Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-12-03
bAkOfA NOT An IMPACT.

A good many well.meaning peo-
pie are wondering what will be the
fate OF Dakota at the hands Of the
democratic party. They are pre-
dieting that the democratic party,
now that it is in power, will refuse
TO do Dakota justice, and they there
fore feel called upon to commiserate
the people of that unfortunate terri
tory upon its sorrowful fate. This
is all unnecessary-almost lndicrous.
1t is, indeed, possible, and, perhaps,
probable, that the democratic party
will not be disposed to be fair to the
great territory which produces phe-
nominal crops of everything but
democrats. 1t may slam the door
to statehood in the face of Dakota.
This and much more that is aggra.
waiting the democratic party may do.
But what then? viii this crush
Dakota? People at a distance do
not seem 20 realize what Dakota is.
1t is not an infant, not a house plant,
not a rendering, to be blasted by a
Jealous breath. Dakota is q giant
in strength and possibilities. 1t is
able to laugh at the opposition Of
any political party, or at all polite
al parties, for that matter. Com
pared with the evolution now going
swiftly and resistlessly forward in
that territory. the unfriendliness Of
any political organization on earth
Is, at its worst, a trivial, temporary,
laughable circumstance. Why, Da-
kota's boundary lines fence in 1907
600 square miles Of Gods best soil.
"The soil will remain in its place."
to use Gov. Cleveland's phrase, and
the civilization upon it, a thousand
years after every political organiza-
ton now dreamed Of is Knocked to
smithereens. Dakota means 100000
people, the overflow Of the energy,
brains, thrift, ambition and etdur-
ance Of the older states and king
doms-5O,OOO people, who plough
ed up the prairies and made pros
porous farms and homes; who have
built school houses, churches, cities
and railroads, and who have not
only laid in deep-based solidity the
foundations of a great state, but
have actually builded Up a great
state, a state in the true sense of the
term, if not in the external name.
Dakota has this year raised 25,00O,-
600 bushels of wheat, and corn i'm
measurable. Dakota has $500 miles
of railroad, and is building more,
and every car is busy and will be
kept busy carrying the wheat and
corn and stock produced on its
broad acres, and in carrying thither
the supplies purchased Herewith.
Taxable property to the extent of
100000 900 is not a bad thing to
have around; i. is just what Dakota
has in visible assets upon a fraction
al valuation. Why doesn't some
body have a spasm over the pros
poets of Delaware with its little 1000
square miles of sand.bank real es.
tate? or about Rhode Island, with
its little truck patch of 1850 square
miles? Neither Delaware nor Rhode
Island, nor both put together, would
much more than make a respecta-
bic county in Dakota. Take the
states Of Delaware, Rhode Island
and Nevada, and all together they
have less population than the terri
tory of Dakota. The ten represent
atives which these states have in con-
gress can't prevent the food Of immi-
grafton from pouring into Dakota, nor
detract one iuta from its vast miner
al and agricultural resources. What
will Dakota do if not admitted as a
state or as two states? Dakota will
keep right on increasing in popula-
ton, in wealth and in every element
of greatness. An empire in itself
already, it will broaden and strength
en- into a still greater empire. A
few months or a few years, more or
less, according to the inevitable pro-
cession of events, will bring Dakota,
as one or more states, into the union
and some fine morning those who
have pcrversely refused justice to
this great and growing community
will wake up and find that they
have made a misunderstood City
Journal.
ELECTION BETs.