Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-02-10

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support those four. / went to WORK
with the ulladetermination OF devel-,
|oping the country and letting the
|cities take care Of themselves. !.
worked BAT 1t and now today the pop.l-.55
aation liz about two and one-quarter
to one. have got the proportion OF
the city population to the urban pop
ulation cut. down some, and there -
more money in that country now
and the land is more valuable than
lit was and there is more work Tor
everybody. The reason is, there are
more producers. So instead OF look.
ing up John Jones when you have
three hundred thousand acres to sell
at a profit Of fifty. cents or one dollar
an acre, to sell him the whole thing
for the purpose ON his part OF spec!n1,-ft
lation, go and hunt up a fellow who
will. take half a section or so at nye
or six dollars an acre, and who Will
get to! work and make the land ne
buys produce something. BY the time
you have sold all OF the three hun
dred thousand. acres. except the last
six thousand you will be rich, for the
reason that the, small purchasers
have made the remaining six thou
sand acres ten times as valuable as u
was when you commenced. ZAP
plause.) You have sold to men who
are producers, and thereafter you
will not have to hunt up anybody to
buy the land. ...- 49,,
The Canadian movement is strong
lin two ways; there is strong organi-
cation behind it., and that organiza-
ton is provided with lots of money.
And, in addition to those advantages,
you have helped thas movement by
building up a Chinese! wall around
this state. You have done this by
|unreasonably raising the prices of
your lands. OF course, there are
other departments of railroad than
the immigration department., There
is the passenger. department., the
freight department and the legal de-
partment and SO on. I have always
fought the passenger department of
my company since this movement to
Canada began On the proposition Of
cheap rates to Canada, and had it
pretty we'll hemmed in until. they
found that there was one road that
was doing all the business, and the
Northern Pacific Railway company
had to protect itself. But We have
not given them any concessions and
they cannot get any concessions out
of us. We cannot get any revenue out
OF the man when he gets on the other
side of the international boundary
lime. ss.% g.. 80.
Now one thing that would like to-
see is reciprocity between the United
States and Canada. IT. we had it.
there would be none Of this fighting
and none of this i'll feeling between
the two nations. (Applause.) The
fact is that we have not been. gen.
erous enough to other nations. We
have been thinking that we amount
to too muchs and some day the time
will come when we will find we have
been mistaken. - ,,..,. -,
Now there is a matter right here
in this state that am glad to see.
That is the pushing of the irrigation
proposition: Without. irrigation you
will have a strong competition in the
irrigated districts of the west, for
they can raise five times as much as
you can on unirrigated ground here.
/ would like to see the irrigation
pumps going here today and the land
producing alfalfa. In idaho, Mon
tana and Washington and the south
western states you will find formid-
able competitors against the middle
western states where irrigation is not
carried on. You men of North Dakota
ought to strive in every way to see
how you can establish irrigation in
this state, no matter to how small
an extent. For irrigation is coming
and coming fast to these western
states. When all these people can
go on to twenty acres in the irrigated
districts Of the states I have men,
toned and make more money on
twenty acres than you can make on
one hundred and sixty it is some .
thing to think about. You NAV mt
see 1t, but your children surely will, I
And all your efforts should he a.
rected to securing irrigation here
(Applause.) - =: III r.. e.. I'm
But to return to the matter Of i'm
migration, there are lots of tb,n.s
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