Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-02-18
annual parliament OF northwest Farmers
Notable Address by J. j. Hill, in which He Out
lines the Importance of Finding New Thar
kets for the Products of the Northwest

located within q reasonable time or else
nltionai government No more script Of
any kind shall ever be issued.
| "6. That every state shall enact laws
measure and the limit Of all right to wat
right to the use Of Land Tor irrigation
q. That it should be the law that all
unused and unappropriated waters shall
first belong to the state where they orig
is, the rain falling from the heavens on
the land OF a state. belongs first to that
."s That the national government
new forests, build safeguards against
floods and save, for beneficial use, the
oodwat sr{ that now run mtg to waste
stead laws giving the state lands only
to actual settlers and that no lease Of
state land shall be made" = szgEIE .Et5s.
Making New Markets.
Mr. Hin said that a year ago last win
| ter, ne went to the state of Washington
TO- attend nti, meeting nee OF farmers: They
! their wheat. The railroad gave them a
reduction Of ten per cent on the freight
rate, but what he tried to impress upon
them was that they needed new mar
kets. There were not enough people to
eat wheat in the markets they were SELL
ing IN to consume all they had to sell.
1 =
market have been successful-more sue
cessful than had hoped for.
Last February and March the mills in
ship -four to Australia and to China and
! to Japan. It seemed a long way to send
flour to market.from MINNEAPOLIS, by
but by taking advantage of all the con-
| ditions entering into the question of
I transportation. loading our ca!s in both
eve rste T te
kong of 40 cents a hundred-40 cents a
hundred for 5000 miles-sS ton. 1t is
mill a ton a mile-the lowest transpor
face of the earth. The rate Of transpor-
tation from here to New York 1880
niles is o IS cents a hundred, IS ton.
| from here to the Pacific coast, and then
5000 miles Of water.
II have. been charged with everything
crank CaugRhterj, but | am ready at ali
times to plead guilty to any intelligent
effort within my power. that will result
produce in this northwestern country;
because every bushel that you take out
of the market here. every bushel you
send to new market every bale of cot
| ton you send to new market, every
| thing that you send to new market,
| helps what is left, the surplus saved is
SO much less. and it is not here to COM
pete with our own shipments to Liver
1T is just as much advantage to the
man raising wheat in Ohio that the farm
to the Orient, or the farmer in Minnesota
shall send his wheat to the Orient, as
that the man in Ohio shall send it, be-
cause that much wheat is taken out Of
the markets.
Well. now, our efforts in that direc-
ton have been crowned with remarkable
figures that win be of interest 10 you on
| that subject"
He quoted in detail the ports in Aus
tralia and nd, The he,, Orient where shipments Of
3oth, 4,31s,9s2 bushels of wheat and IT,
565, 4sS barrels of flour had been shipped.
That business has only begun, and yet
the largest orders for flour that have ever
come to Minneapolis from any quarter
have come from the Orient. So great is
self felt in the price of every bushel OF
wheat that is sold in this market. The
most Intelligent wheat authority I know
lowest estimate that he could make Of
this Oriental demand, was already 5
! cents, and he thought that actual figures
would show it to be cents a bushel:
Now, if it is S cents bushel on $780,
600, 900 bushels raised in our three north
It IS Worth saving, It is worth making HH;'a an
every way in our power tried to make it
POSSIBLE to carry that into effect.
Efforts Distracted by Legislation.
Now. what help do we get? When we
make rate that is the lowest rate that
ever was made for transportation in the
we are Restraining trade!" Laughter
and d1ssn
said that if we had the power. the power
must be used to restrain trade. They for
get that in order to compete with the
commercial flag on the high seas we must
have power to carry that trade forward.
takes power to carry that trade to the the
tn hands for IT.? But they forget the
greater contains the less. The power
make it great and make it possible to
ship barrel of flour from here to Hong
kong at 20 cents more than than it costs to
takes some power The power to expand
trade makes US criminals. and we are de-
tending lawsuits today because we are
and because If you have the power to
carry the trade on, you must have some
power somewhere, no matter t;ro how you1
against the law of your country. Iaugh-
Nov, the time is coming when it won't
BE- my funera VIII be *oo yours s., Mr. Mr.
Of our political economy and started out
a political campaign in Great Britain in
favor of preferential tariff. in favor of
a tariff under which Great Britain would
admit the agricultural products of her
colonies free, and the colonies in return
would give her free access to their mar
kets, and tax everybody else; Great Brit
ain. on the other hand, agreeing to put a
tariff or tax on the imports Of every
other nation.
"The agricultural industries Of this
country are enormous. Last year the
figures. as remember them, furnished
BY the agricultural department Of, the
general government, gave three thousand
ducts Of the farms Of this country. Great
Britain and her colonies buy from us
above 20 per cent Of all our exports.
Suppose they put a tariff Of IL cents a
hushel on our wheat. Remember that the
surplus wheat we export fixes the price
on the entire crop-that which we sell
among ourselves and that which we sell
to go abroad. The surplus grain always
fixes the market price. II your wheat is
taxed 10 cents bushel, on 1sO,00O,000
bushels in your three northwestern states
it would amount to SIS, 000, 900. That you
have got to pay. These conditions are
the the 1aH @ that M Chamberlain hs is
winning his way. He has made more
progress in the first year than he ex-
pected to in the first three years when
he took 1t up year ago, and it Is only
question Of time when you have got
to pay this tax if you send your wheat
to Great Britain.
What will you do? What other mar
ket have you got? You may rely on us;