Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-01-18
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HILL SOUNDS A WARNING.

HILL SOUNDS A WARNING.
J. ]. Hill in a speech before the st.
Paul Commercial club, made some
pungent observations anent the COM
mercial condition of the nation.
s'The nation at large" he said, sis
prosperous. We are cutting a wide
swath, there is no doubt of that If
we get down, however, to a closer ex-
animation we will readily see that
the nation is living profiigately. We
are selling out our natural resources,
exploiting them as fast as we can
without building up industries and
trade relations which will take their
places when once exhausted.
e. 1t is only question of time when
our timber will be ali gone It's end
is already in sight. 1t is to the soil
we must look; there lies the wealth
of the nation. At present the crop
of the nation is not half as large as
1T ought to be. Our public domain is
exhausted and the nation can no lon
ger boast that it has homes for all.
With the rush of imni Migrants to our
shores, where are all finally to wind
!. up? Not on the land. Uncle Sam has
no longer any acres to offer them.
They must crowd into the cities and
TO the factories
Mr.. Hill then went into discussion
to show that Germany was fast crowd
ing out the English manufacturers
owing greatly to the debauchery OF
the English workman, because too
much pampered by maternalism.
When in Great Britain last Noyem-
her, found Germany selling cutlery
i'm Sheffield. A few years ago when
you had a Rogers knife in your mock
ret, or a Wade & Butcher razor to
shave yourself with, you thought that
you had the best that money could
buy. But Germany today is driving
( the cutlery Of Sheffield very hard.
\ When in London tried to get pair
of Hsle thread gloves made in England
ibut could not. The only Isle thread
gloves that could purchase were
made in Germany. <..ys
education in Germany has
much to do with her commercial sue
cess. You can hire am expert chemist
There for $3.50 a year, when you must
pay $4,000 a year for one in this coun-
try. h 1t is not for me to say that
their way is better than ours. but /
do say that when this country has
150,0o0,000 they will have to do some
thing else than exploit their natural
resourse s to earn living We will
have 10 meet bhe competition which
England is today meeting, and have
to face the problem of 100000 l1nem
pioyed crying for bread in Trafalgar
square, London. with NO breaQEto feed
except as charity doaes it out. Z a5fT3
z Examine closely and you will see
u that we are doing nothing to sell ou
natural resources and Exhaust them
Take a ton of ore from the GROUND
and you leave a hole after YOU. You
cannot plant another ton of ore al
you can replenish a potato hill. Z
s is gone forever. =5
"a short time ago we carried from
10000: to 40, 600 tons Of American flour
to the Oriental peoples, but we dom
any more. If we go on treating Ties
Oriental people as we have in thu
past, we won't have any trade witt
them at all They are not compelle'
to buy from us. There Was a tim,
~ when Great Britain took threefourth'
of all the wheat which we exported
Now, within five years they will b
able to buy all the wheat they nee
. from their own ceIonythe grea
Il Northwest They can buy independ
u entity of us. What you ought to hav
your representa- do is to establis
better trade relations between Car
ada and this country. s33,
I'M this connection remember tina
the time IS coming when the Unite
States Will consume all the Wf1ea
which It raises Each year from u
8 o0o, 900 to 1s ,ooo. 900 bushels NOR
wheat isI needed for home conslIrnI
lion. Within ten or fifteen years "
s.ri;m nd We III, wheat Id export but tn
man who east the bread made fror
that wheat nnrst have something T
ax, what win it be ? VINO viii bu
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