Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1888-07-26
SOME SOLID TALK.

We were fortunate enough to meet the
active old gentleman who permitted him
self to open up to the Huronite as indicat.
ed below, during his brief visit among Mil
Ter people. 1t would do anyone good to
hear him. This is what he says through
the Huronite:
IAN old Iowa farmer, who has been sig
nally successful there for thirty years. has
been out looting the country over, with
care, from the jim west as far az Harold.
He purchased five or six farms on the trip
He says that the farmer who finds that
he cannot make living anywhere between
Huron and Harold, better give up the
ghost for he cant do il anywhere" He
adds that ''the region is cursed with a
sprinkling of shiftless who couldn't make
ends meet in Iowa, the next-besL farming
region on the globe, who are always eaten
up by corporations though they never
have anything to carry He continues,
You have also a bad pack of political fell
lows who hold the plow III with one hand
with lightning rod in the other, and
watch the clouds good deal more than
the furrow!' These difficulties always
have to be met and overcome in new
country. The genuine farmers are get
ting rich. haven't met one that was not
reasonably prosperous. and l think am a
judge. what you want is more genuine
farmers, and not one will ever fail here
unless Providence has marked him out
for special punishment. Farming pays
better to-day than it ever did before IN
the history of the world, and great deal
better in this country than it ever did in
any ether. / mean actual grubbing !
Nothing is made farming by proxy. Spec
uiators always lose raising crops. i am
glad Of it. Why il your sharks could make
money farming. in five years there
wouldn't be patch big enough for q kit
chen garden left for the honest laboring
man Every worker would be working
the bankers and land agents land instead
Of his own. Nature kicks on three per
cent month, without sweat; and it is
mighty fortunate for the honest laboring
man that she does. She will hardly give
back one per centa month, with sweat
But sensible, honest man don't have to
get that If he will only get out OF debt and
stay out. Independence, with good
steady work, and not millions with idle
ness, is the secret Of happiness, Dakota
farmers will come out all right. A good
many of the unfortunates will go ont first,
but that's all right too. Since the boys
kind O. took things off my shoulders, and
have given me chance to look round,
I've tramped good deal Been to Calls
fornia. and Florida, and through Kansas
and Nebraska ana all that, and made one
trip over TO England and Scotland, just TO
see how working men made a living IN
the cold country" Lord, how l ached
to get home I've been John Sherman
and Jim Blaine man on tho the tariff since
then, though Ben Harrison is going TO be
the next president If they let us old Iowa
fellows have our way. / have only seen
Dakota from Hawarden to Huron from
the car windows, and from Huron TO Har-
rold on the walk. on horseback and on
farmers wagons. but tell you if this
region is fair sample Dakota is destined
TO be the grandest and happiest agricul-
tural region on the globe. You boom
towns too much. You ought tu boom
farms more; and / think there is good
deal in this artesian water power that
ought to De worked out. and set you to
manufacturing. o, II i was twenty years
younger how / would like TO come out
and stir things upP
Whether our old friend is right or
wrong. IL is certain that he speaks from
long and rugged experience, and II is evil
dent that he knows how to look over
new country.