Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-04-19

a,,, neiphant marine OF our coast detensee'
~ our duty TO control interoceanic corn
munioation over Central America, OF tue
rights OF cur fisheries, are Negligent ueIe
also in matter OF the highest iuporeanNs'S,,
considered in reference TO our relations Win
other powers
POTENT cAusE or NATIONAL GRANDNEss
or NH the causes which have contributed
20 tho grandeur OF the republic ana mar 49, y
the first mower upon earth, the acgutsitlVn
of regions which have been occupied .! the
most courageous OF our people, nave W.
come territories and teen states, nee :
the most potent We acquired louisiana, a
yast empire, watered by the largest nav
gable rivers In the world, rivers which run
sonthyyard and afford the means OF CONNER
cial intercourse and exchange OF Sseiy
product OF many degrees OF latitude rIosu
the wheat OF the extreme north 20 the sugar
IN the extreme south We acquired FloIiuh'
and the Gulf OF MeNiBo became inc Meu'1
terranean OF this nation We acqu'tSu
Texas, and look at the magnlhcent Iesuis
We acquired California, and IL became a.
once the principal producer OF pIooio ~
Pacific, destined 20 angrvss the commerce OF
Asia BY eowardly diplomacy we gave W
undues:ionable claims 10 part OF oregon anu
enabled Great Britain to share Win us the
most important military and naval pos;lon
ou the Pacific coast from Cape Horn TO BEN
rinois straits Why shall we not be at least
meanly iust--for generosity has long n .,
ont Of the queStion-toward DakotaE WY
DELAY longer this greet act OF nauonai JUS
ticeY Why shall we not be taught by the
lessons of history and understand tnat JUS
tice long deferred eventually WORKS fetrlous
tion In direct proportion 10 the obduracy OF
its denials. Let us strip this question OF
every device, evasion, preteXG ana shaln, anu
plainly admit that this commonwealth mas
been denied admission into the Union Tor
the sole reason that the party IN power-bne
solid South aud few allied Northern states
do not intend that Dakota shall nave any
voice In the election OF u president SO long
ne the existing political aScendancy can hope
for continuance. This is no new wrong.
IL has been perpetrated before by tne
san,.s marty by the same alliance ana Tor the
same purposes When Kansas sought az,
mission the same injustice was perpetfaueu
upon her. The pr re IN that game OF chicahe,
Injustice and bloodshed was the continuance
in power of the Democratic party. Many
who were the accessories TO that oifense had
the excuse of believing That a great domestic
institution was in danger But here no snch
apology can be made The admission OF "a,
kota imperis no material interest IL VIII
increase the power OF the natlon ana ,lhpaLt
benefactons to every community therein.
The marty which proclaims that public ofhce
is a public trust violates that uusti when
boasts OF its devotion to the principles OF
selfg government and of civil service REFORM,
violates those principles in every particular
by insisting that such commonwealth sha'l
remain under federal protccUoraie and DE
Governed by foreign officers The party
which denies to hundreds OF thousands OF
electors in the South free ballot and fair
count denies also by cunning which Is
more odious than force, the ballot, on ma
tional questions to seventy thousand white
men in this portion OF the North.