Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-02-08
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@s + am not personally a real estate
dealer. I occupy, perhaps, the same
position to a real estate. dealer that
an agriculturist does to a farmer.
In other words am a booster and /
never knock real estate deal. Gap
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f It occurs to me, however, from the
general practical and wealthy appear
ance of the delegates here, that at a
time to which our memory does not
run, history records that there was
another gathering of real estate deal
ers good deal similar to the body
assembled here. And il you will
turn to the good book, with which
real estate men are all familiar, you
will find that it records that great
multitude from the surrounding
cities and towns came into Jerusalem,
and, while the account does not mem
ton real estate dealers" in exact
words, it goes on to state. land they
were well heeled, every one Of them
(Laughter.) I am sure the men who
have had the good sense and business
sagacity to invest in North Dakota
lands are well heeled, every one of
them. ,5s#} i: AZ ~..>5 g.. ri l. g
1t may be news to some of you,
and, Mr.. Chairman. I am just making
this as a general remark, that we are
as real estate dealers (and use the
term because that is the body of men
represented here) not the only peb-
bles on the beach. b And, while there
is nothing in my acquaintance with
the real estate men OF today to indi-
cate it, nevertheless it is a cold fact,
recorded in the good book, that the
iH-famed and notorious AEanias was
the first real estate dealer that his
tory mentions. i direct your atten-
tfon to Acts v, and you will find 1T
recorded there that a man named
Ananias and his wife, Sapphire, sold
their landed possessions. And 4 re-
greet to- state that Ananias in. this, the
first real estate deal that history re-
cords, actually undertook to defraud
an apostle out of his fair share of
the transaction, in that Ananias only
took part of the purchase price to
Peter, who thereupon called him
down, saying, "Ananias, why Hest
thou, and OILY bring portion of the
money the land brought?" And
lAnanias, very much unlike the mod
Iern real estate man, Immediately
T gave up the ghost. (Laughter.) And
a young man there present came up
and buried him. And, although l
blush to say it, that same good book
records that there was woman in
it; for it says, 1.-THE wife was privy to
the transaction. (Laughter.l -.
Now this is an ancient case, but II
has a lesson for today, and / hope
that the fact that our first real estate
man, Ananias, was bound up aud
buried will have tendency to keep
our modern real estate dealers hor-
est now. (Applause.) .;Ts III. &; t.-a
just a word more and i am
through. You gentlemen, as has
been stated by Mr.. Stevens SO elo-
quently. are the men who are to put
forward and publish to all men the
resources and the good things that
this state offers to men of every ma
tion and Of every cline, and whose
duty it is when you get the man here
to show him those things. When you
show him particular section of the
country let me advise you to miss
nothing, SO that he may not go home
and find himself in the position Of the
young lady II who was visiting the
Yellowstone park with her mother,
who had recently and suddenly ac-.
quired riches. This young lady, after.
returning to her native city, and
oVerhearing the conversation Of q
certain German gentlemen. said to.
her mother, Mother, didn't we see.
every one Of the geysers in the park
when we were there q. Yes, my
daughter. " her mother RESPONDED,
I'VE saw everything that one could
see there, z and the daughter replied.
why, / just heard q German telling
a lady that Geyser Wilhelm was the
greatest ever and / didn' see that
geyser when we were there. n
lLaug hter. So, gentlemen. make
sure that yoa show your customers
everything our state offers, and be
sure you give them facts.
You can give them facts, you can
show them everything and hold alb
sol,itely TO the truth and not pattern.
after Ananias, because the wealth
that Is il our soil is not TO be mag
|nified by fiction. Anplause.1 Feed
your men on facts; they are stubborn
things. Be careful what you feed