far distant when he will stop creating
them.
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.