The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-01-29
Vincent on grain was 40 cents 4 hundred.
Today 1t Is Is cents hundred. (Ap-

Today il is Is cents q hundred i1 GAP
IAN We need is our dividend; We ket our
a per s ce9S If We earn it. and we earn It
there there, Is ,, nSt much profit in CARRYING
at cents aq1 hSFS t. %s DO e
pn'Shrt figure in our treasury. Our stock
taGw eqG St'ei po %Sya is s1 pSt
in effect you win know it grsatly 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
ao He asked 81 o the farmers what they were
Washington were awake and when they
mission was about to issue an order,
points shall be published. they Detitioned
such an order because it would practically
give our rates to foreign competitors and
they would underbid the American rate
from this country to others: That matter
e is now pending before the Interstate
pers Of the Pacific Coast protesting
against having American commerce hand
tappg q, IN the interests Of foreign ma
English, German, French, Scandinavian ian,
Dutch and Italian lines. and II we are
said he 'av Wanted 6usieess Of en He HE
merchants m the bankers; the millers, the
all depend upon the man. as said be- be-
fore who cultivates the land, I want YOU
to see that our hands are not tied, that
tie the markets markets are not closed to us and II
grain and a proportionate tax is placed
on his his pEo2vi:i9ns. his hogs. his cattle,
to se S eong to Great sef SrS hc be he
in mind. you will pay the tax. When
you have no surplus or only very small
surplus then they VIII come here and
got to 1 by their bread from US or their
People Fen4;on VIII VI sta Starye viii call your at
export; a bushel Of wheat. Of the last
crop it exported $4,000 900. At the rate
all the wheat Great Britain needs. Then Then
you! you VIII hol pay the tax, Or you will hold
ket: You may then appreciat t the the value
of the Orient al market. Possibly it's in.
GGepei0n vas Sn in the mind Of an oriental
comes true. (Applause) When that
time comes l want you to bear in mind
it before. (Applause.> ' -
Some Comparisons.
To show that Minnesota was not maxi
3ng the progress which she should, Mr..
Hill took the receipts Of the Great North
e nno,t road l. in c; Mianesota TOWNS. namely:
vile, Thief River Falls, St. Hilaire, stey-
ems, Hallock and st. Vincent.
The total business Of these ten sta
Year ending $oth Of June last ss'G It Was si
4s5. 900 tie increase being $4s5, 900 Of
which s14s,ooo was at Thief River Falls.
kota towns: Larimope, Park River, Lang
don. Devils Lake, Cando, Rugby, Gran
vile: Minot. and Souris and thus sum
business of s752,ooo against $3.50, 900
grown to $l;,435, ooo-or an increase Of
$4S5,O 100 Dakota has grown from $751;
o ooo to $2,so4.ooo, or an increase Of $780,
THE time has come when you are not
Your cities are arr growing. but your coun-
best farming land in the state Of Mime
or fifteen years ago. Some parts of our
read in Mi lines go through at night
neglect and infamous farming. | don't
travel that c way in n DAY time tried
every possible way to do better farm
ing. There is only one thing that will in
the end teach them to do better farming
maj and s %neb Se else keaP }skes Se
PLACE.
have painted the picture in too high
Mr.. Chamberlain is doing and to what is
the absolute and immediate effect that
ready to answer for the faith that is In
me. know l am right. and I know the
b fame is eGmlng when you viii have to
100000 to 30,000,00O year in these three
| northwestern states unless you can fird
| a new market for your stuff. Where will
you go? Can you take it there for MOTH
The African will eat cornmeal. HI
DOESN'T care so much for wheat flour: y
every nation. including India, once t tns;
get wheat -four. prefer it to ali other food.
I was talking to an. intelligent Japanese
and In his eoun Gge an on emi
nent physician. He told me that the
| cause Of their great tendency to dropsicaI
complaint CON p2t, was :, the large proportion Of
imperial commission had made this report
to the government. and for that reason
they wanted to buy more Of our -four.
You have 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 have got to tell you that
we don't want either. and you have Eot
to see, II you want to, whether your
REPRESENTATIVES e'r tat are ready to stand for
your interests or against your interests.
AS Tar 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 100000 barrels of
flour. There is very little in It, But there
| is this in it: always hold as principle
| that in operating a railroad our Greatest
| prosperity came from the greatest pros
perity Of the people living or the line,
and unless we can take the natural re-
sources Of the country (and your natural
resources are confined practically to what
is 1aised on the farrn)-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
them. who creates them, the time is not
far distant when he win stop creating
them.
you can sell out or abandon vo,,r
farm. We cannot abandon our railroad