The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-08-26

S.Ao CO SASb 10 Ouo "a luo lew r0StSuH
OF tho world still left which are Il:
for @ new white settlement. it would
be a calamity to neglect 1t.
Oh course, tho settlers must bs o:
tho right type. Tho frontier Is nc
place for weak and shiftless people.
But the Same kind OF man who did
we'll when he went to the far west,
to the Rocky mountains and the great
plains 30 years ago. can do we'll here,
Mission Of tho Rail.
Just as in our own west. the great
railroads we're built, not because the
country already needed them, but to
build up country which should In
the future need them, so here with
you the railroad has been built to
develop and build ap the country.
still think that there are ex-
cellent openings for capitalists here.
but l hope you will always keep in
mind that real white mans coun-
try can only be built up by making the
opportunities real favorable for the
| actual home-makers, the multitude OF
men who do not expect to make great
fortunes. but who do expect as tho
reward Of hard work to build COM
Portable homes for themselves and
their families and Ito see their chill
dren grow up f1t and able to inherit
tho land after them,
Another point, gentlemen. To make
this 6 white mans country, remem.
ber that not only the laws of right
eousness, but your bwn real and ulti-
mate self interest, demand that tho
black man be treated with justice and
helped upward. But have no pa
tience with the sahtimentalists. The
tribes hereabouts are, Of course, hope
lessly incompetent to better them
selves without white leadership. You
must occupy position OF unoues.
toned mastery and leadership, but for
your own sakes you must exercise
that leadership and mastery with q
Gal 4-Sheehan i fwyp mfwypao
deep sense of alla the responsibility
which 1t entails.
have peculiar feeling for tho
settlers because they remind me SO
much Of the men with whom I have
worked in our own west. But. !.
too. have 6 most profound sympathy
for the government officials, for l
have also been a government official.
want to sec settler, government o.,
f1cial and missionary work hand In
hand with heartiest accord.
AT the risk OF seeming to preach
l want to lay especial stress on two
points.
Like Old Western Conditions.
In the first place. there is tho SIM
,ilarity OF your conditions here in
many respects to what l saw in thu
west nearly a generation ago. Thin
10 especially true of your failures.
In new country Hike this you have
to make experiments, and that means
that you have to make occasional
failures. 1t is folly to be disheart.
enel by thesa failures.
The second thinE want to say IN
as to the individual settler himself,
1t is the farmer, the man who grows
wheat or cotton, sheep or cattle, tn,
man who makes his profit out of
wool or meat or dairy or from SONG
other product ot tho soil. upon whose
success tho permanent success OF this
country must depend Now farm,
erH business, ia just as much sci,
ence as any other. Yet in every
new country many new people drill
iE who seem to think tina! men wha
have never done stroke OF real man.
ua! labor for their living can sud-
denly become successful farmers. a
quarter o: G century ago / met any
number o: such men in tho west.
What iG most needed hero n plenty
o! men who know tho business ct
farming and have the fiexibility o.
mind necessary. II & farmer from ar
old country is to bo ablo to aday:
himself to do we'll in new country
Finally, gentlemen. let tho scien,;,
fic farmer and tho pioneer remember
that each iG q very shor. sighted per,
son II he cannot learn something
from tho other. Tho pioneer car
profit immensely from tho government
farms, from the experiences OF men
who mako farming {; paying success
and the scientific farmer from tho
old world, with his training, needs t,
remember that in tha harsh condition,
under which much of the life OF {;
country is led only tho rugged men
who have actually grown up facing
similar conditions are fit to tame tho
country SO that others can como III
aftes them.