Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1906-03-02

MaGerlal dropping Oft In these
shipments. I'm fact after stock
farming has had sstime to- sup
plant the present ranch business
we look for marked increase.
James j. Hill
aDks ON Future
At last James j. Hill the sill.
|ent railroad king Of the north
west, has given us his full and
free opinion on the business
policy of the United States SAYS
the Scrap Book. Throughout his
long career it has been his plan
to say nothing and saw wood. g
He has been too busy to talk.
The man who plunges into a
dence wilderness. as he did, and
transforms it into half a dozen
prosperous States, has no time to
run public opinion factory.
But recently, while at a gath
ering of his friends in st. Paul.
u. j. Hill unlocked his tongue
and spoke out. It has a remark
able address, made by a remark
bic man, and the meat Of it was
as follows:
The nation at large feels that
| 1T is immensely prosperous. We.
are cutting wide sWath; there
is no doubt Of it. But il we will
| get down closer and examine
what we are doing, we will find
that we are living profigately
and squandering our heritage in
levery possible manner.
We should insist upon better
cultivation Of the LAID. For on
THAT one item depends your flu
ture growth and prosperity, and
there is no other item to which
Iyou can look; no other source Of
wealth than that. which com es
out Of the cultivation Of the soil.
If the soil is protected, if it is
lintelligently handled, if your
1 crops are properly rotated, if the
/ land is fortified and rested and
linIelligently handled, you have a
mine in the soil that will never
/ be exhausted; quite unlike the
4 other mine.
| The millions and hundreds Of
millions of dollars coming into
Il the Northwest from the annual
4 crops, while it is large, it ism t
4 half as large as it ought to be. n
il Our public domain is exhaust
/ led. Last year over a million
Il people came from across the At
Z lantic to the United States, and
n the natural increase certainly is
ia million and a half more. What
4 is to become of these people:
II They are to be driven fairly in,
Ito the factories and workshops
/ and no place else.
They can leave our country
land go to the Canadian north
west. as many have gone.
But that country will be popu-
4 lated to its extent very soon,
much sooner than you think. Il
i has not an unlimited area.
| Try and cast your mind twenty
or twenty five years ahead. AT
| that time we should have one
hundred and fifty or one hum
dred and sixty millions of peo-
:Iple. Where are you going!
WHO is going to feed them? They
lean manufacture. We have the
/ raw material. We have the coal
land the iron and the copper and
i the lead. They can manufacture.
WHO will buy it,?
We have got to a point where
| we are selling our heritage; we
iare selling our rich deposits Of
liron and our coal and our rich
sol, and exhausting it as we'll.
People Of other countries are
exercising the utmost, closest in
ltelligence in every thing that
pertains to economy in produc
lion. Take, for instance, the
/ German nation today, and they
i lead the world or any period in
1.-THE history Of the world indus
trial Intelligence and industrial
management.
was in England III Novem-
her. and met a sad sight TrafaI,
Igar Square filled with idle PEG.
pie, large numbers of idle PEG
iple asking for bread up around
Hide Park. Why? The men who
carry on the work, who paid the
payrolls, are no longer engaged
lin the business.
What they, had they have turn
led into money and have bought
securities OF something else
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