Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-01-20

That admiDistsation collected the tex
imposed on corp 5ratlons sehgloasiy,
promptly; If any iagots @ese grauted 10
Spa ers it was to ths iudivlaoa1 CITIZEN
The result Was 1t turned eysr $500 CSC
80 he present ADMINISTRATION, Wtth
loud -pFeteEsSoas If Whstlf expeete3 60.
do, the existing government has gone
on, until to-day The treasury is az
hausted and the territory practically
bankrupt. lt3:t were not for the uoueY
raised by tue sale OF bonds for bnildipg
purposes and wbien cannot legally be
used for current expenses, the treasury
would to. day be almost without q doi-
lar. Never since the earliest days OF
Dakota has such q depiorabie condition
OF ihipge EXISTED. Can II be denied ?
| We challenge the publication of the
verify our words.
The quarrel at Yankton was Disgrace
full. The selznre OF the locomotives was
~tarcicsl and Intellectual, Hs The result
SHOWS III the territory was right the tax
could lave been collected in a day. Tue
seizure of q train en- route would have
brought the tax iustanter. Wblle pre-
tending to be AT enmity with the road
VIC Il0DlHts lOuo i " LulSp VII phSsDo
issued by the company and made h levy
which they knew would be abortive. We
trophesled the result. We're we. wrong ?
Has not the sequel vindicated our pre-
a~lctions? Let the facts speak! The
locomotives are in use. The tax is I'M
paid.
We iorear to dwell upon the minor
but more contemplate scts OF the Terri
/ fnrxal nn0abr,p,a.. : fna pIi..n tf..r
q great reductlon had been secured Tor
the transportation OF militia by sending
u delegation to Chicago, when as a matter
OF fact, the rates made were the same as
always paid; the talsehood about the
cost OF the respective encampments,
afterwnrd acknowledged and confessed,
but meanly attributed to the a~djutant
general; the employ ment of clerks, os-
tensible to work for the territory, but
really to magnify the glory of the pre-
sent executive and to misrepresens his
predecessor; all these end many more,
which it becomes tlresome to specify.
W,th The hope of showing the late
governor an migrate and blsokguard, q
speech is manufactured and put into his
mouth at Msndan, not o word of which
he ever uttered; to show that he was
unfalthful to his trust q string of accusa
tions is filed against him still in the
columns of the GLOBE, not one of whict
possesses an element of truth. Slandel
and detraotion, faisehood and vnigarity
have been heaped upon him-all FOL
what2 To stlie, to crush out, to deter
ali inquiry into the questionable
methods of the territorial government
by which the substance OF the people Ii
being ~squaudered and the credit of the
territory ruined.
These are facts; it will be perilou
business to deny them in the face of tn,
general knowledge Of their truth, ant
yet they may be denied or met Wit
fresh calumny and renewed yltupers
ton. The careless reader looks upo,
such controversies as political or person
al merely, aud to him falsehood Is o
potent as truth. Yet the day will com
when the warnings, the predictions an,
the facts set forth SO often in these col
urnnsiwill be remembered and appre
ciased; when hollow pretenslops, reck
less ex%travagance, violation of lew, an
insoient defiance Of q peoples right
will be rewarded by righteous and I'm
measured condemnation. We bide tina
time with confident reliance upon tn
settled Judgment OF the people.