St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-12
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aberdeen Notes.
Especial Correspondence of the Globe

aberdeen Notes.
Especial Correspondence of the Globe
ABERDEEN, July 10-The city for the past
few days has been very quiet, and only for
the fact that all the farmers who visit the
city for their supplies wear a broad smile of
satisfaction and hope over the prospect for a
good wheat harvest, we would indeed feel
blue
Aberdeen lire company won the second
prize at the fremen's tournament at Mitchell
last Friday
heavy hail storm passed over the east
part of the county on Thursday, totally de-
stroying the crop in its line. The storm ex-
tended one mile in width ard six in length,
beginning north of Groton and taking a
southeasterly course, going through the best
part of that section.
A queer case has recently arisen here.
Que Austin was arrested last fall for shooting
! a neighbor named Ball in Mcpherson county.
Being unorganized the preliminary examina-
ton was held in this BROWN county, in
curing an expense of six to eight hundred
dollars. The territory refuses to pay the bill.
Mcpherson county (since organized) refuses
to pay, and Brown county has thus far re-
fused to pay the bills incurred in prosecuting
| the person suspected of deliberate murder
| The conundrum is-who has to pay9
| The largest field of wheat in this vicinity is
that of G. A. Bliss, over nine hundred
| acres.
| Col. Pat Donan delivered the Fourth of
July Grafton here, in his usual graphic style.
| The following extract is one of the best pas
sages of the discourse, and speaking of Da-
kota's progress, he says:
From a population of IA, $50 in 1870, and
of 1875, 900 in 1880, the territory has raised to
250.00 in 1882, and full $4,000 in 1888,
and the tide Of immigration still rolls in, so
that at the close OF the present year you will
find it over 400,0 900 people. Its taxable
valuation increased nearly 1000 per cent
in the three years from June 80, 1880, to
June 80, 1888. Its postal revenues, in the
same period, increased $50 per cent, its
schools over 1900 per cent, its daily news
payers 1,500 per cent, and its weekly papers
400 per cent, its railroad mileage, 400 per
cent, and the amount of land taken up by
settlers for actual cultivation, 100 per cent
Dakota has more miles of railroad than four
teen of the states and all of the other terri
| lOiiCo' IL IuOlC udliy pdpcTS ludu any
one of the southern states, and more than
five of the northern states. 1t has more pres
dental postoffices than any southern state,
except Texas, and more than six of the
northern states. 1t paid more internal rev.
enue taxation on banking capital in 1883
than eight of the states, and more than
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont com
bined; and in every other element of qualifi-
cation for reputable statehood its progress
has been uneXampled in human annals.
And yet, with all its grandeur and beauty
and infinite riches of product and possibility,
with all its majestic empire of domain, its
unparalleled rush of Development and i'm
provement, and its nearly half million high
spirited, intelligent and patriotic people,
what is Dakota's position, what is our pc 81
ton, in the union of our fathers to-day!
Just what it has been for years. A posi-
ton of unspeakable wrong, humiliation and
contempt, Our grand territory mere pas
turing place for the played-out old spawned
and poll-evied political hacks of every other
region-a combined Botany Bay, hospital aud
asylum for the political criminals, cripples
and beggars of each succeeding federal adj
ministration. No man, no vagabond wear
ing the shape and brooches of a man, is too
malodorous of record to aspire to the ruler
ship Of half million unwilling Americans,
il they only live In territory. ANY dilapi-
dated old reprobate, spewed out or kicked out
by the people of his own state or district, is
good enough for territorial governor, Judge
or attorney. general. Any wretched and rot
ten failure in business, politics, morals and
society, is abundantly qualified to manage all
the mighty and diversified affairs of terri
torial empire worthy the sceptre and the am
bition of an Alexander or Napoleon. We
have nc rights that a congress of bathaslkit-
ing ignoramuses and jobbers, or an admins
tration Of shans or toadles, is bound to re-
spect.f A man divests himself of all the
privileges and immunities of citizenship the
moment he crosses the line of a territory.
Nearly half a million free-born American
citizens are virtually disfranchised because
they live in Dakota. Politically, we arc put
upon level withi lunatics and felons We
are regarded and treated exactly like band
of unruly Sioux or Kickapoos on doubtful
reservation. We are the largest body of
people on the continent who are denied all
semblance of self-government. The great
principles of ''no taxation without represen-
tation," for which our heroic fathers plunged
in TO the seven years of
blood and fire that made the
Fourth Of July forever holy, is a dismal
mockery within our borders. George Wash
ington and Abraham Lincoln would be sub
jects instead of citizens, if they dwelt among
us to day. We have no more voice or vote
than our ''Bad Land' coyotes in the election
of the men who are to govern us. With all
our great and growing interests, we are turned
over like so many plantation chattels in
the old slave times, to any new masters
distant government, unacquainted with our
needs and wishes, may choose to send US
turned over to the hands of rulers we never
knew or heard of; men who know nothing
Of us, and care nothing for us, except to get
all they can get out Of Us, without, generally,
being over particular as to how 1t is done.