The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-01-21


held in Minneapolis last week was per-
haps the most notable of all. 1t was
addressed by many prominent men,
and an address by Mr.. J. j. Hill, presi-
dent of the Great Northern railroad,
was the special event of the meeting.
After an exchange of greetings with
his audience, he said:
There is more intelligence, more pa
triotism, more Of everything that goes
to make good citizenship, on the farms
than anywhere else in the country. Gap
piause.) 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 unpleasantness.
the men left their plows in the burrows.
half way across the field. to follow the
flag of their country, and the farmers
sons were the men who most distin-
Country life is better fitted to develop
a man than in the city. 1t gives him
better opportunity, if he will take ad-
upon the fathers and mothers, if they
are here. that their children in growing
upon the farm should not look, forward
when they can have. their hair banged
and soaked down, and come to the town
to look for a job. Better men and bet
win never come when this country can
afford to lose sight of the interests of
the people who live on the land.
of the farm the Forests 81 the mine and the
sea-four sources from which everything
that is worth having comes.
:. Now, we have not got the sea we
where are they? They are SO far gone
that ten or fifteen years will wipe them
out entirely. The trees that are left
all counted. You have in Minnesota the
most valuable iron mines in the world.
but you have no coal. you cannot make
with steam shovels and take it to other
parts of the country where they have coal
and coke and can make the metal into
things are today, and it is very doubt
in Minnesota.
living. Your cities, your churches. your
schools, your universities, your lawyers,
your doctors. your merchants, your mil.
the men who cultivate the soil, and this
must go on in Minnesota for all time.
Now what are you doing to help the
yourself. The state has a most excel
lent experimental farm. or department
attached to the state university. 1t does
preparations for the other end.
There was time-let me see-twenty
years last spring, in this state. and par
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no rain fell from seed time until the LIST
of July. The grain stood green in the
fields. barely living. In July some CO.
more than half crop. I didn't know as
much then as l do now: was younger
and had less experience. thought 1 would
they would not depend on one crop. /
thought l would help them to some good
stock and cattle and hogs. And in my
}peh 6 that tss
excellent herds of beef and dairy cattle
for myself, and brought out within two
and Scotland. about 800 thoroughbred
bulls. Something. over 600 of them were
distributed in this state and less than
that the people of North Dakota derived
more benefit from less than 200 than the
people of Minnesota did from 600: What
Naughter) l gave them pigs, and they
killed them in the fall-and they We're
good winter pork! Gaughter) This. is
that 1 brought from the old country. or
with the stock which was bred from this
stock and for which paid prices as high
as $500 for single animal.
Farmers Mis'ed by Demasosues.
"They We're misled. A lot Of designing
demagogues-rankd emagogues-whoc care
about the wind that whistles. if they can
get his vote. told the farmers that / was
trying to reflect upon the great wheat
jure its good namely bringing the best
stock that 1 could find and distributing it
free of price to the people of the state.
showed them that they might, in Mime ne
sofa, feed cattle successfully and send
stock from Minnesota to compete with our
friends from nos FED stock ten
and have hat full of gold medals that
l took in competition in Chicago with bur
friends from Illinois and Missouri and
Iowa Iowa. !. and Nebraska and Kansas and In
Profits in Stock Raising.
Mr.. Hill proceeded to say that one year
he sent only single steer to the live
pleuro- pneumonia down there, and he took
seven first prizes. He had taken the sweep
stakes against all Of the states when he
held for a Minnesota fed steer. the high
centage Of dressed to live weight TAN
with all the states. AS illustrating prof
1t in stock raising in Minnesota. he re-
lated that two. years ago he bought a
farm. ten miles from Minneapolis. He
paid $4,000. for the. steers. gave them
$1,000 worth Of food and sold them at
S SEQ per head profit of $500 per
Public Domain.
Now, If can do this, any farmer in
the state can do it, if he only will. The
time will come when he must do it. and
it is everybody's interest in the state to
see that he has a fair opportunity.
There was time when our popular
Enough to Give Us All Farm" Today
he has not any farms to give us that
we can cultivate. All Of the agricultural
land that can be cultivate without irri-
cation is gone, and the people are selling
their homes in the United States and
moving out into Northwestern Canada,
YES, vest Of Win Winnings where 1e they can buy
PEOPLE have gone there than many Of our
meE would like to acknowledge. They
have large area of country. A couple
of months ago, at Bismarck, I made a
statement In regard to their country, and
was to some extent misquoted, and will
area north of us equal. practically. to that
Of the United States. Only compare
lively small portion of that can be cult
waited with profit. They probably have an
they can cultivate the land with profit.
II is too near the north pole
Proceeding he explained that six rail-
roads agreed to contribute IS. 600 each for
five years to conduct a campaign of edu-
cation. sending men about the country to
lecture and call upon men in public life
to urge them to- promote irrigation in
order to reclaim the public domain which
the platform upon which they stood was:
II. That not another acre of public
land shall ever hereafter be granted to
any state or territory for any purpose
whatever. >
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