Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-07-01

! enjoyed in our OWN country at this hour,
| as il they had only been committed by
| Turks or Pagans in Asia some centuries
| ago. Such an editor, could one be found
or trained, need not expect to lead an easy,
| indolent, or wholly joyous life-to be
! blessed by archbishops or followed by APP
| proving shouts Of ascendant majorities;
1 but he might find some recompense for
| their loss in the calm verdict fan approx
ing conscience; and the tears of the despis-
/ ed and friendless, preserved fromutter des-
/ pair by his efforts and remonstrances,
! might fresheu for a season the daisies that
! bloomed above his grave. u
This closing paragraph of my address
| might call forth from the sordid syeophant
OF wealth amassed in our own territory by
| crime and oppression, condemnation, and
assign its author to the ranks of those un-
safe to lead in public thought, were it not
/ that the quotation marks will show
/ that lay no claim to its paternity. IL
was the closing sentences OF speech deliv-
cred by man who had but few peers and
no superior in his chosen VOCATION a man
who accomplished more in his day in
moulding public opinion than any other
man OF his generation. and whose weekly
| Tribune next to the family Bible, was au-
thority in a hundred thousand American
homes. They are the words OF Horace
Greeley, whose name and memory will live
until the evening stars shall fade
away. The proceedings OF our Y last
annual meeting recently distributed
! to you all, carried with it GER
/ tain views oil mine as to the duty OF Dako-
Ia press toward its agricultural patrons
and the obligation 1t was under to protect
| that one great and overshadowing factor
in Dakotas growth and development as
| 1t must also be her continued prosperity,
il there be any in store for her, and to ex-
pose and condemn the crimes whereby
wealth was being rapidly and largely ac-
quired by means and acts as indefensible
as those OF hghwayman, and used to
furthur Cypress, instead of affording relief
to agricultural people and interests. My
views and recommendations referred to
were extensively published and read,
at the time, and | observed with
great interest their reception by the
press and the people; not that had any
personal pride or ambition in the matter,
for had none; but because felt, and from
my heart sincerely believed that the rec.
concentrations / then made were OF para.
mount Importance, and the emergency for
action pressing; after year of observa-
ton and reflection, during which time the
press and the people have been heard from
and largely for instead of against, | am con
firmed in the views then presented, "a nd re-
new most emphatically the recommends
tipHS tben f9aue; ana J cOngrat uia te' you
all in the abundant evidences in
many parts OF she territory, that the
people are preparing for an organ
lied movement To strike at the
root OF the evils which advised the editors
OF Dakota to join in denouncing. Ladies
and gentlemen of the association, appne-
ciatIHg as do most painfully the want Of
those endOwments either by nature, educa.
ton or opportunity, to adorn with useful
ness the position with which you have
twice honored me, am conscious never
thelcss nj having taken a deep and
abiding interest in the infant as.
ISOLATION contded two years ago TO
my care, and OF rushing its growth
with all the energy and devotion ef
which was capable toward mauhoodss size
and strength, and to that end have contri.
buted largely of my time and means with
out hope OF fee or reward, other than the
permanent advancement OF the interest OF
those engaged in the art or profession to
which / have devoted fifteen of the best
years of my life, and in which shall con.
tinue to labor and take an active interest
until the hand of death shall PHI the
form" already so familiar TO many ofyou.