The Wahpeton times., 1905-09-28

ord was not what 1t should be? And have
YOU you never given your representatives. in
would win Your approval and continu-
ahce ,hce OF the honOrs they covet by getting
tne most numerous and the largest appro-
priations rI for unnecessary undertakings in
YOUR city or town or district? IL you
nave. then remember that reform must
ptesin at the fountain head. the people.
Al AND az a state Or a city or a nation has
no revenue has no money except that
Mnch Is taken out OF the pockets Of in
oivtduals through taxation. II you have
Wymked MN Mt or tacitly rewarded this ,prac-
s.ce. tnen you have encouraged and pro-
moted mot graft. No man and no nation ever
was or ever will be rich enough to with
stand The continuous attack of unrebuked
p,hcniatioil; p,,. and no national or individual
CIracter can be pure enough to remain
unSuiiled by Il federation of low stand
ard of honesty.
Now We come to another particular in
Wnlcn 1t becomes you to test these gen.
politician for his credentials. Let us see
what they. have done for you. You. by
your YOU .inaided efforts. by unremitting toll
and saving and the brave venture TO
wrest living from, nature. have accu-
mulated certain resources of which all
these varied forms of wealth that We
extent. If any. have YOU been hindered by
the various measures that will be quoted
as they have been quoted, in evidence of
!aie !.I care that has been taken of your
Two Main Needs.
Your main needs are two: an adequate
market IN which your products may be
sold at u fair price, and an opportunity
to purchase those things that YOU need
which the farm does not supply, TO what
extent have these been furnished to you,
and in what condition do you stand with
reference TO them?
AS far as your grain is concerned. you
must sell in the markets OF the world
There is no escape from that. The wheat
of Southern Minnesota and the wheat of
every other country on the face of the
that is fixed in the worlds markets The
great consuming nations, with Great Brit
ain at their head. must have bread. They
purchase 1t where they can. seeking all
! the competition of all these sellers. India
and Russia and the Argentine and Aus
tralia as well as the United States, the
there? Or !, truth 1t is impossible to help
You in any way but one, to which we will
come presently. The average politician
!ellisence that you possess, will tell you
that you have been helped. have been
protected" as he will call it. by placing
tariff OH wheat and other products of
know that tariff on imports of an article
which you do not wish to import, but
viii which you have for sale in vast quanti-
plant in August. In the year ended June
70. 1904. there were imported into the
United States just 6,s52 bushels of wheat
IN al How did the protective tariff pro-
tect this? This last year there We're i'm
ported !. l02 80 bushels. Either figure is
totally ns.gni!icant in a country whose
, OWN wheat crop runs from GWNDO.tHO tn
itself shows. since the tariff remained un- rl.
altered. that the latter has nothing what
ever to do with the matter. Your grain
and your dairy products and your live
tro n11, or n,
assistance. The market in which your
grain: cattle and hogs are sold is not af-
fccted by them at all. And consequent
to tic gentlemen who tell you til That ia a
tariff has been enacted for your benefit,
you may reply with great confidence that.
as far ls sales of your products are
moon.
There is one way. however. in which
ing the cost OF Transportation. What yo,,
get for the yield of your farms is the
price where the consumer lives less the
cost oi CARRYING the article from you to
him. That cost Won have to bear. Any
thing that diminishes it is money i'm your
n"cket: aud when any one advises YOU
that you are vitally interested in decreas-
ing the cost of transportation lie is tell
ing You the truth. But how is this to be
brought about?
>. No one can arbitrarily send out proc
SuCu II service snail Op
performed at such and such charge.
The business of transportation is like ali
other , business in this: it must he con
quoted o., on aou,; business basis; The cost OF
growing out of increased volume. So he
does most for you in this respect who
opens new markets. secures new custOm-
! ers and helps to swell the volume Of prod
nets and OF purchases. This is the way
in which the diminntion of the cost ~
carriase has been effected. and tho change
Of almost any other commodity. The
aveias" reccints per ton per one hundred
miles of all the railroads in The United
Il siaeS cents wine in s !" afs 1s,o sl15 in lSsn
in Great Britain II is s:...::;, and on the
co'ti'cnt of Eur"pe from $40 to $40.
The Great Northern railroad has been
the company and Of the state % railway ~
commission . show that. il its freight tar
the rates that were then in force, It
would have received more than s676.-
ha.'sm ~ .s,, more e. than it has received during
tho tw"nry-:ire wears. an average of over
81. .HsLWs'. and this a reduction on ono
road. and ! am rs proud Of that as am
Of being here with YOU. That is a meas
ure OF what has taken place as rapidly
as the growth of the business permitted
and made prudent. And I need not tell
Il, any & OF Eo., Nm, VII" or rc,d the r!2ers and keep
~ ''s7H NIlt tlIc SNeHlS OI inc IdN tIl:lt
this work is still going on. and that tha
crops raised this year in the Northwest
will be sent to market on the lowest
freight rate ever made in the whole his
tory of the Northwest
Railroad Rates.
How has this been accompliShedo Ry
seeking to build up the country. by study
Ing how to develop its resources and its
prosperity. By inducing settlers to come
and till the vacant land and by taking
care of those already here. BY careful
business management and by recognizinr
the essential partnership between the inan
on the soil and tlle railway which serves
him. Aud | want to ask you as you
study these figures to say whether these
results. 10 heneficial to yourselves. could
ever have been rea ched through n pOlicy
of taKonism and force. Some OF the
politicians will tell YOU that railroad rates
must be fixed by order of the government
and that this Is the reason why thew
must be kept in public life 1t is an eany
prophecy. because 1t is an obvious facf.
that railroad rates in this country would
decline more slowly under government
control than If fixed by those who have
intelligently managed the railways No
public body would dare to make reduce
tions 30 sweeping as those that have been
made voluntarily by the railways. Unless
the people on its lines are prosperous the
railway must be poor: They suffer to-
getlier or prosper together. and this con-
dition will always remain. Those who
make the rates with full knowledge of all
the facts entering into them will make
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