Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1886-02-25
NUMBER 81.
Michigan Letter.

Michigan Letter.
The following interesting letter is from
our old friend Col. Sanford, of Lansing:
LANSING, MICH, Feb. %, 1885.
N. MCCLURE, ESQ, jamestown, OAK.
DEAR MAC improve this patriotic
day by performing the patriotic deed Of
subscribing for the Weekly Alert. For
that purpose enclose postal note for
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scriptlon list with my cognomen and send
along the Alert.
Dakota has great future before her.
She evidently must pass through severe
tribulation yet, but she is sure to win IN
the end. One thing seems strange to me.
Dakota treats democracy ss if it were
plague, and embraces republicanlsm as il
1t were the source of all blessings. What
ever may have been the facts twenty years
ago and more, none can deny that now,
and for years, the republican party has
been the sponsor and beneficiary Of all
the manufactures that absorb the earn
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them, and they now sustain the party,
for longer lease of life. Railroad ex-
tortions and tariff steals oppress Dakota
infinitely worse than Britain ever op-
pressed America. The republican party
created these, fights for their continu-
ance, and is kept alive by them. They
then prey upon the pockets of the people
of dakota. No move is made to release
Dakota from the choking grip of railroad
monopoly, but that the republican party
stands by the monopoly. No move Is
made to stop or diminish the steals of the
tariff, but that the republican party IN
terposes to prevent relief. The railroads
and tariff, and other monopolies, are
stealing Dakota blind, and yet Dakota
upholds the party that created these
leeches, and gives them the power 70 rob
her. Anti-monopoly and tariff reform
ought to be the watch-word of Dakota,
but Dakota, with blindness to her in
terest that amounts to infstuation, stead.
lly sustains the robber of her own inter.
ests. Eyer truly Yours,
GEO. E. SANFORD.
The Fort Benton board of trade has
forwarded the following memorial to
Delegate Toole, regarding improvements
of the upper Missouri:
Resolved, That we believe that the
amount recommended for the Missouri
river above bismarck entirely inadequate
in view of the amount of business done,
and the demand and necessities of the
people of this great section Of country,
who are depending entlrely upon sthiss
river for the transportation Of supplies
and marketing of produce.
Resolved, That we believe that work
should commence at the head of nsviga-
ton where permanent Improvements can
be made; where the necessary machine
ry has been built, and is now ready to be
operated when proper appropriations are
made, and where the period of navigation
can be readily extended from August lst
to November lst throughout the same
summer season; and be 1t further
Resolved, That we are heartily in ac-
cord with the views set forth In the reso-
lutions of the Northwestern Waterways
convention held IN st. Paul, Ainn., and
the memorial of the Bismarck Chamber
of commerce and citizens of Dakota, held
at Bismarck.
The Huron Free Trade Democrat says:
The division of this territory on the forty
sixth parallel Is certainly democratic
measure and every democrat in South
Dakota who is loyal to his party should
rally to its support. The loyal democratic
leaders comprehend this fact, and they
can all be found opposing the admission
of the territory as one state. The very
few would-be leaders and democratic
journals now fighting division are sacri-
ficing their party for their own personal
gain; but it is commendable fact that
this class is SO few in number that their
significance cuts no figure in the deter
mlnation of this important and serious
question.