Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-12-19

United States senators, while the states
mentioned containing less area shall
have sixteen, they prefer to have none.
II her people are to be dependents in
TACT, they Will remain so in name like
wise. We adjure the people of north
Dakota, in behalf of our common inter-
est, to remain firm in this their often ex-
pressed avowal. If under the prompt
ings of personal ambition we were mean
enough to accept such injustice our
selves, we cannot be so base as to sacri.
nee the untold future of generations of
treemen to whom we must soon trans
NIT our magnificent heritage.
While | fully appreciate the impor-
tance to the state of her boundless min
eral resources contained in the Black
Hills region, which, though still in the
infancy of their development, now yield
annually more than five millions of gold
and silver ana possess untold wealth of
coal, petroleum, salt, mica, tin, copper
and building material and commend to
you subject Of their development as of
the greatest Importance, the fact
remains that the state must ever rely
upon her agricultural! resources for the
support of the dense population, which
is to constitute her chief greatness and
Importance as commone wealth
throughall time.
The fact that the great and para
mount adjustment between various in
terests of producing and transporting
the nations products, between capital
and labor, and which from necessity
must ever be an issue of vital impor-
tance IN the arena of national politics
until happy means is discovered and
established which shall do even and ex-
act justice to all and oppress none, is
still unsettled, demonstrates the neces-
sity that the people of this state and OF
the territorial domain remaining to the
United States should insist upon ad-
mission into the union in states of areaJ
extent which will afford them at least
respectable representation in the senate
OF the United States, one of the co-ordi-
nate departments of national legislation.
The fact that the balance of wealth is
now and will remain forever with the
east Is rather an argument IN support of
than against my position, as since con-
stitutIonal liberty was established and
while it exists among men must ever be
maintained in the interest of the poor
rather than the rich, the weak rather
than the strong and mighty, as it is the
toillng millions who create wealth and
power upon earth.
The following official statistics, for
which we are indebted to the Hon. Lau-
ren Dunlap, commissioner of immigra-
tion for the territory of Dakota, furnish
an argument for division which cannot
be questioned. Their absence has been
the only excuse ever offered in congress-
for refusing for five years the appeals of
our people for admission. The popula-
tion has been ascertai ed by an accurate
census taken by sworn officers created
by statutory enactment of the territory
OF which the state recently formed
part, and the statistics gathered and
compiled IN the same manner, and are
as accurate as possible to be obtained.
SOUTH DAKoT. STATISTICS
Population, censas of 1885,. ...... 2B9, ,4B5
Vote for delegate, November 4, 1884,. 53,660
Vote on consultation, November 3, 1885 3l,791
Majority for constitution. 1861
AGRICULTURAL.
Number of farms, June 1, lSS5....... 5O,284
do acres of improved land ..... 3,754.s6S
do do under dultiration..,... Lss205s
do bushels of wheat rased, 1884. 12,s2s,578
do do oats do do. l,7Ss,727
r. 90 do corn do do. 7,5lo654
e =
Value of live stock. .....,... 25,950,G22
Value OF farm products, 1S8i.......... H,O85,S05
GENERAL.
Number sohoolg, 1884 94................ 1886
do school houses .:.....:...... 1910
do colleges and universities 1885 8
Total assessed valuations, 1885. S63, ,579l97
Number of miles of railroad. ......... 1,B15
Area. 80, 207 square miles
The following table of comparisons
G m ,uha nnt - La 1
statehood from precedents established
by the admission of former states having
the popular support of the movement
by the people and the comparative den-
slty OF her population, and shows
greater vote cast on the constitution, and
when it is remembered that A per cent.
of her area ls embraced in reservations,
o denser population than any state in
the list when admitted.
COMPARISONS.
Vote on Population Ratio of
Statos. consti- when ad- area to pop
tuition. mitted. ulation.
Wis. .1848...... .2259l 10000 one in 8
Kan. s6l......l5,95l 1l2,090 one in
bsf bst sl7sl It lS4s ons ons In IN Z
While l. have not at hand statistics
touching her manufacturing, banking
and other commercial development nor
of her benevolent societies and institu.
tlons, they are all that could be antici-
pated as the result of the foregoing
facts. Her people are peaceable, moral,
temperate. earnest, upright and patriotic,
many of them scared and MANNED in
defense OF the union which they helped
to preserve, and for whose crown they
bring new star which they now ask
congress, in the name of their 100 posts
of the Grand Army of the Republic, to
fix in the diadem of liberty.
The people of Dakota are state by
the supreme right of creation. They
have carved the new state ont of the
wilds of the prairie in half decade of
years, at a touch of the magical wand of
progress. The skeptics OF the east, as
OF old, will rot believe until they come
and see when they exclaim in wonder
that the half had not been told.
The state is the creature of the pso-
pie, not of congress. While congress
alone can endow with life the people
alone can create, else the state were not
people and by the people," The Cen
abling act" which has preceded the from
alton OF their constitutions by some of
the states is at most but an invitation
| on the part of congress, accompanied by
money to pay the expenses incident
| thereto, to create state. The states
admission must in this case succeed the
formation of its constitution and its in
spection by congress, which must first
pass upon its legality and admit the
| state already created and equipped.
Congress declined to extend the cour.
koe Nf 4
state as she might, but she can now only
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