Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-02-12

eo' ana the grey wolf trailed his pr
onufcahes, schools, banks, street railws
~ ana daily papers are sown broadcast
over the fecding-p places of yesterdays 4
'e'ofe and red deer. All the wild roma
ces OF the orient dwindlc into nothln
ness beside the every day realities of u
kota's progress.
,f IRON population of l4,1SO in 1877
i anu OF l35 900 in 1850, the TERRITORY ros
d TO 10000 IN 1852, TO $50, 900 in 1883. n,
d over 100000 in 1884; and the tide of in
i, migration still rolls in with ccascle
e surge, go that the close OF the prese,
I year Will undoubtedly find it with VI
wards of half million people.
i In the four years from June 80, 1850 /
June ~, 1884, ITS taxable valuation in
creased nearly 1900 per cent. In th
same brief period, its postal revenues IN
creased over 300 per cent; itsl.baukin
; facilities, 1900 per cent, its churche
l'loo per cent; its schools, over 200
per cent: daily newspapers, 1900 pc
cent; and its weekly papers, 600 pel
cent; its railroad mileage, 500 per cent
ana the amount of land tax en- up by set
TIERS for actual cultivation, over 300
3 per cent. '0>
AS shown by its vote at the last election
dakota has more population than New
Hampshire, and nearly as much as two
'ermonts, two Florldas, two Colorados.
Two oregons, three Rhode Islands, three
Dclawares, or eight Nevadas 1t pro.
duced, last year, 22,3aO,o bushels of
wheat; or more than thirty-tlree of the
states and all the other territories. 1t has
more miles OF railroad than fifteen of the
states, and all of the territories. It has
more daily papers than any one of the
southern states, or any two OF them ex-
Guiding Texas, and more than six of the
northern states. 1t has more schools.
n bankng ialsef eapla92 palh924 tahu hu9jngs 9t than
and all the territories, and pays more in
tcrnal revenue than fur OF the states, or
any two of the other territories combined.
1t has more presidential postofllces than
any southern state except Texas, and
more than six Of the northern states, and
furnishes more postal revenue than thir-
teen of the states and all the other terrific
ries; and in every other clement Of quail
fication for reputable statehood, Its pro-
gross has been uneXampled in human
annals
Dakotans are the largest body of peo-
pie on the continent, who are denied all
rights Of self-government. The great
principle Of ono taxation without repre-
sentation,n for which the fathers Of the
republic went to war, IS set at naught
whenever the borders Of their territory
are crossed Nearly half-million free
born American citizens are virtually DIS
franchlscd because they live IN Dakota.
Every attribute Of citizenship is stripped
from them the moment they pass the ter
rltorlal line, and they are reduced polltl-
cally to the level Of felons. hey are
treated little better than band Of unruly
TSiouX or Klckapoos on Il doubtful reser-
...e-.,vreyurur VI -rnr men WiiIu are I6'gdt
crn them: and all the evils of carpet-bag
rule, of which southern people so bitterly
and so justly complained, are in full force
among hcm-mantained by the votes of
southern senator's and congressman, I'm
der the lead OF such fellows as Vest. A
Roman proconsulate or Turkish pa
shawlic would be fully as republican,
fully as democratic, fully as American,
as the domination Of exported officials,
the rule of appointed strangers and aliens
to which they are subjected.
Their numbers have become too great,
their interests too vast, for continu
ancc Of this anomalous condition of
things, without incalculable injury to
their territory and themselves. They
only ask the common rights Of American
citizenship. They only pray for the lib.
erty to govern themselves as they deem
best. They only beg the freeman's boon
of "home rule The very act by which
their territory became part OF the United
States, guarantees them the right of state
hood whenever they have population OF
10000. They have fully seYgiGilRt eYgiGilt,t iesefahahd
Ff6e 'fnIfffiillment of guarantee stamped
with nearly hundred years OF sacredness.
Tens of thousands of them were soldiers $
during the war. They only crave admls-
sion into the union they fought to save
from destruction at the hands OF MI
Vests secession compatriots; and equall'
, tv with other citizens of the republlc-ro
4 lit,cal equality with Carolina negroes MIS-
souri, bandits, and Texas cowboys
And who is this fellow that uprlses u
: lead the national councils in the persist
ent denial of all these just and reasonabi
> net,,ions?-Who glorles in the shame 0
!. instieating and defending these tiagran
y outrages upon noble territory and II
nearly half million citlzens?- Who strive
to trample under sw1nish feet the pear
9 of a peoples rights ana dearest interests
Who froths at the mouth at every men
.s tion of Dakota's name, and delights
!. empty the slop buckets OF his senator's
malirn,ty and falsehood upon the IA
% name of as queenly a region, ana
worthy race of men and women,
:, ever the sun shonc ona Who and wht
is het
= A liliput;an COW case lawyer from n
zion that is better represented by tt
J. Younger boys in the Minnesota penite'
=. tiary, than by him in the uulted Stat
" senate.
I He represents, IN the nations loftle
counc,l halls the blind and brutal bou
" a. bonism of state which is hldeo
10 blotch upon the maps of civilization.
~ represents and illustrates all that is wo,
- and most besotted of the James boys al
Train Robber State Missouri, which ca
on;ze Ouantrell and Bill Anderson, c