Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17

Ed; NORTHWEST After lapse d
several months / again find myself
wound up and duly tuned to grind OH
hymn unto this land of most magnif
icent proportions.
: Last spring declared this country 1
failure through the eolnmns of your pa
per. Now, through the same medium
l hereby wish to recant. uttered {
gross libel against the brightest jewel il
Gods footstool, and ever since the ut.
: terance thereof burning excruciating re,
morse has been knawing my polluted
conscience and so weakened it that
can no longer endure my guilt without
an open confession thereof. So, with
your permission, proceed to retract
my former statements, relieve YOU
readers Of grossly erroneous impress
ion and convince them that this is tho
land that Moses sought. e
First: Let me coroberate what you
have already published from abler pens
1t has been said in your columns that
they raise turnips in Dakota. And sc
they do. have seen turnips produced
in Dakota soil that measured ten feet in
diameter, and it is o fact that will be
recorded in future history that the sol
diers at Fort Totten are using the shells
of Dakota turnips for tents.
i think j saw statement in your pa
per that they raise onions up here, and
at the time branded the statement a.
approximation, but / take it all back.
They do raise onions. One man plant
ed ten-acrc patch of onions. Well,
sir, you will hardly believe it, but those
onions grew so large that the tcn-acrc
patch spread, and spread, and spread
until the frost compelled the onions to
take in their tops, and that ten-acre
patch had expanded into two whole
sections. ..
+ Somebody said they raised cabbage
out here on the plains. So they do, q
Igerman settlement about fifteen miles
from Fargo planted a cabbage plant in
the centre Of their colony; am pre-
pared to sign an affidavit that that one
J plant is supplying the whole settlement
with saur krout.
i 1t has been stated on good authorit,
| that they raise wheat in Dakota.
! think | said in that infamous letter o
mine that the great bonanza wheat
fields of the Northwest were only myth
ical. and were spoken of by boomers fol
the purpose of quilting tenderfeet.
j With a eontrite heart Ibasten to. con
less u sin against the garden Of th,
} world; they do raise wheat here, fifty t.
seventy-five bushels to the acre is al
average yield, and then they have suel
large handsome acres, and so many O
them.
Didn't ] say last spring that money
was scarce? If I did the statement wa;
premature, money was out of season
when | wrote that unwarrantable lie
greenbacks are plenty here, they grow
on sage brush. a~.--s.
Dakota weather has been the subject
of lies enough to condemn whole gen
Grafton to the bottomless pit, but ir
spite of the vile pens of disgusted grease
heels, Dakota still clings to her wealth
| er. True, it gets q little frigid here in
the winter, but the people don't mine
it, they all keep red-hot stoves, ant
when the weather chases the thermom
eters down to st. Louis the people Sc
by their stoves and enjoy themselve
until the thermometer comes back.
u Wood and coal, people down Eas
have an idea, is dear, so it is. Woot
: costs from 81 to $40 cord, and Goa
from 80 to $14 ton, but then there i
no Inconvenience suffered from this
when the weather is not cold the peo
. pie do Just as they do in Ohio, viz: The,
do without fire, and when it gets coli
it freezes the ice SO dry. that they use j
for firewood. ~ s- ~
!. "Ain't tire wind terrific sometimes?
, Well the zephyrs do watt themselve
around pretty lively at intervals, but
! man soon gets used to them. Ther
are some brave, reckless men up her
. but none of them have the courag
to tackle blizzard the second time
During the prevalence of a blizzar
), these brave men remain with thei
! families III the3cellar and congratulate
themselves with the thought that th
wind is necessary to a good crop of Ns
1phaFd, and the harder the wind blow
!. the bigger the next crop will be. W
. Hoping the above statements wi
have the much to be desired effect (
righting q previously sWronged publ
:, and put ME again in the path of tru
J, virtue, subscribe myself
! .SaTFEg Nsa Yours Respectfully,
I .q,Hs THIN SPACE
4 ITHaE aCsgstal sRaaaceg' Company, ,
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