Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-22
Why South Dakota Leads.

VIM South Dakota Leads.
Pierre Free Press: South of The 46th
parallel Dakota has no lands granted
to railroad corporations. The result is
that we all have an equal show. The
rich man can buy from individuals but
not from the government. The result
Of this is that our country is peopled
by young men from every part OF the
globe. We are full of energy and hope.
This year we break up from FIVE to
twenty acres with a yoke of cattle or a
scrub team, and We pay u mer-
chants a retail price for implements
md food: next year we will do little
more. Labor is in demand everywhere
at living prices, and opposition is truly
the life of trade.
In North Dakota they have big deals
and big farms. The big bonanza farm
us and a few dozen capitalists oon
run the small h~usbandmn to earth.
while they, the monopolists, revel in
luxury in New York palaces, and spend
hat which they have robbed from the
,truggling laborer. They grind him
Town to The lowest wages he can live
upon: and if he rebels at their price,
they import others that will accept
| their prices. These immense bonanza
lealers also import all their supplies
| rom abroad, and the surplus revenue
| # their unholy work is spent in reVel-
ing in the Injuries Of imported wares
md goods. Keep your bonanza farms
md big deals in North Dakota; they
Will Soon prove a curse, as have big
sanded estates in Europe. California
S already beginning to suffer from it.
md North Dakota will soon realize its
1aneful effects upon the masses.
We are all, however, fortunate that
he days Of big land steals and big
and grants to railroads are over. At
Huron the land officers are wide-awake
md vigilant. and every day they pre-
vent fraudulent entries by unscrupu-
Gus capitalists, who are using third
parties to obtain large tracts Of land.
The following is the synopsis Of al
ulidayit sent to Washington by Mr.
Mccoy which answers many Of the al.
legations preferred:
Territory Of Dakota, County OF
Brown, ss.-On the 18th day Of Janu.
Try, 1884. personally appeared before
ne Charles T. Mccoy who being duly
sworn according to law. deposes ant
.ays: That he was not. directly or in
lirectly. a party to the organization o:
Douglas county. Dakota. nor to the IS
suing of any warrant or warrants 0.
my other evidence. Of Indebtedness O.
by said county. That he lMcCov) die
not know that such organization wa
intended until it had reen accomplished
md that he never conversel with an,
person or persons relative thereto
That he was not, directly CT Indirectly
a party to the issuing Of any warran
or warrants CT other evidences of III
; lebtedness by said Douglas county. Da
/, kota. and rad 10 knowledge that tn
same had been issued until June. 1881
1 when about $1,000 worth of Dougla
! county bonds We're given him for sale
Coming in the channel Of his regula
business, he bought q Quantity Of then
at an ordinary price, believing that tn
warrants We're bona.fde, as they Dor
> every mark Of being genuine. The tc
> tai purchase of these warrants by M
Mccoy was $4,000, and he negotiate
f a sum to tive amount Of $1,000 at froI
So to so cents on the dollar before h
had any suspicion that they were i
) any way irregular: SO soon IS he mad
the discovery that they were rot gel
, uine, he ut once redeemed all warrant
> that had been purchased on his recon
! mendation rot because he believe
himself legslly bound so to do. but t
preserve his business reputation ur
. tarniShed and TO maintain his sense {
+, homer.
). nan who knows how to take caI
of his Business says: standing at
, vert;sements II a paper command ro1
fdence. TIE ran who for q year It
:. sides in a community and leafs q repr
!, table I fe, even though he be Of nlodel
!, ate ability, will grow n The con3denc
! Of his fellows. On thu zane principl
: a newspapers ADVERTISEMENT become
!, familiar in the eye of the reSdcr. I
makes the name AMI business of
, man familiar. and its presence IL Il,