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He received, as she had learned with interest, few English letters, so there was nobody to whom he wrote regularly; and yet his disappointment when forced to abandon his visit had obviously been keen. There was, Flora thought, a mystery here. "After all," she said, "the feeling you have indicated is pretty common in the Canadian wheat-belt." "Then why should you expect me to be an exception?
To bring coal to this Newcastle of wood was regarded as deliberate folly. By this time the Saint Paul and Pacific had gotten a track laid clear through to Breckenridge, so as to connect with Commodore Kittson's steamboats. When Hill first reached Saint Paul, there was no agriculture north of that point. The wheat-belt still lingered around Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin.
Saint Paul and Minneapolis lie at the head of navigation on the Mississippi River a little less than two thousand miles by water from the Gulf and about the same distance from Puget Sound tidewater by rail. These cities are in the middle of the wheat-belt. To this point came Mr. Hill, a green country youth.
An' then he said he was goin' to motor through that wheat-belt an' talk to what Americans he could find, an' impress upon them that they could do as much as soldiers to win the war. Wheat bread that's our great gun in this war, Lenore!... I knew this, but I was made pretty blamed sober by that government man. I told him by all means to go to Palmer an' to have a talk with young Dorn.
If anybody tries to creep up at night, call once, and then shoot to kill." Edgar saw that she meant her instructions to be carried out; but he forced a smile. "And this is the Canadian wheat-belt, which I was told was so peaceful and orderly!" "It looks as if you had been misinformed," Flora rejoined with a cold collectedness which he thought of as dangerous.
The trades unions of the two countries are already international. American settlers are pouring into the wheat-belt of the Northwest, and when the Dominion of Canada has paid the hundred million dollars she has just voted for a railway to open up the great lone northern lands between Quebec and the Pacific, it will be the American farmer and the American capitalist who will reap the benefit.
Ours is the policy of the fields. We stand for the wheat-belt and the stockyard, the forest and the mine, as the basic interests of the country.
It isn't what one expects in the wheat-belt, and it certainly has to be stopped." "Of course," said George, with some impatience. "But wouldn't it be wiser to consider the ways and means? At present the fellows are no doubt pushing on for the frontier with two valuable teams and a wad of stolen bills." Flett smiled at him indulgently. "This isn't a job that can be put through in a hurry.
Then it was that the organization of men who called themselves the Industrial Workers of the World drew the absorbed attention of the meeting. Depredations already committed stunned the members of the Chamber of Commerce. President Riesinberg called upon Beardsley, a prominent and intelligent rancher of the southern wheat-belt.
"It's Saturday night, my partner's gone, and I felt I deserved a little relaxation," he explained. "It's something to be able to feel that; the men who opened up this wheat-belt never got nor wanted anything of the kind," Grant rejoined. "But as supper's nearly ready, you have come at the right time." Edgar turned to Flora. "Your father always makes me feel that I belong to a decadent age.
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