The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-09-06
0RIEN7ALS TO DRIVE
AMERICANS TO FARMS
j. j. Hill Sees Crushing Com
petition for American Fac
tories Within 20 Years.
FARMING FUNDAMENTAL
FUNDAMENTAL
United States to Have Population G.
~125,o00,0Co Within Two Decades
and a Food Shortage
to Face.

st. Paul, Mimi, Sept. 5.-Under u
cloudless sky and cool breeZes tanning
the multitude, the Minnesota State Fair
association began its annual as
ricultural exposition and live stock
show. The special feature was the ded-
ication of the immense live stock m
phitheater recently completed, the seat
ing capacity Of which is 1000.
The dedicatory exercises began at IL
o'clock, j.. ]. Hill, president of the
Great Northern railroad, delivered an
address.
President Hilrs Address.
Mr.. Hills speech was q plea for the
development of the agricultural indus
try of the country and the diversion Of
immigration to the farms in order that
the future population of the country
may be fed. He predicted that the
United States, with intelligent, though
not necessarily scientific, use of all The
available soil, could produce enough
food to support 600, Geo. Geo people in
comfort. He asserted that within TWEEN
ty years, under the present methods
Of tillage, allowing the soil to Gcteri-
crate, the wheat production of the
country will be insufficient for home
consumption, let alone export. Within
that tine the country will have q pop-
ulation OF 2 5000, coo and the problem.
of finding food, room and employment
for them will be pressing, since by tina
time dream of conquest of world mar
kets will be a bursted bubble" Japan
ana China, Mr.. Hill said. with theil
initiative ability, their proved ca---city
to operate modern machinery, thRir
supplies of coal and iron, cheap labor
and iimitless patience, will control the
markets Of the future.
Orientalo WilI Control.
"They must controls" he said, "as
against the policy which has estab-
lished domestic conditions i'll manufac-
turing business on ines which makes
production so expensive an affair that
we could not hope to meet the me-
chanic of Germany on Ven terms and
must retire before the despised China
man. It is a mathematical fact that
within twenty years under present con-
dltions our wheat crop will not be Suf-
fcient for home consumption and seed,
without leaving a bushel for export.
Will these coming millions so into the
factories? But Where can we tlcn ex-
pect to sell shop products in Il world of
competition, and who will furnish the
payrolls? All industry stops when
these are not forthcoming. That is
the dead wall against which England
stands dismayed."
There must be a national revolt
against the worship of manufacture
and trade as the only form OF progress
Sive activity, and the false notion that
wealth built upon these at the sacri-
flee OF the fundamental form of wealth
production can endure. A clear %recogni-
ton on the part of the whole people.
from the highest down to the lowest,
that the tillage Of the soil is the ma
tural and most desirable occupation for
man., to which every other is subsi-
diary II to which all else must in the
o,1 I-ip11 G tha f pct ,,ar,,s-;+1 rrl,o-
there will be a check administered to
the city movement that lowered the
percentage Of agricultural labor 10 the
whole body Of persons engaged in gain
full occupations in the United States
from 44.3 in 1880 to 37.7 in 1890, and So. 7
in 1900. With public interest firmly
fixed upon the future Of the country,
in mere self preservation, must give
serious attention to the practical occu-
patton Of restoring agriculture TO it's
due position in the nation
The speaker estimated that the area
now under cultivation will be eventu-
ally doubled m with the introduction
Of careful methods of tillage, with con-
%servation of the productivity of the
soil through proper fertilization, the
total annual agricultural production of
the country can eventually be increased
from $4,000 900, 900 to $40, 0CG,O0O, 900 or
SIS, 900, 000, 900. He pointed to the ratio
in Belgium, where a reasonably intel
lligent population Of fairly high stand
ards Of living IS supported in comfort
at the rate of 419 persons to the square
mile of tiled and. He asserted on the
authority Of a french expert that food
for the 100000 people of Paris could