The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-09-14

H AAol e our Uil 10 nelp uncle
Sam, boys! Thirty thousand dollar:
worth of farm products.
With this exclamation to the har.
vesting crew with whom he was
working Senator T. S. Hogan of Vel
loWstone county, just plain Tom Ho-
gan as his rancher neighbors call him
tossed the last bundle of his spring
grain crop from the wagon to the
stack and picking up the lines started
the team toward his pretty white
farm house, that nestles among the
cottonwoods in the Pryor Creek val
ley, some a miles from Billings.
An old friend once asked one of
the senator's constituents what vo-
cation was followed by the latter and
the question proved a puzzler. Farm
ing is probably his vocation but there
is nothing so sure about it for he
has had score of avooations. Orig
lnally he was a miner, then smelter-
man and afterwards was secretary of
state for Montana. He took up law
and practiced it successfully, went
into farming and stock raising with
similar results and incidentally found
tlme to serve as a state senator and
land examiner and to make appraise-
ments for the federal land bank at
Spokane. In between times he lee
tured upon questions of public mo-
ment, was called upon frequently for
addresses, and conducted several agi-
tations to right wrongs of which the
farmers were complaining.
1t was not surprising therefore
fcin I,
by saying, II think farming"
Planted Enlarged Acreage.
When President Wilson sent out
his appeal to the farmers of America
to increase their crops, Senator Ho-
gan responded by planting far
greater acreage of spring grain than
ne had expected to SOW. This was
tarmed according to the approved
scientific methods and while there
nave been some failures of spring
grain crops in the state, the Senator
las proved that there is no occasion
o have complete failure, as proper
arming will insure good crop.
His 1917 crop, which he estimates
viii bring in about 100000, is the
argest by far that he has ever rails
d and the present year has been one
t the most successful in his farm
lg experience. Of course it has not !,
ways been SO good as this year. ,
me season, when his crop looked =
lagnificent and he was sharpening
lie mower cycles, hail cut the grain :,
'r him. Another season he reaped ;,
Irge crop, but the price was low. :
Exceeds Youthful Dreams
lie will receive 80 times as much
" his years labor as he secured in c
le days when he worked around the /
nelter at Anaconda or the mines at r
ute and ten times as much as the C
ate of Montana paid him for serv- g
g as one of it's chief officials 1t is 9
sum beyond the widest dreams of ii
S imagination, when as young fell Ii
W he piled the pick and shovel min a
g and refining the red and white W
etals. a
Tom Hogan does not look the c.
rmer, but rather has the appear |;
ice of the statesman or scholar. A h
Dad Irish brogue, such as you t,
ould expect to find along the lane 81
aiding to Dublin university, and al
nvincing manner of speech, make
m an influential speaker. A heavy In
sad of iron grey hair, topping Il
gh forehead, and blue eyes add dis II
notion to a figure that is slender iii
I'd athletic Ill
Montana, then a territory, was in III
e making when he first reached III
ute and secured employment in III
e mines. In that making he has III
aged an important part, especially IL
it's law making. Always a student
public questions, he took deep
terest in the discussions that took n
ace in the early 90's and as a popu- c'
It was elected secretary of state. CT
the expiration of his term of office O.
1900 he was the labor candidate w
r governor. W
Elected Secretary of State. u
While serving as secretary of state 4,
completed the study of law, COM q,
enced when he was boy, and was =
mitted to practice. Soon after ~.
aving public service he entered the =,
neral practice of the profession at "
llings and rose to position of
ldership in the eastern Montana
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The call of the wild was too strong, w
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