Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-10-12
Remarkable ADDRESS
WORLD TRANSPORTATION AND
NATIONAL POLITICS CON-
sIDERED BY J. J. HILL.
He Discusses National Questions a
They Affect the Interests Of
the Farmers.

They Affect the Interests Of
the Farmers.
James J. Hill, president Of the Great
Northern Railroad, delivered an address
| 1T tho Fillmore county fair at Preston,
MIMI, on Sept. 20, which is perhaps the
| most notable public utterance Of the
many he has made. It is Of national.
! even worldwide scope, and is attracting
great attention. He began by express
ing his pleasure at meeting a strictly
| agricultural community and then made
this contrast between southern Mime
| sofa and northern Iowa:
In your state here, and you will par
don me for making some comparisons,
that may seem, as comparisons often
are, little odious, comparing southern
Minnesota with northern Iowa, the tier
with nothing but the conventional
boundary between them, they have ad-
vanced little beyond you: Curious
same tn acreage. You have about $780,
900 acres more than they have and they
have the advantage in the one item
vantage in soil or climate over you.
But they probably gave up the raising
Of wheat little earlier, than you did.
lucy pTOUdU1y tOOh up tuo care u 1lVc
stock, Of cattle and hogs earlier than
you did. and for that reason their: yield
per acre, and I am speaking from the
hey s. an acre aSssd Of
Comparing southern Iowa with north
ern Minnesota he said the southern
farms farms realized g an acre more than the
There is no calling in the world where
man can be more Independent or hap
pier than he who cultivates the sofia
MI q SSS Tn10 HoH1$ IY1n
and he ought to succeed. Your future
Wtll depend pend more upon the cultivatioa
soil that give good returns. Live stock
on the farm is worth more than the
price you can get for the live stock be-
worth one-third Of the market value Of
the feed you give the animal.
Following along this line, Mr.; Hill
their grain, hay or a Roots FEED i them $50 to
their live stock and they would get one
third thdG more than the market price of the
land. Take good care Of it. Nothing
will pay you as well. Stock raising
means more to you and to the country.
Keep the Farm.
sSI{iv:ts thSm Te stang xsSf
taken ever since It was started the
greatest interest in the state farm
There is but one change that I would
in 1.-THE interest Of the school. I would
separate it from the state university
because today 1t Is only an attachment
that oa the boys ana srla o Of
the state Of Minnesota shall be educated
to take Iva Of and to intellsenty
Everything that is Of value in the
sea-:we have not got it. The forest
rev years Minnesota viii in have no 1 fof.
cally we have twelve years Of standing
IN tweve years but {hat VIII be
cause they reduce the rate at which it
10 cut each year.
next to the Forest 1S but the he farm in Mn
every year than the mines Of any state
the naop when mines are aug out
can be reproduced Indefinitely. The
mines will not grow again. but the crops
will: He urged them not to sell their
He then related the circumstances Of
the great drouth in the northern part Of
diversified farming he bought between
tween 5000 and 1000 Berkshire pigs
northern part. Of the state. and Dakota.
Speaking of his recent visit to the
North Dakota state fair, he said:
Practical Example.
saw as fine cattle there as I ever
from Great o Britain tan and had paid as as
pride in seeing ZEE these cattle, because apse
took the sweepstakes last year in the
sweepstakes in Winnipeg in the province
Of Manitoba; in Grand Forks he took
second Prize was beaten to stand d;t.Id
feeling of pride creeping up my throat
descendant Of one of the animals 1 sent
up there.
have had engineers make a map Of
the Red River valley in Minnesota and
Our Company added $4,000 to 1t and we
natnra Ten aid for
them. but instead Of opening up the
small bitches to drain their FARMS the
gay saw tta then the b soil
time am going up there to scold them.
They always take pleasure in scolding
me. They tell me how ought TO run
my railway. I want to get along with
them because the railway and the land
are in partnership. They will get along
prosperously together or will be poor
Mr. Hill continued at some length to
expattate upon the importance advant-
ages and independence of the farm life,
and then took up general matters which
might be termed national. Along this
line he said in part:
Government Policies.
There are two main essentials to all
successful and happy efforts; industry
and character in the man as a private
individual, and honesty and intelligence
in his acts and in the acts R, Of those T9o
Of the state You You cannot get along
You are all affected, directly and
permanently, by the quality and the
under which you live. If that is low or
dishonest it will react upon you event
ually just. as surely as If you received
into the intimacy Of your family life
some man Of bad conversation and cor
rupt example. II that is unintelligent,
mistaken n,ista or wilfully misdirected, it will
continue to use blow that merely