The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-29

be classed as one OF the real &; achieve
the spread Of education in our schools IS.
AS thus familiar with events, it IS
most everywhere is.1sto establish ie'' and nd
%s1G II iS SS{{S SsSe is
the word graft 10 shoots from the the
mouth like the spit Of a rifle ball. and
!. weapon in the hands Of a murderer.
! Great commemorative are today as com
in the thu hands of
holding him for ransom. -
Real Men In ONCE.
You can have. perhaps no higher duty
than that Of stamping out every ten
dency toward this evil; Have. you al
ways tested the sincerity and the honor
public support? Have you never given
your aid to a man because les was sup
moment trust to represent you IN bust
ness transaction? Have you neverGsent
what it should be? And have yom' jim Yer
given your representatives, in state or
| nation, to understand that they would
VIII your approval anu d continuance OF
the honors they covet by getting: the
most numerous and the largest appro-
priations for unnecessary undertakings
in your city or town or district? Ifyou
begin at the fountain head, the people
And as state or a city Or a nation has
no G has ST., no - m9%ney except that
dividuals through taxation. if you have
| winked at or tacitly rewarded this prac-
tic ata then e1lo you haye encouraged and pro
| ever was or ever will be rich enough to
withstand the continuous attack Of UNI
| rebuked peculation; and no national or
individual CHARACTER can be pure enough
to- remain unsullied by. a liberation Of
| q low standard of honesty
Now we come to another particular in
which 1t becomes you to test these
, gentlemen who serve you and to ask
| US see what they have done for you
| hitting toll and saving and the brave
| venture to- wrest a living from nature.
! have accumulated certain resources of
! that we see about us today are typical
| TO what extent, if any. have you been
| hindered by the various measures that
| in evidence of the care <tllat has been
| taken of your interests?
Two Main Needs.
Your main needs are two: an adequate
market in which. your products may be
at fs bpEs b and an
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
pfers is no escape from that The wheat
| the earth will bring to the farmer the
price that is fixed in the worlds mar
with Great Britain at their head, must
have bread They purchase it where
ahey a can s. seekng al who have wheat
ton of all these sellers, India and
Russia and the Argentine and Australia
as well as the United State, the price
is settled. Have you been helped there?
OF truth it is impossible to help you
in any way but one, to which we will
come presently. The average politician,
who does not give you credit for the
intelligence that you possess, will tell
be- been protected" as he will cali it,
products of the farm. But you know
better. You know that a tariff on i'm
ports of an article which you. do not
sale in vast quantities. is as useless as
a! steam heating plant in August. In
the year, ended June &c. 1904, there were
6,852 bushels of wheat in all How did
the protective tariff protect this? This
last Hsar thfEe p
sSsp runs from so?, oce;ooe TO- S 600 S :6ee:
eah Slice H tht tna reanea s
| tered. that the latter has nothing what
| ever to do with the matter. Your grain
stock are beyond the, reach Of ali such
, assistance. The market in which your
! grain. cattle and hogs are sold is not
affected by them at all.
in xVy1,i o11
you may be helped, and that is by les
SEEMING the cost of transportation. What
you get for. the yield of your farms is
the price where the consumer lives, less
the cost of carrying the article from you
| to him. That cost you have to. bear.
Anything that dimnishes it is money
vlses you that you are vitality interested
in decrea sing the cost of transportation
| he is telling you the truth
But how is this to be brought about j?
NO one can arbitrarily send out. a
proclamation that such service shall
| be performed at such and such a charge.
all other business in this: it must be
conducted on business basis. The cost
growing out of increased. volume. so
| he does most for you in this respect
who opens new markets, secures new
customers and helps to swell the vol
IS the way, in which the diminution of
| the cost Of carriage has been effected,
anu inc cldnSe is greater than has &C.
| Cured in the price of almost any other
| commodity. The average receipts per
| ton per one hundred miles of all the
| railroads in the United States were
$1.99 in 1870, SLIT in 1880. 81 cents in
| 1880. - cents in 1908, while in Great
Britain it is $2.35 and on the continent
of Europe from $40 to $40
The Great Northern Railroad has been
reducing it's rates progressively for the
the company, and of the state railway
commission show that if it's freight tar
| IFS had not been altered in that time. if
| 1T had charged throughout until today
F.; the rates that were then in force it
would have received more than $685.
, 100000 more than it has received dur
ing the twenty-five years. an average Of
over $270O0,000. and this a reduction
on one road. and am as proud of that
as I am of being here with you. That
is a measure of what has taken place
as rapidly as the growth of the bust
| ness permitted and made prudent Ard
l need not tell any Of you who read the
! papers and keep in touch with the
events Of the day that this work is still
going on. and that the crops raised this
year in the northwest will h. sent to
! market on the lowest freight rate ever
made in the whole history Of the north
west
Railroad Rates.
How has this been accomplished? By
seeking to build up the country, by
to