The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-22
annual parliament OF northwest FARMERS|
A Notable Address by j. J.. Hill, in which He Out
lines the Importance of Finding New rlar-
kets for the Products of the Northwest.

al Vie HISTORY OF the state. M one
held in Minneapolis last week was per-
maps 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
trlotism. more of everything that goes
70 make good citizenship, on the farms
plause) 1t has always been so, from the
early days to the present. Many of us
h ago, G esn ca rHmem :tna ,y What t;na q + few e years
the men left their plows in the burrows,
mar way across the field, to follow the
sons We're the men who most distin-
guished themselves.
Country life is better fitted to develop
vantage Of It; And ! want to impress
are he .ne t taehe fps, and d.; mothers r, il they.
upon the farm should not look forward
TO- the time when they can leave it.
and soaked down, and come to the town
to look for a job. Better men and bet
ter ter women live in the country. The time
VIII never come when this country can
a1ord to lose sight of the interests of
the people who live on the land.
11N tiIlSlS lfldI Is OF value comes out
of the farm, the forests, 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
out entirely. The trees that are left
an counted; You have in Minnesota the
put you have no coal, you cannot make
iron. Al you can do is to dig iron ore
parts Of the country where they have coal
ana coke and can make the metal into
iron and steel. You cannot do it here as
things Sare today, and it is very doubt
!ui II iron Will ever be successfully made
in Minnesota.
THAT leaves you the farm, from which
living; Your cities, your churches, your
SCHOOLS, your universities. your lawyers,
You doctors, your merchants, your mil,
the men who cultivate the soil, and this
must !.No 60 on in Minnesota for all time.
yourself. The " State h' has means a most to ex nslp
lent experimental farm, or a department
a little more now than help to get ap-
preparations for the other end.
roa Ihe ere was a time.let me see-twenty
no rain fell from seed time until the 1st
of July. TIL grain stood green in the
fields. barely living. In July some CO.
pious showers fell and they made a little
more thar half a crop. 1 didn't know as
and had less experience. I thought I would
help the farmers of the state. so that
+ tney would = do not d depend on one crop. I
stock and cattle and hogs. And in my
innocence daughterl I thought that when
for myself. and I brought out within two
- VPq re ma 1 Z. from thn- ~ n~f11L Of ITro1p- M
and Scotland, about 500 tho%roughRbred
bulls; Something. over 600 of them were
200 in North Dakota Now. / want to say
that the people of North Dakota derived
more benefit from less than 200 than the
did they do? Most of them sold them.
kooa w fhsm port the n nllmane they This weT Re
that ! brought from the old country, Or
stock and for which I paid prices as high
as $500 for a single animal.
Farmers MisIed by Demagoeues.
"They were misled. A lot Of designing
demagogues-rank demagogues-who care
no more about the farmer than they do
about the wind that whistles. if they can
get his vote, told the farmers that I was
trying to reflect :upon the great wheat
raising state of Minnesota, trying to in
stock that l could find and distributing it
free of price to the people of the state.
It was discouraging. but I kept it up and
sofa; feed cattle successfully and send
stock from Minnesota to compete with our
miles from here. raised the fodder it ate,
and have a hat full Of gold medals that
took in competition in Chicago with our
friends from Illinois, and Missouri and
Iowa. and Nebraska, and Kansas, and In
diana."
Profits In Stock Raising.
aLA, r. TIM -
he sent only a single steer to the live
stock show at Chicago because they had
pleuroepneumonia down there, and he took
stakes against all of the states when he
showed four or five nimals He said he
centage. Of dressed to live weight TAX
pei. cent, killed in Chicago in competition
i M'i IN at stoe ehe r ssafez: II As M hlqstrating bI prot Of
lated that two years ago he bought a
bunch Of steers and took them q his
paid $1,000 for the steers, gave them
$1,000 worth of food and sold them at
S Sas.9o per head prohr Of sso.Oo per
A Public Domain.
the state can DO It. if h, only win: The
it is ever,ybody's interest in the. state to
see that he has a fair opportunity.
cam mhers W sang a w time s11 wnsn s our popular miaT
Enough to & Us All a Farm" Today
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
land at from Sc to SO an acre. More
people have gone there than many Of our
men would like to acknowledge. They
have a large area Of country. "A couple
of months ago, at Bismarck. ] made a
statement In regard to their country, and
was to some extent nisquoted, and I will
take occasion to correct 1t. They have an
area north of us equal. practical1y, to that
Of the United States. Only a compare
area three times that Of Minnesota, where
they can cultivate the land with profit.
and they raise good gcrops. North OF that
1t Is too neRr the north pole,
Proceeding he explained that six rail-
roads agreed to contribute $4,000 each fer
FIVE. years to conduct a campaign OF edu-
cation sending men about the country to.
lecture and call upon men In public life
to urga them to promot Irrigation IN
order to reclaim the public domain which
was now practically worthless. He said
the platform upon which they stood was:
II. That not another acre OF public
land shah ever hereafter be granted ia
n state or territory for any purpose
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