Bismarck daily tribune., 1912-06-08

ing ehe year, the cities OF st. Paul ::
Of the amount. :
the Northwest DEVELOPMENT (:
ling the aggregate number Of people :
ito the American Northwest, and :
secure It's percentage Of the gen. =
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on campaign to cover four months
each year, when we will make several
car loads Of our products on a special
train, manned by thirty or forty con-
vincing speakers, many Of whom
should be farmers and actual settlers
on our lands, and go down into the
East and Middle West and carry the
message directly. These men would
hold meetings in school houses and
country churches, talking directly to
the rural population and answering
their questions. The exposition we
could place in the city hall, armories,
convention halls ana elsewhere in
towns and cities from 10000 to 50, 900
population. Such a campaign will
cost $50. 600 year. and will reach
half million people. It will cost
just about what some one city is
spending in trying to get free public
ity; it will cost just about what f1f-
teen communities pay for booklets
each year, and it will reach the people.
We have planned 20 hold another
land products show in the Twin Cities
Of Minnesota, this year in Minneapolis,
because these cities are the gateway
of the American Northwest. Through
them passes very large percentage
OF the new settlers coming into the
Northwest. The Canadian govern
ment has centralized on St. Paul and
Minneapolis. They have whole blocks
Of Offices in these cities, and show
thousands of people what others are
doing in the Candanian Northwest.
Last year We showed $4,000 people
what the three states will produce,
when we held a land show in st.
Paul. That is more people tan Cana
da has met in st. Paul in three years
This year we will unquestionably
show 100000 people our products, and
reach interested ones with our liter
ature, or as many as Canada can show
in the Twin Cities in six years. We
must make this enterprise success,
and then the way is paved for cam
paign. reaching beyond the Twin Cit
les. down into the states, where peo.
pie are restless, and demand larger
opportunities.
The time has not yet come for us
to reach into Europe, but we must
meet the alien at the ports Of entry
and tell him about the opportunities
in our lands. Many of them have
been farmers in the old country, and
would be farmers in this country. If
they were given information before
they 60 to the cities. There they are
them on lands, and are heaped to-
gether in great masses of humanity.
which form cruel whirlpools in which
innumerable lives are ceaselessly
drawn down.
The alien demands honest advertis-
ing. He wants the authority Of the
government Of the United States be-
hind the information about our lands.
That is why the Northwest Develop
ment League is asking congress to
establish bureau in connection with
the department of commerce and
labor which will collect and publish
information about our vacant lands
and our resources, printed In thirty
languages is necessary, and make it
obligatory on the part of the depart
ment to distribute It's Information at
our ports of entry.
The time is coming when the
United States will recognize as func-
tion Of government, the work Of Sc.
curing desirable settlers. and distrib'
uting them. The proposition Is not
taken very seriously now, even when
we tell our congressman and law.
makers that another country is In,
vesting one million dollars annually
in this work, and has been for i've
years. It has been securing 100000 Of
our farmers annually. If the accept
ed estimate that a farmers life work
is worth $4,000 to the community
in which he lives is correct, then it
follows that Canada's investment Of
$4,000, 900 in a publicity campaign has
added to her natural wealth, to the
value Of $4,000, ,000, 900, not consider
ing her gains from Europe.
The Northwest Development League
must maintain a representative in
Washington at the next session Of
Cogress. We must get domestic
emmigration policy established first.
II the Borah three years proof law
for homesteaders is defeated we must