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

ut-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 a
paternal government it appears to be just
the thing to support in idleness and vice
and let them breed like lice, these horse
haired rum sucking, trcachcrous, AFRO
CANT devils, and to annually squandcr
millions Of money in it's fruitlcss efforts
to teach them civilized habits, but the
same government has no Colorado beeVes
no granulated sugar, no patent process
flour, no Mackinaw blankets, no Indian
ponies, no 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 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 rascais
as the owners Of the land should be play
ed out, and the. practice of furnishing
them-a depot of supplies where they can
go once week and draw a 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 severalty III
the same. quantities and on the same con-
dtions as it is dealt out to the white set
tier. It is all nonsense, the talk about
their being ignorant and likely to become
the victims of inscriptions persons.
The members Of the tribes at Brule and
Grow Creek agencies have their eye teeth
well cut and can drive sharp bargain as
we'll us their white brothers. II you
doubt try and buy Of them pony or
cord of wood. Ii they won't work and
earn living, and everybody knows they
wont, let the state support them the same
as it does white paupers.
The question is often asked, what about
the water Of Dakota? The writer is Of
the opinion that the water question has
l.
true that here and there in Dakota alkali
is found in the water, but that it is pre-
sent to such an extent as to make that Il
serious objection to the country is mis-
take. Between the 4Gth parallel and the
south line of Dakota the writer has trav-
eled in all at least a month. AT each
place, contrary to his custom when at
home, he has drank water, land in only
two or three Instances has he found the
water impregnatcd SO strongly with alllali
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 tcakcttlc, and that this coating is
impervious to bug juice, is a fish story
concocted and sent abroad by persons
living in the states to induce the "Olfl
buns of their locality to go west In
conclusion, q word of advice. TO those
who are so situated that they have got to
go somewhere the writer would say go to
Southern Dakota by all means. The face
Of the country is very handsome and the
land will grow most any kind Of crop
that grows anywhere. 1t is an excellent
grass country, and even this year its corn
crop is fully maturcd. To those who are
already fixed where they are, or arc able
to buy and pay for farm in Mower
COUNTY, the advice is, stay where you are
If you go west expecting to find better
land than is contained in Mower county,
you will be disappointed. "The thing can't
be did" That kind of land hasn't been
manufactured yet. Yours. BADGER.