Show HILL TELLS FARMERS OF MARKETS shows fallacy of government ownership of railways and denies american market control preston glnn sept SO james J HOI president of the great northern addressed the farmers of southern minnesota who assembled at the fillmore county fair here today conr main needs said mr hill after severely condemning graft in public and private life are an ade quate market in which your products may b sold at a fair prace and an opportunity port unity to purchase those 5 need which the tana does not supply As far as sour grain Is conc omed you must sell hi the markets of the world the tariffs will not help you although the politicians may say thereby you are helped you know better there is one way however in which you may be helped ana that Is by lessening the cost of transportation it is an easy prophecy because it Is a tact that railroad rates in this country would decline more under governmental control djian fixed by those who intelligently managed railways no public body avoult iare make reductions so sweeping as those that have been made voluntarily unta rily by railways the government cannot ato between ports and places it must be impartial therefore it would booner or later be obliged to ordain a distance tariff the low charge for the long haul would disappear and you farmers here in minnesota would be ohp most heavily fed people in the world sir hill touched on the orient as the future market of the wheat raising siahs of the united stales he observed m regard to the canal while it might be a worthy object it an expensive toy but one that this country could anord he derided he argument that rny great benefit would accrue to the people from it again in referring to oriental trade mr hall said bi one policy we have angered and keda nation of people n prospective customers so that hough patient by nature hez lieve gone 0 o almost national determination not 10 admit our products 0 o he markels by another policy we haap mad it almost impossible to concio con iio the canning trade to the ori em foi lack of which our foreign commerce languishes in every quarter of ohp globe rn cluing mr hill said ehlt fallacy that me united states 1 gaii g control of the of hp ft orld needs to be studied and bon asih answered because oar tariff protected manufacturers are able by leaon of high prices they charge you papi certain portion of their out pur abroad and sell ii tor half what vou pay we are not cornering the market of the world |