Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-10-10

cut-thrOats civilization by furnishing
them all they want to eat, drink and wear,
together with horses, wagons, harnesses,
farming implements and even white
cooks to prepare their food. AS well
might government officials hope to make
water run up hill as to- induce one Of
these yellow rascals to forego his favorite
repast of beef paunch and entrails with the
offal still in it. In the estimation of Il
patcrnal government it appears to be just
the thing to support in idiencss and vice
and let them breed like lice, these horse
haired rum-suclsinG, trcachcrouS, AFRO
CANT devils, and to annually suuandcr
millions Of money in its fruitless efforts
to teach them civilized habits, but the
same government has no Colorado beovcs
! no granulate0 sugar, no patent process
flour, no Mackinaw blankets, no Indian
ponies, 10 lumber wagons, no farm
machinery, no white cooks to shower up
on the poor white settler who is toiling
and struggling out on the frontier to
open up q farm and make home for his
wife and little ones. These cheeky red
skins hold as reservations by and with the
| consent of the Government Of the United
States. hundreds of miles Of the finest
lands in the territory Of Dakota, which
they never set foot on themselves and
will not permit the whites to occupy. 1t
is high time the government stopped such
foolishncss. Treating with these rascals
as the owners Of the land should be play
cd out, and the practice Of furnishing
tl,cm'a depot Of supplies where they can
go once Il week and draw royal living.
thereby taking from them every incentive
to work. should be set down on. Treat
them still as wards if you please but give
them the same rights and no more, as
white men. If they want land and will
cultivate it give it to them in scveralty IN
the same quantities and on the same con
dtions us it is dealt out to the white set
tier Tt is all nonsense, the talk about
their being ignorant and likely to become
the victims of INSCRIPTIONS persons.
The members OF the tribes at Brulc ard
Grow Creek agencies have their eye teeth
well cut and can drive Il sharp bargain as
well as their white brothers. If you
doubt try and buy of them Il pony or
cord of wood. Ii They won't work and
earn living, and erybOtly knows they
wont, let the state support them the same
as it docs white paupers.
The question is often asked, what about
the water Of Dakota? The writer is of
the opinion that the water question has
been rather overdone. It is undoubtedly
true that here and there in Dakota alkali
is found in the water, but that it is pre-
sent to such All extent as to make that a
serious objection to the country is u mis-
take. Between the 4Gth parallel and the
south line OF Dallot:. the writer has tray
elcd in all at least a month. AT each
place, contrary to his custom when at
home, he has drank water, and in only
two or three Instances has he found thu,
water impregnated SO strongly with a]l1ali
as to make it distasteful nor during all
that time did the water produce upon the
writer any injurious Or unpleasant effects.
The report that after drinking Dakota
water while the lining Of the stomach
becomes coated with alkali and forms a
crust like that produced by lime water in
an old tcalscttlc, and that this coating is
impcEvioU; 10 bug juice, is a fish story
concoctei and sent abroad by persons
living in the states to induce the 'OlG
lums" OF their locality to go west. In
conclusion, word Of advice. 70 those
who are so situated that they have got &c
90 somewhere the writer would say go to
Southern Dakota by allmcans. The face
Of the country is very handsome and TIC
land viii grow most amy kind OF CROP
that grows anywhere. 1t is an excellent
grass country, and even this year its corn
crop is fully maturcl TO those VINO are
already fixed where they are, or are able
to buy and pay for a farm in Mower
colinty, the advice is. stay where you are
Ii you go west expecting to find better
! land than is contained in Mower county
you will be disappointed. The thing can 7
be did That kind Of land hasn't been
manufactured yet. Yours, BADGER.