Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-02-08
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am not personally a real estate
dealer. occupy, perhaps, the same
position to a real estate dealer that
an agriculturist does to a farmer.
In other words I am booster and Z
never knock a real estate deal. Cap
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1t 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. a good deal similar to the body
assembled here. And if you will
turn. to the good book. with which
real estate men are all familiar, you
will find that it records that a great
multitude from the surrounding
cities and towns came into Jerusalem,
and, while. the account does not men
ton real estate dealers in exact
words, it goes on to state land they
were we'll heeled, every one of them
(Laughter.9 am sure the men who
have had the good sense and business
Esagacity to invest in North Dakota
lands are we'll heeled, every one of
them. fs7 ,.t : aisFsas...o r.
1t may be news to some of you,
and, Mr. Chairman, l am just making
this as 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. And, while there
is nothing in my acquaintance with
the real estate men of today to inffi-
cate it, nevertheless it lis cold fact,
recorded in the good book, that the
i1l-famed and notorious Ananias was
the first real estate dealer that his
tory mentions. I direct your atten-
ton to Acts v, and you will find it
recorded there that a man named
Ananias and his wife, Sapphire, sold
their landed possessions. And I re-
gret 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, "Ananfas, why Hest
thou, and only bring portion Of the
money the land brought?'' And
Ananias. very much unlike the mod
ern real estate man, Immediately
gave up the ghost. (Laughter.) And
"a young man there present came up
and buried him. And, although i
blush to say it, that same good book
records that there was a woman in
it; for it says, '..The wife was privy to
the transaction Laughter.)
Now this Is an ancient case, but it
has q lesson for today, and I hope
that the fact that our first real estate
man, Ananias, was bound up aud
buried will have a tendency to keep
our modern real estate dealers hoE-
est now. Applause Al :.= Is IN. ~,
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
ton 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 homo
and find himself in the position of the
young lady who was visiting the
Yellowstone park with her mother,
who had recently and suddenly ac-
CURED riches. This young lady. after
returning to her native city, and
oyerhearing the conversation of a
certain German gent emen. said to
her mother, other. didn't we see
every one OF the geysers in the park
when we were there ~ es, my
daughter. her mother responded,
tive saw everything that one could
see there, and the, daughter replied.
: Why, Just heard a German telling
q lady that Geyser Wilhelm was the
greatest ever and I didn't see that
geyser when we were there. 3
Laughter. So, gentlemen, make
sure that YOU show your customers
every thing cur state offers, and be
sure you give them facts.
sEs Yon can give them facts, You eant
show them everything and hold abb
solntely to the truth and not pattern
after Ananias, because the wealth
that Is Id our SOIL is not to be mag
nified BY Action. Applause. Feed
your men on facts; they are stubborn
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