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

ments Of our time: one 1t 70 rank in' With
AZ thus familiar with events, It g
you that the effort OF patriotic men al:
most everywhere is to- establish and
6 sSpe fe Of hSSeesy and
word more famiiiar as there is 's none me-
more ominous IL America today, than
ns %ofd ike be spt Of shG se bs%
it is doing as deadly work as that
! weapon in the hands Of a murderer.
Great c9mmonWealths are today as com
as g. captive in the power of brigands
holding him for ransom.
Real Men in once.
You can have. perhaps, no higher duty
than that of stamping out every ten
vans the sx ana thy
pupic sapport HAVE yea never Soa given
a to fs sa ae
place whom you would not for a
moment trust to represent you In bust.
HsSe you nexer
what it should be? And have you never
given your representatives. In state or
win Your approval and a continuance Of
the honors they covet by getting the
most numerous and the largest appro-
So9r city or toWn or dstrct? yea
have. then remember that reform must
begin at the fountain head, the people,
And as a state or a city or a nation has
no revenue, has no money except that
which is taken out of the pockets of in
dividuals through taxation, If you have
winked at or tacitly rewarded this prac-
fi0o thor god
NOTED graft. No man and no nation
ever was or, ever will be rich enough to
withstand the continuous attack OF un
individual character can be pure enough
to remain unsullied by a liberation Of
a 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
every politician tor his ,c credentials: Let
You. by your unaided efforts, by unre-
hitting toll and saving and the brave
venture to wrest a Lying from nature:
which all these varied forms of wealth
that we see about us today are typical.
TO what extent, If any, have you been
will be quoted, as they have been quoted,
in evidence of the care that has been
taken of your interests?
Two Main Needs.
Your main needs are two: an adequate
market mar in S which your products may be
to purchase those things that you need
which the farm does not supply. To
what extent have these been furnished
stand with reference to them?
AS far as your grain IS concerned, you
must sell in the markets Of the world
of Southern Minnesota and the wheat
the earth win bring to the farmer the
With With Great Brtain at their head dai mast
have bread. They purchase it where
and -four to sell. And by by the i' competie
ton of all these sellers, India and
Russia and the Argentine and Australia
is settled. Have you been helped there?
OF truth it is impossible to help you
in any way but one, to which We will
who does not give you credit for the
intelligence that you possess, will tell
you that you have been helped. have
By ep placing tarir On W. Wheat and do Other
products Of the farm. But you know
better. You know that a tariff on i'm
wish to import, but which you have for
sale in vast quantities, is as useless as
a. steam heating pla q in IN August In
imported into the United States just
the protective tariff protect this? This
sss ssra e tSsa 1!
crop ran IS from go See to S" oc6 He
shows, since the tarift remained unai -
tered. that the latter has nothing what
ever to do with the matter. Your grain
STOCK are the reach Of ali sueS
assistance. The market in which your
grain. cattle and hogs are sold is not
TGere i y d 5he~ at a in which
you may be helped, and that is by les
SEEMING the cost of transportation. What
the price where the CONSUMER rs n4' Ives t less
the cost Of carrying the article from you
to him: That cost you have to bear:
in your pocket; and when any one adj
in DECREASING the cost Of Transportation
But how is this to be brought about?
No one can, arbitrarily send out a
P roclamation that such a service, shall
The business Of transportation is like |
all other business in this it must be |
conducted on business has is. The cost
growing out Of increased volume. So
he does most for you in this respect |
who opens new, markets, secures new
ume of products and Of purchases. This |
Is the way. in which the diminution of
the cost of carriage has been effected, |
and the change is greater than has oc-
Cured in the price of almost any other |
tor per one hundred miles Of all the
railroads in the United States were |
$d;99 in 1870, Sill in 1880, 81 cents in |
1890, "a cents in 1903, while in Great |
Britain it is $2.35 and on the continent |
Of Europe from $2.10 to $40.
The Great Northern Railroad has been !
reducing it's rates progressively for the !
last twenty-five years. The records Of |
the company and of the state railway
commission show that, if it's freight tar
IFS had not been altered in that time, If |
it had charged throughout until today |
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 $270o0,00o. and this a reduction
on one road, and I am as proud of that
as 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. And |
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 be sent to |
market on the lowest freight rate ever |
made in the whole history of the north |
west.