Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-02-18

IN the history OF the state. The one
held In Minneapolis last week was per-
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 Is more intelligence, more pa
to- make 1t that
than anywhere else in the country. CAP
plausel It has always been SO. from the
cary cary "a days to the present. Many Of US
ago, we called the late unpleasantness.
ths men left their plows in the burrows.
a han way, across the field, to. follow the
euished Themselves. A WIN ''''7' ~''''
Country y tEs 1ifs is better fitted to develop
better be IT, = opportunity: if he win take id.
upon the fathers and mothers, If they
to the time when they can leave it,
when they they can have their hair, banged
to look for a job. Better men and bet
ter. women live in the country. The time
VIII never come when this country can
"
the people who live on the land.
a. Every thing that is Of value comes out
OF the farm. the forests, the mine and the
that is worth having comes.
had some fine forests IN Minnesota, but
n ten are % T yssrs W So x fas em
out entirely. The trees that are left
standing in your forests are practically
all counted. You have in Minnesota the
most valuable iron mines in the world
but you have no coal, you cannot make
iron. All you can do is to dig iron ore
parts of the country where they have coal
and coke and can make the metal into
iron and steel: You cannot do it here as
things are today, and it is very doubt
full If iron will ever be successfully made
in Minnesota.
THAT leaves YOU the farm, from which
every every man an in the state must draw his
your doctors, your merchants your mil
!ers, everybody makes his living out Of
must go on in Minnesota for all time.
Now, what are you doing to help the
Sonrs be hsp slate has most to e1 nsp
lent experimental farm. or a department
attached to the state university. 1t does
little more now, thar, help to get ap-
preparations for the other end.
There was time-let me see-twenty
years last spring, in this state, and par
ticularly in the northern part Of it. when
% rain fe from seed ttdnG time nqt the h
pious showers fell and they made little
more than half a crop. 1 didn't know as
and had less experience. thought would
help the farmers Of the state, so that
they would not depend on one crop. I
stock and cattle and hogs. And in my
innocence Naughter / thought that when
they had the opportunity. they would take
sScellent herds Of beef +: and dairy cattle
for myself. and brought out within two
years, mainly, from the north, of England
bulls. Something over 500 of them were
distributed in this state, and less than
200 in North Dakota: Now. l want to say
more benefit from less than 200 than the
people of Minnesota did from 600. What
did they do? Most of them sold them.
good winter pork! (Laughter.) This is
actually what they did with the pigs
with the stock which was bred from this
stock and for which paid prices as high
rs $500 for single animal.
Farmers MIsIed by Demagooues.
"They were misled. A lot Of designing
demagogues-rank demagogues-who care
no more about the farmer than they do
ABOUT tnc WlQQ CNdL "QlSt1GS, II I1lSy Cdl
get his vote, told the farmers that was
raising state of Minnesota, trying to- in
stoek ths seGa coad find ana M
! It was discouraging, but I kept it up and
sn et them ea st ney mh and Ma send
friends from illinois. / fed stock ten
miles from here, raised the fodder It ate ate;
took in competition in Chicago with our
! friends from Illinois, and Missouri and
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 Inc the i've
ne da er and
seven first prizes. He had taken the sweep
stakes against all Of the states when he
showed four or five animals: He said he
centage Of dressed to live weight TAN
per cent killed in Chicago IN nrn}
1t in stock raising in Minnesota. he re-
lated that two years ago ne bought Il; a
sis.ee worth Of food ana sold -, them aa at
$3.50 per head profit Of $500 per
A Public Domain.
Nov, II can do this. any farmer in
the state can do it, If he only will: The
time will come when he must do It: ana "a
see that he has fair opportunity.
There was a time when our popular
campaign song was Uncle Sam is Rich
Enough to Give Us All a. Farm" Today
he has not any farms to give US that
we can cultivate. All Of the agricultural
land that can be cultivated without irr1-
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 puy
land at from S. to SO an acre. More
Ceople have gone there than many OF our
mer would like to acknowledge They
have a large area of country. A couple
of months ago. at Bismarck. I made q
statement in regard to their country, ana
was to some extent misquoted and will
take occasion to correct it. They have an
area north of US equal, practically. to that
Of the United States. Only compare
lively small portion Of that can De cult
waited with profit. They probably have an
area three times that OF Minnesota, wheIe
they can cultivate the land with pront,
and they raise good crops. N0rtn OK tnat
II is too near the north pole:
Proceeding he explained that at SIX rail-
roads agreed to contribute s5.OoO eacn ior
Ave years to conduct campaign OF edu-
lecture and call upon men in public life
to urge them to promote Irritation IN
order to reclaim the PUBLIC DOMAIN "nlc1
was now practically worthless. he salo
fhe platform upon which they stood was:
~ That not another acre OF puOllc