Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-18

interested as much because they af
feet your business also, and you are
interested in them from business
standpoint.
The question of freight rates will
be before the legislative assembly,
and IL you can get cheaper freight
rates in this state you can afford to
sell your goods cheaper, and because
you can afford to sell your goods
cheaper you can better compete with
the catalogue houses. That is a
question which will be before this leg
islative assembly You are interested
in it. We do not want to be unrea-
sonable, we do not want rates which
are unreasonable, and which the rail-
road companies cannot afford, but we
do want rates which are reasonable,
rates which will give the railroad
companies just compensation for the
carrying of traffic and which at the
same time will be reasonable to the
people who must pay them. XII
There are great many other
things also in which you are inter
ested, for instance, the car shortage.
the conditions which are prevailing in
this state at the present time. L call
your attention to these conditions and
these measures because they are com.
ing before this legislative assembly
and because you know something
about these conditions. There are no
men In this state who have better on
portunities of knowing what the
freight rates are, and there are no
men In this state who have better on
portunities Of knowing what reason
able and just compensation for the
carrying of freight is, because you are
all men who are continually paying
freight and you are men necessarily
Of good judgment or you could not
have stayed in business under the CON
ditions in this state very long.
| am not going to advise you as to
what you are to do in reference to
certain conditions, or how you are GO
ing to compete with the catalogue
houses, / believe that you yourselves
are better qualified to think that sub
ject out than am, but just want to
say to you in this connection that /
do not believe that it would be good
policy on your part to follow the sug-
gestions of General McCue and wait,
for your profits until you go to
heaven, because some of you might
never get there. daughter and ap-
plause.) You too, as well as the peo-
pie, and as well as the railroad com
panies, are entitled to a square deal,
and believe that you will look out
for that yourselves. $.
Gentlemen, am very glad to have
been with you on this occasion and if3
any suggestions that 1 have made
here are Of benefit to you am very:
glad of it. want to say to you that
if there is anything that I can do to
better conditions in this state that I
will gladly do it at any time.
I thank you.
At the conclusion of Governor
Burke's address Mr.. Miller said: It
gives me pleasure now to introduce to
you our own distinguished citizen,
Archdeacon Jones.
Archdeacon Jones' Address.
Mr.. President, officers and mem
bers of the Merchants Association and
fellow citizens: This is the largest
congregation that 7 have had for a
long time daughter and applause).
am not SO sure that I am equal to the
occasion. / have been dealing in
futures for the past fifteen years, and
i am not so sure that what one of the
foregoing speakers said is SO, but that
every man will be rewarded for every
good act he has done. remember
on one occasion I heard a friend tell
ing story of gentleman in Chicago
He had done two good acts in his life
time and when he crossed the land
from whose bourne no traveller re-
turns and was standing at the gates
of the celestial city, he was asked
what good acts he had done in his
life. He could only report two good
acts; he had given two cents on two
different occasions to poor beggar
on the streets of Chicago. This was
referred to the one keeping the books.
and he was asked IL this was SO and
when 1t was found to be true they re-
turned him the two cents and sent
him to his own place. daughter and
applause.)
/ have come here because / am
particularly interested in this Mer-
chants Association. and especially in
the merchants, being the son Of a
merchant myself. would doubtless
have been merchant had It not been
for my mothers persuasion. Apart
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