IN DAKOTA. . \ 65 
A BUSINESS TALK WITH MR. BRIGHT, 
That night as we were sitting around the cheerful 
fire in our pleasant home—now ours in fact—Mr. 
Bright again brought up the matter of his own pur- 
chases of land in Dakota, not to speculate in its rise 
in value only, but for the purpose of bringing it in- 
to cultivation, and making as much out of the crops 
as he conld, and having the benefit at the same time 
of the increase in value. ; 
“ What do you think of the plan, Tom?” he sae 
ed. ‘You've been here long enough to know 
whether it would be likely to prove a good invest-~ 
ment.” | 
“Tt depends a good deal,” I answered, “on the 
kind of men you get to cultivate it. But with any- 
thing like decent farming it would prove a very pro- 
fitable investment. And, Sam, I don’t know of any 
way in which you can make your surplus money do a 
greater amount of good.” 
HELPING PEOPLE TO HELP THEMSELVES. 
“You know there are a great many industrious 
and worthy young people in Illinois who would jump 
at the chance of coming out here and going on a 
uge section and cultivating it “for all there is in 
"if they only had the means. And not only Il- 
eR but the other States are fullof them. If you 
will think a moment, I have no doubt you can make 
a list of a dozen or more in your own circle of ac- 
quaintances, ‘ poor but honest,’ and industrious as the 
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