The Republican journal., 1888-12-27
The National Northern Tier.


OF ADMISSION As STATES.
ST. PAUL, Dee. 1j.-With the exception ot
the Black Tills--a region of low. woodct
mountain ranges-all of Dakota is open prairie
leye! in the eastern part, rolling in the center
and more and more hilly You 90 westward
! until you get into the broken country of the
Bad Lands on the Montana border. Timber i,
found in narrow belts alon. the margin of the
streams. The soil is highly fertile and the
climate. even in the extreme northern part OF
| the Territory, is more agreeable in winter than
that OF the New England States. The dominant
element of population is American. bur ther.
| Is cverNW here a mixture of foreign elements,
| including SweleS. NorweyiauS, French Cana
dianS. Danes. lIollander>. Germans Russians
| and lcelandcrs. Nothing shows more forcinly
| the elastic nature of our Republican form of
| government and its remarkable atiaptabilty 10
all the various conditions Of American life than
! the easy way in which these foreigners lit
| themselves to our institutions and enter into
| tile spirit of our laws and customs. 1t makes
! no 'tiilcrence whether the new Dakota settler
| halls from southern Russia or from Iceland,
| he appears readily to comprehend our system
| OF local self government votes for the school
tax and the new court house as enthusiastically
as his American neighhor, and turns out
| promptly to work on the highway. Although
regular drinker ut home, When he can get
anything to drink, he i very likely to 60 in
| foi shutting mp the saloons with q prollibitory
local option law, on the ground that he doesn't
| want to be led into temptation when he goe> to
/ town to sell his wheat.
| All Dakotans are POW in favor of dividing
| the Territory and making two States \ wear
| or tWG ago When ii was thought that the Dem
| ocrats would continue to hold the government
| for another Presidential term. there was ii
| heavy vote against division and in favor OF i'm
| mediate admission is one State; hut that vote
| was the result of a deSpairin!. cunVi 'tiun that
| nothing letter than one State would ever be
| conceded by the cleveland atmiuietri tion and
| its supporters in Congress. Since IIlrrsoi's
| election YOU might traverse Dakota f ,om side
| to side and from end to end without finding ~
man W no Is not in favor of div i>ion. The line
OF separation Will not he the forty->i tn parallel
rs WAS once talked of, because much of the
| country crossed by that parallel j. now we'll
| settled and organized in towns and counties.
| The new boundary will respect count, line.
| and will run "A little south of the torrV->iNt
parallel. 1t will leave South Dakota Will 5O .Oo0
| people and North Dakota with 2o0,o0o. Bis
| marcN will remain the capital of North Dakota.
| In South Dakota there will he a sharp struggle
| between Huron, Mitchell, and Pierre for the
| new seat of government. Both sections art,
| remarkably We'll supplied with railroads in
| fact there arc only thirteen States which have
| more miles of railroad than the present Terri
| tory Of Dnkota-and both are thirkly studded
with ambitious. progressive towns. Sioux
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