The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-22

located WlInln a reasonable time or else
nltional government. No more script of
any kind shall ever be issued.
.o. mat every state shall enact laws
measure and the limit Of ali right to. vat
e eigbt c, u g riparian rights. and that the
Shall iu nj ree ~ use ibe Of Ia land for irrigation
II. 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
me land OF a state, belongs first to that
,."S; That the national government
shall preserve it's existing forests, plant
new forests, build safeguards against
fioodwaters that now run to waste.
%. That the states shall enact home
stead lays giving the state lands only
- aciuai SettLers and that no lease of
state lam shall be made"
Making New Markets.
Mr.: Hill said that a year ago last win
Ter, ne went to the state of Washington
to attend a meeting of farmers. They
were getting less than SOC a bushel for
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
eat wheat in the markets they We're sell
ing in to consume all they had to sell.
Wen. now, our efforts to find,a new
'Hot - u V pSCfl SuCCeSS1ul-IQOr Sic
cessful than l had hoped for.
last February and March the mills in
minneapolis began. in a small way, to
70 Japan. 1t seemed a long way to send
flour to market-from Minneapolis bv
way OF the Pacific coast to Australia
ditlons entering into the question of
transportation; loading our cars in both
t1feeftions with full loads. we were able
Kong OF 40 cents a hundred-4O cents a
hundred for 5000 miles-$S a ton. 1t is
a mill a ton a mile-the lowest Transport
face of the earth. The rate of Transport
m tafion from N here to New York d,Soo
from here to the Pacific coast, and then
5000 miles Of water.
Il have been charged with everything
from being IAN Oriental dreamer to a
crank Q~aughter), but l am ready at ali
tlfmq ae to plead guilty to any Intelligent
IN getting new markets for what We
produce, in this northwestern country;
because every. bushel that you take out
OF the market here, every bushel you
send to a new market, every bale of cot
ton you send to a new market, every
tn1ng that you send to a 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
pool or Antwerp.
man raising wheat in Ohio that the farm
er in Washington shall send his wheat
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
Well, now, our efforts in that direc-
ton have been crowne with remarkable
success. I think 1 can give you some
that subject"
He quoted in detail the ports in Aus
tralia and the Orient where shipments of
Whpaf ana fjn11r hnI hnnf, ~, - -
goth, 4,31s,s92 bushels Of wheat and l.
565, 4S8 barrels of flour had been shipped.
That business has only begun, and vet
the largest orders for -four thai have ever
come to Minneapolis from any quarter
this demand tina today, it is MAKING it,
self felt in the price Of every bushel OF
wheat that Is sold in this market. The
lowest estimate that he could make of
he he enhances price Of grain. owing to
would s show " t 4 t. e. ! cents seat a : balh afures
49," Nov; If it is 5 cents a bushel on $780,
1t is worth saving. it is worth making an
effort to bring 1t about. and we have in
POSSIBLE to carry that into effect.
Efforts obstructed by Legislation.
TOW. what help 10 We get? W hen We
make a rate that is the lowest rate that
ever was made for transportation in the
world. we have to defend ourselves from
tie state: and from the nation because
and appilause.)a Absolutely defending our
selves from restraining trade" 1t is
said said that ha If We had the power, the power
get that in order to compete with the
merchant marine of every nation flying a
commercial flag on the high seas we must
nave bower TO "a rrvzfhat f,-ahn orxuyo WI
Y takes power to carry that trade to the
extent we have carried it. Who else
their hands for it? But they forget the
greater contains the less. The power
to expand a trade, and build it up and
ship a barrel of -four from here to Hong
KONG at 30 cents more than it costs to
trade makes US criminals. and we are de-
tending lawsuits today because we are
charged with the power to restrain trade;
carry the trade on. you must have some
power somewhere. no matter how YOU
exercise It. you are a public criminal
teri
be my funeral-it viii be Yours. Mr.
chamberlain, a year ago took a leaf out
Of our political economy and started out
a political campaign in Great Britain in
a tariff under which Great Britain wo, ID
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 a tax on the imports of every
other nation.
The agricultural industries Of this
country are Last year the
figures. as / remember them, furnished
by the agricultural department of the
general government, gave three thousand
million dollars as the value of he nro-
ducts of the farms of this country. Great
Britain and her colonies buy from rs
above 10 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-tlat which we sell
among ourselves and that which we sell
t. go abroad. The surplus grain always
taxed 10 cents g bushel. on 1870. 900. 900
1t would amount to SIS, 900, 900. That Won
have got to pay These conditions are
MOI far from you. Every dag you see in
the newspapers that MI. Chamberlain is
winning his way. He has made more
progress in the first year thar he ex-s
pected to in the first three years when
he took 1T up a year ago, and it is only
a question OF time when YOU have got
to pay this tax II you send your wheat
to Great Britain.
What wiz you do? What other mar
ket ave you got? You may rely on us;
to give us this Oriental market. we
cannot disobey the law. NA~pplause.)