The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1883-05-10


OF crops which are sure to come, one o.
more at least Well we have people tha
have breathed this exhilirating air in Da
kota for 20 years, and as yet have not seer
any visitation of the fearful array of ills
above mentioned that has caused them tc
regret their location or desire to change.
True, some winters we have snow storms
that being accompanied with high winds
are by some called billiards, but do they
not have these east? Two years ago last
winter was the most severe one witnessed
here, snow blockading some lines of rail.
roads, but is it not a fact that it was equal
ly as bad hundreds of miles east? This
can not be denied The past winter when
tor several days roads were blocked BY
snow and severe storms ragged, ,chere did
th!s occur? not i'll Dakota as indicated by
the thermometer worse tn an that farther
east. Neither have we any of those ter
rble hurricanes and tornadoes leaving
death and destruction in the wake as 50
frequently is told too truthfully of south
ern and eastern localities We have had
grasshoppers, but it was when the people
were all poor, unable to help each other
and when the foolish unfortunate notion
existed that wheat was the only crop to
raise, but have not eastern growing sect
ions been equally and more often devas
tated as to the wheat crop by chintz bugs,
weevil, drouth, wet, and hailstorms, and
had that crop been their only reliance as
1t was here the effect would have been full
ly as disastrous. Drouth is almost un
known in this latitude, even when in the
earlier settlement rains were not near as
frequent as oflate, the subsoil of this whole
country being of that peculiar character
that In the dryest Of weather it retains a
natural moisture that feeds the vegetation
to healthy growth, and the blessed dews
OF night falling keeps the plant in that
vigorous state you do not often see in that
eastern country where these croakers pull
men by the coat tail and whisper startling
admonitiuns against Dakota. a very
few seasons out of the whole, wheat crop
was failure, but in tsstead those who
sowed barley, oats, and planted corn, in
short all who diversified their crops came
out all right, but it is well known that
crops in some portions of the country are a
failure every season, and the statistics
show that Dakota has had the least Of all
during the same period Of time. Show
us or tell of any land where al things are
continually as men want them, where
time and seasons bring continual abund-
ance to the husbandmen and it will be
where the eye of man has not seen or
heard There is no country without its
drawbacks, and all has its peculiar at
tr actions and worth. We do not ask you
Mr. Croaker who seek to detract from
Dakota its true merits, to take our word
for it but come yourself and see the land
God intended in his own time to have
man develop by the hand Of industry and
the skill of genius, into millinos of fruit
ful acres and cheerful homes, bustlng
,ities thriving towns and peopled COM
Come and ask those who few
,ears ago came here poor in purse with
out scrip, staff or credit, and are now sur
'ounded with all the comforts life needs
or happiness, come We say and ask these
happy possessors how they came by it ALL
They dug it from the rich acres that is
eeming with germs of growth that is to
eed and prosper generations yet to come.
" hich is the drone, the drag, the deceiver,
he falsifer, you who are either too slug
,ish to pull out of the old rut you have
or yesrs wallowed in Or to- stubborn to ad-
nit facts but blow your own benighted
worn out lands to the detriment Of others,
II the live, the ambitious, the ''get up
way off chap that tired of hand to
mouth living, and regardless of your bug
Dear stories and dismal prophecies brings
lis kit and kin to land of free air, mar
'elous prospects and rich in all of natures
,ifts, to plant home where his declining
lays may be spent in comfort and his
'hildren can inherit legacy unincumber-
ID. Oh no! you grumbler, no fears of
hese thousands borne by an unprecedcnt-
ID tidal wave from the over populated
east being forced to abandon the claim
Uncle Sam holds as free gift for them,
through any fault Of the country. That
5 all right, success depends alone upon the
immigrants own efforts, if you are skep-
ical, try it and quit your growing.