The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-05

given your representatives. IN state or
nation. to understand that they would
win your approval and a continuance of
the honors they covet by getting the
most numerous and the largest appro-
In your city or town or district? If you
have. then remember that reform must
begin at the fountain head. the people.
no revenue. has no money except that
which is taken out of the pockets of in
diyiduals through taxation; If you have
tiee, then you have encouraged and Pro,
ever was or ever will be rich enough to
rebuked population: and no national or
individual character can be pure enough
to remain unsullie e by a liberation Of
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.
You, by your unaided efforts. by unre-
hitting toll and saving and the brave
have accumulated certain resources OF
which az these varied forms of wealth
that We see about us today are typical.
To what extent. if any. have you been
hirderea by the various measures that
will be quoted as they have been quoted.
in evidence of the care that has been
taken - your interests?
Two Main Needs.
your main ueeQS are Two. un adequate
market in which your products may be
sold at a fair price. and an opportunity
to purchase those things that you need
the farm a1e d fSsse not SUPPLY G
to you. and in what condit:.;- GO you
stand with reference. to them?
s far - y9ne Is OF ERR
There is no escape from that. The wheat
Of Southern Minnesota and the. wheat
N a
price that is fixed in the worlds mar
kets. The great consuming nations.
nave bread: They purchase i where
they can. seeking all who have wheat
and opr a to sell And by the Ss3mpeti
R9ssa az ana the and
is settled. Have you been helped there?
OF truth it is impossible, to help yg%
come presently. The average politician,
who does not give you credit for the
intelligence that you possess; will tell
been protected" as he viii cali It.
by placing a tariff on wheat and other
Rseduets Of the lno farm But you know
ports of an article which you do not
wish to import. but which you have for
sale in vast quantities. is as useless as
the year ended June 80. 1904, there were
imported into the United States just
s;s52 bushels Of VIII wheat in all; How did
bushels. Either figure is totally insis.
runs n s1u9sry hSse to S|s
shows. since the tariff renamed unal-
tered, that the latter has nothing what
ever to do with the matter. Your grain
and your dairy products and your live
stock are beyond the reach Of az such
assistance. The market in which your
"A IN 0Qf ND Or ic lof
affected by them at all.
There is one way, however, In which
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
Anything that diminishes it is money
IN your pocket: and when any one nd,
But how is this to be brought about?
No one can arbitrarily send out q
proclamation that such a service shall
be performed at such and such a charge.
The business of transportation is like
all Other business this: it must
Of it can be lessened only by economies
growing out of increased volume. So
he does most for you in this respect
customers and helps to swell the vol
ume Of products and of purchases. This
is the way in which the diminut!on Of
and the change is greater than has oc-
CURED IN the price Of almost any other
hedasS es
1913 in 1870. s1.17 in 1850. 81 cents in
ss l. cents s ;s a aSS w sns o in
Of Europe from .sio to si.7o.
The Great Northern Railroad has been
reducing its rates prosressively for the
the company. and of the state railway
commission show that. II its freight tar
iffs had not been altered in that time: If
the rates that were then in force. it
would have received more than $685.
900, 900 more than it has received dur
over $27.000.0O0. and this a reduction
on one ROAD and am as proud OF that
as rapidly as the growth of the bust:
ness permitted and made prudent. And
I need not tell any of you who read the
events of the day that this work ie still
going on. and that the crops raised this
year in the northwest will he sent to
made in the whole history Of the north
west.
How has this been accomplished7 BY
studying 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
tbs the soil ara ,6
to ask you as you study these figures
to say whether these results. so bene-
fetal to yourselves, could ever have
been reached through policy Of antag-
onism and force. Some of the politi-
clans will tell you that railroad rates
ment, and that this is the reason why
vious fact, that railroad rates in this
country would decline more slowly UNI
der government control than II fixed by
those who have intelligently managed
the railways. No public body would
those that have been made Voluntarily
must as be poor. Th they suffer togetier wa or
prosper together. and this condition will
always remain. Those who make the
rates with full knowledge of all the
facts entering into them will make them
more people; more acres under cultiva.
tion. more business for the railroad
company to carry: more earnings and
more profits 1t is the right and the
duty of the government to secure fair
treatment and to prevent discrfmina-
tions; but when any man says that he Is
anxious to have political place in or
making power in the hands Of the gov
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