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

ing business in your state. Get to
gether and see what can be done
Your state legislature ought to he
| able to handle the matter. Have the
Legislature enact q law requiring "a
license fee Of Ave hundred dollars for
the carrying on Of business by those
Canadian agents. (Applause.} ag-.
T. tell you gentlemen, that it Is the
easiest thing on earth to work immi.
grafton under the conditions you can
find in the east today. And right
here S want to say something about
your commissioner Of agriculture and
labor, Mr.. Gilbreath, who Is our chair.
man here tonight. Without throw.
ing any bouquets I wish to tell you
gentlemen that your state commits.
sioner of agriculture and labor. has
accomplished with the small, amount
of money at his disposal more than
Canada could have done with it with
all her boosted system and more than
you gentlemen Of the real estate
fraternity have accomplished for the
settlement of North Dakota. ;. (Ap.
Iplause.) So far as I am concerned
the conditions in the east today are
such that it was not my oratory that
Brought people here, it was not my
magnetism that brought people here,
but it was the settlers we, have
located along the line, Of the Great
Northern railway as the nucleus for
all the subsequent settlers we have
secured. And want to tell you
gentlemen, and suppose I will get
fired for It,, but I am wound up
{laughter) and will have to 60 on,
that no less person than James J.
Hill, once shook his fist at me when
people began to settle in the country
west of Mfnot. (Laughter.)
If you can carry out some of the
things I have suggested, and make
some Of the readjustments have in.
Dictated, and it is easy to do il you &c
at the thing right, you can all. be
happy and you will all wear diamonds
daughter and applause.}s Il thank
you. e ~ : ,.... So.
/ - Colonel q. w. Mott .&E.
the head of the immigration depart
ment of the Northern Pacific railway,
was the next speaker. He said:,
+ Mr.. Chairman: / judge am a
good deal like the nickel in, the slot
machine; you only have to- start me
! and will go. (Laughter.)
Mr.. Bass has covered the ground
with reference to immigration pretty
thoroughly. There is only 'ones way
1you can get immigration, and that lie
by getting to work and going after
it; it is simply a commercial prepo.
t5sition. H.: ~. sszs s,.;,..,:., - +.
At the close of the civil war, when
the army was discharged In, 1855,
Kansas war, settled largely by'sa tIFttsh Il
soldiers who didn't care whetherfthey
went to east Kansas or west Kansas
or where it was hot as Hades; 1t was
all one to them. But as time went
on, Nebraska came into Line, and
these other states of the west came
into line, and it became San educa-
tional movement; they all got to, be
as though they had been born In
Missouri and you had to show them.
tlLaughter.) And you gentlemen have
found out that in the real estate bust
ness, as in any other, you cannot sell
goods unless the order is the same
as the sample: You cannot populate
any country in the world unless you
tell the truth about the country you
want to settle. And you cannot sell
everything because everything is not
good.sr.We have been doing, that is
the immigration department has,
since the lands of the Northern Pa
cific were sold, an educational work
through the middle western states
and as far east as Pennsylvania and
Maryland and as far south as Arkan-
isas, in the interest OF immigration to
this state have been doing it by
distributing printed matter, by giving
moving picture shows and talks, and
by going after the fellows after we
had shown them the samples, and
staying right by them and landing
them as Moses did the people OF
Israel out of the wilderness, and ]
remember that they kind Of doubted
him. daughter and applause.) You
see that I am kind Of biblical, too
don't want any people from the tall
grass to come here and think he has
got any license ON the bible. (Laugh.
lter.) .esgiEl.% .+5 a
| 81 want You people to form great
big immigration association. You can
only take up certain branches OF the
work, however. The branch / would
advise you to concentrate on would
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