New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-03
HILL GIVES GOOD ADVICE
Famous Empire Builder Tells Gro
GERS Thing or Two.
Says Farming and Stock Raising
are MinnesOta's Greatest
Resources.
Thrifty Tillers of the Soil are Ma
tons Best Assets.

Thrifty Tillers of the Soil are Ma
tons Best Assets.
Declaring that he wasn't much of a
grocer, but that he was a practical
farmer by proxy, James J. Hill dotted
the character of railroad magnate long
enough Thursday afternoon to win the
hearts of every groceryman present at
the annual retail merchants conven-
sion in St. Paul. Mr.. fill, who fired
his arguments into the audience with
the force of thirteen-inch gun: SAID:
Fifty years ago, when 1 had moth
ing else to do in the winter time, I
used to try to sell some goods up as
far as the settlement of the country
extended, which was New Ulm. I do
not know that was a good salesman,
out preferred to do that rather than
so sit by the stove and do nothing
Then he went on into a dissertation
on the sources from which comes
all our income, all the means we have
TO expend for food and raiment. The
discourse will go down in history as
one of the most practical addresses
ever delivered in Minnesota, practi-
cal address delivered by thoroughly
practical man. The following is it's
essence:
Everything in the world that is Of
value comes from four sources. The
sea contributes from two tothree per
cent of the value of the worlds pro-
ducts, but we have no sea near US in
Minnesota. The forest: the field and
she mine produce the balance. Every
thing that is of value comes from one
>Of these four sources.
3.Let US consider what we have in
Minnesota. Our forests were once
considerable, but today the trees, we
may say, are actually counted. We
nave some of the largest iron mines in
the world, but there is an end to iron
mines.
81 want to impress upon you that,
no matter what you do, all your bust
ness, ali the money that is paid to you
and is to be paid to you in Mime
sofa, whether it comes from the man
who works by the day or the month,
Or whether it comes from the parson,
or the lawyer, Or the doctor, or wheth-
ger you borrow it at the bank, or where
lever it may come from, it is practi-
~cally all furnished from the Guilty alton
of the land in the Northwest.
tsHere we have climate and soil.
Our climate gives enough moisture to
give us reasonably certain growth OF
vegetation. Our soil, once fertile, is
NOW rapidly being deterioraled, run
down; people say the land wears out.
Stop moment and think what would
become of the human race if the land
wore out, like an old garment, or an
eold pair of shoes. and had to be cast
aside. We would all die within gen
eratiOn.
tsThe land does not wear out. The
another earth that bears US all is kind
ly and patient, but she cannot give the
yield unless she is taken care OF intel
]igently. Now it becomes every man,
whether he lives in the city or the
sown Or in the country, at the foul
corners or at one corner, to see thai
she man on the land is not only doing
justice to himself, but that he is doing
Justice to the earth that bore him.
Otherwise we will have nothing to fall
back on.
$50 back as far as history will car
KY us, back to Mesopotamia, Babylon,
and Ninevah, once great cities. Today
their location is marked by piles Of
desert sand, and the people who over.
ran the neighboring nations and made
slaves of them to build those great
cities are gone and their place taken
10y few wandering Arabs seeking a
green spot upon which they may pas.
ture few horses and sheep. Pales
sine, the land of milk and honey, is
today the home of few wandering
Arab robbers, who would shoot you, il
your back were turned, to take
second-han coat off your back if the!
could get nothing else.
1--WE have no Nile to fertilize oul
aands, but science has done a grea
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