Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-05-10
BlsmARck DAILY rRlsvNE

the last 20 OF ~ years nave SHOWN. l
believe 1t will show much better in the
future. | heard }. j. Hill say once while
making a speech in Minneapolis, that the
best thing that the Great Northern rail-
way could do would be to give away the
land granted to them by the government
to the people for holnestcads: it would
nave been much better for the railroad
company. In those days when land was
sold the Ignite coal was considered val
ueless; today when the railroad company
sells any land they are careful to give
only a surface deed and retain the coal
rights. Tne coar viii prove valuable.
and, friends. | believe that the large part
of North Dakota In the future is going
to lie west OF the Missouri river.
Clay and coal mean something. Fuel
is necessary to develop our clay dcpos-
it's. Our great wealth in the future is
not to be confined to our agricultural
products. Our deposits of Ignite coal
and the suitable clay for brick and pot
terry are going to mean something in the
future. Perhaps somebody will find the
right way to use the coal in order to get
out of it what we should.
Sometimes we speak about tho women
ging to join the commercial club Il
would be a good idea. After all, perhaps,
pack Of all the, attainncnts Of men.
there Is a woman in the home who
runs things. Here the governor told a
story Of a minister in a small town, he
was receiving q very small salary and
was finally offered a much better place
and a substantial raise in hts salary.
While he was considering the matter Il
neighbor stepped in to see whether or
40 the intended to accept the offer. ]lc
knocked, and the minister's boy came
to tho door. On being asked ii his
father intended to accept the position
and movc, the boy said: Father Is up
stairs praying for guidance in the mat
ter; but mother is in the next room
packing W 50 | guess We will move"
I'VE may be like the minister praying
for guidance, and perhaps. after all, it
is our wives and swcethearts that direct
our movements.
II am surprised that you don't all be-
long to the commercial club. There are
but few business men in Fargo who do
not belong. 20 our commercial club. Ev-
erybody ought to join; it ism t COMPETE
ton but corporation that builds up Il
community and u city. Every man in
Dickinson should. get behind the prcsi-
dent and secretary of the club. When
YOU get every man., and incidentally every
woman, back Of the Dickinson CONNER
cial club. it will be a success.
JNinkt1cpN, non1c vpnro rpt 1,r,I IL, 7
talked with a man today who said that
another railroad would be a detriment to
Dickinson. He stated that small towns
would spring up around and take the
business from Dickinson That man was
mistaken. Look at Fargo. we do not
get much grain there. the smalr towns
around us get it, but We get the money.
The people come to Fargo to spend their
money. and we would rather nave 1t
same. The large places are held up more
or less by the smaller ones instead of
hindered. Twenty railroads would make
business much better. One railroad
doesn't make for a town. If the men Of
Dickinson can get their new railroad pro.
ject into an actual success they viii have
helped the town very materially.
Men have done well in North Dakota
1t hasn't used .aiX. of US very badly.
Our pioneers were men without much
money but they We're men with good
health and good habits, these they mo-
fitted by and stuck by North Dakota, and
she has been kind to her citizens. We
should all do what we can to build
up our community. YOU should ret
more railroads for Dickinson or else they
will 80 on either side of you and other
towns will spring. up and be what Dick
inson has q prospect of being. start
after business and get it. 1t requires
time and energy to build up a city. 1t
is possible IL VIC put the proper amount
Of push into our commercial club and
every citizen be broad enougl, to b" in
tcrcsted in the welfare Of his city.
Dickinson has a federal building COM
ing in the near future that is going to
mean something. There has been an
appropriation Of $4,000 for the purpose
Of building a pOstofficc and land office
here. l believe that the new federal
building should mean more than that.
~ viz tAo lnCIu puIl VI tIc StulC, SEunu
Forks, Devils Lake and Minot all have
United States courts. Then there arc
Fargo and Bismarck cach favored in
like manner "' There must be such a
court west OF the Missouri river and
DicKlnson is the proper place for it to
be. Friends, there is one way to get it.
Get the members of congress from this
| state and the limited States scnntor.
interested in it and have them gct q
bill through congress naming Dickinson
as the location for the United States
court. All these different things con-
tribute to the building Of 4 successful city
Now Is the best timetto get that move
mcnt started: not because the country
is democratic, but because we are only
about three years away, from the time
when the government building will be
erected here. The money appropriated
for the public buildings is safe. If you
could get a United States court here
It would render it possible for y,u to get
the appropriation increased from $50, 900
to $4,000 1t can be had by going after
it. You must 50 after whatever you
get. Nothing m OF its own accord.
Here the governor told q story of an old
darky. He prayed the Lord to send him
a chicken. He kept praying for this for
a good while: no chicken came. Finally
he prayed for the Lord to send him after
u chicken, and he said: Boss, got ono
the first night Go after a proposition
hard enough and you are sure to get