Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-07-27

ence OF her envlOus rivals whom she il
outstripping in the race for prosperity
wealth and power. 1t is the fate of sue.
cess to be decrled by failure. The strides
Of Dakota in the grand march of pro-
gress has excited the envy of less favored
regions and the stream of detractlon has
begun Its slimy work. We are no longer
On the frontier; that has passed on to-
wards the summit of the Rockies Our
people must accommodate themselves to
the situation. The fever and novelty OF
frontier life is measurably departed. We
must come down to the solid, everyday
life of building upa great state. We
must learn self-reliance and self-poise
Good fortune must not be allowed to
turn our heads, and slight taste of mis-
fortune must not discourage. We have
got the grandest wheat fields in America
and the Cranaries of the country will be
erected on our broad, beautiful and pro-
ductive territory, which will become a
state in the net distant future. Nowhere
else will the labor of the husbandman De
so bounteously rewarded. Drough,s may
come, rains may come, grasshoppers may
come; but Dakota IS bound to push her
self to the front In spite of any possible
temporary set-bscks Seed time and har-
vest are promised upon immutable au-
thority. Dakota will have her share,
probably no more. probably no less, than
fall to to the lot o: other people. But the
envy of rival communities will bear our
misfortunes to the ends of tn earth on
electric wings, while their own equal or
or greater misfortunes will not even rise
to the dignity of nelghborhood gossip.
This IS the penalty we must pay for our
native wealth, our prosperity and our
certain future greatness. The drought
has injured the crops of Dakota some
what this present season, in some
localities more in some less But
IN the east this Dakota
drought is household word to fright
the children in the nursery wlthal. But
linois ynau we nave suHcrcu -
drought. But these reports pass through
those states like the idle wind which they
respect not. The obvious fact is that
people in Dakota ought to exercise care
and judgment in sending out reports and
allow a somewhat common impulse to
create a sensation, to cause them to do an
actual injustice by thoughtless exaggera.
ton Carr,ngton is wrecked and
ruined Dakota town all over the cast
while everybody here knows that the in
iury done there is absolutely Insignificant
That first hysterical telegram did the bus
mess. Dakota will survive all her din
culties, surmount all opposing obstacles
and will rapidly develop into great
rich and PROSPEROUS state. Her endless
nrair,es will be otted with happy ant
prosperous homes. Her grain fields vii
vie with the golden streets OF tn
New Jerusalem in beauty and wealth
Railroads in all sections will be vexet
with the perpetual motion OF the eye
unouiet car and train IN transporting ne
commerce. Fortunes will be maze
homes will be made elegant, beauty vii
smile in the land, wealth will accumulate
aud a happy people will enjoy unrivale
prosperity. All this will be the result
earnest labor, steady self-poise. perslsten
effort, and brave contest with whatsve
Of difficulty may impede her grand marc
of progress States are not made IN
} year; fortunes are not gathered in Sc
son. But every year and every seas'
, counts in the great undertaking. Prov
dence has aoundantly lowered Dako
, with raw material for wealth and grea
E ness. 1t only remains for human SKI
. intelligence and energy to manufactu
these grand materials into the gorgeo
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