The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-01-21

haps the most notable of all. It 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 fs more intelligence, more pa
triotism. more Of everything that goes
to make good citizenship, on the farms
than anywhere else in the country. Gap
pa rIIs It has "a. always been SO, from the
here can remember what. a few years
ago. we called the late unpleasantness.'
half way across the f 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
q man than in the city. It gives him
better opportunity p If he WIN take ad
upon the fathers 1ii 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 e9r q6 the Better TRa
afford to lose sight Of the interests Of
thing is Of Talne
OF the farm, the forests, the mine and the
sNa-fOur sources from which everything
that Is worth having comes.
had some fine forests IN Minnesota. but
where are they? They are so far gone
out entirely. The trees that are left
standing in your forests are practically
all counted; You have in Minnesota the
but you have no coal. you cannot make
iron. All you can do is to dig iron ore
with steam st an, shoyels and take It to other
iron and steel. You cannot do it here as
things +! are today. and it is very doubt
That leaves you the farm. from which
living: Your cities. Your churches. your our
your doctors. your merchants. your mil:
must go on in Minnesota for ali time.
Nov what h are are you doing to help the
Fl hs slate has most to ex nsp
lent experimental farm. or a department
fIe to the state does
preparations for the other end.
There was a time-let me see-twenty
years last spring IN this state and par
no rain fell from seed time until the 1st
Ct July The ,g grain stood green in the
no Ss sevsy s they July mads little
more than half crop. I didn't know as
much then as do now; I was younger
help the farmers Of the state. SO that
thought ! would you'd help them to some good
innocence Naughter) thought that when
they had the opportunity they would take
herds Of ., got and ds s
for myself. and brought out within two
years, mainly from the north Of England
s sn. seou s sS of bes
200 in North Dakota. Now. want to say
that the Of 0 derived
Gfs they Do! Most OF Of them SOLD sofa tSe
sa them snm Rs' h ana H sssy
actually what they did with the pigs
with the stock which was bred from this
stock and for which paid prices as high
as 5000 for single animal.
Farmers MIsIed by Demaoosues.
"They were misled. A lot of designing
demagogues-rank demagogues-who care
no more re ABOUT the than they do
get his VOTE told the farmers that / was
trying to reflect upon the great wheat
re is sood nameby she best
stock that could find and distributing it
free Of price to the people Of the state;
showed them that they ' might, in M Nj aau
sofa. feed cattle successfully and send
stock from Minnesota to compete with our
miles from here. raised the fodder it ate.
! took in competition in Chicago with our
Iowa. and Nebraska. and Kansas. and In
~ Profits Ii Stock Raising.
he on that
stock show at Chicago because they had
pleuroepneumonia down there. and he took
Stakes against ali Of the State states When e he
showed four or five animals. He said he
held for Minnesota fed steer, the high-
centage Of dressed to live weight TAX
with all the states ;ate AS Illustrating prof
bunch of steers and took them to his
ten miles fnr fro from Minneapolis He
1890 worth Of food and sold them at
$1,000 per head. a profit Of $500 per
A Public Domain.
''Now. If I can do this. any farmer in
the state can do it, If he only will. The
time win come when he must do it. and
There was time when our popular
campaign song was Uncle Sam Is Rich
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 cultivated without irri-
cation is gone. and the people are selling
their homes in the United States and
moving out into Northwestern Canada.
west Of Winnipeg: where they can buy
people have gone there than many of our
men would like to acknowledge. They
have large area Of country. A couple
Of months ago. at Bismarck, made
statement in regard to their country. and
was to some extent misquoted. and will
take occasion to correct 1t. They have an
area north Of us equal, practically. to that
Of the United States. Only a compare
lively small portion OF that can be culti-
waited with profit. They probably have an
area three times that Of Minnesota. where
they can cultivate the land with profit.
and they raise good crops. North Of that
IL Is too near the north pole"
Proceeding he explained that six rail-
roads agreed to contribute $4,000 each, for
five years to conduct e campaign Of sdu-
lecture and call upon men IN public ,s life
order TO reclaim the public domain which
the platform upon which they stood was:
al. That not another: acre Eof public
land shall ever hereafter be granted to
any state or territory for any purpose
''2. That the national government shall
build the irrigation works necessary to
hiring water within the reach of the set.