The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-29

HAAo'S Aioldole puDilC ullerdnCe VI the
many ne has made. 1t is of national.
even worldwide scope. and is attracting
great attention. He began by expressing
ms pleasure at meeting "a strictly asri-
cultural community and then made this
contrast between Southern Minnesota and
Northern Iowa:
In your state here, and you will pardon
me for making some comparisons, that
may seem, as comparisons often are.
NIUE NIUE odious comparing southern Mime
counties or the line of each state, with
nothing but the conventional boundary
between Them they have advanced a lit
farms average exactly the saline in acre
age YOU have about 10000 acres more
than they have and they have the add
vantage in the one item of live stock
Now. they have no advantage in soil or
gave up the yatsing of Wheat fes little little
earlier than YOU did. They probably took
p up the eare Of live stock Of gayle tn t and
reason their yield per acre. and am
speaking from the United States census.
the records show that they are 81 an
Comparing Southern Iowa with North
ern MINNESOTA he said the Southern farms
ern and added:
There is no calling in the world where
a man can be more independent or hap
man on a farm is an independent prince
and he ought to succeed Your future
Will depend more upon LQe CulllVdllOn OIL
the land in an intelligent way and the
restoration of the qualities of the soil
that give good returns. Live stock on
you can get for the live stock because
the manure as a fertilizer is worth one
third of the market value of the feed you
give the animal.
Following along this line Mr.. Hill pro
ceeded to say that If they could sell their
ve STOCK nay and Gr tey weu se @
more than the market price of the feed.
i want to say to you, cultivate your
pay you as we'll Stock raising means
more to you and to the country.
Keep the Farm.
Keep your farms. Cultivate them; Gull
tivate them we'll Stand by your state tat
your attention to this. I have taken
ever since it was started the greatest in
terest in the state farm. There is but
one change that 1 would make if 1 could.
and ] would make that in the interest of
the school. I would separate 1T from the
state university, because to-day it is only
an attachment 1t is strong enough and
1t is of more Importance that the boys
and girls of the State of Minnesota shall
be educated to take advantage of and to
intelligently cultivate the soil.
Everything that is of value In the world
comes from four sources ,n The sea, We
are coa 11 sG' and in me very few
Minnesota will have no forests that are
of any value. Theoretically we have
course they won't cut it all in, twelve
years, but that will, be because they re
duce the rate at which it is cut each
Proceeding he said the mines were next
to the forest, but the farm in Minnesota
year than the mines Of any state in the
Union. When mines are dug out they
cannot be Reproduced, but it., crops can !. be .,
not grow again, but the crops. will. He
urged them not to sell their farms, but
keep them for forth. their BIO boys and girls
the great drouth in the northern part of
the state in 1883. and how to encourage
800 and 800 thoroughbred bulls and be-
tween 5000 and 1000 Berkshire pigs and
scattered them througi1out the 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 ever saw
n my life Ss.a and brought them over from
5000 for a COW. had more pride in
seeing these cattle, because among the
lot there was one animal that took the
sweepstakes last year in the Dominion
of Canada; in July he took the sweep
stakes IN Winnipeg in no the province Of
ond prize. was beaten to standstill by
a North Dakota bull had a little feel
ing Of pride creeping up my throat when
ant of one of the animals I sent up there.
They will get along prosperously to-
gether or will be poor together
Mr.. Hill continued at some length to
expatiate upon the Importance. advan-
tages 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 effort; industry and
character in the man as a private indi-
vidual and honesty and intelligence in
his acts and in the acts of those who are
chosen to represent him in the life of the
state. You cannot get along without
either the one or the other You are all
affected: directly, and permanently. by
OF the government under which you live
If that is low or dishonest it Will react
upon you eventually just as surely as if
you received into the intimacy Of your
family life some man Of bad conversa-
ton and corrupt example. II that is I'M
inteiigent mistaken t3e or wilfully misdi-
rected. 1t Will affect you just az certainly
as if you continue. to use d plough that
merely, scratches tiA surface of the soil
products to the lowest instead of to the
highest market. 1t is your place to keep
just as sharp guard set upon these pub
met as you do upon your own personal
expenses and the actions of those who
work under your personal orders.
Arc your representatives. speak in the
broadest and most general way. for your
representatives will compare we'll with
al quality and fiber. and are they doing
those things which are most clearly con-
ceived to benefit you, the people, and not
some interest aside from and antagonis-
tic to your own? 1t will profit US all to
think seriously about these matters. for
the responsibility for them cannot be
Syaded or shuftled off.
War ON Graft.
And first as to honesty, which is the
main thing. You all read the papers !;
and it is chief stay and hope of this
country that the diffusion of intelligence
and an intimate acquaintance with what
Is happening elsewhere has become SO
general. For that reason the extension
Of the rural mail service is to be classed
az, one Of the real achievements of our
time; one fit to rank with the spread OF
education in our schools. AS thus IA
nriliar with events. it is scarcely neces-
sary that should remind you that the
effort Of patriotic men almost every
where Is to establish and maintain a
standard of honesty and decency i'll pub
lie life. There is no word more familiar,
AZ there is none more ominous In Amer
Tea to-day. than the word graft" 1t
shoots from the mouth like the spit of a
rifle ball. and 1T is doing as deadly work
as that weapon in the hands Of a muir
derer. Great commonwealth are to-day
as comparatively in the. hands Of ner an
aries as captive in the power OF brig
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