Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-05
G W. Hill Editor.

independence Observation-Disclosures
partment of this paper having been ac-
we are no longer liable
Tor the errors or short comings of the
balance OF the editorial staff, and now
let the farmers ccme forth with their
of questions and cor
respondence and make our department
Of the paper like fields Of fresh clover
to feed the hungry. The signs Of the
times are propitious for good luck to
the laboring classes.
Their organizations are affecting the
Stlon OF business men and even in the
halls OF Congress there are found of
late those who not only dare but DO that
which is for the benefit OF the common
people, those who raise their voices
against the contraction of the currency
and such dastardly work as Destroy
ing the value Of property; which is the
product of all labor. Even in Jerauld
county the people begin to wake up
realizing that money will be more plen-
ty 30 that the laborer Can get enough
Tor his work to pay for butter and not
be compelled to buy soap-grease to eat
on his bread. Alpena says we can sup
port a creamery. People do hot will
ingly eat the admixture of tried up old
diseased hogs and cattle, annotto and a
little good butter from Chicago grease
factories. The scare-crow and Cry of
over production is utterly absurd and
infamously false, while millions are
suffering for the necessaries and COM
forts OF life. We want more creamer.
les. More labor, more manufacturing
shops, with more money to pay the la.
PUSH the organization Of the Farmers
Alliance and then let us have thcsi
creanarles first, then for Something
next best or first needed will it bt
r.. RS.
In the Alliance is where we ought tc
consider all railroad propositions, and
make haste carefully, CONSIDERABLY, anC
for safety, slowly, even though enthu
siastically. Organization like machin
cry has become Il necessity for farm
ers; without it, a farmer is like her
with her head cut off; we may blustel
around awhile only to die, while Other
kinds of occupations will get the pro
duct of our lives, and profit by oul
death, or bankruptcy.
Ii we want to make a decent living
or more money, the farmers must ust
their own heads to rely upon. We wan
to make our own brains guide our owl
feet and hands. We have been body
and tail for spectators heads too long
for the benefit OF our families, or thu
credit of ourselves. Go to the Alliance
Go early Go armed and equipped witt
earnest, jealous determination for i'm
mediate action, and success will crown
our efforts.
There is so much information needed
by the farmers OF this county, at thi:
immediate time, that we hardly know
where to begin, or what to do first.
We have not had an opportunity t,
obtain information us to the best seeds
for our own soil and climate, for which
we must rely, upon its only source thu
experience Of the practical farmers O,
our own county, as what may do bes
in other localities, may do poorest here
and vice-versa. Many farmers are
wanting to buy seed grain, and are in
HullluS WildG Alu'l 10 OCot. anu " ucIt III
can be procured. Now we are among
that number and want only the best
Some have commenced to plant tret
seeds, onions and SOW wheat. We
want the farmers who have wheat t.
sell that yielded twenty bushels to the
acre or M ore in this county last year OF
before to tell US Through the columns
Of the HERALD, who they are, what
kind of wheat it IS, how much they
sowed to the acre, how and what time
in the year they sowed, besides any
other meritorious qualities they know
OF their grain.
The following beautiful sentiments
we gather frol a paper printed in New
York City, called Our Country.-"Ma1
must march from good to better, mol
be patient under wrong"
"The people have been SO long taught
to believe that poverty, disease, crime
panics, commercial depression, wal
and pestllence were q part Of the nor
NAL condition of men, to which they
were eternally doomed, though nature
revolts at the idea and brands it as
false and hideous: yet we often heal
this remark, it always has been and al
ways will be. Such ideas, such re
marks and such teaching dishonors
God and degrades man"
"HoW can we impress upon each clti
zen sense of his responsibility as {
part OF society, and of the governing
power Of his society? He thinks OF
himself, as SO small part of the mass
that his individual influence appears
lost in the countless multitude. We
must arouse the citizen from this state
Of Indifference. The farmers particn
larly.] A wrong which may be remoy
ep involves in personal guilt, every onf
who does not Zealously labor for its re
moval. Every brave word spoke1
against it, is a protest, that will never
he silenced, blow, that Will help short
en- its life. Your lives of undying pro
test against wrong, will never fail,