Address by Mr. James J. Hill at the Dedication of Stephens Hall, Crookston, Minn

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Excerpt from Address by Mr. James J. Hill at the Dedication of Stephens Hall, Crookston, Minn: September 17, 1908States, and for these we are the customers of the foreigner, but in general our cotton is better for manufacture than any other, and its cultivation is more profitable here. Our mechanical industries, our industrial place in the world, are founded large ly on one metal-iron. At the time of the second census, 1800, the people of the United States used about seven pounds of iron per capita. Now they are using about 680 pounds.It will not do for us to go back and say we can judge the future by the past, because conditions are not alike. We cannot any more measure up our future industrial situation by referring to the past than we can our agricultural situation. In the past we had an enormous public domain, so that when a man wanted new land with all its fertility, land that had not been robbed by bad treatment, he simply sold his old place and moved to a new one. But that condition has come to an end. When you are called upon to raise two bushels of wheat for every one you are raising now, and that to feed your own people, without exporting a bushel, you are up against a condition that calls for action. It calls for action on the part of the state, of the nation, of everybody. Hunger will not be satisfied with empty words. When we have to provide for people, how are we going to keep them?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.