Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-03-12
COLLINS SURPRISED At
| LACK Of WAGON BRIDGE
ACROSS MISSOURIR|VER
Believes Agricultural Education IS Essential
to Success
Conditions Very Promising for Good Crop
This Coming Season

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his farm does nothing on the farm in
!, the way his father did, nor as he
himself did thirty years ago. l could
check up this bald statement and
prove 1t in all its details, but know
that you have notsthe space to spare
me. II the general mass of farmers
were in touch with the knowledge
in use by the most modern agricul.
turists, they would double their prof
it's within a year..
Value OF Demonstration Farms
1T is a great step in progress that
the $100an.acre association I'm under
taking, when they are installing
demonstration farms, in every town
ship. If that association carries out
its platform, it will revolutionize
farming in North Dakota, and its
price of 500 per acre for North Da-
kota land will, in q few years. look
like thirty cents.
One Great Danger to Farmers
North Dakota has q larger percent
age of fertile, tillable land than any
other state in the union. There is
just one great danger to the farmers
of North Dakota aside from the an
tagonisn Of Burke politicians. That
danger lies in the Imminent possibili'
ty that Canada may yet make the
Taft reciprocity act an actual con-
dition.. and not merely a dead letter
on the statute books. If reciprocity
goes into effect, It will cost North Da-
kota agriculturists at least 100000, 900
per year in price shrinkage on crops.
That loss will continue until the law
is repealed. Aside from price shrink
age there is no telling what the dam
age would be to land values.
The Chine Of 1911
"The farmers are certainly not en-.
tirely free from handicaps in other
directions-the occasional drought,
high freight rates, and other condi-
stions. To have this extra and un-
necessary. burden upon them can only
be designated as the Crime Of f81a::'
Reciprocity = Gigantic Conspiracy
1T Is q conspiracy between Presi.
dent Taft, Influenced by his Brother,
who is the attorney of the steel trust,
and by his cabinet officer, Wicker
sham, who until he went into the cab
met was also attorney for the steel
trust. Joined with the president and
the steel trust as the greatest i'm
mediate beneficiary, is James J. Hill
and the Great Northern railway in
terests.
Roosevelt Opposed to Reciprocity
1T has been wrongly claimed that
Theodore Roosevelt was opposed to
tariff reduction, and that he was
supporter of Taft reciprocity. I have
positive evidence that both charges
are absolutely false. In q personal
letter from Roosevelt he told me of
his demands that the farmers shall
have the same measure Of protection
that the manufacturers have, and that
they shall not be required whether
by reciprocity or any other legislation,
to bear the burden of tariff reduction
In excess Of what manufacturers have
to bear. His first consideration, next
to the welfare of the wage Garner, is
that q letter I received from him
Just one year prior to this letter. but
which was marked private and not
for publication and which proves
that this more recent letter is no flop
from his previous position
Have you ever been in Bismarck
before?" Mr.. Collins was asked.
Bismarck = eustlins City
well, yes, once before. have
come to North Dakota on several
to look after my land, and
once I stopped of at the capita! be-
Tween trains. This is the first time.
however, / have had an opportunity
TO pay your city real visit. It looks
ike very busting city.
Wagon Bridge Essential to Prosperity
There is one thing which sup
prises me concerning Bismarck. +
was told this morning that Bismarck
lid not get very much patronage from
The towns west Of the river. It is
to me that Bismarck does
not see that wagon bridge is built
across the Missouri. No community
ian thrive without agricultural sup
port. Even Minneapolis, think is
to realize that it's selfish
attitude toward supporting reciprocity
because Of the increased traffic that
night follow, was wrong. A city can
prosper only az the farmers residing
n the surrounding communities sue.
ICED and prosper. It looks to me as
,hough Bismarck is lying down, and
aking advantage of only half its op.
oortunity BY allowing the river to
tut on Its trade from the west"
BUILDING MATERNAL
or either repairs or new buildings. !
Dur stock Il complete with the best
Material that money can buy. Wei
ne here to serve you - " have
lone II the past, AMI BY giving 10 |
lour businsss you win b assured |
he most for your money. Cone n |
ind tan with us-we may have so0e
'ukgestions that viii help you-our
,stfmates don't cost you anything
md We are only too glad % Agu1el
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