Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-10-12

eminent, ana subject the fostnnes OF
thirteen billions Of capital, Of million1
! OF employees and tens Of millions OF
70 tas aer'is Of fns shs .e4;
compared with those charged anywhere
eaaens s o%a a To the Dissent Of
constitute sufficient contradiction.
Mileage Tariff.
The government cannot discriminate
between ports or places. 1t must deal
e With al seao afe Wopd 81
Obliged. sooner or later. to obtain g
strict distance tariff; that that is, the eharg!
in the haul. The low charge for thu
long, haul would disappear, and freight
that RaS would maEe ittle
but you here in Minnesota, in the cen:
ter Of the continent, distant from 1900
kets: about whom a big circle might b.
described and have It's circumfArenc
sweep along the coasts Of the Atlantic
ined people in the world. When men
ask for your support or demand you.
F., will be well for you to bring them to
the challenge Of the facts and Of COM
Then, as to the markets in which you
Wha avs aefe DO 2o you %
a. system which permits the same arti-
Gle that you must have for your house,
hold or your farm to be carried abroad
sold in distant markets at price any.
the price that is charged to you is not
system that we pay annually an un-
total Of f' some Twenty-Five b Billions 81 Of
| Of our domestic trade; that u.s. the buy
ing and selling that goes on among our.
selves. It is because Of that and in
the fraction of a hair that the treas.
| ury deficit grows and promises now to
I reach $50,0O0,000 annually, and to re
as you have never heretofore consented
to pay save in time Of war and as
part of the sacrifices that it imposes.
the form Of service that viii call forth
your gratitude and receive your continu'
ing Endorsement?
Panama Canal.
Mr.. Hill took up the subject Of the
able length. He eis argued that at It could
not be relied on to supply new markets
and cited the opinion Of an expert. Mr..
nent, who had " Written ' an eiaSerasee ar
ticle taking the same view. His argu-
ment was fortified by statistics showing
the sonth Amercan states o coaid pos
sibly use. He quoted Mr.. Boice as say
ing that II we could secure one-half the
impGsts Of Asia the tras in one year
leave a balance Of $200,oOO,O00. He ex-
pected the canal would be made, but 1t
would not bring market results.
Scarcity Of Lands and Irrigation.
city Of agricultural. lands and the de:
fects in our land laws which allowed
speculators and great combinations to
of He Of sy S e edesSs
national irrigation movement, saying the
work now under way would redeem
tRe end tmea NO G9uos
MARKETS.
The final question Of all was securing
markets for our products. He said: {
Our exports Of commodities the product
S Sa M @ se the and Ye We're G YER
manufactured articles were valued at
$452, 1921. or 31.52 per cent Of the whole.
Moreover, the tendency is for the former
to increase while the latter decreases. In
the commercial war upon us which has
IL
it is the manufactured article that will be
banned by the severest prohibition. But
upon all that we have to sell the disad-
ed that we alone could use a protective
tariff to advantage overlooking the very
simple process Of other nations meeting
world has been wonderfully patient. It
has taken no notice until we began to be
thought Of not exactly as dangerous
q mo
Then it took counsel and the new German
tariff is the first step in league where
Ea aed find all ET Sgpt Gemmereay
to do about it? Where are we going to
find our mar kets; and especially the mar.
ket for the immense product Of our soil
and dependence.
reach OF US in Asia to require our entire
sumed only the trifiing amount Of two
bushels per annum. We have studied that
trade and prepared for it. we have helped
into the greatest steamships that ever
sailed the seas to serve it.. We did these
things in order that we might be able to
trade could live For these people cannot
pay high transportation charges; they
will buy in some other market; and you
the United states across half the CONT
nent and the. whole breadth of the Pacific
ocean if you have big or even a reason
able mileage charge.
Well, we have met with obstacles at
every step; not the obstacles that busy
men have a right to expect and know how
to meet, such as the shrewdness of COM
petitors or the difficulty of conquertng
material things, but interference with
plans and regulations and rules and or
ders that can serve no purpose except to
make impossible the maintenance Of this
new market. These customers are out
ragged by a policy that insults their na-
tional dignity and their personal self-re-
spect until they determine to buy no
more of us. These ships, instead Of meet
ing with reasonable encouragement, are
hampered and tied down by regulations
Which make it as costly as possible to OPP
crate them. These rates, which are the
essential parts Of the whole affair, are
destroyed by laws that put us at the mer-
cy Of every foreign tramp that floats the
seas. And tlis, mind you, not in behalf
Of any home interest that might suffer,
for these ocean rates do not concern the
domestic producer more than they must
be low enough to admit him to outside
markets., but only to the annoyance and
detriment and encouragement of Ameri-
can foreign trade in the great staples that
you help to produce and that must con-
tinue to enter increasingly into our deal
ings with other peoples. The total for
eign commerce of Japan and China